Sean O’Haire was a WCW Power Plant graduate who had a great look, height, and athleticism to him. Later on, he would show that he had the chops for light character work in WWE but that run would start as part of The Alliance.
WWE Run
He debuted alongside Natural Born Thrillers partner Chuck Palumbo on a June 2001 episode of SmackDown. Their run during the Invasion was a mixed bag as they didn’t pick up WWE Tag Team gold and also lost their WCW Tag Team titles to Undertaker and Kane.
After eventually getting booted from the faction and some time in OVW, he returned to the main roster for appearances on the B-shows and the house shows. I realize that I blah-blah’d through this early run but the second half of his early run wasn’t eventful.
It wasn’t until 2003 when he got a character revamp that things started to percolate for Sean O’Haire. The sinister devil’s advocate character was one of the more interesting gimmicks on SmackDown.
Mind you, he still hadn’t improved significantly but WWE was trying something here and I was picking up what they were putting down. What I wasn’t picking up was pairing him with Roddy Piper.
It was 2003 and it was just enough of Piper in the ring. I mean he was watchable this time around but I’d seen enough from his WCW stuff.
As for O’Haire, his gimmick was eventually dropped and it was just back to what would get him sent back to OVW. As a matter of fact, that happened he recovered from a motorcycle injury.
Salvaging Sean O’Haire
Alright, this is a simple salvage and mondo quick. He should’ve kept the devil’s advocate gimmick and moved over to RAW.
Better yet, his pot-stirring persona would’ve worked as a free agent who is just at shows corrupting the talent, causing disagreements among tag teams, and just being a menace.
Just view him as too toxic to actually be on any brand. It would be a mix of the scrapped GTV and Just Joe segments. Ultimately, RAW’s focus on storyline and excitement in the early 2000s would’ve been the perfect brand for O’Haire and the gimmick could’ve grown.
Hell, we probably would’ve seen Intercontinental champion Sean O’Haire.
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