Talk about it here.

Hansen is awesome, and gets so carried away that he almost knocks the backdrop down.

I continue not to be a fan of Hansen as the cartoon character who appears to be getting direction from higher-up to make his tobacco use as disgusting as possible.

Tobacco, a pumpkin, and a cowbell is the perfect Halloween costume.

Hansen does a promo with half of his chew hanging out of his mouth.

Well, hell. I guess you guys did discuss this one. My bad.

 

Yeah, this would be "ewwww".

I almost couldn't watch this due to that lousy chew hanging out of Stan's mouth. Please, God, tell me he didn't wrestle with that shit in his mouth. If he did, he deserved to have it rammed right down his throat for being so goddamned stupid.

 

Honestly, was this Ole's way of being edgy? Even Vince didn't get quite this disgusting. To make matters worse, Ted Turner frowned on tobacco use by his employees from what I've read. If that's the case, how did such a sickening display get past the corporate suits? Surely one of them had to be paying at least a little attention to WCW.

 

What I heard in between "Yuck!"s sounded decent, but honestly, I was just waiting for this to be off my computer screen.

This version of Stan Hansen kind of undercuts the dangerous aspect of his character. He's able to convey how out of control he is, but the lack of seriousness does a disservice to him.

The tobacco really does undercut Hansen. But he's effective as a crazy bastard anyway, mainly because that's who he is as a wrestler. Even so, WCW could have done so much better with him. Funny how that often ends up being the case.