Sephiroth
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Post by Sephiroth on Oct 17, 2014 9:02:28 GMT -5
Count me among those who feel that WCW blew a pretty good opportunity with him. The guy was undeniably talented in the ring and he was the talk of the wrestling world when he first appeared on WCW tv-albeit for the controversial way he left ECW. So they made him into the Fat Chick Thriller and the 70's Guy? So ideally, what would have actually been a good use of Mike Awesome?
For my part, I think he should have been the hired gun. He debuted when the New Blood story was going on, so they should have treated it like Russo and Bischoff brought him in to act a their hit man who would take out the Millionaires Club one by one. In particular, I think he should have had a program with Sid Vicious, with Awesome going over, effectively establishing him as the new dominant "big man" as Sid had been for so long. I'll go one even further and say that after that, a Goldber/Awesome feud would have been worth seeing. Goes like this: Goldberg's return starts getting teased, and both the Millionaires Club and the New Blood start a sort of bidding war trying to persuade him to side with their faction. But Goldberg decides to be a "free agent," refusing to side with either faction. Unable to get him on their side, Bischoff and Russo task Mike Awesome with taking Goldberg out, setting up an unstoppable force vs immovable object type of scenario.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Oct 17, 2014 9:05:22 GMT -5
Similar to his ECW run, but considering this was Russo era WCW that was never going to happen. However, whatever the opposite of that 70's guy or the Fat Chick thriller is...it's that.
Reading your post I like the idea of him vs Goldberg, but I'd have him in the role similar to that of Goldberg during his original run. A guy who just dominated everyone he was in the ring with until the inevitable Goldberg feud.
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Post by MC Blowfish on Oct 17, 2014 9:19:29 GMT -5
He should have been a dominant force like he was in ECW. I don't think he would have been as big in WCW as he was in ECW, but he had the potential to main event and be a serious problem to any face champion.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Oct 17, 2014 9:50:51 GMT -5
Simple.
Heel Goldberg. Undefeated, building to a match between the two.
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Post by somsta on Oct 17, 2014 11:32:32 GMT -5
He should have had a hardcore feud with Brian Knobs over ownership of the Dog.
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Oct 17, 2014 11:59:41 GMT -5
simple - should have gone by the name of Mike Rotch.
Then Watch the money pour in.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2014 12:18:59 GMT -5
I would have put Mike Awesome with James Vandenberg who could do his talking for him and pushed him as a hired gun/silent hitman character. Vandenberg would reveal that he and Awesome were hired by a nameless client to destroy a WCW megastar's career and personal life, with Vandenberg as the brain and Awesome as the brawn. Awesome would destroy lower midcard opponents on Nitro and WCWSN while building intrigue behind the story. Wrestlers would get paranoid when either Vandenberg or Awesome were around and go out of their way to avoid them completely. Finally, the target would be revealed as one of the heels who I wanted to turn babyface. Awesome ends up somehow getting paired with that particular wrestler, then turns on him during the match and puts him in the hospital. Meanwhile, Vandenberg pulls things out of the injured party's past to humiliate him or even screw up his family life. The injured guy finally comes back on crutches or something and does a full face turn as he humbly addresses what has happened to him. Then Awesome viciously attacks him again and gets "fired" for beating up WCW officials who try to stop him. Finally, the babyface comes back to the company and demands that Awesome be reinstated for one match in a steel cage, where he finds a way to get revenge on Awesome without diminishing his stature.
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Post by TGM on Oct 17, 2014 12:43:26 GMT -5
I'm not sure who was on the WCW roster at this point, but a Goldberg feud sounds like the simplest and best idea. So obviously with this being WCW 2000 it would have been neither of those things.
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Oct 17, 2014 12:56:24 GMT -5
If they wanted to get what they paid for, they should have treated him essentially like ECW did. You can't have every match he's in be an ECW-style match though.
That's how to get the most out of him. Normally I wouldn't pick Mike Awesome as one of my top stars, but if I had late WCW's roster, I guess I would have tried to get the most out of him.
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Post by thegame415 on Oct 17, 2014 21:58:37 GMT -5
Have him win a title in his debut night, becoming the first person (to my knowledge) to hold two titles from two companies simultaneously. It would've made a big splash.
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Post by adamclark52 on Oct 17, 2014 22:02:51 GMT -5
Kept the Mullet.
