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Post by evilhomer on Oct 22, 2017 21:13:55 GMT -5
Storm was one of those guys who made "boring" work. His delivery and the content just clicked and worked in ECW and WCW. WWE just couldn't generate the same magic, plus their refusal to let him use "If I can be serious for a moment" didn't help, so he did become bland and a bad boring. They did the Austin bit, I don't know what the intended direction was, (and my memory is fuzzy on where it actually went), but he just became a dancing idiot doing an act that didn't fit him and he didn't have the right talent for.
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Post by Lt. Palumbo on Oct 22, 2017 22:53:07 GMT -5
This directly resulted in Lance Storm's huge penis, so there's that.
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Post by Hit Girl on Oct 23, 2017 13:55:24 GMT -5
Austin should never have agreed to do this. You NEVER call anyone in wrestling boring.
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Post by Curtis_Axel_fan on Oct 23, 2017 15:41:38 GMT -5
Do I remember rightly that Austin came out & snored on the mic through an entire Storm match?
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Post by avenger on Oct 23, 2017 15:57:05 GMT -5
Do I remember rightly that Austin came out & snored on the mic through an entire Storm match? Pretty much, it's on Youtube, but not uploaded by the WWE, so I won't link. The plan was as stated above, but according to a Lance Storm blog, it was also planned so that fans would still chant 'boring' when Storm was turned babyface, in the way that fans had continued to chant 'you suck' to Angle after he was turned babyface, because someone backstage thought that if that happened, fans would stop chanting 'boring' during matches they found boring, too. I doubt it would have worked, but having Austin start it all off by saying that Storm sent him to sleep while Storm was wrestling (rather than while Storm was trying to cut a promo) really killed it from the start. The match was also Garrison Cade's debut, and they barely mentioned him (despite Cade winning because of Austin), which also hurt him as well.
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Post by Cry Me a Wiggle on Oct 23, 2017 16:10:28 GMT -5
They didn't need to do a damn thing different with Lance Storm. Just bring him in from WCW with the exact same gimmick intact and have him give the exact same promos. It would have gotten him over huge. What I find particularly frustrating is that Lance was one of Johnny Ace's pet projects during that final year of WCW, so I have no idea why WWE bungled him so badly.
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Post by crowley1986 on Oct 23, 2017 19:04:33 GMT -5
I thought they'd do more with Storm as he was similar to Benoit in the Ring but he could actually talk
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