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Topic Started: Oct 25 2011, 05:12 PM (68,382 Views)
Scrooge McSuck
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I remember so little about Jarrett's return up until becoming Double J, again... where exactly did "Aztec Warrior" nickname come from?
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Scrooge McSuck,Jan 15 2012
12:58 PM
I remember so little about Jarrett's return up until becoming Double J, again... where exactly did "Aztec Warrior" nickname come from?

I think it might have just been from the design on his tights. I had to do a little searching, but I think it came back after seeing Jarrett's return in 1997. His gimmick was basically he was the "real" Jeff Jarrett, not a gimmick.

I suck at embedding, so here's the Youtube clip of his return "shoot" promo.
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Scrooge McSuck
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Those tights are definitely an eye-sore.
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Scrooge McSuck
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Was thinking about the 1995 Royal Rumble Match, mostly because I popped in one of the HBK DVD sets. Did ANYONE, ever, think that one-minute intervals was a good idea?

At first, I used to think "it was obvious to allow someone to win it by being in at the start", but when you look at the roster... wow, does it suck. Some of the choice names: The Bushwhackers, Well Dunn, the Blu Brothers, Smoking Gunns, M.O.M., the NEW Headshrinkers, Duke Droese, the Heavenly Bodies, Doink, Kwang, Rick Martel, Henry Godwinn, Aldo Montoya, Mantaur, and Dick Murdoch. I don't blame someone having little confidence in making that match go an hour with that weak of a lineup.



Edit: They could've gone the road of the early PPV's, loading the undercard with garbage and putting all the big names in the Rumble Match. Ramon, Jarrett, and Undertaker all could've been used for the Rumble to beef it up a little bit more. Owen and Backlund being non-factors in the booking was even worse. It basically left Luger, Bulldog, or HBK as possible winners.



The highlight of the match: Mo being eliminated by King Kong Bundy, and Lawler's reaction. "I think he just broke Luke's record! What did he last, one second!?"
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Scrooge McSuck
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The award for 1989's most misused wrestler... Barry Windham. Seriously, the guy goes out of his way to jump ship, after spending the better part of 2 years near the main event level, and does absolutely nothing, other than an occasional squash? I know he ditched the company rather abruptly in '85, but dang, at least Ricky Steamboat was on television almost every week when he was "The Dragon" in 1991 (and still winner for the 1991 award, I'd say).
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Scrooge McSuck,Jan 18 2012
07:31 AM
The award for 1989's most misused wrestler... Barry Windham. Seriously, the guy goes out of his way to jump ship, after spending the better part of 2 years near the main event level, and does absolutely nothing, other than an occasional squash? I know he ditched the company rather abruptly in '85, but dang, at least Ricky Steamboat was on television almost every week when he was "The Dragon" in 1991 (and still winner for the 1991 award, I'd say).

If this was Windham's Widowmaker run and I think it was, he was supposed to get a big push.
But then the counterfeiting issues came out about Blackjack Mulligan and Kendall, so he was gone.
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Mad Dog,Jan 14 2012
07:37 PM
Aztec Jeff Jarrett was pretty fucking stupid.

I don't remember Aztec Jeff Jarrett, what was that?
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torturedsoulv1,Jan 18 2012
02:33 PM
If this was Windham's Widowmaker run and I think it was, he was supposed to get a big push.
But then the counterfeiting issues came out about Blackjack Mulligan and Kendall, so he was gone.

Just watched the official "debut" of the Widowmaker from Prime Time (via Superstars) last week. Windham cuts an inset promo about Hulk Hogan. Vince tries to downplay it, but Jesse says it's not out-of-reason.

I think he disappeared for a bit around SummerSlam, but came back in the fall. He squashed Koko B. Ware at houseshows, so that's exactly one-half of the late 80's "Build to Hogan" formula. He was billed for Survivor Series (and even cut promos with Savage's team), but disappeared for good about two weeks before the show.
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On Prime Time from July 3, 1997, the Hart Foundation goes against Boris Zhukov and Jake Milliman. Lord Alfred Hayes is on the call and says of Milliman: "he's well over 300 pounds and a VERY powerful wrestler". Really? Jake Milliman?

The "feature match" is a pretty decent tilt between the Rockers and Dino Bravo/Greg Valentine. Bravo pins Jannetty after a roll-up is reversed by Valentine's clothesline. But Ronnie Garvin runs in and reverses the decision, because of the "illegal" double-team (which reallly wasn't). How is that officially scored? Simply "win by reversed decision"? Or is it "win by DQ, due to ref's decision?"

Selectively reversing stuff like this always pisses me off. The AWA was a big proponent of this, as well. I remembering being somewhat torqued after the July 1989 SNME Demolition/Brain Busters title match, as I expected Ronnie Garvin to run in and set things right.
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Scrooge McSuck,Jan 15 2012
12:58 PM
I remember so little about Jarrett's return up until becoming Double J, again... where exactly did "Aztec Warrior" nickname come from?

It was the design mostly. I honestly don't remember entirely other than the nickname.
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That's weird. I thought Dino Bravo was dead by 1997. That's a really weird card. I remember WWF bringing back Nikolai Volkoff in '94 to feud with Tatanka, but Boris Zukhoff was still hanging around in '97? And wasn't Valentine jobbing in WCW by then?

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I think he meant 1987. That Valentine/Bravo team was a lame attempt to keep the Dream Team going.
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Actually, 1989 is what I meant. Sorry.. bad numbers on the brain.

Bravo and Valentine are together on PTW simply because they're under Jimmy Hart's watch. They're not called "The Dream Team", nor is their past brought up. Tony Schiavone mentions: "this is the first time these men have teamed together.... under Jimmy Hart". So technically he's correct.
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I love Valentine and actually found Bravo to be decent, but together, they were too boring. Beefcake may have stunk it up in the mid 80's (he actually got quite good by 1989), but he had some weird charisma charm that Bravo never had, and was a good balance to Valentine's no nonsense attitude.

I still prefer the Valentine/Bravo team over the Bushwhackers. Blech... even as a child, I hated them.
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