So with my health issues basically
relegating me to early rest 9 times out of 10, plus the fact that
this past few weeks have made it clear I'm in for more of everything
I hate (McMahons and various Attitude Era superstars named Paul),
I've decided to save my sanity and make a permanent trade. Matt
Perri already did Raw recaps for his own blog, so doing them here is
no big deal. Meanwhile, I'm going to watch more wrestling for
wrestling's sake by hitting up the B Shows: Main Event and
Superstars. Yes! Someone will admit to watching Superstars!
Anyway, this report comes on a slight
delay because PSN. Sony: Power to the [offline].
The PG Era Rant for Main Event, January
13, 2015.
ALMOST LIVE from Baton Rouge, LA.
Your hosts are Tom Phillips and JBL.
We meet again, Bradshaw.
MATCH: Goldust and Stardust v.
Los Matadores.
An inset promo reveals that the Brothers Dust are in the Rumble
match. Primo and Goldust start, and Goldust throws El Torito off the
apron. Primo is royally pissed and attacks, but after some back and
forth, Primo gets a rollup on Gold and a clothesline on Star. Primo
vaults over the ropes and clears both guys, but Stardust with the
Disaster Kick to send him to the floor. Goldust tosses Primo into
the barricade, and back in, he gets two. Stardust in, and he stomps
the abs before giving the sign of the Star. This gets two (the
stomping, I presume). Stardust with a butterfly lock, but Primo
fights out only to run into a sliding uppercut. Stardust charges and
is dumped. Hot tag Epico, and he goes nuts with back elbows. He
puts the brakes on, then sets Goldust up for the Austin Straddle and
flying sunset flip for two. He goes after Stardust, which allow
Goldust to knee in the back and choke away. Torito's on the apron to
rally the team, so Goldust grabs him only to get headscissored. No
DQ there because he had it coming, and Primo with a cradle for the
win at 4:02. 3/4*
Also, I think I got Primo and Epico backwards.
Okay,
now's as good a place as any to describe a concept I'm going to keep
track of here: the Losers' Title! Just like Scott Keith did back in
his e-fed days – and I bet he thought no one remembered – we will
keep track of who the Ultimate Loser in WWE is. According to
Boston-based fanblog Sons of Sam Horn, we start with Adam Rose
holding the Scarlet L. Here are the rules:
- The title is “defended” in any match – singles, multi-man, or tag.
- It is “passed on” if the current holder gets the pin in the match. His tag partner cannot “lose” the L for him, nor does it count if he's not involved in a triple-threat decision.
- If the Losers' Champion does not “defend” his “title” in 30 days, it reverts to the loser of the Main Event main event. By coincidence, advertising here says Rose is in that, too!
- And before anyone asks, the Losers' Title is for men only. Like Divas would ever main event even a B show.
Got
all that? Good.
Main
Event is not on WWE Network next week for some reason (and, as I later find out, may not be on WWE Network in the future due to Sky Sports), so instead,
Santino will be hosting a Royal Rumble pre-show. Oh, fine, I'll
cover it.
MATCH: The Ascension v. This Guy
and That Guy.
Because some NXT traditions must be upheld. Ascension calls out the
Road Warriors and says there are no more great tag teams of the past,
because they're the one Tag Team of the Future. Viktor beats up This
Guy to start with European Uppercuts, then Konnor tags in and it's a
double-team. Konnor goes clubbering in the corner, and Viktor pounds
away before clotheslining This Guy out of the ring. Konnor tags in
and throws This Guy around before knocking That Guy off the apron.
Another clothesline follows, then Viktor tags in for a double-team
hiptoss-flapjack thing. Fall of Man ends it at 1:47.
Your
first Thursday SmackDown main event: Daniel Bryan's grand return
against Kane.
