ExcellenceofAirPollution Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 In kayfabe Ted DiBiase was a pretty wretched manager. Was obsessed with The Undertaker's urn and led multiple clients to the slaughter (IRS, Kama, Bundy, Fakertaker). Wasted time humiliating Nikolai Volkoff of all people for no real reason. None of his clients ever won a title, failed in bids for the IC, Tag and World titles. Couldn't manage Bigelow to a win against a crackhead retired football player. His highlights were turning Tatanka and 1-2-3 Kid heel, both of whom proceeded to lose the feud with the guy they turned on, slide down the card, and be out of the company within a year. Brought Austin in as The Ringmaster.....who loses a match to Savio Vega with a stip that DiBiase has to leave the company. Austin almost immediately goes on a hot streak sans DiBiase. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 You left out how Austin purposely lost to ditch Ted. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigKevFan Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_8SUnNyf3E Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playa Shunna Ver 3.0 Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 Lol. Next week she tells Spud not to bring black people to the iMPACT! Zone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 The problem with DiBiase was that he was loaded so making money through managing wasn't a top priority for him - and his clients suffered. He's like the WCW of managers. Bring in guys, don't worry about making money off it, or booking them correctly. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MADCAP Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_8SUnNyf3E Wellll......at least it's topical. That's all I got. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scraylo187 Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 The problem with DiBiase was that he was loaded so making money through managing wasn't a top priority for him - and his clients suffered. He's like the WCW of managers. Bring in guys, don't worry about making money off it, or booking them correctly. And in WCW he got even worse, offering to help cover finances for the nWo so he could make it a bored vanity project for himself. When his billions were no longer needed he immediately failed to keep the Steiner Brothers together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 DiBiase and the nWo may be one of the biggest manager fails. It's like he funded a small business making animated shorts, and then gave up all his stock before they became Disney. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 Ted DiBiase really is the worst businessman ever. Donald Trump has made fewer boneheaded mistakes with money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 The best move he ever made was getting Undertaker money for Brian Lee. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 When your tagteam partner is an IRS specialist, it's really easy to write off these losses. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyJ Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 (edited) Did we ever learn Dibiase's main source of income? Where exactly did all of this "money" he was throwing around come from? Why was IRS going after the little people when the big dog was right next to him? Lots of questions, so few answers. Edit: Wow, someone made an IRS joke about 10 seconds before I did. Edited May 15, 2014 by JohnnyJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 Wasn't IRS insane though? Like he was an IRS agent to the same degree that The Mountie was a Mountie...that is to say there was a70-97% chance he was just a psychopath who believes himself to be a Mountie and has access to a costume rental store. That's why Mountie had no chance against Boss Man. Because one was really a law enforcement agent and the other was just a crazy guy...also why Nailz was such a profound threat, since he was actually a prisoner Bossman had actually abused in an actual Georgia prison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playa Shunna Ver 3.0 Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 Well the Mountie did admit to not being a Mountie when the RCMP tried to sue the WWE. Proof: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwoy2j Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 Did we ever learn Dibiase's main source of income? Where exactly did all of this "money" he was throwing around come from? Why was IRS going after the little people when the big dog was right next to him? Lots of questions, so few answers. Edit: Wow, someone made an IRS joke about 10 seconds before I did. If I recall correctly, DiBiase "inherited" all of his money. I can't remember if it was ever brought up on tv but I'm fairly certain the Apter mags wrote a story on how he had rich relatives who left him everything hence why he jumped from UWF to WWF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwoy2j Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 It was never explicitly stated on WCW tv but it was always implied that the nWo through DiBiase were the ones who gave DDP money after he lost all of Kimberly's bingo winnings back to her and Johnny B. Badd. If that was the case, that's another boneheaded move by DiBiase b/c Page fought the nWo at every turn. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyJ Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 The theory that gimmicked wrestling villains are just insane people is pretty great. How great would it be if Rusev's gimmick was of someone who wanted to play a 80s style Russian wrestling gimmick and everyone was too afraid of him to tell him to stop. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 Variety is claiming that WWE is staying with USA/SyFy. So TNA may continue to exist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greggulator Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 DiBiase's poor money management skills also showed up in his son, who spent all of his trust fund money on Marese.Dudes need to read Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurningBeard Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 What was the storyline of Dibiase leaving the nWo when he was originally brought in as the 'money' behind them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 The story should have been that DiBiase conned Watts out of his money and thats why Mid South had to sell off l to Crockett. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool arrow Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 Variety is claiming that WWE is staying with USA/SyFy. So TNA may continue to exist. Much to the collective apathy of the IWC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwoy2j Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 What was the storyline of Dibiase leaving the nWo when he was originally brought in as the 'money' behind them? Had to do with Spring Stampede 97. Nash was fighting Rick Steiner in a one on one match during one of Hall's injuries/rehab/drunk/whatever. Steiner had an injured ear and Nash kept going after it, dropping him ear first on an exposed turnbuckle. Both DiBiase and Nick Patrick thought that Nash was being too brutal so they both defected from the nWo. At least that's how I remember it anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwoy2j Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 The story should have been that DiBiase conned Watts out of his money and thats why Mid South had to sell off l to Crockett. I bet that's one time in the 80's that Vince would acknowledge that the competition did exist. One of his talents got the better of the owner of his former promotion in a business deal and drove him bankrupt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 The theory that gimmicked wrestling villains are just insane people is pretty great. How great would it be if Rusev's gimmick was of someone who wanted to play a 80s style Russian wrestling gimmick and everyone was too afraid of him to tell him to stop. Isn't that what Jim Cornette did with the Boogeyman? The WWE wanted to make the Boogeyman an old school, cartoony, outlandish villain, while Cornette played it off like Boogeyman was 'just a guy' who believed he actually was the Boogeyman character, so he was supposedly a real psycho and everyone was scared of him. Not because he was a cartoony character, but because he was so psychotic he actually thought himself to be said cartoony character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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