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Post by corndog on Jun 21, 2016 11:08:41 GMT -5
After watching AJ on the Stone Cold Podcast, he really put over Terry Taylor for helping develop him early in his career. HHH said the exact same thing about him in his DVD. I find it very strange, because guys like Cornette, Bobby Heenan, Bret Hart and many others really hate the guy. Taylor does admit he was a prick in his first WWF run, but it just seems strange that guys either really like the guy or completely hate him.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 21, 2016 11:24:04 GMT -5
By most accounts, Taylor's really good at two things: Working with young guys to help them improve, and being the stoogiest of backstage stooges. So yeah, most guys he's dealt with fall into dealing with the former Taylor or the latter, not much in-between.
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Post by corndog on Jun 21, 2016 12:07:09 GMT -5
Luckily for him, he has job in NXT as a trainer, which is perfect for him. Listening to interviews it does seem about 90% of the hatred comes from his backstage work.
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Post by Grand Papillon "The Banker" on Jun 21, 2016 13:06:30 GMT -5
By most accounts, Taylor's really good at two things: Working with young guys to help them improve, and being the stoogiest of backstage stooges. So yeah, most guys he's dealt with fall into dealing with the former Taylor or the latter, not much in-between. Correct. He is tailor-made for a training role but if he gets any sort of backstage power, he is a cocky little chickenshit |
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Post by Mozenrath on Jun 21, 2016 13:11:18 GMT -5
My favorite Terry story is still Lance Storm getting the rolling crab from seeing a match where Terry did it, only his was a boston crab, grabbing both legs. Lance found the single leg was smoother to do and used that.
He thanked Terry, who had no memory of doing a rolling crab to begin with.
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Post by edgestar on Jun 21, 2016 13:16:01 GMT -5
Red Rooster, to Career Booster: The Terry Taylor Story
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Post by SmashTV on Jun 21, 2016 13:51:07 GMT -5
Didn't Flair say in his book that Kevin Nash's parody of Arn Anderson was Taylor's idea? I know wrestlers rib one another and the locker room can be a brutal place, but mocking someone as respected as Arn sounds like sour grapes on Taylor's part.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Jun 21, 2016 13:56:59 GMT -5
He's been on a no win position since the end of his wrestling days, it's hard to go from being one of the boys to that level of management. If you do your job badly, people will hate you, do it well and people will think you're a stooge.
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Post by Medicinal Thunder Liger on Jun 21, 2016 15:16:28 GMT -5
Wasn't there a story he used to hit on TNA knockouts while his wife was severely ill? Don't see what was ever so great about him regardless. Mid south, WCW, anything
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Post by Mozenrath on Jun 21, 2016 15:28:13 GMT -5
Wasn't there a story he used to hit on TNA knockouts while his wife was severely ill? Don't see what was ever so great about him regardless. Mid south, WCW, anything I've heard it said, but I don't know if it's accurate. |
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Jun 21, 2016 16:12:02 GMT -5
Didn't Flair say in his book that Kevin Nash's parody of Arn Anderson was Taylor's idea? I know wrestlers rib one another and the locker room can be a brutal place, but mocking someone as respected as Arn sounds like sour grapes on Taylor's part. I doubt the idea as thought up by Taylor involved the NWO not getting any comeuppance. I don't think anyone would care about it now if Flair, Benoit, Hennig and co had gotten to beat down or at least chase off some NWO members, but the way it played out made them look like losers. |
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