RAW RECAP: John
Cena wasn't allowed to overcome the odds when for once he honestly
should have, as a bazillion heels beat him up and the Authority
won... but not before Kane and Big Show saved the day. Because
heaven forbid anyone who wasn't in the WWE in 2000 get over. I'm
telling you now, the only real conclusion of this is that Vince
McMahon steps in and either re-instates the Corpus Christi Trio or
has Sting do it for him. Both of which make the wrestlers seem
impotent compared to the McMahons, so I hate it. You tell me if that
makes sense.
Anyway,
then we had the contract signing, where a fight broke out and
(interestingly) Rollins stood tall. But he couldn't get a clean win
earlier in the night?
MATCH: Rusev v. Justin Gabriel.
Gabriel sticks and moves, but gets caught and pummeled. Kicks in
the corner, but Gabriel fires off with forearms. Gabriel slips out
the back of a slam, getting a calf kick and big chop, but his leg is
caught. He escapes an elbowdrop, but Rusev reverses to a Hammer
Throw and smacks Gabriel upside the head. Back in, Rusev with a
series of elbowdrops and a headbutt, into a cobra clutch. Rusev
rides him down and headbutts him repeatedly, but Gabriel tries to
fight back. Jawbreaker rattles Rusev, who misses a blind charge.
Warrior's Way by Gabriel starts a comeback, into a springboard
clothesline. He tries something off the top and is caught in a
powerbomb, and Rusev Crush ends it at 3:49. Some good big/little
stuff here. *1/4
Rusev lands his leaping superkick for no reason after the match.
Your
first inductee into the Hall of Fame for the Class of 2015 is RANDY
SAVAGE. As we all knew.
Raw
Reunion in Dallas next week!
MAIN EVENT: Kofi Kingston, Big E,
and Xavier Woods v. Tyson Kidd, Cesaro, and Losers' Champion Adam
Rose.
To let you know how much of a nerd I am, when I heard Kidd and
Cesaro say they're the “Masters of the Universe”, I didn't think
He-Man; I thought Bonfire of the Vanities. Rose and Kofi start.
Kofi gets a go-behind, but Rose turns it into a top wristlock. Kofi
reverses it and gets a splash for one, but Rose escapes. Kidd
doesn't do much better, and Big E and Kofi do the T&A tag team,
followed by a wheelbarrow splash from Woods/E. Kidd recovers and
slams Woods into the corner, but a blind charge eats boot and the
Honor Roll gets one. Woods clears the heel corner, but Kidd throws
him into the bottom rope and out. Rose slams Woods into the apron,
and back in, it gets one. The heels triple-team Woods, leading to a
Kidd slingshot into a Cesaro uppercut for two as we go to break.
We
return with Rose working a sleeper on Woods, but a suplex is reversed
by Woods to a small package for two. Rose prevents the hot tag, and
Kidd pounds away in the corner. Cesaro adds a choke, and Kidd does a
boot choke and legdrop as Cesaro adds a hesitation dropkick. Back
in, it gets two. Cesaro works the sleeper, but Woods pounds out and
wins a slugfest. Cesaro cuts Big E out, but Woods with an enzuigiri
that dazes Cesaro. Hot tag Kofi, who runs over Kidd and ends with
the Boom Drop. Running knees in the corner sets up a trip to the
top, but he takes Rose out before landing a springboard crossbody for
two. Cesaro tags himself in, and that allows Kofi to leap right into
Swiss Death. It gets two. Forearms to the head, and Big E is again
knocked off the apron. GIANT SWING OF DOOM ends with a Kidd
dropkick, but Woods saves. He's dumped, but Kofi with a cradle for
two. FINALLY, Big E gets in and pounds Cesaro down hard before
catching Kidd with a uranage and Cesaro with a Greco-Roman suplex and
Ultimate Splash on both men. Sorry for the run-on sentence there.
