Brian Fowler Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 Hulkmania Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuerrillaMonsoon Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 Anyone else seen that episode of Nitro where he calls Goldberg "Goldrod", and the announcers and Nash just bury him for a solid two minutes, calling him out on his lack of professionalism and not being a team player etc?Awesome viewing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muhammedboehm Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 Was there any story when X-Pac showed up in WCW with Hall and Nash as part of NWO? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEN! Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 CWA and USWA are the same company. It was just a name change. Isnt judging all of USWA on 96-97 like judging WCW based on 2000-01? Yeah, maybe even worse since that's the year Jarrett sold it so 1997 is a complete outlier. Who do you think was the lowest profile or even out of place guy to ever get a Buffer intro on Nitro?Hard to look past The Wall.. I want to say Renegade got one for a TV Title match against Arn Anderson. I know Johnny B. Badd got one against Arn Anderson too. Bret Clark pitching a fit every time Buffer announced him almost made it seem like money well spent to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 To me Buffer was an annoying aspect of WCW PPV main events- I mean, they ditched Capetta for this? I liked the concept in giving it that big match feel, but the execution was near-always terrible (Bret Clark....Goldrod). Yeah, but Capetta was the SHIT, not shit like Buffer. In fact I think Capetta edges out the Fink as my favorite announcer ever. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiztor Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 did Michael Buffer even try? i always remember "triple d" diamond dallas and my personal favorite, Lex Luthor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Bugg Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 Personally, I hated the way he pronounced WCW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petey Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 To me Buffer was an annoying aspect of WCW PPV main events- I mean, they ditched Capetta for this? I liked the concept in giving it that big match feel, but the execution was near-always terrible (Bret Clark....Goldrod). Yeah, but Capetta was the SHIT, not shit like Buffer. In fact I think Capetta edges out the Fink as my favorite announcer ever. . . I really liked Capetta, but Fink's still the best for me. My issue with Capetta was that he wasn't always consistent with how he announced wrestlers in terms of how he would list their location, weight, etc... still loved his voice though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChesterCopperpot Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 Why were Bret and the Anvil on different teams at Survivor Series 1989? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuerrillaMonsoon Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 First aborted Bret singles push. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool arrow Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 did Michael Buffer even try? i always remember "triple d" diamond dallas and my personal favorite, Lex Luthor That's still better than the pinhead who introduced the SST as "Shamu and Haku." I think it was the same guy who introduced Bill Irwin as "Scott" Irwin, not long after Scott died. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sydneybrown Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 First aborted Bret singles push. Technically that was the third. First was his feud with Bad News Brown. Second was his house show feud with Mr. Perfect. While I can't prove it, his awesome performance against Ted DiBiase at Survivor Series '90 seemed to be the time they decided to go with it since he started winning his singles matches more often than not from then on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 I think it was also because Anvil could eat a pin in his match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sydneybrown Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 I think it was also because Anvil could eat a pin in his match. So could Bret. You could have interchanged both guys and the results would have been the same. Bret and Neidhart as singles guys in 1989 were on the same level as Ronnie Garvin and The Red Rooster: beat the jobbers and can't do shit against anybody else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 I'd theorise the placement was to put a 'worker' on Duggan's team, giving them a chance to work in some Bret vs. Savage stuff, and a bulky bloke (since the Rockers were smaller guys) on Warrior's team to take a loss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben. Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 So for pretty much the entirety of Nick Bockwinkel's active career he was in AWA. Did WWF (or WWWF) ever try to sign him before he retired and became an agent for them? WWF has agents who haven't done anything notable during their WWF career but they at least had a WWF career. You would think that if they would immediately hire him as a road agent, they would have been interested in him as a performer... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Territorial Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 So for pretty much the entirety of Nick Bockwinkel's active career he was in AWA. Did WWF (or WWWF) ever try to sign him before he retired and became an agent for them? WWF has agents who haven't done anything notable during their WWF career but they at least had a WWF career. You would think that if they would immediately hire him as a road agent, they would have been interested in him as a performer... Don't know for sure, but I've never heard that they offered him a job as an in-ring performer. He was on the wrong side of locker room politics when he was there, so that might have kept him out. Supposedly, the reason his agent/commentator stint was so short in '87 was that a lot of the wrestlers had worked for the AWA before jumping to the WWF and had heat with Verne, which they took out on Nick. Allegedly, the reason Nick quit was that a group of guys disliked him and made his life miserable. He worked mostly as an "agent in training" under Jay Strongbow, and Strongbow either felt threatened by Bockwinkel, or simply didn't want him around. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool arrow Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 Bock was 52 in '87, so I can't imagine Vince being interested in him as a wrestler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben. Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 I didn't realize it, he was actually 50 years old in 1984 if Wikipedia is correct so I guess maybe it could have just been a case of him being too old for the 80s but I'm surprised he never stopped through New York at all in the 70s at least for a cup of coffee. I'm guessing WWF picking him up in 87 as an agent was just one of those "we will give you money to do something around here just to hurt Verne" kind of things... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool arrow Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 IIRC Bock did work the old timers battle royal that Lou Thesz won. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Bugg Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 Bockwinkel and Backlund did have a WWWF vs. AWA title unification match, but since it was promoted by Tunney in Toronto I doubt it counts as a WWWF appearance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colonial Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 I seem to remember rumors back in the day that Nick Bockwinkel was offered the "Million Dollar Man" gimmick before Ted DiBiase (or serving as DiBiase's manager), but that he turned it down due to his age and travel requirements. Any truth to those rumors or just bunk? JD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Hattrick Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 That would have been interesting to see the Million Dollar Man as a manager that buys out and sell his clients. (Remembers part way through this post) This has already been done with Ted. Never mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Harms Posted December 14, 2013 Author Share Posted December 14, 2013 Who did Backlund beat to get a title shot v Bret? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MushroomJones Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 Who did Backlund beat to get a title shot v Bret? They had a match on Superstars where Backlund lost to Bret and snapped, locking on the Crossface Chicken Wing. And looked at his hand afterwards. He then cut crazy promos, asking for another shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts