Um… There’s a headline you never thought you’d see, huh? No, we’re not making it up, either.
Former WWE star and TNA star, Johnny Swinger (Johnny Parisi in WWE), has revealed a storyline idea he pitched directly to Vince McMahon that would see him portray a hermaphrodite who competes in both the men’s and women’s divisions.
Swinger, who was in WWE from 2005-06, adds that he even came up with storyline ideas in which he would feud and defeat Trish Stratus for the WWE Women’s Championship.
Speaking to Right After Wrestling last night, Swinger said: “I sidestepped creative and went straight to Vince. I asked for just a moment of his time and I laid out this character where I was a hermaphrodite and I would wrestle in both the male and female division. I would do a program with Trish Stratus and win the the Women’s title then go against Cena. I had angles written to go against Trish, Kane and Cena. I wanted to go to the top. I wasn’t going to pitch an idea to wrestle the first match of the night. I wanted to make money and be in the main event. I own the character…I have a patent for it so if it used on TV, I’ll get paid either way.”
Listen to the interview here.
Hmm, wonder why that never came to fruition…
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Um. Awkwardness if he actually one. Thank God they never went through with it.
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ONE WORD…BLECHHHHHHHHHH!
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I legit LOLed at this
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“Hmm, wonder why that never came to fruition…” do you really believe that? LOL
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Two words: Harvey Whippleman. Three more words: thank god vince
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I actually, strangely would have liked to see that. Mainly because I would have wanted to see him take on Mickie, Victoria & Lita.
ElectricMVx Reply:
August 16th, 2011 at
I wouldn’t have wanted him to win of course. We already had Hervina ruin the Womens Championship
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Glad they didnt go through with it. It was bad enough to have Cody Dean as Knockouts Champion or Hervina as WWE Women’s champion.
WWFoverWWE Reply:
August 16th, 2011 at
cody deaner was never knockouts champion, he just felt he should’ve been. His name is not in the knockouts title history
Wesley Romano Reply:
August 16th, 2011 at
Cody deaner maybe went after the KOs championship but he went at it as a MAN!!!! Not as a man in drag or a hermaphrodite….Rocky would have a field day with him lol….
Remember Cody was King of the Knockouts bro!!!
And Mann Trish is and was one sexy woman…screw this guy
and screw Santina
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It’s certainly something never been done before. He was also definitely confident in his ability to be WWE’s top superstar if he was gonna go against both the top superstar and the top diva.
lol kinda arrogant, but noble.
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hervina 2
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Lol are you serious??…wow
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Wait wait wait… some dude who has only worked “Sunday Night Heat” during his tenure with the WWE pitched a storyline idea so that he could feud with Trish for the title, and feud with Cena for the title?
ahahahahahahahahahaha
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Well he does look like a Diva…
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LMFAOOOO :’) This is too funny . I cant :/
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I don’t even remember him. :|
Teri Reply:
August 16th, 2011 at
It’s probably because he never had any matches/appearances on Raw or Smackdown. LOL
ElectricMVx Reply:
August 16th, 2011 at
He was one of those guys who only ever appeared on Heat, mostly as jobbers LOL. Funny cos a feud with Trish would be the most exciting thing about his WWE career
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thank God it didn’t happen :)
I LOVE TRISH!!!!!
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ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm WOW…1 man holding the women’s championship was enough.!
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WHAT?!?
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I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s lying just to get attention. I mean we have no proof of this so he could say anything
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vince said no because he wouldn’t do that to his little princess trish, he always had a soft spot for her and she was his favorite diva
and I know for a fact that trish would’ve never agreed to go along with it
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Nooooo no one is better then Santina!!!! =p
Too bad she had to go back to italy so she can take her of her chinese baby from bulgaria together with her girlfriend. :p
Raekon Reply:
August 17th, 2011 at
She was definately entertaining.
Even everyone knew that it was Santino for sure and no one bought it, people still loved the gimmick because it was fun and also involved the Divas in a good way giving them more to do.
Was definately better than some random 45 second matches with no message or entertainment behind them. :/
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This guy has quite the ego on him. 1) How many people actually remember him and 2) the reason it probably got passed over was because this guy wasn’t main event worthy, not because of the idea. Perhaps if it had been someone who WWE had wanted to do something big with, they would have tried it out, but this guy wasn’t anything special when he was in WWE and was mainly used as filler. Good for him for wanting to get to the main event but it’s pretty obvious WWE didn’t give much of a shit about putting him even on the main shows, let alone in any main event story line.
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That….well even for the Attitude era that storyline might have been a bit much, which speaks a lot about it…
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No I can’t. I rather have the bellas champion for a whole year then let him be champ for one day.
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He’d beat Trish and then feud with Cena over the Women’s belt??? Wow, no wonder that didn’t work.
Marshy Reply:
August 16th, 2011 at
He’d beat Trish over the Women’s title and then turn around to feud with Cena over WWE Heavyweight or WWE World Heavyweight.Sadly WWE would never hired actual Transgendered,so they would have to let a male wrestler donned a being “Cross Dresser”.
Marshy Reply:
August 16th, 2011 at
But that was then with when Harvey Whippleman won the WWF Women’s Championship title as Hervina and but this is now that they should have an actual Transgender on the roster,well no one knew about Chris Canyon sexuality until close to his final days. Besides don’t they have a Be A Star campaign that is in enforce to be reckon with.