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Post by Smiley Smile on Dec 19, 2012 10:24:40 GMT -5
People have already touched on what I think the reasons for his decline are. He was a cocaine addict and it seemed to take a huge toll on him personally and physically. He'd started to become unfit and put on weight towards the end of his run with Mid-South, and when the wages he got from the WWF meant more money for coke. He apparently stopped training, his weight ballooned and he became unreliable and by 1988 he was viewed as a spent force and cut loose. I have heard that Bob Backlund was about the only guy in the dressing room that DIDN'T take drugs though. I'm not sure how it affected JYD more than anyone else. hell I'm sure he wasn't at Jake the Snake's level of drug intake, but I wasn't there I suppose it depends on whether you're a user or an addict, and how well you can "control" your habit before it starts causing problems in other aspects of life. But it's an interesting point you raise about how many had careers ruined by drugs compared to how many were using at the time. |
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Post by donbot on Dec 22, 2012 21:09:57 GMT -5
By the end of his WWF run, how many cakes was he grabbing?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2012 9:03:25 GMT -5
I always thought that if they had stuck the Junyard Dog in a tag team with someone he might have had a better, longer career in the WWF. It's similar to Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart in my opinion. Singles just wasn't his thing, but when you teamed him with Bret, and to a lesser extent Owen, he seemed to do well. And I think things could have been the same for JYD. They did, twice. He had a pretty good run teaming with Tito Santana, I think they even got a shot at the tag titles once against the Harts. And for a while, they teamed him with George "The Animal" Steele and they were a fun team to watch. Once, JYD was bringing kids into the ring to do the post-match juke, and they even got Animal to shake his knees a couple of times. Fans loved it. |
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Post by willywonka666 on Dec 23, 2012 10:44:34 GMT -5
I always thought that if they had stuck the Junyard Dog in a tag team with someone he might have had a better, longer career in the WWF. It's similar to Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart in my opinion. Singles just wasn't his thing, but when you teamed him with Bret, and to a lesser extent Owen, he seemed to do well. And I think things could have been the same for JYD. They did, twice. He had a pretty good run teaming with Tito Santana, I think they even got a shot at the tag titles once against the Harts. And for a while, they teamed him with George "The Animal" Steele and they were a fun team to watch. Once, JYD was bringing kids into the ring to do the post-match juke, and they even got Animal to shake his knees a couple of times. Fans loved it. That's the main thing I remember him for. I'm glad that he got to do that, I mean with word that some guys were punished, like Adrian Adonis for being out of shape, albeit MUCH more than JYD ever was, you'd think if Vince was truly pissed at JYD, he wouldn't have even bothered to let him dance with the kids, because that helped get him over and keep him over regardless of how he was doing in the ring |
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