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Topic Started: Oct 25 2011, 05:12 PM (68,302 Views)
Infinite Devil Machine
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The big 'E seemed to get a bug up their ass about having Regal in "oddball" teams around the time. Remember when Regal and Tajiri were tag-team champions? Didn't Regal and Eugene win the belts too? I remember they opened one of those crappy Tuesday pay-per-views, New Year's Revolution I think, against Christian and Tomko and it was the match where Eugene blew out his knee on a dropkick and they had to scramble to an emergency finish.

Not exactly a spectacular run for Mr. Eugene.
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That era was when HHH would latch onto anyone that got remotely over and bury them.
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Here's a weird one, but apparently at one time there were plans for Samantha Fox to be at WrestleMania III. She would've been the "keeper of the crown" for the JYD/Harley Race match.

Which makes it all the weirder that MOOLAH was added to the match, instead!
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She was popular around that time period so I could of seen her being there.

I'm glad Moolah got the spot instead though. BTW I wonder if Bob Eucker ever caught up with her during that WM?
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yeah she was rumored. and i wanted to f her so back then as did most straight males, so I would have approved
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Watching Superstar episodes from after WM 8 and I got a few thoughts..

The Sid/Warrior feud always intrigued me. The matches would of been God awful but the promos were entertaining. It's a shame it never got off the ground since Sid left after their Boston Garden match in late April.

WBF BodyStars? No wonder they were going through that roid scandal at that time.

They advertised the return of Piper's Pit with Randy Savage as the guest but for some reason it never came to be. Instead the last Piper appearance we got for a good 2 years was Summerslam 92 when he was playing in the words of Heenan a ''vacuum cleaner''.

The Nailz vignettes were ongoing. Really what shelf life did the gimmick have after the Bossman feud ended?
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The summer of 1992 is what burned me out on the WWF after 4+ years of being a complete mark. It's a definite transition period for them.

Totally agree about Nailz--- you hit that one on the head (pun intended) in regards to shelf-life.

The IC Title scene was pretty vacant after WM8. Look around and the only viable contender was Shawn Michaels, who only had a few months of a solo push.

Trying to push the Natural Disasters as faces still feels misguided, to me. They tried to slot 'em in for the LOD. And, of course, LOD going back to their Chicago slum and finding their "original Wrestling Buddy", Rocco.

Oh...and ICO-PRO!
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yeah Rocco likes that. Rocco likes when they beat people up
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Still in the process of burning of the weekly TV, and my God, I never realized just how hard WWF fell in the mid 90's. Superstars is mostly junk, Challenge might as well not have been shopped around syndication any more, Raw was so-so, and the Action Zone was treated as a big deal for about a month before it became just another show. There's so little of interest in between feature matches, and the features are just... bad. Well Dunn vs. The Bushwhackers. IRS vs. Doink. Gimmicks like Abe "Knuckleball" Schwartz and Duke Droese introduced. The return of King Kong Bundy at the height of the "New Generation" promotion. One of the longest and most prominently featured angles in the Fall is between Lawler and the Clowns. How did Vince survive!?
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Don't forget about the 'half man, half beast'' Mantaur!!!
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Mantaur is one of those "we give up" gimmicks and hires. No logical backstory, no direction, no skills, and no look. How this made it to TV and stayed there for 6-8 months is beyond me.
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I'm thinking they were going/hoping for a Vader-type of character for Mantaur. With a big animal head instead of a big steamy mask. He was definitely more of a Memphis type of character (think: Kamala or Leatherface).

I'd say that the absolute "scraping the bottom of the barrel" character was The Goon. Signing Bill Irwin in 1996?

I'll always feel that 1994-1998 WWF was the drizzling shits (and I'm not too keen on 1993 and 1999, either). Basically the "Hitman/HBK era". Some interesting points in there, but about 90% of it is unwatchable to me.
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The Goon. Ugh. Even the vignettes were piss-poor, and WWE could at least do that right with a dumb gimmick.
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According to the best recollection of Jim Cornette, Mantaur was meant to be a modern day/WWF Cartoon Era reinterpretation of Ed "Moose" Cholak, who was famous for being a big, meaty, monster with little in-ring skills, a great look, and who was known for wearing a giant stuffed moose head on his head.

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So, Mantaur wasn't completely out of left field. He was just a reference to a regional guy who never achieved much success and nobody in the WWF fan base's age range even knew shit about.
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Charlie Minn is the worst. The. Absolute. Worst.

People can make fun of all the "lesser appreciated guys" like Sean Mooney, Craig DeGeorge, Todd Pettingill, Todd Grisham, Coach, Josh Mathews, and everyone else under the fucking sun, but none of them touch Charlie Minn. Worst. Ever. Period.
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