Big Show vs. Bossman: The whole fued in 3 minutes.

[Lance Uppercut]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKYjskv9xWY

never forget

I totally forgot about Big Show almost Killing the Bossman with the dumpster.

[Caglar13]

This may be my favorite feud of all time.

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"Hey Paul Wight, you're a nasty bastard and your mama said so!"

Easily my favorite feud of all time, over top hilarity on a weekly basis.

[DZ: WF Legacy]

"If I had a son as stupid as you. I'd wish for cancer so that I could die, too."

Jesus tap dancin' Christ, that's vulgar even for my jaded ears.

[Ecks Ecks Ringout Ecks Ecks]

So terrible, it was actually awesome. Boss Man was amazing as an over-the-top evil heel.

[mizerable]

Sept 4, 2013 20:28:44 GMT -5 Caglar13 said:

This may be my favorite feud of all time.

It's certainly up there for me too. Bossman was so goddamn mean. I wish more heels were evil for the sake of their own amusement with no reason to otherwise act like that.

[bob]

Easily one of my all time favorite bad wrestling feuds.

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Sept 4, 2013 23:07:02 GMT -5 mizerable said:

Sept 4, 2013 20:28:44 GMT -5 Caglar13 said:

This may be my favorite feud of all time.

It's certainly up there for me too. Bossman was so goddamn mean. I wish more heels were evil for the sake of their own amusement with no reason to otherwise act like that.

Big Boss Man and Jake Roberts are easily the two most evil heels in wrestling, and they both fit that description - just heeling it up for their own amusement, not because they believed they were right.

Jake was as close to a perfect heel as it gets, but Boss Man was so insanely, over-the-top, Eric Cartman-vs-Scott Tenorman-style evil that it was hilarious.

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The problem is that nowadays heels don't want to be too "evil" as they would lose out on t-shirt money, most heels try and do the whole cool to over 18's schtick as most the money to be made in the WWE is made on merch sales.

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Sept 4, 2013 23:37:32 GMT -5 @graant said:

The problem is that nowadays heels don't want to be too "evil" as they would lose out on t-shirt money, most heels try and do the whole cool to over 18's schtick as most the money to be made in the WWE is made on merch sales.

The funny thing, IMO, is that WWE seems intent on making sure heels get booed by having them be super freaking boring, but then, like you said, they turn around and sell t-shirts of them.

I might be biased, but I'd be much, much more likely to buy a t-shirt of an evil, yet seriously entertaining guy like Jake Roberts or Vader than of "Evil Corporate Guy in a Suit #20,395™"

[the2ndevil]

Believe it or not, this was the feud that got me back into wrestling after having not watched regularly since the Hulkamania days.

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I hear a lot of people refer to this as a "so bad its good" type of thing.

To me it's just good. That's the kind of stuff you should be seeing in wrestling. Not this boring shit where feuds just consist of people doing runins in the other guys match against a jobber.

[wisdomwizard]

Sept 5, 2013 20:54:40 GMT -5 @bootytime said:

I hear a lot of people refer to this as a "so bad its good" type of thing.

To me it's just good. That's the kind of stuff you should be seeing in wrestling. Not this boring shit where feuds just consist of people doing runins in the other guys match against a jobber.

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Agreed. So Bad Its Good implies that it was unintentionally hilarious. None of Bossman's shtick came across that way. They had to know how cartoon-y he was coming across, and that was exactly the point. They really need to do angles like this again. I really wish they would pack the roster into angles like this. It would even help some of the lower card guys get over.

[Mesousa287793]

"I'M SORRY YO DADDY'S DEAD!"

Hey, a crying Big Show that somehow is booked to be threatening! What a coinkidink!

But seriously, now seeing this promo again, DAMN, this is actually quite evil stuff, huh? Especially when Big Boss Man used tear gas to blind him at one point and even defeated The Rock(?!) to be the number one contender.

Unfortunately, my problem with the feud? The actual match. Back when I first saw it, I remember how anti-climactic that was. In fact, if the match lasted only about 20 seconds, I wouldn't have minded it because it'd be epic retaliation. Instead, they wasted 3 minutes with it. Yep. Anti-climax tot he max.

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I had forgotten that Albert was involved.

[bootytea]

The awkward silence when the Big Bossman`s music hit prutty much sums up how I felt after watching all of that for the first time.

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It still blows my mind that the Big Bossman was the most evil heel of all time. Not Kane, not The Undertaker, not Vince, not Jake the Snake, but Big f***ing Bossman!

[RIHT]

Anyone know why they did this? Why give Big Show the title then give him a feud with the Bossman of all people? Not bashing it, but still.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Sept 5, 2013 22:54:02 GMT -5 RIHT said:

Anyone know why they did this? Why give Big Show the title then give him a feud with the Bossman of all people? Not bashing it, but still.

I think HHH was still feuding with Rock at the time. Bossman was just a warm body to keep Show busy, and I suppose Vince decided that Show as champ wasn't working out so he put the title back on HHH as soon as he could.

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Sept 5, 2013 22:54:02 GMT -5 RIHT said:

Anyone know why they did this? Why give Big Show the title then give him a feud with the Bossman of all people? Not bashing it, but still.

Triple H was still feuding with the McMahons, and they obviously wanted to wait for Wrestlemania season before giving Rock and Foley title shots. Plus Bossman and Big Show already had a feud going on before Show won the belt.

It's like in 1998 when Rock won the WWF title, and at the next PPV he defended it against X-Pac of all people. It was just a filler feud before Rumble/Wrestlemania season.