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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Aug 18, 2020 4:48:59 GMT -5
How about Abyss? A masked monster that at times seemed to be a Kane and/or Mankind ripoff, who may or may not have been fathered by James Mitchell and was under the medical care of Stevie Richards. Then, he got superpowers from wearing Hulk Hogan's ring. Eventually, he seemed to disappear and his large, oafish brother, mild-mannered lawyer Joseph Park (or Parks, depending on who made up the graphics that week) went looking for him, only to turn to actually be Abyss. Basically, Abyss is an attitude-era monster cosplayer who may have superpowers and moonlights as a moderately-successful attorney. Reading this made me realize that I don't think Vince Russo has ever Russo'd up anybody's career as badly as he Russo'd up poor Chris Parks career. |
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Aug 18, 2020 4:54:06 GMT -5
Hacksaw King Duggan, coming down the aisle with a 2x4, American Flag, Crown and Cape, the All American monarchist! Also pictured with Demolition, adding their leather mask and face paint on top of that! Edit PLUS painting the 2x4 in American colours AND getting it a little crown.  Plus his face was painted under it all  When I was in middle school around 93-94 I bought the SS 1989 video used from a local video store. Me and my BFF at the time watched it almost every weekend. We thought "walking gimmick stand" Jim Duggan was the coolest thing ever. We were also massive Demolition fans so perhaps we were bias.🤷♂️ |
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Aug 18, 2020 4:55:13 GMT -5
Does Tracey Smothers count? A Wild Eyed Southern Boy, member of the Nation of Domination and a Full Blooded Italian. Tracy smothers was in the NOD? What did I miss? |
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Aug 18, 2020 5:00:05 GMT -5
Babyface Shawn Michaels who does a striptease routine after his matches and teases showing his penis to excited 14 year old girls. And the only one that was really excited to see Shawn's penis was Vince McMahon who was at ringside shilling his inappropriate male stripper world champion like a mad man to a rapidly dwindling audience. |
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Aug 18, 2020 5:02:35 GMT -5
Rico was a gay martial artist/hair stylist/manager/RAW sleeper agent. Sleeper agent? That's the only one of those that doesn't ring a bell for me. |
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Aug 18, 2020 5:05:10 GMT -5
The team of American Starship, comprised of Coyote and Eagle.... uh, what?  Thank you for posting this picture. For years I've known about this team but never actually knew what they looked like. I figured with that name their look would have been way more over the top than this. |
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Post by MrElijah on Aug 18, 2020 5:37:11 GMT -5
Does Tracey Smothers count? A Wild Eyed Southern Boy, member of the Nation of Domination and a Full Blooded Italian. Tracy smothers was in the NOD? What did I miss? He was in the USWA version. |
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Aug 18, 2020 8:04:29 GMT -5
Rico was a gay martial artist/hair stylist/manager/RAW sleeper agent. Sleeper agent? That's the only one of those that doesn't ring a bell for me. That was when he screwed with Billy and Chuck's wedding while working for Bischoff. |
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Aug 18, 2020 13:54:22 GMT -5
How about Abyss? A masked monster that at times seemed to be a Kane and/or Mankind ripoff, who may or may not have been fathered by James Mitchell and was under the medical care of Stevie Richards. Then, he got superpowers from wearing Hulk Hogan's ring. Eventually, he seemed to disappear and his large, oafish brother, mild-mannered lawyer Joseph Park (or Parks, depending on who made up the graphics that week) went looking for him, only to turn to actually be Abyss. Basically, Abyss is an attitude-era monster cosplayer who may have superpowers and moonlights as a moderately-successful attorney. Reading this made me realize that I don't think Vince Russo has ever Russo'd up anybody's career as badly as he Russo'd up poor Chris Parks career. It also leaves out the fact that they played their hand pretty damned early that they were teh same person... but then kept it going as if they weren't for like a year... |
