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Post by JerryvonKramer on Sept 8, 2009 13:16:20 GMT -5
How about Barry Windham? Horseman and strong US champ in the 80s, World Champ (sort of) in 1993, the Stalker in '96, West Texas Rednecks, out of contract and retirement in '99.
I can't think of a wrestler showed how out of shape they were as much as Windham. He just had a propensity to put on weight and when he was bad he was really bad -- like he looked sloppy (just look at any match he had as the Stalker in that WWF run).
I happen to think Windham is one of the most overrated of all time, personally, but his decline was fairly steep after '94.
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Post by noleafclover1980 on Sept 8, 2009 16:05:44 GMT -5
Don't forget his run in the New Blackjacks.
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Post by Angus Mcloud on Sept 8, 2009 16:33:53 GMT -5
I'm suprised nobody mentioned Yokozuna. From becoming World Champion to losing to an up-and-coming "Stone Cold" Steve Austin on a pay per view PRESHOW. He also ended Hulkamania. He lost by "breaking"" the top rope because he was fat. Pretty sad |
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Post by STMP on Sept 8, 2009 16:52:18 GMT -5
Greg Valentine, he even wrestled in some backyard match.
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Post by Jay Peas 42 on Sept 8, 2009 20:49:40 GMT -5
ECW guys? Seriously, you go from wrestling against Garbage wrestlers at a pool hall to a national television show and that's downward?
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Post by squash on Sept 8, 2009 22:29:54 GMT -5
Beefcake, Patera and Ricky Morton come to mind. Honorable mention to Lou Albano and Greg Gagne
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Post by romafan87 on Sept 8, 2009 23:22:43 GMT -5
Missy Hyatt anyone?
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Post by chunkylover53 on Sept 8, 2009 23:58:24 GMT -5
How about Virgil? Okay, so the most over he's ever been was in his feud with Ted Dibiase(he can make a twig look like a million bucks, pardon the pun), but now he goes to malls charging people $20 to get his autograph!!! Man, those finishers he's taken over the years really damaged his mental capacity.
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Post by Aceorton on Sept 9, 2009 2:46:45 GMT -5
Terry Taylor ought to be included in this discussion.
Also: Andre. Those 30-second jobs to the Warrior were needless, regardless of his condition. By mid-1991, with the walker and the Bushwhackers licking him, he was just uncomfortable to watch.
And I'll second Taz. His mystique was insane in ECW. He was just a monster. Moving to the "big time" WWF may seem like a step up, but they'd already pretty much neutered him by WrestleMania.
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Post by dabossftw on Sept 9, 2009 5:42:58 GMT -5
I'd have to say Bret Hart. Once he got to WCW, his career was on a slippery slope.
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Post by Goldenbane on Sept 9, 2009 8:08:15 GMT -5
I'll have to say Tammy Sintch...
From THE hottest, smartest, and coolest girl in all of wrestling...
...to a drunken drugged out trailer park trash joke.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Sept 9, 2009 9:19:32 GMT -5
The AWA (and later WCW) planned big things for "The Cat" Curtis Hughes. (His nickname was based on the fact he was a football player at Kansas State, who are the Wildcats.) But, really and honestly, does anybody remember him aside from his being a lower-card guy (early 90s) and Triple H's butler in the WWF? I say he doesn't fit in with the rest of the group. Don't forget a couple weeks as Y2J's bodyguard in late '99 |
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Post by i.Sarita.com on Sept 9, 2009 9:26:20 GMT -5
I'd have to say Bret Hart. Once he got to WCW, his career was on a slippery slope. I dunno about that, he was WCW Champion towards the end of his career, and didn't he get kicked in the head by Goldberg during a WCW Title tournament? That's hardly a decline... |
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Post by AriadosMan on Sept 9, 2009 13:41:58 GMT -5
The footage they have of Jake Roberts doing indie shows now on Youtube is truly pathetic and horrible.
Rikishi's last run in TNA was godawful as well (albeit short).
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Post by Bocuma on Sept 9, 2009 14:27:32 GMT -5
Scott Hall gets my vote personally, most likely because it makes me the saddest.
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Post by hollywood on Sept 9, 2009 14:48:17 GMT -5
This guy.  Oh, whoops, I mean girl. Yea... |
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Post by AriadosMan on Sept 9, 2009 15:14:03 GMT -5
This guy. Oh, whoops, I mean girl. Yea... She looks more feminine now though |
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Post by JerryvonKramer on Sept 9, 2009 15:32:18 GMT -5
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Post by chunkylover53 on Sept 9, 2009 17:57:04 GMT -5
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Post by dabossftw on Sept 9, 2009 19:26:00 GMT -5
I'd have to say Bret Hart. Once he got to WCW, his career was on a slippery slope. I dunno about that, he was WCW Champion towards the end of his career, and didn't he get kicked in the head by Goldberg during a WCW Title tournament? That's hardly a decline... Compared to the momentum he had going into his WCW debut that fizzled out quickly, I feel his career made a huge decline. |
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