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Post by hulksmash87 on Jan 3, 2017 13:40:48 GMT -5
Why didn't they leave him in the horseman?
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Post by Big Bad Kahuna on Jan 3, 2017 13:47:46 GMT -5
HENNIG! HORSEMEN!
Okay, now that I got that out of the way....short version: Bischoff didn't like Flair too much (Hogan probably neither), so he kept burying Flair and the Horsemen, while pushing the NWO as hard as possible
Hence War Games 97, where Hennig made Flair and the Horsemen look like clueless idiots (kayfabe)
Horsemen were disbanded quietly after this, and only reunited in Sept. 98 when Flair returned
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Post by The Thread Barbi on Jan 3, 2017 13:47:55 GMT -5
It would be inappropriate
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Post by cabbageboy on Jan 3, 2017 13:57:52 GMT -5
Flair/Hennig is one of those obviously easy feuds that WCW just never quite did right. I think Flair's injury in late 97 hurt it, since it was supposed to blow off at Starrcade but DDP ended up in that spot instead. I actually thought the Hennig turn was very well done, it's just that it led to nothing.
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Post by Larryhausen on Jan 3, 2017 14:28:24 GMT -5
He wasn't worthy of Arn Anderson's spot.
Not his dog Spot, not his liver spot, but his spot.
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Post by ________ has left the building on Jan 3, 2017 14:30:05 GMT -5
On a side note, I loved his tag team with Barry Windham. Ended too soon.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Jan 3, 2017 14:31:41 GMT -5
I actually thought the Hennig turn was very well done Really? I dunno man, I thought everyone and their mother could see the heel turn coming a mile away |
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Post by hulksmash87 on Jan 3, 2017 14:33:02 GMT -5
I guess since a feud with flair went nowhere it seemed logical to me to have him be a horseman he was lost in the nwo shuffle
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Post by chronocross on Jan 3, 2017 14:59:21 GMT -5
I actually thought the Hennig turn was very well done Really? I dunno man, I thought everyone and their mother could see the heel turn coming a mile away At the time I didn't, he had tagged with Flair vs nWo in matches leading up to it, probably the night of the PPV for me where he was mysteriously hurt and didn't want anyone to sub for him. |
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Post by JTG Fan on Jan 3, 2017 15:15:53 GMT -5
He should have stayed in the Horsemen, but an nWo turn was probably inevitable anyway.
I'm a big fan of Hennig, but he really was broken down in WCW, having a few solid matches in 97 and then rapidly deteriorating after that. He was best suited for tag team action like the Windham teaming that Bad News mentioned.
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Post by domrep on Jan 3, 2017 16:28:10 GMT -5
I'm up through the Luger title win on Nitro, and as much as WCW made Hennig a big deal, the fans didn't really respond to him. They could have gotten some extra mileage out of the horsemen/Curt's career if he had stayed with them instead of doing the turn.
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Post by y4j1981 on Jan 3, 2017 17:11:05 GMT -5
I agree I thought Hennig as a Horsemen was fine. And I thought the group as Flair, Hennig, Benoit, Mongo Malenko with Arn (real part time), Woman, and Rude as Managers/Valets would have been great.
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Post by BobW on Jan 3, 2017 17:11:27 GMT -5
At least he gave us this
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Post by Squirrel Master on Jan 4, 2017 8:21:14 GMT -5
Curt in the role of manager and mentor to the late Bobby Duncum Jr. certainly would have been money.
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