Big Ending try, but Rose tags himself in. Big E catches Rose and
suplexes him for two, Cesaro saves. Wods with a wheelbarrow facejam
to Cesaro, but Kidd kicks him in the jaw. Trouble in Paradise takes
Kidd out, but Cesaro suplexes him to the floor. Rose with a
spinebuster on Big E for two. Rose runs into a lariat from Big E,
and the New Day takes EVERYONE out (Big E spears Rose through the
ropes, Kofi with a plancha to Kidd, Woods with a senton to Cesaro).
Back in, Midnight Hour ends Rose at 11:02. Good finish to a decent
match. And Rose is still wearing the Scarlet L. **1/4
Looks
like I might have to find Hulu Plus for next week's show. Until
then, see you for Superstars!
Feel better man. Welcome back!
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed this. Main Event is usually pretty watchable.
ReplyDeleteFans all around the world will mark their calendars and never forget the day that Roman Reigns recited Jack and the Beanstalk live here on The Warzone!
ReplyDeleteThat's the best one yet.
ReplyDeleteGlad you're sticking around. Thanks for the review.
ReplyDeleteI don't think the IDEA of the gimmick was awful, particularly by mid-'90s WWF standards. But Douglas being forced into that dull monotone (supposedly based on a teacher Vince had) and dumb "grades" ("TT--for a TERRIBLE TWOSOME"...oooh!) just killed it. Eventually Shane did seem to get his way and start cutting more Franchise-like promos, but by then it was too late.
ReplyDeleteI know Douglas also hated his ring gear, and it's hard to blame him for that, either.
That said, in another world the gimmick could have at minimum been at least as successful as the wrestling tax collector or wrestling mountie.
So "fuck. Definition. A word I use to make it sound like I can cut a promo"?
ReplyDeleteHearing about him getting verbally torn apart by Yoko on the Europeon Tour bus for complaining about being hurt is still hilarious to me
ReplyDelete"ECW Legend" and "small-time" are not mutually exclusive
ReplyDeleteYa know, I get that Shane Douglas was a prick and was not nearly the star he probably thought he was.....but where does Sean fucking Waltman get off? It's not like that dude was any bigger or any more proven. I'm no fan of Douglas, but the dude had at least done OK in WCW and ECW previously. Kid was only a "somebody" backstage because he was buddies with the top guys
ReplyDeleteBut to be fair, who the fuck is Sean Waltman, other than the friend of the actual stars?
ReplyDeleteI dig it
ReplyDeleteYeah, I mean they want you to "grab brass rings" and other such nonsense, but you also can't come off as overly-confident either. It's kind of laughable
ReplyDeleteTo be honest, Shane had his best ECW match ever right before he jumped with the Sandman. Watched it on the Network not too long ago. Not sure how he went from that match to his subpar matches with Razor.
ReplyDeleteAndy - glad to have you back. I think this show and superstars, being shorter in length, play more to your style of writing (longer descriptions). This was good.
ReplyDeleteThe number of injuries Shawn took time off for
ReplyDeleteWaltman could go in the ring when he was young. That he got in good and got lazy doesn't change that.
ReplyDeleteHe should be commended for gaining a crippling opiate addiction?
ReplyDeletelmao so mean
ReplyDeleteOne of the best workers in the company?
ReplyDeleteThat's not how the WWF worked or any other job. Some start at zero and others don't. UT came in to a huge push. Not sure what his locker room attitude was but he didn't start at zero. Razor didn't start at zero either.
ReplyDeleteThis stuff is selectively applied to guys they don't like. If they, or anyone here doesn't like Douglass then they are free to say that. No need to make up reasons to justify behavior and feelings.
Sure he could go. He was a strong worker back then. But let's not pretend he earned his own political clout or would have been anything more than "a good hand" if he wasn't buddies with Shawn, Nash, & Hall
ReplyDeleteMentioning those NWA champions by name and giving the false sense that Douglas was proud to be part of that heritage was the whole point of the promo. It wasn't cheap heat, it was Douglas showing that the NWA era was over, because his character wasn't similar to the people he named. And there was no trash can.
