Question about Survivor Seies 1990?

[Arturo Classico]

Okay I was reading Rewriting the book about if Terry Taylor aka The Red Rooster came out of the egg instead of the Gobbely Gooker and became a major heel in WWF. Honestly this sounds cool and logical to me but do you really think this would have worked a made Terry Taylor a major star or would it have floundered and dropped very quickly?

[officedepot6905]

weird you made this thread, i just bought the first anthology ( like 88-91 or something?)

I wondered what the original plan for this was, and I do not see how that could make anyone intimidating.

I mean where would you announce their hometown as? the egg? wherever the egg hatched? I couldnt buy a heel or a face coming out of that egg

[bigjohnstudd]

Wasn't Terry Taylor already back in the NWA by then?

[mrjl]

Apr 17, 2010 22:14:09 GMT -5 officedepot6905 said:

weird you made this thread, i just bought the first anthology ( like 88-91 or something?)

I wondered what the original plan for this was, and I do not see how that could make anyone intimidating.

I mean where would you announce their hometown as? the egg? wherever the egg hatched? I couldnt buy a heel or a face coming out of that egg

they could have just been planning a mascot.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

There's no way to make the Red Rooster or Terry Taylor over.

Would never happen. He's fine in the ring, but, the Red Rooster killed his career dead.

[Futureraven: Beelzebruv]

It's someone who'd already flopped as a comedy wrestler coming back in the same gimmick out of a giant egg.

No one could make that work in the real world.

[johnnyk9]

I heard it was suppose to be the return of King Kong Bundy

[chunkylover53]

Apr 18, 2010 9:52:25 GMT -5 Futureraven: Beelzebruv said:

It's someone who'd already flopped as a comedy wrestler coming back in the same gimmick out of a giant egg.

No one could make that work in the real world.

Not if the storyline was to exploit what an ass the gimmick made him look. He would tar and feather his opponents to vindicate his past embarassment.

["Playboy" Don Douglas]

I just don't see it working.

Then again, I can't imagine Taylor being more over than he was for Bill Watts. I've just never been very impressed by the guy.

[MichaelMartini]

It should've been a surprise celebrity guest. Any wrestler coming out of that thing would be dead in the water, face or heel.

[Jiren]

That poor man

Even Sean Mooney look uncomfortable saying "Rooster Boosters"

[Futureraven: Beelzebruv]

Apr 18, 2010 22:09:47 GMT -5 chunkylover53 said:

Apr 18, 2010 9:52:25 GMT -5 Futureraven: Beelzebruv said:

It's someone who'd already flopped as a comedy wrestler coming back in the same gimmick out of a giant egg.

No one could make that work in the real world.

Not if the storyline was to exploit what an ass the gimmick made him look. He would tar and feather his opponents to vindicate his past embarassment.

I'd say even then, Bourne Again worked in ECW, but that was a few years later, and even then as a midcard act.

Val Venis also did a similar thing, again, kept him around IC title level, for a few months before he went back.

You'd still need to get people past the fact this is the Red Rooster, he's not a badass.

[chunkylover53]

Apr 19, 2010 15:39:23 GMT -5 Futureraven: Beelzebruv said:

Apr 18, 2010 22:09:47 GMT -5 chunkylover53 said:

Not if the storyline was to exploit what an ass the gimmick made him look. He would tar and feather his opponents to vindicate his past embarassment.

I'd say even then, Bourne Again worked in ECW, but that was a few years later, and even then as a midcard act.

Val Venis also did a similar thing, again, kept him around IC title level, for a few months before he went back.

You'd still need to get people past the fact this is the Red Rooster, he's not a badass.

If you actually read RTB, it wasn't meant to make him a bad ass, it was to get revenge for his past humilation. I can see a storyline like that working if the right people were involved, which is what Simon did. Then again, this is all fantasy and we would never know how that would really play out.

[captaineasychord]

Apr 18, 2010 23:14:05 GMT -5 "Playboy" Don Douglas said:

I just don't see it working.

I can't imagine Taylor being more over than he was for Bill Watts.

I always loved his finisher "The Five Arm". Taylor definitely got shafted, especially in comparison to how other late-period stars of Watts' territory did (well, except Eddie Gilbert for obvious reasons). Think of all the names like Hacksaw Duggan, Ted DiBiase, JYD, Rick Steiner, or Sting and where they place in the honor roll of modern wrestling and how Taylor, who was almost given Mr. Perfect, has to suffer the indignity of the Red Rooster (if he was a heel, at least they could have called him "The Cocky One" or something). It's all his own fault however that he's apparently been reduced to stooging off lifelong colleagues to gain political favor with his boss.