AriadosMan
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
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Post by AriadosMan on Nov 18, 2007 19:14:56 GMT -5
Seconding Masters.
I'm frankly starting to wonder how over Carlito really was.
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Eunös ✈
Dalek
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Tolerated, just not practically liked.
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Post by Eunös ✈ on Nov 18, 2007 19:15:37 GMT -5
Pretty much any La Resistance Singles Push
Rene Dupree - In 2004 i thought he would atleast hold the US Title for awhile, But after awhile they pretty much lost interest.
Rob Conway - It seemed like WWE really wanted to make Conway a main eventer, Watching his entrance was pretty embarrasingas he was struting and Showing off but got zero reactio, It seemed they also tried to give him a Randy Orton Legend Killer style push, But even that couldnt get him over.
So he just rotted away onto Heat Jobbing to everyone and everything.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Nov 18, 2007 19:19:02 GMT -5
Pretty much any La Resistance Singles Push Rene Dupree - In 2004 i thought he would atleast hold the US Title for awhile, But after awhile they pretty much lost interest. Rob Conway - It seemed like WWE really wanted to make Conway a main eventer, Watching his entrance was pretty embarrasingas he was struting and Showing off but got zero reactio, It seemed they also tried to give him a Randy Orton Legend Killer style push, But even that couldnt get him over. So he just rotted away onto Heat Jobbing to everyone and everything. Don't forget Sylvain "I'm a model and a tourism spokesperson" Grenier. |
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Post by Chainsaw on Nov 18, 2007 19:25:56 GMT -5
DDP as the stalker. Initially it was a bit creepy to see this guy stalking Sara...but then DDP came out, and he's good at a lot of things but he's not a scary or creepy guy. Depends. How do these work for you?   Also I read from Wrestling Observer that Snitsky is currently getting a slow Goldberg-like push. It remains to be seen how that will go over once he gets back to Raw. Goddamit, that is creepy. Is that from Driftwood? Really, there have been a lot of failed pushes. Carlito, Shelton, and Goldberg in WWE are ones that come to mind. |
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on Nov 18, 2007 19:28:02 GMT -5
"The One" Billy Gunn
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Post by kitsunestar on Nov 18, 2007 19:42:04 GMT -5
Luger's various attempts at being made into the next Hogan That actually would have worked had he kept his mouth shut, assuming the story about him leaking out that he was supposed to win the belt from Yokozuna was true... Not being as over as Hogan, and not being as good in the ring as Eddie Guerrero doesn't make one a failure. |
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Post by Just "Dan" is Fine, Thank You on Nov 18, 2007 19:46:57 GMT -5
Lots of you seem to think that just because you say someone wasn't over, then they weren't. Just because you don't like someone does not mean the crowd is silent. Billy Gunn was rarely at a shortage of heat, "The One" notwithstanding (even though that just lacked TV and promo time). Who here said Chuck Palumbo was never over? You must be joking.
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Post by Hiroshi Hase on Nov 18, 2007 19:47:31 GMT -5
Luger's various attempts at being made into the next Hogan That actually would have worked had he kept his mouth shut, assuming the story about him leaking out that he was supposed to win the belt from Yokozuna was true... Not being as over as Hogan, and not being as good in the ring as Eddie Guerrero doesn't make one a failure. The push worked I thought, just he fell short on two occasions. And if the rumor is true, then he mucked it up for himself (heard Billy Gunn did the same thing prior to RR 99). |
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AriadosMan
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
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Post by AriadosMan on Nov 18, 2007 19:49:12 GMT -5
I don't think Billy Gunn would have ever been over as a singles superstar.
Luger actually was pretty over at one point, just not at the Hulk Hogan level.
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Post by texaswhopper on Nov 18, 2007 20:41:17 GMT -5
Hell yeah Luger was over at one point.
WWF had him as a face with his own vids and bus. With that song playing he was supposed to go really far.
He went farther as a face then when he was a heel in WWF.
That Narcissist gimmick just wasnt what worked for him.
Doing things like slamming Yokozuna on the deck of the Intrepid worked.
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Post by heyguesswhatidid on Nov 18, 2007 20:57:44 GMT -5
Val Venis' heel run in 1999
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Post by J-Man R. on Nov 18, 2007 20:57:48 GMT -5
Goldust with Tourette's, This was a bad idea, and it gained the same reaction to Goldust as before.
Snitsky (nuff said)
Mike Awesome
Lance Storm (He was over, but once he started Cabage Patching, and being called boring it was gone)
Juvi
Da Blue Guy minus ECW ONS
Would Mean Street Posse count?
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Post by bubbles on Nov 18, 2007 21:07:57 GMT -5
Mean Street Posse weren't really pushed. I can't remember them ever winning
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Post by krazykarl77 on Nov 19, 2007 0:49:49 GMT -5
dean malenko's failed push as a james bond type chracter exsqueeze me? |
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Post by silentrage on Nov 19, 2007 1:01:49 GMT -5
Another is Holly's main event push. Did anyone think he would actually win the world title against Brock? Yes, his pops were massive. And personally, that was the only time in his career that I actually bought him as a main eventer, and I'm usually the type of person to be kinda 'meh' about everything in wrestling. |
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Post by bindergang on Nov 19, 2007 2:03:01 GMT -5
Brakkus. Lots of video packages, gets punked in Brawl for All, never heard of him again.
Dr. Death Steve Williams. See Above.
Tiger Ali Singh. No matter how much they tried to make him a big heel (character, not wrestler), he never got much heat.
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The Cool Pup
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Post by The Cool Pup on Nov 19, 2007 6:14:46 GMT -5
Chuck Palumbo. Smackdown's version of Snitzky, except he actually makes it onto the show, but still isn't getting much of a reaction, even with diva in tow.  Palumbo gets one of the biggest pops on Smackdown!, in fact his pops are so loud people have questioned their authenticity. Seriously. Chuck is mega over and it is great to have him get hardcore pops. Snitsky, currently, is the biggest failed push the WWE has going; but he is by no means the worst they tried to push. Remember "Planet Stasiak"? What about Steve Blackman? For a while in the early 2000's he was being pushed, good worker, but simply wasn't over. Same exact thing said for Dan Severn, I don't remember him being very over. Mosh being heel as "Beaver Cleavage" was another dead silent affair. Billy Gunn was not a failed solo act, he faired well and had many solid matches, including, albeit a bad stipulation, a great match at SummerSlam '99 with The Rock. Al Snow's short lived heel run didn't really get over at all, either. I went to a few live shows during that era and got dead heat. Some others: heel Rikishi, Rob Conway (need I say more?), Hardcore Holly's "thanks for being so loyal to the company, here's a PPV title shot" match, Bossman's main event push in late '99, and Mideon never really got reactions either, even when he "loved" dead farm animals. Currently, Deuce 'N Domino hardly get reactions, I think because people are tired of the act. Don't forget about the failed Vladimir Kozlov experiment, either. |
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Post by britishbulldog on Nov 19, 2007 14:45:34 GMT -5
I would say Blackman and Snow were both over for a time. Hell Head Cheese is one of my fav tag teams.
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Post by ScottHall187 on Nov 19, 2007 15:53:54 GMT -5
Mark Henry: He's had, like, 37, failed pushes. In a row??? |
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Post by pokey on Nov 19, 2007 15:59:32 GMT -5
Kevin Nash's second WWE run.
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