Ben Wyatt
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Oct 23, 2009 6:17:19 GMT -5
The Mankind/Undertaker feud is one of my favorite ever. This. It was awesome because it was really the first time someone, ANYONE got into 'Taker's head. |
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Post by Slammywinner on Oct 23, 2009 8:35:32 GMT -5
SO to summarize, there was no explanation given for months as to why Mankind attacked Taker, but once Paul Bearer out-and-out turned on Taker at Summerslam 96, it appeared that it was Paul Bearer pulling the strings all along. He was sick of constantly settling personal feuds with Taker and "claiming souls," he wanted to make the big money of managing the world champion, like when he and Taker first arrived and beat Hogan to win the world title. So he brought in Mankind to be his new champion, and had him start by destroying Taker for losing his focus and wasting Paul's time.
And I love this feud....
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Post by Totorob101 on Oct 23, 2009 10:08:10 GMT -5
Great feud,the pair worked well together,just beating the holy heck out of each other! I remember back at the time that people were complaining about Cactus Jack being given such a gimmick,funny thing is i cant even rememeber where i heard it because i had no access to the internet then,maybe a few magazines or so.Of course he pulled it off and had incredible success in the WWE,thanks mainly to this feud.
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Post by manstis1804 on Oct 23, 2009 10:44:24 GMT -5
I feel like they could pattern a Knox/Kane feud after this one. It obviously wouldn't be as good, but having the usually dominant Kane meet his mental and physical match would be a great story and Knox could pull it off.
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Post by quantum on Oct 23, 2009 14:03:06 GMT -5
SO to summarize, there was no explanation given for months as to why Mankind attacked Taker, but once Paul Bearer out-and-out turned on Taker at Summerslam 96, it appeared that it was Paul Bearer pulling the strings all along. He was sick of constantly settling personal feuds with Taker and "claiming souls," he wanted to make the big money of managing the world champion, like when he and Taker first arrived and beat Hogan to win the world title. So he brought in Mankind to be his new champion, and had him start by destroying Taker for losing his focus and wasting Paul's time. And I love this feud.... You could probably sum it up to this. Also what reason would Mankind need or would the fans need for attacking Taker. He was a complete 'screwball' |
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Post by I Like Your Poetry on Oct 23, 2009 14:06:40 GMT -5
This is what I always assumed. 4 words for this thread title: My favorite feud everrrrrrrrr!! Yeah man, it just makes sense. I like when they let the fans connect the dots every once in a while. Rather than explain every litte detail. Not that this logic doesn't make sense, but wasn't there a Paul Bearer promo where he said that he decided to side with Mankind once he saw how dominant he was? Maybe I'm remembering this wrong. |
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Post by Big L on Oct 23, 2009 14:09:32 GMT -5
so that Taker could make him famous. yep!!  |
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Post by A Dubya (El Hombre Muerto) on Oct 23, 2009 20:37:41 GMT -5
This was just great on so many levels. Look back at the Raw right before going into Summerslam 1996. That is how you do a f***ing "go home" show. No sappy highlight package, no fancy theme song by some band nobody has ever heard of, and no damn in-ring segments with one guy saying, "Hey I respect you man, even though you tried to throw a cinder block at my head last week." Just a kick ass back and forth ending of absolute chaos going into the PPV.
Nowadays, you'd never get that. It is just way too formulaic in every way. I don't even believe in the whole "Anything can happen" line.
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Post by manstis1804 on Oct 23, 2009 21:08:53 GMT -5
Amen brother. WWE is just sterile these days. Everything is extremely dumbed down and one dimensional. The worst is the way they have John Cena go out to the ring and tell everyone how awesome and epic his feuds and matches are, it's really pathetic and cheapens the entire WWE product in my eyes.
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Post by Paul E. Funk on Oct 23, 2009 21:42:25 GMT -5
Yeah man, it just makes sense. I like when they let the fans connect the dots every once in a while. Rather than explain every litte detail. Not that this logic doesn't make sense, but wasn't there a Paul Bearer promo where he said that he decided to side with Mankind once he saw how dominant he was? Maybe I'm remembering this wrong. It's possible, perhaps I'm giving Vince and Co. too much credit. I'd still like to think that they had it in mind all along. |
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Post by quantum on Oct 24, 2009 8:00:28 GMT -5
Yeah man, it just makes sense. I like when they let the fans connect the dots every once in a while. Rather than explain every litte detail. Not that this logic doesn't make sense, but wasn't there a Paul Bearer promo where he said that he decided to side with Mankind once he saw how dominant he was? Maybe I'm remembering this wrong. Ya I can remember a promo Bearer cut like that also. Stating that he turned his back on Undertaker as he was no longer the dominant force in WWF and hadn;tr been since turning to the fans and Mankind is the new dominant force in WWF. Or a promo to that effect Early Mankind was pure gold it's a pitty the ruined the character during 1997 by making him a mid carder slowly turning him heel then slowly turning him into a comedy character with Mr Socko; Should have kept him with his original character as a dominant force and a force to take the WWF championship. He should have had a run in 1997. I would have much preferred Mankind to beat HBK for the WWF Championship at Survivor Series and hold until Mania when Taker beats him to end the Mankind/Taker feud which would have been goni on for almost one year by that point. Sid was an awful champion who helped stink up the Main event of Wrestlemania 13. |
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