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Post by Aaron E. Dangerously on May 12, 2007 20:49:25 GMT -5
I mean, I know his neck forced him into retirement, but if he dropped some poundage, work house shows, then go for a solid midcard push, you think he could make a decent comeback by being good in the ring and be really over?
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Post by acressl on May 12, 2007 20:50:29 GMT -5
He could physically enter the ring, but that'd be where things would get a little dicey. Still, he may have one more rocketbusta in him.
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Post by Joshin 'Thunder' Liger on May 12, 2007 20:53:36 GMT -5
Hmmm nah... maybe they could do a thing were he helps the Originals. I mean if he did one or two Tazzplexes on Mc.Mahon and locked on a Tazzmission. I love Tazz but he shouldn't wrestle again, I mean we can always remember his best matches, forget 2001 ever happened and be grateful he stopped before he messed himself up too bad.
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Post by Andrew is Good on May 12, 2007 20:57:41 GMT -5
Since this is about Taz getting back in the ring, I want to say this.
Taz probably doesn't have any idea how much he impacted the buisness. In wrestling, there were some small guys who blazed a trail of being able to get over and help other small guys get other, but I feel that Taz was the first smaller guy who could be looked at as very threatening and a bad ass type person. And all the small guys who look like they could kick your ass, probably were able to do that persona because of how Taz was preceived in ECW for a very long time. Taz made it possible for guys who weren't almost 7 feet tall and 300 pounds to look like these guys who could be monsters or could be extremely threatening.
Now I've read critiques of Taz by former ECW guys or whatever, but whether he was a legit tough guy or not, he made it look like he was tough. And with the history of ECW being brought up more recently, I think a lot of people forget his run in WWE where he pretty much floundered and didn't do much. I think because of the light that was shined on ECW, Taz is being remembered for being this killer. Joey Styles on WWE.com put over Taz as the best ECW Champion ever. In the ECW dream Wrestlemania card that they had on ECW.com, even though Lashley was the guy they were pushing, Joey Styles put Taz over Lashley as the guy who would be the better man.
And even bigger guys, like Samoa Joe, and Bobby Lashley to a lesser extent, copied his style and got over.
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Post by Blindkarevik on May 12, 2007 20:58:16 GMT -5
Yeah, I'd rather he not risk it.
However, I would love it if they could give him back his old badass persona.... I'm sick of "Jolly Fatboy Tazz"
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Post by jobber2thestars on May 12, 2007 21:07:00 GMT -5
No, that's why his match against Lawler at ONS2 lasted all of 2mins. with no actual wrestling. He would be best used in a coach or trainer role for a young guy working his way up the card. Have him act combined old-school Taz (one z) with what we saw on Tough Enough. He would be perfect for a guy with an MMA style gimmick.
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Post by Stevie J on May 12, 2007 21:09:04 GMT -5
I can see Taz punking somebody out at any given moment in a shoot, but in a match where he'd have to bounce around and take bumps it would be brutal. I prefer he stay retired and do commentary so we can just look back and fondly remember his years as The Human Suplex Machine.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on May 12, 2007 21:11:05 GMT -5
He could always do a SHOULDA ARMBREAKA
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Post by picklerabbi on May 12, 2007 21:25:59 GMT -5
Better than he can get it done on the mic.
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Post by acressl on May 12, 2007 21:27:14 GMT -5
Better than he can get it done on the mic. whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa <substituted for rimshot> |
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Post by Bub (BLM) on May 12, 2007 21:50:20 GMT -5
If he can, he should have done it at the first One Night Stand.
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Post by Avalanche Alvarez on May 13, 2007 9:04:05 GMT -5
I mean, I know his neck forced him into retirement, but if he dropped some poundage, work house shows, then go for a solid midcard push, you think he could make a decent comeback by being good in the ring and be really over? No. In the E, he was strictly midcard and that didn't even work out for him. I'm biased. I can't stand him. But his brief stint was pretty clear as to what he would've been doing in the E as a wrestler. Jobbing to Boogeyman. Jobbing to Kane. Jobbing to Hornswoggle. |
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Post by rra on May 13, 2007 9:13:03 GMT -5
Tazz is like Dean Malenko. We won't see him in the ring again.
But yeah, they were serious about the New Breed/Originals feud, Tazz should have been a mark/ideologue supporter of the Originals in a Rick Rude-ish position.
But NOOOOOOOOOOO.......
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Post by Swarm on May 13, 2007 9:34:06 GMT -5
No.
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Post by The Ichi on May 13, 2007 9:39:04 GMT -5
I pretty much stopped caring for Tazz ever since he became a tweener commentator. JBL was the perfect replacement.
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