Brutus Magnus

I was watching a bit of Destination X last night on Bravo, and I saw his match with Eric Young.

how crap is this guy? I lost count of the number of blown moves. I'm utterly astounded that TNA dumped Petey Williams and Sonjay, and yet kept this guy on? He desperately wants to be Randy Orton, and sounds waaay too rehearsed on the mic. His gimmick and name is awful, I've no idea why TNA even hired him in the first place. If they were looking for a British wrestler to promote the company over here, why not rescue Burchill from WWE? Doug Williams? Pac (he'd be brilliant in the X Division)? Hade Vansen?

I completely agree with you there Grecian, he is pretty terrible which isn't surprising considering he had no wrestling background from what I heard. Good call on Doug Williams being a better choice, as he is currently under contract to TNA, but for some reason have only used him once since the World X-Cup, the only reasoning I can come up with, is that whoever's idea it was to bring him in (I assume Jarrett) has decided to go down the old WWE route of pushing big useless cunts.

That being said, that wasn't even the worst thing on the PPV, the finals of One Night With ODB made me want to gouge my eyes out, worst thing in any company since Fake Donald Trump vs Fake Rosie O'Donnell

If he has no wrestling background, then why the hell is he on a PPV?

If he has wrestled before, then why is he still this shite? The usual thing is that people improve the more you do something, so how bad is this guy?

And if TNA is going down the WWE route of finding big fuckers and pushing them, that'll finish the company for sure. People used to watch TNA as an alternative to WWE, now it's WWE by a different name.

The reason he is on the PPV, is because he was on Gladiators, and I guess TNA figure that people who saw him on that, will become fans of TNA too. Kinda stupid, but every wrestling company from WWE to WCW to even ROH has tried to gain fans by having C-lebrities appear on their shows, always with limited success. All we can hope is that TNA realises what a flop this has been, and release him and never try anything like this again (which they inevitably will)

Aren't TNA trying to get one of the blokes off Hogan's Celebrity Wrestling for Lockdown?

Kind a sums up the difference between the 2 companies - WWE get Donald Trump, Floyd Mayweather and stood a damned good chance of getting Mickey Rourke until he got talked out of wrestling and had to settle for some promotional thing, TNA get a nobody from some piss-poor Gladiators show, and some random guy trained by a Nasty Boy.

Until TNA remember where they came from and what they are supposed to stand for it will never improve!

The show has been piss poor for months and months with the odd exception, this guy takes the biscuit

I've been called dumb in the past, but can anyone tell me why he's got and British accent, and a Gladiator gimmick?

Last I checked (and it was a while ago), gladiators rought primary in Rome. Rome was where Italy is now.

because he started out as a in the british version of gladiators

Doomhammer wrote:

I've been called dumb in the past, but can anyone tell me why he's got and British accent, and a Gladiator gimmick?

Last I checked (and it was a while ago), gladiators rought primary in Rome. Rome was where Italy is now.

I'm not a fan of Wikipedia but a wee look at that would save you from these type questions matey

better question then.

why do wrestling promoters believe that gladiator = success in wrestling?

Because Gladiators are muscular and athletic, which is pretty much what is needed as a basis to be a wrestler. It's the same way there have been several American Football players who have chnged career path and become wrestlers, such as Goldberg, Vader and The Rock.

Well gladiators are 0/2 so far. IDK if you count Morgan as one, but Adamle, and Brutus both sucked/suck.