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Post by Ganon83 on Dec 16, 2022 20:55:02 GMT -5
Unless Flair is winning in a quick squash to get heat, I think this would be a terrible idea. Big Daddy would have been in his 60's when this match took place. And even in his prime, Big Daddy was god-awful. Meltzer has said before during WONHOF discussions that Daddy, who is still on the ballot generally because non-UK voters go into that category to only vote him, would be by far the worst worker in the Hall and is much worse than guys who are generally considered bad workers like Warrior.
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Post by XIII on Dec 16, 2022 23:38:36 GMT -5
Like I watched a lot of Big Daddy matches (Lord help me) To try to understand what made him a draw. He was terrible worker from everything I saw. I feel like I missing the what made him so over. I saw just a fat guy who worked 2 min matches. I'm use to big man who can do stuff. 92 verison would been a train wreck. More so a couple months later Yokozuna debut who was a big guy but could move and wrestle. Herein lay his appeal. He was an everyman, sort of British wrestling equivalent to Dusty Rhodes: an ex-coal miner (or at least billed as one) who was probably viewed by wrestling fans in the industrial towns and cities in the north of England as one of their own, especially during what was a period of turmoil for a lot of British industry in the early eighties. He'd also been a professional rugby player at one point, and a Coldstream Guard (one of the regiments of the British Army that protects the monarch), and was probably viewed by many people as a real working class hero.
This is pretty much exactly how Regal described it on Austin’s podcast. He also spoke about how you’d get all of these fine technical matches and then here comes Big Daddy and Haystacks or whoever and it was just a short brawl/car crash and that was a nice change for people that wanted to see a fight.
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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on Dec 18, 2022 0:38:35 GMT -5
Out of morbid curiosity I decided to watch a few of his matches and holy shit he was somehow worse than I expected.
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