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I can see him being into it since most fans never saw him as an active wrestler so him getting some offense in on Vader probably excited him.
 
I can see it either way. Mainly I would like to believe Monsoon saw himself in Vader and wanted to help make him a star and not him being pressured to get written off TV.
 
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Time for my yearly post about how I saw this for the 1st time and assumed this was going to be a Gold miner gimmick.

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I can picture Tony Anthony is the role offhand.

"Lookie Fellers, I know a lot about finding gold....and the biggest pile of gold is around Shawn Michaels waist and I'm fixin' to git it!"
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Fresh off the KOTR win that totally set off his rocketship and was not botched by Vince until Bret Hart booked his own angle in September... Austin "beats" Taker, only to have Taker kill him anyway.

WWE Vault uploaded the Summerslam dark matches the other day and it was WEIRD to see Austin come out to the Ringmaster theme while "Stone Cold". Put that example into are recent debate over Hogan's theme vs Real American.
 
I liked the Ringmaster theme but it totally didn't work for Steve once he dumped DiBiase. His iconic theme didn't debut until October and it didn't have the glass break. Not sure how long after that came in.
 
Those are so delightful. Very glad Vince finally saw the Poseidon Adventure and wanted to use him.
 
After the semi famous SMW match where Dr Tom took 45 straight turnbuckle shots to the face and did a mega blade job, the Apters made up their own angle that Del Ray and Dr. Tom had bled to bring Corny success so now they were DEMANDING he get them a title shot against his WWF charges Owen and Yoko.
It's kind of a shame SMW didn't run this. It probably wouldn't have drawn since the fans were old school and this would be heel vs heel, but Owen and Dr. Tom probably could have torn the place down.
 
When did Fuji finally leave? I remember him vividly managing face Yokozuna in 96 (with an American flag) but being gone just fast enough to make me question this being a real memory
 
Wasn't he with Yoko at the Raw match where Vader broke his leg and they took him out on a forklift?

EDIT: Looked it up and yes he was.
 
I also always forget that Yoko briefly aligned with Cornette again before being sent to the fat farm. I think they recorded Cornette promo introducing a still face Yoko in a pre-recorded match.
 
Epic for the Summer said:
I also always forget that Yoko briefly aligned with Cornette again before being sent to the fat farm. I think they recorded Cornette promo introducing a still face Yoko in a pre-recorded match.
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Melz has nothing for that Raw other than (incorrectly) saying Yoko went heel randomly.
2nd week Meltz says Yoko is a heel, but not with Corny.
No yoko mentions in Sept after that other than listed his South African matches vs HHH and Austin

Only news in Oct:
Latest news from Puerto Rico. Savio Vega’s promotion that is running opposition to WWC had Bam Bam Bigelow, Yokozuna, Mr. Fuji, Duke Droese, Vega and WWF spanish language announcer Hugo Savinovich were in for shows over the weekend.
In Nov Yoko gets name dropped as being in his SSeries tag match (with Dave mentioning Warrior is rumored to be the mystery man, but Dave doesn't buy it.)
Then in the SSeries report, Dave says Vader landed awkward from Yoko's Rock Bottom and wound up injured.

Off topic Meltz on Hennig:

The announcing was done by Vince McMahon, Jim Ross and Curt Hennig and about the only comment about that threesome is that they should change Hennig’s nickname to Mr. Perfectly Useless.
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I’m almost positive they were expecting Savage to return around that time and he was gonna be the mystery partner.
 
I won't be convinced that Savage bailed on the deal at the last minute and took Slim Jim with him. After immediately going to WCW the first time and fucking Vince over good again when he was desperate for stars, he got blackballed for good. It lines up too well. Not as fun as the Steph rumor so no one believes it though.
 

I can't tell u why, but I was having a terrible morning when this aired and Virgil upsetting Mike Shaw in his debut made me POP and cheered me up. Thanks Virgil! (It had to be more than the death of Hulkamania, something outside of wrasslin')

I wonder if Adam Bomb's jobber wore a shirt for any particular reason?
 
Tiger Chung Lee ain't no jobber.

Brooklyn Brawler, Tony DeVito, Mike Bell, and Bill Mulkey.
 
Goldust and Mankind should have teamed up at some point in the latter half of '96. Completely missed opportunity that would have gotten them both mega over.
 
They were together briefly but it got dropped. Goldust was his mommy.
 
Mr. Perfect as a color commentator in 1996 is like later day Lawler with JR. He gets a good line in every once in awhile but is largely useless.
 
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Goldust and Mankind should have teamed up at some point in the latter half of '96. Completely missed opportunity that would have gotten them both mega over.
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They had a super brief alliance and even made the cover of WWE Magazine at the time. That was also around the time Mankind would stalk Sable during Marc Mero matches.
 
Mickey Massuco said:
Goldust and Mankind should have teamed up at some point in the latter half of '96. Completely missed opportunity that would have gotten them both mega over.
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They teamed against Shawn and Taker at an MSG show in September. It was the smallest crowd they ever did in that building, drawing under 4000 paid.
 
It wasn’t developed properly, I mean one where they get unique promos and titles and are seen as a real menace. They were together briefly and had no build, didn’t go over big names but were thrown in there with some way too soon and Dustin’s character completely changed a few short months after that.
 
That reminds me of something else I noticed, regarding how we judge people’s success unfairly as they’re beholden to things outside their control; Bret Hart only won three wwe ppv main events as incumbent champion; Survivor series 1992, 95 December and the 96 February in your house ppvs.

The man was in the company for thirteen years, world champion five times over five years. It’s kind of a crazy stat. In 94, he literally didn’t main event one ppv after winning the belt, and the guy he lost it to was jobbed out in ten seconds. After he won at summerslam 97, before survivor series he never main evented any of those ppvs. Shawn did all three lol

In December 95 IYH, the bulldog match was the main event after further inspection. He lost by DQ against the undertaker in royal rumble 96, so he retained but didn’t win. Even the February one where he did win, he looked very weak as the undertaker pulled Kevin Nash through the ring and he pretty much went over nobody lol

Even thinking of his big moment from Mania 13 with the double turn, people forget that he showed up to cut a whiny promo before the main event, and Sid made him look like a jobber when he powerbombed him and he hobbled off with the help of a ref, as if to say he shouldn’t interrupt the main event, like he was made to look like he clearly wasn’t on their level. This is shown by the fact that the camera doesn’t even focus on him leaving and they don’t talk about it, he exits like an eliminated Rumble competitor, commentary quickly ignores him and focuses on the real main event, he was a true afterthought. I’m honestly surprised that didn’t stall his momentum more or have more of a negative impact on his Austin feud, it looked really bad considering what had just transpired.

So a guy who was a champion five times in five years had two clean wins as champion in a main event of a PPV, and it was the first one and another one that, at the time, everyone knew he was a lame duck champion for Shawn. How can a guy draw with treatment like that?

It really is crazy when you write out like that. Shawn had like three in his first three shots. Diesel had like four or five in one reign over one year. All clean and they’re booked strongly. It feels like for all the love Bret seemed to get from his coworkers and even the higher ups, the company never really believed in him.
 
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