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Post by kingoftheindies on Mar 17, 2019 21:44:34 GMT -5
How about PCO? Good look, size, good in the ring and agile as hell and he made the mistake of letting Jacques Rougeau tell him what to do, so he fell foul of the Kliq and spent his physical peak bouncing around, getting short stints in major promotions with Jacques but never really coming close to fulfilling his potential. Would he have been world champion? No, but he should have been an upper midcarder. PCO is an interesting one because when TNA was getting started they had planned a mega push for him as X back when he was in his mid 30s but something strange happened there. But I do think there would be a different view on him had he stayed on and been working with the X Division of that time and became one of the pioneers. This one is gonna be weird but I feel like after reinventing himself after his WWE release and being white hot for a year Sami Callihan has started resting on his laurels and is more interested in getting his friends jobs than improving
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Mar 20, 2019 18:31:39 GMT -5
Maybe. He had a great look, presence and decent in the ring, but I always thought he stalled in front of the mic. That didn't bode well for him in the era of big personalities that he came up in. Among people like Hogan, Flair, Sting, Rude, Hennig... I don't see Kerry being top drawer talent. I think he was just right at the I-C/US title level. Hard to say because "stalled in front of the mic" may have very well been synonymous with "in no condition to work" and there's really no way of knowing what percentage of the time he was messed up. Pretty much impossible to tell what a 100% clean and sober Kerry could've been capable of. Yeah but given we're talking about 80s wrestling, when NOBODY was clean and sober, that's kind of an indication of reaching a ceiling in the industry at the time, isn't it? I think it would have to be Sean O’Haire to me. He had a great look, solid build and he was decent in the ring. He had a good run in WCW but then they closed. They stuck him with Piper in WWE but had nothing for him once they released Piper for his comments on HBO’s Real Sports. He made one appearance in New Japan. He had one more dark match for WWE in 2006 and that was it. He also had an unsuccessful run at kickboxing and MMA. Then he battled alcoholism and got into a lot of fights. One fight resulted in him losing part of his vision. He also battled depression which unfortunately led to his suicide. I wish he would’ve stuck with wrestling. He could’ve grinded it out in TNA for a bit and found himself. He was still young. I think he could’ve gotten better and went back to WWE eventually. I really thought O’Haire could’ve been a big star. I thought the biggest downside to him was his name. Sean O’Haire just isn’t a strong enough wrestling name. Sid Vicious never would’ve gotten over as big as he did if he was called Sid Eudy. Sid Vicious just sounded cool. Dingo Warrior only went so far. The Ultimate Warrior became a world champion and one of the most memorable and important wrestlers of the 90s. Presentation and image matters in wrestling. I think a more marketable name would have helped him. I feel like O'Haire's name was fine, his major problem was he had poor impulse control, which may have been tied into some of the demons that led to his death. He'd get into fights with people at clubs and bars, and was too chaotic for a company to get behind him in a major way. He had a good look, talent even if he wasn't a prodigy or something, and was around in a good time for a guy with his skill set, but he would have been so much better off if he wasn't living the night life and getting into trouble. Also didn't help that his devil's advocate character wasn't really something that could translate to the ring much. "My god, O'Haire's come to the ring, and he's encouraged the referee to cheat on his taxes! By god almighty, what a hellacious matchup!" People say this about O'Haire, but you could say the same thing about Bray Wyatt. Bray doesn't work half the time because of bad writing, sure, but good writing for Bray or Sean O'Haire or what was his name, Waylon Mercy? The proto-Bray? All of these guys, you just have to book them right and the gimmick can translate. It also didn’t help that he face kicked a woman in a bar apparently. That didn't happen until three months after he left WWE. Goddamn I love Madison's fact bombs.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Mar 31, 2019 16:18:27 GMT -5
Austin Idol could have been a national star had he not committed to being a somewhat unreliable big fish in small ponds. Dude had everything needed at the time and he would have translated much better into WWF or Crockett/WCW worlds than many of the Memphis Mainstays did. Had he kept himself more deeply invested, he could have been right there with guys like Perfect, Rude and early WWF Savage.
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Post by Square on Mar 31, 2019 16:40:12 GMT -5
Low-Ki should have been the previous generation's Rey Mysterio
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Mar 31, 2019 17:06:37 GMT -5
Jack Swagger.
Was he gonna be a megastar? No. But He had the look, charisma and was very solid hand in the ring. Between the weed arrest before Mania and the inability of creative to book him right (his ECW run/title reign aside)
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