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Post by HisRoyalGreeness on Oct 27, 2014 13:56:15 GMT -5
Can we just talk about how over these guys were? I'm watching Rumble '92 and the second their music hit it was arms going up and down all through the crowd. Not sure I've got much of a point but damn. Had to show some respect.
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Post by jmule on Oct 27, 2014 14:04:44 GMT -5
I was actually wondering if they ever got a shot at the belts...
I love it at RR92 when luke says "mean gene! I ain't ever been excited in ALLLL MY LIFE!!!"
So he's telling gene he's had lifelong depression? LOL
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Post by somsta on Oct 27, 2014 14:31:09 GMT -5
I was actually wondering if they ever got a shot at the belts... I love it at RR92 when luke says "mean gene! I ain't ever been excited in ALLLL MY LIFE!!!" So he's telling gene he's had lifelong depression? LOL They had tons of matches with the Nasty Boys for the titles in 1991.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Oct 27, 2014 14:32:19 GMT -5
Gotta say, they don't get the credit they deserve. By no means were they masters in the ring, but they were crazy over and sold beatings like they were about to die
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Post by HisRoyalGreeness on Oct 27, 2014 14:38:28 GMT -5
There's no reason they shouldn't have gotten at least a 2 month run with the tag belts. Although, I'd hate to be the next champions because you know they'd have licked the hell out of those belts.
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Post by Sephiroth on Oct 27, 2014 15:15:30 GMT -5
Too bad beating up Urkel killed their momentum
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2014 15:17:29 GMT -5
They were so over that WCW wanted them and WWF just threw money at Luke & Butch (also finagled some contractual shenanigans, from what I've heard) to prevent it.
By '95 or 96 they wanted out - as in going back home, and not to another company - but Vince just did everything he could to keep those still-over bastards in the Federation.
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Post by jmule on Oct 27, 2014 15:22:17 GMT -5
"how do you prepare to wrestle the bushwackers?, you have that human trashcan at ringside, Jamison, then you have the bushwackers who are living proof that the three stooges had children!"
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Post by horsemen4ever on Oct 27, 2014 15:34:36 GMT -5
I liked them better as the Sheepherders when they just a mean brawling team that just didn't care and were a legit thread to win a title.
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Post by fuzzywarble, squat cobbler on Oct 27, 2014 15:36:24 GMT -5
Should they have remained as The Sheepherders?
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Post by Boo! on Oct 27, 2014 15:47:49 GMT -5
Should they have remained as The Sheepherders? Nah not in WWF it was the wrong place for them. They became cartoon characters and probably sold a dump-load of merch to line their pockets. They were in their mid 40s when they showed up so it really probably and end-of-the-line run to try and get a bit of cash and they went kiddy-friendly.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2014 16:06:10 GMT -5
The Sheepherders were tolerable, but Bushwackers were pretty much a direct fast-forward for me, even when I was a kid.
I always equated their overness with Hacksaw Duggan's. It wasn't so much them as the fact that the crowd just enjoyed chanting and doing the Bushwacker thing with their arms.
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Post by jason1980s on Oct 27, 2014 16:46:43 GMT -5
They wrestled Money Inc shortly after they won the titles. The match was on one of the Coliseum Videos.
I loved the Bushwhackers, still do!
Luke runs a gym in Clearwater Beach, Florida right near Hogan's shop. If I lived in Florida, I'd be there everyday but not for Hogan, at the gym to see Luke.
They had a long run in WWF from late 88 to late 1996. I think their last match was around October 96. Their appearances from 1993 on were generally few and they didn't even make the WWF yearbook-like magazine I think 1993 and definitely not 94 or 95. You'd see them in the tag team tournaments or in a backstage skit but rarely on PPV. I wish they would've been added to a show like Royal Rumble, they would've gotten better reaction from fans (and commentators) than Carlos Colon, Doug Gilbert, Omari or Squat Team among others.
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Post by Jiren on Oct 27, 2014 16:57:56 GMT -5
Living proof the 3 stooges had kids
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Post by Gecko on Oct 27, 2014 17:03:10 GMT -5
I didn't realise they were around until late '96, I thought they were long gone by then.
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Post by willyjakes on Oct 27, 2014 17:39:07 GMT -5
I don't remember much of the Bushwackers in 1996. If they were still around then they were very sparingly used
They had a certain endearing element to them that WWF crowds loved. They were goofy in a harmless way, indeed much like Duggan. But I don't think you could've just dressed anybody up as the Bushwackers or Duggan and have them do that shtick and have it succeed...otherwise the renegade and the "new rockers" would've been a success.
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Post by mizerable on Oct 27, 2014 17:47:12 GMT -5
They were fun for the kiddies, and they did their job well. This was at a time when WWF was loaded with plenty of tag teams, so I don't have much of an issue with them not getting a tag run.
I wish the tag division was that loaded now, since I usually am desperate to see any real team get the belts.
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Post by jason1980s on Oct 27, 2014 18:41:29 GMT -5
They were around very rarely in 1996. I can't recall even seeing them on tv from early 1995 thru early 1996. Last I recall was them from Rumble 95 time and the next I saw them was for the tag title tournament around WrestleMania XII. I wonder if they were under contract or maybe pay per appearance. Though, I thought Observer had a note that they wouldn't be released so WCW couldn't get them (during early WCW Hogan time period).
1996 saw some tv appearances and I even got to see them at a house show v. New Rockers. WWF even had a foam boomerang produced with their logo so they weren't a total afterthought. The house show was in May (night before "curtain call") and the next I saw them was Summerslam backstage during the boiler room brawl. A few months later, I read in the WWF Magazine they were stepping away from WWF to run a restaurant. Not sure if kayfabe or not but that's the last of them, late 1996. I think they had a dark match at a In Your House v. New Rockers.
Those in the Clearwater Florida area should check out his gym. Maybe get to talk with him on a daily basis.
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Post by hargh on Oct 27, 2014 18:48:22 GMT -5
I remember them making a rare ECW appearance being Dudleys.
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Post by Viking Hall on Oct 27, 2014 19:20:09 GMT -5
They made it work. They arrived in an era where they couldn't be bloodthirsty brawlers and they weren't too proud to leave that and their reputation behind and goof it up. Even today they're probably one of the best known Tag Teams of that generation when they could have so easily ended up as a footnote in history. For where they were in their career in terms of age, style and technical ability their run has to be considered one of the most unlikely success stories of all time. Amazing really.
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