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Post by horsemen4ever on Apr 14, 2023 22:58:57 GMT -5
So his very last appearance, he is doing a stretcher job, I wonder was their plans for him to get a push after he sold the injury. Or was he just going to be like Sam Houston, the babyface friend that always gets beat up in order to give motivation for the star faces to get revenge.
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Post by ThankGodForSidJustice on Apr 15, 2023 3:29:28 GMT -5
I doubt it. Just a sacrificial lamb to put over how brutal Piper could be. Nothing more then that.
McGraw had been an enhancement guy for years and was also very short. I think he was only like a shoot 5'5" or 5'6". No way was he ever getting above jobber status in the land of the giants era WWF. Honestly a guy that short likely isn't going to get pushed in any era in WWE. Only exception is Mysterio because he had the mask and a real marketable look.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Apr 15, 2023 12:11:46 GMT -5
I doubt it. Just a sacrificial lamb to put over how brutal Piper could be. Nothing more then that. McGraw had been an enhancement guy for years and was also very short. I think he was only like a shoot 5'5" or 5'6". No way was he ever getting above jobber status in the land of the giants era WWF. Honestly a guy that short likely isn't going to get pushed in any era in WWE. Only exception is Mysterio because he had the mask and a real marketable look. He was 5'7". Dynamite Kid, Chavo, and Tajiri were 5'9", Eddie and Kendrick were 5'8", Koko Ware and Evan Bourne are 5'7", so it's not unheard of to have shorter wrestlers to use as popular underdogs. I could see getting a push if he started tagging with someone... he did tag with Andre though 81 and 82 a bunch, even had tag title matches against Fuji and Saito, so the possibility isn't as farfetched as it may have e seemed. |
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Post by ThankGodForSidJustice on Apr 15, 2023 15:13:37 GMT -5
I doubt it. Just a sacrificial lamb to put over how brutal Piper could be. Nothing more then that. McGraw had been an enhancement guy for years and was also very short. I think he was only like a shoot 5'5" or 5'6". No way was he ever getting above jobber status in the land of the giants era WWF. Honestly a guy that short likely isn't going to get pushed in any era in WWE. Only exception is Mysterio because he had the mask and a real marketable look. He was 5'7". Dynamite Kid, Chavo, and Tajiri were 5'9", Eddie and Kendrick were 5'8", Koko Ware and Evan Bourne are 5'7", so it's not unheard of to have shorter wrestlers to use as popular underdogs. I could see getting a push if he started tagging with someone... he did tag with Andre though 81 and 82 a bunch, even had tag title matches against Fuji and Saito, so the possibility isn't as farfetched as it may have e seemed. I would say Bourne is actually taller then 5'7". Probably more around 5'9". With McGraw they probably tacked a couple of inches on. I think you have to watch matches of his to realize how tiny he was. Like I remember seeing a match with him against Bret Hart who was probably around 6'0" and Bret looked almost like a giant compared to him. As for the others Eddie obviously did good and Dynamite, Bourne, Chavo, Kendrick, and Tajiri did alright in that they were able to find niches in the tag team or cruiserweight divisions. However all those guys were taller then McGraw. I would say both in height and build he was most comparable to Koko who also didn't amount to much. Koko was positioned probably a little better then McGraw in that he at least got an initial push and would at least get wins on TV every now and then over straight up jobbers but otherwise for pretty much his whole run he was a JTTS and the lowest name face on the pecking order. Seriously I think from 1987 through 1991 Koko jobbed to literally every heel that came through the company. And Koko was a better worker and had much more charisma and much more colorful look. And he still never came close to a push likely just because he was so short and they couldn't get past that. |
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 16, 2023 10:15:25 GMT -5
If WWF had gotten into "odd couple" tag teams earlier, I feel like they could have done something with McDraw and a bigger guy, but that wasn't a gimmick they really had a history of dipping their toes into until much later. Otherwise, yeah, he was probably just cannon fodder and the stretcher job was not to build sympathy for him, specifically, but to just sell a threat, sort of like how WWE later did with Sheamus vs Jamie Noble, where the latter never got payback of any sort.
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