tirtefaa
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If you wanna know the truth, you gotta dig up Johnny Booth.
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Post by tirtefaa on May 6, 2023 19:01:41 GMT -5
If Matt Bourne as heel Doink counts, that’s my choice. He absolutely should have had an Undertaker feud. Imagine if the streak was ended due to Steve Keirn making a run in.
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Toates Madhackrviper
King Koopa
Is owed an Admin life-debt.
This avatar is so far out of date I might as well stick with it forever now.
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Post by Toates Madhackrviper on May 7, 2023 1:40:14 GMT -5
Oh oh oh, Hernandez. At his peak it seemed like he was a sure thing for the Impact World Championship but it just... never happened.
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Post by kingoftheindies on May 7, 2023 11:10:31 GMT -5
Alex Wright to me is one I thought was a lock to become an upper midcard talent.
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Post by karl100589 on May 7, 2023 12:20:54 GMT -5
I thought Carlito had the potential to be one of the top guys in all of wrestling but it just never happened. The crazy thing is even today he's only 44 but I think of him now as like a relic/fad of the mid-2000s when he's still younger than a lot of current top guys in WWE/AEW/NJPW. Towards the end of WCW I thought Mike Sanders was going to be one of the top stars in wrestling for the next 10-15 years. When I watch him back now though I don't get what I ever saw. He got a ton of mic time but he was nothing special at all. He could talk but he had little in the way of charisma and was (not even above!) average in the ring. The Power Plant had a lot of guys who had great physiques and were agile for their size, but completely fell apart when they had a Mike in front of them. Sanders, Palumbo, O’Haire, I’d include Awesome since he fits the trope even though he came from ECW.
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Post by THE FVNKER on May 7, 2023 14:26:16 GMT -5
Agree with Ken Shamrock and always thought it was a shame that he left just as he had got the whole package together. I'd go so far as to say he could have been WWF champion during Austin's injured period. Also, X Pac. He's always my answer to these things. I can't believe he wasn't even IC champion when everyone got a go at that title back then If X-Pac debuts a little later on in history.. maybe with the class of AJ Styles, Danielson, Joe.. like being one of the names to help kick start ROH and all that, he would be talked about every day. Waltman is criminally underrated.
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Post by Instant Classic on May 7, 2023 14:31:42 GMT -5
Agree with Ken Shamrock and always thought it was a shame that he left just as he had got the whole package together. I'd go so far as to say he could have been WWF champion during Austin's injured period. Also, X Pac. He's always my answer to these things. I can't believe he wasn't even IC champion when everyone got a go at that title back then If X-Pac debuts a little later on in history.. maybe with the class of AJ Styles, Danielson, Joe.. like being one of the names to help kick start ROH and all that, he would be talked about every day. Waltman is criminally underrated. If he didn’t have his problems I think X Pac would have been a great fit on Smackdown 2002-2004.
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fw91
Patti Mayonnaise
FAN Idol All-Star: FAN Idol Season X and *Gavel* 2x Judges' Throwdown winner
Tribe has spoken for 2024 Mets
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Post by fw91 on May 7, 2023 15:26:56 GMT -5
Matt Hardy V1- could have done more than Crusierweight champ.
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Squirrel Master
Hank Scorpio
"Then the Squirrel Master came out of left field and told me I'm his bitch!"
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Post by Squirrel Master on May 7, 2023 15:40:31 GMT -5
Page 3 and no love shown for The Kwee Wee? Diesel bodied, with a distinct look and outrageous character. Allan Funk was a technically sound brawler with a hottie valet, Paisley (aka Sharmelle) on his arm. I thought for sure he was gonna be a big star.
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Post by BorneAgain on May 7, 2023 20:23:37 GMT -5
Am I the only one who could’ve bought Dan Severn as an upper midcarder. Dare I say a one month program with Austin as the Vince approved stooge whose aim is to get the belt off him at all costs. I wanted to like him in WWE so badly. The badass music fit him perfectly, but he just didn't have EVERYTHING needed to be a top of the card guy. He was excellent in the ring, but he had zero charisma. Severn was one of those guys needed a Heyman esque booker that could effectively maximize his strengths and downplay his weak charisma, and he just never really had one.
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Post by Psicofreak667 on May 7, 2023 22:49:13 GMT -5
I had hoped Drago, Aerostar and even Argenis from Lucha Underground would take off north of the border the same way Penta and Fenix did. I know Aerostar stunk up the joint the time he appeared in AEW, and that I'm probably alone in wanting to see more of Argenis. But I'm really surprised no one has wanted to use Drago for anything.
