10 Wild Creative Pitches Wrestlers Made To Get Into WWE

2. Bob Holly Calls His Shot

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A slight deviation on the actual theme here, since Bob Holly was already firmly established in WWE when he delivered the immortal line, but the line is so immortal that there is always an excuse to bring it back into the contentsphere.

As Bruce Prichard recounted on 'Something To Wrestle', the story goes that at one time, WWE sought creative pitches from its roster in a meeting. It wasn't their usual practise, and sensing this, one Bob Holly grasped the rare opportunity.

"Hey I got an idea. How about you give me the belt?" Holly is said to have asked.

"And then what, Bob?" came the reply.

"And then I beat everybody!"

Just an absolutely amazing thought process.

No notes.

Well, some notes, because the bluntness is just so fantastic: the idea of Holly literally beating everybody on the roster at Armageddon to WrestleMania and on every show in between. Then, when he ran out of names to beat, WWE would sign more wrestlers for Holly to beat. Then they'd use their feeder system to develop yet more wrestlers for Holly to beat.

The man said "everybody".

He wanted a Sammartino run, only without the DQs.

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