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Post by endo on Oct 2, 2013 23:13:54 GMT -5
Recorded this last night, the Global Wrestling Federation from the early 90's. The Patriot, "Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert, The Lightning Kid who was X-Pac, and The Handsome Stranger, who went on to be Buff Bagwell.
Tons of other names, Black Bart, Jack Victory, Missy Hyatt, Jerry Lynn. Cool to see this again, but easy to see why it didn't last.
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Post by NDX on Oct 2, 2013 23:51:44 GMT -5
That good, huh?
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Post by endo on Oct 3, 2013 19:00:03 GMT -5
It was very 90's, felt like I was watching the AWA in it's final years, only with a different cast. I enjoyed it, but it was uber cheesy.
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Post by NDX on Oct 3, 2013 19:11:17 GMT -5
All wrestling was then. Or have we forgotten Robocop and Frank Drebbin?
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Post by gorepolice on Oct 4, 2013 7:27:33 GMT -5
Hey, the Undertaker wasn't going to find himself ya know?
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Post by NDX on Oct 4, 2013 13:08:17 GMT -5
Man, i wonder what would have happened if the Undertaker bombed as a gimmick. How different would the business be right now? Would Mick Foley been as respected as he is our just another jobber? Would HBK been hurt and sobered up our would he be dead by now? Would WWE still be around or world there be no mainstream wrestling company? Or ten companies?
Hell of a what if.
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Post by gorepolice on Oct 5, 2013 22:13:01 GMT -5
That's a scary thought right there. Good thing it not only succeeded, but that they gave the gimmick to the right guy.
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Post by NDX on Oct 5, 2013 22:44:03 GMT -5
Yeah. What if Kevin Nash was supposed to be the Undertaker instead of Diesel?
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Post by gorepolice on Oct 6, 2013 1:25:02 GMT -5
Paul Bearer gets a lot of credit here too. Talk about the perfect manager for a superstar. If they had kept Undertaker with Brother Love or put him with someone else, it just wouldn't have been the same. A case of the right pieces coming together.
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Post by NDX on Oct 6, 2013 1:29:31 GMT -5
They did fit together. And what helped Taker was how he evolved over time, become more and more of a personality than a zombie, going from heel to face to heel and back again. His history was a great one up until a few years ago. Shame WWE tends to ignore most of all that work before the pre-Attitude Era where he started to break out on his own.
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Post by gorepolice on Oct 6, 2013 1:35:17 GMT -5
This is why I want him to retire. Granted, he works extremely limited dates, but I don't want my last image of him to be a broken down shell who should've quit a few matches ago. He's lasted this long on a gimmick that nobody would have expected to run more than a few years, thanks to his constant evolutions as you mentioned.
I think he would be a great backstage guy. He's the most respected of the old guard, so you know he'll have a job for life in the E.
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Post by NDX on Oct 6, 2013 1:39:40 GMT -5
I think he's someone who would benefit by going down to the Performance Center they've established and work directly with NXT. He'd be the best there (with all due respect to Dusty, Smiley, Steamboat, Robbie Brookside, Bill DeMott, Joey Mercury, Billy Gunn, Terry Taylor, Nick Dinsmore and Sara Del Rey) and the future would do well to learn from a veteran who has spent over 20 years in the same company (a very rare occurrence in wrestling in general).
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Post by gorepolice on Oct 6, 2013 1:42:08 GMT -5
You know damn well Undertaker is a serious dude who will not tolerate any kind of nonsense from the young guys. If anybody is made to weed out the bad seeds or put someone in their place, it's him.
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Post by NDX on Oct 6, 2013 1:57:46 GMT -5
He's the guy they need down there showing them all how to be locker room leaders. We could have a hell of a crop of wrestlers in the future of Taker went down there and trained them. Even more so now that WWE has done 90% of their recruiting from the Indies.
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Post by gorepolice on Oct 7, 2013 11:24:13 GMT -5
What I wouldn't give to see Taker rip into guys who are full of themselves. I'd love to see him chew out guys like Low-Ki and Teddy Hart.
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