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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2013 7:00:21 GMT -5
Weren't they even called Too Much for a while as well? If memory serves, they were headed more towards what they ended up doing with Chuck and Billy instead, complete with a wedding. Yes, Scotty talked about it on AOW a few weeks ago. Brian Christopher wouldn't do it. The topper was that they were expected to do said-wedding at the St. Valentine's Day Massacre PPV, which was - fittingly - in Memphis. Yep, nothing like degrading yourself in the town where you first became a star. (As I understand it, they were taken off of TV for a while. One of them - probably Brian - was actually released, but brought back when cooler heads prevailed.)
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Sept 20, 2013 8:44:24 GMT -5
and it was actually Vince who nixed unfrozen nazi Heidenreich by, according to legend, after it was pitched just standing up and leaving the room without saying a word. I dont know why, but that story amuses me
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Sept 20, 2013 10:30:53 GMT -5
I dont know why, but that story amuses me After all the stuff he's approved or talked about, necrophilia, incest, depravity of all kinds, he just had no words.
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Post by carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army) on Sept 20, 2013 15:27:20 GMT -5
Earlier this year, I remember the board talking about an alien invasion storyline that was supposed to take place in WCW. The big payoff was to be the revelation that Mike Tenay was their leader; the camera would go to a grinning Tenay as antennae grew out of his head. Someone said that Disco Inferno had the whole thing laid out in storyboard form and actually pitched it to the creative team. Didn't Disco have a whole huge portfolio of insane booking ideas that he never got to use? I'm certain I've heard of him pitching an invisible wrestler, and even demonstrated how it would work by selling like a ping-pong ball for nobody?
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Post by derangedhermit on Sept 20, 2013 20:55:34 GMT -5
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Post by Cry Me a Wiggle on Sept 20, 2013 23:00:57 GMT -5
Earlier this year, I remember the board talking about an alien invasion storyline that was supposed to take place in WCW. The big payoff was to be the revelation that Mike Tenay was their leader; the camera would go to a grinning Tenay as antennae grew out of his head. Someone said that Disco Inferno had the whole thing laid out in storyboard form and actually pitched it to the creative team. Didn't Disco have a whole huge portfolio of insane booking ideas that he never got to use? I'm certain I've heard of him pitching an invisible wrestler, and even demonstrated how it would work by selling like a ping-pong ball for nobody? Russo's mentioned this in one of his books and his various online shoots. He brought Disco in on the creative team in 2000 because his view of the wrestling business made him smile so much over how refreshingly non-serious it was.
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Post by mybraveface on Sept 21, 2013 6:06:12 GMT -5
In 1992, Bobby Heenan was making cracks around election time about running for president himself. Obviously, these were just cracks, but an angle where Heenan actually DID run for president would've been golden.
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Post by Gummydavidson on Sept 21, 2013 6:40:31 GMT -5
Surprised nobody mentioned the slavery angle involving Christian.
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Post by BRAINFADE on Sept 21, 2013 7:23:22 GMT -5
In 1992, Bobby Heenan was making cracks around election time about running for president himself. Obviously, these were just cracks, but an angle where Heenan actually DID run for president would've been golden. Licence to print money.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Sept 21, 2013 7:23:45 GMT -5
Surprised nobody mentioned the slavery angle involving Christian. that wasn't an angle, it was a Newz story
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2013 7:41:59 GMT -5
I thought the Goldust implants idea was his own though I wouldn't put it past Vince to have thought about it. That's the story Dustin tells. He came up with it but Vince told him no ...then Vince and Co. decided what was "best for business" was to plug an angle on Shotgun Saturday Night. "Next week, Goldust gives birth". Um...yeah.
