PCTI Athletes Alter Ego's Part VII

Bryan McKinney-Bill Goldberg (Scroll to the 4:15 mark if you don't want to watch the match)

When you look at McKinney and Goldberg there are absolutely zero similarities whatsoever.  Goldberg is a rugged and tough dude with a mean mug like no other.  He is outrageously muscular with the biggest neck I've ever seen.  Enter McKinney.  He is pretty and finesse looking.  He has a lean, in shape build with absolutely zero neck muscles (Or any muscles for that matter).  All that being said, there are similarities.  Unfortunately, McKinney stripped his reputation as a silent wonder in PCTI 3.  Let's compare Goldberg's debut and fantastic post match interview with Mean Gene.  Would anyone have been surprised if McKinney's response would have been similar if BC approached him for an interview in PCTI 2?  There is also an uncanny resemblance between McKinney and Goldberg's in ring/on court skills.  Both are ultra athletic guy's that make absolutely everything look HIDEOUS.  Both of them only have one part of their games that is pretty (McKinney's shooting form/Goldberg's spear), which makes absolutely no sense why the rest is so hideous because both truly are great natural athletes.  In Goldberg's case, it can be debated that the reason his is so ugly is because his lack of in ring experience.  I'm still wondering what McKinney's is since he has been playing basketball since he was a child, and at this point I don't think I will ever have an answer for it.  Both are equally as indimidating, too.

Michael Orr-Sting

I'm going to preface this by giving a little Smo/Wrestling background to understand a little further why I chose Sting for him.  This was partly emotional.  I spent the better part of my life (Agest 7-16) obsessively following wrestling.  For any of you that haven't recognized it, when I get into something, I won't rest until all of my friends are equally as into it as I am.  Smo put my efforts to the test for most of those nine years by continuously refusing professional wrestling in every way possible.  He wouldn't budge no matter what I told him.  I could invite him over for a pay per view and offer pizza, donuts... Anything.  He would say no just to spite me.  Then came the nWo terrorizing STING.  I'm not sure how it began, but once Smo caught wind of the black crow character, he would call me every Monday night before Nitro with the same comment of "Do you think Sting will be on Nitro tonight?"  Keep in mind, we were no longer kids at this point.  At 15 years old, Smo was like a kid in the candy store everytime Sting's name came up.  It was a man crush.  His decision to watch on Monday night 100% hinged on if I thought Sting would show up (I always said yes because I wanted him to watch).  Now that the history lesson is over, let's get into some reasons why the comparison is similar.  First off, Sting is the only wrestler, possibly of all time that made a LONG career in wrestling always being a face (Or good guy for you idiots).  The closest thing he came to a bad guy was when he felt betrayed and walked away from Team WCW in Fall Brawl War Games, because Luger didn't believe that the Imposter Sting was really an imposter.  Smo is similar.  Never, in the history of this guy's life has he ever not been popular amongst his peers.  He has plenty of rivalaries, but all of them are because he doesn't like the person, not the other way around.  Enjoy the video knowing that on this night at that very moment, Smo was grinning ear to ear watching his favorite athlete in action.  Compare Hogan's face when the real Sting shows up to BC's face when Smo punks him out.  BC (Who by the way was compared to Hogan) fears Smo the way Hogan feared Sting.  BC and Hogan always had a comment for everything, making a living on constant babble and quantity trash talk to berate opponents.  It was refreshing for Hogan to meet his match with Sting, a guy that chose to punk him out repeatedly with little, but quality words and actions.  This is no different than the way Smo has consistently made BC look like the chump that he is, exposing him for everything in a way that the Bambi can't fire back at.  Thank you Sting and Smo for your efforts in piping down two of the world's all time big mouths.  Lastly, there are absolutely no similarities in their on court/in ring games outside of the fact that Sting made a living taking on more than one opponent, something Smo repeatedly does with his obsession with protecting the rim and stopping fast breaks.  Oh yeah, and a Smo Splash is just as lethal as the Stinger Splash.

This concludes my week long and favorite write up.  Thank you to everyone in PCTI for being ridiculous enough to deserve comparison sticks with fake, steroid induced, physcotic entertainers.