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Feb 6, 2021 8:30:34 GMT -5
Hacksaw King Duggan, coming down the aisle with a 2x4, American Flag, Crown and Cape, the All American monarchist! Also pictured with Demolition, adding their leather mask and face paint on top of that! Edit PLUS painting the 2x4 in American colours AND getting it a little crown. I know it was the 1980s, but Jesus Christ. What was cocaine sold at wholesale prices that night? |
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Feb 6, 2021 10:23:05 GMT -5
Hacksaw King Duggan, coming down the aisle with a 2x4, American Flag, Crown and Cape, the All American monarchist! Also pictured with Demolition, adding their leather mask and face paint on top of that! Edit PLUS painting the 2x4 in American colours AND getting it a little crown. I know it was the 1980s, but Jesus Christ. What was cocaine sold at wholesale prices that night? It looks like the Ribera Steakhouse on Saturday evenings at the time. |
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Post by Triangle Lancer on Feb 6, 2021 11:05:03 GMT -5
Tracy smothers was in the NOD? What did I miss? He was in the USWA version. I went to Wrestlingdata.com to compile who was in it. Tracy Smothers as Shaquille Ali, Spellbinder/Phantasio as Elijah, Reggie B. Fine as Kareem Olajuwon, Miss Texas/Jacqueline as Queen Moesha, Jeff Gaylord as Akeem Hassain, Sir Mo/Mo from M.O.M. as Sir Mohammed, Randy Hales as Randy X, PG-13, Clarence Mason, Brakkus as themselves. PJ Walker/Aldo Montoya as PG-187, and some guy named Akeem Mohammad who doesn't have a profile but used to wrestle as the Big Black Dog...who was a former USWA Moondog. (Looking at YouTube, I don't recognize him as anybody I'd know.) It's as absurd as it sounds. And it was great! |
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Post by 5count5count on Feb 6, 2021 16:09:47 GMT -5
Kane. Just Kane in general. Christmas Creature
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Post by 5count5count on Feb 6, 2021 16:12:09 GMT -5
Vinnie Vegas. A 7 footer with a gambling problem.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Feb 6, 2021 17:24:18 GMT -5
Kane. Just Kane in general. I was just thinking the other day about Kane being three different characters in three different years. In October 1995 he was Isaac Yankem, October 1996 he was Diesel and October 1997 he was Kane. Was the ever another wrestler with that many gimmicks in the many years? Maybe Fatu from 1994-1995 but I think Fatu Headshrinker was supposed to be Fatu M.A.D. I’m not reading through the whole thread, so I assume someone has said it, but Foley had 3 distinct gimmicks on a single show. |
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Feb 6, 2021 19:21:06 GMT -5
The entire concept of Heidenreich.
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Feb 6, 2021 20:52:09 GMT -5
Kronik were hitmen/bodybuilders/potheads.
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Post by jason1980s on Feb 6, 2021 23:52:28 GMT -5
I’m not reading through the whole thread, so I assume someone has said it, but Foley had 3 distinct gimmicks on a single show. Not sure if they said it but with Foley it was a guy who was already over portraying his past gimmicks (his childhood character and ECW/WCW gimmick along with the WWF gimmick). It wasn't a case like Fatu or Jacobs doing a crappy gimmick that wasn't over then moving on to another crappy gimmick that wasn't over. |
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Post by Gravedigger's Biscuits on Feb 7, 2021 0:02:34 GMT -5
I'm surprised no one has said Bray Wyatt.
Teleporting hillbilly cult leader with magical powers, who now seemingly resides in the depths of hell inbetween hosting a children's TV show.
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Post by karl100589 on Feb 7, 2021 10:29:07 GMT -5
The Yeti: a giant man wrapped in toilet paper that broke out of a block of ice and then proceeded to dry hump Hulk Hogan and the Giant on a live PPV in the main event. Why he was dressed like a mummy no one had a clue given Yeti’s are supposedly furry. Then he became a giant ninja for some reason.
Story goes the "mummy" costume was a stop gap. The intention was for the "mummy" to be eventually unwrapped and revealed as Giant Gonzalez.
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