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Post by arthuradams2002 on Dec 23, 2009 19:46:26 GMT -5
Does anybody remember when Terry Taylor was known as the Taylor Made Man in WCW ? The gimmick was basically a clone of the Model Martel, minus the Arrogance bottle.
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Post by Marksus on Dec 27, 2009 4:57:47 GMT -5
I don't think it was a Martel clone.
If could have been good... if he managed to erase the Rooster stank, but he couldn't.
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Post by Professor Chaos on Jan 2, 2010 4:38:41 GMT -5
I preferred Terrance Taylor in the York Foundation.
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Post by johnnyk9 on Jan 30, 2010 8:20:24 GMT -5
I loved his ring attire as The Taylored Made Man
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Post by navajomartian on Apr 18, 2010 15:32:11 GMT -5
At least he didn't look like a Ric Flair imposter.
Both had similar hair styles. Both wore the same wrestling gear, and their knee pads in the same fashion and both had their respecftive intitals in the same spots on their tights and boots. Rooster even did the flair flip in the corner on several occassions. Like the 89 rumble and he worked in a Flair flop in the same show. Flair might actually have been collecting two paychecks in 88 and 89, working for the WWF as Terry Taylor posing as the Rooster. He earned twice as much money and effectively destroyed a good wrestlers career.
BUT. I found Roosters ring work just a shade better than Flair (gasp) I liked that he was quicker moving and a little more successful at arial stuff.
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Post by JMA on Apr 18, 2010 23:18:53 GMT -5
I preferred "Terrific" Terry Taylor.
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Post by Triple Kelly on Apr 19, 2010 9:57:18 GMT -5
Don't forget he was "The Computerized Man of the 1990s", which sounds like he should be a robot or an android.
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Post by Raging_Demons on Apr 19, 2010 23:10:27 GMT -5
Don't forget he was "The Computerized Man of the 1990s", which sounds like he should be a robot or an android. Terry Taylor vs Lee Majors as "Steve Austin, The Six Million Dollar Man" in a "Bionic Men Fight" THAT WOULD BE SO MONEY! |
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Post by "Hollywood" Cactus Matt on Apr 22, 2010 15:29:44 GMT -5
I saw the Taylor-Made Man as more of a "Million-Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase ripoff. They had basically the exact same ring jacket, right down to the sparkly "$" on the lapel.
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Post by Jiren on Apr 22, 2010 20:28:58 GMT -5
In NO WAY can anyone shake this gimmick off
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Post by spec on Apr 22, 2010 22:58:39 GMT -5
In NO WAY can anyone shake this gimmick off Wow. They actually made him cock-a-doodle-doo in promos. And Rooster Boosters?? You can see the look of disdain on Sean Mooney's face when he says that. What a shitty gimmick. Even as a young mark when the WWF could do little wrong in my eyes i wondered why they'd made Terry Taylor into a bird. Pure crap. |
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Post by JMA on Apr 22, 2010 23:02:21 GMT -5
Terrence Taylor would've worked if he had been a psychotic yuppie, ala Patrick Bateman.
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Post by rnrk supports BLM on Apr 23, 2010 1:47:15 GMT -5
"Rooster boosters" sounds like a particularly florid euphemism for steroids.
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Post by simongr81 on Apr 23, 2010 2:15:41 GMT -5
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Post by Futureraven: Britain's Butt on Apr 23, 2010 10:04:33 GMT -5
Beyond putting him in a mask, I doubt fans would buy it. As soon as he appeared, you'd get people clucking in the audience killing the seriousness of anything dead.
Terrance Taylor and his other gimmicks were pretty big makeovers, but people could never buy into him seriously. Unless you sacrificed a lot of top line talent and buried them in the process, in the hope that maybe, just maybe, you could get Terry Taylor over, and in the real world, that would never ever happen.
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Post by simongr81 on Apr 23, 2010 12:27:04 GMT -5
Well we'll never know. Joys of alternate history.
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Post by mrjl on Apr 24, 2010 9:46:10 GMT -5
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Post by jeffrodigital on Apr 28, 2010 19:37:42 GMT -5
i did cheer for him when he beat arn anderson for the tv title though.
i also thought as a young 11 year old that alexandra york was so hot. still think she was. she fell off big time though, and that was during her time in wwe when she was supposed to be a diva and all.
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Post by lildude8218 on Apr 29, 2010 0:58:05 GMT -5
he sounds like Repo Man in that promo.....dun dun dun
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Post by simongr81 on May 1, 2010 13:53:18 GMT -5
It worked for Matt Borne as "Borne Again" in ECW (his anti-Doink gimmick). i did cheer for him when he beat arn anderson for the tv title though. Taylor never held the NWA or WCW TV Title. He held the Mid South and UWF TV title and the NWA National Title. |
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