this thread has been full of some really good stuff lately. Sam, i am particularly enjoying your insider perspective.
btw, i am all for a Horsemen remake...
and i like including the Worlds Greatest Tag Team.
i could also see Finley in the role of the Enforcer... and i could also see Kennedy as this generation's Tully Blanchard.
Kennedy would fit better than Finlay. Simply because Finlay is only slightly younger than Flair really and it wouldn't make much sense to give him such a rub.
The idea I have always seen for Finlay is something the WWE and WCW have tip-toed around but never fully embraced. I would really like to see Finlay, Regal and Burchill form a pseudo faction, where tension runs deep throughout, but ultimately, the european connection keeps them together (loosely). All three are tough S.O.B.'s and it would be cool to see them up their levels of intesity trying to one-up each other while the others watch on, etc.
Plus, if one of the main eventers needs protection (ala A.P.A.), they can hire them for a night to be his hooligans. I could see Edge hiring them out to help soften up a future opponent. Handicap matches, gauntlet matches, hardcore matches where the opponent had to run through each of the European Hooligans could make for some great episodic TV in which the heels are believable bad guys who can help elevate an up and coming face. I don't know, just a small idea for those guys to help give them some air time and a direction for awhile. you could also do the freebirds gimmick with them where if they win the tag team title, you don't know which duo of the three you would face until the match.
As for Kennedy, he is young enough to be in a horsemen group, but his character is one who seemingly doesn't have many friends and would probably not fit properly within a group structure.
To me, Orton works best simply because, despite his Legend Killer gimmick, he is engrossed in history with his family being within the business. You could have him explain how he has outgrown the Legend Killer gimmick, ending careers of many. But their is one legend he doesn't want to end, in fact, it is one he dreamed of being in from the time he was a little boy. When his dad would come home and regail him with tails of the great Four Horsemen.
And now, a generation later, he not only has the chance to be in the group, but to lead it into the next great chapter. With Ric Flair by his side, mentoring him, bestowing his wisdom upon Orton, while still having the new Horsemen by his side, nothing is impossible and no one can stop him.
Something like that.
