RIPPA Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 This get this right out in the open. All of you "MONGO WASN'T THAT BAD!!!!!!" people are stupid. Bless Your Heart Mike Enos And this one is more for the video package at the beginning that including WCW getting footage from NFL Films Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 As Sweetser pointed out, the Nitro eps on the Network are closed-captioned. SOMEONE HAD TO CAPTION MONGO'S COMMENTARY. That poor poor intern... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Terrible announcer. A brick in the ring. But boy did he love wrestling. Enjoy: I hate all of you obviously: Also, this is, of course, not the MX, but it's sure surreal: This could be fun? Poor Fuller: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted September 4, 2014 Author Share Posted September 4, 2014 Yeah - that is the one thing I will give Mongo credit for. He sure at least wanted to be there. And of the footballers who went wrestling full time - he probably had the third best NFL career (Yes - I am very Meltzian in my qualifiers there) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Oof: Oh, I am sorry: More random tag stuff that could be fun: And this: And this: This is #6 and it won't embed but I'm not making a post just for JJ and Mongo vs Public Enemy. And it's only Part 1! Why is there a part 2 to this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Ok, look. There's this Atlantis, Mr. Niebla & Negro Casas vs El Hijo del Santo, Black Warrior & Blue Panther (CMLL 04/24/98) match I quite want to see. I very much want to see it actually, and it is not online. It's out there. It's just not online. So that's not online, but all these god damn Mongo matches are. TWO Stevie Ray matches. Two. What the fuck is wrong with the internet? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramsey Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 McMichael was great in Tecmo Bowl. That's literally all I can say about Mongo that isn't negative. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greggulator Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Mongo was terrible but, yes, his enjoyment of wanting to be good at wrestling made him at least compelling.I really loved the angle of when he turned on Kevin Green to join the Horsemen, with Debra coming down with the briefcase and money. I loved how he stared at that briefcase like it was some Lord of the Rings thing, realized that money trumps everything, and joined ranks with the bad guys.On a related note, I'm very eager to dig into Nitro to see Queen Debra start her reign. I loved her shtick back then. "I don't want to say anything bad about anyone but..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLowe Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 I'll give him props for being a Lifetime Longhorn and that little chihuahua. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLowe Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Yeah - that is the one thing I will give Mongo credit for. He sure at least wanted to be there. And of the footballers who went wrestling full time - he probably had the third best NFL career (Yes - I am very Meltzian in my qualifiers there) OK, I'll ask, who are the top two? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstout Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Debra wore out her welcome for me, quick. I had to Google to remember this, but one word sums McMichael up: Pepe. You more-experienced wrestling watchers may dispute this, but Mongo is easily in the Top 5 of worst wrestling announcers of all time, probably in the Top 3 if I gave it any thought at all. Just there at best in the ring, no personality. I wonder if he was hated backstage 'cause his no-talent ass was taking up a spot for someone better (i.e., most every wrestler on the planet). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted September 4, 2014 Author Share Posted September 4, 2014 OK, I'll ask, who are the top two? Your hint is that one will be the WOTD tomorrow and the other one was wrestling before World War II Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLowe Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 OK, I'll ask, who are the top two? Your hint is that one will be the WOTD tomorrow and the other one was wrestling before World War II OK, so Nagurksi and...Wahoo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstout Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Wahoo was a WOTD fairly recently, but there could be repeats, I'm guessing. Ernie Ladd? I know he was a hell of a talker, but I don't know much about his wrestling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sydneybrown Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Totally misinterpreted what you said, thought you were calling McMichael the third best NFL turned wrestler ever. Best NFL careers of pro wrestlers has to be Bronko and Ladd (unless AFL doesn't count as NFL.) Wahoo was more of a cult figure than an actual football star. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLowe Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Even as I wrote that, I had a faint memory that Wahoo was a recent WOTD. Ernie Ladd seems like the best guess. I'm going to assume that Kevin Greene doesn't count, even if he was better in the ring than Mongo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 I'm guessing it wont be Russ Francis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stay Gold Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 As someone who's pretty new to 90's Nitro, I'm enjoying Mongo and his dog Pepe a lot. I find it hilarious and endearing. However, I think I've only seen one or two Mongo matches. The one I remember for sure was him vs Brian Adams at Road Wild, which has a reputation for being awful. I think it was Konnan who said on a podcast that as bad as Mongo was in the ring, people liked him because he was a super cool guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool arrow Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJBZ6zJZs54 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cristobal Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Are we no-selling Goldberg's stint in the NFL or is that tomorrow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 In his book, Flair gave his reasons for McMichael being a Horseman was A. he could hang with them partying, and B. he had a Super Bowl ring. I think that about says it all. EDIT: one of those might've been in the Horsemen doc. Still, two reasons. Nothing like, "he could wrestle" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted September 4, 2014 Author Share Posted September 4, 2014 Are we no-selling Goldberg's stint in the NFL or is that tomorrow? Remember I could two like 2 months worth of footballers turned wrestlers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Are we no-selling Goldberg's stint in the NFL or is that tomorrow? Remember I could two like 2 months worth of footballers turned wrestlers. Look, we've got enough problems around here without attracting Jim Ross as a poster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLowe Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Hell, you could do two weeks alone on former West Texas State (which is now called West Texas A&M) football players; that program was basically Dory Funk's Amarillo fed feeder. edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_West_Texas_A%26M_University_people Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sydneybrown Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Geez, RIPPA said third best NFL career for a guy who later became a wrestler, NOT best pro wrestler who ever spent any time playing football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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