Kamala's Random WCW Bullshit thread

[King Kamala]

 

[King Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1416434888979488769

 

[Laz]

...there is no proper way to express the shuddering I am doing after looking at those

 

[Valeyard]

Oh shit I remember those. Lotta kids in middle school rocked the Taz one.

 

[Super Leather]

Eaton could have worked in ECW as a heel. All he had to do was be a southern technical wrestler refusing to do any hardcore moves or use weapons. Just arm drags, dropkicks, and chain wrestling. Give him a manager talking about Bobby being a true wrestler and there you go. Crowd would have hated him.

I could see Beautiful Bobby fitting in with Steve Corino and Jack Victory. Eaton certainly outperforms Victory in every way in the ring.

 

[Laz]

Kinda sucks that his brief stint in ECW was as a run-in to help Doring/Roadkill against Simon/Swinger/CW instead of being the workhorse for an "Old School" faction, eh? That would've been the ideal build toward it, too, with Eaton turning on them to form a proto-Extreme Horsemen.

 

[King Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1417189876575920132

cc @The Art of Postin'

 

[Valeyard]

Dude if a guy's atomic drop can rattle through your fucking spine and cause your skull to get fucked up you give them the belt. I don't care. Good jobber work.

 

[King Kamala]

Someone brought it up in one of the gazillion old rasslin Facebook groups I'm in but how amazing/awful would it have been if they tried to do a Road Wild in 2000. Imagine how much worse that Nash/Goldberg/Big Poppa Pump fake shoot and the Judy Bagwell on a Pole match would be in front of a bunch of wasted, uninterested bikers!

Vince Russo would cut a heel promo about how bikers are a bunch of homo crybabies like Eric Bischoff and possibly gotten beaten up and/or sued. Less cool though, the bikers would have definitely not reacted well to Booker T: World Champion.

 

[Valeyard]

Russo booking a show in Sturgis might have actually worked. I can see bikers thinking Judy Bagwell on a pole was really funny.

 

[King Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1417317145097117702

 

[Laz]

Bryan Clark is on my shortlist of guys that should've been a much bigger deal, and probably would have been if he'd done some tours of Japan. Great look, didn't mind bumping, had believable power offense...

 

[King Kamala]

Him and Mable are the two guys that come to mind as being most hurt by coming up during the post territories/pre developmental territory & indies boom era. If they came up 10 years earlier or 10 years later, they'd have much, much different and probably better careers.

 

[King Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1417647650107707393

Me and @Laz at the end of the night at the TSM Vegas Summit.

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1417668406636068872

Meng's outfit the night he won the RAW women's title.

 

[King Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1417909118376058887

 

[Valeyard]

Flynn getting beat up was weirdly satisfying.

 

[Laz]

Flynn is representative of why WCW was on fire for those 83 weeks: even the job guys had personalities and their own streaks. Win enough matches on Worldwide/Pro Wrestling/Saturday Night? Get a TV title shot on Nitro.

Plus...c'mon. Kickboxing guy with a mullet.

 

[Valeyard]

I don't even know what it is about Flynn. He's the embodiment of a Bischoff signing. It's most likely just my bitterness at WCW having a really great and really deep roster, but he got more TV. I know he's the type of guy that would come along today and I'd be a fan of, though.

 

[King Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1418319857418911746

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1418375416281186304

Another case of even though I was watching at the time, this timeline feels off. I would have guessed off hand that Taylor showed up later than early 1996, but as I type this my DOS CPU brain is telling me he and Regal did the Battle Bowl Slamboree gimmick that year.

Conrad harps a lot on how Mero was a failed WWF guy, but his run had to eclipse what he would have done as a WCW mid card guy, especially with the influx of workrate guys in later 95 into 96 who would have out shown Badd's 3 high spots.

If nothing else, his wife turning giant jiggling breasts into a million dollar earning act made the WWF move the better choice regardless, both for their finances and my teenage private time.

 

[BruiserBrody]

It's a bit crazy in retrospect that WCW was tossing matches out there like this on free TV. A quick glance at the WWF Superstars results from Feb. 92 indicates that Virgil vs Kato was the closest thing to a name vs name match on TV. (Good lord I think the WWF magazine did a write up on this match in whatever their match of the month article was called....maybe it was a different Kato vs Virgil match I am remembering?!?!)

Prime Time Wrestling had some decent stuff (on paper at least), plus Fox aired the Sid/Hogan vs Taker/Flair match on SNME prime time.

- The Nasty Boys & the Natural Disasters (w/ Jimmy Hart) defeated Owen Hart & Jim Neidhart (sub. for WWF Tag Team Champions the Legion of Doom), Jim Duggan, & Sgt. Slaughter at 8:05 when Earthquake pinned Neidhart with an elbow drop following a splash in the corner (1/28/92; Amarillo, TX; Civic Center)

I found this to be an interesting result as the faces were both newish teams and the Disasters were about to flip sides, so a loss wouldn't be the end all in wrestling booking patterns. I wonder when they switched the WM 8 plans from the LOD/Disasters and Sarge/Duggan vs Money Inc in relation to this booking.

 

[King Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1418654900452536322

 

[King Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1418693747492200451

Bad Wrestling Promoters Takes 1998

 

[Dandy]

Quite a few Bad Wrestling Fan Takes in the comments.

 

[Valeyard]

That guy's Youtube channel is pretty good. AWA content alone.

Watched a video on the Demon yesterday. I want to argue that he isn't as bad as he's made out to be by everyone, but I know better.

 

[King Kamala]

The KISS Demon wasn't a bad idea but like a lot of WCW's idea in '99/'00, it came a couple years too late. If he had showed up two or three years earlier when WCW and KISS Reunion were both at their peak of relevancy, it could have been a fun midcard gimmick. Imagine KISS Demon fighting and/or joining the NWO in '96/'97? At least, I (and maybe @The Art of Postin' ) think it could have been pretty cool.

By the time, he showed up though KISS was only in slightly better shape than WCW. I feel like music fans felt the same way about them that the IWC felt about Hulk Hogan.

 

[Valeyard]

He reminded me so much of Renegade. Just the way he carried himself vs presence. Could've been a hardcore guy, maybe. Special main event matches with Vito.

 

[King Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1419691176245047296

Brody moan @Laz disgusted/dismissive snort.

 

[Valeyard]

He should've brought the wetsuit back.