The Attitude Era Thread Vol 1

[Valeyard]

Haas was a guy who both got done dirty and went beyond his ceiling. His best shot without Benjamin was that team with Rico who was in a similar spot, but they didn't click and Rico was shockingly bad.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

'04 Rico was not the best tribute to Adrian Street. RIP.

 

[Valeyard]

That pissed me off. It isn't a hard gimmick to understand and Rico sucked but might've made something of it, but they were so especially inept then.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

On paper, Rico as the ‘00s Adrian Street seems like it’d be a great idea but maybe not make it such an obvious Adrian Street homage. What percentage of people watching Smackdown in ‘04 even knew who Adrian Street was? 5%?

 

[BruiserBrody]

I don't recall Rico being bad off hand. IIRC He was put over Flair on a random Raw and that kicked off some sort of angle of Flair reinvigorating his career, but I don't recall the exact details of all that.

 

[BruiserBrody]

McMahon had the idea to team Road Dog and Billy Gunn, hence why they were slammed over until it stuck.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

I don't recall Rico being bad off hand. IIRC He was put over Flair on a random Raw and that kicked off some sort of angle of Flair reinvigorating his career, but I don't recall the exact details of all that.

It was the angle that led to Evolution, Brod. Triple H chewed out Ric Flair after he jobbed to Rico and talked about how pathetic he had become. This pissed Flair off so much he turned heel by helping Triple H beat RVD at Unforgiven ‘02.

 

[alfdogg]

the heat should've been in the hot chick being covered up

It was!

 

[Valeyard]

Rico wasn't good. His OVW stuff is fun but nothing super special, and I think he was great managing Billy and Chuck with the stylist gimmick. It seemed like when the Street knockoff gimmick started up, he aged significantly (I know he was already older) and looked in rough shape, and he and Jackie Gayda did not click whatsoever. More than anything it was WWE seeing the gimmick as more just a gay gimmick than as a flamboyant badass like Street was. Needed to be Hugh Jackman in The Greatest Showman on the outside with Wolverine on the inside, man.

 

[Valeyard]

It was!

They didn't present it that way, which is bullshit. All I remember is Ivory being dumped on for being a bitch and JR all dated calling her Lilith Sternin (as though that's an insult).

 

[BruiserBrody]

Ex-boxer Butterbean Esch loses more than 200 pounds in dramatic transformation

Butterbean, the former super heavyweight champion in boxing, revealed his dramatic weight loss of more than 200 pounds over the last couple years.

nypost.com

Butterbean is back and fighting fit after DDP Yoga

 

[Valeyard]

Someone needs to book a rematch with Knoxville.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

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Are the sources on these reliable?

 

[Valeyard]

See I'm totally fine with all of that but LOVE that "Blowjobs Are Cool" got on TV.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

That’s not subjective. They got to air the truth on TV IIRC.

 

[Valeyard]

Peak wrestling.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://x.com/therealalsnow/status/1690786260720189442?s=46&t=gb4yPUPRHiWQCHuwXgXLUQ

Dammit (p)Al, why the hell didn’t you look like this 25 years ago?

 

[AA484]

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Peak wrestling.

Peak 8th grade

 

[Valeyard]

Same.

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1693627636461838387

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Butterbean Discusses His WWE Fight With Bart Gunn Post-Brawl For All - Wrestling Inc.

Famed boxer and toughman contest competitor Butterbean recalls his one-sided fight with WWE's Bart Gunn at 1999's WrestleMania 15.

www.wrestlinginc.com

Tony Khan should bring Bean in.

 

[Hawk 34]

He can join Mogul Empire or whatever they call Nanas group now and he can take out Barts more famous brother and win the trios belt.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1697993634501546105

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

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Damn. That’s how you know X-Pac was messed up in the ‘00s.

 

[Valeyard]

X-Factor could've worked so much better if it didn't happen.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1705974313973608843

Eh, bring me home, Bruce, you dumb bastard. I wanna watch Nitro.

 

[Valeyard]

I really don't like Stu, but he never looked or sounded less than 76 years old.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Stu was actually fairly handsome as a young man before had 28 kids to psychologically torture.

 

[Valeyard]

Owen and Storm might be the only same Dungeon graduates.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Owen and Storm might be the only same Dungeon graduates.

Damn, not even Nattie and TJ?