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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Mar 21, 2024 9:00:27 GMT -5
Just so many in both directions: Bret and Owen Hart being alive and healthy and able to still go until like 2006 would have been incredible. The number of guys they could've had matches with would have been unreal. Khali, Big Show, or any other giant human being in the early to mid 80's would have been great as well. Their ultimate destiny would have been being slayed by Hogan but they would have fit in really well in that time. Or heck even before that as territory guys similar to Andre. Sean Waltman in the early 2000's but also he's such a product of the 90's that it's hard to imagine him coming up any other time. Scott Hall coming up today. Wrestling has gotten a lot smaller so a guy like him would have stood out even more, especially being able to go and with his charisma. Plus more guys are clean these days so maybe less demons to get in his way. My Owen what if isn't even that far from reality. Just 1 more year, get The Chris', Eddie, Kurt, Taz, dip into the tag division with E&C etc. I think the next couple of years with that influx of talent would have totally revitalised him.
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Post by OGBoardPoster2005 on Mar 21, 2024 14:56:04 GMT -5
Steve Austin in the territories.
I could see him being over as a Face and Heel.
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Post by Jaws the Shark on Mar 21, 2024 15:21:24 GMT -5
Alex Wright in the modern era. Had he been born ten years later he'd probably be viewed similarly to Castagnoli or Tim Thatcher or someone, and might have been given the opportunity to lean more into his background rather than stuck being the comedy dancing German.
And putting someone back in time rather than bringing them forwards, Earthquake in the seventies territories could've been great.
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Post by celtics543 on Mar 21, 2024 15:45:39 GMT -5
Alex Wright in the modern era. Had he been born ten years later he'd probably be viewed similarly to Castagnoli or Tim Thatcher or someone, and might have been given the opportunity to lean more into his background rather than stuck being the comedy dancing German. And putting someone back in time rather than bringing them forwards, Earthquake in the seventies territories could've been great. Alex Wright is a great call. I'd throw in most foreign guys back then, Hakushi is the one that immediately comes to mind.
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Post by ChitownKnight on Mar 21, 2024 17:19:47 GMT -5
I think Piper in the Attitude era would of worked too
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Post by Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite on Mar 22, 2024 9:11:50 GMT -5
Bad News Brown in the Attitude Era
Eddie Kingston in Jim Crockett Promotions
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Post by fg on Mar 22, 2024 18:55:18 GMT -5
Dangerous Danny Davis in the 90s.
Imagine him facing the Undertaker in the early 90s (and being one of the MANY heels who underestimated him) or Steve Austin stunning him (Davis did dress like an authority figure).
Heel Roddy Piper facing the Undertsker in the early 90s and being one of the MANY heels who underestimated him)
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Post by fg on Mar 22, 2024 18:55:56 GMT -5
I think Piper in the Attitude era would of worked too Question is would he be accepted as a face or heel?
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Post by ChitownKnight on Mar 22, 2024 19:06:25 GMT -5
I think Piper in the Attitude era would of worked too Question is would he be accepted as a face or heel? Both
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Post by carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army) on Mar 22, 2024 19:26:01 GMT -5
Bad News Brown in the Attitude Era Honestly, Bad News Brown whenever, Attitude Era on. Can you imagine the dude at the height of the Bullet Club? An obscure one, but I insist that if Craig "Pitbull" Pittman was younger, he'd have had a much different career. Dude had a submission style, with heaps of legit cred. At the time, it bored audiences silly. But if he'd started in a solidly post-Shamrock wrestling world, that sort of thing played much different. His character work was already top-notch. Around 2010, the wrestling world fell back in love with husky tough-guys who can kick your ass and/or are surprisingly athletic. So lord, can you imagine Ray Traylor being young in that era? I mean, or Bam Bam, but Bam Bam probably would do okay whenever (backstage politics notwithstanding). But Traylor, growing on the indies and then going into a major promotion around 2015? Dude was shockingly funny in a way that's easy to forget in retrospect but would be VERY amenable to memes if it was happening in front of you. Barry Darsaw too, come to think of it. It's hard to imagine, because the dude was so of-his-time and given so few chances to show off, but I feel like Koko B Ware would thrive nowadays. Especially if he was less pressured to be stupidly roided to overcome the perceived handicap of his short height, and he was able to be maximally agile in the ring.
