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Post by nakedmideon on Jun 24, 2022 12:57:12 GMT -5
If you could go back and change 1 run from wrestling history what would it be and what would you do different?
Could just be a particular angle/storyline or someone's run in a company that flopped.
For me it would be Vaders wwf run.i still think he was capable of great matches and still could have been a top heel.i'd have put the title on him around the time he was fueding with Michaels or when Sid got the title and let him have a run with it.
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Post by tafkaga on Jun 24, 2022 13:55:14 GMT -5
Bret Hart in WCW.
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Post by Jindrak Mark on Jun 24, 2022 16:51:49 GMT -5
I want to say the NWO in WWE which should have been massive but between Hall's personal problems, Nash's injuries and people not wanting to boo Hogan I'm not sure how you could realistically do it.
In another reality though, imagine a year of the NWO running wild in WWE. Hogan v Rock. Hogan v Austin. Outsiders v Kane and Taker. NWO v WWE Survivor Series match. Then you get HHH/HBK involved and do DX v Outsiders then maybe they join up to form an on-screen version of the Kliq when Hogan ditches the NWO and goes face. They could have had a good year or two of big money stuff but in the end it all fell apart and you only got about a month of the proper NWO then a couple months of nostalgia babyface Hogan.
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Post by dav on Jun 24, 2022 17:27:52 GMT -5
Elijah Burke in just about any company, although TNA would have been best. Just strap a rocket onto him with the Pop gimmick and make use of his talents.
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Jun 24, 2022 18:32:18 GMT -5
Flair in WWE, not quite his last run but close to it. He had gotten some pretty big wins in some well received matches, did a promo on Raw about feeling that he had one more good run in him…and he got squashed by Umaga.
It doesn’t help that I was never a fan of the Umaga gimmick and felt it was a poor copy of an out of date gimmick in the first place. I also couldn’t stand Armando Estrada, as he felt like someone who saw wrestling on TV once when he was a kid and started acting like a “bad guy wrestler “ to make his friends laugh.
I wouldn’t have involved Umaga at all, have Flair make that last good run, get a final “thank you” title win before dropping it to, preferably, a younger talent who was ready and not Triple H again.
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Post by buckethead on Jun 24, 2022 21:19:48 GMT -5
Tough choice but I'll go with the first one I thought of....
Garvin's brief world title run in 1987. Regardless of how anyone (including myself) felt about him getting a run with it, NWA/WCW fumbled the ball here. It was basically treated as illegitimate... not defending it like a normal champ, saving it for Flair, and how they handled it on TV.
You can still have him lose it to Flair but just have him come across as an actual world champion.
My second choice would be Honkeytonk Man...get that belt off of him as quickly as possible. Hand it off to Bigelow while he is red hot or maybe even Orndorff or Beefcake.
The world title is wrapped up in the Megapowers storyline for 1-2 years and you're wasting your other major title keeping it on Honkey. I know they finally pulled the trigger but it should've happened a year earlier.
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Post by nakedmideon on Jun 24, 2022 21:33:07 GMT -5
Tough choice but I'll go with the first one I thought of.... Garvin's brief world title run in 1987. Regardless of how anyone (including myself) felt about him getting a run with it, NWA/WCW fumbled the ball here. It was basically treated as illegitimate... not defending it like a normal champ, saving it for Flair, and how they handled it on TV. You can still have him lose it to Flair but just have him come across as an actual world champion. My second choice would be Honkeytonk Man...get that belt off of him as quickly as possible. Hand it off to Bigelow while he is red hot or maybe even Orndorff or Beefcake. The world title is wrapped up in the Megapowers storyline for 1-2 years and you're wasting your other major title keeping it on Honkey. I know they finally pulled the trigger but it should've happened a year earlier. Thats a good point about both titles being locked up but i think it was a decent run,he was a such an unlikeable character.i think they done good money on house shows people wanting to see him get his ass kicked |
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Jun 24, 2022 21:34:52 GMT -5
Sting in WWE. Hands down.
