Johnny D
Don Corleone
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Post by Johnny D on Aug 31, 2007 19:40:54 GMT -5
..If Lex (in that video) was a young up-and-comer in the indys or somewhere who no-one heard of/cared about rather than a washed up former main event WWF/WCW veteran? I mean, wouldn't it have made any difference? (that promo is still so darn funny to me) *waits for it*  |
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Post by Mister Pigwell on Aug 31, 2007 19:42:16 GMT -5
*ahem*
I DON'T KNOW!!!
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Post by bubbles on Aug 31, 2007 20:05:38 GMT -5
It's funny regardless but if it was an unknown indy Lex then I doubt it'd be as popular.
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Post by TripleMerc on Sept 1, 2007 7:58:04 GMT -5
Of course not. With Lex, it's a former WWF MAIN EVENTER, someone who you expect to be really good at what he does, but instead he turns into a botch machine, it says a lot for the state of the product then, and is then percieved as humor, as Luger, in hindsight, wasn't as good as he was pushed as. With random indy guys, who the hell cares, it's just some indy guy, 99 percent of us have never heard and/or cared about him either.
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Jay Peas 42
El Dandy
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Is looking forward to a Nation of Domination Kwannza Special.
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Post by Jay Peas 42 on Sept 1, 2007 14:41:39 GMT -5
On a related note, does anyone else think during that whole IT'S NOT HOT!!! skit, erm documentry, (what was that supposed to be, anyways, did the WCW really have a camera crew in place in Parts Unknown at the request of Taskmaster) becomes more entertaining when you wonder "Gosh, I can't belive Nancy left HIM for Beniot."
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Post by seano on Sept 1, 2007 21:16:03 GMT -5
If it had been an established face, I think it would've worked better.
(Remember - Luger had been a heel for 6 months or so...and suddenly he comes out, bodyslams Yokozuna, and is Mr. USAUSAUSA!)
But even back then, when I had no idea was a face or heel or kayfabe was, I knew that Luger's push was to fill the Hogan void. And I never really liked him for that specific reason: Lex Luger was NOT Hulk Hogan.
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Post by jcdenton on Sept 1, 2007 21:43:55 GMT -5
If it had been an established face, I think it would've worked better. (Remember - Luger had been a heel for 6 months or so...and suddenly he comes out, bodyslams Yokozuna, and is Mr. USAUSAUSA!) But even back then, when I had no idea was a face or heel or kayfabe was, I knew that Luger's push was to fill the Hogan void. And I never really liked him for that specific reason: Lex Luger was NOT Hulk Hogan. Thats exactly what I thought, he was being pushed as a hogan replacement, and the fans saw RIGHT though it. |
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fg76
Dennis Stamp
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Post by fg76 on Sept 2, 2007 1:24:15 GMT -5
On a related note, does anyone else think during that whole IT'S NOT HOT!!! skit, erm documentry, (what was that supposed to be, anyways, did the WCW really have a camera crew in place in Parts Unknown at the request of Taskmaster) becomes more entertaining when you wonder "Gosh, I can't belive Nancy left HIM for Beniot." I used to hear rumors Sullivan was even more abusive than Benoit turned out to be, well until he -- well -- you know . . . |
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Dean-o
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Post by Dean-o on Sept 2, 2007 11:18:52 GMT -5
If it had been an established face, I think it would've worked better. (Remember - Luger had been a heel for 6 months or so...and suddenly he comes out, bodyslams Yokozuna, and is Mr. USAUSAUSA!) But even back then, when I had no idea was a face or heel or kayfabe was, I knew that Luger's push was to fill the Hogan void. And I never really liked him for that specific reason: Lex Luger was NOT Hulk Hogan. Thats exactly what I thought, he was being pushed as a hogan replacement, and the fans saw RIGHT though it. They sure were hard to spot. Luger was very over during that time period. |
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Post by seano on Sept 2, 2007 20:39:05 GMT -5
Thats exactly what I thought, he was being pushed as a hogan replacement, and the fans saw RIGHT though it. They sure were hard to spot. Luger was very over during that time period. I don't agree that the fans say through it.........but management clearly wasn't impressed. I mean, he went from wrestling for the title at WM10 to wrestling the Harris Twins/Blu Brothers in the curtain jerker match at WM11. |
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Post by scifi1980 on Sept 2, 2007 22:46:40 GMT -5
I watched the bodyslam challenge live and here is what I thought
When the Helicopter landed on the intrepid. I thought, alright here comes Hogan to get revenge on Yokozuna for the King Of The Ring!!! Out steps Lex Luger, and I was thinking. WTF!!!
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Post by Se7en: Horse That Wrote Poems on Sept 3, 2007 0:04:27 GMT -5
I watched the bodyslam challenge live and here is what I thought When the Helicopter landed on the intrepid. I thought, alright here comes Hogan to get revenge on Yokozuna for the King Of The Ring!!! Out steps Lex Luger, and I was thinking. WTF!!! wait wait wait wait...were you LIVE as in ON THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER!?! (or live as in Smackdown - taped 3 days prior and fudged?)  |
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andyc
Tommy Wiseau
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Post by andyc on Sept 3, 2007 14:13:42 GMT -5
I've gotta go with those who say it was just too sudden. Not Lex's fault, just Vince hitting the panic button too quick after falling out with Hogan. Imho, it would've worked a lot better if say a week or two prior to that on Raw or similar they'd had Lex teaming with Yoko in a tag match against, I dunno, let's say Bret and Perfect seeing as Lex was feuding with both of them at the time plus Bret had lost the title to Yoko back at WM9. Lex botches a move, costs the team the match and gets Banzai'd by Yoko and taken out on a stretcher. Two weeks later, on the launchpad, out he comes, gets the slam, really gets some heat on the feud, perfect set up for Summerslam. Anyway, just my thoughts on the matter.  |
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