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Originally Posted by xrodmuc316
AOP are what they wanted The Ascension to be, actually big and actually bad asses. One was a Kickboxer/MMAer and the other was the Canadian National Champion in Wrestling. They are also still young, 29 and 30.
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Originally Posted by Volchok
Wasn't the ascension the road warrior rip offs that teamed with stardust?
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That's sort-of what they were pared down to, yes.
The whole thing started life as a stable that slowly got picked apart piecemeal (there were like six people for their pre-debut vignette, and only one I remember offhand was Ricardo - who was apparently set to be the mouthpice - being plucked and dropped in on the main roster as Alberto Of The River's personal ring announcer). Eventually, got scaled down to a different duo thanks to the Lattimer's "extra carricular" stuff. Still got the big "squash all teams" push until they got called up to the main roster... and that's where the stupid spikes and red facepaint got added, along with switching them from dominant wins to talking shit and barely winning.
By the time they started paling around with Stardust, even their own joke had long since passed.
"If it ain't broke, break it when it gets called up." - WWE Creative