Welcome to another eWrestlingNews Question of the Day! Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at EWN!
30 years ago, WWF was featured in the 68th Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on November 24, 1994. In one of those wild WTF moments in wrestling history, this float had some notable stars in The Undertaker, Paul Bearer, Razor Ramon, Lex Luger, British Bulldog, Doink the Clown, Dink and….The Slammer. Who is The Slammer? Apparently a reference to a sports column, represented by a guy in a hockey mask a la Jason Voorhees holding up a giant pencil.
Don’t believe me? Watch the clip below.
My question for you today is “If WWE were to have a float in this year’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, which Superstars would you put on there?”
Remember to answer with your response in the comments below.
Obviously, this is super silly. It’s crazy to even think about people like Razor Ramon and The Undertaker hanging out on that float. But WWE was going for a showcase of a variety of colorful characters to market the New Generation era.
Keeping that in mind, it would be odd to see a similar 1:1 comparison with today’s stars. Wrestlers don’t have those types of gimmicks anymore. It just isn’t as bombastic for Roman Reigns, CM Punk, Randy Orton, Rhea Ripley, etc to be standing there. They just look like normal people, so why should anyone care when there will be massive floats of Sonic the Hedgehog and whatnot?
If you were to be limited to the more colorful characters angle, then that limits the star power, as nobody’s going to recognize The Wyatt Sicks in their gear or call much attention to Wendy Choo. I think that idea is out of the running and it becomes more of a showcase of popular stars in general, despite how much they’d just look like generic everyday folk.
I also think you don’t want to put in someone like a Solo Sikoa or Gunther and have them breaking character, so you want to go with the more outwardly babyface “wave to the crowd” types.
With that in mind, my pitch would be a float that features Cody Rhodes, Bianca Belair, Jade Cargill (show off how much she looks like a walking action figure come to life), Rey Mysterio, a big guy like Braun Strowman or Omos, put The Miz in there, The New Day would’ve worked well if they weren’t feuding with each other, and maybe you throw in Katana Chance & Kayden Carter with the party guns?
Bonus Question for Today: Would you eat The Gobbledy Gooker if that was served to you on your Thanksgiving day table, or would you pardon that turkey?
What do you think? Drop your thoughts below!