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Post by The Rick Jericho on Apr 27, 2022 20:42:06 GMT -5
Would he have fit better here, if he left the WWF for ECW?
He wouldn't be surrounded by his self destructive friends. He has a whole roster Heyman would book him to go over.
ECW Champion who returns to the WWF in 1998 or 1999 as their world champion and starts a program with Steve Austin.
How would the fanbase accept 1997 HBK?
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Post by fg on Apr 27, 2022 21:11:52 GMT -5
With that company’s party like atmosphere backstage for EVERY show that they had, he would be dead.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2022 21:14:18 GMT -5
With that company’s party like atmosphere backstage for EVERY show that they had, he would be dead. Without Vince's protection and Shawn's notorious motor-mouth, he'd be dead anyway, because someone in that locker room would kill him. Probably RVD. |
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Post by chazraps on Apr 27, 2022 21:16:46 GMT -5
This was Shawn at his most stubborn. We're talking won't put Bret over, won't put Bulldog over, throw an in-ring tantrum - era Shawn here.
It'd completely sacrifice the year they built up Douglas with, and given that the entirety of ECW's 97's culminates in Douglas' big hometown moment at November to Remember 97, I can't picture a scenario where this even remotely works unless Shawn arrived in December, beats Douglas for the belt right away and Douglas takes an actual year off to get the surgeries he needs and healing instead of spending 1998 as the world champion who is the weakest link by every metric of the entire show. (Serious, having just revisited the entire year, the immediate dip in quality of Douglas due to injury between 97 and 98 is a contender for the all time biggest quality dips of a wrestler in a major promotion).
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Apr 27, 2022 21:16:48 GMT -5
I think Shawn would have gotten the same reception from the ECW locker room that Scott Hall got when he showed up for a couple of appearances.
Guys like Candido, Douglas and Bigelow that held a grudge for the way their WWF careers went because of the Kliq would have went out of their way to make Shawn's life hell there. Shawn was such a whiney bitch at the time he wouldn't have been able to handle it. He couldn’t even handle being in the WWF locker room when he was the man in that company.
If they could have gotten past all of that, it's a hell of a lot of fun to fantasy book. The thought of Shawn in the ECW Arena in 97 in front of that fanbase is fun.
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Post by The Rick Jericho on Apr 27, 2022 21:18:36 GMT -5
I think Shawn would have gotten the same reception from the ECW locker room that Scott Hall got when he showed up for a couple of appearances. Guys like Candido, Douglas and Bigelow that held a grudge for the way their WWF careers went because of the Kliq would have went out of their way to make Shawn's life hell there. Shawn was such a whiney bitch at the time he wouldn't have been able to handle it. He couldn’t even handle being in the WWF locker room when he was the man in that company. If they could have gotten past all of that, it's a hell of a lot of fun to fantasy book. The thought of Shawn in the ECW Arena in 97 in front of that fanbase is fun. 1997 Shawn and Sabu would have a clinic bouncing around all over the place. And Heyman would definitely book "shoot" fights with Michaels and Skip, Bam and Dean. |
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Apr 27, 2022 21:25:10 GMT -5
I think Shawn would have gotten the same reception from the ECW locker room that Scott Hall got when he showed up for a couple of appearances. Guys like Candido, Douglas and Bigelow that held a grudge for the way their WWF careers went because of the Kliq would have went out of their way to make Shawn's life hell there. Shawn was such a whiney bitch at the time he wouldn't have been able to handle it. He couldn’t even handle being in the WWF locker room when he was the man in that company. If they could have gotten past all of that, it's a hell of a lot of fun to fantasy book. The thought of Shawn in the ECW Arena in 97 in front of that fanbase is fun. 1997 Shawn and Sabu would have a clinic bouncing around all over the place. And Heyman would definitely book "shoot" fights with Michaels and Skip, Bam and Dean. I would have given every dime of my allowance in 97 to have seen Shawn vs Sabu lol |
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Post by Squirrel Master on Apr 27, 2022 22:42:59 GMT -5
Would’ve liked to see The Baldies beating him senseless until 911 makes the save.
