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Post by Jaws the Shark on Sept 17, 2022 13:40:58 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. He was, tagging with The Convict, which I was disappointed to find was in fact Super Boy and not Nailz.
Japan is actually full of this sort of thing, Bobby Blaze was around Michinoku Pro then, and the Rock 'N' Roll Express toured FMW around the same time. But then I suppose you could say the Japanese promotions, especially some of the deathmatch ones, were a bit like ECW in that they booked so many different people so often.
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Post by 67 more on Sept 17, 2022 14:25:55 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. TBF at least with Blue Tilly they were in on the joke, and knew they couldn't have an actual fake Meanie because he was too well-known. Lupus was so obscure they didn't even bother to address it, which again, why bother at all?
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Post by Mozenrath on Sept 17, 2022 14:39:49 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. I do like guest spots like this. Like to be honest, if I was Tony Khan or whoever, I'd be all for giving dudes of prominence random-ass matches just to make them alumni. Interestingly, I only own one wrestling mask, a gift from my brother, and it's an Atlantis mask. It's much like this one, only the blue part is red. The thing that's interesting about that, though, is that I have never seen Atlantis wear that color a mask, so I wonder if whoever did the replication just used colors they had available.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Sept 17, 2022 14:44:11 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. wasn't the rumor that he basically demanded some ludicrous fee after working the one match?
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Sept 17, 2022 14:48:27 GMT -5
If I remember correctly, Chris Candido was on the same show. He was, tagging with The Convict, which I was disappointed to find was in fact Super Boy and not Nailz.
Japan is actually full of this sort of thing, Bobby Blaze was around Michinoku Pro then, and the Rock 'N' Roll Express toured FMW around the same time. But then I suppose you could say the Japanese promotions, especially some of the deathmatch ones, were a bit like ECW in that they booked so many different people so often.
Like Shawn Michaels refereeing a match in FMW.
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Post by Magnus the Magnificent on Sept 17, 2022 16:08:52 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 Ozman on Sept 17, 2022 20:02:30 GMT -5
Dick Slater as “The Rebel” in the WWF in 1986 felt totally out of place.
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Post by Hot Noodle Truck on Sept 17, 2022 22:10:19 GMT -5
Missed Anvil's run...but Ron I'm not sure if fully counts, as this was still in the "Eastern" or at the very least early "Extreme" days, and could have just been a WCW loan like Foley as Cactus Jack was at first (with the infamous "spit on WCW Tag Title" promo). Marty and the Steiners, it was intrenched in the days of Extreme. Speaking of that, even though it never made TV, Scott Hall had a very short ECW run before they closed (he lost both his matches, not sure the second but the first was against Big Sal E. Graziano). 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. Little 12/13 year old me was there for the Middletown NY show, first time ever seeing ECW. When the crowd chanted for Shawn, Marty grabbed the mic and said 'If you want Shawn, you can find him hanging out in the gay bar in town' which prompted someone in the audience to yell 'How would you know?' That was the same show that The Gangstas had a wild brawl with The Public Enemy that spilled out into the crowd. New Jack blasted Grunge with a frying pan I believe and bumped into me, looked me in the eyes and said 'You're next, ya fat f***.' New Jack was legitimately scary.
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Post by ianriccaboni on Sept 17, 2022 22:33:22 GMT -5
Billy Jack Haynes in the WWF... in 1984 for one match. Landed a program cover and several weeks of promo hype. Did the right thing and left to help his sick father. Was positioned well when he came back but nowhere near the "he's an option if Hogan's TV pilots work out" level he was when he first came in.
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Post by The Blue Nova on Sept 18, 2022 9:33:06 GMT -5
I forgot to mention Nailz in WCW 1993 as well as Fantastics in 1994/1995 WCW and the orient express in wcw 1994
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Post by Andee9001 on Sept 18, 2022 19:34:18 GMT -5
Sid had a random run in ECW in 1998 and the fans went apeshit for him
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Post by Mozenrath on Sept 18, 2022 20:46:28 GMT -5
Billy Jack Haynes in the WWF... in 1984 for one match. Landed a program cover and several weeks of promo hype. Did the right thing and left to help his sick father. Was positioned well when he came back but nowhere near the "he's an option if Hogan's TV pilots work out" level he was when he first came in. I do wonder if his leaving meant Vince just found other options in the meantime, if he considered it a mark against him like his later issues with Steamboat wanting time off after winning the IC title, or if it was, well, due to Billy developing a reputation as being a very strange man.
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Post by agent817 on Sept 18, 2022 21:31:52 GMT -5
Sid had a random run in ECW in 1998 and the fans went apeshit for him It was in 1999, actually. He was over, but he was mainly used for squash matches and/or cleaning house. The only time he had any storylines was when he was almost going to have a feud with Justin Credible but then he left for WCW not long after.
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Post by thegame415 on Sept 18, 2022 23:01:48 GMT -5
Kevin Von Erich in WWWF wearing boots is a weird one for me. Ken Patera in AWA in 1989 lifting cars with Wayne Bloom. Ahmed Johnson aka "Big T" in WCW with a giant pot belly as part of Harlem Heat 2000. The Rock & Roll Express and Fantastics in WCW wrestling as JTTS in the tag team division was an odd thing to see. On that note, Rock n Roll Express in WWF in 1998 was so random.
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Sept 19, 2022 9:23:56 GMT -5
Dick Slater as “The Rebel” in the WWF in 1986 felt totally out of place. Though it did give us Mr. Fuji singing “Dixie” followed by Don Muraco yelling, “YAHOO, BONZAI!”
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Sept 19, 2022 9:27:16 GMT -5
Billy Jack Haynes in the WWF... in 1984 for one match. Landed a program cover and several weeks of promo hype. Did the right thing and left to help his sick father. Was positioned well when he came back but nowhere near the "he's an option if Hogan's TV pilots work out" level he was when he first came in. People tend to forget how over Billy Jack was for a while there. He also appeared for Crockett and teamed with Dusty and Magnum against Flair and the Andersons. It just seems that he couldn’t stay anywhere but Portland for very long.
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Post by lucas_lee on Sept 19, 2022 10:49:06 GMT -5
Vic Grimes and Roadkill in the WWF/WWE.
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Post by CMWaters on Sept 19, 2022 10:53:12 GMT -5
Vic Grimes and Roadkill in the WWF/WWE. For that matter, even if it was just part of WWECW, CW Anderson (he was in a dark match against CM Punk the show that RVD lost the ECW Title).
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Post by Jacy Derangement Syndrome on Sept 19, 2022 11:51:21 GMT -5
Vic Grimes and Roadkill in the WWF/WWE. God I wish WWE went thru with having Undertaker face Antoni Polaski the newly Polish Roadkill at Mania just so we could say it happened. Also while I was looking for an article about it I found e-fed results where Roadkill's name was changed to Liam Brent. Liam Brent.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Sept 19, 2022 12:07:44 GMT -5
Tomasso Ciampa, as a member of the GFW roster, showing up exactly one time in Impact in a show taped as part of one of the insane block tapings, and airing the same day as one of his first few appearances in NXT.
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