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Post by Gravedigger's Biscuits on Apr 14, 2015 10:31:36 GMT -5
Yeah, but Haku and the road warriors weren't around a lot, really. LOD were around through all of 1998 and for the first 3 months of 1999. I'd say that's quite a while. |
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Apr 14, 2015 10:51:51 GMT -5
Mick was 34 in 2000 when he retired. Yeah but Mick turned 33 in 1998 so what he said was right. Touche salesman. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2015 11:07:23 GMT -5
John Tenta was in his mid-30 when he came back to WWE as Golga. He was younger than Cena is now. He was about the age that Punk was when he walked out. No. Way. Seriously? |
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Apr 14, 2015 11:12:01 GMT -5
John Tenta was in his mid-30 when he came back to WWE as Golga. He was younger than Cena is now. He was about the age that Punk was when he walked out. No. Way. Seriously? He was 34 and 35 while playing Golga. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2015 11:12:45 GMT -5
He was 34 and 35 while playing Golga. My mind is blown. This fact is like Andy San Dumas. |
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Post by Fearless The Tank on Apr 14, 2015 11:14:40 GMT -5
Haku returned to the WWF in 2001 at the age of 41. To be fair, I'm pretty sure nobody wanted to be the one to go up to Haku and try to finish the sentence "You're too old to be here" before being killed. |
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Apr 14, 2015 11:19:54 GMT -5
He was 34 and 35 while playing Golga. My mind is blown. This fact is like Andy San Dumas. He looked older than he really was because he was going bald in his early 20s. He was about 22 to 23 when he was a Sumo wrestler and he was already losing much of his hair. He was just 26 when he became a full-time WWE wrestler as Earthquake. |
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Post by adam3s on Apr 14, 2015 11:34:43 GMT -5
Haku returned to the WWF in 2001 at the age of 41. To be fair, I'm pretty sure nobody wanted to be the one to go up to Haku and try to finish the sentence "You're too old to be here" before being killed. Brock did, that's why Haku left. There that's that thread answered.  Honestly it wasn't that old wrestlers didn't come back during the attitude era, it was that they didn't come back and over shadow the current roster. The closest to doing so were The Road Warriors but that was mainly because apart from the Outlaws and NOD it was a shallow division. Oh and NWO but some would argue that wasn't the Attitude Era. That and older wrestlers would either come back full-time or job in the middle of the card (See Slaughter, Sgt). |
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Post by government mule on Apr 14, 2015 11:53:57 GMT -5
Rick Rude was looking to get back into things with DX before fate interviened.
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Post by Andrew is Good on Apr 14, 2015 13:35:51 GMT -5
I remember the big thing on commentary in matches for instance, Triple H vs The Rock, were they were guys in their late 20s, the young studs. Austin was one of the older guys, and he was in his mid to late 30s or something.
But yeah, Terry Funk was brought up, but Funk was put with Cactus Jack as Chainsaw Charlie but was always said to be Terry Funk, and he was put over as middle aged and crazy. His age was apart of his character and he would throw moonsaults while being the old guy. Plus, the people respected Funk. There was also a chance Flair could have come in and Jim Cornette told a story of Flair driving around an arena before a pay per view trying to see if they could get him on legally. I'm sure Flair could have been brought in and would have been respected, despite his age. LOD was brought up as well, but I would argue they weren't treated the best, especially after LOD 2000 and the suicide/drugs deal. I was for Droz being put with them, but they were still poorly used.
See, that's the perfect scenario. You have one or two old guys on your roster, so they become special. Also, they didn't have so many part time wrestlers, which is another issue today has. But then again, look at what happened last night. You had this monster laying down because he's afraid to lose his job. Al Snow, Gangrel, Too Much, none of them would have laid down like that. No one would have stood around and took a finger waging. What's worse is, it's babyfaces too. When they threatened to fire Ziggler, Ryback and Rowan, all three guys should have been like, oh yeah, fire me then, bow up and threaten Triple H. I'm Dolph Ziggler, you need me, not the other way around. They can't make stars, babyfaces especially.
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Post by wildojinx on Apr 14, 2015 13:58:27 GMT -5
How old were the Godwinns/Southern Justice during that era? They definitely looked pretty old.
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Apr 14, 2015 14:05:25 GMT -5
How old were the Godwinns/Southern Justice during that era? They definitely looked pretty old. Mideon/Phineas was in his late 20s to early 30s for his WWE run and Henry Godwinn was in his early to mid 30s for his WWE run. |
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Post by Paul E. Funk on Apr 14, 2015 16:45:51 GMT -5
When asked the question in the year 2000, Power Slam Magazine listed Ron Simmons as the oldest full time roster member. I think he was 40 or 41. Dean Malenko must have been close to that too.
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Post by Kay Faban on Apr 14, 2015 17:33:32 GMT -5
The big starts from the generation before were still wrestling so this is kinda a faulty argument.
Plus - these wrestlemania have been the most successful of all time. They'd be foolish to change.
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