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Post by stephen90 on Aug 1, 2023 14:56:53 GMT -5
Does anyone know why Virgil push quickly ended after the feud with Ted DiBiase?
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Post by Sephiroth on Aug 1, 2023 15:40:07 GMT -5
Because he sucked?
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Post by tirtefaa on Aug 1, 2023 15:59:00 GMT -5
Virgil despite being incredibly over, wasn't exactly the biggest guy. And for a guy who wasn't very big, he wasn't otherwise unique in the ring.
Maybe if he was able to reinvent himself in a new way, it could have worked, but I don't think he could have sustained a strong push.
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Post by Hit Girl on Aug 1, 2023 16:31:34 GMT -5
Virgil ran out of money.
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Post by tafkaga on Aug 1, 2023 16:55:58 GMT -5
Virgil was only worth pushing relevant to that particular storyline. Beyond seeing DiBiase abuse him to the degree that fans were invested in him getting comeuppance, Virgil had nothing to offer as an in-ring performer. He couldn't talk. His wrestling was atrocious. He had nothing going in the charisma department. It's pretty remarkable that he was as prominent as he was, for as long as he was, despite being pretty much a zero. Sorry Virgil.
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Post by Pierre on Aug 1, 2023 17:00:50 GMT -5
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Post by nm on Aug 1, 2023 17:20:00 GMT -5
He went on the shelf with foot poisoning after sampling a bad batch of meat sauce
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Aug 1, 2023 18:25:13 GMT -5
He went on the shelf with foot poisoning after sampling a bad batch of meat sauce I hate when poisoning targets my feet. |
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Post by Sephiroth on Aug 1, 2023 19:12:43 GMT -5
As I said in a thread about the so-Virgil couldn’t have been cool if he’d been a refrigerator salesman in the arctic |
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Post by Celexa Bliss 54 on Aug 1, 2023 19:45:15 GMT -5
All I can think of when I think of Virgil is Roddy Piper at World War 3 1996 - "I taught you how to fight!"
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Post by wildojinx on Aug 1, 2023 22:54:20 GMT -5
Yeah, after the Dibiase feud ended, they couldnt really come up with anything for him. The closest thing he had to a "gimmick" was the whole boxing thing he did, and since there were no wrestlers where a feud involving that would make sense, they pretty much phased him out.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Aug 1, 2023 23:14:52 GMT -5
Because he served no function outside of DiBiase. Once he turned on MDM, he got the pop he deserved and sustained that through the feud. So when it was done, that's that then.
It's why I never gave a shit about Kane. Once the Taker feud was done, by Mania 15ish, I stopped caring. Credit to him, he pulled a lengthy career out of it.
Virgil didn't have what Kane had to move onto the next thing, and while I didn't see it in Kane, people did and that's really all that counts.
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Aug 2, 2023 6:06:00 GMT -5
Because once you take away his association with Ted Dibiase he was average in the ring and had no other gimmick. Then he lost most of his matches to every other heel under the sun.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Aug 2, 2023 6:11:57 GMT -5
He had one more moment in the Sun where he challenged Bret for the WWF title on an episode of Superstars. Bret managed to get a pretty decent, albeit short match out of him.
Other than that? He was ass by every possible metric
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Post by tafkaga on Aug 2, 2023 8:14:36 GMT -5
Because once you take away his association with Ted Dibiase he was average in the ring and had no other gimmick. Then he lost most of his matches to every other heel under the sun. "Average" is very generous. |
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Aug 2, 2023 10:14:50 GMT -5
Once the DiBiase feud was over, he had no real identity of his own and fans weren't given much of a reason to care about him.
Maybe he could've been repackaged shortly after the storyline ended, but instead he was just . . . Virgil.
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Aug 2, 2023 10:16:13 GMT -5
His entrance music ruled though. I'll say that much.
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Post by ToyfareMark on Aug 2, 2023 11:32:26 GMT -5
Poor Virgil.  |
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Post by Sephiroth on Aug 2, 2023 13:37:17 GMT -5
Side rant: he joined the NWO as the “head of security.” Id he ever actually prevent anyone from attacking DiBiase in the 80’s WWF? It was more like Ted shoved Virgil at them and then ran away.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Aug 2, 2023 15:22:53 GMT -5
All of the above.
The striped tights did him no favours either. He at least looked somewhat legit with his Summerslam '91 look.
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