Kamala's Random WCW Bullshit thread

[Valeyard]

Who

 

[BruiserBrody]

Pretty sure I've heard this before on Between the Sheets but what a concept. Todd Champion had been doing jobs since like 1987. Pez was last pushed in what....87 at best? Then you have a hoss in Kaz and you are going to saddle him in a comedy angle?
He didn't wind up getting over, but being brought in as Rick Steiner's partner for a few months at least gave him some cred. "World's Strongest Man" beats Mall Cop.

 

[Gert]

I had never heard of the Patriots faction, but holy cow that fits into summer to fall WCW 1991!

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

I used to loyally check out WrestleCrap every Friday for RD's newest inductions. "WCW Special Forces" is still the best hometown ever announced.

 

[alfdogg]

WCW had the best residences. A couple examples that come to mind are Sid "from anywhere he darn well pleases" and Black Blood from "a little town in France".

 

[Fall of Epic]

Sting was billed as being from "Every Man's Worst Nightmare".

 

[strummer]

I used to loyally check out WrestleCrap every Friday for RD's newest inductions. "WCW Special Forces" is still the best hometown ever announced.

Every Friday when I was in college I would go to the computer lab between classes and read the newest inductions. One time one of the librarians caught me lol'ing about something and I had to cover. Also remember being shocked about Merl's suicide which I think was in Fall 2000

 

[Valeyard]

Suicide? Didn't know that.

 

[BruiserBrody]

WCW had the best residences. A couple examples that come to mind are Sid "from anywhere he darn well pleases" and Black Blood from "a little town in France".

Luna in WWF was from "The other side of darkness" and Demento was from "The outer reaches of your mind" IIRC. 2 of my favorites.

 

[Tino Standard]

WWF had a couple other good ones. The 50s greasers Deuce and Domino were billed from “the other side of the tracks” and the Million Dollar Man was always “making his seasonal residence in…” various rich towns at different points of the year to hammer home how loaded he was.

 

[Fall of Epic]

Luna in WWF was from "The other side of darkness"

And it was reused for her then-husband Gangrel's hometown years later.

 

[Fall of Epic]

the Million Dollar Man was always “making his seasonal residence in…” various rich towns at different points of the year to hammer home how loaded he was.

This was also reused years later with Tyler Breeze in NXT since he was supposed to be a rich supermodel.

 

[Valeyard]

Who was from Venice Beach first, Hogan or Sting?

 

[BruiserBrody]

Who was from Venice Beach first, Hogan or Sting?

 

[Valeyard]

It never fit either of them tbh. At least Sting was a surfer at one point. Hogan just hung and bung.

 

[BruiserBrody]

It never fit either of them tbh. At least Sting was a surfer at one point. Hogan just hung and bung.

Muscle Beach - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Valeyard]

Much gayer sounding

 

[BruiserBrody]

The McGee vs Hart of celeb matches!

 

[BruiserBrody]

According to the dirt sheets in the late summer of 89, WCW creative had proposed doing Starrcade Pearl Harbor weekend in Hawaii with Flair vs Muta headlining.

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1844032760891236803

Why the stockings?

 

[Valeyard]

 

[BruiserBrody]

If you believe the WON reporting, then in late Aug of 96 WCW had made an offer to Davey Boy to be the 5th man in the NWO. He was being slotted to feud with Sting. Giant would end up with the spot after Vince paid Bulldog to stay. Bret was still a free agent at this point, so WCW almost scored the Hart Family.

What becomes of the WWF if Bret doesn't force their hand to push Austin?

Dusty was trying to get himself booked as the WCW's counter to Dibiase in the nWo. Nash would have probably fileted Rhodes on promos, as they would likely have booked Rhodes to be ineffective. Dusty served a good enough role on commentary as the voice of "trah-dish-shawn"

 

[snuffbox]

Smith in fall '96 WCW could've been. A series with Sting would've been as good or better than his matches with HBK earlier in the summer. After that Sting can move to the rafters and put in Smith in a couple months of a run being fed cruiserweights. Knowing how good the match with Owen in real life 1997 was, they'd all be good matches. It'd get several of them more over and believable losing to Bulldog in competitive, fun matches (Rey, Eddie, Malenko). Then weave in and out of the main event, a face turn, yadda yadda.

That's a great question! Austin was such a big part of that 1998 turnaround. Without that, and Bret maybe gone before McMahon could become his onscreen heel character, I think it probably would've been disastrous for WWF. I don't know if they could've taken back Monday night without the Austin-McMahon feud.

 

[BruiserBrody]

Remembering the Brief Run of The Hardliners in WCW

Brian Damage Years before Bradshaw and Ron Simmons opened up the Acolyte Protection Agency in the WWF, there was the Hardline Collection Agency or Hardliners for short in WCW. They consisted of the…

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The very last match the team had in WCW was at a house show in Norfolk, Virginia in September of ’91. Their careers would be seriously altered after a chance meeting with WCW executive Jim Herd. According to Terry Funk, Herd was having a meeting with several wrestlers about how bad WCW’s business was doing at the time. Dick Murdoch was walking past the dressing room when Herd spotted him and stopped him in the hallway. Apparently, Herd knew Murdoch was a veteran and Jim Herd asked him why WCW wasn’t doing well.
Dick Murdoch, who had absolutely no filter…blamed Herd and “jokingly” called Herd a “dumb son of a bitch.” Days later, Murdoch was fired by WCW leaving Dick Slater to fall down the card as a low to mid card singles wrestler. The Hardliners were no more, after a little less than three months with the company. Would the Hardliners have been more successful if Scott Steiner didn’t get legitimately hurt? Could the team of Murdoch and Slater become WCW tag team champions? What would have been if Murdoch didn’t openly criticize Jim Herd? One thing was for sure, they would have lasted a lot longer in the promotion.

 

[Valeyard]

Listen I'm all for Murdoch getting fired but c'mon. Who liked Herd?

 

[alfdogg]

Monday was the 25th anniversary of the greatest Thunder episode ever

 

[snuffbox]

Instead of signing shopworn guys like Murdoch and Slater, it probably would've been better for WCW at the time to retain, push, etc Doom, Callous, Sid, Pillman, Cactus, etc.

 

[Valeyard]

Guys like the Hardliners definitely have a place, but don't push them at the expense of the future. Their role is the team you beat before you lose to Doom.

 

[BruiserBrody]

Half ass watched the Worldwide from this week in 92 as I was prepping food for my mates.
- Brad Armstrong gets a squash. Only thing I heard was they had just gotten rid of the light heavy division so he was in flux again.
- Barry Windham and Dustin had just beat the Miracle Violence Connection for the titles (Why not wait for Havoc?) Windham was being very much a heel. No real subtlety. I don't believe he and Dustin managed to have a 1 vs 1 match on PPV or a Clash (At least that I can recall)
- Erik Watts debuted in ring vs Henry Godwin. Bill Watts was all over the show as the power broker, which made this debut even worse as the nepotism was unshakable
- A VAN HAMMER hype video! This fucker debuted over a year ago!!!
- Austin and Pillman did a heel squash in a pre-Blonds tag match. They used Pillman's babyface music, which is terrible heel music.
- Scott Steiner won the TV title from Steamboat in a snoozer of a match. Scott was being asked to stay in WCW and turn heel IIRC, and he showed here he didn't give a shit and just went through the motions with one of the best workers of his era.
- We saw several clips of Bill Watts messing with Rick Rude, the top heel. Having a heel screwed over and over while he is also winning multiple titles feels more like a backwards booking unless you wanted to turn Rude face.

 

[BruiserBrody]

Sting and Luger felt the TV time could be used on them...