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Post by SCCB Was Told To Do Steroids on Sept 5, 2019 7:07:34 GMT -5
Del Wilkes has said in interviews that there are no hard feelings and agrees it was bad timing all around. By all other accounts, he was a nice guy and was really good in the ring.
He even performs as The Patriot at spot shows from time to time if he can.
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Post by James Fabiano on Sept 5, 2019 7:15:44 GMT -5
I liked him because of his time in Global. But yes, they needed to wait a couple months when the Attitude Era started and gave him Kurt's gimmick. If he could still go he'd make a good mascot/manager for Angle.
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Post by James Fabiano on Sept 5, 2019 7:16:22 GMT -5
The most Vince McMahon character of the Attitude Era without question. I loved how cornball hokey his voice sounded, like the voice from the Captain America and the Avengers arcade game. "I can't move!" I've always theorized that The Patriot was Vince's Hail Mary play to get HIS kind of babyface over in the main event again against the rising tide of the anti-hero. No. An allegory of him against the Federal Government. No wait that was Lex vs. Tatanka.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Sept 5, 2019 7:44:09 GMT -5
Patriot felt like a pointless busywork feud for the Harts, a career tag guy with average mic skills who would need to be carried due to his long term injuries. They may as well have sent them out with scissors and construction paper.
After spending 1995 doing that, I can understand why Bret wasn't particularly into it.
It wasn't Del Wilkes fault, it was just the wrong time for that character.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Sept 5, 2019 7:47:34 GMT -5
His theme was repurposed for Kurt Angle's, so I guess his theme had legendary staying power?
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Post by The 1Watcher Experience on Sept 5, 2019 10:15:18 GMT -5
Del Wilkes has said in interviews that there are no hard feelings and agrees it was bad timing all around. By all other accounts, he was a nice guy and was really good in the ring. He even performs as The Patriot at spot shows from time to time if he can. He hasn’t wrestled in over 20 years. He has appeared at a few conventions. I talked to him at one about a decade ago. He was walking around with a bad limp. He definitely wasn’t in performing condition. He looked like a beaten down veteran, for lack of a better term. Del is on Twitter. I tried to follow him. Sometimes he would post some great wrestling content. He occasionally mentions sports which isn’t my thing. Unfortunately he’s one of those types that gets completely caught up in a topic forbidden here and fighting about it constantly, so I lost interest in following him. No disrespect intended to him but I have zero interest in spending my time reading that kind of stuff.
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Post by tms on Sept 5, 2019 11:37:33 GMT -5
His theme was repurposed for Kurt Angle's, so I guess his theme had legendary staying power? Mark Henry used that theme in his very first (babyface) run at a RAW I went to (when Austin threw a title belt in the Piscatacua River in NH), so it was a token theme for patriotic or 'Murrcan Olympic athlete types.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Sept 5, 2019 12:04:58 GMT -5
His theme was repurposed for Kurt Angle's, so I guess his theme had legendary staying power? Mark Henry used that theme in his very first (babyface) run at a RAW I went to (when Austin threw a title belt in the Piscatacua River in NH), so it was a token theme for patriotic or 'Murrcan Olympic athlete types. Team USA used it first I believe. maybe it was called Team America (not that one)
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Post by nickcave on Sept 6, 2019 17:18:30 GMT -5
He felt like a fake pro wrestler if that makes sense, like something you would see in an episode of a sitcom that featured pro wrestlers rather than an actual character
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2019 20:07:08 GMT -5
He felt like a fake pro wrestler if that makes sense, like something you would see in an episode of a sitcom that featured pro wrestlers rather than an actual character Definitely giving somebody an airplane spin. TV shows loved the airplane spin.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Sept 7, 2019 9:03:30 GMT -5
He felt like a fake pro wrestler if that makes sense, like something you would see in an episode of a sitcom that featured pro wrestlers rather than an actual character Definitely giving somebody an airplane spin. TV shows loved the airplane spin. It's pretty easy to do without the actor taking a bump, so it's unsurprising really. It's also part of why I hate that move in actual wrestling, because it was on every TV show that mentioned wrestling.
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Sept 7, 2019 10:18:38 GMT -5
Mark Henry used that theme in his very first (babyface) run at a RAW I went to (when Austin threw a title belt in the Piscatacua River in NH), so it was a token theme for patriotic or 'Murrcan Olympic athlete types. Team USA used it first I believe. maybe it was called Team America (not that one) Team USA was from Survivor Series '97, which was after the Patriot's short run, then Mark Henry using it was on the 12/15 Raw in question (when Austin threw the IC Title into the river; said Raw was also when Vince did a short promo introducing the Attitude Era). I believe Sgt. Slaughter may have also used the Patriot/Team USA/Mark Henry/Kurt Angle theme for a bit when he was WWF Commissioner around this time.
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Post by Mochi Lone Wolf on Sept 7, 2019 11:37:11 GMT -5
Wouldn't have worked in the attitude era.
Even if it did, Bret and the Kliq would never have let him go too far.
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Post by evilone on Sept 7, 2019 13:44:38 GMT -5
For someone who was invested in WCW from early '90s when I saw him in WWF circa '97 I was like .. did these guys fall so low to hire this WCW outcast and put him in the program with Bret freakin Hart?
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Post by Hypnosis on Sept 7, 2019 15:38:22 GMT -5
He felt like a fake pro wrestler if that makes sense, like something you would see in an episode of a sitcom that featured pro wrestlers rather than an actual character www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQVBl48qoWI
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