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Topic Started: Oct 25 2011, 05:12 PM (68,308 Views)
Mad Dog
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ho ho who the hell are you?
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Scrooge McSuck,Jun 19 2016
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I understand he was proud of his self worth, but the guy walked out in '88 because he wasn't being pushed, then he walked out on WCW shortly into a program with Luger because he was low-balled an offer and was being positioned as maybe the #3 face, and then he comes back to WWF doing the goofy Dragon gimmick and after giving notice refused to do any jobs on TV. I bring this up because he was praised as a saint who was always a great company man, while bashing the Hogan, Michaels, and Bret's of the world for their selfish acts. Still a hell of a worker when he was motivated.

I think the 1989 walk out in the NWA was dumb. He didn't work for what at least 6 months until showing back up in the WWF? It's such a shame too because that first Luger match was so good and Luger was on fire as a heel at the time. Then you can bring Arn back and have him feud with Steamboat in 1990.
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Scrooge McSuck
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I'm getting ready to watch Summerslam '91, and it got me thinking... Curt Hennig developed a reputation for screwing up plans, walking away with little notice, and just being a bit of a pain in the ass, especially for Vince McMahon, but when it came to SummerSlam, when he clearly could've said he couldn't go after spending most of the summer on the sidelines, he actually put Bret over clean. In '93, he walked away unhappy with his role, came back at Mania 10 and walked out as they kicked off an angle with Luger, and then walked out on them again, this time in spectacular fashion in '96 when they paired him with Helmsley.
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Mad Dog
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The WWF was completely to blame for him walking out in 1996. They fucked up his insurance payments and that's why he left.
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Scrooge McSuck
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From what I've read, Hennig was always looking for an excuse to screw Vince over for personal reasons that escape me at the moment. Vince messing with his bogus insurance claim was just perfect timing for him (pun not intended).
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Scrooge McSuck
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In one of those weird coincidences, at the end of SummerSlam '91, all three major titles and even the fake title (Million $ Belt) were held by babyfaces.


WWF Champ - Hogan
IC Champ - Bret
Tag Champs - LOD
Million $ Champ - Virgil
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HeenanandMonsoon
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Summerslam 91 was solid overall with Hart/Perfect obviously being the show stealer. I didn't mind any match on the card. And a nod to the commentary even though I never liked 3 guys in the booth, hearing Heenan and Piper bicker was entertaining as hell. It reminded me of Prime Time from 89 and that's always a plus. One of these days I gotta dig out my old Coliseum Video of this event and watch it.

It's a shame though that LOD's 2 WWF Tag Title runs were nothing of note. in 91 they feuded with the Natural Disasters then by February 92 lost them to Money Inc on a House Show. Then in 97 they beat the Godwinns in October to only lose them in November to the Outlaws.
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Scrooge McSuck
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It feels like Slam '91 loses some steam after the Virgil/Dibiase match. LOD winning was a cool moment, and Mountie going to jail was great comedy, but I feel like the pacing of the card could've been better for better crowd interest (better spots for cool down matches). No match is unwatchable or anything, but you can see the roster depth becoming an issue when it comes to quality workers, and continue to worsen by the time Survivor Series rolled around. (points finger to Duggan/Slaughter/Tito/Tornado v. Berzerker/Mustafa/Hercules/Skinner)
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HeenanandMonsoon
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Survivor Series 91 was just all advertisement for ''This Tuesday in Texas''. They really slapped the fans in the face with this Event. All the matches seemed like they were filler, even the WWF Title match. On top of it The Main Event was a 6 man elimination match that the babyfaces won just to send the crowd home happy because Mcmahon didn't want a Heel winning the World Title to close the show.

And Team Mustafa has got to be one of, if not the worst team in Survivor Series History.
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Erick Von Erich
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"This Tuesday in Texas" was sort of a fancy SNME--- only those weren't around at this exact time. The last NBC offering was in May 1991 and they didn't start up with FOX until February 1992. Typically, they would have an SNME or "Main Event" around the time time of Survivor Series. That would've been a perfect spot to do "This Tuesday in Texas" as an SNME/Main Event special on free TV.

As it was, I was a little miffed. Especially when the last half of Survivor Series '91 was just a commercial for "This Tuesday in Texas". It was something like $6.99, though, so I justified it as paying to see something that made up for the lack of SNME.

Always felt it was no coincidence that the 1992 Survivor Series only had one or two "Survivor" matches. I think the gimmick was becoming something of a burden for them in 1991 to 1992. When 1993 came along, they stepped it up with the whole "All-Americans vs Foreign Fanatics" feud.
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Was watching some Superstars from 92 today and imo the Nailz debut was done perfectly. the whole feud with Bossman was well done angle wise but in-ring wise well that's another story. I was intrigued by the Nailz/Undertaker feud but of course the whole Nailz/Mcmahon situation happened. To me the gimmick didn't have a long shelf life and he was never going to be a champion but I was interested in where they were going to take the character.

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Infinite Devil Machine
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Funny enough, but I just watched Slamboree 1993 and caught Nailz one and only WCW match, against Sting. They had all the audacity in the world to bring him in in the same costume and the same gimmick and just call him "The Prisoner". Sting won. The match sucked.

The show was main evented by the British Bulldog vs. Vader in a really solid match. Funny thing, in their rematch at Clash of The Champions that same month, Vader hammers Bulldog down and struts across the ring, he tells the ref, who blatantly and literally in full view of the camera gets down in Bulldog's ear and tells him "stay down", before Vader revs up and drops a body splash. I've heard of calling spots, but that was the first time I've seen a ref act as an in-between between the two wrestlers in the match.
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Scrooge McSuck
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How WCW got away with just the one-time usage of Nailz escapes me. Like, seriously, they really needed a stupid gimmick that wasn't over to put over Sting, on a PPV I'm sure nobody ordered.
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Scrooge McSuck
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On a show with mostly detailed results, this is all Meltzer could muster beyond acknowledging the match in the introduction...


"7. Sting pinned The Prisoner (Kevin Wacholz) in 5:16 after a clothesline off the top rope. Fans chanted "bulls--t" when they saw Nailz come out instead of Norton. A waste of Sting. -* "
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Scrooge McSuck,Jun 20 2016
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On a show with mostly detailed results, this is all Meltzer could muster beyond acknowledging the match in the introduction...


"7. Sting pinned The Prisoner (Kevin Wacholz) in 5:16 after a clothesline off the top rope. Fans chanted "bulls--t" when they saw Nailz come out instead of Norton. A waste of Sting. -* "

Which is a shame, because Sting vs. "Flash" Scott Norton at the time could've been really solid. Norton could work. Just a shame they had him lose all the time.

Hell, they jobbed him out to Ernest "The Cat" Miller in a few different occasions.
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I would of much rather had Norton vs Sting then The ''Prisoner'' vs Sting. I always liked Norton, for a guy his size he could work like you said Devil. It's a shame he never got a push.
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