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Post by Stone Coke Miami Watson š„ on Mar 22, 2024 19:36:02 GMT -5
Iād love to see Cody in turn of the century 1900s or some other time period where there is limited to no footage.
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Post by fg on Mar 22, 2024 20:49:33 GMT -5
Bad News Brown in the Attitude Era Him facing SCSA would be great since Bad News Brown in some ways was Stone Cold before Stone Cold.
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Post by J. Hova on Mar 23, 2024 0:27:23 GMT -5
I'll go with Shelton Benjamin in the territories. Mic skills weren't terribly important or you know, they could have put him with a manager and toured the circuit. Dude is grossly underrated and underutilized. He might be one of the best athletes to ever grace a wrestling ring and could have gotten tremendously used for that era.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Mar 23, 2024 4:41:45 GMT -5
Bad News Brown in the Attitude Era Honestly, Bad News Brown whenever, Attitude Era on. Can you imagine the dude at the height of the Bullet Club? An obscure one, but I insist that if Craig "Pitbull" Pittman was younger, he'd have had a much different career. Dude had a submission style, with heaps of legit cred. At the time, it bored audiences silly. But if he'd started in a solidly post-Shamrock wrestling world, that sort of thing played much different. His character work was already top-notch. Around 2010, the wrestling world fell back in love with husky tough-guys who can kick your ass and/or are surprisingly athletic. So lord, can you imagine Ray Traylor being young in that era? I mean, or Bam Bam, but Bam Bam probably would do okay whenever (backstage politics notwithstanding). But Traylor, growing on the indies and then going into a major promotion around 2015? Dude was shockingly funny in a way that's easy to forget in retrospect but would be VERY amenable to memes if it was happening in front of you. Barry Darsaw too, come to think of it. It's hard to imagine, because the dude was so of-his-time and given so few chances to show off, but I feel like Koko B Ware would thrive nowadays. Especially if he was less pressured to be stupidly roided to overcome the perceived handicap of his short height, and he was able to be maximally agile in the ring. I could see Koko with his colours and personality around later. Imagine if The New Day had a guy with a parrot with them.
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Post by Viking Hall on Mar 23, 2024 5:27:14 GMT -5
William Regal in his prime as a freelancer in 2024 brings up so many dream matches it almost hurts.
Bryan Danielson, Zack Sabre Jr., Timothy Thatcher, Jonathan Gresham, Katsuyori Shibata, Hechicero... even a grizzled old bastards face off with Minoru Suzuki would blow my mind. Regal at Josh Barnett's Bloodsport... so many options.
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Post by chrom on Mar 23, 2024 7:23:36 GMT -5
Watching his stuff from the 80s and early 90s after he trimmed down, Terry Gordy could've fit in any era.
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Post by sungod2020 on Mar 30, 2024 13:12:25 GMT -5
Ricky Steamboat in the WWF, circa 2000. Imagine what he could do with Angle or any of the Radicalz, or some of the WCW guys who came in a year later.Sensational Sherri in the modern women's division. On the same note if Ken Shamrock stayed with the WWF into the 2000s, he could've had better talent to work with such as Chris Jericho, Kurt Angle, Tazz, The Radicalz, Rey Mysterio, Brock Lesnar, RVD, Booker T etc etc. He might've been able to benefit from the brand split and carry one of the World Titles. What's really frustrating is he left right before some of those names arrived, and had an inconclusive feud with Chris Jericho, so we didn't even get to see what those two were capable of. I don't think they even had a match, just Jericho putting him through a table and gave him the Walls of Jericho. 24 years later and that's the last we saw of him.
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Post by Woo on Mar 30, 2024 15:46:19 GMT -5
Pretty much all the Shimmer originals in today's era. Daizee Haze could have been face Bayley, Cheerleader Melissa as a Ripley-esq dominant champion, Del Rey as a Bianca Belair superwoman, they all could have been huge. MsChif, Sarah Stock, Lacey, Rain, Kong, Perez sigh.
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