Phil Parent
El Dandy
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Post by Phil Parent on Sept 4, 2013 21:34:24 GMT -5
I've never heard about this (unless you guys are just joking and I don't get). What happened to the guy? Why would someone that was praised by Vince McMahon as a possible candidate for being the next Hulk freakin' Hogan after having a good showing in a try out match with the best worker in the company at that time cut loose? (Unless again, this is just some sort of inside joke that I'm not getting. ) Tom Magee left wrestling quietly in the late '80s. Having been carried to a decent match by Bret Hart, he worked on the house show circuit with Terry Gibbs (mentioned earlier in the thread) and was said to have got progressively worse. Eventually he was just dismissed as a failed experiment, with the newly-arrived Ultimate Warrior became the company's golden boy and Magee being cut loose to go to Japan, where he had one of the worst matches of all time against Hiroshi Wajima (also mentioned) and ended up drifting out of wrestling. For an idea of just how bad this guy was, it's worth watching the handful of matches of his floating around on YouTube. Working Wajima doesn't help anyone though. THAT guy suuuuucked.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2013 21:50:43 GMT -5
David Flair just did not ever want to be a wrestler. The Great Khali still hasn't improved from the guy who killed someone in the ring, and probably never will The Rock was very green when he started out, & he received a very strong push from the get-go. His FIRST EVER MATCH was in the WWF. That being said, Rock put a lot of time & effort into improving (especially his mike skills, he has always had some cringe-worthy moments in the ring). No it wasn't. He was in Lawler's promotion for a year under the name Flex Kavana before he was in the WWF. I still blame The Rock for why we have these awful names in FCW/NXT.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Sept 5, 2013 3:17:25 GMT -5
Tom Magee left wrestling quietly in the late '80s. Having been carried to a decent match by Bret Hart, he worked on the house show circuit with Terry Gibbs (mentioned earlier in the thread) and was said to have got progressively worse. Eventually he was just dismissed as a failed experiment, with the newly-arrived Ultimate Warrior became the company's golden boy and Magee being cut loose to go to Japan, where he had one of the worst matches of all time against Hiroshi Wajima (also mentioned) and ended up drifting out of wrestling. For an idea of just how bad this guy was, it's worth watching the handful of matches of his floating around on YouTube. Working Wajima doesn't help anyone though. THAT guy suuuuucked. This is true, they were both exceptionally bad in that. But Magee looked absolutely clueless in all the other matches of his I've seen; he had zero presence or charisma in the ring, seemed incapable of pacing or putting together a match, and his strikes looked appalling. There's a match of his from the late '80s against Tim Horner round about the time the WWF pulled the plug on him where you can hear the crowd turning on him - it's about the only reaction he gets at any point.
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Post by oniloco on Sept 5, 2013 5:38:05 GMT -5
I'm not sure if he's been mentioned but Zeus. I think his first time out he was working a main event at Summerslam and all he could do was stand and shout.
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tms
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Post by tms on Sept 5, 2013 23:09:55 GMT -5
Zeus was fricking garbage. Kurrgan was more talented than that big stiff.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Sept 6, 2013 6:31:16 GMT -5
Does Zeus/Tiny Lister count though? While he may have had a body and the look, he was primarily an actor, not a wrestler, if you're going to count him, you'll have to count a whole load of celebrity guests, a lot of whom were as bad, or worse.
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rocket
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Post by rocket on Sept 6, 2013 7:39:50 GMT -5
I think Christy Hemme's second-ever match was at Wrestlemania.
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Post by Todd Pettengill on Sept 7, 2013 15:29:04 GMT -5
David Flair just did not ever want to be a wrestler. The Great Khali still hasn't improved from the guy who killed someone in the ring, and probably never will The Rock was very green when he started out, & he received a very strong push from the get-go. His FIRST EVER MATCH was in the WWF. That being said, Rock put a lot of time & effort into improving (especially his mike skills, he has always had some cringe-worthy moments in the ring). No it wasn't. He was in Lawler's promotion for a year under the name Flex Kavana before he was in the WWF. Yes it was. He did two dark matches for WWF in Texas, before being assigned to Memphis.
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Post by bitteroldman on Sept 9, 2013 19:04:11 GMT -5
David Flair just did not ever want to be a wrestler. The Great Khali still hasn't improved from the guy who killed someone in the ring, and probably never will No it wasn't. He was in Lawler's promotion for a year under the name Flex Kavana before he was in the WWF. Yes it was. He did two dark matches for WWF in Texas, before being assigned to Memphis. Two dark matches before being sent to Memphis doesn't exactly qualify as a major push, does it?
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Post by Todd Pettengill on Sept 10, 2013 14:50:16 GMT -5
Yes it was. He did two dark matches for WWF in Texas, before being assigned to Memphis. Two dark matches before being sent to Memphis doesn't exactly qualify as a major push, does it? No, but two dark matches for the WWF when you've never wrestled one is a hell of an opportunity that very few ever had. I'm pretty sure that there were a number of wrestlers w/ years of experience that would've loved a chance like that. Also: What happened when he was called up from Memphis? Oh yeah, they gave him a mega push, despite him still being greener than grass.
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Post by rapidfire187 on Sept 11, 2013 10:39:42 GMT -5
This thread title has a lot of dookie talk. Fitting. Carry on.
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