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Post by Sephiroth on Mar 25, 2019 19:54:24 GMT -5
Remembering this thanks to the thread about the Undertaker vs Undertaker feud. Easily one of the worst heel stables of all time, IMO. Which is more the pity, as the idea of DiBiase as the mastermind of a group of heels was not entirely terrible in and of itself. But it needed better and more consistent members, and also to actually DO something. But I suppose it does still have a special place for introducing us to Xanta Clause and being the start of a WWF Steve Austin.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Mar 25, 2019 20:14:51 GMT -5
The only good part was mocking Nickedime Volkoff but the rest sucked.
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Post by HMARK Center on Mar 25, 2019 20:32:41 GMT -5
It's interesting to look back at that time and see how the WWF was trying to redeploy so many "golden age" wrestlers as managers and whatnot - DiBiase with the Million $ Corporation, Sheiky Baby managing the Sultan, Hillbilly Jim with the Godwins, etc. Interesting to think how things could've been handled differently to make that all work better.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2019 20:42:11 GMT -5
The only good part was mocking Nickedime Volkoff but the rest sucked. I used to laugh my ass off at Volkoff’s cent sign t shirt.
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Post by Main Event Mark on Mar 25, 2019 20:45:55 GMT -5
Tatanka sold out!
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Mar 25, 2019 20:50:30 GMT -5
The only good part was mocking Nickedime Volkoff but the rest sucked. I used to laugh my ass off at Volkoff’s cent sign t shirt. “Property of the million dollar man” That was cold. Those jobbers could rival the Paul Jones army as the worst faction ever.
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Post by BorneAgain on Mar 25, 2019 20:52:51 GMT -5
While the company had utilized three man teams or groups like the Heenan Family before, the Million Dollar Corporation was WWE's first real stable, and it showed. They never really felt threatening, never held a single championship, and even felt lesser than a smaller group like Camp Cornette. It was a telling sign of what a non-entity they were when DiBiase jumped to WCW and they put him to far better use as a wealthy financier of a heel group than the WWF ever did.
Heck even though the nWo were presented as spraypaint wielding thugs destroying public property, the undercurrent of how they were dastardly heels whose money had real influence (buying off babyfaces, purchasing air time) felt executed much more efficiently that the Million Dollar Corporation managed.
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Post by Rumble McSkirmish on Mar 25, 2019 23:31:00 GMT -5
I remember back then when the Corporation first started WWF magazine ran an article about Doink The Clown being a possible potential member.
In hindsight that could have been a good way to turn the character heel again with Doink being DiBiase's personal paid prank monkey (kind of like that episode of the Simpsons where Mr. Burns paid off Homer to be well a prank monkey.)
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Post by repomark on Mar 26, 2019 4:17:02 GMT -5
While the company had utilized three man teams or groups like the Heenan Family before, the Million Dollar Corporation was WWE's first real stable, and it showed. They never really felt threatening, never held a single championship, and even felt lesser than a smaller group like Camp Cornette. It was a telling sign of what a non-entity they were when DiBiase jumped to WCW and they put him to far better use as a wealthy financier of a heel group than the WWF ever did. Heck even though the nWo were presented as spraypaint wielding thugs destroying public property, the undercurrent of how they were dastardly heels whose money had real influence (buying off babyfaces, purchasing air time) felt executed much more efficiently that the Million Dollar Corporation managed. They did win championships - as IRS and Bam Bam were tag team champs I believe. They existed from 94 - 95 but during that time were involved in upper card/main event feuds throughout, albeit with little success. Bam Bam had the main event at Wrestlemania 11 v LT; Sid was a high profile challenger for Diesel; Kama melted the urn down and made a necklace; Tatanka sold out Lex Luger. The protracted feud with the Undertaker always kept them relevant. It should have been Luger that joined them instead of Tatanka - as heel Luger could have been an instant main event recruit. Probably one of these factions that never quite reached the heights they should have, as Dibiase in paper should have been gold as a manager, but I still look back on them fondly.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Mar 26, 2019 4:20:12 GMT -5
While the company had utilized three man teams or groups like the Heenan Family before, the Million Dollar Corporation was WWE's first real stable, and it showed. They never really felt threatening, never held a single championship, and even felt lesser than a smaller group like Camp Cornette. It was a telling sign of what a non-entity they were when DiBiase jumped to WCW and they put him to far better use as a wealthy financier of a heel group than the WWF ever did. Heck even though the nWo were presented as spraypaint wielding thugs destroying public property, the undercurrent of how they were dastardly heels whose money had real influence (buying off babyfaces, purchasing air time) felt executed much more efficiently that the Million Dollar Corporation managed. They did win championships - as IRS and Bam Bam were tag team champs I believe. They existed from 94 - 95 but during that time were involved in upper card/main event feuds throughout, albeit with little success. Bam Bam had the main event at Wrestlemania 11 v LT; Sid was a high profile challenger for Diesel; Kama melted the urn down and made a necklace; Tatanka sold out Lex Luger. The protracted feud with the Undertaker always kept them relevant. It should have been Luger that joined them instead of Tatanka - as heel Luger could have been an instant main event recruit. Probably one of these factions that never quite reached the heights they should have, as Dibiase in paper should have been gold as a manager, but I still look back on them fondly. Nope, only title any of them ever held was Steve Austin's Million Dollar Championship.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Mar 26, 2019 4:33:03 GMT -5
Aside from the bulletproof Sid, everyone involved in that faction lost credibility and ended up feeling like a tag guy at best. It was the WWE counterpart to WCW's Dungeon of Doom, a pipeline of guys to job to Shawn and Diesel as they were to Hogan.
