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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Jul 5, 2010 0:08:56 GMT -5
How do you think his career would have went? I know a lot of people have said that because of his injuries he probably would have ended up as an announcer, which I could see. However, I don't think Pillman being alive would have effected the Montreal Screwjob so where do you see him going after that? Would he follow Bret into WCW or return to ECW. Perhaps just stay in the WWF?
I could see him him wrestling until Survivor Series 1997 then quiting the company along with most of the Hart Foundation. He'd then sign to WCW and collect a big paycheck while probably only appearing a handful of times on TV. After WCW folds I could then see him going to TNA first as a wrestler then working as an announcer and perhaps having a part in the early X division. Not necessarily as a performer, but perhaps as a manager or maybe even in a Jerry Lynn role.
I think after TNA he'd probably at some point go to WWE as a road agent or maybe stick as an announcer. I could be wrong, but if he lived Pillman strikes me as one of those guys who would never leave the business completely.
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Post by flatsdomino on Jul 5, 2010 0:43:23 GMT -5
I say without hyperbole that the entire course of wrestling history would be very, very different in SOME way had Pillman lived. What that is, I'm not sure of. It's a lot to think about.
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Post by Kris Kobain on Jul 5, 2010 0:47:44 GMT -5
On his dvd Melanie said he was offered an announcer spot in the WWE but refused it.
If he couldn't wrestle due to injuries he would have left. She said it tore him up to be there and not be able to compete.
I think he would have altered his style and been a top start in the attitude era.
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Post by thegame415 on Jul 5, 2010 0:57:06 GMT -5
I see him returning to WCW and joining NWO B-Team. Getting released from WCW in summer '99 and returning to ECW till it folded in '01. He then returns to WWE and is used as a jobber until injuries catch up to him, and he becomes a road agent in 2002. Sadly, he passes away in 2005.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Jul 5, 2010 1:04:11 GMT -5
On his dvd Melanie said he was offered an announcer spot in the WWE but refused it. If he couldn't wrestle due to injuries he would have left. She said it tore him up to be there and not be able to compete. I think he would have altered his style and been a top start in the attitude era. Hmm, I forgot about that since I haven't watched the DVD since it first came out. I still stick by my original post as I mentioned he would have kept wrestling for a while before going into the announcer role. I think with his injuries he'd eventually have to accept the announcer position or maybe work as a road agent. |
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Post by Kris Kobain on Jul 5, 2010 1:15:14 GMT -5
On his dvd Melanie said he was offered an announcer spot in the WWE but refused it. If he couldn't wrestle due to injuries he would have left. She said it tore him up to be there and not be able to compete. I think he would have altered his style and been a top start in the attitude era. Hmm, I forgot about that since I haven't watched the DVD since it first came out. I still stick by my original post as I mentioned he would have kept wrestling for a while before going into the announcer role. I think with his injuries he'd eventually have to accept the announcer position or maybe work as a road agent. I honestly can't disagree with you. I think he had a passion for the business and it would have been hard for him to stay away. |
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Post by celticjobber on Jul 5, 2010 2:02:07 GMT -5
I don't think he would've left immediately after Bret. For one thing, it would've depended on his contract and much like what happened with Owen Hart, I doubt Vince would've let Pillman leave. He probably would've been a manager or something and then maybe become a road agent.
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Post by Bub (BLM) on Jul 5, 2010 2:05:55 GMT -5
The Attitude Era would have been WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY better.
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Jul 5, 2010 2:53:28 GMT -5
I hate be pessimistic, but I think he would have had some dark, bleak times if he had lived. I think he may have had a bad meltdown or something. He may have had a sad-to-think-about life had he not died.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jul 5, 2010 2:59:47 GMT -5
I hate be pessimistic, but I think he would have had some dark, bleak times if he had lived. I think he may have had a bad meltdown and could have had the "demons" you hear about a lot in wrestling. Yeah, everything I know about the guy, which isn't much, points to the fact he wasn't long for the world. It's sad, but in a another way, it's kind of a happy thing. If he weren't that way, we wouldn't have gotten what we did give to the business. |
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Post by Stu on Jul 5, 2010 3:00:40 GMT -5
I don't think he would've left immediately after Bret. For one thing, it would've depended on his contract and much like what happened with Owen Hart, I doubt Vince would've let Pillman leave. He probably would've been a manager or something and then maybe become a road agent. Plus, considering his relationship with Austin, he probably would've stuck around. It would've been interesting to see how he would've factored into the whole Austin/DX storyline at the time. Maybe they would've given him the match against Michaels at the DX ppv in December '97. Then you can still have Owen run in to help his Hart Foundation member. One of them could've wrestled Michaels at the Royal Rumble, although that would've depended on Triple H not getting injured just before, and the Undertaker having a different match. |
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Jul 5, 2010 3:10:00 GMT -5
He would not have wrestled Michaels at the December PPV. He couldn't work a main-event, Shawn Michaels-level match. Also, according to Terri Runnels, the Goldust feud was supposed to continue with Marlena leaving Goldust for Pillman. Pillman and Marlena were to have a wedding on TV and they made her a special golden wedding gown already. Anyways, I think he would have been too involved with that storyline to wrestle Shawn at D-Generation X (the In Your House PPV). He was no where near the main event level and they would not have trusted him in that spot since he was working with an injury.
But like I said, I am afraid Pillman would have had a life that would be sad to think about had he not died when he did. His dependence on painkillers was increasing because he was forcing himself to wrestle in tremendous pain because he came back from the ankle injury way too soon. That car accident really messed up his career. I am sure it was killing Brian not to be able to really wrestle like he wanted to while seeing his friends like Austin and Dustin starting to take off (and maybe Mick, not sure if they were close from WCW) and also seeing the WWE becoming better creatively and starting to pick up momentum. He wanted to be apart of it so bad he was wrestling through enormous pain and the prescription drugs were making the wrestling possible. I believe JR said he failed a drug test. He could have failed another one and could have sort of been away from wrestling like Sunny was for awhile in the late '90s and like Scott Hall was as well.
I hope I am wrong about this, but I just don't see great things happening with Pillman.
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Post by Kris Kobain on Jul 5, 2010 3:22:39 GMT -5
To add to the above theory.
Hawk and Davey were on heavy painkillers and we saw what happned.
Then again so was Eddie and he managed to stay around for a while. He still died way too young but the same could have happened with Brian.
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