Ciaran The King Posted September 13, 2013 Share Posted September 13, 2013 (edited) In this months edition of Power Slam a reader asked if WWE would try and sign Batista on a Rock like deal to make one off appearances now that his fame is growing after leaving wrestling/WWE? I then thought after that 'Is the Rock a bigger star now than what he was when working for WWE? I thought about this as although Batista was a fairly big star he never was the best and until his last few months with WWE he was pretty mediocre. So that brought me to the Rock and I started thinking about his run with WWE and what he did and what he accomplished and it got me thinking that is he considered a bigger star after leaving WWE. For me personally his return to WWE over the last two years were mediocre at best and overall it wasn't very enjoyable as just like the WM before the climax was quite dull This just doesn't apply to the Rock Edited September 13, 2013 by Ciaran The King Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris2K Posted September 13, 2013 Share Posted September 13, 2013 This has nothing much to do with The Rock, but Brock Lesnar became a bigger star after leaving WWE in terms of a US audience, probably not internationally though. Another random example is KURRGAN~!. I would say The Rock is a bigger star in America now than he was as a wrestler, his movies are frequently top of the box office and he commands an enormous fee for every one. That said, I expect more people would call him The Rock still rather than Dwayne Johnson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Hancock Posted September 13, 2013 Share Posted September 13, 2013 Brock Lesnar is a good call. I'd say Jesse Venture got bigger outside the WWF too, with politics and conspiracy bullshit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun2J Posted September 13, 2013 Share Posted September 13, 2013 Rock's quite big in Europe too I'd say, like every week he has a film coming out. How about Chris Jericho? He's got his band, had his fair share on American TV, hosts award shows. Maybe not FAMOUS but a little on the map? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Posted September 13, 2013 Share Posted September 13, 2013 Stacy Keibler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted September 13, 2013 Share Posted September 13, 2013 Todd Grisham? Maybe Jonathan Coachman? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Redman Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 Stacy Keibler. 100% yes. The amount of women to whom she is now a household name who would not even be aware that she was in wrestling is massive. Is Batista any more famous now, really? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Hancock Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 Ken's definitely more famous as an MMA fighter than a pro-wrestler. I'm struggling to think of many more though. You could technically say Linda McMahon, in America anyway, because of her political abortion in Connecticut. She was making actual news for a quite a while there, at least in the Tri-States. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burakiosaurus Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 100% yes. The amount of women to whom she is now a household name who would not even be aware that she was in wrestling is massive. Only because she shagged Clooney. I'm ignoring dancing with the starts as that was just shown in the States, whereas because of Clooney she now has more exposure around the globe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Redman Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 You say "only", like shagging George Clooney isn't one of the most prestigious gigs you can get in Hollywood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ciaran The King Posted September 14, 2013 Author Share Posted September 14, 2013 I wouldn't exactly say Keibler was massively famous though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Redman Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 Because you're a boy. Trust me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ciaran The King Posted September 14, 2013 Author Share Posted September 14, 2013 Because you're a boy. Trust me. Young man actually :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Hancock Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 (edited) I wouldn't exactly say Keibler was massively famous though She is though. Clooney, that dancing show, guest starring in a thousand sit-coms, she got "Punk'd" as a celebrity, rather than as a wrestler, she briefly owned some failure of a basketball team, she hosts a show, she does some Call of Duty thing I don't really understand, she does commercials... She's known. EDIT; https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Stacy%20Keibler&oe=UTF-8&um=1&hl=en&biw=1439&bih=784&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iw&ei=rnM0UprFN86d7ga67IFY#hl=en&q=Stacy+Keibler&rls=en&tbm=nws Edited September 14, 2013 by John Hancock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 Would you say Don Callis / Cyrus became a bigger star (i.e. more people knew who he was, relatively speaking) when he left WWE and went to ECW? How about Tracy Smothers? How about Nathan Jones and Robert Maillet (for their acting work) and Christopher Nowinski for his work relating to head trauma. Trish Stratus with her yoga stuff and acting career? DDP with his yoga stuff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ciaran The King Posted September 14, 2013 Author Share Posted September 14, 2013 DDP I say has definitely upped his fame after leaving wrestling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GENE Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 DDP and Trish Stratus are the retired wrestlers who now do Yoga so no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etz Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 The point being they're better known now as the retired wrestlers who now do Yoga, than they ever were while in WWE, so, actually, yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Hancock Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 I think the biggest test of all is which ex-wrestlers are so famous in their own right that they aren't even referred to as ex-wrestlers. Brock Lesnar was close when he was with the UFC, Ken Shamrock's probably there, but I don't know who else. Kiebler, DDP, Ventura, The Rock, all those guys are identified as ex-wrestlers in any article about them. I guess The Rock's pretty close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 Kevin Nash might be worth a shout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun2J Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 Steve Austin any one? Well maybe to the fans of the B-Movie Action genre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ciaran The King Posted September 15, 2013 Author Share Posted September 15, 2013 Hasn't he also got a reality/documentary series? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Hancock Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 Steve Austin any one? Well maybe to the fans of the B-Movie Action genre. No way. Steve Austin was one of the biggest celebrities in America in the late 90s and early 2000s, he's gone massively down in terms of celebrity, let alone up, since leaving wrestling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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