From today's Figure Four Daily, Bryan Alvarez interviews former WWE writer
Court Bauer. He talks about the long-rumored Bob Holly-monkey angle.
When nuECW was starting up on SyFy, the writers were coming up with ideas on
how to add a sci-fi element to the show. Their first idea was to have a UFO
crash in the ring, have a martian come out and have Sandman cane him to
death. This was going to be a fuck you to SyFy. Ultimately, they decided not
to bite the hand that feeds them.
At the same time, Vince had a hard-on for Bob Holly, and wanted ideas for
him every week. As a joke, Court threw out an idea to turn Bob into
Spacecore Holly. He'd been out with an injury, and Bob would've been "lost
in time" only to come back with a space monkey. The space flight would've
been a joint venture between the WWE and NASA. The monkey would be his
Frankie/Damian.
Court had someone make a picture of the idea. Stephanie, apparently, was
amused and disturbed.
http://www.f4wonline.com/images/stories/mainstory/spacemonkeycourt.jpgAs it was pointed out in the interview, Bob Holly can't even get along with
humans, much less apes. Meltzer mentioned a great story Holly last week.
When Bob was released from the WWE, a few indy promotions tried to get a
hold of him, but they couldn't, so they contacted WWE wrestlers for his
phone number. None of them had it.
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