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Post by nickcave on Sept 21, 2013 16:32:09 GMT -5
Was it Johnny Parisi that pitched some insane idea where he would compete in the women's division and win the title and that would somehow lead him to beating Triple H and winning the World Heavyweight title as well? I'm kind of fuzzy on the details here.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Sept 21, 2013 18:42:53 GMT -5
I've not read it since the book was first out so I genuinely can't remember the tone or context, so he might have been joking. But in The Hardcore Diaries Mick Foley said that he pitched an angle to Vince that he enter the Rumble and win it because he's not on a particular brand and challenge both champions at Mania to become undisputed champion. It's such a colossally assholish booking idea to pitch for yourself that it just seems out of character for Mick. I know Mick is a shameless self promoter, has outstayed his welcome in many ways and is VERY aware of his own value, but even so that angle seemed a bit much.
But then he does use his writing for satirical, ridiculous ideas at times so maybe he was joking. Given the general sour tone of that book I genuinely wouldn't be surprised either way.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2013 18:58:47 GMT -5
Leave it to the Walt Disney of professional wrestling to almost give us a cryogenically frozen Nazi! Walt Disney wasn't an anti-semite, and it was actually Vince who nixed unfrozen nazi Heidenreich by, according to legend, after it was pitched just standing up and leaving the room without saying a word. I almost wish that there was cameras for that meeting, with a montage of the writer doing various Nazi gestures inter cut with the horrid reactions of the writers with no sound (Heyman facepalm, Steph's jaw on the floor, Hayes laughing). After it is all done the camera cuts to the horrified faces of the writers finally stopping on Vince. Vince slowly gets up, grabs his jacket and cabbie hat and leaves for the day. Vince spends the rest of his day petting his cat.
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Post by Reflecto on Sept 21, 2013 19:20:20 GMT -5
I've not read it since the book was first out so I genuinely can't remember the tone or context, so he might have been joking. But in The Hardcore Diaries Mick Foley said that he pitched an angle to Vince that he enter the Rumble and win it because he's not on a particular brand and challenge both champions at Mania to become undisputed champion. It's such a colossally assholish booking idea to pitch for yourself that it just seems out of character for Mick. I know Mick is a shameless self promoter, has outstayed his welcome in many ways and is VERY aware of his own value, but even so that angle seemed a bit much. But then he does use his writing for satirical, ridiculous ideas at times so maybe he was joking. Given the general sour tone of that book I genuinely wouldn't be surprised either way. Being fair, it was clear, even in the tone or context, that the reason Foley pitched that angle to Vince was because Foley knew it was such a colossally assholish booking idea for himself that he knew firsthand that Vince would immediately refuse it, so that Foley could then pitch the real idea he wanted all along (which became his feud with Randy Orton) and have Vince agree to run with it.
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Post by lildude8218 on Sept 21, 2013 22:32:19 GMT -5
speaking of Bobby Heenan as President, there were rumors going around that he was going to be coming into WCW in the role that eventually went to Nick Bockwinkel.
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Post by Jeremy on Sept 21, 2013 22:53:54 GMT -5
I doubt there was a storyline there; that was a time-honored tradition with announcers and masked men, being on the verge of deducing their identity on their style, movement, etc., but never quite figuring it out. Homicide knowing who Suicide is
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Sept 22, 2013 7:39:52 GMT -5
I doubt there was a storyline there; that was a time-honored tradition with announcers and masked men, being on the verge of deducing their identity on their style, movement, etc., but never quite figuring it out. Homicide knowing who Suicide is They should have had a stable with those 2 and Sabu.
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Post by tms on Sept 22, 2013 9:31:14 GMT -5
Earlier this year, I remember the board talking about an alien invasion storyline that was supposed to take place in WCW. The big payoff was to be the revelation that Mike Tenay was their leader; the camera would go to a grinning Tenay as antennae grew out of his head. Someone said that Disco Inferno had the whole thing laid out in storyboard form and actually pitched it to the creative team. Didn't Disco have a whole huge portfolio of insane booking ideas that he never got to use? I'm certain I've heard of him pitching an invisible wrestler, and even demonstrated how it would work by selling like a ping-pong ball for nobody? Disco Inferno just skyrocketed to the top of my "coolest wrestlers ever" list, and I'm dead serious. This stuff is brilliant!
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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Sept 22, 2013 9:55:14 GMT -5
Homicide knowing who Suicide is They should have had a stable with those 2 and Sabu. Managed by Rellik(killer spelled backwards)
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