cool arrow Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 Kanyon stole the show against Johnny B. Badd on the Main Event before BATB '95. Granted that was pretty larceny, but still... I didn't know Kanyon worked WWF, ECW, and SMW all in late '93-94. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 I was also at that Smackdown with the random Mortis match. Went to see this Kurt Angle kid, several years before he was a star in TNA. He didn't appear though :[[[ It's like, even back then, he knew the importance of rest and recovery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victator Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 Somebody said Kanyon was blackballed from wrestling. I did not know this. Was it just because he was gay or did he do something shitty? I think it had to be because he was gay. If he did something, it would have come out by now. He could not even get booked in TNA. It sure seems like he was blackballed. I love his run teaming with Wrath. Go look for the match with Glacier and Cat at Bash At The Beach 97. They had some neat offense. Cat actually showed a lot of potential. Some cool looking athletic spots/ Before he learned shtick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sky Blue Sam Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 Kanyon made one TNA PPV as "Chris K" as part of an angle where Raven was having to wrestle names from his past. I always felt the boat was missed on a big face run after his surgery where he nearly died. He'd had plenty of screen time as Alliance MVP and I thought he'd have got a better return than as a singing telegram for Taker to destroy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwoy2j Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 Somebody said Kanyon was blackballed from wrestling. I did not know this. Was it just because he was gay or did he do something shitty? I think it had to be because he was gay. If he did something, it would have come out by now. He could not even get booked in TNA. It sure seems like he was blackballed. I love his run teaming with Wrath. Go look for the match with Glacier and Cat at Bash At The Beach 97. They had some neat offense. Cat actually showed a lot of potential. Some cool looking athletic spots/ Before he learned shtick. I remember they broke out the Stackerplex a few years before Edge and Christian briefly used it as a finisher. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Ray Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 Mark Henry breast cancer t-shirt! Here's the gear: http://shop.wwe.com/Rise-Above-Cancer-Collection/riseabovecancer,default,sc.html The Big Guy has a pink shirt! Ryback wishes he could eat your cancer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 When I turn black? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sydneybrown Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 HEY!!!!! Wait....... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 Look. Can we let September go out on that note? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 As long as I get to find out what surgery Kanyon had and why he was blackballed later. That is pretty damn funny considering I watched Nirvana - Live and Loud on TV last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
george young Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 Chris Kanyon does the Mortis gimmick in the WWE on a handful of house shows and dark matches in August 2003. I don't believe he ever wrestled as Mortis on television but I could've sworn there is a picture of him in a new purple Mortis costume in the 2nd edition of the WWE Encylopedia. Can someone who has the book check on this and confirm or deny it? And if it is in fact there could you maybe snap a picture of it so I can see it? I'm interviewing one of the authors Brian Shields tomorrow and I want to cite it as an example for determining criteria of who gets in and who does it but I only have the first edition. Thanks! EDIT: Nevermind, found it. It wasn't in the book it's from an issue of Smackdown magazine: I was actually at of the Smackdowns Mortis wrestled a dark match at. And the guy who jobbed out to him? Austin Aries. I saw Mortis vs Truth Martini at a Smackdown taping at the Joe Louis Arena in 03. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Spanish Waiter Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 I thought people stopped using Kanyon because he was getting increasingly weird. Remember that whole thing where he showed up at a house show with a sign that said SHAWN PRAY FOR MY GAY SOUL etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victator Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 I think not being used lead to the weird behavior. It was a vicious circle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstout Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 Sounds like he was trying to be the gay Brian Pillman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victator Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 He was mentally ill, combined with concussions and life circumstances, he was grasping at straws. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 Meltzer seemed to hint on the latest WOR that TNA is unofficially for sale right now. He talked about there being parties currently trying to gather the capital needed to purchase it, which makes me think the Carters have put the word out, or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Spanish Waiter Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 Think of all the awesome wrestling companies that have died over the years and fucking TNA is the nugget that won't flush. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fresh Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 Yeah, but new owners could be an honest-to-God, no-bullshit turnaround. Or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victator Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 They'll pay Vince fifteen bucks to take it to the dump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuttsy Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 OK, here's something: Notable before-they-were-stars dark match sightings? I remember seeing Angle-Dinsmore in the dark match at Raw Is Owen in 1999. I only saw one "before they were stars" but a few others that are notable in general:Nick Nemeth w/ bodyguard Rob Terry vs. Brian Kendrick on a December 2007 Raw in Greensboro.Tracy Smothers vs. Predator Tom Howard in Greensboro before a December 1999 Raw Kendo Kashin vs. Jamie Noble as the dark match on the Angle/Brock Iron Man Smackdown in Raleigh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Mann Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 It's like selling your old tube screen TV for $20 as long as they haul the thing out themselves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 Vince could do Sting and Angle blu ray sets with their library... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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