12-31-2006, 09:16 PM
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| Senior Monk
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WWE is trying to get Batista to try and talk more jive during his interview segments.
Robert Gibson will be joining Steve Williams as a part-time trainer for WWE. The general schedule for them is to spend one week per month in either OVW or DSW and teach the students there hands-on. Also, if they do well in their roles, they'll be under consideration for jobs as road agents if spots open up. Mike Bucci (Simon Dean) pushed for the idea of using veterans who worked in several different places to come to development to teach the younger wrestlers.
On the 12/22 SmackDown, Vladimir Kozlov did a babyface routine by acting like the character Latka from the movie "Taxi" as the naive, lovable, funny immigrant, which was played by the famed wrestling personality/actor Andy Kaufman. The idea is that Kozlov will start off acting like Latka, but either the fans turn on him, or something happens and he snaps, thus turning him heel. Basically, this would be similar to what they did with Eugene. Also, WWE expects Kozlov to be a main event-level heel at some point.
Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter | Batista isn't bad when doing interviews but he is nothing spectacular. I do agree on him working on upping his jive and other skills. I do believe if he could work the mic much better he'd be more of an MVP to Smackdown and Wwe, but hey if he did he wouldn't have been a jobber for like 5 years. But hey he's working on it and I think he is a man who can improve and become decently good.
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