I forgot Chuck Palumbo existed

[JDviant]

Completely. I remember someone was going to marry Billy Gunn, but it was just a blur of red tights and blonde hair. Then I saw him mentioned in a WCW topic, and it all came back. All the memorable Chuck Palumbo moments, anyway. So, you know, like one memory. He was feuding with Jamie Noble (who as always was awesome) over Michelle McCool. Jaime had taken her to a date and yelled at a waiter in a french restaurant over not having italian food for his special lady, typical Noble tomfoolery. Somehow this led to Chuck having matches with him, while Chuck was in his "my character is I have a motorcycle" phase. the fued was more or less chuck beating up Jaime, and I think the only reason I remember it is a poster saying something like "The jerk keeps leaving with the girl while the nice guy gets #$%^ on? Only in the WWE!"

Any way, do you guys have a favourite memory of Chuck Palumbo?

[King Ghidorah]

What the hell is a Chuck Palumbo?

[Deleted]

was he employed for the entire span from Billy & Chuck to Motorcycle guy? because I just remember those being things that happened pretty far apart from each other with nothing in between

[Deleted]

I remember when he randomly appeared in a battle royal on Raw in 2004.

That's it really. He was in the battle royal and someone else won.

[Starshine]

So you forgot about his best of 346738908702 series with Kenny Dykstra back in '07?

[JDviant]

Jul 6, 2011 23:35:59 GMT -5 @xbb198xxx said:

was he employed for the entire span from Billy & Chuck to Motorcycle guy? because I just remember those being things that happened pretty far apart from each other with nothing in between

He stayed until 2004 (with the FBI), then went to Japan until 2006 according to wiki.

[Yami Daimao]

You will remember meeeeeee!

Guess not.

[JDviant]

Jul 6, 2011 23:37:01 GMT -5 Starshine said:

So you forgot about his best of 346738908702 series with Kenny Dykstra back in '07?

Oh yeah that was a guy too! He was notable for a nice top tope leg drop and dating older women. Good guy.

[MrBRulzOK]

So are you saying you didn't remember him?!

Way to completely ignore the message in his entrance theme!

Curses, beaten to it.

[dapperdanman]

I thought Chuck was a joke during the Perfect Event stage of WCW, but liked him a lot with the Billy and Chuck team(seriously, one of my favorite enterence themes ever)

My memory of him: Just being a solid Tag Team wrestler who didn't have enough charisma to carry himself as an individual performer.

[JDviant]

I still only here 'Rollin' whenever someone comes out on a motorcyle in my head.

[bob]

I remember him with Billy and Rico, I barely remember him as the motorcycle guy. I really liked him as one of the Natural Born Thrillers in WCW's dying days.

[Deleted]

Well, why did you have to remind me!?

[Paco]

I went to a SmackDown taping in October 2001.
Chuck was a cult favorite among my gang of friends so we made a "Chuck Palumbo Fan Club" sign.
He comes out for his dark match vs. Funaki and we go nuts! The rest of the crowd? Not so much. Everyone in the arena looks at us like "Really?".

Chuck sees the sign and points at us and proceeds to beat Funaki with that awesome superkick of his. There you have my favorite memory of the legend known as Chuck Palumbo.

[worldsstrongestman]

I liked him best when he was McCool's jealous friend. Seriously, that storyline had me intrigued.

[woowoowoox]

Aww, I miss Jamie Noble.

[joebob27]

I remember a hairdressers named "Robert Palumbo: Powerhair" and that always reminded me of Chuck Palumbo's ambiguously gay character. Maybe that would have been a good gimmick ala Simon Dean

[Tyfo]

Jul 6, 2011 23:35:59 GMT -5 @xbb198xxx said:

was he employed for the entire span from Billy & Chuck to Motorcycle guy? because I just remember those being things that happened pretty far apart from each other with nothing in between

No. After Billy & Chuck (I think Billy got injured right after their post wedding face turn, forcing the teams end), Chuck was a gimmickless face for a few months before turning heel and joining the FBI with Nunzio and Johnny Stamboli. He got moved to Raw in the 2004 draft and did nothing other then appear on Heat here and there with the nickname Custom Chucky P, basically a early version of sorts of his eventual biker gimmick. They canned him at some point late in 2004 and he spent time in Japan and Mexico.

He was re-hired in 2006, spent forever doing dark matches before finally reappearing on SmackDown in 2007 as the face biker character. I remember he was re-hired at the same time as Test and Shannon Moore, so it seems like he was brought back to join the new ECW brand like the other two but they changed their minds or something. It was seriously well over a year after he re-signed before he returned to TV.

[Free Hat]

He and Sean O'Haire were the WCW Tag Team Champions at the start of the Invasion (having won them from DDP and Kevin Nash in a shockingly good match), and holy s*** did they get buried. First they attacked the Hardys, only to get their asses kicked by about 20 WWF guys. Then they lost to the APA in a non title match. And then finally they got destroyed by Taker and Kane. After that I don't remember them ever teaming again.

The highlight of their run during that time was probably the match they had on Heat with fellow WCW jobbers Shawn Stasiak and Chris Kanyon. At least they won that match.

[froggyfrog]

one of 12 year old me's fave tag teams

never forget