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Post by Phosphor Glow on Dec 26, 2020 2:35:20 GMT -5
Blitzkrieg wrestled for like 4 years (one on TV) and was one of the most influential guys on modern wrestling Yo this is a real good call. Blitzkrieg was just like, overwhelmingly cool to see. No one else was wrestling like he was (at least on a major stage) like he was in WCW. I'd never seen anything like it. It was like watching Rey Mysterio Jr. in 1995/96 levels of "Wow, this kid is gonna change everything."
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Post by karl100589 on Dec 26, 2020 3:09:44 GMT -5
On a tangent, Sid has become a beloved figure for both WWE and WCW fans, even though his longest run with either company was three years.
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Post by Mozenrath on Dec 26, 2020 6:17:43 GMT -5
On a tangent, Sid has become a beloved figure for both WWE and WCW fans, even though his longest run with either company was three years. Sid is such a bizarre figure in wrestling history, since yeah, he jumped around a lot between companies. For a guy who seems often quite strange, and often written off as being dumb, he honestly was pretty conscious of his value and savvy about certain things, like greatly preferring to be heel because he felt he was in a much better position to earn at a top level that way as a monster, as well as knowing when to leave before he became just another guy on a roster. People would hire him even knowing he could be considered unreliable because, well, he was right, and he knew how to get over and stay over.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2020 11:26:18 GMT -5
Blitzkrieg wrestled for like 4 years (one on TV) and was one of the most influential guys on modern wrestling Yo this is a real good call. Blitzkrieg was just like, overwhelmingly cool to see. No one else was wrestling like he was (at least on a major stage) like he was in WCW. I'd never seen anything like it. It was like watching Rey Mysterio Jr. in 1995/96 levels of "Wow, this kid is gonna change everything." My nephew who was 11 or 12 at the time had stopped watching wcw in 98.Randomly in 99 he called me after seeing Blitzkrieg who he thought was super cool.Then Blitzkrieg disappeared and he never watched wcw again.
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Post by Gopher Mod on Dec 26, 2020 12:07:55 GMT -5
Blitzkrieg wrestled for like 4 years (one on TV) and was one of the most influential guys on modern wrestling Yo this is a real good call. Blitzkrieg was just like, overwhelmingly cool to see. No one else was wrestling like he was (at least on a major stage) like he was in WCW. I'd never seen anything like it. It was like watching Rey Mysterio Jr. in 1995/96 levels of "Wow, this kid is gonna change everything." He kinda sorta did- the Blitzkrieg gimmick was sold to Jack Evans when he left the business.
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Post by Venti on Dec 26, 2020 14:24:40 GMT -5
On a tangent, Sid has become a beloved figure for both WWE and WCW fans, even though his longest run with either company was three years. Sid is such a bizarre figure in wrestling history, since yeah, he jumped around a lot between companies. For a guy who seems often quite strange, and often written off as being dumb, he honestly was pretty conscious of his value and savvy about certain things, like greatly preferring to be heel because he felt he was in a much better position to earn at a top level that way as a monster, as well as knowing when to leave before he became just another guy on a roster. People would hire him even knowing he could be considered unreliable because, well, he was right, and he knew how to get over and stay over. I was always fascinated with the fact that Sid wrestled at only two Wrestlemania's, and he main evented both of them.
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Post by Laces on Dec 26, 2020 17:04:16 GMT -5
Someone will have to give years since I don't remember but Umaga? He was only Umaga for about four and a half years (2006 to his death in 2009), but he had been wrestling about 10 years before that, including a one year run in WWE as Jamal of Three Minute Warning. I completely forgot he was Jamal! Now I feel dumb lol
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Post by Sparvid on Dec 26, 2020 20:12:58 GMT -5
Wild that I came to say The Rock, and that was literally OP's example. When you look at other comparative GOATs like Hogan, Flair, Austin, etc, it speaks volumes that The Great One achieved such, well, greatness in roughly six to eight years. A lot of guys wrestle that long just trying to get a shot at the majors. I just found out the other day that Fandango started wrestling in 1999!
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Post by Mozenrath on Dec 26, 2020 21:00:54 GMT -5
He was only Umaga for about four and a half years (2006 to his death in 2009), but he had been wrestling about 10 years before that, including a one year run in WWE as Jamal of Three Minute Warning. I completely forgot he was Jamal! Now I feel dumb lol It can be easy to forget sometimes, and I mean, not like most fans are going to know about his Japan run as Ekmo Fatu.