ReplyDeleteSay whatever about Douglas the person and his later work, but that promo remains awesome.
The word you're looking for is synonymous.
ReplyDeleteStrangely he couldn't work through the pain of dropping a title.
ReplyDeleteI know that wins/losses don't matter on a show no one is watching, but the Rhodes Bros. jobbing to los Matodres sounds rough. Remember when no one wanted Goldust & Cody to split for a singles feud because they were so over as a tag team?
ReplyDeleteThe big plus for Dean in ECW was that he could draw heel heat with a bunch of smart fans who wanted to like anti-heros. I think only him, Raven and Bubba Ray Dudley consisting strong heel heat. It put him in a unique place in ECW. In WWF and the more traditional booking, his limitations were exposed.
ReplyDeleteDamon Sandow did it so much better.
ReplyDeleteKid was the worker and they would typically put new workers with him as an evaluation.
ReplyDeleteShane Douglas is a legend in his own mind.
ReplyDeleteFunny thing is, he isn't even the second, third, fourth, fifth, or sixth guy I think of when I think about ECW. Sabu, Sandman, RVD, Taz, Dreamer, Dudleys, are all arguably more important to the story of ECW. Douglas was gone from July 95 until January 96, then he was gone again from April 99 to the bitter end, so he missed a lot of the good years.
That'll do
ReplyDeletePlease continue to rest and get better. I'm going to sound like a religious evangelist who just won't let it go, but if you want to enjoy wrestling for wrestling' sake, try PWG. It's literally perfect.
ReplyDeleteThat's like Cesaro having stroke backstage. Or Benoit having influence in WCW's lockerroom in 1997. Being a great worker doesn't mean the guy should have make-or-break influence over other dudes backstage. He wasn't some proven draw or a guy who earned that kind of sway
ReplyDeleteTotally true.
ReplyDeleteAll I'm saying is that "you missed a lot of time due to injuries" isn't really an accurate criticism of the guy.
ReplyDeleteI don't think anyone was...?
ReplyDeleteTo be fair to WWF. According to Foley, the first gear they gave him, was awful. He went to Vince. Explained why it wouldn't work. Vince agreed and they came up with the brown suit, which wasn't awful. They also tried to strap Mason the Mutilator on him. Steve Austin was able to make some changes to his original costume.
ReplyDeleteEven Hunter said he turned down the first name they gave him and came up with something better and this was far before he had any pull. From all the stories I've heard, Vince was more than willing to work on a gimmick with you if you went up to him and talked through it.
Not you, I mean that he apparently did wield some influence because of who his buddies were, not because he was a good worker. That's all
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid I got some bad news, this is your first and last WWE Main Event review.
ReplyDeleteAccording to rumors this is the last Main Event. Maybe you could review the matches of WWE Superstars instead.
Yeah, I agree. I think of all those guys before him too. No way in hell I think of him as the "franchise" of anything.
ReplyDeleteNo, but if he said you were a terrible worker, because he knew the difference, people would listen to him. And he DID know the difference.
ReplyDeleteI'm a fan of stables usually, but the Triple Threat was an odd concept. Whereas the Horsemen were generally led by the best worker of the group (Flair), the Triple Threat was usually Douglas alligning himself with workers better than himself. Benoit & Malenko in the first incarnation. When he relaunched it, at least Brian Lee was a shittier worker than him. Candido was better by a little bit. Then you get Lance Storm and BamBam, where Douglas becomes the third best yet again.
ReplyDeleteI never thought Douglas or the gimmick was that bad to be honest. Maybe I'm just bias, as I have utter disdain for The Kliq. It's not just Douglas (who is easy to dislike) they screwed over. Any group that includes Kevin Nash that decides Vader can't go has major credibility issues. I also think Scott Hall's "mind for the business" is extremely overrated. People always talk about how he'd be a great booker. His idea of booking is to be have cool heels dominate and get cheered and make the babyfaces look like idiots. Come to think of it, that must be where HHH gets it from. Sean Waltman is the only one of them I can stand, but let's face it; any other great worker that had his body would never have had the push he did w/ out the kliq.
