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Post by Aceorton on Jan 21, 2014 23:27:19 GMT -5
I'm talking not necessarily the wrestler from a career standpoint but the gimmick -- stuff that you figured would go further, but they ended up changing it, it never got over, the wrestler left the company, etc.
My own list would include:
Barry Windham as the Widowmaker
Dean Douglas
Flash Funk
Bodydonna Skip (I thought from his debut that he was going to eventually be an IC champion)
The Jackyl and his cult-leader stuff
Furnas and LaFon
The New Blackjacks
Maxx Payne
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Post by Racksman on Jan 21, 2014 23:44:25 GMT -5
Everyone not in the Austin/Rock/Taker/Foley/Kane/DX level during the Attitude Era I thought was the biggest deal ever growing up.
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Jan 21, 2014 23:49:01 GMT -5
I like Fandango, but damn I wanted creepy rapist Johnny Curtis to be a thing.
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Post by wildojinx on Jan 21, 2014 23:49:25 GMT -5
Waylon Mercy
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Post by FinalGwen on Jan 22, 2014 0:04:26 GMT -5
I thought "American Nightmare" Drew McIntyre would have lasted at least longer than a week.  |
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Post by Malcolm on Jan 22, 2014 0:06:13 GMT -5
Mordecai
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His name has chicken in it, and he is good at makin' .gifs, so that's cool.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Jan 22, 2014 0:22:39 GMT -5
Muhammad Hassan.
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Post by Alexander The So-so on Jan 22, 2014 0:22:46 GMT -5
Off the top of my head, Glacier and Pirate Paul Birchell. Especially Pirate Paul. There was no reason it shouldn't have been a decent midcard US Title-level gimmick.
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His name has chicken in it, and he is good at makin' .gifs, so that's cool.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Jan 22, 2014 0:24:38 GMT -5
Off the top of my head, Glacier and Pirate Paul Birchell. Especially Pirate Paul. There was no reason it shouldn't have been a decent midcard US Title-level gimmick. Agree with Pirate Burchill. The WWE could have sold millions in pirate merchandise with him, and it helped that Burchill appeared to be having a heck of a lot of fun with it. |
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Post by chazraps on Jan 22, 2014 0:26:55 GMT -5
As a kid, I had never seen anything like 2 Cold Scorpio's moveset. Throw in some dancing girls, an infectious theme and an eye-catching outfit, how did this not take off? |
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Post by The 1Watcher Experience on Jan 22, 2014 1:01:29 GMT -5
Dean Douglas.
Adam Bomb.
The Powers of Pain.
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Post by Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite on Jan 22, 2014 2:04:52 GMT -5
Dean Douglas. Adam Bomb. The Powers of Pain. Yea, Adam Bomb just LOOKED so damn cool |
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Post by chazraps on Jan 22, 2014 2:13:41 GMT -5
I think Adam Bomb was bigger than history paints him to be. Since the only real pay-per-view match of his was Wrestlemania X, and his relative absence from Coliseum Video releases, unless you were actually watching "Raw" as it aired there's no way to really get a feel for how over he really was.
Which is unfortunate because, as mentioned, he looked so cool and had such a unique moveset.
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Post by champviadq on Jan 22, 2014 3:12:49 GMT -5
Matt Morgan
Sean O'Haire with Roddy Piper
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Post by ZombieElvis on Jan 22, 2014 3:34:06 GMT -5
Elix Skipper
Monty Brown
Vader(WWF)
Jake Roberts(WCW)
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Post by azrael502 on Jan 22, 2014 6:56:43 GMT -5
Adam Bomb
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Jan 22, 2014 7:53:57 GMT -5
Adam Bomb, he had an amazing look and bags of potential, the guy was like Warrior, everything he did (when he was trying) exuded intensity and power, but unlike Warrior, he actually improved over time. I honestly think he could have transitioned the character into something less out there in much the same way that the Undertaker did, but like most talented newcomers in the mid 90s, certain backstage forces saw him as competition so that was that. I liked him as Wrath and in Kronik in WCW, shame Wrath was fed to Kevin Nash, just as he'd started to get over as a force of nature.
Pierre Carl Oullette is another, he's a guy that has nearly everything you could want in a wrestler, he had a decent size, speed, power and was decent in the ring, but again, came up against a certain group and was buried.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Jan 22, 2014 8:02:22 GMT -5
I like Fandango, but damn I wanted creepy rapist Johnny Curtis to be a thing. I really think this could've gone places. Start off as a comedy asshole heel and get creepier and more dangerous and more psychopathic. |
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Post by SOR on Jan 22, 2014 13:32:42 GMT -5
Kizarny.
The issue was they debuted him as a baby face. The dude is talented, can work a mic and has a great move set (Saw him work an indy main event here and he was pulling shit out I'd never seen)
If you debut Kizarny as a creepy heel carny I think you would have had a decent Upper Midcard guy who could occasionally slip into main events with guys like Taker.
Instead they did 8 weeks of vignettes, a match and then killed him off. It's a shame.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2014 13:40:52 GMT -5
Original Doink. I know that there were other factors working against it, but an evil clown vs. or teaming with Taker could have been interesting IMO.
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