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Post by Sephiroth on Jul 22, 2014 19:10:22 GMT -5
Does anyone besides me even remember it? Granted, the whole moveable loser thing could only go so far in WCW, but nonetheless, you would think they could have come up with more to do with the first ever ECW triple crown champion than make a jobber out of him.
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Post by Dave the Dave on Jul 22, 2014 19:16:39 GMT -5
I only have ever seen his PPV matches and I thought he won 1-3. Not freat but in the cruiserweight division I feel like most people were 50%
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2014 19:17:30 GMT -5
I remember a really fun match with Billy Kidman.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2014 19:32:55 GMT -5
Of all the people for WCW to steal, this made the least sense. It seemed WCW was just sticking it to ECW by stealing him
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Post by Mozenrath on Jul 22, 2014 19:34:14 GMT -5
Isn't he the one Virgil f***ed over by complaining about him to management?
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Post by DASH 243✅ on Jul 22, 2014 21:59:09 GMT -5
Of all the people for WCW to steal, this made the least sense. It seemed WCW was just sticking it to ECW by stealing him yeah this. Whipwreck probably got paid pretty well though
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Post by thegame415 on Jul 22, 2014 22:00:51 GMT -5
It also gave us that really expensive autographed trading card.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2014 22:09:51 GMT -5
I remember his debut. It was vs Kidman for the Cruserweight title. Damn good match, but he looses.
I remember thinking: this guy is a real talent in the ring.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2014 22:13:26 GMT -5
Didn't he debut randomly on a PPV with no hype or anything? It's been a while but I seem to remember it going down that way.
Yeah, WCW was just raiding anyone that they could at that point though. As far as I recall he mostly hung out on Saturday Night once it became a super jobber show.
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Post by enraged emu on Jul 22, 2014 22:28:00 GMT -5
I don't remember Mikey Whipwreck bu I remember Mickey Shipwreck.
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Post by Tony Schiavontay on Jul 22, 2014 22:58:25 GMT -5
I remember a really fun match with Billy Kidman. A match that was so good that, in fact, Vincent/Virgil went to WCW management and complained that he couldn't follow it. As a result, he spent a lot of time sitting at home because WCW.
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Post by Sephiroth on Jul 22, 2014 23:01:50 GMT -5
Of all the people for WCW to steal, this made the least sense. It seemed WCW was just sticking it to ECW by stealing him yeah this. Whipwreck probably got paid pretty well though I actually remember Mikey posting on his website about it once and saying that at the time he was about to get married and was in debt up to his eyeballs-so he basically just went to work for WCW for a year or two, got his bills paid, and went right back to ECW.
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Post by Capt Lunatic on Jul 22, 2014 23:03:17 GMT -5
I loved his WCW run because it let him get paid and rest up for his ECW return where he truly became awesome.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jul 23, 2014 0:49:08 GMT -5
Didn't he debut randomly on a PPV with no hype or anything? It's been a while but I seem to remember it going down that way. I could be wrong, but I remember it being on Nitro, but definitely without any buildup whatsoever. He was just another one of a hundred guys they would trot out during those years like that (Nord, Bloom, Jannetty, Martel, etc)
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Post by The 1Watcher Experience on Jul 23, 2014 7:08:57 GMT -5
The best part of his run was Bobby Heenan randomly calling him names like Mikey Sheepdip.
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Jul 23, 2014 9:25:45 GMT -5
I looked for his debut at Uncensored 99 thanks to this thread and I thought I might as well share my thoughts: - This indeed is his debut (thanks Penzer!). He also has no music and is playing the heel. This is really bad. Even if WCW did not have huge plans for him, they should at least try to hype him up a little, give him some music, and have him play the underdog role he was born for. - Bobby keeps calling him incorrect names and it is hilarious. - Holy f***, Kidman is over. He is getting some serious pops throughout this match. I have no idea how this guy is the same one who received that awful push with Hogan that only kept him looking like a jobber. If Mysterio could face big guys, so could he. He just needed to be a face. - This is a really good match. All of the spots are working and they rest at the right times. The crowd never gets out of it and has time to relax. Mikey is also able to do entertaining spots while being slower than Kidman which allows him to come off as the high flyer and a better face. This is a good example of how to be an exciting wrestler and a heel. - Damn, it is first match in the company (and it is in the south, so little ECW exposure) and he is already getting decent heel heat and derisive chants. Maybe crowds were more energetic then, but he is doing a great job as a heel. Awesome performance so far. - Heenan is trying so hard to put Mikey over in this match. He gets a lot of flack for this run, but I notice when the action is good and the guys are trying, he almost always goes out of his way to help and put the guys in the ring over. Cheers to Bobby for that. - Solid finish with the SSP that pops the crowd and gets the announcers to praise both men. Great match to open the PPV. Mikey looks strong in his debut (even in defeat, losing is not all bad) and Kidman keeps this run of his going. - And for the Virgil story, I decided to watch the next match. He was right, he could not follow that match. But no matter the match, he would have stunk up the joint. The gimmick is that he and Stevie Ray are fighting over control of the NWO B-Team. Two heels fighting over a shitty group. And both are average workers at best. So the match sucks. It sucks more in comparison, but it does suck. If he did complain to people about this, f*** him. Put on a better match or say something beforehand. This is just asinine.
So, I wish Mickey had more of a push in WCW. Judging from this performance, he had a lot to offer.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jul 24, 2014 11:07:43 GMT -5
I remember him being in the junkyard brawl or whatever the hell it was...
Well what little of the action you could actually see...
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Post by JTG Fan on Jul 24, 2014 21:23:03 GMT -5
I like Whipwreck but signing him may have been one of WCW's most frivolous uses of money ever. He was a good talent but WCW probably had at least 10+ guys under contract who could have filled his role.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jul 24, 2014 22:10:44 GMT -5
I like Whipwreck but signing him may have been one of WCW's most frivolous uses of money ever. He was a good talent but WCW probably had at least 10+ guys under contract who could have filled his role. That's still Lanny Poffo... since they didn't use him for anything.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Jul 25, 2014 4:28:35 GMT -5
And this, ladies and germs, is why I don't consider any wrestler who left ECW to be a sellout. Oh, they weren't passionate enough about the business? They have f***ing bills to pay and families to support and retirements to set up. The second he could go back, Mikey went back.
'You sold out' my hairy ass. That's the thing that's always pissed me off most about ECW fans, punk fans and metalheads - obviously not all of them in any case, but the ones who accuse people of being 'sellouts.'
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