Scott,
In early 1992, WWE signed "Conan" Chris Walker and then proceeded to use him only for dark matches and house shows.I don't think he ever appeared on TV, or Coliseum Video or anything.His biggest win was a Jack Tunney reverse decision win over The Brooklyn Brawler in a dark match at the 1992 Royal Rumble.Is there a story there beyond "We can't find anything for you"?-Paul.
I barely even remember Chris Walker, actually. He probably forgot to shake someone's hand and got canned.
He was 1/2 of the GWF Tag team champions in 1991, so he was probably signed to hurt that company (they were on ESPN four days a week, after all).
ReplyDeleteI actually do remember him on a couple of Prime Time Wrestling shows. He was okay, but they never did anything with him.
He looked extremely roided, and it was 1992. I figured it was a "let's dump the muscled hosses" situation, like the sudden departure of the Warlord around the same time.
ReplyDeleteYeah I was gonna say I remember him from the gwf but I never knew he signed with the WWF. He was a super jacked up Bodybuilder looking guy so I'm not surprised they signed him.
ReplyDeleteYup. He definitely was the kind of guy Vince loves.
ReplyDeleteWow i wish I could explain to you how creepy the title of this post is for me...
ReplyDeleteI know why
ReplyDeleteThat's even creepier
ReplyDeleteHa. You sent me that inbox dollars email invite...
ReplyDeleteAh ok... then you really do know why I found this so bizzare
ReplyDeleteWow. Is this stump NetCop day and I forgot about it? What a random question...
ReplyDeleteBizarrely enough every woman I know thinks Chris Walker is the sexiest man that ever lived...
ReplyDeleteBoth of them?
ReplyDeleteWow, never heard of the guy.
ReplyDeleteIs Conan your real name?
ReplyDeleteI was watching a MSG show not that long ago and he was on it. I think he won against a jobber or something. They talked about him as if he was something of a big deal.
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ReplyDeleteIf it was don't you think i would have mentioned it about 1,000,000 times by now?
ReplyDeleteI always laugh at the hand shaking "controversies" within WWE. Like in 2001 when all the new WCW guys came in and some guy or guys got heat for not shaking the Undertaker's hand!
ReplyDeleteAt first you picture the Undertaker walking up to say Chuck Palumbo welcoming him to the company and wishing him luck with an outstretched hand and Chuck going Pfftt and walking away in disgust. Something like that would be disrespectful and earn you deserved heat.
But in reality most of the guys were reserved and intentionally quiet and simply didn't go up and introduce themselves to guys like the Undertaker and that got them heat. Never mind that they didn't want to seem presumptuous or want to bother someone of the stature of the Undertaker especially after working in WCW where they'd probably get yelled at for making eye contact with Lex Luger or something.
It was Mike Sanders. He said hello and shook hands with everyone except for Triple H and Jericho. Never heard from again.
ReplyDeleteI used to tape the good matches on Primetime Wrestling, and remember that he had a pair with Rick Martel that were both darn competitive. I'm not sure if it was his charisma, lack of a gimmick to plug him into, or what, but it was a little surprising that he never made it to the Saturday morning shows.
ReplyDeleteI imagine one of these guys got more upset than the other.
ReplyDeleteYou'd be surprised how important shit like this is to workers even at the indy level... so fucking stupid.
ReplyDeleteHow concentrated is the talent in the backstage area before a show? Like, is everyone just in one big locker room so they literally just make the rounds shaking hands? Or is it more spread out with people arriving at different times, making The Time-Honoured Handshake Tradition a real chore?
ReplyDeleteI can just see someone like Barrett nervously searching around backstage with a checklist, saying "okay, I got Kofi, Big Show, McIntyre, Cena....oh crap, I left out Reigns! Arrghh, gotta find him or else it's three more months of jobbing for me!"
Great point. I have never been a wrestler, but I have performed in several different capacities and have always gone out of my way to get a little personal time completely alone from every one else before I had to perform. If someone had wanted to shake my hand I probably would have blown them off and been a dick to them cause I need some "me time" before I do my thing.
ReplyDeleteI always say the giant pile of wrestling knowledge I have is completely useless and a waste of mental energy but I still get vaguely upset when I realize there's a wrestler I don't recognize. The fact that I was only 7 in 1992 does not make me feel any better.
ReplyDelete1st Ballot Inductee into the "Tom Magee Hall of Fame"..
ReplyDeleteAdd J.W. Storm to that HOF as well. Another bodybuilder wrestler who had a cup of coffee in the WWF.
ReplyDeleteI remember seeing him on a couple of episodes of Prime Time Wrestling. He also had a very brief run in Smoky Mountain Wrestling in 1994, in fact on the Wrestling Gold "Night Of The Legends" DVD, Cornette went on a great rant about how Walker was supposed to make four appearences for SMW but he only appeared once and no-showed the other three dates and Cornette basically said that if he hadn't decided that Walker and SMW should part ways that he might have gone to prison for trying to strangle Walker.
ReplyDeleteJ.W. Storm was a truly weird case. He had the look, he got crowd reactions and he was actually a pretty decent worker for a rookie when he arrived in WCW in 1990 but WCW being WCW, they completely dropped the ball on him.
ReplyDeleteI think I saw JW Storm open a house show with Rick Martel back in 92 at the Boston Garden. I don't remember much about that show (I was 8 years old) but they had Storm do the "walk of respect" back to the locker room after the loss.
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