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Post by Psicofreak667 on Aug 3, 2020 16:28:04 GMT -5
Dave Taylor made an entire WCW career out of "We like pushing Steven Regal but we don't have anything for him in singles, let's get Taylor out of mothballs and put them in the tag division for a while". His WWE run was pretty much the same thing. Taylor was a good hand in the ring and from most accounts a great guy behind the scenes, but he wasn't burdened with a surplus of charisma and needed to associate with Regal for some charisma rub-off.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Aug 4, 2020 16:14:45 GMT -5
Dave Taylor made an entire WCW career out of "We like pushing Steven Regal but we don't have anything for him in singles, let's get Taylor out of mothballs and put them in the tag division for a while". His WWE run was pretty much the same thing. Taylor was a good hand in the ring and from most accounts a great guy behind the scenes, but he wasn't burdened with a surplus of charisma and needed to associate with Regal for some charisma rub-off. This is absolutely true. One of my earliest wrestling memories is of the trio of Adams, Regal and 'the other one.' I marked out that he was in WWE but was utterly baffled because he seems totally the wrong fit. By the same token, in that Road Dogg WWE YouTube show, when they had the puppet Mark Who is Smart? When one of his t-shirts said 'Dave Taylor' on it, I don't think any WWE joke has ever made me laugh that hard.
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Post by msc on Aug 4, 2020 17:42:54 GMT -5
It's cool to see some of the underrated older hands get one last shot*. The Regal and Taylor team were perfectly serviceable and had some fun matches with London and Kendrick. Plus his whole "man afraid of heights in a ladder match" thing was great.
*Hell, MVP is showing that right now.
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Post by Wardlow on Wardlow 54 on Aug 6, 2020 20:41:37 GMT -5
Road Warrior Animal, Regal, Taylor, Finlay, Tatanka and Jim Duggan were all under contract for WWE at basically the same time and it blows my mind. Like I think it was weird when those guys would pop up in late 90s WCW, let alone mid 2000s WWE. Edit: Not only that I just remembered that Flash Funk and Henry Godwin both got signed to developmental deals around the same time. So weird. Marty Jannetty, Brad Armstrong and Gangrel, too. I know Gangrel's not from their heyday, but still weird that he was around back then.
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