Blade
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Post by Blade on Jun 18, 2022 12:12:25 GMT -5
Austin (well, Stone Cold, Stunning Steve was fine), Rock, Undertaker, Goldberg. The Attitude Era wasn't ever gonna be my thing.
Austin because he was a despicable heel that I was supposed to cheer for when he beat up women and old men in hospital beds, layered with the fact he'd also beaten women in real life. He also went over half the heels on the roster when he was already retired and couldn't really take bumps, in WWE's usual shrewd "build for the future" booking.
Rock because he is as far as I can tell never a great wrestler, his promos are homophobic and also ridiculously predictable even for someone who didn't watch him as an active competitor. He also had to be obviously carried by Punk and Cena to something vaguely watchable as he'd have to lay down and gasp for breath every two or three moves. He's very charismatic and I can get why people like it, but without nostalgia factor he's just a guy who can't wrestle and cuts obnoxious promos.
Undertaker existed for years and years on end to kill the heat of new heels that I liked more than I liked him. And he never, ever went away until finally I'd decided I'd never watch WWE again. Him and Lawler both, just never ever going away even after everyone else from 1992 was long gone. I'm sure if I went back to WWE he'd suddenly unretire for one more fun just to haunt me further.
Goldberg was terrible in 2003 and excruciating to see again long after we should have forgotten he ever existed. Big white guys that are bad at wrestling are endless, not sure why this one became such a big deal. And ending Bret Hart's career, accident though it may have been, did not endear him to me.
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Post by nevthebassist on Jun 18, 2022 13:17:44 GMT -5
When I started watching in the early 90s I'd instantly say Ric Flair. I'll even stick by it now.
Even the matches in his prime against the likes of Terry Funk, Ricky Steamboat, Dusty Rhodes, Sting or Harley Race it always seemed that his opponent would carry the match.
Flair was all about chops, wooing, falling on his face, getting thrown off the top turnbuckle, bleeding, the figure four and a god-awful back body drop (which realistically I respect why and his recovery from his broken back).
Even his promos didn't really do it for me. He was just someone yelling, sweating and turning a ridiculous shade of crimson.
Nowadays I've changed my mind slightly and can enjoy a Flair match, but if I went a decade without seeing another one I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.
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Bill S. Preston, Esq.
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Post by XIII on Jun 18, 2022 18:03:24 GMT -5
Bret Hart. No clue why but I just never was a fan. I know that he was very good, but he just wasn’t for me.
Same for the Road Warriors. They were cool and were probably really cool when they first showed up he early 80s, but I was always more into teams like the Steiners and Midnight Express
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King Devitt
Grimlock
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Post by King Devitt on Jun 18, 2022 20:57:25 GMT -5
Hogan in the 80's til the heel turn Austin in the 90's-2000's (I did enjoy his heel turn though) Cena after he went uber face, and it got to the point he made me stop watching. Currently Moxley.
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Post by Cry Me a Wiggle on Jun 18, 2022 21:12:09 GMT -5
Undertaker. I was a WCW kid who only started watching during the Invasion. By then, the glory days of the Deadman were replaced by Bikertaker and I was left confused at why I should be enamored by this tall, Limp Bizkit-loving redneck who bullied the wrestlers I loved. By the time he began shopping at Spirit Halloween again, any spell the gimmick could have had over me was broken and I was again baffled at why I should care that he never lost one night out of the year.
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Dennis Stamp
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Post by Dang! on Jun 20, 2022 13:54:17 GMT -5
-Hogan before the heel turn and Hogan after the heel turn -CM Punk -Goldberg even when he was red hot and not Oldberg
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Jun 20, 2022 14:24:58 GMT -5
When I started watching in the early 90s I'd instantly say Ric Flair. I'll even stick by it now. Even the matches in his prime against the likes of Terry Funk, Ricky Steamboat, Dusty Rhodes, Sting or Harley Race it always seemed that his opponent would carry the match. Flair was all about chops, wooing, falling on his face, getting thrown off the top turnbuckle, bleeding, the figure four and a god-awful back body drop (which realistically I respect why and his recovery from his broken back). Even his promos didn't really do it for me. He was just someone yelling, sweating and turning a ridiculous shade of crimson. Nowadays I've changed my mind slightly and can enjoy a Flair match, but if I went a decade without seeing another one I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. Flair is a weird one for me. Finding him actively detestable as a human from an early stage didn't help. But the weird thing is when he had a match I liked, like against Anderson at Fall Brawl 95 or the retirement match with Shawn I completely understood. And the rest of the time, what is this terrible bollocks?
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Post by Aceorton on Jun 20, 2022 14:28:49 GMT -5
Good lord, the Road Warriors. Bored the hell out of me. The way people were talking about them being outdated and going through the motions in '97 was how I felt about them in '90.
Zombie Taker. (I'm apparently in the minority for liking Bully/Booger Red Taker and no other version.)
Sandman and Tommy Dreamer at the height of ECW.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Jun 20, 2022 14:41:14 GMT -5
For me it's Hogan. When I started watching he came off like a dinosaur who needed to piss off because Bret was just so much cooler. Then when I did watch WCW (sadly not often, being a huge WWF homer as a kid) he came off like your old dad having a midlife crisis leeching off the popularity of younger more interesting wrestlers like Kevin Nash and Scott Hall. Then he came back to WWE and it really was like watching your old granddad trying to relate to the fellow kids. Shawn Michaels humiliating him the way he did and making him look like the archaic geezer he was is still one of my all time favorite wrestling moments. It was like in that moment everyone else got to see Hogan how I did.
