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Post by thegame415 on Feb 15, 2019 19:06:53 GMT -5
Some get brought in and are pushed in the main event picture right away, others stay in the lower to middle card forever. What are some examples of stars who literally started working opening shows to main event status?
I think Rock and Triple H are both great examples in the sense their feud literally went all over the card.
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Post by chrom on Feb 15, 2019 19:11:26 GMT -5
Bret went from Jobber, to ditching a deadend Cowboy gimmick, to teaming with Neidhart, to IC champ, to World Champion
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Post by Magnus the Magnificent on Feb 15, 2019 19:12:17 GMT -5
Austin's WWE career went from curtain jerking to Top 3 Most Over Ever in the span of two years.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2019 19:12:26 GMT -5
I think Edge is a good example. Started out not really doing much of anything of importance, then him and Christian started catching on with the ladder matches and their eventual heel turn, then splintered off as a solo guy, didn't really take as a top face so got turned heel and continued rising, got the belt as a fluky test run, and then quickly settled into a go-to for it. Pretty much remained upwardly mobile for his entire WWE run.
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Post by Schizo on Feb 15, 2019 19:28:11 GMT -5
Jinder!
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Post by Joe Neglia on Feb 15, 2019 19:49:11 GMT -5
I think Edge is a good example. Started out not really doing much of anything of importance, then him and Christian started catching on with the ladder matches and their eventual heel turn, then splintered off as a solo guy, didn't really take as a top face so got turned heel and continued rising, got the belt as a fluky test run, and then quickly settled into a go-to for it. Pretty much remained upwardly mobile for his entire WWE run. He's really not though. He came with a good push, and was almost immediately paired up with one of their biggest acts, Sable. Edge started in WWF somewhere in the middle, nowhere near the bottom.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2019 19:50:47 GMT -5
Jeff Hardy was literally a jobber when he first started.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2019 19:51:09 GMT -5
I think Edge is a good example. Started out not really doing much of anything of importance, then him and Christian started catching on with the ladder matches and their eventual heel turn, then splintered off as a solo guy, didn't really take as a top face so got turned heel and continued rising, got the belt as a fluky test run, and then quickly settled into a go-to for it. Pretty much remained upwardly mobile for his entire WWE run. He's really not though. He came with a good push, and was almost immediately paired up with one of their biggest acts, Sable. Edge started in WWF somewhere in the middle, nowhere near the bottom. Fair point, but then he nonsensically joined the Brood and was a random Ministry minion for awhile. Does go against my initial point though so that's fair.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Feb 15, 2019 20:03:04 GMT -5
Took a break from wrestling for awhile and was shocked to come back and find Edge was now main eventing cards. Dude absolutely showed he deserved it though.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2019 20:25:04 GMT -5
Jeff Hardy.
Dude was brought in as a jobber as a teen. Slowly got over in little tag team showcases until the ladder matches started. Won the IC title from HHH in an underdog story and ended up finally winning the title after about a year (maybe less? This part is iffy as I wasn't watching weekly at the time) of chasing it. He was also probably the most over person they had for a good 6 months at least.
Daniel Bryan is one who I think fits as well. The only arguments I could see is his redebut against Nexus was fairly high on the card and that he had a story in NXT (which most didn't even if they outlasted him). If you include NXT then he began at the lowest of the low on a losing streak to rookies before slowly working his way up the card. He held damn near every title on his rise up the card.
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Post by Error on Feb 15, 2019 21:06:41 GMT -5
My first thought was DDP, at least in WCW.
Cena is an interesting case too. Came in with the Angle thing, fell off the map, then became one of the biggest starts in WWE history.
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Post by Zen411 on Feb 15, 2019 21:43:21 GMT -5
Shawn Michaels went from a tag team specialist to the ic title to the world title. When the rockers first came in they weren't exactly the top of the card. They were just a fun high flying team and never won the titles on tv.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Feb 15, 2019 23:24:41 GMT -5
Cena? Started at the bottom in developmental working his way to being a top prospect, got a short push but then fell off a cliff really fast, got rebranded into a midcard heel that flirted with the main event scene but not enough to break the glass ceiling, turned face by popular demand which eventually allowed him to break through after a pretty significant run with the US title.
It wasn't quite as long of an odyssey as others, but I'm pretty sure he was on every rung of the ladder at some point.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Feb 15, 2019 23:27:47 GMT -5
Mick Foley.
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Post by Stu on Feb 16, 2019 0:27:47 GMT -5
Miz
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Post by Zen411 on Feb 16, 2019 4:53:04 GMT -5
And truthfully, miz did it twice. Started off barely on the show and kind of hosting smackdown. Moved to tag titles to world title. After mania 27, they demoted him to lower card status pretty quick. He kept working at it and developed the a lister gimmick and let to ic title reigns and can easily be considered main event now.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Feb 16, 2019 5:42:36 GMT -5
Mentioned already but Bret Hart immediately jumped to mind.
Not exactly main event but X-Pac should get a honorable mention. From jobber without even a consistent name to a few title wins across the board and a damn good career and the benchmark, Jericho had to run his matches passed him before he even got out there.
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Post by Heeltown, USA on Feb 16, 2019 8:58:29 GMT -5
DDP was a frickin manager and eventually became World Champion, organically getting over alongthe way.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Feb 16, 2019 13:25:53 GMT -5
Harley Race I think was enhancement talent in the carnivals.
Bret was so selfish because he spent the first eight years of his wwe run as an underneath guy, that’s why he didn’t liked doing jobs.
Jinder went from getting killed by El Torito to killing the business as Smackdown champ.
I don’t think they ever wanted Miz to wrestle but the host shit failed so much that they didn’t have a choice.
Jerry Lynn admitted that he was basically trained to put people over.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2019 13:33:36 GMT -5
Curt Hennig started in the lower midcard in AWA and WWF, then became AWA Champion, then IC champion, then was becoming part of the main event picture in '93 before he went on hiatus.
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