J. Hova
Don Corleone
Emotionally exhausted and morally bankrupt
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Post by J. Hova on Dec 24, 2018 17:04:29 GMT -5
They booked themselves into a corner with Warrior and had no way to get anything compelling with him. You can only have Rick Rude bump all over the ring for him for so long until fans get tired of it. Say what you will about Hulk Hogan, but he could at least have some decent ring work (it's still unfortunate that they wouldn't let him work like he did in Japan). He wasn't an entrance and that was it. I can't believe that with all of the brains they had working in the office at the time (Patterson, McMahon, Prichard, Brisco, Dillon, etc.) that someone didn't raise their hand and say, "You do realize this guy is quite possibly the worst worker in the business, right? He hurts people, his offense looks like shit, he can't sell, and his promos are like a bad acid trip. We don't have anyone to work with him, either." It didn't help matters that Hogan was still the guy, but what else could they do? Work rate and that doesn't change the numbers. Financial year 89/90, Warrior was outdrawing Hulkster in merchandise and house show circuit, so on paper it was the right time to put the title on him as he was the company's biggest draw, and Hogan was thinking of time off and Hollywood anyway. I think the Undertaker debuted six months too late, otherwise the Warrior reign could have been salvaged. I'll agree to a point that it doesn't change matters and Warrior was super over during the build up, but you need to have something to back up. If the bell rings and people can't believe you, it will fizzle eventually. It would have been salvaged if while building up Warrior vs. Hogan they were concurrently doing the heel machine thing with someone like Big Boss Man, Earthquake, Andre, UT, etc. to have legit threats to Warrior. They forgot what made them successful. |
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Post by ANuclearError on Dec 24, 2018 20:14:12 GMT -5
I think the Undertaker debuted six months too late, otherwise the Warrior reign could have been salvaged. He was still in WCW until at least September/October, so it'd take some booking to get around that. |
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