ReplyDeleteYep, if Waltman isn't their buddy, he is an early "vanilla midget" by Nash's standards and probably nothing more than enhancement talent.
ReplyDeleteSooooooooo funny!!
ReplyDeleteDouglas has more upside than a young Paul Levesque in 1995, but you see how things happen when you carry the main eventers bags and drive them home when there drunk
ReplyDeleteHis WCW run was weird because he made sense as a logical opponent for Ric Flair, but there just were not going to be WCW fans who would cheer him over Flair. Douglas was pretty much just a guy and Flair was beloved as a heel or face in WCW, so the "real life animosity" was never going to translate well into an angle, unless you went full-heel with Douglas and had him troll WCW fans
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine the parallel universe where Shane Douglas had stuck around, got the big push, piped the boss's daughter, and become COO? 48-time world champion Shane Douglas walking around in suits and booking himself over people for decades.
ReplyDeleteOH...MY...GOD I actually AGREE with you on something STOP THE RIDE I WANT OFF!!!!
ReplyDeleteNash ALWAYS jumps at chance to contradict himself whenever the subject of Waltman comes up.
ReplyDeleteWaltman had other supporters outside of the Klique. Bret was actually very vocal in support of him early on and even went out of his way to push for their World Title match on RAW so he could make Waltman look great. Everyone knew he could go, so he would've made it regardless. If anything, I think the Klique derailed his career with the drugs and booze. Compare Waltman early in his WWF run to his WCW run. Now imagine that earlier Waltman, still healthy and coherent, in WCW's cruiserweight division circa '96 with Rey, Malenko, Jericho, and the luchadors to work with. The guy would've been christened a god by the Internet.
ReplyDeleteStorm was never officially a member, if I remember correctly. There was always tension between him and the group because of the weird feuding partners thing he had going with Candido.
ReplyDeleteBad News MyronB...or MyronBadNews maybe?
ReplyDeleteShane was hurt more by the light blue singlet than he was hurt by the Dean character or the clique
ReplyDeleteWhat does proven draw have to do with anything? Kid could work with anyone and they would throw new guys in with him to see what they had. What is the big deal?
ReplyDeleteA few have said that about Waltman, good guy and good worker that always surrounds himself with the wrong people. It's a shame, I agree he could have been so much more.
ReplyDeleteAs for Douglas, he was a fine wrestler in the mid-90s. Soon after that, he got rough with injuries and his issues and such. A lot of the hate he gets is dumb, but so much group mentality in wrestling, so whatever.
Oh cmon, I think it's all a big exaggeration about how bad those guys were treated. I mean, it's not like The Kliq ran a train on Candidos girlfriend while he was out wrestling.
ReplyDeletePlease point me to the quote where Nash says Waltman should have been pushed to the top of a promotion.
ReplyDeletePeople overestimate Kliq's influence. Vince was going to do what he wanted to do no matter what.
ReplyDeleteI think they're trying to get Rusev's superkick over, 3rd consecutive segment where he's concluded with it. And LANA continues to be used less and less... may be approaching time to break them up. If LANA becomes a face and uses her normal southern God-loving voice, I'll cry. :(
ReplyDeleteThere has never been as unimportant a guy who gets discussed more frequently and in more detail than Shane Douglas. The man is a human footnote. His mark on wrestling was like footprints on the beach, easily forgotten and washed away.
ReplyDeleteHope you feel better Andy.
