Spider2024
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Post by Spider2024 on Mar 25, 2015 19:20:19 GMT -5
I went to a Smackdown taping in 1999, a week after the Droz accident. D-Lo Brown was the first "name" to wrestle a dark match (or maybe it was Heat) He was the second match but the first was a then-unknown Kurt Angle vs. a jobber. So, when D-Lo came out, the crowd went insane. To this day, it surprises me. Maybe they just didn't like Droz. ...Kidding. I was always down with the Brown. Around the same time frame, how about Debra during her run with Double J and Owen? No discernible charisma, an annoying voice, couldn't bake (ask Stone Cold?) and never really played the damsel in distress. She only ever brought two things to the table. But really, that's all you needed during the Attitude Era.
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Post by flowercity on Mar 25, 2015 20:44:15 GMT -5
Too Cool in 2000. What the hell. I was seven years old and they were my favorite wrestlers. Only (wrestling) poster I had on my wall as a child.
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Mar 25, 2015 20:55:27 GMT -5
X-Pac was pretty damn popular in 1999. Odd to look back on considering how the crowd would react to him like two years later.
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Mar 25, 2015 23:22:12 GMT -5
There's dark, dark comedy in the juxtaposition of Big Bossman's incredibly over face run in the early '90s with his dog-killing, casket-stealing antics at the end of the decade.
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froggyfrog
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Post by froggyfrog on Mar 26, 2015 0:58:34 GMT -5
Still my all time fave wrestler. I think it's obvious why he was so over
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Post by Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite on Mar 26, 2015 1:36:40 GMT -5
I went to a Smackdown taping in 1999, a week after the Droz accident. D-Lo Brown was the first "name" to wrestle a dark match (or maybe it was Heat) He was the second match but the first was a then-unknown Kurt Angle vs. a jobber. So, when D-Lo came out, the crowd went insane. To this day, it surprises me. Man, that's a name I'd completely forgotten. When did the wwe Sever ties with Dr oz I remember he worked for the web site for a while after being paralyzed
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Post by TOK Hehe'd Around & Found Out on Mar 26, 2015 1:47:42 GMT -5
Too Cool in 2000. What the hell. They were a subtle boy band parody at the height of boy bands. Scotty's a hell of a worker, Christopher, for all his faults, still has the Lawler genes, and Rikishi is amazing at working a crowd. The gimmick was stupid, but it was supposed to be. I'd say 911 in ECW to answer the OP. He was the complete opposite of the general perception of what ECW supposedly stood for, but he'd without a doubt get one of the biggest pops of the night for randomly clearing house then disappearing. And it wasn't even similar to Sid a few years later, 911 had the charisma and mobility of a tree. He was booked as well as Heyman could have booked him, but still looked like crap.
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lws
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Post by lws on Mar 26, 2015 5:15:33 GMT -5
one of the biggest pops i ever heard at a wrestling show (but nowhere near the actual biggest) was during a match with kanyon. wrestling as mortis. in 2003. i have no idea how or why or what the f*** was going on that made the crowd so into him, but it was crazy.
aside from that one personal thing, al snow is a good answer. i never really watched ecw at the time, so maybe it was sold better, but the idea of mikey whipwreck being world champion material with a gimmick that was essentially a dumb f*** up loser is still something that confuses me, altho i do kinda get it.
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Post by Amazing Kitsune on Mar 26, 2015 10:05:40 GMT -5
Hardcore Holly. Every show I went to he always got one of (if not the) loudest pops of the night. Usually this was due to being the first recognizable person out. He did have a certain kind of charisma about him, though.
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Post by MC Blowfish on Mar 26, 2015 10:11:18 GMT -5
People were into Al Snow, but I wonder if that was more the head gimmick during a period of wrestling where anything that goes?
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Mar 26, 2015 10:48:20 GMT -5
White hot? Hogan was white hot in the 80s... Austin was white hot in late 90s... Ryder was over with the crowd and got good pops and "we want Ryder" chants in New York.... He wasn't white hot Shows how far the bar has been lowered, doesn't it? Any midcarder that gets a reaction is considered white hot these days because it's that much of a surprise given how little they have to work with, and the WWE will try to take what got them over from them because they would prefer that they don't get any sort of reaction.
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Post by blake6905 on Mar 26, 2015 13:27:18 GMT -5
White hot? Hogan was white hot in the 80s... Austin was white hot in late 90s... Ryder was over with the crowd and got good pops and "we want Ryder" chants in New York.... He wasn't white hot Shows how far the bar has been lowered, doesn't it? Any midcarder that gets a reaction is considered white hot these days because it's that much of a surprise given how little they have to work with, and the WWE will try to take what got them over from them because they would prefer that they don't get any sort of reaction. Great point.
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Post by bigjohnsons on Mar 26, 2015 13:59:23 GMT -5
Everyone in the attitude era was over
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Post by lemonyellowson on Mar 26, 2015 14:06:03 GMT -5
everyone in the attitude era was over more than they really deserved to be - too cool is pretty much the best example i can think of - some of the pops they got were unreal
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Post by bigjohnsons on Mar 26, 2015 18:07:30 GMT -5
I went to a Smackdown taping in 1999, a week after the Droz accident. D-Lo Brown was the first "name" to wrestle a dark match (or maybe it was Heat) He was the second match but the first was a then-unknown Kurt Angle vs. a jobber. So, when D-Lo came out, the crowd went insane. To this day, it surprises me. Man, that's a name I'd completely forgotten. When did the wwe Sever ties with Dr oz I remember he worked for the web site for a while after being paralyzed From what I last remember he stays at home collecting paychecks
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Post by toodarkmark on Mar 26, 2015 19:57:49 GMT -5
The most over I ever experienced in real life was Goldberg in the summer of 98 at a WCW house show in the Meadowlands. I was shocked at how loud the NYC crowd was for him, like they EXPLODED. I had seen Hogan in 89 in Long Island, Ultimate Warrior, Ric Flair in 91, but I had never heard anything like that.
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lws
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Post by lws on Mar 26, 2015 20:03:31 GMT -5
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Post by thelonewolf527 on Mar 26, 2015 20:15:46 GMT -5
Pretty much everyone in ECW
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Post by Emmet Russell on Mar 27, 2015 2:16:51 GMT -5
White hot? Hogan was white hot in the 80s... Austin was white hot in late 90s... Ryder was over with the crowd and got good pops and "we want Ryder" chants in New York.... He wasn't white hot They chanted "We Want Ryder" during a Rock promo. In Ryder's home state, not too much of a shock. It's not like they did it every night. Someone who's white hot would get those sorts of reactions each night: guys like Austin, Rock, Cena - they are the definition of white hot at certain points of there careers where it was often the case that the only thing people wanted to see or react to on a show was those people.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Mar 27, 2015 2:18:11 GMT -5
OK, maybe white hot was probably the wrong term for it, but there's no doubt that Ryder was really freakin' over at the time.
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