Renslayer
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Post by Renslayer on Feb 15, 2015 23:35:30 GMT -5
Quick heel run with lots of interference to help lengthen her title run? Could've worked a little bit
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Post by Hit Girl on Feb 16, 2015 0:45:10 GMT -5
No
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Post by Ryushinku on Feb 16, 2015 4:34:11 GMT -5
No. Could I have seen them doing it? Mmmmaybe, though I have big doubts. They could've done it just to try to be controversial, but she would've been a lousy champion and it quickly would've been seen as the mistake it was. So not legit.
Chyna did a lot of notable things, and I do think her career is HoF worthy even if personal problems are working against her at present.
But she's never been much good on the mic, and while she's strong enough to do spots with guys she was a generally mediocre worker that had to be hand-held through actual matches. That's not really the recipe for memorable title runs.
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Post by Hit Girl on Feb 16, 2015 5:03:45 GMT -5
Chyna should never have fought men. They couldn't punch her, so how does it work? Her IC title reign was the death of the title, which had already been devalued greatly.
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Post by Hobby Drifter on Feb 16, 2015 5:59:09 GMT -5
I wonder what it would have been like...It's
*dream sequence haze*
First up, she'd need the right opponent. Nobody is going to believe Chyna took the title from late 90's Steve Austin. It'd probably have to be somebody who relies a lot on cheating to win (so she'd have something to exploit). Let's say that the champ was HHH (first run).
Chyna would need to be absolutely decimating women, left and right. I mean, like, Goldberg jobber-squashing ladies. She'd also need to be putting on convincing matches against lower-card men.
HHH could say some garbage like he'll only defend the belt against somebody who's never held it before. There'd be a battle royal to determine the winner, with Chyna (a surprised entrant) coming out on top.
With a month leading up to the championship match, Chyna would be shown training. She's been crushing women and smaller dudes, but against a heavyweight, her regular stuff isn't going to work. She'd be shown getting advice from a who's-who of wrestlers, male and female, past and present. Fabulous Moolah, Freddie Blassie, Mick Foley, and finally HBK. Her strategy will be to surive HHH's offense and wait for the opening where he's vulnerable.
The match comes and it's pretty heavily booked. HHH tries to give Chyna an easy out. When that doesn't work, he tries to get himself quickly DQ'd, but to no avail. Finally, HHH just starts unloading on Chyna, but every time he goes for the Pedigree, she either blocks it or rolls out of the ring. This couldn't be like one of those matches where people kick out of a boatload of finishers. That's unbelievable. Chyna could not kick out of any of HHH's power moves, especially not the Pedigree. As planned, Chyna waits for Hunter to slip up once, and he does, allowing her to nail a quick headshot and roll him up for a three count.
Chyna gets a huge celebration. She does the talk show circuit. She's not some side-show anymore. She's the WWE (WWF, whatever) champion. The first ever woman to compete for, let alone WIN it. The stories that she wrote about in her book captivate the late 90's trash-TV audiences. She's the ultimate in Girl Power.
Then, a month later, HHH, no longer screwing around, gets his rematch and absolutely mauls her. Think that beat-down on Lita but even more intense. He takes the title back from Chyna and has all the heat associated with remorselessly destroying a woman on PPV heaped atop his character. Chyna waives her right to a rematch, but reveals that she did so on the condition that she got to hand-pick HHH's next opponent, and it's one of the people who helped her get ready for her title match, Mick Foley, Cactus Jack.
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Post by Martin: #TeamBella Treasurer on Feb 16, 2015 7:10:19 GMT -5
Weren't they heading towards Austin vs. Chyna at Summerslam 99? I could see her challenging for it, but never as the champion. I think it was more just a plot point to fill an episode of Raw, and to bring Mick Foley, who beat her for her number one contender's spot, into the main event. I don't think they were actually going to do it, especially with Governor Jesse Ventura being brought in to ref the main event. But in the hot potato period of 1999, why not? If they weren't ahead of WCW by that point, they might have went for it to pop a rating. |
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Post by Amazing Kitsune on Feb 16, 2015 7:15:40 GMT -5
With the right angle? Sure. Her Intercontinental reign was decently received by casual fans, as I recall.
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Post by TGM on Feb 16, 2015 10:30:48 GMT -5
I think it would have been good to give her a Kane style one night reign, defeating HHH.
As a real champion representing WWE? No sorry.
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Post by Johnny Flamingo on Feb 16, 2015 11:08:05 GMT -5
I'm going to say no, she wasn't very good in the ring (and pretty bad on the mic) and got severely exposed once she got in the ring with Jericho and Holly (who were both very good workers). If Holly and Jericho can't carry you to a good match then I can't see a title run as any more than a massive disaster.
Once the better female wrestlers came in (Trish, Victoria, Lita, Molly) I feel that Chyna really lost a lot of her luster. She had lost her physique (which is what she was known for) and had to rely on her in-ring work which wasn't exceptionally good and nowhere near the performances of those four.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Feb 16, 2015 12:40:33 GMT -5
In '99/'00? Worse workers who are less over than her have held it. Even in the old days of one belt. It could fairly be argued that she was actually a better worker than Big Show at the time and more over too and he held it that year.
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Post by abjordans on Feb 16, 2015 13:01:27 GMT -5
No,her penis is smaller than Seth Rollins.
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Post by Mid-Carder on Feb 16, 2015 13:03:19 GMT -5
No. She did incredibly well to be IC champion but she reached her limit
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Post by Johnny Flamingo on Feb 16, 2015 13:05:19 GMT -5
In '99/'00? Worse workers who are less over than her have held it. Even in the old days of one belt. It could fairly be argued that she was actually a better worker than Big Show at the time and more over too and he held it that year. Difference is that the Show is freakishly big and even with big male wrestlers has a very impressive size. He is like Andre in the fact that it is believable (at the time) that he could destroy someone with one move. He threw Austin through the cage which was pretty impressive. Chyna looked average against male wrestlers, even more-so with the weight loss. Some main event wrestlers have had limited movesets (Warrior, Hogan, road Warriors) but they were able to make it up by being large than life, Chyna didn't have that which I why I think she would ultimately fail. Also considering she was getting booed as a face against Holly and Jericho, I just don't see it. |
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