El-P
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Do you really think it was ? I mean, Kid beat Razor Ramon who was already a powerful mid-carder who had world title match with Bret Hart. Skip was a comedy gimmick who beat no one yet. I don't see it has the exact same situation. Anyway, it was good to see Horowitz get some TV time, as he was a really good worker (although I liked him better as a heel), but all in the detriment of Candido, who was doomed from day one. -
Yes, he was singing. Hell, he used to sing it live as he came down the entrance when he was doing the Real Double J gimmick. The magic of the studio surely made it better than he is, but Armstrong was smooth enough.
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Probably not southern twangy enough for Vince. Well, they did use it as an entrance music for the Real Double J Jesse Jammes (seriously, who thought up that name ?). It didn't exactly got him over huge...
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Well, you underrate Horowitz pretty hard then. I don't think I'd call Tommy Rich in 1990 a *good* worker by any stretch of the imagination. A few good puch, some good fire, but pretty horrific execution, dull offense... Just yikes. Pretty carryable by the right people though.
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Talking about Brad Amrstong has a guy perfect to make other people look good made me think of this one : Brad Armstrong or Barry Horowitz ?
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Actually, I think he's pretty accurately rated. He certainly had good matches, but I've never seen anything to suggest they should have been pushing him any further than he was. I agree with this. Never struck me as someone who deserved a much bigger push. I don't think I've seen a Brad Armstrong match as good as the best Tito stuff for instance. I meant overrated by people who think he was underrated and deserved more, which seems to be the consensus (maybe I'm wrong about that though). Super solid mechanically, but not the guy you'd have a great match with. Perfect to make other look good.
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For all the talks of "Brad Amstrong is underrated" over the years, I find Brad Armstrong actually quite a bit overrated.
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I can still hear it today. This was all over WWF programms at the time. And I agree, Jeff looked like a star, and back then I didn't understand why he lost the IC belt and then vanished. Jarrett sure was an unreliable guy.
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I wish I would get a Euro each time Alvarez says "Listen" at the beginning of a sentence.
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I'm sure the fact that he's a trooper helped his case a lot for having a long career in the WWE, because realistically, his work is the shits, he has not much charisma and can't cut a good promo. The Kane character, and especially the mask, and working a major program with Taker helped him a ton to give him some legitimacy, but I don't buy that he became a bigger "star" than Sid was in the 90's. Well, maybe he did, but only by default because the WWE ended up the only game in town. I was sick and tired of Kane after a year and a half, I just wonder how people cop with him 13 years later...
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Poor Shane Douglas. He had estalished a character which worked wonders the previous years, and there he was settled with a retarded gimmick with a terrible ring attire, music theme and overall presentation. No wonder he didn't get over.
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Back then I was a mark for the "former tag team wrestler pushed as a single", and I always loved the Samoans, so I was digging this shit. Of course it was not exactly a money gimmick, but I wish Fatu didn't had to do a stupid sumo gimmick (which was kinda insulting to me as a sumo fan) to get a huge push and get over. Anyway, I liked of "Make a difference" Fatu, and it was a refreshing change for a Samoan to have a urban gimmick without the savagery.
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Tenryu can be called a lot of things (lazy, spotty, goofy, sloppy, not that I agree with this), but uncharismatic I don't get it. I haven't seen that much of Tenryu in the 80's (apart from the JUmbo feud obviously, some matches against Choshu and the whole 1989 year), but he seemed as charismatic as he ever was then.
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Add Tito Santana. The Fabulous Freebirds and Arn Anderson used the DDT as a finisher in 90. Which was a good way to compare. Arn = great. Garvin = good. Hayes = shitty.
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That made me laugh.
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Lately the Flair Formula has been : "Lose more money, get married, get divorced, lose more money, humiliate yourself on TV, humiliate yourself on Internet, lose more dignity."
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Don't give them any bad ideas.
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Gedo. From nowhere. And YUJI YASURAOKA. And yes, I can spell the name of a mid-90's WAR Jr. heavyweight without even checking... I'm not sure this is a good thing.
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And with the "Greed is good" motto and Ross calling Rotunda the "Gordon Gekko of wrestling", WCW was only 3 years behind as far as pop culture goes, and still deeply rooted in the glorious "money years" 80's. Nice try though.
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