ReplyDeleteLook, I may occasionally mock him (THE FRENCHFRIES!!!), but I will always like Douglas. He carried ECW through its early stages until more interesting guys like Cactus, Raven, and Sandman took center stage. He was also a fantastic obnoxious heel. One of my FAVORITE ECW angles is Douglas' first exit from the company in 1995. He's locked in a feud with Sandman who is also locked into another feud with Cactus Jack, and Cactus and Douglas are long-time friends but have tension because they both want Sandman's ECW Title. Anyway, Douglas is on his way out and everyone knows it. So instead of helping Cactus to win the ECW Title, even after they've reconciled, he purposely helps Sandman win the match just to troll the ECW fans who have been riding his ass all night. Yeah, it's fantastic booking, but Douglas sells the whole thing beautifully. It's up on the network right now if you want to watch it.
ReplyDeleteNo, the idea was awful. It didn't work in '95 for Douglas. It didn't work again in '06 for Matt Striker. It wouldn't work if they tried it again today. No one cares about a wrestling teacher. It's a stupid idea.
ReplyDeleteI think that Shane Douglas was a dick and all of the other guys were all dicks too. They all met at that time and in that place, and Shane was sort of a lone wolf dick while the clique was a gang of dicks so they had the power. The clique was a bunch of dicks to begin with, and they really didn't like Douglas because HE was a dick, and so they ganged up on him to really pile on the dickery.
ReplyDeleteBut which dick was bigger?
ReplyDeleteBecause of Sky wwe are taking this off the network. So that's even less new content for you £9.99 when it launches in the UK.
ReplyDeleteNo idea, I'm not a pecker checker.
ReplyDeleteListen to his shoot interviews "Benoit and Jericho were Vanilla midgets BUT Waltman man he could go with ANYBODY and could've been used a lot better"
ReplyDeleteWe essentially saw that reality with Jarrett in TNA
ReplyDeleteYou ain't kidding, because look at how Hunter was lighting up the ring when he first came in.
ReplyDeleteZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz....
Genius trade, one of your better reviews cause of the length
ReplyDeleteDouglas should have started copying Jarrett.
ReplyDeleteWell Sunny DID ride it out.
ReplyDeleteBest thing he ever did.
ReplyDeleteKevin Nash and Shawn Michaels giving someone shit for not working through an injury is the literal definition of irony.
ReplyDeleteIf you looked up irony in the dictionary, you would see a picture of Shawn Michaels yelling at Shane Douglas while he's limping on the wrong leg and complaining about 37 marines kicking his ass. And Nash is lying in bed over in the corner complaining about heart pains right after he finds out he has to job to someone.
I don't know man. Before drugs, injuries, banging that dude Chyna, all that, Waltman could really go in the ring.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. 4 out of the 5 members were also better than average - excellent workers, and all 5 of them were heavy students of the game. It's probably the same reason Jericho rubbed people wrong when he showed up (he glosses over this a bit in his book, but he mentions being a bit full of himself when he arrived). The difference of course being that Jericho persevered and earned people's respect whereas Douglas blamed everyone else for his problems.
ReplyDeleteSee also Taz.
ReplyDeletePerhaps Douglas rubbed Nash off the wrong way when he took his Dean gimmick too far and corrected Nash that "play" is not an adjective.
ReplyDeletelol, if you're gonna make up Nash quotes, it's probably a good idea to not use them on someone has has watched every shoot Nash has done.
ReplyDeleteAS GOD IS MY WITNESS, THE AUDIENCE'S EARDRUMS HAVE BEEN BROKEN GOD-DAMNED IN HALF
ReplyDeleteSome accounts seem to indicate he was tight with them for a brief period. Given he was close to Bigelow, who hated the Kliq, it could've been a matter of him arriving thinking he didn't have to kowtow to them backstage or in the ring.
ReplyDeleteFamously, the writers of the Sopranos would base their dialogue off of how the actor's actually spoke. If Vince and co. did that, Reigns would not be saying stuff like "suffering succotash, son!" and probably wouldn't look like such a moron.
ReplyDeleteScott ... THIS is now?
ReplyDeleteThe real problem is that WWE rewrite constantly so the wrestlers are probably just trying to memorise the dialogue, rather than figure out how to say it. If they got scripts in advance, most of them could TRY and figure out edits/how to say shit.
