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Post by The Rick Jericho on Dec 14, 2021 17:49:49 GMT -5
Fake Diesel turned into Kane and had a hell of a career.
What if Fake Razor, Rick Bognar was repackaged as well? Apparently he wasn't a bad worker as Big Titan before he got the Fake Razor gimmick.
Could he have been something good too in the WWF with a gimmick after Fake Razor?
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Post by ThankGodForSidJustice on Dec 14, 2021 18:35:22 GMT -5
Maybe. It's hard for me to say as I didn't see any of his stuff as Big Titan. What I saw of him as Fake Razor wasn't impressive but then again he was trying to wrestle as someone else. He had good size and he was young so I think there was potential there if they repackaged him into something else.
Unfortunately for him they clearly didn't see much in him. You could tell how they booked them that they liked Jacobs a lot more and he was the one that had a much better chance of sticking around in that he got a much better showing in the 1997 Rumble and they always had Bogner take the pin when they lost. I remember in an interview Bogner saying that when they stopped booking him he called Vince and asked if there was any chance of him continuing to get work there and Vince said to never call him again. Ouch.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Dec 14, 2021 19:07:33 GMT -5
I like that he ended up in Japan as part of the NWO so the group had both versions of Razor, real and fake.
Guy deserved better than to be used as a pawn in Vince's legal wranglings with WCW, they never really seemed to want him, they just needed a warm body who could do a Scott Hall impression so the WWE could say 'Look, we're still using the characters we're suing WCW over!'. If he hadn't done a Razor impression in the ECW lockerroom, they'd probably have slapped Bull Buchanan or some other trainee in the role.
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Post by Mozenrath on Dec 14, 2021 21:13:52 GMT -5
"Could", sure. It was a very tumultuous time.
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Post by sarkerpolseng on Dec 14, 2021 22:00:58 GMT -5
Glen was repackaged as a character that wore a mask.
I dont think Rick would have.
Or he could switch from Rick Bogner to Rick Booooooogs
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Post by tafkaga on Dec 14, 2021 22:08:09 GMT -5
WCW should have hired him and pretended he was Johnny B. Badd.
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Post by Hit Girl on Dec 15, 2021 3:53:33 GMT -5
The power guy in a tag team with a high flyer.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Dec 15, 2021 4:02:50 GMT -5
The Undertaker’s other OTHER brother that was thought to be dead… Richard Bogman, mild-mannered accountant from Lynchburg, VA.
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Post by David-Arquette was in WCW 2000 on Dec 15, 2021 4:41:26 GMT -5
Maybe. It's hard for me to say as I didn't see any of his stuff as Big Titan. What I saw of him as Fake Razor wasn't impressive but then again he was trying to wrestle as someone else. He had good size and he was young so I think there was potential there if they repackaged him into something else. Unfortunately for him they clearly didn't see much in him. You could tell how they booked them that they liked Jacobs a lot more and he was the one that had a much better chance of sticking around in that he got a much better showing in the 1997 Rumble and they always had Bogner take the pin when they lost. I remember in an interview Bogner saying that when they stopped booking him he called Vince and asked if there was any chance of him continuing to get work there and Vince said to never call him again. Ouch. That's damn harsh. |
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Post by pinja on Dec 15, 2021 16:11:08 GMT -5
Rick Boner, archnemesis of Val Venis.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Dec 16, 2021 0:07:45 GMT -5
Maybe. It's hard for me to say as I didn't see any of his stuff as Big Titan. What I saw of him as Fake Razor wasn't impressive but then again he was trying to wrestle as someone else. He had good size and he was young so I think there was potential there if they repackaged him into something else. Unfortunately for him they clearly didn't see much in him. You could tell how they booked them that they liked Jacobs a lot more and he was the one that had a much better chance of sticking around in that he got a much better showing in the 1997 Rumble and they always had Bogner take the pin when they lost. I remember in an interview Bogner saying that when they stopped booking him he called Vince and asked if there was any chance of him continuing to get work there and Vince said to never call him again. Ouch. That's damn harsh. Yeah, with all the Vince stories and how busy he is, I wonder if Bognar caught him on a bad day. Bognar seemed like a decent enough talent. Not the kind of guy you’d expect to provoke such a damning reply. |
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Post by Feyrhausen on Dec 16, 2021 8:55:56 GMT -5
Yeah, with all the Vince stories and how busy he is, I wonder if Bognar caught him on a bad day. Bognar seemed like a decent enough talent. Not the kind of guy you’d expect to provoke such a damning reply. Could have had something to do with why he was hired. He and Jacobs were basically pawns in the lawsuit. It doesnt go Vinces way so he blames the talent. When all they were doing was the best they could in a dumb situation. Jacobs gets a pass because he is big and tall. |
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Post by El Cokehead del Knife Fight on Dec 16, 2021 9:07:55 GMT -5
At the end of the day Glen Jacobs was someone that they liked much more. Bognar was just a pawn in the lawsuit.
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Post by crashmatsbazz on Dec 16, 2021 9:22:47 GMT -5
i think the only way he would have worked is with a mask, no one really knew Kane was Issam Yankem, or the Faek Diesel so he worked well, if Bognar had worked under a mask then maybe he could have gotten over, but he could have also been another Sultan.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Dec 16, 2021 10:32:51 GMT -5
At the end of the day Glen Jacobs was someone that they liked much more. Bognar was just a pawn in the lawsuit. Kane was someone they'd been looking at since 1993 and already had a run there, Bognar only got a look in because he could do the Razor voice. |
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Post by kingoftheindies on Dec 16, 2021 11:01:17 GMT -5
I've heard some of the Canadian wrestlers who Bognar broke in with say that they heard he already had heat with Vince and Vince circle because in FMW he was tight with Mike Awesome and Horace Boulder so they assumed he was also in tight with Hulk Hogan... and yes those are the lengths of hoops people in the wrestling business will jump through to dislike someone
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Post by The Thread Barbi on Dec 16, 2021 11:42:00 GMT -5
I guess he could've anonymously slided into the DOA?
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Post by hassanchop on Dec 16, 2021 22:38:30 GMT -5
I guess he could've anonymously slided into the DOA? He could’ve replaced Crush after he left post Survivor Series |
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Post by jason1980s on Dec 16, 2021 23:36:09 GMT -5
I think post Survivor Series 1997 Vince saw the writing on the wall where his company's direction needed to go (like not doing childish things like bringing in a fake Disel or Razor) but pre screwjob Vince I can see him bringing in Rick to replace Rick Rude if Rude had left for WCW.
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Post by thegame415 on Dec 20, 2021 19:14:04 GMT -5
Maybe just a gimmick where he imitates wrestlers who are gone.
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