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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2022 20:16:30 GMT -5
He made it into the second ECW game because of that 4 month run Wonder if that makes Dusty one of the few to ever make it into a WWE game, WCW game (he was in one of those, right?) and ECW game. Raven is probably the next likely. Lance Storm was in WCW Backstage Assault, all of the ECW games and Shut Your Mouth/Here Comes The Pain. |
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Post by Mozenrath on Sept 14, 2022 20:36:49 GMT -5
He made it into the second ECW game because of that 4 month run Wonder if that makes Dusty one of the few to ever make it into a WWE game, WCW game (he was in one of those, right?) and ECW game. Raven is probably the next likely. I am unsure if he'd been playable in one, but Dusty accompanies Scott Hall to the ring in Revenge, if I recall. |
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Sept 14, 2022 23:31:37 GMT -5
Yes and Greg Valentine in 1996 to 1998 wcw Greg Valentine getting a random WCW World title shot against the Giant on an episode of Nitro Remember when during WCW Nitro there would be a "NWO-controlled" match with Nash and Bischoff calling the match, the screen was black-and-white, there was no audience in the room? One of those was The Giant vs. Pat Tanaka. |
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Post by jason1980s on Sept 14, 2022 23:42:05 GMT -5
This one just makes me think in 1993 Stu Hart landed on the wrong card in his Rolodex a few months after Neidhart’s most recent firing. Stu: Vince, you got anything for the big guy? Bill Watts: This is Cowboy Bill Watts. I don’t know who you’re talking about, but if Vince wants him, hell we’ll pay double! I feel like that is probably what did happen. Though Watts was gone by time Anvil came in, it sounds like a Bischoff hire. I remember my father being all excited and calling me to see Anvil on WCW Saturday Night. Not sure who he wrestled but I remember one match he and Junkyard Dog teamed. Junkyard Dog must have had a lengthy contract and only ever used here and there. I think he was with WCW longer than WWF. He'd be gone for months and then you'd see him randomly. Anvil didn't stay long at all but he made it on a WCW poster magazine with Ric Flair and Fifi among others. I never knew Owen was in WCW either until late 90s when I got a bunch of home made WCW and WWF tapes from shows and saw him in a yellow singlet and I was shocked. It was about 6 months before his WWF debut in late 91 but I always saw him as a WWF guy. |
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Post by LiamMcDuggle on Sept 15, 2022 0:18:29 GMT -5
What are some Obscure wrestler runs in promotions that made no sense to you and seemed out of place here are some of mine PG 13 WCW 2000. PG 13 was a great team in the early to mid 90s but seemed out of place in WCW in late 99 to 2000. There rap gimmick seemed passe by that point. Even tho too cool pretty much stole the gimmick Too Cool seemed more modern then PG 13 , Bob Backlund WWF 2000 Marty Jannetty WCW 1998. It just seemed really obscure and out of place and Marty seemed to be a relic of the 80s Chris Adams WCW 1998 (just shows you how WCW was hiring anyone at that point) . John Nord Mike Enos and Wayne Bloom all seemed super random in the Star Studded WCW in 1998. Rod Price 1998 ECW Rod was mainly a southern guy wrestling in Texas and a super breif stint in 1997 USWA during its dying days in its last few months. Great wrestler but was always known as Austins old tag partner . Paul Diamond ECW. Another obscure ECW guy from around 1997 early 1998. aside from a few matches in ECW and WCW between 1993 and 1994 and a short stint in Memphis dying days in 1997. Paul Hadn't really done much in years before resurfacing in ECW briefly. He was also Shawn Michaels original Tag Partner so maybe thats why he was ini Memphis and ECW in 1997 1998 Jim Neidhart in WCW 1993. He was only around for a few months and didn't do anything of note.(WCW in 1993 had alot of guys who didn't last long or were obsecure. Johnny Gunn Wrecking Krew,The Kongs,ShockMaster , Charlie Norris, Jim Steele The Cole twins.(most of those guys were around for a year or less.) What are some others you remember. Shane Douglas in 1995 in WWF. Even if the cliq did not bury him, that teacher gimmick was outdated and hokey. There is a difference between "annoying heat" and "i want to see you get your butt kicked heat". Shane had the ladder in ECW, but the former with that teacher gimmick. |
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Sept 15, 2022 1:50:53 GMT -5
Paul Bearer as Percy Pringle in TNA in 02/03
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Post by chazraps on Sept 16, 2022 20:41:39 GMT -5
Unsure if Anvil was there in the Eastern days, but he made an appearance or two in 1995...most notably the outdoor Heatwave '95 show (same one the Steiners match on Extreme Warfare came from....oh man now I'm hearing that ad just by mentioning the tape's name...) His opponent was Marty Jannetty, and you can guess how the ECW crowd reacted to them. Basically, they chanted for their partners. A lot. (Looked up on Google Groups...it was Middletown, NY. Yikes, Jim Powers had a match there too!) Ron Simmons I think came in late-94, as Extreme began, and stayed there till spring of 1995. I don't think he was with WCW then, as he disappeared until becoming Faarooq after that. Simmons is known for the original "You Suck" singalong chants, as the Arena usuals would sing that phrase to the Seminole war chant. There was a LOT of random runs in late '90s ECW. The aforementioned Rod Price (and I wonder if he was chosen SPECIFICALLY because he was Stone Cold's partner). Speaking of Global, I think Chaz Taylor did a few shows as well. Then you got a couple of old Mid-South guys for some reason: Tommy Rogers. Jack Victory...though that worked out as part of Steve Corino's act. One Man Gang. Ricky Morton. They even got the Bushwhackers/Sheepherders for a one-shot as the New Zealand Dudleys. (Flash forward 2 years, and the Dudleys' more iconic look was a camouflage not unlike the Whackers...think Edge and Christian even called them the Bushwhackers 2000). Uganda/Botswana Beast was another weird one. P.N. NEWS as a Baldie. The Samoan Gangsta Party in 1996. And of course, one of the more random runs of all (short lived too):  Cody's late 2016 first month in ROH included a match against Steve Corino at the end of his ROH run that happened at the ECW Arena and made for a really touching emotive match. One of my favorite parts of his Cody vs the World initial indys run. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2022 22:47:26 GMT -5
Ric Flair in WWF 92.  |
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Post by karl100589 on Sept 17, 2022 3:20:04 GMT -5
The Sandman's original WCW run. His second run as Hak made more sense given he was playing a toned down version of his original character, but hardcore meathead playing Raven's preppy best friend?!
