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Duke has a prosthetic foot hence his awkward maneuvering.
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WWF New Generation Thread III
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Minus the fact that I believe Drose was outed as drugging women (and getting Bradshaw shower treatment for it), I still think a Dumpster heel turn, leaving his common man gimmick behind and wearing suits for the Million Dollar Man, might have worked for a bit. We miss out on HHH and Dumpster epic feud, but it gives Dibiase a younger, fresher guy to replace IRS, Volkoff, and later 95 Tatanka, who were all gone or stale as hell. Or heck, he can replace Bigelow in the summer of 95. Dibiase talks up Drose's scummy job past, while semi aligning with heel HOG to do the grunt work. Eventually Drose hears one too many snide remarks and goes back face.
Austin and Drose have a ***1/2 hidden gem at WM 12 and Drose sticks around into 1999 as a 23 time hardcore champ.
Or not.
Austin and Drose have a ***1/2 hidden gem at WM 12 and Drose sticks around into 1999 as a 23 time hardcore champ.
Or not.
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Based on how it looks like his leg goes wonky right away, Kerry's 1988 tech was superior.
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Duke also has 20-30 years and fifty pounds on KVE.
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Man Mountain Rock huffs off screen.
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Scott Ian played guitar on that tracks! (And is briefly seen in the video).
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I don't know these names, but there you go.
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Imagine THIS being the Tatanka look for the M$Corp
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I was going to follow Tatanka as they suggested, but his feed is loaded with retweets of right wing garbage.
I guess that fits the M$Corp gimmick pretty well.
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For the longest time I've thought Lex not actually being the one who took the money and becoming cocky, rich heel Lex in WWF was one of the big mistakes WWF made in the mid-90s.
Heel Lex vs. Bret matches up so well.
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You wonder if Vince was too prideful to admit defeat on that one after spending so much time and effort the previous year to make Luger a star.
But Yoko was getting depushed, Crush failed to get over big time despite feuding with Savage for 6 ,months and so on, so Luger aiming to be a top heel fits.
Then again, Tatanka had his balls chopped off the moment Borga and Yoko destroyed him and he needed a reboot too. As mentioned, he should have gotten a refreshed look other than "Chris, snarl at the hard cam after you win"
Borga breaking his ankle in January ruined Tatanka's Rumble revenge match (assuming Tatanka was going to win, and not put Borga over again to set up USA Lex with an opponent). By WM 10, Tatanka was slotted in a 10 man, technically lower than Borga, who was supposed to wrestle Quake.
Is Quake/Borga lowkey potentially an all time stinker if it isn't the same squash style that the Adam Bomb match was?
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BRETTTTTTT!!!!
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Random thought I had the other day. With all the old acts that were brought back in 1994, how do you resist bringing back Akeem for a dance-off with Mabel?
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May have been bad blood:
George Gray (Akeem, One Man Gang) Opens Up About Being Labeled 'Bad Business' By Vince McMahon, Reveals Wrestlers Not Easy To Work With
George Gray (Akeem, One Man Gang) Opens Up About Being Labeled 'Bad Business' By Vince McMahon, Reveals Wrestlers Not Easy To Work With
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OMG also has said they told him to switch to the Akeem gimmick or be fired.
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I appreciate the little extra effort to plug having Mr Magnificent showing up at a signing.
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Jake, I know you weren't quite in working shape but why wear a maternity shirt in the ring?
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Love the way the Steiners are playing the SNES. Rick is only hitting the L and R triggers and Scott is ignoring the D pad.
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He dropped the shirt towards the end of this run, though he probably shouldn't have!
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Former WWF Magazine writer Lou Gianfriddo who was famously put in the cross face chicken wing by Bob Backlund on Monday Night Raw during the period where Backlund was hitting it out the park as a heel in late 1994. Gianfriddo was an avid body builder as well. Lou saddenly passed on Friday at 55.
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As a 10 year subscriber to the WWF magazine and a 4 or 5 year subscriber to RAW magazine, I read a lot of Lou's work. Russo has said the magazine staff was gutted during the lean years and Russo had limited help writing and filling out the mag.
I have to assume that's why we had goofy gimmick writers like Janus, the Informer and such.
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Why did they make an action figure of this era Jake!?
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Time for my annual post about how I was having a rotten Sat AM for some reason and Virgil winning this popped me so hard I came out of my funk.
IIRC they rematched a week later and Virgil failed epically.
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I really feel like the “anything can happen” aspect is one of my favorite things about the New Generation era but sometimes it was befuddling. Why debut a potential monster heel (in a time when the roster was shedding worse than a golden retriever) by having them put over Virgil? I don’t think Virgil beat a non jobber after this match!
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I think a lot of the 90s era is "rose-colored glasses" nostalgia like that because there wasn't the IWC in the same way we have it now. Imagine the IWC outrage over Diesel/Shawn holding all the belts at once or situations like your post where the WWF "ruined" a monster's debut by having him lose to Virgil out of the gate lolwaytopushhimRIPhiscareer hot take.
I legit think corners of the IWC would've been bitching about the WWF "turning" Austin face after WM 13 because he was so great as a heel (and not believing Bret could pull off the heel role).