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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2015 21:39:43 GMT -5
I get to be the guy who thinks a guy in a partial leather mask, torn dress shirt and a sock hanging out of his trucks winning the WWF Title 3 times as weird.
(BTW, Hardcore Holly, Superheavyweight...and like Billy Joel sang, he wants to be the Big Shot.)
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Post by ThankGodForSidJustice on Jul 31, 2015 21:56:05 GMT -5
Sheamus, JBL, and Mabel I would say are the weirdest although with Sheamus and JBL it ended up working out pretty well as they both overachieved. Both of Swagger's main event pushes really came out of left field too. Even though he had good run in ECW and was looked at as a top prospect at the time his title win in 2010 was very shocking as he had been a complete afterthought on Raw for months before his MITB win at WM 26. Then his second push in 2013 was another one as he had been off TV for six months after being on job duty for months, only to win Elimination Chamber upon his return and get a World Title match at WM 29. Even though it was still only the fourth biggest match on the card, it was still quite a big turnaround.
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Post by Main Eventer on Jul 31, 2015 22:12:11 GMT -5
I gotta go with Jack Swagger. Dude jobs to Santino Marella, two weeks later he wins MITB, two days later he is the World Heavyweight Champion.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Jul 31, 2015 22:15:07 GMT -5
Mabel was up there. Big Bossman's run against Big Show was terrible (though his run with Hogan was great).
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Post by StormanReigns on Jul 31, 2015 22:51:12 GMT -5
Booker T during Wrestlemania 19.
I always thought Booker was a main eventer, but the WWE did not treat him one in this feud.
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Post by SAJ Forth on Jul 31, 2015 22:56:05 GMT -5
Weird in a bad way: Khali. Went from random giant to holding the Belt and back to random. Weird in a good way: Foley. On paper he doesn't look like the guys WWE looks for, but he had the advantage of being in an era where fans decided who they wanted.
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Post by rippo on Jul 31, 2015 23:06:26 GMT -5
Bobcore only got one match so I wouldn't really count him.
On the other hand, The Miz has won every title the company has to offer AND got to main event quite possibly the worst Wrestlemania of all time.
I know the guy improved quite a bit since his Tough Enough days and by all accounts he comes across as a hard worker promotional wise but... seriously? Look at all the guys that never got to main event WM.... Punk being the main one and yet this guy got the chance and blew it IMO.
To make it even worse, they've seemed to completely give up on him and have since realised he sucks. I look at the WWE title history and The Miz just sticks out like a sore thumb to me. Every time.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jul 31, 2015 23:10:11 GMT -5
I'll go off the board.
Zeus.
Ok, so Hogan's in a movie. In WWF, Hogan is Hulk Hogan, but in this movie he plays Rip, so isn't Hogan. Then Zeus comes out and isn't fictional, he's actually Zeus. Tiny Lister hasn't snapped or lost his mind, Zeus did thinking he was the true star.
I was just, just getting into wrestling when all this happened, so as a kid it was just exciting, but it doesn't make much sense looking back.
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Post by Magician under the moonlight on Jul 31, 2015 23:21:08 GMT -5
I gotta go with Jack Swagger. Dude jobs to Santino Marella, two weeks later he wins MITB, two days later he is the World Heavyweight Champion. Plus it did not help that he kept jobbing to Evan Bourne. I know everyone will disagree with me on this but Rey Mysterio's first reign. I mean they never made him credible against guys like Kane or Mark Henry. I know he was super over and it was the Eddie thong but seeing him there was just weird.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2015 23:24:29 GMT -5
Booker T during Wrestlemania 19. I always thought Booker was a main eventer, but the WWE did not treat him one in this feud. Booker was already a made star that WWE refused to capitalize on. He told myself and others he was only made WHC because they had no one else to put it on at the time.
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Post by schma on Aug 1, 2015 0:59:14 GMT -5
I gotta go with Jack Swagger. Dude jobs to Santino Marella, two weeks later he wins MITB, two days later he is the World Heavyweight Champion. Plus it did not help that he kept jobbing to Evan Bourne. I know everyone will disagree with me on this but Rey Mysterio's first reign. I mean they never made him credible against guys like Kane or Mark Henry. I know he was super over and it was the Eddie thong but seeing him there was just weird. I agree with you on Rey. That run was terrible. Week after week he jobbed to monster heels, losing cleanly. Then the guy who's held the title for a year (JBL) who was using these monsters to weaken Rey couldn't even beat him. So in the process top heel JBL looks like a complete goofball and the entire roster that he was blasting through for the past year look like fools for failing to succeed where Rey, a guy who just spent a month getting his butt kicked by various people did. People crap on Miz's reign but this one was truly bad. That said both those reigns were victims of terrible booking. In Miz's case it was that they seemingly refused to give him any true opponents and forced him into third banana to set up Cena vs Rock. That said, Miz had some fantastic moments during his reign and did his best to make the most of a crap deal. I personally think considering all that was against him he did a great job (and I used to scoff at him because reality star. This run won me over).
