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Post by 魔界5号 on Oct 24, 2015 14:36:35 GMT -5
Chris Bosh, Human Tornado, Disco Machine, Reckless Youth, Scott Lost, and more.
I think most of those guys are retired though.
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Post by Chainsaw on Oct 24, 2015 14:42:18 GMT -5
I'm still disappointed that Up In Smoke didn't go very far. Cloudy is actually a local boy from here, he's friends with a friend of mine, and I've met him a few times, and he's a good dude. It's a shame him and Cheech didn't catch on like 3.0 did.
Also, for a lot of these guys, I think they just got tired of busting their asses for little pay and knowing they wouldn't get to the main stage (although now with NXT, some of them might be kicking themselves that they didn't hang in their longer.) I think Cloudy ended up getting a real job and kinda hung it up, and I think (from being friends with him on FB), Ruckus builds custom cases for PC's and consoles now. He may throw his all into that now.
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Oct 24, 2015 15:27:15 GMT -5
I'm still disappointed that Up In Smoke didn't go very far. Cloudy is actually a local boy from here, he's friends with a friend of mine, and I've met him a few times, and he's a good dude. It's a shame him and Cheech didn't catch on like 3.0 did. Also, for a lot of these guys, I think they just got tired of busting their asses for little pay and knowing they wouldn't get to the main stage (although now with NXT, some of them might be kicking themselves that they didn't hang in their longer.) I think Cloudy ended up getting a real job and kinda hung it up, and I think (from being friends with him on FB), Ruckus builds custom cases for PC's and consoles now. He may throw his all into that now. Didn't Cloudy and Cheech legit dislike each other? But they kept getting bookings together because they had amazing chemistry?
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Post by wrestlingrecap on Oct 24, 2015 16:32:43 GMT -5
I'm still disappointed that Up In Smoke didn't go very far. Cloudy is actually a local boy from here, he's friends with a friend of mine, and I've met him a few times, and he's a good dude. It's a shame him and Cheech didn't catch on like 3.0 did. Also, for a lot of these guys, I think they just got tired of busting their asses for little pay and knowing they wouldn't get to the main stage (although now with NXT, some of them might be kicking themselves that they didn't hang in their longer.) I think Cloudy ended up getting a real job and kinda hung it up, and I think (from being friends with him on FB), Ruckus builds custom cases for PC's and consoles now. He may throw his all into that now. Didn't Cloudy and Cheech legit dislike each other? But they kept getting bookings together because they had amazing chemistry? I've heard Cloudy stole shit from a company and was exiled from the company as a result. I saw him sitting in the crowd at an event with his hoodie covering his head seemingly not wanting to be seen.
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Post by Heinz Doofenschmirtz on Oct 24, 2015 18:42:39 GMT -5
Who was that Benoit influenced guy in RoH and CHIKARA? Maxime Boyer? He was Young Lions champ for a cup of coffee, I think.
I'll second the what happened to Necro question.
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Oct 24, 2015 18:45:55 GMT -5
Who was that Benoit influenced guy in RoH and CHIKARA? Maxime Boyer? He was Young Lions champ for a cup of coffee, I think. I'll second the what happened to Necro question. When the Benoit Murders happened, it shook him up really badly and I believe he retired for a few years. I remember he made a couple appearances years later, but the bloom was off the rose for him.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Oct 24, 2015 20:30:19 GMT -5
Twiggy Ramirez (not the musician, but based on him somewhat) seemed to have a following in some mags and early internet. Dunno whatever happened to him.
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Oct 24, 2015 21:13:59 GMT -5
Twiggy Ramirez (not the musician, but based on him somewhat) seemed to have a following in some mags and early internet. Dunno whatever happened to him. According to Cagematch, he was wrestling in New Jersey as recently as last year. Yeah, he was another Apter Mag guy, who would pop up every couple of months in results pages and articles about "indy standouts".
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Post by funakifan88 on Oct 24, 2015 23:43:24 GMT -5
I was surprised that it took 4 pages for someone to bring up Xavier. He was huge when ROH first started and then seemingly disappeared as well. I will second the claim that he was the most awkward choice of champion. Especially when you consider he was the FIRST EVER! I would have put the title on literally ANYONE else but him.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 25, 2015 0:15:08 GMT -5
Vordell Walker got a rep while in ROH for being reckless and hurting people. What happened is for some reason Samoa Joe didn't like Vordell so started up the rumors about him being reckless. Which is also why Vordell rarely worked TNA. And honestly Vordell is 100 times better now than he was back then. But then he is one of the few indy guys that works pretty much every Friday thru Sunday.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2015 1:33:19 GMT -5
I was surprised that it took 4 pages for someone to bring up Xavier. He was huge when ROH first started and then seemingly disappeared as well. I will second the claim that he was the most awkward choice of champion. Especially when you consider he was the FIRST EVER! I would have put the title on literally ANYONE else but him. He was the second ROH champion not the first....Low-ki was the first champion.
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Post by 魔界5号 on Oct 25, 2015 2:43:38 GMT -5
Cheech and Cloudy had that short lived run in CHIKARA where they were repackaged as "Cheech Hernandez" and "KC 'Cloudy' Day" and given surfer gimmicks. That was the last I remember hearing of them.