ReplyDeleteEh, I've gotta disagree with you there. I always thought Anderson was a better worker than Flair, but didn't reach the top for two reasons. 1) He didn't quite have the superstar look. 2) He didn't want it. Watch the first War Games, Arn versus Dusty at the start is by far the best part of the match and Flair does noting of merit. But it seems clear that Arn and Flair were fiercely loyal, and Arn just plain didn't desire to go for the top spot. If he wanted to? Dude could have given it a decent shot.
ReplyDeleteSame with Jericho, he came in thinking 'I can wrestle' and didn't stop to think 'should I wrestle WWE style?' I mean it's things like taking a clothesline and getting up quickly for another one etc. Also, studying tapes of people he's wrestling so he can see Razor does this and this, and sells like this.
ReplyDeleteSo basically...
ReplyDelete1) New guy comes in.
2) Wrestles Kid.
3) Kid says he needs work.
4) Locker room sees him as a weak link.
5) Guy doesn't get over because no-one co-operates with him.
Makes sense. Genuinely.
By all accounts, Vince respects people who challenge him a little. He does not respect wrestlers who do what they're asked and don't fight at all. If Douglas had said 'what about this?' for the gear, they might have worked out the kinks. Compromise.
ReplyDeleteTaker/Ramon had 'the look.'
ReplyDeleteDouglas didn't.
And it's the same in any new job. I just started one which I got because of my previous admin experience, but the new job has a different structure/criteria that I HAVE to adapt to. I can't coast on what I did, I have to focus on how they do things. If I don't, I've no-one to blame but myself.
Douglas seems to like he could be a hard guy to work with, but that gimmick was awful. As a general idea, it's alright. But to literally be a teacher was stupid.
ReplyDeleteWhat he should have been is the evolution of ECW "Jerk Jock/Frat Guy" gimmick. What happens when that guy actually gets out of college and ends up in the real world in a position of power?
That's the question his character should have answered.
For the record, the answer to that question is "HHH's Reign of Terror".
So maybe it was a good thing we didn't get that from Douglas...
He's literally never said anything like this.
ReplyDeleteVince's 1995 obsession with job-based gimmicks was utterly bizarre. I can accept almost any gimmick, no matter how stupid, if it somehow represents the wrestler's personality. You think you're a model? Fine. You like a bit of voodoo magic? Fair enough. You think you're a bull? More power to you. But a wrestler who also works as a teacher, dentist, plumber, garbage man, pig farmer, race car driver = DULL.
ReplyDeleteUnless of course your other job is being a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Force. That's awesome.
That's...That's a lot of penises...peni? Dicks.
ReplyDeleteBut HBK missed a lot of time and ruined year long booking plans faking injuries. That's the criticism.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny you bring up studying tapes but wsang Dean Douglas supposedly doing that? Yeah Jericho and Shane had a few months where they didn't wrestle, so im thinking ring rust might have played a part in both, ironically, sucking against Waltman.
ReplyDeleteJericho had that acclaimed tag match against Benoit/Guerrero at that tribute show.
ReplyDeleteBravo!
ReplyDeleteWhenever I want to take Shane Douglas' side, I hear him in a shoot interview blaming everybody but himself and having the most unbelievable stories as to why something that didn't happen.
ReplyDeleteStill the shortest reigning IC Champion of all time though, he'll always have that.
What year long booking? The only guy who had Bret Hart winning back the title set in stone was Bret Hart.
ReplyDeleteWhich would be fine if you were green as shit and nice to everyone. Which by all accounts Douglas was not.
ReplyDeleteHappened to Jericho in 99 as well.
ReplyDeleteUndertaker was a job based gimmick that worked but the fact that he was basically a zombie made him more of a character.
ReplyDeleteThey should rehire Rikishi - just so he can take the world's biggest crap in the middle of the ring.
ReplyDelete