Who should've gotten a Brock style push in the Attitude Era?

[bmfjules]

Which of these guys would have been the best fit---in let's say late 96 all the way until mid 98, for a Brock Lesnar style mega push?

Or if you think all three are bad ideas, I'm certainly open to reading that argument as well.

[Big Poppa Pumpkin]

Vader

but of those three, Steve Williams.

[TGM]

Gilberg.

Bwahahahahahaha.

No really, Shamrock had everything. It's quite odd that he was only around for two years and has never wrestled for WWE on this side of the millennium.

[bmfjules]

Jul 8, 2016 18:20:47 GMT -5 Big Poppa Pumpkin said:

Vader

but of those three, Steve Williams.

Ah, if it wasn't too late, I'd delete this poll and start a new one for neglecting him.

[Macho Pichu]

The only thing those three have in common with Lesnar is their MMA background. MMA wasn't as big at the time, so a literal Lesnar wouldn't have worked. At different parts of the AE, though, you did have guys bringing similar things to some of Lesnar's biggest drawing points. In the "unstoppable badass monster" category, you had Vader. In the "guy with legitamte accolades to back up his game" category, Kurt Angle fits the bill the best.

[Deleted]

None of the ones you've mentioned personally. The closest one was Angle and if you ask me his entire WWE run was perfect for his character. That Lesnar push was done when it needed to be done with the best possible option.

[Deleted]

Severn on the basis of his fantastic mustache.

[cageking666]

Owen Hart

[Mike Bockwinkel]

Brakkus

[El Pollo Guerrera]

"The Lethal Weapon" Steve Blackman.

[Non Banjoble Tokens]

Dan Severn for his awesome music.

[Duke Cameron]

Severn

[government mule]

Vader was the first person that sprung to mind for me before opening the thread.

[benstudd]

In my opinion, Bradshaw.

At one point he was in his badass prime and they didn't know what to do with him, he had several shitty cowboy gimmicks.

He sort of got a second life when he teamed up with Ron Simmons but at this point the boat had passed him buy as far as far as being a lone badass star that could take everybody out. He's had success later on but it was as a different character.

He came out at a time where the WWF was all about bigger-than-life characters, they could not even book Korgan properly, they put him in a Circus freak gimmick instead of booking him as the monster he should have been.

Many times I imagined if he been in WCW, Bradshaw would have had a different career cause they respected tough guys characters more like we saw with Goldberg. Instead of this Russo started to hate him and designed the BFA tournament to bury Bradshaw and it worked.

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

Is "no one" a viable answer here? Because a monster push in this era would have just created less room for all the guys who actually got really over on their own accord, not just by being told how great they could be.

[Big Bad Kahuna]

Terrible choices, especially washed-up roided-to-the-gills Steve Williams

If Goldberg was in WWE, he should have gotten such a rocket push

[hassanchop]

Other: Mark Henry

[Big Poppa Pumpkin]

Jul 9, 2016 5:25:32 GMT -5 Big Bad Kahuna said:

Terrible choices, especially washed-up roided-to-the-gills Steve Williams

If Goldberg was in WWE, he should have gotten such a rocket push

He wasn't washed up in 96, not until after the Brawl For All actually and when he was phoning it in for latter day WCW. Go watch his matches with Akira Taue and when he was teaming with Johnny Ace against Misawa and Akiyama in All Japan from 96, he was a way better worker at that point than Shamrock or Severn ever were. Although I didn't ever see him as a WWF guy, I must admit, especially during the Attitude Era.