Dat Dude
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Post by Dat Dude on Mar 30, 2013 18:19:05 GMT -5
...instead of grabbing Hogan from the AWA? What if Flair would've been given the spot that Hogan was to be given back in the 80's. How different would the wrestling landscape be today?
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Post by Square on Mar 30, 2013 18:21:28 GMT -5
I don't think it would have worked since Hogan got over a lot due to his look. He personified what people thought a tough guy was at that time. Whereas Flair was smaller, was "weaker". Also Flair wouldn't have gotten cast in Rocky III.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2013 18:36:15 GMT -5
Not sure how it would have worked as the E has almost always been built around a superstar/larger than life face that battles against the odds. Whereas, the NWA was more built around challengers chasing the heel champion.
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Post by celticjobber on Mar 30, 2013 18:39:24 GMT -5
It wouldn't have worked. Hogan had more of a mass-market appeal. Ric Flair was smaller, and his in ring style just wasn't right for WWF (the land of the giants) at the time.
And Flair's too much of a natural heel to have had the 80's Hogan role.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Mar 30, 2013 18:43:54 GMT -5
It wouldn't have worked. Flair's never been good at playing a sympathetic face unless he was feuding with someone people REALLY hated at the time, like Harley Race/Vader/HHH.
WWF needed an all-American man of the people (and unlike Dusty, who also had a marketable look for the mainstream) who could also convincingly slay monster heels as its figurehead to truly take cable TV by storm. I think Flair's character was too much of a yuppie, the uber-polarizing social group of its heyday.
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Post by ICBM on Mar 30, 2013 19:15:08 GMT -5
It wouldn't have worked. Hogan had more of a mass-market appeal. Ric Flair was smaller, and his in ring style just wasn't right for WWF (the land of the giants) at the time. And Flair's too much of a natural heel to have had the 80's Hogan role. I agree 100%. WWF pushed the huge baby face champ to sell t shirts, foam fingers, ice cream bars, ppvs, action figures ect. NWA pushed heel champs to get heat for the local baby face hero so a card would draw next month. This is exactly why Ted Debiase never won the WWF belt. Savage got his heat from over coming the odds in the tournament. He was flash and ready to market. Debiase was a great foil to him but never took the belt because it would have cost them money in ancillary areas |
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