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Post by saneiac on May 7, 2023 23:31:28 GMT -5
Bam Bam Bigelow. His career was OK, but a guy with his combination of size, agility, unique look, and decent promo skills could've been so much more. On the tier list of super heavyweights, he should've been a Vader. Instead he's a Scott Norton.
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Rave
El Dandy
Perpetually Bored
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Post by Rave on May 7, 2023 23:46:38 GMT -5
Cheerleader Melissa couldn't really talk, but she had a presence with in ring talent and its a pity that the Raisha Saeed gimmick and a ho hum run as Alyssa Flash in Impact is as far as she really got. She's prob'ly more memorable for her time as Mariposa in Lucha Underground than either of those, TBH.
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Sephiroth
Wade Wilson
Surviving
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Post by Sephiroth on May 8, 2023 6:39:33 GMT -5
Matt Bloom had all the tools but he was s charisma vacuum. He arguably would have made fit a great monster heel title challenger, he was practically burn tj be the bodyguard/enforcer. But he never really hit a chance to thrive in any of those roles.
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on May 8, 2023 7:12:10 GMT -5
There's a lot of Shimmer era talent that never really got the long run in major promotions they really deserved. Cheerleader Melissa couldn't really talk, but she had a presence with in ring talent and its a pity that the Raisha Saeed gimmick and a ho hum run as Alyssa Flash in Impact is as far as she really got. MsChif by all accounts was happy doing indies while doing her day job as a genetics scientist, but still, it would have cool to see what she could have done in WWE. I would include Daffney on this list as well. I didn't see much of her in WCW as I had checked out by the time she got there. She really won me over in TNA. I became a huge fan and always wanted her to get the Knockout's title. I had the absolute pleasure of meeting her at a BTW convention in May of 2010. Which was shortly after she'd been seriously injured at BFG 2009 or as she referred to it to me as "the night I almost died" and by Rosie Lottalove shortly after that. Unfortunately her career was about done by this point, but I didn't know it and I'm not sure she did either. She was an absolute sweetheart of a person to talk to and deserved so much more than she got from the wrestling business. RIP Daffney.
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Post by The Thread Barbi on May 9, 2023 0:33:43 GMT -5
Marty Jannetty.
"Party Marty" ruined it for himself, but he was arguably the more talented Rocker when they were a team.
He could have been Shawn Michaels arch-rival, and had a singles career in parallel. Maybe a Matt Hardy to Jeff Hardy, but not the Jannetty of the team, as he's become.
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Ben Wyatt
Crow T. Robot
Are You Gonna Go My Way?
I don't get it. At all. It's kind of a small horse, I mean what am I missing? Am I crazy?
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Post by Ben Wyatt on May 9, 2023 6:43:09 GMT -5
Alex Wright to me is one I thought was a lock to become an upper midcard talent. Good call. Dude was a terrific talent who just never quite got the right push
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Post by buckethead on May 9, 2023 16:21:58 GMT -5
Bam Bam Bigelow. His career was OK, but a guy with his combination of size, agility, unique look, and decent promo skills could've been so much more. On the tier list of super heavyweights, he should've been a Vader. Instead he's a Scott Norton. I was practically foaming at the mouth when he came to NWA/WCW. They did a great job hyping him up.. although he didn't really need it. The situation spoke for itself. Bigelow vs Windham practically a dream match at that point...and sky was the limit as far as a feud with Flair. It all went to crap..the Starrcade match was garbage. No longer cared at that point.
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Post by bogussting on May 10, 2023 3:08:35 GMT -5
Bam Bam Bigelow
Curt Hennig/Mr. Perfect
Doink
Tatanka
Adam Bomb
Marty Jannetty
Jake Roberts
Dan Spivey/Waylon Mercy
The Warlord
Arn Anderson
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Post by David-Arquette was in WCW 2000 on May 10, 2023 4:56:27 GMT -5
I wish Mike Awesome had been able to more in WCW, instead of been given the shite gimmicks, and then being thrown into Team Canada. I also wish he'd had a better run of it when he left the fed. He went back to Japan and also worked TNA for a bit, but it's a shame that at the very least he wasn't brought back to the new ECW. He would have fit in so well, even with the questionable booking at that time.
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Post by grungesmurf on May 10, 2023 12:28:41 GMT -5
Lenny & Lodi - they cracked me up. Could have done more with them.
The New Breed (Chris Champion & Sean Royal - the injury to Chris was probably a contributing factor but I would have liked to see them as US tag champs.
Nova - he was just fun to watch. Wanted to see him and Kid Kash feuding over the ECW TV title.
Hakushi - that face turn was horrible.
Blitzberg - retired really early.
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