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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on May 30, 2016 22:13:08 GMT -5
He was a moderate draw by himself, but not one that's going to get a look in over the likes of Hogan, Goldberg and Bret. Hall was easily on par with Brett in the popularity department in the WWF. All the top guys around the new generation era were getting similar pops. Comparing Hall to Hogan, and Goldberg isn't fair. Its like saying Derek Jetter was a bad Yankee because he isn't as legendary as Micky Mantel and Babe Ruth. I would say Hall is more Bernie or Paul O'Neil but I get your point.
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Post by cabbageboy on May 30, 2016 22:27:07 GMT -5
I do think Hall could have gotten a token 1 week title run or something though. I mean this company put the title on David Arquette at one point. Of course they could have given Hall a minor run. Maybe he could have had a transition run as the guy who beat Sting in 1998, only to drop it to either Hogan or Savage?
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Post by Starshine on May 30, 2016 22:49:40 GMT -5
He was a screw up. And not a huge draw by himself. Screw up? Yes. Not being a huge draw? Nope. Hall was a much bigger draw then some of the other people that held the WCW title like Jeff Jarrett. No one in WCW was a draw at that point. You just have to look at the numbers Hogan/Flair drew from '99 to 2000 to see how far everything had fallen.
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Post by gatordone on May 30, 2016 23:42:20 GMT -5
From what I read is that he didn't want it and was unreliable. If you think he didn't have the tools be champion. Think again. He was awesome in the ring, gold on the mic, and had the look of a heel champion similar to that of Rick Rude. I'm surprised the WWF never thought about giving him a shot as champion.
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Post by Capt Lunatic on May 31, 2016 2:36:43 GMT -5
Hall was a much bigger draw then some of the other people that held the WCW title like Jeff Jarrett. Difference being that Hall wasn't friends with the booker, at that time at least. The real difference is one of them was always on time and sober and one of them would have pawned the belt for drugs.
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Post by auph10imitated on May 31, 2016 6:16:03 GMT -5
Im sure the biggest singles push he got was in an angle with Goldberg in 1999? But he was just an unreliable mess past 1997.
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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on May 31, 2016 7:28:38 GMT -5
Because he was a drunken f***up.
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Post by Gravedigger's Biscuits on May 31, 2016 8:09:17 GMT -5
He was a moderate draw by himself, but not one that's going to get a look in over the likes of Hogan, Goldberg and Bret. Hall was easily on par with Brett in the popularity department in the WWF. All the top guys around the new generation era were getting similar pops. Comparing Hall to Hogan, and Goldberg isn't fair. Its like saying Derek Jetter was a bad Yankee because he isn't as legendary as Micky Mantel and Babe Ruth. Except I never claimed Hall was bad or not over. I said he was not a huge draw by himself, which is true. As for being on par with Bret in popularity, that's just wrong. Scott Hall was over enough to be world champion, but he never was because A) he was a drunk screw up and B) there were bigger draws and egos who wanted the belt instead. Hall's overness was not enough that you could ignore those things and give him the world title.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on May 31, 2016 10:25:57 GMT -5
by his own admission he was a total mess and didn't want to add to the pressure. This. Hall has said many times that he was offered world title reigns in both WWF and WCW and flatly refused every time. He simply never trusted himself to be able to handle that kind of responsibility without self-destructing completely.
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Post by Ted Sheckler on May 31, 2016 16:17:53 GMT -5
Rumour has it he was meant to win it at Superbrawl 2000 which would have probably lead to a feud with Jarrett which would have been fun.
Apparently he got drunk in an airport a couple weeks before and caused a ruckus so they had Sid retain.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Jun 1, 2016 4:56:35 GMT -5
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Post by Porky's Butthole on Jun 3, 2016 12:45:58 GMT -5
Kinda hard to explain how you traded the physical title belt for an 8 ball and a 30 pack of Miller High Life
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Post by sdoyle7798 on Jun 3, 2016 16:06:59 GMT -5
Besides being unreliable he was the third man down on the nWo totem pole after Hogan and Nash. As egomaniacal heels Booking 101 states if he won the title then Hogan and Nash would have to turn on him, and nobody really wanted that. Which is kinda funny, as he was really the first one to appear.
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Post by The Mark of Mark on Jun 3, 2016 16:16:53 GMT -5
Alcoholism aside, he seemed to have lost that main event flare when the nWo angle went into full swing. It could be that creative just couldn't come up with anything for him to do other than be in the nWo. Then they dispicably made his drinking problem into a story line.
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Post by chronocross on Jun 3, 2016 16:50:16 GMT -5
He was unreliable, he had two reigns as U.S champion in 99 and both times he was stripped of the belt for not being around and also he would disappear for months at a time when he was part of the tag champs with Nash.
I was a huge fan of him, but there was no way he was going to be World Champion with his problems haunting him.
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