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Post by 06vwgti on Dec 26, 2020 23:16:30 GMT -5
I completely forgot he was Jamal! Now I feel dumb lol It can be easy to forget sometimes, and I mean, not like most fans are going to know about his Japan run as Ekmo Fatu. It was the same thing with me and Rikishi, since I had started watching mostly in 98, didn't know he had been other characters like Make a difference fatu
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Post by The Lach is very tired on Dec 27, 2020 0:15:35 GMT -5
Magnum TA was just 8 years into his career, only 27 years old when his career was ended by that car crash. He'd have been 41 years old when WCW was purchased by WWE. It's very feasible to imagine him as part of the Invasion storyline! Magnum TA is always the biggest what if in wrestling history. For me he could have easily been one of the top 5 names in the business during the Monday night war. Imagine him around 1997/98 working with Goldberg, Flair, Hall, Nash, DDP etc.
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Dec 29, 2020 5:51:24 GMT -5
Trish and Lita both debuted in the WWF at the beginning of 2000 and by the end of 2006 both of them were retired. It didn't seem like a short time while they were there but in retrospect it wasn't all that long.
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Dec 29, 2020 6:06:48 GMT -5
On a tangent, Sid has become a beloved figure for both WWE and WCW fans, even though his longest run with either company was three years. Sid is such a bizarre figure in wrestling history, since yeah, he jumped around a lot between companies. For a guy who seems often quite strange, and often written off as being dumb, he honestly was pretty conscious of his value and savvy about certain things, like greatly preferring to be heel because he felt he was in a much better position to earn at a top level that way as a monster, as well as knowing when to leave before he became just another guy on a roster. People would hire him even knowing he could be considered unreliable because, well, he was right, and he knew how to get over and stay over. I was thinking something similar earlier tonight. I watched IYH 5 from December 95 and was thinking how 12 months after that PPV Sid would go from eating the pin in an opening tag match, that also featured Marty Jannetty, to WWF champion! He didn't even make it to WM three months after this. I honestly don't remember if he even made it to the RR the next month. I'm thinking the reason he got pinned was because that was his final appearance even though on commentary they were hyping up Sid and Kid like they were supposed to be some huge tag team. It was described on commentary as DiBiase had "reshuffled the deck of the Corporation" and was going to be focusing on the team of Sid and Kid. Did Sid ever last one full calendar year anywhere besides his initial WCW run? I know very little of his final WCW run because by the time he returned I had long given up on both Sid and WCW. If it wasn't featured on a WWE DVD release I didn't see any of it.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2020 13:34:24 GMT -5
Magnum TA was just 8 years into his career, only 27 years old when his career was ended by that car crash. He'd have been 41 years old when WCW was purchased by WWE. It's very feasible to imagine him as part of the Invasion storyline! This one really blew my mind. I always think of him as such a product of a bygone era, but I also always forget just how young he was when he was forced into retirement.
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Dec 29, 2020 13:44:05 GMT -5
Magnum TA was just 8 years into his career, only 27 years old when his career was ended by that car crash. He'd have been 41 years old when WCW was purchased by WWE. It's very feasible to imagine him as part of the Invasion storyline! This one really blew my mind. I always think of him as such a product of a bygone era, but I also always forget just how young he was when he was forced into retirement. Yeah, it's amazing to think that Magnum, now in his early 60s could've legit been one of those guys who went to TNA later and possibly won their belt too
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Post by Cvslfc123 on Dec 29, 2020 13:46:58 GMT -5
David Otunga's wrestling career lasted around 7 years. He was only on TV between 2010-2013. He was farely successful in having Tag team title reigns and being featured in a big storyline.
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Post by Barry Jobber 81 on Jan 18, 2021 1:29:16 GMT -5
Crush had a pretty successful career in the WWF, despite getting fired and re-hired. WWF was astute in marketing Crush's constant run-ins with the law when he had that outlaw persona. He wrestled well in the 1996 Survivor Series. He was over as a babyface as Kona Crush when he had a memorable feud with Doink the Clown. When he was a heel, he had a bitter feud with Randy Savage which culminated in that Falls Count Anywhere match at Wrestlemania X.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jan 18, 2021 1:52:31 GMT -5
Wasn't Batista's real run like only 10 years?
I mean he came back a few times... but like his actual run was like 99-2009/10 right?
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Post by romanstylesiii on Jan 18, 2021 2:39:36 GMT -5
Goldberg's active career spanned maybe 5 years total, but was one of the most popular wrestlers in the world for the vast majority of it. Wrestled for 5 years, World Champion in 4 different decades
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Post by romanstylesiii on Jan 18, 2021 2:42:57 GMT -5
Trish and Lita both debuted in the WWF at the beginning of 2000 and by the end of 2006 both of them were retired. It didn't seem like a short time while they were there but in retrospect it wasn't all that long. Modern day WWE has warped how long careers are Miz's WWE career is nearly 20 years long. Compare that to the WWF New Gen, where I don't think a single wrestler in the WWE in 95 had been there more than 10 years and 90% of the roster had been there less than 3 years
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