NOwave
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Post by NOwave on Sept 19, 2008 11:58:57 GMT -5
Koko does still wrestle on occasion in Memphis, which is his home, and has been for years.
Koko might be 5'8" wearing elevator shoes, but he was very athletic and had great charisma. If he'd been 6'2" and 240, he might have been the Rock.
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Mac
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Post by Mac on Sept 19, 2008 11:59:14 GMT -5
Well, I mean, the guy's name was Gorilla after all . Whats really funny is he refered to Miss Elizabeth in the same way as the animals
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MolotovMocktail
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Post by MolotovMocktail on Sept 19, 2008 17:44:17 GMT -5
I always thought he was very underrated and misused. Maybe not title material, but didn't deserve to get pinned by Bobby Heenan at WM4.
At least he was in a Survivor Series main event, on Hogan and Savage's team. He didn't survive, but his team won, so I'll count that as a win for him.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Sept 19, 2008 17:55:38 GMT -5
A good tag brawl from Memphis with Koko.
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Hiroshi Hase
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Post by Hiroshi Hase on Sept 19, 2008 19:10:12 GMT -5
I'd love to see the video (if it exists) of him challenging Ric Flair for the NWA title when Flair visited the Memphis area.
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Cranjis McBasketball
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Sept 20, 2008 0:45:14 GMT -5
He was incredibly average.
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Post by carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army) on Sept 20, 2008 1:26:25 GMT -5
Easily my favorite wrestler when I was a kid. I have no clue how I'd react to him now, but when I was six, the man was a king.
I agree with others; I wish he'd followed some other path in the entertainment industry, with his charisma and coolness. He was never going to be a huge star in wrestling.
So: carved out a niche, wrestled fine, we're still talking about him twenty years later. Pretty damn good.
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Post by scifi1980 on Sept 20, 2008 2:05:45 GMT -5
he always lost when his throat hit the ropes but i liked him,wanted him and tito to win,even though i knew they wouldnt. maybe they should of been like power n glory,bitter jobbers That or the blind charge dive into the corner and he would mash his face into the buckle. Like a black Ric Flair. Kept trying those stupid blind charges and the guys would just sidestep. If the lightheavyweight title existed back then I think Koko would of been dragging it around for at least a year and a half. Probably trading it with Danny Davis.
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Post by tibbo on Sept 20, 2008 5:33:14 GMT -5
Always liked him. Wouldn't call him a jobber, really. He was best known for losing, but he won enough to be legitimate. Heck, the guy took part at 2 Wrestlemanias. Fan of his from his Mid-South days, but like JYD and Duggan, the magic was gone and let himself go a tad when he hit WWF. Really?? It always amazes me that guys I always figured were uber-charismatic (like Hacksaw, and now Koko) were even better someplace else. Koko took part in 3 Wrestlemanias: 3,4 and 6. He also pinned Brooklyn Brawler at Wrestlemanina 7 in a dark match
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Sept 20, 2008 6:32:42 GMT -5
Fan of his from his Mid-South days, but like JYD and Duggan, the magic was gone and let himself go a tad when he hit WWF. Correct. Koko Ware was awesome in Mid-South and Memphis. In Memphis, when he worked as a heel in the PYT ("Pretty Young Things") tag team, he was great. I saw a clip on tape of Koko working against Flair for the NWA title during one of Flair's last World Title defenses in Memphis (1985 or maybe early-1986?), and he looked like a million bucks. Koko was a "high flyer" that was never much of a "high flyer" in WWF, but in the early-to-mid 1980s Memphis days...Koko, Bobby Eaton, and Randy Savage did all kinds of high spots that are rather pedestrian by today's standards...but back then, it looked like Space Wrestling from the year 2027. Koko as a heel in 1983 Memphis...looking like a sawed-off midget linebacker with a 40-inch vertical leap, jumping off things and kicking people in the face...he would've been an Internet favorite if the Internet was around. And I agree with Madison about JYD & Duggan. Both of their legacies are kind of tainted by being guys working the overly theatrical, staid Vince/WWF 1980s style at their highest prominence...but both JYD & Duggan were semi-outlandish/cartoonish in interviews...but four-star, straight-up, ass-kicking brawlers in Mid-South from all the stuff I've seen in-ring. I'm a big fan of that style.
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Post by blef on Sept 20, 2008 15:26:40 GMT -5
Wouldn't call him a jobber, really. He was best known for losing, but he won enough to be legitimate. Heck, the guy took part at 2 Wrestlemanias. Koko took part in 3 Wrestlemanias: 3,4 and 6. He also pinned Brooklyn Brawler at Wrestlemanina 7 in a dark match Where was he at WM4? I'm totally blanking on that.
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Lukin Stontmehn
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Post by Lukin Stontmehn on Sept 20, 2008 15:31:45 GMT -5
Tagging with the British Bulldogs against Bobby Heenan and the Islanders.
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Post by Kash Flagg on Sept 20, 2008 16:41:14 GMT -5
Tagging with the British Bulldogs against Bobby Heenan and the Islanders. He did the job to Heenan right?
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Lukin Stontmehn
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Post by Lukin Stontmehn on Sept 20, 2008 18:13:33 GMT -5
He did yeah.
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Joekishi
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Post by Joekishi on Sept 20, 2008 20:40:21 GMT -5
i loved how he always sang in his promos
I bet a lot guys in WWE wish they could get the reactions he could
Plus his song was awesome
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