Blue Meanie - Face of the WWF?

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NEW YORK (CNNfn) - World Wrestling Federation Entertainment Inc. body slammed Wall Street Tuesday with its long-awaited initial public offering.
The Stamford, Conn.-based wrestling empire, home to such personalities as Stone Cold Steve Austin, the Blue Meanie and the Undertaker, will offer $172.5 million of stock in the IPO at a per-share price to be disclosed later.

money.cnn.com/1999/08/03/companies/wrestling/



Whatthaf***? one of those things is definitely not like the others.



Clearly CNN was owned by the same people as WCW so they thought they'd berry the competition by listing The Blue meanie as one of the top stars or something, either that or lazy journalists who don't have a clue what they were writing about, or even stranger perhaps the writer was a big Blue Meanie fan (this is a guy who is so expendable TNA had someone else play his part during their ECW reunion show)

[Allie Kitsune]

Clearly, that was a man who wanted to know how The Blonde Bytch Project was going to end...

I'm surprised he didn't name Just Joe as a star, too.

[SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts]

Remember WCW/nWo Revenge video game cover with Hogan, Nash, Goldberg and Raven and Raven's out of place, but not so out of place because he was a popular wrestler. This news makes me think of Wrestlemania 2000 cover having Stone Cold, Rock, Blue Meanie and Undertaker.

[mrbananagrabber]

Then. Now. Forever.

[wildojinx]

Dec 17, 2014 11:59:54 GMT -5 mrbananagrabber said:

Then. Now. Forever.

Speaking of which, is David Otunga still randomly in that opening?

[cjh]

It was Raven's short-lived flunky Lupus who was played by someone else at TNA's ECW reunion PPV, not Meanie.

The thing I remember about Meanie's WWE stint was WWE releasing him, then re-hiring him within a week after the online reaction to his firing was big enough that the company reconsidered.

[Woo]

Must be a joke that the editor didn't catch onto, much like the Ortunga one in the WWE opening that Vince hasn't noticed. (That Ortunga one has to be a rib someone did right?)

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Dec 17, 2014 13:22:04 GMT -5 Woo said:

Must be a joke that the editor didn't catch onto, much like the Ortunga one in the WWE opening that Vince hasn't noticed. (That Ortunga one has to be a rib someone did right?)

He's married to an A-List pop star, it wouldn't surprise me if Vince told them to put him in it.

[Hit Girl]

Future Hall of Famer

[Gravedigger's Biscuits]

Dec 17, 2014 12:52:12 GMT -5 cjh said:

It was Raven's short-lived flunky Lupus who was played by someone else at TNA's ECW reunion PPV, not Meanie.

The thing I remember about Meanie's WWE stint was WWE releasing him, then re-hiring him within a week after the online reaction to his firing was big enough that the company reconsidered.

No, Meanie was replaced too as evidenced here:

[Paul E. Funk]

Dec 17, 2014 11:03:17 GMT -5 SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts said:

Remember WCW/nWo Revenge video game cover with Hogan, Nash, Goldberg and Raven and Raven's out of place, but not so out of place because he was a popular wrestler. This news makes me think of Wrestlemania 2000 cover having Stone Cold, Rock, Blue Meanie and Undertaker.

I always thought Raven was on there cos he was head of The Flock at the time. Goldberg was representing WCW and Hogan and Nash the two nWo factions. Given that the roster's broken down into those groups on the game (with a couple more) that was my assumption when it came out.

[Kash Flagg]

Dec 17, 2014 13:44:58 GMT -5 Gravedigger's Biscuits said:

Dec 17, 2014 12:52:12 GMT -5 cjh said:

It was Raven's short-lived flunky Lupus who was played by someone else at TNA's ECW reunion PPV, not Meanie.

The thing I remember about Meanie's WWE stint was WWE releasing him, then re-hiring him within a week after the online reaction to his firing was big enough that the company reconsidered.

No, Meanie was replaced too as evidenced here:

Yeah, Meanie couldn't make the show IIRC.

I wonder if he knows about the story in the OP. He'd get a kick out of it.

[Kash Flagg]

Now I see that this is also from 1999.

[James Fabiano]

That's it! We got the wrong BWO member. BLUE MEANIE won the WHC at WrestleMania XX!!!!

[Joe Neglia]

Could've been an injoke, writer could be a Beatles fan, could have just been one of the colorful (no pun intended) roster names that really stood out when he was going down the list.

[hargh]