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Post by lildude8218 on Oct 22, 2009 20:15:15 GMT -5
oh, well that makes more sense
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Post by Bubble Lead on Oct 23, 2009 6:40:57 GMT -5
I actually loved WCWs huge roster. It just made them feel more legit to me to have so many jobbers and lower midcarders that would only get wins on the lesser shows but got creamed anytime they popped up on the big ones.
To me, it just helped to add to that REAL SPORT feel WCW always had [up until it became WWF lite]. The main reason I preferred WCW to WWF at the time. Watching Nitro felt like watching Monday Night Football.
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Post by Youngie on Oct 23, 2009 6:56:11 GMT -5
Back when Hogan and Savage joined, WCW weren't competing directly against WWF and they needed big stars to get more people watching them. Also Eric Bischoff was changing the direction of the company. It wouldn't have made sense to throw them on the midcard, even with guys like Sting, Flair, Vader already being established. I don;t think Hogan would've joined WCW to be on the midcard. That'd have been a slap in the fact to him. He came in as the biggest star wrestling ever had. A damn good move by WCW at the time. Then again, I don't think they ever planned on using Bret Hart. I think they just didn't want WWF using him. WCW had a goldmine in Bret but they throw all of his stardom down the drain. I suppose it just wasn't the same if Bret couldn't drop the WWF World Title in the WCW trash can. |
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Post by happygilmore on Oct 23, 2009 9:09:49 GMT -5
Lordy, I did love Kenny Kaos and Rick Fuller.
Glacier too.
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Post by romafan87 on Oct 23, 2009 10:49:17 GMT -5
Put me down for an insane mark out for when Mike Enos showed up. And then when Wayne Bloom showed up.
And then they TEAMED UP! Mark out city!
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Post by Tom on Oct 23, 2009 13:17:44 GMT -5
If only Al Green was Al Green.
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Post by Angus Mcloud on Oct 23, 2009 13:22:18 GMT -5
If only Al Green was Al Green. I would rather have Red Green |
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Post by Tom on Oct 23, 2009 13:35:45 GMT -5
I would rather have Al Green feuding with Green Lantern Fan by Gospelling him out at every show.
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Post by quantum on Oct 23, 2009 14:22:22 GMT -5
Outside of 'Starrcade' and going into Starrcade how would you have booked Hitman otherwise. Bischoff wanted Hart on the card. Also Hitman can;t effect or come in and take any other established WCW stars place at that point. Including feuds, story lines and matches which were going to happen or did happen. How else would you have booked him in WCW? I'd have booked him as a former World Champ taking on the nWo. I don't understand why every ex-WWF guy had to join the nWo in WCW. Bret could have come in as a challenger to Hogan as Flair did in the WWF in 1991. As p[previously said this would have meant making WWF guys look strong. Which WCW did not want to nor need to do at that time. Also WCW would have also had to turn Hart face. Fresh off the 'America vs Canada' storyline. Where Hitman attacked the American fans more than he attacked any of his opponents. He made the fans hate him by attacking him directly. The fans (most of) would not have been willing just to forgive and forget all the personal insults during the storyline in the WWF. Also making him feud for the WCW championship straight in would have taken more established stars places and made there established stars look weak against a former WWF champion. He would have also taken someones place on the card for WWF champion to come and and staroight away challange the NWO and challange for the belt .on top of the other obstacles mentioned. WCW gain was stacked with stars much bigger and established at that point in WCW than Bret Hart. Ric Flair going into WWF was much different. There card was not as stacked, they made room for Flair and the war was not going on at that time. Which meant they could make an ex champion from another organization look strong without diminishing there own talents and guys and making them look weak against the opposition. |
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Post by Tyfo on Oct 23, 2009 17:03:24 GMT -5
What about 911 as Tombstone and/or Tarantula, which every you preferred. Either way, he was pretty much a jobber.
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Post by Phil Parent on Oct 23, 2009 17:16:17 GMT -5
They had a lot names pass the regular guys.
I mean, if Valentine or Jannetty showed up one night...it was better received than if some nobody showed up to wrestle his first, one and only televised match, ever.
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Post by strykerdarksilence on Oct 23, 2009 17:37:01 GMT -5
What about 911 as Tombstone and/or Tarantula, which every you preferred. Either way, he was pretty much a jobber. And as Big Al, who Tank Abbot threatened to kill with a knife. Funnily enough, only a few weeks after the Pillman/Austin gun segment. Nice and original Vinny Ru. |
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Post by stevieraymark on Oct 23, 2009 17:42:44 GMT -5
Strange. he did little and was basically their equivalent of Booker T in TNA. Come on now, Bret Hart didn't come into WCW and deliberately try and be as bad as possible and be the biggest fake ever  . |
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Post by i.Sarita.com on Oct 23, 2009 18:05:21 GMT -5
I always found it kind of funny that Kenny Kaos ended up getting a bit of a push once Robbie Rage got hurt...even though High Voltage hardly ever won as a team.
That that Rage for holding back Kaos!
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Post by romafan87 on Oct 23, 2009 18:57:00 GMT -5
What about 911 as Tombstone and/or Tarantula, which every you preferred. Either way, he was pretty much a jobber. And as Big Al, who Tank Abbot threatened to kill with a knife. Funnily enough, only a few weeks after the Pillman/Austin gun segment. Nice and original Vinny Ru. 911 was Tombstone/Tarantula. Big Al was Al Green. His feud with Tank Abbott was in 2000. The Pillman/Austin gun feud was in 1997. |
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Post by lildude8218 on Oct 23, 2009 23:20:34 GMT -5
911 wrestled as Big Al in WCW too. I remember seeing him on Saturday Night. But he wasn't the one in the Tank match.
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Post by noleafclover1980 on Oct 23, 2009 23:26:13 GMT -5
That Rage clearly was the Jannety.
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