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Post by Hypnosis on Mar 14, 2022 16:10:34 GMT -5
The hell of it is, as One Man Gang, he WAS intimidating. Vince looked at him and saw a giant African easter egg for whatever reason. Completely stripping him of what made him intimidating One Man Gang before changing to Akeem reminded me of a Double Dragon thug, which I thought was cool.
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Post by mcstoklasa on Mar 14, 2022 17:07:58 GMT -5
Ryback. Sounds bad, but something about his face (and lack of athleticism too I guess) just never looked like a monster or a star to me unlike say a prime Goldberg
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Post by johnnyk9 on Mar 14, 2022 20:17:51 GMT -5
Killer Khan
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Post by eudypfohl on Mar 17, 2022 1:20:00 GMT -5
Mabel had the size to work as a monster heel (as he showed with Viscera) but the attire gave him no legitimacy. what is this at a high school gym?
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Post by Display Name on Mar 17, 2022 2:54:43 GMT -5
Mabel had the size to work as a monster heel (as he showed with Viscera) but the attire gave him no legitimacy. what is this at a high school gym? Probably. They were running some small ass buildings at the time.
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Post by Mozenrath on Mar 17, 2022 3:30:20 GMT -5
Yeah, the mid-'90s were a lean time for the WWF. I'm sure that, at best, WWF broke even at some of these places, but it kept people getting used and paid in between bigger shows, a necessity to get people to stick around.
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Post by Sephiroth on Mar 17, 2022 11:01:53 GMT -5
Bill DeMott during his Hugh Morris days. Not very intimidating when you are going around with question marks on your attire making you look like the riddler or Matthew lesko.
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Post by Hulkshi Tanahashi on Mar 17, 2022 12:44:09 GMT -5
Whoever the douchebag behind Tyson Kidd was for that week. Was it Jackson Andrews? Jackson Andrews, yeah, who supposedly got basically ejected from wrestling for being a domestic abuser. He had buff arms, but I don't really remember much else about him, nor do I remember if he ever had a match. Jackson Andrews!? Thank God we never got any more inverted president names!
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Mar 17, 2022 21:02:00 GMT -5
Memphis had a lot of them.
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Post by fg on Mar 17, 2022 21:48:58 GMT -5
Jackson Andrews, yeah, who supposedly got basically ejected from wrestling for being a domestic abuser. He had buff arms, but I don't really remember much else about him, nor do I remember if he ever had a match. Jackson Andrews!? Thank God we never got any more inverted president names! Jackson Andrews was Tyson Kidds bodyguard. He proved how terrible he was during an episode of Raw where Henry squashed him. Let’s see. Tyson lost Jackson. He gained Natalya. That’s an upgrade (yes, I know they were together during the time Jackson was his bodyguard but still.)
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Post by rnrk supports BLM on Mar 17, 2022 22:02:29 GMT -5
I think with Kamala, there was never anything that really made him feel dangerous other than size. Vader, Tenta, Bam Bam, Taker, they were all big guys, but they could all pull out some seriously athletic moves to wow the crowd, but with Kamala... There was none of that, he was just a heavy guy in paint, reliant on the racist headhunter archetype for cheap fear, which got less effective as the years went on. Kids in the 90s weren't being raised on tall tales of cannibals in the colonies told by people in pith helmets. By the '90s, he was a relic that really wasn't an effective monster heel anymore, but in the '80s, he definitely was making it work, like his Andre the Giant feud. I think Kamala was savvy enough to know the bloom was off the rose by the '90s, since he got more selective on being willing to job, which also cost him opportunities. He was trying to protect his staying power, but I think he miscalculated, in retrospect, and should have just cashed in when he could. When did he start doing the belly-slapping? Because watching Kamala slap his belly was never anything but hilarious.
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Post by Mozenrath on Mar 17, 2022 22:10:35 GMT -5
Memphis had a lot of them. Christmas Creature springs to mind.
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Post by Instant Classic on Mar 17, 2022 22:47:23 GMT -5
Buck Dixon Though no one knows him by that name... they just know him by his FCW Picture... which is the legendary "Meltman" Ive seen this pic for years and am just noticing his lack of shoulders.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Mar 18, 2022 6:10:02 GMT -5
Jackson Andrews, yeah, who supposedly got basically ejected from wrestling for being a domestic abuser. He had buff arms, but I don't really remember much else about him, nor do I remember if he ever had a match. Jackson Andrews!? Thank God we never got any more inverted president names! Lincoln Abraham v Pierce Franklin!
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Post by Sephiroth on Mar 18, 2022 9:55:38 GMT -5
Memphis had a lot of them. Christmas Creature springs to mind. TaGar the Lord of the Volcano
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Post by Hulkshi Tanahashi on Mar 18, 2022 11:59:38 GMT -5
Jackson Andrews!? Thank God we never got any more inverted president names! Lincoln Abraham v Pierce Franklin! Obama Baracks VS Trump Donaldson!
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Post by chrom on Mar 18, 2022 12:05:40 GMT -5
By the '90s, he was a relic that really wasn't an effective monster heel anymore, but in the '80s, he definitely was making it work, like his Andre the Giant feud. I think Kamala was savvy enough to know the bloom was off the rose by the '90s, since he got more selective on being willing to job, which also cost him opportunities. He was trying to protect his staying power, but I think he miscalculated, in retrospect, and should have just cashed in when he could. When did he start doing the belly-slapping? Because watching Kamala slap his belly was never anything but hilarious. He did that when they first started doing the gimmick
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Post by chrom on Mar 18, 2022 12:10:03 GMT -5
Can we say other then The Giant, none of the monsters from The Dungeon of Doom looked threatening.
I don't know anyone who would be scared of Zodiac or The Shark
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Post by johnnyk9 on Mar 18, 2022 18:18:02 GMT -5
Mantaur
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Post by THE FVNKER on Mar 18, 2022 20:16:18 GMT -5
So you hear all the time that he's a nice guy, good hand, good mind and all that.. but I swear I always thought Abyss looked like a big, lumbering buffoon. Especially when they basically ruined him with that Hogan ring horse shit.
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