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Post by auph10imitated on Mar 26, 2019 7:59:18 GMT -5
The storyline between Lex Luger & Tatanka should have been backwards, and the swerve should have been Lex Luger going heel and becoming the top man in the Corporation. Then have Bam Bam Bigelow and King Kong Bundy as the stable's tag team, IRS as the middle card guy, then when Sid came back have him join as the muscle. Tatanka was simply a better babyface.
I would have had Bigelow & Bundy take the tag tites from The Headshrinkers instead of Diesel & Shawn who didnt need the titles and give the stable a bit of gold.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2019 8:12:37 GMT -5
It was an odd mishmash of guys and everyone is right that Luger should have been the one to turn. That would have given the stable the legitimacy that it needed, and I feel like people would have been ready to cheer a babyface Tatanka vs. sellout Luger. Honestly, I never thought much of DiBiase as a manager, but with Luger as the stable's top hand and a solid tag team plus maybe Bigelow as the stable enforcer, the Million $ Corporation could have been much better.
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Post by thecrusherwi on Mar 26, 2019 8:30:17 GMT -5
Awful stable. It even made Sid look like a jobber and that’s hard to do.
I did like Tatanka’s theme with his battle cry intro followed immediately by “HAHAHAHA Money Money Money Money Moneyyyyyyyyyeeeyyy”
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Post by auph10imitated on Mar 26, 2019 8:45:27 GMT -5
Tatanka was already pretty over but he would have gotten over much more as the babyface in the story against sell out Luger. Luger was a better heel and with Dibiase as a manager he would have been perfect to be the top guy of the Corporation. He could have worn his 1997 black trunks with a dollar sign on.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2019 9:42:22 GMT -5
It was always odd to me that IRS went from being DiBiase's tag partner (the word "partner" being key, since one could assume a partner in business as well) to one of his goons/jackboots. Not like his key guy, just one of the crew.
Dozens of other problems, yet that stuck out as a reason the group didn't work - and indeed, overall it wasn't a group that was well thought out. It was just a stable of randos. One would think an evil millionaire heel would've put a better group together; made them and him worse in hindsight.
.....I always wondered if they could've done a "it all falls apart" storyline end to the group. DiBiase banks on certain successes, it fails, people bail, his fortunes wane and bad replacements just cost him more and more and more. Instead, he just leaves after the group fades away into nothing and the one guy he managed loses to Savio Vega. So in the end it....did all fall apart, just not in an interesting way.
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Post by agent817 on Mar 26, 2019 9:53:36 GMT -5
Not to derail the topic, but Tatanka's heel turn sounds like a Russo swerve. Was he booking for them at the time, or was he Vic Venom, the editor for the magazine at the time? That angle has Russo written all over it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2019 10:34:32 GMT -5
Not to derail the topic, but Tatanka's heel turn sounds like a Russo swerve. Was he booking for them at the time, or was he Vic Venom, the editor for the magazine at the time? That angle has Russo written all over it. Russo wasn't booking yet I don't believe. It was actually one of the better and more suspenseful angles of its day, so definitely not Russo. Although, in the end I'm not sure it made much sense... since the whole goal was to frame Luger as if he sold out, only to be like "NAH I sold out!" So, what was Tatanka's and DiBiase's endgame?
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Post by auph10imitated on Mar 26, 2019 11:15:58 GMT -5
Russo wasnt booking then, although he was Vic Venom.
I appreciated the swerve idea which was not common back then, but it was a bad decision, this was a good chance to push Luger as a top heel after the babyface failure. Tatanka was fine as he was, and him as the face certainly would have faired better.
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Post by chrom on Mar 26, 2019 11:20:23 GMT -5
Tatanka joined them because he was a Native American and Native Americans own Casinos or something like that
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