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Post by Hit Girl on Apr 12, 2014 4:40:59 GMT -5
One Renegade Nation would have been awesome.
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Post by mrjl on Apr 12, 2014 6:05:15 GMT -5
Didn't The Renegade come out to pretty much a complete ripoff of Warrior's music too? Yup. youtu.be/bMTKUa-hDewit may be a ripoff but I like it
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2014 6:28:13 GMT -5
This match is always surreal to me...Earthquake (Complete with attire) vs. Renegade in Japan
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Post by percymania on Apr 12, 2014 12:16:29 GMT -5
I liked Renegade, but I was a young kid at the time.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2014 18:20:37 GMT -5
I remember him throwing quite possibly the worst dropkick I've ever seen against Orndorff at Bash At The Beach.... I wish I could find a gif
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Post by YaakovLee on Apr 17, 2014 2:15:37 GMT -5
Renegade wasn't terrible or anything, but the gimmick was never going to work.
His match with DDP is decent if I remember correctly.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2014 3:19:39 GMT -5
I can never bring myself to openly mock Renegade considering how horribly things turned out for him. But I will mock WCW for thinking that this was a good idea. I'm not sure on the dates... did he debut before or after Fake Razor and Fake Diesel showed up in WWE?
Everything about it screams second rate, and that's not what you want if you're trying to be the top wrestling company in the world.
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Post by YaakovLee on Apr 17, 2014 3:58:02 GMT -5
I can never bring myself to openly mock Renegade considering how horribly things turned out for him. But I will mock WCW for thinking that this was a good idea. I'm not sure on the dates... did he debut before or after Fake Razor and Fake Diesel showed up in WWE? Everything about it screams second rate, and that's not what you want if you're trying to be the top wrestling company in the world. I think it was about a year before Fake Razor and Fake Diesel. The sad thing is that WCW's copycat angle wasn't as self aware as the fake Diesel and Razor angle. At least WWF's garbage gave us heel Jim Ross and eventually Kane.
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Post by James Fabiano on Apr 17, 2014 8:26:19 GMT -5
Sad thing, of course, is that both original and imposter are dead.
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Post by jason1980s on Apr 17, 2014 8:45:48 GMT -5
I saw a recent indy show poster, I think posted on wrestlinfigs indy show poster page, and on the very bottom there was a pic of the "One Warrior Nation" guy who impersonates Warrior and hopes a few people think he is the real Warrior.
Thankfully they had his pic at the very bottom and not anywhere of prominence. Years ago, when autograph shows started becoming big, he was scheduled for an autograph show. I don't think any mention was made that he was, or wasn't, Jim Hellwig. That was the point. Don't acknowledge that he is, because he isn't, and don't acknowledge that he isn't because someone might think he is and you'll make sales.
He has the Warrior tattoo but definitely not the size or facial resemblance. Still, he had a bunch of people on message boards speculating, wishing and hoping they would meet the real Warrior.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2014 15:00:26 GMT -5
I can never bring myself to openly mock Renegade considering how horribly things turned out for him. But I will mock WCW for thinking that this was a good idea. Exactly.
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Post by Hit Girl on Apr 17, 2014 15:03:53 GMT -5
WCW even ripped off their own guys.
Cobra was a crap no-make up knock off version of Sting
Then things got really meta when he became Fake Sting.
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Post by willywonka666 on Apr 17, 2014 19:00:15 GMT -5
WCW even ripped off their own guys. Cobra was a crap no-make up knock off version of Sting Then things got really meta when he became Fake Sting. I do not remember this at all And as for the Warrior rip offs-could Warrior himself not have sued the hell out of them? I don't get it
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