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Post by cool245 on Jun 16, 2011 11:59:21 GMT -5
Its been said that David Arquette was against becoming WCW Champion and tried to get Russo to change his mind, but eventually went through with the title change. If David knew it was a stupid idea why didn't he just tell Russo he wasn't doing it and make him come up with something else.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2011 12:23:56 GMT -5
He donated all the money he made during his time with WCW to Owen Hart's family and Brian Pillman's family. Plus all the higher up's seem to be convinced this was great for business so I guess it did cross his mind of well I'm not a wrestling business and these guys are so they probably know more then I do!
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Post by Citizen Zero on Jun 16, 2011 14:56:46 GMT -5
Because he was a wrestling fan and a bunch of wrestling guys were begging him to do it.
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Post by johnnyk9 on Jun 16, 2011 15:12:34 GMT -5
He knew Ready to Rumble was going to flop so he thought he could pull a Zues and see if it would salvage his career
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2011 15:17:40 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure that the WCW brass was convinced that this would get them mainstream publicity and bring fans back to WCW in droves, so they convinced him to do it. Have I mentioned lately that the WCW brass were idiots?
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Post by mentol on Jun 16, 2011 15:54:49 GMT -5
biggest mistake of WCW---enough said
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Post by FailedGimmick on Jun 16, 2011 15:59:05 GMT -5
The best part of that entire angle was when Jarret beat up David and called him "Mr. Cox"
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Post by erisi236 on Jun 16, 2011 16:22:54 GMT -5
There's a strange irony that Arquettes theme song was "We're Not Gonna Take It."
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Post by CaptainFall on Jun 16, 2011 16:38:39 GMT -5
It did get mainstream publicity but if you go on the angle that all publicity is good publicity, WCW management somehow managed to mess that up.
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Post by diegorivera on Jun 16, 2011 17:05:32 GMT -5
Supposedly he did refuse initially. WCW management was just really persistent. It's likely he wanted to do the storyline with the WCW guys being a wrestling fan and with so many of them in R2R but did not want to go as far as winning the belt, knowing that he, as a fan, would have crapped on such an angle himself.
Just speculation on my part. Maybe he did want the strap or he figured the backlash wouldn't be so strong.
As much as the Arquette win diminished the WCW Titles prestige, I though the Steiner/Booker T series over the belt helped restore a lot of it's luster. Hell. Booker really made that belt look somewhat important again. Maybe I'm alone in feeling that...
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Post by DavidArquette on Jun 16, 2011 17:49:14 GMT -5
Supposedly he did refuse initially. WCW management was just really persistent. It's likely he wanted to do the storyline with the WCW guys being a wrestling fan and with so many of them in R2R but did not want to go as far as winning the belt, knowing that he, as a fan, would have crapped on such an angle himself. Just speculation on my part. Maybe he did want the strap or he figured the backlash wouldn't be so strong. As much as the Arquette win diminished the WCW Titles prestige, I though the Steiner/Booker T series over the belt helped restore a lot of it's luster. Hell. Booker really made that belt look somewhat important again. Maybe I'm alone in feeling that... I agree, Steiner and Booker brought back a lot of it's prestige and made it important again. Was watching their match on the Final Nitro today for today and Booker's reaction when he won the WHC was awesome! |
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Post by JDviant on Jun 16, 2011 18:39:53 GMT -5
Obviously its stupid, but as a wrestling fan myself if WCW had offered me a chance to be champion I'd have taken it.
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Post by mrjl on Jun 16, 2011 18:44:14 GMT -5
honestly Arquette should have faked an injury to get out of it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2011 18:45:39 GMT -5
There's a strange irony that Arquettes theme song was "We're Not Gonna Take It." Well it was the Bif Naked version, so yeah.... |
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Post by molson5 on Jun 16, 2011 19:09:04 GMT -5
The guy wasn't a booker, or even, you know, in the wrestling industry, so I think it's a little much to be putting ANY of the blame on him for this.
And wrestling had changed so much in a few years, I'm sure he was a fan of some type, but I doubt he followed it obsessively on the internet and whatnot - the creative people IN CHARGE of one of the major wrestling promotions told him this would be a fantastic idea.
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Post by derrtaysouth95 on Jun 16, 2011 19:09:25 GMT -5
Obviously its stupid, but as a wrestling fan myself if WCW had offered me a chance to be champion I'd have taken it. Yeah I don't really blame him. That really is a chance of a lifetime. Sure he knew it was a bad idea but every fan is a mark somewhere in their soul. |
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Post by CaptainFall on Jun 17, 2011 1:39:40 GMT -5
Supposedly he did refuse initially. WCW management was just really persistent. It's likely he wanted to do the storyline with the WCW guys being a wrestling fan and with so many of them in R2R but did not want to go as far as winning the belt, knowing that he, as a fan, would have crapped on such an angle himself. Just speculation on my part. Maybe he did want the strap or he figured the backlash wouldn't be so strong. As much as the Arquette win diminished the WCW Titles prestige, I though the Steiner/Booker T series over the belt helped restore a lot of it's luster. Hell. Booker really made that belt look somewhat important again. Maybe I'm alone in feeling that... I agree, Steiner and Booker brought back a lot of it's prestige and made it important again. Was watching their match on the Final Nitro today for today and Booker's reaction when he won the WHC was awesome! As bad an idea as Arquette being champion was, I can see the reasoning behind it. Vince Russo as champion however made absolutely no sense and if Arquette being champion killed the title than Russo being champion stuffed it in the coffin and hammered in the nails. Steiner and Booker did their best to bring some prestige back and Booker as champion definitely worked, I think what hampered the belt at the point was the lack of main eventers causing a threat. |
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Post by Ryushinku on Jun 17, 2011 3:46:00 GMT -5
Got to say, the switch was baffling but Arquette by all accounts was all class about it.
Loved that skit he did with Jericho on the Lopez Tonight.
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Post by prophecyr on Jun 17, 2011 4:13:26 GMT -5
Slightly off topic, but I love the story I read about what happened the night Arquette won the belt. He asked Flair 'what do I do now?' and Ric replied, you wear that belt to a bar, and buy everybody drinks all night. Sure enough, Arquette did it. Gotta love that image.
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