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Post by James Fabiano on Aug 27, 2019 15:24:49 GMT -5
I'd be SHOCKED if it did.
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Post by Hit Girl on Aug 27, 2019 15:27:04 GMT -5
Nope.
It had to be Sarge.
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Post by Aceorton on Aug 28, 2019 13:41:18 GMT -5
Up until about the end of 1991, I think just about anything could have worked. Fans had not yet realized they could say, "Hey, wait a second. This is garbage."
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2019 15:59:54 GMT -5
I wish they would have called him the Iraqi Battleship just so Colonel Mustafa could say...HUK HOOGAN YOU SANK MY BATTLESHIP KAPEWIE
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Post by hargh on Aug 28, 2019 16:17:21 GMT -5
Trip and fall on face! Make him humble!
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Aug 28, 2019 16:24:22 GMT -5
Instead of toot toot, his sign off would be Saddam Hussein is my hero.
It'd be dastardly for someone to make a change like that.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2019 22:35:22 GMT -5
Sarge was so bad in that role that I feel like anyone else would have been better, but the entire storyline was garbage.
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Post by koreycaskets on Aug 29, 2019 0:59:18 GMT -5
I'm thinking a repackaged Shiek Greg Valentine would have worked though. Have Jimmy Hart running around praising Saddam Hussein into the megaphone.
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Post by celticjobber on Aug 29, 2019 3:58:12 GMT -5
I think it would've been shockingly bad.
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Post by abjordans on Aug 29, 2019 4:32:36 GMT -5
Going with Slaughter in that role is the only reason it worked to the degree it did, his notoriety and seeing him as a heel is the only reason that angle has been talked about this long.
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Post by timelimitdraw on Aug 29, 2019 9:50:24 GMT -5
Depends on how they positioned him. If it was literally Sheik Tugboat, no. If he was kidnapped and brainwashed to be an emotionally distant heel who barely spoke and annihilated every opponent? Sure, plus if you didn't want him to stick with that persona you have an out for the storyline down the road when Hogan knocks him out and he comes to, finally realizing everything that had been done to him and who he was forcibly transformed into against his will.
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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Aug 29, 2019 12:51:44 GMT -5
Seems like a rehash of an old AWA angle with Jerry Blackwell.
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Post by Kyle Butler on Aug 29, 2019 13:24:47 GMT -5
Iron Sheik: “They try to make Tugboat a sheik. I tell Mr. Vince McMahon ‘there’s only one sheik in W-W-F!’ So I go up to that punk jabroni and put him in the Camel Clutch...break his back...make him humble! Then he runs away from the Sheik to go be Master Shock! F***ing bullshit!!!”
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2019 13:31:37 GMT -5
I'm thinking a repackaged Shiek Greg Valentine would have worked though. Have Jimmy Hart running around praising Saddam Hussein into the megaphone. Jimmy Hart yelling "ALLAHU AKBAR, BABY!" thru that damn megaphone. I don't even know why I'm posting this but I am I'm sorry. |
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Post by doinkmark on Aug 29, 2019 18:04:53 GMT -5
It would've been better for Ottman's career by repackaging him as a more serious character with an eventual better career highlight than he has now, but this would've actually made the angle itself even worse than it was. It'd just be another Hogan vs big guy match. At least Slaughter, from a character standpoint, had a history of loving America before turning on it. That history wasn't there with Tugboat, so fans wouldn't have cared as much.
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