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Post by cabbageboy on Oct 17, 2014 22:20:50 GMT -5
Awesome was always a curious signing by WCW if you ask me. If anything he was a baffling signing in 1999 by ECW as well at a time when they simply needed to put the world title on Rob Van Dam and not worry about Taz leaving. I still would like someone to explain why Heyman put the belt on this guy. I figured he had no shot of getting over in WCW, since there wouldn't be guys like Tanaka and Spike willing to just kill themselves with violent table and chair spots to get Awesome over. Awesome really wasn't even that big of a guy compared to WCW's super heavyweight types.
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Post by JTG Fan on Oct 17, 2014 22:29:36 GMT -5
I figured he had no shot of getting over in WCW, since there wouldn't be guys like Tanaka and Spike willing to just kill themselves with violent table and chair spots to get Awesome over. Awesome really wasn't even that big of a guy compared to WCW's super heavyweight types. He was 6'6 and around 300 pounds, that puts him pretty high up there. Awesome didn't need to necessarily use all the tables and chairs to get over, his aerial moves and Awesome Bomb alone could have done the job.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Oct 17, 2014 23:09:23 GMT -5
I think the biggest mistake WCW made with Awesome was just having him show up and expecting the fans to already know who he was from his ECW work. The fact is ECW on TNN had maybe a third of the audience Nitro had at the time, and unlike the WWF, there wasn't much overlap between WCW fans and ECW fans. He needed vignettes to introduce him and build up on screen. Just throwing him on screen and claiming he was someone important pretty much killed him.
I like the idea of him being used as a hired gun. Have him stand in the background looking intimidating and stepping up to toss a guy around when necessary.
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Post by chazraps on Oct 18, 2014 0:56:48 GMT -5
I think the biggest mistake WCW made with Awesome was just having him show up and expecting the fans to already know who he was from his ECW work. The fact is ECW on TNN had maybe a third of the audience Nitro had at the time, and unlike the WWF, there wasn't much overlap between WCW fans and ECW fans. He needed vignettes to introduce him and build up on screen. Just throwing him on screen and claiming he was someone important pretty much killed him. I like the idea of him being used as a hired gun. Have him stand in the background looking intimidating and stepping up to toss a guy around when necessary. I remember WCW making this mistake when they had Sandman debut as Hak...in Minnesota where ECW hadn't aired outside of pay-per-view at that point. Having him essentially hijack the show as largely an unknown to the crowd dressed the way he did just confused the audience.
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Post by They Killed the Giggler on Oct 18, 2014 2:52:23 GMT -5
KISS Demon Jr.
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Post by evilone on Oct 18, 2014 3:43:23 GMT -5
I remember how IWC was bitchin about why his first feud was with Kevin Nash because it exposed how regular looking Mike Awesome actually really was. In ECW he was considered jacked up dude so Nash kind of ruined the wet dream.
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Post by Gelatinous Parasite on Oct 18, 2014 7:23:03 GMT -5
I think the biggest mistake WCW made with Awesome was just having him show up and expecting the fans to already know who he was from his ECW work. The fact is ECW on TNN had maybe a third of the audience Nitro had at the time, and unlike the WWF, there wasn't much overlap between WCW fans and ECW fans. He needed vignettes to introduce him and build up on screen. Just throwing him on screen and claiming he was someone important pretty much killed him. They only debuted him that way because he was still ECW champion at the time. WCW were desperate to get him on Nitro while he had the title. Some of their audience might not have known who he was but, to WCW's credit, it did create some buzz. They should've just continued using him how he was used at first. People seem to forget that he spent his first few months in WCW destroying people and was known as the 'Career Killer'. It wasn't until several months in that they inexplicably turned him into 'The Fact Chick Thriller' and then 'That 70's Guy'.
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Post by auph10imitated on Oct 18, 2014 8:14:07 GMT -5
Big fish in a little pond to little fis... much like alot of ECW stars. Just lost in the shuffle, there wasnt alot he could do really. He may have fit better in the WWF as a bodyguard role, but even there I feel he would be just another Bull Buchanan or something. I liked him though
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Post by cabbageboy on Oct 18, 2014 10:15:47 GMT -5
I think WCW overestimated Awesome's importance. In reality he meant very little to ECW's overall product even as champion. He had the title and some really good matches with Masato Tanaka, but outside of that feud I can't think of anything else notable he's ever done.
A match with Goldberg might have been a fun car wreck, but it's not like Goldberg was going to take his sick offense or anything.
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