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Post by koreycaskets on Jun 24, 2022 21:35:15 GMT -5
Prob not a popular one here but I loved the Evil Ministry of Darkness Undertaker. I wish he never did the biker gimmick and just kept doing the Evil Undertaker thing.
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Post by sarkerpolseng on Jun 24, 2022 21:35:26 GMT -5
Vader in WWF.
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Post by nakedmideon on Jun 24, 2022 21:36:32 GMT -5
Prob not a popular one here but I loved the Evil Ministry of Darkness Undertaker. I wish he never did the biker gimmick and just kept doing the Evil Undertaker thing. Biker taker was so bad.i get why he changed it up during attitude era but it was so long and boring |
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Post by koreycaskets on Jun 24, 2022 21:43:58 GMT -5
Prob not a popular one here but I loved the Evil Ministry of Darkness Undertaker. I wish he never did the biker gimmick and just kept doing the Evil Undertaker thing. Biker taker was so bad.i get why he changed it up during attitude era but it was so long and boring Only time I actually enjoyed his biker gimmick was the Boneyard match with AJ Styles to be honest. |
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Jun 24, 2022 21:57:33 GMT -5
Shinsuke Nakamura.
He never turns on AJ, and he wins at Mania. He never gets sacrificed to prolong the Jinder Experiment.
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Post by flowercity on Jun 24, 2022 22:41:04 GMT -5
Really wish RVD didn’t get pulled over with pot in his car right after he finally got the title.
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Post by fw91 on Jun 24, 2022 22:43:08 GMT -5
I Would have kept Tazz out of the hardcore division in 2000 WWF. He should have entered the ic title picture soon after his debut and solidify himself in the upper-midcard.
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Post by The Ichi on Jun 24, 2022 22:51:37 GMT -5
DDP in WWE
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Post by Larryhausen on Jun 24, 2022 23:16:09 GMT -5
Shinsuke Nakamura. He never turns on AJ, and he wins at Mania. He never gets sacrificed to prolong the Jinder Experiment. But then we wouldn't have had weeks of Nak going anime level dramatic when he hit AJ in the dick! |
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Post by DeeBee on Jun 25, 2022 1:24:22 GMT -5
Sting vs. Hogan at Starrcade 97.
Sting beats the ever-loving shit out of Hogan and ends the nWo. Hogan, Hall, and Nash exit the main event scene to make may for Bret Hart and Goldberg.
As a big WCW fan, it's depressing to think about how things could've been different if they would've booked this like literally anyone else would have.
Also as a big WCW fan, I would probably keep Austin as the Ringmaster so Stone Cold never happens, WWF never catches up with WCW, and are soon bought out by Turner.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jun 25, 2022 1:37:24 GMT -5
Shinsuke Nakamura. He never turns on AJ, and he wins at Mania. He never gets sacrificed to prolong the Jinder Experiment. The Jinder Experiment was before the AJ Mania match. I would either have had him win at Summerslam against Jinder as the experiment had well since failed then and the crowd was waiting to cheer for Nak at that point... and New York would have exploded for it. Instead of the wave of apathy that was Jinder's main event run. Or the heel turn goes through and instead of months of Nakamura's heel run having no teeth since he couldn't win a match... he wins the rematch, and then maybe he keeps kicking AJ in the dick... to retain. But without ever winning the Heel turn died. |
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Post by nakedmideon on Jun 25, 2022 7:10:22 GMT -5
Sting vs. Hogan at Starrcade 97. Sting beats the ever-loving shit out of Hogan and ends the nWo. Hogan, Hall, and Nash exit the main event scene to make may for Bret Hart and Goldberg. As a big WCW fan, it's depressing to think about how things could've been different if they would've booked this like literally anyone else would have. Also as a big WCW fan, I would probably keep Austin as the Ringmaster so Stone Cold never happens, WWF never catches up with WCW, and are soon bought out by Turner. Crazy to think really isn't it |
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