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Post by Nosnorb on Aug 1, 2015 2:13:29 GMT -5
Plus it did not help that he kept jobbing to Evan Bourne. I know everyone will disagree with me on this but Rey Mysterio's first reign. I mean they never made him credible against guys like Kane or Mark Henry. I know he was super over and it was the Eddie thong but seeing him there was just weird. I agree with you on Rey. That run was terrible. Week after week he jobbed to monster heels, losing cleanly. Then the guy who's held the title for a year (JBL) who was using these monsters to weaken Rey couldn't even beat him. So in the process top heel JBL looks like a complete goofball and the entire roster that he was blasting through for the past year look like fools for failing to succeed where Rey, a guy who just spent a month getting his butt kicked by various people did. People crap on Miz's reign but this one was truly bad. That said both those reigns were victims of terrible booking. In Miz's case it was that they seemingly refused to give him any true opponents and forced him into third banana to set up Cena vs Rock. That said, Miz had some fantastic moments during his reign and did his best to make the most of a crap deal. I personally think considering all that was against him he did a great job (and I used to scoff at him because reality star. This run won me over). This. The Rey Mysterio Eddiespoitation run was just awful.
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Post by Hit Girl on Aug 1, 2015 3:00:09 GMT -5
Sgt Slaughter.
Normally he would have been nowhere near the main event and world title, but by chance the Gulf War happened and it gave him a genuinely fresh role to play, and he did it very well IMO.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Aug 1, 2015 3:02:19 GMT -5
Bobcore only got one match so I wouldn't really count him. On the other hand, The Miz has won every title the company has to offer AND got to main event quite possibly the worst Wrestlemania of all time. I know the guy improved quite a bit since his Tough Enough days and by all accounts he comes across as a hard worker promotional wise but... seriously? Look at all the guys that never got to main event WM.... Punk being the main one and yet this guy got the chance and blew it IMO. Miz was massively over at that time, and was the company's top heel. He was also the 3rd wheel in that main event, and it was obvious Cena got knocked loopy early in the match on the Irish whip into the corner. So as the 3rd wheel in that main event, against an out of it Cena, you can't put all the blame on Miz.
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Post by Nosnorb on Aug 1, 2015 3:16:10 GMT -5
Bobcore only got one match so I wouldn't really count him. On the other hand, The Miz has won every title the company has to offer AND got to main event quite possibly the worst Wrestlemania of all time. I know the guy improved quite a bit since his Tough Enough days and by all accounts he comes across as a hard worker promotional wise but... seriously? Look at all the guys that never got to main event WM.... Punk being the main one and yet this guy got the chance and blew it IMO. Miz was massively over at that time, and was the company's top heel. He was also the 3rd wheel in that main event, and it was obvious Cena got knocked loopy early in the match on the Irish whip into the corner. So as the 3rd wheel in that main event, against an out of it Cena, you can't put all the blame on Miz. Miz was the one that got his cage rattled in the match when Cena clotheslined him over a guardrail. But looking at that match again, it was the first Irish whip into the turnbuckle, Cena took it badly (as per usual), and his head hits the mat pretty hard. Miz was for sure out of it for most of that match, and its a good bet Cena was too. Miz got a pretty raw deal as the World Champion. He was never really in focus at any time. I like the The Miz, and while I didn't think that he should have been the World Champion (Punk was my choice), it was never really about him.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2015 4:02:22 GMT -5
Rikishi.
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Aug 1, 2015 4:04:26 GMT -5
I enjoyed Rikishi's heel turn just for the theme song.
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Post by cageking666 on Aug 1, 2015 4:10:33 GMT -5
I'm a mark but I have to say it
Maven
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Post by Danimal on Aug 1, 2015 5:05:58 GMT -5
JBL would have worked better if they didn't have such an awkward transition. One day he is a blue-collar brawler face and the next he is a snobby, rich heel? Even by wrestling standards that was too abrupt. They should have sent him away for a while, have him get in main eventer shape while helping-out with developmental guys , then brought him back with the new character.
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Aug 1, 2015 5:10:05 GMT -5
JBL would have worked better if they didn't have such an awkward transition. One day he is a blue-collar brawler face and the next he is a snobby, rich heel? Even by wrestling standards that was too abrupt. They should have sent him away for a while, have him get in main eventer shape while helping-out with developmental guys , then brought him back with the new character. They've always acknowledged Bradshaw's expertise in the world of finance, even during the APA days. They hyped the hell out of his book
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