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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2015 13:59:46 GMT -5
It started when he spoke and then it went into overdrive when he returned in the white attire and had obviously packed on a few pounds.
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Post by comahan on Jul 17, 2015 14:01:03 GMT -5
Early 2007, Sting feud.
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Jul 17, 2015 14:02:41 GMT -5
Pretty much. As soon as they did that shit with his mom, he became impossible to take seriously as a monster.
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Post by Mayonnaise on Jul 17, 2015 14:06:14 GMT -5
Yeah, once Mitchell got involved it bad. There was always some backlash with people laughing about him being the worst of Kane and Mankind rolled into one but he was enjoyable, to me. Once they got Mitchell involved, Sting DQ title win and Mesias and all that crap it just got sad.
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Post by One-Armed Drummer of Defrebel on Jul 17, 2015 14:06:54 GMT -5
As it's already been said, the Sting feud and his entire horrible lifestory of 2007. You could literally see him getting fatter and sadder as the angle progressed.
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Post by Push R Truth on Jul 17, 2015 14:06:55 GMT -5
When he looked like a Poor Man's Kane had a baby with a Poor Man's Mankind
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Post by Zombie Mod is not a ghoul. on Jul 17, 2015 14:07:28 GMT -5
Hogan's hall of fame power ring.
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Post by Brood Lone Wolf Funker on Jul 17, 2015 14:16:16 GMT -5
Hogan's hall of fame power ring. Which led to him creating dangerous pits
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Post by Facetious on Jul 17, 2015 14:20:51 GMT -5
When he won the NWA World Title by DQ.
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Post by Aya Reiko on Jul 17, 2015 14:27:32 GMT -5
And the precise point: That Last Rites match.
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Post by cabbageboy on Jul 17, 2015 14:35:32 GMT -5
Oddly enough I don't think that Sting stuff made Abyss look like a joke as much as it made TNA itself look like a joke. I do remember the "Fire Russo" chants during the Last Rites match, and then reading online that it was Dutch Mantell that booked it, to which I responded "Why is Dutch Mantell now booking like Vince Russo?" I thought the whole "blame Dutch" nonsense was a load of crap even then.
I'd say Abyss became a total joke at the time of the Hogan HOF ring angle in 2010. Say what you want about his bad angles before that but at least they sort of fit the UT/Kane/Mankind nature of his character. The whole RR 1994 silliness didn't make anyone think Taker was a joke, so why would the Last Rites match be any different for Abyss? But Abyss marking out like a little girl over Hogan's ring made him look like a fool in a way where no one could ever take him seriously again.
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Post by DSR on Jul 17, 2015 15:02:54 GMT -5
For me, the first time I saw him run. Dude runs funny.
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Post by Ragnal on Jul 17, 2015 15:03:15 GMT -5
When he won the NWA World Title by DQ. Yup, this is where I'd say the yellow snowball started rolling.
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Post by Ashy Larry on Jul 17, 2015 15:07:41 GMT -5
When he was afraid to use steel chairs and believed Family Guy was real.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Jul 17, 2015 16:06:17 GMT -5
Ok the sting feud was the first step, specially after that casket match, but in my opinion his feud with Christian and Tomko ended up killing him. When they teased that Tomko was from Abyss's past it got me interested, they had similar tattoos at the time, but once Mitchell was revealed as his father the whole angle sucked, it was really anticlimactic, at that time I was praying Jake Roberts was revealed as Abyss father not mitchell.
Another thing that destroyed him was his own stupidity. James Mitchell calls him Willy E Coyote because he kept falling on his own traps. Then his body started shutting down.
I think also that he became a bitch after he was used in so many comedy skits. He should've never talked, it humanized him. I wish all the big guys would follow Udertaker's example, he always always presents himself as a legit badass, a monster. There's a reason why Abyss and Kane can't raise a nickle because of what they let their characters go through.
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Post by Zombie Mod is not a ghoul. on Jul 17, 2015 16:13:15 GMT -5
When he was afraid to use steel chairs and believed Family Guy was real. I thought that was funny
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Jul 17, 2015 20:43:05 GMT -5
the Hulk's Ring story. Abyss went back and forth between being campy and being serious before; after that it was impossible to take him seriously ever again.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Jul 17, 2015 21:31:52 GMT -5
Hogan's hall of fame power ring. In highest Noon at Mega Moutain, In balls deep, No mark shall escape my sight. Let those who worship Linda's might, Beware my bass, Hulkamania's light!!!
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Post by Rave on Jul 17, 2015 23:23:26 GMT -5
The combination of Last Rites and the Mesias feud did it for me. For some reason, whenever Russo was around, Abyss always became a poor man's Kane, and it always sucked.
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Post by Clawley Race on Jul 17, 2015 23:32:03 GMT -5
When he came to wrestle at a local bar in my town and tried to act like a stone cold knock off.
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