Allie Kitsune
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Always Feelin' Foxy.
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Dec 20, 2013 15:21:23 GMT -5
Buff was pretty, average, really.
Yeah, the goofy, obnxious, preening heel routine fit him, and he did a decent amount of moves, but there wasn't much flow to him at all, or much rhyme or reason to anything he did.
Buff Bagwell was pretty much served perfectly to be that obnoxious, goofy, mid-card tag team heel, where he could come in, do his thing, be entertainingly annoying, then get out before he wore out his welcome.
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Post by flatsdomino on Dec 20, 2013 19:24:41 GMT -5
If you watch the Great American Bash of 1999 (hint: don't) for one reason, just hear the INSANE pop Bagwell gets for running in on the Flair/Piper match and taking out Arn Anderson. The crowd is pretty much dead for the rest of the show, but then Buff shows up, and the place explodes. Then he starts no-selling Flair's chops and hulking up, and the place goes absolutely haywire. I personally never saw Buff as being main event, but he was over enough at several points - namely that and coming back from his neck injury, which, by the way, it's a wonder they even got a second chance to blow with Buff as a babyface after the way they cocked that one up by having him squander his massive sympathy face heat by immediately turning heel. In the summer of '99, though, during the proto-New Blood/Millionaires Club angle they were running with Flair as head of the old guys and Buff as head of the young guys, he could've been the fabled "new main eventer" that everyone seemed to be hoping for to break through the glass ceiling. Having Buff step up to Flair or win the belt from Savage (the two main heels at that time...somehow) would'nt have necessarily had some immediate tide-turning effect on the Monday Night Wars, but it could've started the rebuilding process after the tailspin of early-mid '99 by having a new guy who the fans were behind and could gain traction on top. Not that he would've been the savior of WCW or anything, but establishing and giving main-event credibility to a guy like Buff (and Benoit, and Booker T, and a couple of other guys who weren't completely wrecked by the summer like Raven and Jericho were) could've started WCW on the road to a comeback by early-mid 2000.
Instead, they brought in their idea of a big babyface savior...Hulk Hogan. And the tailspin continued.
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