Hey Scott,
Someone over on reddit has posted a scan of a WWF magazine from January 1998 (clearly written before Montreal): http://imgur.com/a/YR89f#0
One of the striking things about the issue is how high on Brian Christopher they were. Did they really have big plans for him? And if so, what actually happened instead?
Thanks,
Tom
Someone over on reddit has posted a scan of a WWF magazine from January 1998 (clearly written before Montreal): http://imgur.com/a/YR89f#0
One of the striking things about the issue is how high on Brian Christopher they were. Did they really have big plans for him? And if so, what actually happened instead?
Thanks,
Tom
For a while they thought he was gonna anchor their light heavyweight division, but once the Too Cool thing caught fire he had a series of drug problems and then got detained trying to cross into Canada with something untoward in his possession. He was pretty much blackballed from the promotion after that, and you know there's gotta be bad blood since his dad has continued to work for them for another decade and they didn't even offer him a pity shot on one of their numerous anniversary wankfests. And even TNA stopped using him after a while!
are there a lot of these posted? I'm mostly interested in reading old Bobby Heenan Brainstorm collumns...
ReplyDeleteI don't know if it was an anniversary show but I coulda sworn he showed back up for a one-off bit for....something in the last year or so.
ReplyDeleteThis issue was the only one posted thus far.
ReplyDeleteYeah, they brought him in once during that Cole-Lawler feud.
ReplyDeleteHe showed on Raw and badmouthed his dad during the Lawler/Cole feud from 2 years ago.
ReplyDeleteYep. Was just coming back to say that. Per Wikipedia:
ReplyDeleteOn the March 14, 2011 episode of Raw, Lawler returned to the WWE as a heel in a segment between Michael Cole and his father, Jerry Lawler, where Brian would side with Cole, saying that he felt that Jerry never cared for him and that he was ashamed to be his son. Lawler indirectly agreed, telling Brian that he was a bigger screw-up than Charlie Sheen. Lawler also told Brian in the following exact words "just the fact that you would associate yourself with a jackass like Michael Cole tells everybody here tonight what kind of a person you are".
Yup, during the Cole vs Lawler feud heading into WrestleMania 27, Cole brought out Christopher so he could cut a promo on his dad.
ReplyDeleteHe returned in 2004 for like 3 weeks before being fired again for "showing up in no condition to perform." He also randomly appeared on Raw two years ago to hype the Cole/Lawler Wrestlemania feud
ReplyDeleteDidn't Brian come back when Cole was feuding with Lawler?
ReplyDeleteHe was resigned by WWE after WrestleMania 20 and had a match with Kane on RAW and Christian on Smackdown, but got released a month or so later for apparently showing up late to several events.
ReplyDeleteWhen he was doing the April storyline in TNA, they stopped using him after he had an altercation with a fan. They brought him back a few months afterwards then he disappeared again.
ReplyDeleteIs "Saying the same thing that numerous people have already said in the thread" a thing now?
ReplyDeleteYeah. He came in and slagged off Lawler during his dad's feud with Cole a couple of years ago. They thought about calling him 'The Mastadon', but Cornette was like 'it's fucking Brian Christopher!'.
ReplyDeleteI always thought Brian Christopher's full nelson legsweep facebuster was better than Miz's "Skullcrushing Finale". Christopher could just hit that move with such precision, from any angle or out of any situation--and that's really the hallmark of a good finisher. It deserved to be ranked much higher on the WWE's top 750 Finishers list.
ReplyDeleteNot sure. Anyway, I was wondering to myself about something today: is "Saying the same thing that numerous people have already said in the thread" a thing now?
ReplyDeleteFrom now on I will only ever call him Brian 'The Mastodon' Christopher
ReplyDeleteI feel so safe. Captain Obvious Joe has saved the day again!
ReplyDeleteI was just thinking: "I was wondering to myself about something today: is "Saying the same thing that numerous people have already said in the thread" a thing now?"
ReplyDelete"For a while they thought he was gonna anchor their light heavyweight division"
ReplyDeleteThat right there proves they had no idea what they were doing with the light heavyweight division.
MINE WAS FIRST
ReplyDeleteWas that the 'detention' that gave us the awesome Malenko-Scotty 2 Hotty match at Backlash 2000? They hastily put the LHW belt on Scotty just to have him drop it back to Deano at the PPV. I always thought Sexay was hurt for that show or something, but maybe that was the real reason
ReplyDeleteThe sad thing is he got ZERO reaction from the crowd for the Cole-Lawler segment. All the Cena kids in the audience had no idea who this old man from the 2000s was.
ReplyDeleteAre you saying he said what you said?
ReplyDeleteReally though. I mean, they had TAKA right there!
ReplyDeleteMy son and I now use "Brian Christopher Entrance" when describing anything that gets no reaction from the audience or in place of "crickets chirping".
ReplyDeleteChristopher was really just not a good hand at all- too small to fight bigger guys (especially in that era), only "Above average" as a worker when they needed a WCW-level superstar worker, not charismatic, and he didn't even wrestle a high-flying style!
ReplyDeleteHe was basically "the other guy" when Scotty II Hotty was at his peak, and rode Scotty's coat-tails to success. He went about as far in the business as he was ever going too- with his lack of charisma, he'd have needed to be INSANELY great in the ring.
I think he was legitimately injured at that point.m
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