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Sept 17, 2022 3:44:37 GMT -5
The Genius in WCW... hired basically to make Macho Man happy and... well never actually appeared.
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Sept 17, 2022 4:30:12 GMT -5
Literally a run-in and not a run…but Reggie Bennett interfering in the Raven/Terry Funk main event at Barely Legal.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Sept 17, 2022 8:10:05 GMT -5
Literally a run-in and not a run…but Reggie Bennett interfering in the Raven/Terry Funk main event at Barely Legal. I remember watching that show for the first time some time in 2007, hearing Joey Styles go apeshit over this and thinking to myself "who the f*** is Reggie Bennett?" |
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Post by 67 more on Sept 17, 2022 9:32:01 GMT -5
Dexter Lumis being the fake Lupus at Hardcore Justice 2010.
Of all the people to bring in for a ECW reunion show, why would you even think of Lupus and then go to the bother of hiring a fake Lupus?
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Post by agent817 on Sept 17, 2022 10:07:49 GMT -5
Public Enemy in the WWF in 1999. That was so weird.
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Post by Jaws the Shark on Sept 17, 2022 10:09:02 GMT -5
Re. the various wrestlers that popped up in ECW, I actually don't find any of those runs especially weird or nonsensical. It had so many random wrestlers show up at various points that the One Man Gang or Dusty Rhodes or whoever didn't seem at all unusual to me, that was just how ECW was.
I'm not sure one match counts as a run, but the Undertaker showing up on a Michinoku Pro card in the nineties is pretty out there.
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Post by jason1980s on Sept 17, 2022 10:24:15 GMT -5
Literally a run-in and not a run…but Reggie Bennett interfering in the Raven/Terry Funk main event at Barely Legal. I remember watching that show for the first time some time in 2007, hearing Joey Styles go apeshit over this and thinking to myself "who the f*** is Reggie Bennett?" She was someone who was slightly more well known from Apter-like magazines. I remember the non WWF/WCW females always got a bit more attention from those magazines. When she first started wrestling she had more of a body builder type body but gained a lot of weight at some point and looked great. Last I saw she was working at a lumber supervisor for a Home Depot in Florida maybe 5-7 years ago. Magnificent Mimi was also someone who the magazines put over a lot. |
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Post by chazraps on Sept 17, 2022 13:01:45 GMT -5
If we're talking about runs that are obscure and not necessarily wrestlers that are obscure -
One of the most legendary luchadors of all time Atlantis had exactly TWO matches in WCW and they were on Worldwide.
For the second, he was even erroneously billed as 'Lizmark Jr.'
Was it a tryout? Did it just want to be on syndicated American television? Perhaps it's how he wanted to see some friends before spending the rest of the day at Disney World? We'll likely never know. But it's so strange that it happened.
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Post by Jacy Derangement Syndrome on Sept 17, 2022 13:09:05 GMT -5
Dexter Lumis being the fake Lupus at Hardcore Justice 2010. Of all the people to bring in for a ECW reunion show, why would you even think of Lupus and then go to the bother of hiring a fake Lupus? And they dressed one of the Phi Delta Slam dudes as Blue Meanie and called him Blue Tilly like nothing was wrong cause Meanie couldn't be there. |
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Post by Jacy Derangement Syndrome on Sept 17, 2022 13:24:18 GMT -5
Rikishi's TNA run as Junior Fatu where dude was apparently such a headache backstage that Jeff Jarrett personally made the call to not bring him back ever after like a month or less always sticks out to me. One of his last appearances was an interview where he went out of his way to not put over Robert Roode (didn't even get his name right like twice lmao) and a match with him where Robert Roode had the most "is this f***ing guy for real right now" look on his face the whole time.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Sept 17, 2022 13:25:22 GMT -5
Re. the various wrestlers that popped up in ECW, I actually don't find any of those runs especially weird or nonsensical. It had so many random wrestlers show up at various points that the One Man Gang or Dusty Rhodes or whoever didn't seem at all unusual to me, that was just how ECW was. I'm not sure one match counts as a run, but the Undertaker showing up on a Michinoku Pro card in the nineties is pretty out there. If I remember correctly, Chris Candido was on the same show. |
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