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Post by GodzillaIsMyMonster on Jun 20, 2022 16:13:21 GMT -5
As a mark, I couldn't stand Goldberg because I thought the streak was the stupidest, phoniest thing ever - most of those wins were over schlubs like Roadblock and Rick Fuller, or absolute nobodies like Johnny Attitude. The night he faced Raven for the US Title was the first night I ever watched WWF instead of WCW, because I was so disinterested in watching one of my favorite wrestlers lose to my (at the time) all time least favorite. And then why did people who never actually won matches keep earning US Title shots against Goldberg. And why did they always celebrate like they won the superbowl if they got a single offensive move in? I was happy during the Fingerpoke of Doom because I hated Goldberg so much anything that ended with him beaten down for a change was awesome by me. Goldberg is one I've grown to appreciate over time. He was fun to play as in Revenge and that was it for the longest time as far as being any sort of "fan" of his. Raven spoke to my teenage soul and I was so pissed, that after his AWESOME DDP feud, he lost the US belt, ONE DAY after winning it. Also I was a MASSIVE Hulk-A-Maniac and HATED that he beat Hogan. As I've gotten older, I've enjoyed his work more.
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Post by GodzillaIsMyMonster on Jun 20, 2022 16:20:37 GMT -5
For me it's Hogan. When I started watching he came off like a dinosaur who needed to piss off because Bret was just so much cooler. Then when I did watch WCW (sadly not often, being a huge WWF homer as a kid) he came off like your old dad having a midlife crisis leeching off the popularity of younger more interesting wrestlers like Kevin Nash and Scott Hall. Then he came back to WWE and it really was like watching your old granddad trying to relate to the fellow kids. Shawn Michaels humiliating him the way he did and making him look like the archaic geezer he was is still one of my all time favorite wrestling moments. It was like in that moment everyone else got to see Hogan how I did. HBK should have been fired.
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Post by Celexa Bliss 54 on Jun 20, 2022 16:24:42 GMT -5
Will Ospreay. Even disregarding that him and all his Swords of Essex mates are legit pieces of shit, he has terrible promos and terrible ring psychology. Seriously, ever seen how he was between making it big in NJPW and turning heel? Every promo was this "I am very important and I can change the world" stuff yelled into the mic Were the accusations against Ospreay and his circle ever proven? Him and Lethal are the two I still give the benefit of the doubt, because I've seen enough people say the accusations were false or overblown. So I'd just like some verification.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Jun 21, 2022 3:52:43 GMT -5
Good lord, the Road Warriors. Bored the hell out of me. The way people were talking about them being outdated and going through the motions in '97 was how I felt about them in '90. Zombie Taker. (I'm apparently in the minority for liking Bully/Booger Red Taker and no other version.) Sandman and Tommy Dreamer at the height of ECW. Heel biker Taker is the ONLY Taker gimmick I remotely enjoy watching. Taker had some good moments and feuds outside of it but never once was he having a match I wanted to see because he was in it
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jun 21, 2022 4:07:27 GMT -5
Tazz.
A raging dislike. I turned the show off when he appeared. Unless JR and King were punking him out, that half-pint deserved it.
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Post by Super Nintenjoe KBD on Jun 21, 2022 5:47:40 GMT -5
Hogan, when I first got into wrestling and me and my friend would play I'd always be Warrior and he'd always be Hogan. I didn't get what was supposed to be so amazing about him, even as a five year old him being the squeaky clean hero seemed lame, while Warrior and in WCW Sting were waaaaay cooler to me (of course I wasn't watching from before Warrior came in).
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Post by Clutchhausen on Jun 21, 2022 13:58:02 GMT -5
Miz Eddie Kingston Young Bucks Orange Cassidy Riddle Great Khali
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Post by nobody on Jun 22, 2022 0:51:28 GMT -5
There is others but i’m not sure they’d be considered popular.
Charlotte Flair Bianca Belair The Elite Orange Cassidy CM Punk Toro Yano Zack Sabre Jr.*
*Just a quick note on ZSJ. I’m not in any way saying I dislike him or I wish he would go away, but his matches absolutely bore me and if I never watched one again i’d be thrilled.
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J is Justice
Wade Wilson
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Post by J is Justice on Jun 22, 2022 9:05:00 GMT -5
Legion of Doom. They had a cool look but they never did anything for me inside the ring.
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Wade Wilson
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Post by Sephiroth on Jun 22, 2022 10:06:08 GMT -5
When they were at their late 90’s-2000’s peak I got burned out on the Hardy’s. They just got over-exposed to me.
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Post by wildojinx on Jun 22, 2022 16:30:41 GMT -5
The Dudley Boyz and the Acolytes. I liked the Dudleys in ECW and during the feud with the Hardys and E&C, but after that they did nothing (and they kept recycling those feuds too since they had nothing much else to do). The TNA run was ok, but even that got old fast. As for the Acolytes, aside from some amusing backstage vignettes, they were just boring kick punch guys (disapointing since I loved Ron Simmons in WCW).
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