The Attitude Era Thread Vol 1

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Brian Christopher is just a sad case of being wrong person in wrong place at wrong time. If he's born 10 years earlier or later, I think he'd have been a star in some national promotion.

 

[BruiserBrody]

Another Sliding Doors scenario, Disco surely would've found some sort of interesting undercard gimmick if he were around in the Attitude Era.

Would he have pulled off Rockabilly? Supposedly he was almost the HTM's guy in that angle.

 

[Valeyard]

I hate Disco but I won't lie: he and Road Dogg would've clicked way better than Road Dogg and Billy Gunn. Zero offense to Assman.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Disco and Dogg...that's almost crazy enough to work!

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

They did do it in 2003 TNA kind of and it was not great but they had developed more bad habits by then. I feel like Disco and Dogg would have worked in ‘97.

Disco is enough of a goof that he might have made Rockabilly work. A few years later, Billy Gunn might have been actually able to pull it off but ‘97 Billy Gunn was way too stiff.

 

[Valeyard]

'97-98 would've worked perfectly. The TNA stuff was just so TNA. Dogg never recovered from Billy getting hurt in 2000.

Billy Gunn hate is funny to me because I totally get, understand, and even think he deserved the hard push...two years earlier, with Sunny. That 1999 run was doomed.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

I really thought the Smoking Gunns Explode feud would be a lot bigger than pre show fodder. But that’s a topic for the New Generation Era thread.

 

[Valeyard]

1999 Billy would have had a better chance as a face. He was doing pretty well before he and Road Dogg swapped feuds for no reason. He and Val seemed destined for a prolonged feud based on just douchebag charisma, and Shamrock murdering both any time he wanted, should have gotten a real chance.

 

[BruiserBrody]

Disco and Jesse James feels too jokey, but Disco playing a goof/lackey for so long in WCW has tainted the jury. I recall The Dames putting over the Glen Gilberti TNA push in his reviews.
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Had Sunny not fired the Gunns at Mind Games and instead stayed on with Billy as his fuck toy to give him some heat, the Gunn feud may have gone better. I guess they wanted Sunny and Ron Simmons to get interracial heat like it was 1972 or something.

 

[geniusMoment]

I always thought it was odd that Sunny wasn't a manager of anyone from September of 96 until the new LOD in 98. Was there a reason for this? It seems like she would've been a great way to get someone over, and by 97 WWF was really pushing T&A so it would've been a perfect fit.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

I wonder if (and am half assumign that) Sunny's absence from managing in '97 was due to her wanting to spend less time on the road.

And weirdly, I'm having a hard time thinking of who she would've been a good manager to in '97.

 

[Hawk 34]

DOA. Put Sunny in biker chick gear and print them checks.

I wonder if (and am half assumign that) Sunny's absence from managing in '97 was due to her wanting to spend less time on the road.

And weirdly, I'm having a hard time thinking of who she would've been a good manager to in '97.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

I'm sure she would have made things marginally better but I'm not sure if even Sunny deserved to be involved in the Worst Feud of the Attitude Era.

 

[BruiserBrody]

I'm sure she would have made things marginally better but I'm not sure if even Sunny deserved to be involved in the Worst Feud of the Attitude Era.

I guess it kind of works if tied into the LOD/DOA feud.

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411MANIA | Bruce Prichard Says WWE Almost Repackaged Headbanger Thrasher As An Evil Clown

Bruce Prichard spoke about how Headbanger Mosh got repackaged and how Thrasher was almost an evil clown...

411mania.com

The idea behind my new character was going to be something like… did you ever see Saturday Night Live with Dan Aykroyd and he is doing the basimatic? That was going to be my character. Part of it was for me to go down and to collect the Basketball and the deer head, and all that other b**lls–t. We were going to do an auction site to boot and I was going to be the host of this auction site. We would sell all that stuff towards an auction and it was just going to be part of the show and another way to drive people to WWF.com. In that, I was going to become a heel character to be in charge of DTK Enterprises, which was Doink the Clown. Get it? You spell Clown with a ‘K’. Black hair, black mustache and goatee and everything.

I'm not sure how Bruce Prichard as heel Don West works with Doink, but ok!

 

[Valeyard]

Sunny could have worked with Pillman, maybe. Hart Foundation Sunny.

Maybe haver her pursue Rock who is a super good guy and doesn't want an evil golddigging manager so she spends spring hiring random guys to take the belt off him.

 

[BruiserBrody]

Sunny could have worked with Pillman, maybe. Hart Foundation Sunny.

Maybe haver her pursue Rock who is a super good guy and doesn't want an evil golddigging manager so she spends spring hiring random guys to take the belt off him.

 

[Valeyard]

Money. Blow it off at Mania and then make her the Canadian traitor and manage everyone but Bret so it doesn't look like they're fucking while on TV. I just love her being such a gold digger she would turn on her own country.

Also am I the only one who never liked Rock's boots?

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1413601574862077958

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1414426094598504454

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

I love that he doesn't take his foot off the mat until just before he drops. It makes it feel more impactful.

 

[Sex Machine Gun]

So he waited until he was... Lo Down?

How long did they have the Indian gimmick with Tiger Ali Singh anyway? Hell, just *that* guy is a weird, persistently present character who was always just kinda lingering around for that whole era just about.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

So he waited until he was... Lo Down?

boooooooooo

 

[Valeyard]

There was one Raw where Lo Down got to look look like competition against the Hardys and then nothing came of it. Didn't care that it was Chaz and D-Lo in track pants, the tag division got mad stale by the end of 2000 and I wanted something new.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Lo Down between their debut as a team and being paired with Singh were one of the hottest teams in the company. I still think Mosh/Chaz Warrington could've been given a better shot at some point.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1415425062971322369

 

[Fall of Epic]

So on the left side of Iron Mike I spot Patterson, Briscoe, Garea, and Slaughter. Who are the two gentlemen to his right?

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Blackjack Lanza and I believe that's Arnold Skaaland (who I thought was written off TV forever after Backlund put him in the Chicken Wing a few weeks after he "snapped" and turned heel)

 

[strummer]

Jack Lanza and Arnold Skaaland I believe

 

[Valeyard]

The APA not getting to kill them some Hardys in some kind of ladder match bugged me. I would have 100% bought Faarooq and Bradshaw filling a Dudley spot once in a while.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

It happened a few times in late 1999. There's a reason they generally stuck with the three teams they did for the bigger stages.