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Post by horsemen4ever on Mar 20, 2021 22:34:24 GMT -5
What if instead of that Texan cousin of his, Brother Love returned to the WWF in late 93, would he had been over? Or would be gone after a couple of appearances like Reno Rogers?
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Post by Mozenrath on Mar 20, 2021 22:55:33 GMT -5
I feel like it'd have probably fit in fine. Was it that far removed from Brother Love's initial stint? Going to tread lightly here to say that the sort of personalities Brother Love was lampooning certainly were still a thing in late 1993, but a lot of the firestorm around them wasn't quite as topical at that time, with Bakker, Swaggart, and Popoff having fallen out of the limelight by then. It wouldn't have been dated, exactly, but it would have been less culturally relevant.
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Post by Aceorton on Mar 20, 2021 22:58:24 GMT -5
The issue is really "Where do you go with the character?" The "man of love" schtick was WELL worn out by the time they had Warrior obliterate him in early '91. A lot of people were sick of him much sooner. He wasn't going to be a regular manager because Prichard had other backstage duties. He would have been absolutely atrocious as a commentator. One-off cameos every once in a long while were really all he was good for -- and that's exactly how they've used the character for 30 years.
Good lord: The Savage-Warrior retirement match was 30 friggin years ago.
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Post by Mozenrath on Mar 20, 2021 23:11:40 GMT -5
The issue is really "Where do you go with the character?" The "man of love" schtick was WELL worn out by the time they had Warrior obliterate him in early '91. A lot of people were sick of him much sooner. He wasn't going to be a regular manager because Prichard had other backstage duties. He would have been absolutely atrocious as a commentator. One-off cameos every once in a long while were really all he was good for -- and that's exactly how they've used the character for 30 years. Good lord: The Savage-Warrior retirement match was 30 friggin years ago. I'm guessing they'd have done a joke where he was exposed as having some kind of salacious private life, to bring the gag full circle, but I don't think WWE was quite ready to commit to that kind of gag just yet. |
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Post by Aceorton on Mar 20, 2021 23:40:33 GMT -5
The issue is really "Where do you go with the character?" The "man of love" schtick was WELL worn out by the time they had Warrior obliterate him in early '91. A lot of people were sick of him much sooner. He wasn't going to be a regular manager because Prichard had other backstage duties. He would have been absolutely atrocious as a commentator. One-off cameos every once in a long while were really all he was good for -- and that's exactly how they've used the character for 30 years. Good lord: The Savage-Warrior retirement match was 30 friggin years ago. I'm guessing they'd have done a joke where he was exposed as having some kind of salacious private life, to bring the gag full circle, but I don't think WWE was quite ready to commit to that kind of gag just yet. It's kind of a minor miracle, really, that the Attitude Era came and went without Brother Love confessing to be a sex addict, stealing the Godfather's hos and becoming a rival pimp, performing a baptism for Mark Henry and Mae Young's hand child, etc. |
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Mar 20, 2021 23:42:28 GMT -5
he'd still looooove yeeeeeeeew
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Post by wildojinx on Mar 21, 2021 13:51:42 GMT -5
I'm surprised they didnt bring him back for the Lashley/Lana wedding segment, it would have fit in with all of the insanity.
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Post by jason1980s on Mar 21, 2021 13:58:53 GMT -5
I think he would have worked in the new generation with the silly gimmicks but with him being written off a few years earlier I think he would be outdated in 1993. He wouldn't have been any worse than Reo Rodgers-a gimmick based on a rib of Dusty that no one but someone in the business probably got at the time. And the fact that the gimmick only last a few weeks or a month or two lets fans know the gimmick was a failure. They brother Brother Love back a few times in the mid to late 1990s but it obviously never took off.
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Post by dangerousdanpotato on Mar 21, 2021 15:42:48 GMT -5
What actually was the purpose of Bruce being back on TV? Did they specifically want him on-screen? Or was it to plug a gap? I believe he initially started up again as The Wizard on commentary before Reo (who was given a chat show segment).
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Post by johnnyk9 on Mar 22, 2021 20:19:30 GMT -5
It would’ve worked since The Kings Court was on hiatus
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Mar 22, 2021 21:42:54 GMT -5
Didn't he briefly return in 1995 or 1996?
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Post by horsemen4ever on Mar 22, 2021 22:39:54 GMT -5
Didn't he briefly return in 1995 or 1996? Yeah, but late 93 is when we got Rio Rogers who was a flip. Question is what if instead of Rio Rogers, in his place was Brother Love, would he had flopped? |
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Mar 23, 2021 4:32:01 GMT -5
Didn't he briefly return in 1995 or 1996? Yeah, but late 93 is when we got Rio Rogers who was a flip. Question is what if instead of Rio Rogers, in his place was Brother Love, would he had flopped? I must have blinked and missed Rio Rogers, I watched a clip of him and have no memory of it whatsoever. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2021 6:44:28 GMT -5
It's kind of a minor miracle, really, that the Attitude Era came and went without Brother Love confessing to be a sex addict, stealing the Godfather's hos and becoming a rival pimp, performing a baptism for Mark Henry and Mae Young's hand child, etc. ....holy crap. Can we all invest in time travel technology to get Aceorton back to the '90s to replace Vince Russo? Because this is insanely amazing. |
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