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They've got somewhat of a caricature of a woke activist in Joe Gacy on NXT but I'd take it one step further and have a whole woke faction on the main roster who would be like a modern day Right to Censor except much more annoying. The main two guys in the group would be Sami Zayn and Mustafa Ali considering they're probably the two most progressive guys in the company, you could have Zayn lean even more into his conspiracy theory gimmick and have them both come out during segments and attempting to shut them down due to not being "PC". You could simply just call them the PC Brigade or something along those lines. You could add guys like Dijakovic and Madden if you anted to make it better, but even just a tag team with Ali & Zayn would be good.

The best gimmicks are the ones that rely on real life events and controversies, plus you'd just be enhancing Zayn and Ali's real life personalities by 10, and I honestly reckon they'd both 100% be down to do this sort of gimmick. You already have Dan Lambert as a parody of right wing dickheads in AEW, Joe Gacy as a parody of left wing fuckwits in NXT, why not add it to the main roster? It would absolutely have potential.
 
It would probably get over with a ton of heat, especially with how good Zayn was already with his gimmick.

Two things though.

1. This is getting too close to actual politics and wrestling for me, I don't really want to get reminded of it while watching wrestling. As much as I think Gacy and Lambert are doing good jobs, it's just going to lead to the same endless political arguments between people.

2. Woke as a term may be on my list of words I never want to hear again. It joins cuck on that list as well :LOL:
 
Zayn & Ali are legitimately woke af in real life. I don’t think they would want their real life beliefs & rhetoric being used for heel heat. They’d probably see it as problematic.
Could be the case but Bryan was being vegan, Punk straight edge. They may not have a problem with it because it gives them the chance to display it.
 
It's a good idea. I like it but what are you going to get woke on? This isn't the AE. RTC worked because you had a ton of Springer tv for them to rale on against.
Yeah, they would need to introduce ultraconservative bigots to balance things and let them have a counterpart. Imagine a Qanon gimmick. That'd be so nasty.
 
I said when Bryan did his vegan gimmick, they should have turned him in to a climate change protester. Could have had some fun with it, as he already did a lot of stuff in real life, such as looking with disdain towards Nikki Bella and her Hollywood lifestyle.

The problem is when you start doing a political gimmick, you don't want to actually change people's beliefs, the last thing you want if you do a Woke gimmick, is for people to go actually they've got a point, then before you know it, you've got a new issue to deal with.
 
rehire that Jordan Devlin loser who cried about getting merch that he said was racist, put him in the group, then bury him and release him. Big Swole, Sammy Zayn, Kevin Owens (he is aggressively woke), Cedric Alexander, and Joe Gacy. Ricochet also comes off as a woke, hyper sensitive type of guy. When Jaxson Ryker made that tweet bashing BLM, his response was like a crying emoji and something along the lines of "I don't wanna believe you're that guy...please no 😢"

build them up as heels, then have a big reveal where they honor their great master and it ends up being Batista. lol
 
Would not mind to have a WWE take on how some 'woke' people keep trying to define traditional words as being offensive and substituting with ridiculous sounding terms. I think it was Cori Bush who used birthing people instead of mothers quite recently. Have the heel denounce announcers for saying "winners of the match" as that implies others are losers and instead should use "participants who accomplished their goal of the match" or something like that. lol
 
rehire that Jordan Devlin loser who cried about getting merch that he said was racist, put him in the group, then bury him and release him. Big Swole, Sammy Zayn, Kevin Owens (he is aggressively woke), Cedric Alexander, and Joe Gacy. Ricochet also comes off as a woke, hyper sensitive type of guy. When Jaxson Ryker made that tweet bashing BLM, his response was like a crying emoji and something along the lines of "I don't wanna believe you're that guy...please no 😢"

build them up as heels, then have a big reveal where they honor their great master and it ends up being Batista. lol
I think you mean Jordan Myles lol, Jordan Devlin is still hired and is currently on NXT UK.
 
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Zayn & Ali are legitimately woke af in real life. I don’t think they would want their real life beliefs & rhetoric being used for heel heat. They’d probably see it as problematic.
Bryan is pretty progressive in real life and he used his beliefs to play a heel role, same with Punk and his straight edge shit, plenty of people who have "good guy" beliefs play the bad guy on TV.

Zayn and Ali would absolutely do it if it meant good TV.
 
"woke" was such a bad slang term to use for social authoritarians.

It would be funny though.. they could spend a show or two identifying as women and forcing themselves into title matches for the women's championship!
 
Yeah, they would need to introduce ultraconservative bigots to balance things and let them have a counterpart. Imagine a Qanon gimmick. That'd be so nasty.
I imagine if Jack Swagger came back that would be his gimmick, him and other Real Americans trying to storm WWE Headquarters lol, either that or join the Diamond Mine as the All American American.

I can see Gacy starting a woke group like RTC and ironically be all white guys like Xyon Quinn, Briggs and Jensen.


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