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Post by chronocross on Oct 25, 2015 7:17:36 GMT -5
What happened to Chad Collyer and Matt Stryker?
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Post by kingoftheindies on Oct 25, 2015 8:57:33 GMT -5
Who was that Benoit influenced guy in RoH and CHIKARA? Maxime Boyer? He was Young Lions champ for a cup of coffee, I think. I'll second the what happened to Necro question. When the Benoit Murders happened, it shook him up really badly and I believe he retired for a few years. I remember he made a couple appearances years later, but the bloom was off the rose for him. Didn't he also get some really bad concussions too?
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Post by Larryhausen on Oct 25, 2015 9:57:35 GMT -5
He still wrestles, apparently, but only on super obscure SoCal indies. Yeah, he does it once in a while for a relatively well known Indie in So Cal(but not anywhere else) called AWS. Speaking of PWG, Chris Bosh. I mean, he had a small bit of success outside of PWG working CZW and IWA: Mid South, but that neck injury unfortunately cut his career short. He had the charisma and when he wanted to, the in-ring ability to go real far. After his last match in 2008(although he had technically retired in 2007), he fell off the face of the earth. However, according to Dino Winwood(another mid-late 00s PWG fan favorite), he moved to Texas, found Jesus, and has a family now. Is he still racist?
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Post by ICBM on Oct 25, 2015 10:13:26 GMT -5
Whatever happened to Necro Butcher? I have a question for your question. Who cares? He couldn't punch, he couldn't kick, no holds, couldn't sell well and relied on hardcore blood baths to get over. If he isn't crippled than he is fortunate. I hope he made enough money to cover his prescriptions when he is too beat up to find actual work. I hope he has some hidden talent I was never aware of like HVAC, welding or some such thing. Maybe be has an accounting degree and can be a CPA. Wrestlers get no insurance they don't pay for out of pocket. No 401k not even in wwe. If anyone knows if Necro had some skill to fall back on, than please correct me. Otherwise this guy is the exact example of what not to do in pro wrestling. People call guys like Kevin Nash lazy for thinking of the future. That is not lazy it is smart. He didn't bleed unless he was getter no pic well. He did high spots in big PPV matches not on free tv or house shows. He was 6'11 and almost 300 lbs in a venture that damaged joints, lies tendons and ligaments and knew well enough to protect them to the maximum extent possible. Necro bled gallons for hotdogs and handshakes. I'll salute his dedication to the fifteen fans in the armory but too many of those was not worth the price on his body
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Post by thirteen3 on Oct 25, 2015 10:26:33 GMT -5
As a British wrestling fan, I was surprised Andy Boy Simmons never got a look in by any of the big two. Yeah, he still wrestles on occasion but the guy's mad charismatic and pretty skilful. Heck, as great as this UK resurgence is (and we have never had a more talented UK scene in a long time), Fleish, Storm and Simmons never becoming anything big is surreal to me. Mad Man Manson, too. I believe Andy has some sort of chronic illness. Which is why he only wrestles occasionally.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2015 10:43:32 GMT -5
I'll toss out another Steve Bradley mention as well. Probably didn't help that he was a second rate RVD, back when RVD was really good.
Christian York had some good buzz in the late 90s early 00s, but outside of a terrible TNA run he never did much of anything.
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Post by Heinz Doofenschmirtz on Oct 25, 2015 11:47:01 GMT -5
Whatever happened to Necro Butcher? I have a question for your question. Who cares? He couldn't punch, he couldn't kick, no holds, couldn't sell well and relied on hardcore blood baths to get over. If he isn't crippled than he is fortunate. I hope he made enough money to cover his prescriptions when he is too beat up to find actual work. I hope he has some hidden talent I was never aware of like HVAC, welding or some such thing. Maybe be has an accounting degree and can be a CPA. Wrestlers get no insurance they don't pay for out of pocket. No 401k not even in wwe. If anyone knows if Necro had some skill to fall back on, than please correct me. Otherwise this guy is the exact example of what not to do in pro wrestling. People call guys like Kevin Nash lazy for thinking of the future. That is not lazy it is smart. He didn't bleed unless he was getter no pic well. He did high spots in big PPV matches not on free tv or house shows. He was 6'11 and almost 300 lbs in a venture that damaged joints, lies tendons and ligaments and knew well enough to protect them to the maximum extent possible. Necro bled gallons for hotdogs and handshakes. I'll salute his dedication to the fifteen fans in the armory but too many of those was not worth the price on his body He's ex-military so I assume he gained some skills there. Not sure if they're transferable but surely something must be. He was also really, really good in The Wrestler. He may not be able to play anything else, though.
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Post by ICBM on Oct 25, 2015 12:03:16 GMT -5
Hienz D, thnx for that. Didn't know he was ex-military. Lots of veritables there as far as what skills he learned. We are incredibly adaptable and trainable after we complete even just a few yrs of service. Not knowing his job on active duty I couldn't tell you what he'd be suited for
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