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Post by ElmerFudd on Nov 22, 2022 5:12:53 GMT -5
Jeff Jarrett wrestling in AEW in 2022 sticks out to me. I couldn't stand the guy back in 1995 when HBK beat him for the IC Title at In Your House.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Nov 22, 2022 5:43:01 GMT -5
People like Tatanka, Dugan and Mr Perfect coming back post-2000 felt really weird. Tatanka came back and wrestled in the ARMBAR in 2016. And the commentators didn't even notice him till like, halfway through. The sound in, I believe it was Cole's voice. "wait a minute... is that TATANKA???"
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Post by Can you afford to pay me, Gah on Nov 22, 2022 5:53:02 GMT -5
in retrospect half of the nWo felt like a bunch of hasbeens going through a collective midlife crisis. Looking back I really love NWO Hollywood for what a bunch of slugs who just didn't give a crap they were. "Last Call" Scott Hall, The Giant smoking cigarettes while wrestling, Bret Hart always looking as disinterested as possible. It's like on the other side you had the Wolfpac who were like the cool and hip version of the NWO and then the other side you just had mainly these early to mid 40 somethings either going through midlife crisis (looking mainly at you Hulkster) or who just seemed done with it. 99 Hogan was the biggest midlife crisis example I ever seen. He started wearing the jinko jeans. A shirt that looked like he came out of Konnan's closet at the time. Later started doing the whole Red and Yellow again.
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Post by fg on Nov 22, 2022 8:41:15 GMT -5
I forgot Nasty Boys in 2010 TNA OOF . that was terrible. At the same time, you also had The Band in the same promotion and they were tag team champions. That must have been Nasty.
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Post by 4real on Nov 22, 2022 9:32:27 GMT -5
A lot of ex WWE guys in late 90’s WCW felt out of place to me. Duggan, Wallstreet, Valentine, Jannetty, Traylor (who actually reinvented himself well when going back to WWE in 98), Martel, Warrior. Also Chris Adams & Bobby Eaton.
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Post by tafkaga on Nov 22, 2022 10:39:14 GMT -5
DDP in the early 90's is kinda weird.
In my mind, DDP became a thing around '95-ish with Kimberly outside holding up the '10' signs. Yet, he spent years making sporadic appearances that never went anywhere going all the way back to '91-ish.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Nov 25, 2022 16:11:26 GMT -5
The fact that the Bushwhackers were around until 1996 absolutely boggles my mind.
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Post by Main Eventer on Nov 25, 2022 16:45:49 GMT -5
There is video out there of Gorilla Monsoon doing commentary on I think Shotgun Saturday Night in 1998 where he is still called the President of WWF.
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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Nov 26, 2022 10:23:24 GMT -5
Bruno Sammartino wrestling Randy Savage and Roddy Piper.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Nov 26, 2022 10:58:18 GMT -5
Davey Boy in 93 WCW. Especially because they tried to make him a main event guy. It just wasn't there.
Roided up JTTS Jim Powers in 1996 WCW
LOD in 1997 WWF. Just so out of place
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Post by chrom on Nov 26, 2022 11:25:40 GMT -5
The Freebirds by the late 80s and 90s
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Post by Hypnosis on Nov 26, 2022 11:30:32 GMT -5
LOD in 1997 WWF. Just so out of place Even when they did try to re-invent themselves with the LOD 2000 look a year later, it failed anyway. They were just DONE by that point no matter what.
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Post by Hulkshi Tanahashi on Nov 26, 2022 11:45:45 GMT -5
Paul Orndorff in 2000 WCW.
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Post by jason1980s on Nov 26, 2022 11:59:50 GMT -5
LOD in 1997 WWF. Just so out of place Even when they did try to re-invent themselves with the LOD 2000 look a year later, it failed anyway. They were just DONE by that point no matter what. The battle royal at Wrestlemania was pretty great with them as 2000 but by the next PPV they were back to their old (which seemed super old at the time) selves. I can't believe they were brought back for a trial match in 02 or 03. I felt so bad for Animal. He was like the big brother having to take care of Hawk so many years with Hawk not giving a damn.
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Nov 26, 2022 12:16:20 GMT -5
Paul Orndorff in 2000 WCW. I don't necessarily disagree with you but it's hard to say with WCW 2000 because it had so many identities as a brand that year (including times where there was no clear identity). It ranged from going back to classic southern wrestling early in the year to Attitude Era stuff in the middle to a more modern prelude to TNA by the end. It was a weird time. I'd add Booker T during his last run in WWE when he feuded with Cody. He just seemed slow and from an entirely different era.
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Post by wildojinx on Nov 26, 2022 12:24:04 GMT -5
That whole era is something that stick out to me. Everyone shits on Ole Anderson as a booker because of the Black Scorpion, ignoring the fact that he wrote the name on a booking sheet and Jim Herd told him, “But that’s a great name, use it!” Asking Ole to book a sports entertainment style was like asking Vince Russo to book Mid South or Jim Cornette to book AAA. It really did seem like they were going for the sports entertainment presentation. But the gimmicks were all second rate. Like they seemed like gimmicks wwf would've tried once in a dark match and rejected. I do think the black scorpion gimmick was a good idea had there actually have been a plan. Someone coming for sting from his past. But they had no plan. It needed to be someone who really was there when sting was coming up and not just made up as they went along. The first Scorpion was Al Perez, but while Perez was around when Sting was just starting out, he was hardly a household name and they never even feuded. Really, Eddie Gilbert would have been the best pick, but he was over in Memphis in a much hotter feud with Lawler.
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Post by Can you afford to pay me, Gah on Nov 26, 2022 12:27:56 GMT -5
The New Age Outlaws having a 2010s run in the WWE. In the middle of the PG era.
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Post by chronocross on Nov 26, 2022 13:23:22 GMT -5
in retrospect half of the nWo felt like a bunch of hasbeens going through a collective midlife crisis. Looking back I really love NWO Hollywood for what a bunch of slugs who just didn't give a crap they were. "Last Call" Scott Hall, The Giant smoking cigarettes while wrestling, Bret Hart always looking as disinterested as possible. It's like on the other side you had the Wolfpac who were like the cool and hip version of the NWO and then the other side you just had mainly these early to mid 40 somethings either going through midlife crisis (looking mainly at you Hulkster) or who just seemed done with it. I remember an episode of Nitro where Hogan came out in baggy jeans & sneakers and it looked weird asf. I think this was during the Wolfpac Elite storyline in early 99.
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Post by Nosnorb on Nov 26, 2022 13:30:43 GMT -5
The New Age Outlaws having a 2010s run in the WWE. In the middle of the PG era. That was awful, it was years before Billy Gunn embraced the ass, and the team were well past their sell by date. There is no way they should have won the tag team titles.
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Post by XIII on Nov 26, 2022 16:06:40 GMT -5
Moolah after like 1965
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