Scorpio Sky is big mad

[TrueEpic08]

Booker's quote is only partially accurate. Once they hit their peaks Sammartino, Hogan, Backlund, Bockwinkle, Austin, The Rock, Cena, and some others never played the background, even when they became part-timers.
Sammartino, Hogan, and Backlund had world champion runs that lasted over a year (a decade in Bruno's case), and they were consistently over. In fact, Hogan would probably still be popular today if we never learned what a racist p.o.s. he is.
The guys that I mentioned were big deals because they were booked like big deals. You mentioned Sky being an inaugural champ, but look at his booking since then. He's been wasting away on YouTube, and he got pinned clean by a 62 year old man. He's a victim of bad booking, and as such very few people care about him.
Saying that Scorpio is a former tag champ is like saying Pedro Morales is a former champion. It's true, but he was a jobber for the bulk of his US career. Wrestling fans have a short memory; nobody cares what Scorpio WAS, we want to know what he's all about NOW.
Had they let Scorpio go on a televised run after leaving S.C.U., and maybe given him a TNT run (he got one TNT title match & went straighr back to Youtube), and NOT let him get sonned by a senior citizen, things might be different. However, as of now, he doesn't seem like a big deal.

Dude, forget all that booking nonsense for a second...

Sky's a good guy to have around and I have no problem with the current push he's getting, but please look at his runs with SCU and his current run with Ethan Page and ATT. Has he EVER IN HIS LIFE projected like a top line star?

Like, Ethan Page is actually going to be somebody in the future, because he's been somebody everywhere he's been. Dan Lambert wasn't even in the fukking business 5 years ago and he's come in and elevated everything he's been a part of. It shouldn't be hard to outshine career upper midcarders like Daniels and Kazarian (as much as I like those guys) if you're really going to be the cornerstone of a company. AJ Styles and Samoa Joe did it for years, and look at what happened to them once they finally left TNA. But Sky has never, ever been able to do this no matter where he's been.

You know who else did the j.o.b. for Sting in the promotion? Ricky Starks, who now has his own stable and a platform to get himself over every week on Fridays, and is probably more over now than he was when he took that loss at Revolution.

For fukk's sake, Ethan Page debuted around the same time Sky turned heel, and IMMEDIATELY overshadowed him in the Men of the Year. Sky better hope against hope that Jorge Masvidal doesn't stick around for any length of time, because then he'll be the fourth most important person in a three wrestler stable. Why should someone like that have beaten Darby Allin (an actual homegrown star), especially when you have Miro waiting in the wings to have the run he's currently having right now...not to mention about five other midcarders including his own fukking tag team partner?

I'm not going to say that there's nothing there with Sky. Look at him on Ethan Page's vlogs: he's funny, charming, affable, and generally someone who's at least a bit more interesting than he is on TV. But it doesn't translate at all to a wrestling context. Without that, he can't be a top line star and any big push is going to end in inevitable failure (which is why he desperately needs someone like Lambert around to help him talk, project, and get over on that front).

Edit: And to @Bryan Danielson's point, Sky actually has a slightly better record than Ethan Page (21-2 to 20-3) this year. They're trying, and they've been trying with him for a while. But he's just not gonna bet there on his own.

 

[Max.]

Ive seen sable cut better promos

 

[Crack Daniels]

I think the lack of bass in his voice and accent that sounds like a teenage valley kid is what kills the promo. He needs to go out and beat some ass and let that carry him

 

[TheGreatShowtime]

The same people criticizing him in this thread are the same people complaining about AEW not pushing him. Weird.

 

[Redguard]

Honestly, if this is Sky's best promo, as I've seen people call it around the internet, then he's hopeless as a top of the card guy. This is just average.

They've been trying to get this guy to connect on his own on and off for 2 years at this point, and it's not working. Ethan Page has had more quality promos in 6 months than Sky has had in that time frame. If they're really gonna go all in on him this time, they have to keep Lambert with him, since his promo skills will cover up for his deficiencies in that area (I have no earthly idea why so many fans hate Lambert's mic work. He's awesome as the Jim Cornette analogue that will inevitably eat shyt in the future). Page doesn't need it as much, but Sky just isn't a believable promo, much less a believable intense promo.

It's telling to me that he's been in two three man stables over AEW's existence and he's felt like the third most important guy in both of them...one of those stables included Frankie fukking Kazarian, by the way. Jade Cargill's a much better promo and TV presence than him and she just started wrestling a few months ago, that's kind of damning in my eyes.

I dunno. I'm just not seeing it here.

I don't think he works well as a heel. He should be a babyface.

Scorpio should be feuding with Miro for the TNT title.

 

[Metal Face]

this dood is almost 40

invest in POWERHOUSE HOBBS

 

[Reality Check]

this dood is almost 40

invest in POWERHOUSE HOBBS

Big E knows

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

His problem is that he's a Black man with ZERO swag.

Like, even White people don't respect a Black person with no swag

Like, having swag is a cheat code in life as a breh.

Think about it, Snoop aint dropped a memorable verse in 25 years, but he's probably making more money than ever just by having a swag & charisma.

The male equivalent of Brandi Rhodes and he ain't even smash.

He's actually her cousin, so I guess they got cornball genetics

 

[richaveli83]

a bald, possibly asian man trying to look black, struggling to put words together ? is this Riccochet's father ?

 

[Silkk]

They should just make him gay tbh


Give him a downlow gimmick with Sonny Kiss and let him put hands on Sonny for letting it get out

 

[MightyHealthy]

You know who else did the j.o.b. for Sting in the promotion? Ricky Starks, who now has his own stable and a platform to get himself over every week on Fridays, and is probably more over now than he was when he took that loss at Revolution.

The absolute truth.

 

[ECA]

Cornball brother

 

[julesocean]

Got washed by both these dudes on Dynamite.

 

[all3rd]

Ethan Page talks better, but both seem mid card dudes to me not sure why Lambert wasting his time with them?

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Ethan Page talks better, but both seem mid card dudes to me not sure why Lambert wasting his time with them?

I'm lost too. When Lambert came in, I thought he was going to revamp the MMA vs Wrestling shyt. Sadly, he became Corny until Corny comes in and Lambert gets bushed. Page could easily be champion status with the right time and place.

Scorpio just so fukking corny to the point I want to smash shyt.

• He lacks charisma
• His promos seem so plain its not even funny
• He's a good wrestler but....meh
• He will always be the Sonic Ring guy

Just throw money at Alexander so we can get The North in the Dub, have Sky just do flippy shyt in random matches, and push hobbs to the fukking moon so he can team up with the fukking caveman