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Post by Freakzilla on Aug 20, 2007 12:16:11 GMT -5
Scott Hall should have got a world title run ahead of Kevin Nash. He was better in the ring, looked the part, had a lot of charisma and could play both a face and a heel convincingly.
Maybe his drug problems nixed it be I am very surprised he never got the belt in either the WWF or WCW.
Ted Dibiase would have made a fantastic heel champion back in his WWF hayday because he played the part of the heel probably better than any of his peers at the time. I used to really despise him as a kid and hated him even more when he teamed with IRS in Money Inc. T
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Post by ddt on Aug 20, 2007 12:26:50 GMT -5
Jake Roberts, Ted Dibiase, Owen Hart, Dynamite Kid, Arn Anderson.
Greg Valentine might also make that list. I think he was probably better than most give him credit for. Rick Martel was pretty good, too.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Aug 20, 2007 12:28:31 GMT -5
Arn Anderson.
The man was,is, and forever will be underrated.
I WANT AN ARN ANDERSON DVD.\
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Post by Mr. Mediocre on Aug 20, 2007 12:32:29 GMT -5
Jake Roberts, Ted Dibiase, Owen Hart, Dynamite Kid, Arn Anderson. Greg Valentine might also make that list. I think he was probably better than most give him credit for. Rick Martel was pretty good, too. Martel was AWA World Champion for a good year and a half. As for Valentine, he's always been criminally underrated and it's mostly because his best years in terms of ability and overness pre-date Wrestlemania and most people who post here and in other places don't really remember that era. |
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Post by The Captain on Aug 20, 2007 12:40:18 GMT -5
DiBiase, Owen Hart, British Bulldog, Lance Storm, and Arn Anderson.
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Post by Joker on Aug 20, 2007 12:46:02 GMT -5
Jake Roberts, Ted Dibiase, Owen Hart, Dynamite Kid, Arn Anderson. Greg Valentine might also make that list. I think he was probably better than most give him credit for. Rick Martel was pretty good, too. Martel was AWA World Champion for a good year and a half. As for Valentine, he's always been criminally underrated and it's mostly because his best years in terms of ability and overness pre-date Wrestlemania and most people who post here and in other places don't really remember that era. Yep, Greg was a solid wrestler and was considered for the Hogan Push at one stage (I read that somewhere) |
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Post by Mr. Mediocre on Aug 20, 2007 12:49:58 GMT -5
Yep, Greg was a solid wrestler and was considered for the Hogan Push at one stage (I read that somewhere) Really? I don't know...I admit I haven't seen a Valentine promo in ages, but was he a good enough talker to merit that kind of push? I remember reading Kerry Von Erich almost got the push (which I could see), somehow I don't see it with Greg. |
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Post by Mozenrath on Aug 20, 2007 12:59:15 GMT -5
Arn, Lance Storm, Malenko, Ultimo Dragon, or Shelley.
Currently, Claudio might be the most deserving who hasn't gotten it yet.
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 20, 2007 15:04:35 GMT -5
I'll have to agree with the ones that said Ted DiBiase and Scott Hall.
Both were pretty great all-around in their primes, and both would've been great main event heel champs in WCW or WWF in the 1990s.
IMO, Hall's main drawback (other than his personal demons) is that he never cared about belts. He was smart enough to realize that he'd get paid well and still be over (because he was money) with or without a belt. With that, he never cared about doing jobs, and did far too many jobs just for the hell of it. Hall even asked to job to guys like Hector Garza and a lower-card Jericho back when he was arguably WCW's most over talent in 1996-early 1997. I still think Hall was the best all-around American talent from 1993-1996.
DiBiase would've been a great babyface or heel champ in the 1980s. Most people know his Million Dollar Man work, but he was SUPER over as an asskicking babyface in UWF before he jumped to Vince. He would've made a great NWA or AWA champ if he never went to WWF.
If we're not counting all incarnations of the Big Gold Belt, I'll throw Rick Rude and a pre-1994 Barry Windham out there too. Just my opinion, but I've got these four guys far higher on my list than a Jake Roberts.
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Post by Mr. Mediocre on Aug 20, 2007 15:07:08 GMT -5
I COMPLETELY forgot Scott Hall. Definitely add my name to his list.
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Post by Randy Orton's Bitch on Aug 20, 2007 15:14:26 GMT -5
Alot of great Responses!
Arn
Owen
Million Dollar Man
Jake the Snake
Roddy Piper
Bulldog
Scott hall
Those men should've been world champs!
CM Punk is a former ROH World Champion
Mr.Perfect is a former AWA world Champion
Rick Rude is a former NWA World Champion.But WCW withdrew from the NWA and the title became the "WcW international championship" So it counts as a World title
the WWC title doesnt count. Cause its not a world belt.Most of the shows its defended on are in Puerto Rico only.
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Post by Aaron E. Dangerously on Aug 20, 2007 15:30:54 GMT -5
Piper or the Snake.
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Post by bubbles on Aug 20, 2007 15:43:47 GMT -5
William bloody Regal
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Post by thestinger on Aug 20, 2007 15:56:05 GMT -5
Ted Dibiase and Jake Roberts were two of the best ever not to be world champion.
I could also see people's suggestions of Lance Storm and Dean Malenko.
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Post by britishbulldog on Aug 20, 2007 16:17:32 GMT -5
Didn't Scott Hall have a brief run in AWA as champ
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 20, 2007 16:56:38 GMT -5
Didn't Scott Hall have a brief run in AWA as champ Tag, not singles. And he was brutal back then. Too roided up to move well, IMO. |
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Aug 20, 2007 19:46:53 GMT -5
I COMPLETELY forgot Scott Hall. Definitely add my name to his list. I just re-watched the Razor/Deisel match from Summerslam 94 amd I realized that Hall really could have been champion around late94/early 95. He was over like hell and was having terrific matches. |
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Post by The Blue Blazer on Aug 20, 2007 19:50:29 GMT -5
Pretty much no one recognizes the WCW International Title as a World Title.
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Post by Richard on Aug 20, 2007 19:56:06 GMT -5
Split between DiBiase and Roberts. I'd have Rude up there too, because I don't recognise his International title reign as being a World Title. If I remember when Rude won it at Fall Brawl 93, it was called the NWA title, but shortly after they changed it to the Gold Belt, for whatever reason. He was scheduled to win the title at a PPV (I want to say Fall Brawl) and did the post PPV TV Tapings coming out as the NWA World Champ several weeks before the PPV. The NWA got word and pulled the belt from WCW for not telling them about the title change. |
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Post by EmptyEYE DUNNOOOOOOOOO on Aug 20, 2007 20:04:13 GMT -5
DiBiase, without a doubt.
Also, it's ludicrous that Andre the Giant was never given a legitimate run with the belt (Winning it and immediately selling it to DiBiase doesn't count in my eyes), either during his pre-Rock N' Wrestling days or as a type of lifetime achievement award in the late 80s.
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