101 Shocking Wrestling Plans You Won't Believe Almost Happened
93. Domino Going From Grease To Rap
Former WWE writer George Rutherford once spilled the beans on an attempted repackage job for Domino from old Grease wannabe tag-team Deuce N' Domino. Deuce went off to briefly become Sim Snuka (which didn't exactly pan out the way he wanted it to), but creative had something else entirely for his partner.
He was going to be the next coming of John Cena.
Well, it's doubtful WWE looked at things that way internally, but...he was. According to Rutherford, Domino was going to be retooled as "a streetwise gangster rapper". Who does that sound like? Cena was hitting babyfaces hard with rhymes from October 2002 onwards. Admittedly, he'd started to downplay the bad boy rap elements to his character once the company went PG in the summer of 2008.
Did that leave space for Domino to fill though? Hardly. If anything, he'd have been more like Bull 'B2' Buchanan or Slam Master J than 'Super Cena'. Even so, members of the creative squad thought it'd be worth a shot. Someone higher up the food chain put a red pen through the idea before it could debut on television though, and that might've been for the best.
Cena's own Eminem stylings were far too fresh in the memory to be dismissed. So, had someone else played the rap gimmick, then they would've been instantly compared to him, and not in a favourable way. This could've gone badly wrong for Domino, and it's wild that some within WWE actually considered running with a JC repeat out of nowhere.