Worst WWE 2002 Repackaging

[ISO Mid Thigh Pull]

Shoutouts to one of the most cursed years in WWE history for dudes rebranding. I feel like I'm still missing a whole bunch and I genuinely tried to get all of them.

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

Ray Traylor getting brought back as "Boss Man" but no longer being "Big" has to count for something.



Also, while searching for images of Big-less Boss Man, I found that he worked in the most mis-matching pants ever during this run.

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Nov 24, 2022 0:35:10 GMT -5 Oh Cry Me a Screwball said:

Ray Traylor getting brought back as "Boss Man" but no longer being "Big" has to count for something.



Also, while searching for images of Big-less Boss Man, I found that he worked in the most mis-matching pants ever during this run.

AAAAAAAAAAA GOD THANK YOU I KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHING DIFFERENT ABOUT BIG BOSS MAN AT THIS POINT LMAO

[Mozenrath]

He also sometimes wrestled in a dress shirt with enormous amounts of armpit sweat.

Honestly, most of these aren't so bad, but the Katie Vick angle did enormous damage to Kane. Which is funny now, but certainly not at the time.

[Chiral]

I don't know if it's peak worst but the first two that came to mind are:
Reverend D-Von: Against Masturbation
Farooq: Fan of Masturbation


Also Normal Guy Kane going "YAHOOOOOOO!!!!" when he got a kiss from Terri

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

Nov 24, 2022 0:44:02 GMT -5 Chiral said:

I don't know if it's peak worst but the first two that came to mind are:
Reverend D-Von: Against Masturbation
Farooq: Fan of Masturbation

And then they got thrown together as a team during the last few months of Reverend D-Von's existence, which was blatant buyer's remorse from WWE at breaking up the Dudleys and the APA in the draft.

[Gus Richlen Was Wrong]

JBL during that period looked AWFUL without pants. Maybe it was the hair.

[CMWaters]

WWF to WWE.

[Mozenrath]

Reverend D-Von and Billy and Chuck at least got fun theme songs.

Bradshaw just was basically being a New Blackjack again, which, ehhhh.

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f***, just remembered an incredibly obscure one that has to be mentioned.

Billy & Chuck after the wedding hoax where either their gear or their hair didn't match anymore cause they were serious straight competitors and oh my god Faarooq beat the dogshit out of Chuck Palumbo the one time I saw that

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Nov 24, 2022 1:43:50 GMT -5 ISO Mid Thigh Pull said:

f***, just remembered an incredibly obscure one that has to be mentioned.

Billy & Chuck after the wedding hoax where either their gear or their hair didn't match anymore cause they were serious straight competitors and oh my god Faarooq beat the dogshit out of Chuck Palumbo the one time I saw that

The Billy and Chuck storyline has aged horrifically tbh

Like it was groundbreaking at the time to play it so serious to the point they were getting mainstream media attention and were on LATE NIGHT TALK SHOWS about it... but when time came to actually commit, everyone was like "Wait no, we're not gay, this was all a publicity stunt!", they literally said that during the angles climax, like what a low blow to anyone watching who actually bought in to these characters, cause Billy and Chuck flatlined as an act after that

AND THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BE BABYFACES IN DENOUNCING THE GAY WEDDING lmfao, Rico and Three Minute Warning were the heels.

[chazraps]

Refresh my memory, what was the difference between "The Big Valbowski" and "Val Venis?"

Was it just a name and haircut difference?

[chazraps]

Also, I'll always be curious what the short-haired Test & Stacey vs Raven storyline was going to be. Like, Stacy making Test embrace the fans is the one and only time I found the post-Stephanie Test potentially compelling, and Raven knew how to bring the best out of his opponents. I feel like there could have been something there, at least something more than Test shilling for Girls Gone Wild followed by a decades-long Steiner feud.

[ThankGodForSidJustice]

How about Batista going from Deacon Batista to angry foster child who sees Ric Flair as a father figure Batista?

[Lizuka #BLM]

Wasn't Bossman at a point doing a thing where he wore a suit and was Booker T's manager for like two weeks?

[David-Arquette was in WCW 2000]

A lot of shitty repackagings but I went with them taking all mystique and intimidation factor away from Kane.

[CeilingFan]

Nov 24, 2022 1:17:26 GMT -5 CMWaters said:

WWF to WWE.

39 years of history flushed down the toilet.

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Nov 24, 2022 1:43:50 GMT -5 ISO Mid Thigh Pull said:

f***, just remembered an incredibly obscure one that has to be mentioned.

Billy & Chuck after the wedding hoax where either their gear or their hair didn't match anymore cause they were serious straight competitors and oh my god Faarooq beat the dogshit out of Chuck Palumbo the one time I saw that

I vaguely recall this and looked it up out of curiosity.

On the October 12, 2002 Velocity episode (floating out there on certain mega popular video website), Chuck came out with a generic black and white “Billy and Chuck” tron, with a look that didn’t match his official graphic (still the bleached hair and red undies), and a generic theme I never heard, and did the job to “Ron Simmons”. I had no idea Farooq was billed under that name in WWE.

The funniest thing to me is that Ron doesn’t have the APA theme but rather the same stock theme that Chuck Palumbo later used in 2004 in his short Heat run as the car guy (also used in Smackdown vs Raw 1).

[4real]

Nov 24, 2022 3:27:53 GMT -5 chazraps said:

Refresh my memory, what was the difference between "The Big Valbowski" and "Val Venis?"

Was it just a name and haircut difference?

Just a name change. He already had the short hair from his RTC days.

Why they felt like renaming an established character who had been on TV for 4 years I have no idea.

[Lizuka #BLM]

Nov 24, 2022 6:45:31 GMT -5 @derringgeneral said:

I had no idea Farooq was billed under that name in WWE.

He stopped using the name Faarooq for awhile because of the name being shared with an Al-Qaeda training camp. Really random and kind of especially strange that he swapped back to it later but WWE just kind of does that sometimes, like that month or so Apollo Crews didn't have a last name because there was a shooting or something with a guy with the last name Crews.