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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Sept 2, 2023 11:16:28 GMT -5
I've always had a fondness for Adam Bomb. I even have an Adam Bomb shirt! How's about you?
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Post by 4real on Sept 2, 2023 12:36:36 GMT -5
As a kid I was confused why Adam Bomb wasn’t a bigger deal. He had such a great look.
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Post by XIII on Sept 2, 2023 12:44:04 GMT -5
The Night Stalker with Ox Baker attachment.
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Post by SmashTV on Sept 2, 2023 12:57:55 GMT -5
As a kid I was confused why Adam Bomb wasn’t a bigger deal. He had such a great look. Same here; God knows there were and had been worse performers than him in the WWF that got better pushes. For whatever reason, everything they tried doing with him turned to shit. |
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Post by chazraps on Sept 2, 2023 13:16:17 GMT -5
I like him as the modern day dude who is super kind to cancer patients.
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Post by msc on Sept 2, 2023 14:10:52 GMT -5
I loved Adam Bomb as a kid and would, to this day, mark out at a surprise Rumble appearance.
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Post by tirtefaa on Sept 2, 2023 14:15:16 GMT -5
As cool of a look he had as Adam Bomb...I just thought the name was super stupid, and he didn't have any profile feuds that were any good.
Blood Runs Cold is the only time I liked him, although he was definitely the least defining character from those 4.
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Post by Fundertaker on Sept 2, 2023 15:40:48 GMT -5
I like all of them. Get the whole lot in my stable!
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Post by Psicofreak667 on Sept 2, 2023 16:56:35 GMT -5
Should've differentiated between Blood Runs Cold Wrath and No Gimmick Needed Goldberg-Lite Wrath.
(I would've unironically voted for Blood Runs Cold)
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Sept 2, 2023 18:00:30 GMT -5
He looked so damn cool as Adam Bomb.
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Post by thegame415 on Sept 2, 2023 21:05:50 GMT -5
I'm actually a big mark for Wrath's winning streak in 1998. He had a cool look, and could've easily challenged Goldberg in a streak vs streak match for the title at World War 3 instead facing Glacier in a random match and Goldberg being a brawl with Bam Bam.
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Sept 2, 2023 21:39:27 GMT -5
Wrath before he got jobbed to Nash for no reason.
I first saw him as The Nightstalker, either at Battlebowl or in SMW. Either way, he was green as grass then. I wasn't watching WWF during the Adam Bomb run, but I thought Wrath was really catching on until...Kevin Nash.
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Post by Mozenrath on Sept 2, 2023 21:50:51 GMT -5
Wrath before he got jobbed to Nash for no reason. I first saw him as The Nightstalker, either at Battlebowl or in SMW. Either way, he was green as grass then. I wasn't watching WWF during the Adam Bomb run, but I thought Wrath was really catching on until...Kevin Nash. I get they were promoting the Nash vs Goldberg match, so it made sense from that standpoint, but it also feels like that wasn't really necessary, especially given how much the Fingerpoke was going to make that irrelevant, anyway, if they'd already decided on that horrible storyline beat. |
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Post by Giul T. on Sept 2, 2023 21:53:25 GMT -5
Adam Bomb vs Wrath? That's a tough one. I'll say Wrath, because I think it helped being part of the Glacier universe more than the Harvey Wippleman universe.
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Post by Hit Girl on Sept 2, 2023 22:34:16 GMT -5
Adam Bomb
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Post by Viking Hall on Sept 3, 2023 3:39:41 GMT -5
As cool of a look he had as Adam Bomb...I just thought the name was super stupid, and he didn't have any profile feuds that were any good. Blood Runs Cold is the only time I liked him, although he was definitely the least defining character from those 4. Agreed. Great look, fun gimmick, could go in the ring (by mid-nineties WWF big guy standards) but a pun name is never going to get you over. |
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Post by Mozenrath on Sept 3, 2023 4:01:20 GMT -5
Scrambled, with a pinch of crushed pepper.
Wait, what are we talking about?
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Post by Psicofreak667 on Sept 3, 2023 22:13:31 GMT -5
Agreed. Great look, fun gimmick, could go in the ring (by mid-nineties WWF big guy standards) but a pun name is never going to get you over. I'm not sure about that. I mean, maybe it's just me, but when I'm thinking of an intimidating name for a mutagenic horror born from nuclear catastrophe, I think 'Adam'. How could anybody not? |
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Post by Mozenrath on Sept 4, 2023 1:43:04 GMT -5
I think the name Adam Bomb was fine, I think they just could have dialed the gimmick back a little and not pretended he was legitimately radioactive or something.
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