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Post by Jeremy on Feb 10, 2012 17:37:04 GMT -5
Who are some guys who were in developmental for the WWE (OVW, DSW, FCW, HWA, others I don't remember) that could have been something but for whatever reason never got the call or got extremely limited exposure and got released?
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Post by THRJamesAngelo on Feb 10, 2012 17:43:17 GMT -5
Colt Cabana
Also with that Cruiserweight show they wanna do, Peter Orlov/Alex Koslov would've been pretty good.
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Post by austinariesfan88 on Feb 10, 2012 17:44:51 GMT -5
Colt Cabana
Kenny Omega
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Post by Manute Bol on Feb 10, 2012 17:58:09 GMT -5
Kaval
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2012 17:59:25 GMT -5
I will never understand the love for Colt Cabana,
Not sure if he counts, but I nominate Rob Conway, dude could have been something more than a punchline, albeit an hilarious one.
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Post by Manute Bol on Feb 10, 2012 18:06:13 GMT -5
I will never understand the love for Colt Cabana |
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Post by "American Dragon" on Feb 10, 2012 18:20:21 GMT -5
I will never understand the love for Colt Cabana |
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Post by Savage Gambino on Feb 10, 2012 19:32:26 GMT -5
I will never understand the love for Colt Cabana Me neither. Eh, different strokes and all. I gotta nominate Rico Constantino, though. Out of a wrestling class that produced Brock Lesnar, Shelton Benjamin, Randy Orton and Eugene/Nick Dinsmore, he was one of OVW's golden boys; that alone tells you how much talent this guy had. |
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Post by Burst on Feb 10, 2012 19:49:27 GMT -5
Me neither. Eh, different strokes and all. I gotta nominate Rico Constantino, though. Out of a wrestling class that produced Brock Lesnar, Shelton Benjamin, Randy Orton and Eugene/Nick Dinsmore, he was one of OVW's golden boys; that alone tells you how much talent this guy had. I do recall someone saying that he should've been this generation's DDP. What's the guy up to, anyway? Was he the one that was the cop in Las Vegas? If Finlay's any indication he could always come back, but I dunno if the same gimmick would work. |
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Post by Starshine on Feb 10, 2012 19:55:17 GMT -5
Colt Cabana and Chris Masters during his second run.
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Post by Sajoa Moe on Feb 10, 2012 20:18:01 GMT -5
Me neither. Eh, different strokes and all. I gotta nominate Rico Constantino, though. Out of a wrestling class that produced Brock Lesnar, Shelton Benjamin, Randy Orton and Eugene/Nick Dinsmore, he was one of OVW's golden boys; that alone tells you how much talent this guy had. I do recall someone saying that he should've been this generation's DDP. What's the guy up to, anyway? Was he the one that was the cop in Las Vegas? If Finlay's any indication he could always come back, but I dunno if the same gimmick would work. According to Wikipdeia he's an officer of the Nevada Taxi Cab Authority. Hard to believe he's 50 years old. |
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Post by Wolf Hurricane on Feb 10, 2012 20:24:00 GMT -5
I will never understand the love for Colt Cabana. Ditto. I nominate Johnny Jeter and Ken Doane. Two of OVW's brightest prospects who, for whatever reason, were brought up as cheerleaders. Then, after their breakup, the latter was pushed and suddenly un-pushed, while the former didn't do too much of anything before being given his walking papers. Just consider this: The two were considered two of the biggest stars in the Spirit Squad. To this day, only one person from that troupe is left: Dolph Ziggler. Imagine where they'd be if they weren't released and were given the opportunity to evolve the way Dolph was. I'll co-sign Rico and Kaval too, for obvious reasons. |
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Post by MolotovMocktail on Feb 10, 2012 20:39:41 GMT -5
Colt Cabana
Shawn Spears
Sicolodelico
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Post by froggyfrog on Feb 10, 2012 22:22:06 GMT -5
Colt Cabana
Ron H2O Waterman
Shawn Spears
Jay Bradley
Mike Kruel
Johnny Jeter
Chet Jablonski
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Post by rapidfire187 on Feb 10, 2012 22:23:48 GMT -5
Brent Albright/Gunner Scott.
I always felt like the reason they released him is because he was basically a carbon copy of Benoit and they didn't need two of them running around. They should really give him a second chance now if he's still in the business. He had some tremendous matches with Punk in OVW and I seem to remember him being really good in ROH after his WWE release.
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Post by Been burned too many times on Feb 10, 2012 22:41:31 GMT -5
Colt Cabana
Pirate Burchill
Serena Deeb
Kaval
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Post by Dub H on Feb 10, 2012 22:46:03 GMT -5
Kizarny
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Post by YeahYeahYeahYeahYeah on Feb 10, 2012 22:58:47 GMT -5
Serena Deeb and Angela Fong.
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Post by mizerable on Feb 10, 2012 23:18:15 GMT -5
I will never understand the love for Colt Cabana. Ditto. I nominate Johnny Jeter and Ken Doane. Two of OVW's brightest prospects who, for whatever reason, were brought up as cheerleaders. Then, after their breakup, the latter was pushed and suddenly un-pushed, while the former didn't do too much of anything before being given his walking papers. Just consider this: The two were considered two of the biggest stars in the Spirit Squad. To this day, only one person from that troupe is left: Dolph Ziggler. Imagine where they'd be if they weren't released and were given the opportunity to evolve the way Dolph was. I'll co-sign Rico and Kaval too, for obvious reasons. I'll agree with Jeter, but Doane/Dykstra was a one trick pony. He wasn't a great character and only a moderately decent wrestler who had a flashy finisher, which was why he got pushed to begin with...well that and his age. They tried to expose him, but he was outshined in so many ways. It also didn't help that he didn't have the best physique. Your age can only take you so far, and luckily in his case, he's still pretty young. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2012 23:25:33 GMT -5
"Kenny" really was phenomenal in OVW, very natural charisma during matches. I watched quite a few OVW matches live on sundays since you could stay afterwards and watch the WWE PPVs on a big screen. He came up with an awful lot of funny stuff to do to work the crowd while waiting on the apron to be tagged.
I'm pretty sure most of it was quite impromptu, so I'm not sure how he could have made it work in the WWE though.
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