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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Apr 27, 2022 22:55:41 GMT -5
He would go in the locker room and suck up all the drugs ala Kirby.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Apr 28, 2022 7:31:57 GMT -5
Shawn in a locker room with New Jack. I'm sure that would go swimmingly.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Apr 28, 2022 9:34:57 GMT -5
Someone in ECW was shooting on Michaels in that ring. It would have been bad.
If he was sober enough to make it to the ring.
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Post by dav on Apr 28, 2022 9:45:08 GMT -5
Past all the personal issues, he would have bounced out of there the second the first cheque did.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Apr 28, 2022 10:16:35 GMT -5
Shawn in a locker room with New Jack. I'm sure that would go swimmingly. “Hey, I may be the Boy Toy, but I’ve got a little hidden Texas two step and I’ve been known to do a bit of huntin’. And you like guns too right, G? I’m with the streets, word?” Jim Ross during a shoot years later: “There was so much blood and fire damage that night it made those Onita matches look like Mania with Pettingill and Doink. We’re talking Phil Apollo Doink, folks.” |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2022 10:21:52 GMT -5
Shawn in a locker room with New Jack. I'm sure that would go swimmingly. “Hey, I may be the Boy Toy, but I’ve got a little hidden Texas two step and I’ve been known to do a bit of huntin’. And you like guns too right, G? I’m with the streets, word?” Jim Ross during a shoot years later: “There was so much blood and fire damage that night it made those Onita matches look like Mania with Pettingill and Doink. We’re talking Phil Apollo Doink, folks.” I forget that New Jack was also in ECW at the time, so I'm changing my response to: "RVD would have given him multiple concussions on purpose, but New Jack would have killed him" |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2022 11:25:37 GMT -5
Just want to note the HBK vs Sabe would've been, well something, that match would've even terrible.
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Post by salz4life on Apr 28, 2022 12:29:03 GMT -5
With that company’s party like atmosphere backstage for EVERY show that they had, he would be dead. Without Vince's protection and Shawn's notorious motor-mouth, he'd be dead anyway, because someone in that locker room would kill him. Probably RVD. Picture Shawn mouthing off to New Jack.... LOL edit: Already covered. HAHAHA |
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Post by oxbaker on Apr 28, 2022 13:40:43 GMT -5
With that company’s party like atmosphere backstage for EVERY show that they had, he would be dead. Without Vince's protection and Shawn's notorious motor-mouth, he'd be dead anyway, because someone in that locker room would kill him. Probably RVD. New Jack (while sharpening knives in corner): Let’s have a friendly no-DQ match, Shawn. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2022 14:25:05 GMT -5
Without Vince's protection and Shawn's notorious motor-mouth, he'd be dead anyway, because someone in that locker room would kill him. Probably RVD. New Jack (while sharpening knives in corner): Let’s have a friendly no-DQ match, Shawn. Let's be real, if anyone but Vince were in charge of even the WWE at the time, even Vader probably would have at least knocked out a tooth or two to get him to settle down. Let alone what New Jack would have done. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2022 14:48:02 GMT -5
this would be asking him to take a big pay cut and not be the top main event guy in order to be there in the first place, but you could use him on the wrestling side (ecw always had two sides - the brawling/throw each other through tables side, and the workrate/watch how good we can wrestle side), feud him with rvd as the long hair show off while doing great moves feud (like with them trying to outdo each other in showing off), you could do a ric flair/ricky steamboat "out with the girls" vs "married guy" feud with lance storm, and have a wrestling match on the show. Anything with shane/bam bam/candido isn't going to go well, and leave him out of the dudleys/new jack cheese grater stuff, but you can use him on the actual wrestling side of things. Him against taz might be interesting to see how it would go, suplexes and submissions vs high flying and the superkick. could have him play rick rude and go after beulah for a tommy dreamer feud.
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