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Post by Sephiroth on Dec 20, 2013 10:07:58 GMT -5
Does anyone actually know the full story behind this one? It reeks of just being another example of late WCW era booking: Rick Steiner beats his brother Scott and the Giant for the tag team titles all by himself-even though the Giant was actually holding the tag belts with Scott Hall, but hey one Scott and another are interchangeable, right? Then, rather than pick another star who has issues with the NWO to join him in feuding with his brother and another NWO member, he chooses perennial jobber Kenny Kaos to be his co-champion. Rick Steiner then goes out of action due to an injury, leaving Kenny Kaos to continue jobbing while holding one of the WCW tag team belts. The title is eventually declared vacant and new champions are determined in a tag team tournament that itself was another booking disaster. But still, I am curios to know if there was any kind of actual plan behind this. At the time I felt certain Rick Steiner was going to pick someone like Luger or Konnan, thereby joining the Wolf Pack and furthering the NWO vs NWO story that was still going on. Or maybe he could have picked Booker T to be his partner, thereby setting up a brother vs brother story by having him and Booker feud with Scott and Stevie Ray over the title. But instead he picked Kenny Kaos. Were they planning to give Kaos a push by putting a belt on him and getting him involved with the top story in WCW, but Steiner getting injured upended it? Or was this just another WCW brainfart?
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Post by TGM on Dec 20, 2013 12:29:08 GMT -5
I remember watching this as a kid. My first time experiencing disappointment.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2013 13:49:01 GMT -5
Wasn't this the same reign where Scott pick Buff Bagwell's mom to be his tag team partner too?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2013 14:05:47 GMT -5
How much did Robbie Rage suck to get passed over for such a prestigious position?
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Post by Banecat on Dec 20, 2013 15:03:07 GMT -5
High Voltage should have become the next Steiner Bros.
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Dec 20, 2013 15:10:16 GMT -5
Judy Bagwell became Kaos' partner at some point, and for the life of me, I still have no idea why HE got the mini-push and Rage didn't.
High Voltage were the Gunner and Murphy of their day...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2013 16:27:08 GMT -5
How much did Robbie Rage suck to get passed over for such a prestigious position? They started an angle between the 2 (they did the Kaos/Steiner thing while Rage was out with an injured rotator cuff) very briefly in December '98, but then dropped it quick and Rage got let go; Kaos would linger around in the lowcard until sometime in 2000.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Dec 20, 2013 16:54:00 GMT -5
I may be mistaken (not the first time for that), but I could have sworn the way it went down was correct in the OP up until Rick got injured. If memory serves, it was Kaos that got injured immediately after being named tag champ by Rick and never even defended the title with him, leaving Rick to choose another partner, who turned out to be Judy Bagwell.
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Post by ________ has left the building on Dec 20, 2013 16:58:17 GMT -5
I may be mistaken (not the first time for that), but I could have sworn the way it went down was correct in the OP up until Rick got injured. If memory serves, it was Kaos that got injured immediately after being named tag champ by Rick and never even defended the title with him, leaving Rick to choose another partner, who turned out to be Judy Bagwell. You're correct.
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Post by ________ has left the building on Dec 20, 2013 17:01:09 GMT -5
High Voltage should have become the next Steiner Bros. If this was Bizarro World. They were 2 juiced up muscleheads from the Power Plant who wrestled like they were in quicksand. Only thing memorable about them is the faux shocking taunt they did before a match.
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Post by Banecat on Dec 20, 2013 17:14:12 GMT -5
High Voltage should have become the next Steiner Bros. If this was Bizarro World. They were 2 juiced up muscleheads from the Power Plant who wrestled like they were in quicksand. Only thing memorable about them is the faux shocking taunt they did before a match. ...and that makes them any different then WCW era Steiner Bros? Scott was already juiced out of his mind then.
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Post by ________ has left the building on Dec 20, 2013 17:15:55 GMT -5
If this was Bizarro World. They were 2 juiced up muscleheads from the Power Plant who wrestled like they were in quicksand. Only thing memorable about them is the faux shocking taunt they did before a match. ...and that makes them any different then WCW era Steiner Bros? Scott was already juiced out of his mind then. The difference is the Steiners could wrestle and the fans actually gave a damn about them.
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Post by ratetankmark on Dec 20, 2013 17:29:47 GMT -5
The best thing about that was seeing Scott Steiner so out of control, his WCW psychopath role was the best of his career.
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Post by flatsdomino on Dec 20, 2013 19:13:43 GMT -5
WCW always seemed to deliberately push the worst young guys, like Kenny Kaos and Van Hammer, just so they could have proof that new guys wouldn't draw and could keep Hogan/Nash/Savage/Flair/Piper/Sting on top
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Post by SOR on Dec 20, 2013 19:15:00 GMT -5
WCW always seemed to want to push High Voltage a little bit to be honest. They were jobbers to the stars but there were many a WCW show in 1999 where they'd go over on some Lucha dudes.
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Post by Super Nintenjoe KBD on Dec 20, 2013 19:18:25 GMT -5
I remember watching this as a kid. My first time experiencing disappointment. Ha, glad your childhood went so well until that point. *Kenny Kaos comes out...* "so thats what it's like"
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Post by TGM on Dec 20, 2013 19:31:03 GMT -5
I remember watching this as a kid. My first time experiencing disappointment. Ha, glad your childhood went so well until that point. *Kenny Kaos comes out...* "so thats what it's like" I've not slept since.
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Post by Sephiroth on Dec 20, 2013 21:24:14 GMT -5
The best thing about that was seeing Scott Steiner so out of control, his WCW psychopath role was the best of his career. HUH?!?!?!?
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Post by lildude8218 on Dec 20, 2013 22:53:11 GMT -5
it's because Fire Ant was sick that day
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Dec 20, 2013 22:58:17 GMT -5
The title is eventually declared vacant and new champions are determined in a tag team tournament that itself was another booking disaster. On the bright side, WCW did end up establishing a pretty strong tag team division after the tournament, which served to be among the lone bright spots of WCW 1999, so I guess all was not lost.
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