RIPPA Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Today is Kidman's birthday so... yeah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 My favorite wrestler in Fall 1998. Yeah I said it. That match has both excited babyface X-Pac and (lemme pull the admittedly sped up gif). the Kid Krusher '01: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool arrow Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 So, this happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Matt D Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Kidman was wrestling in 07? You guys can figure out if this is what it says it is, with the VQ what it is: Here's Kidman in 95: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted May 11, 2015 Author Share Posted May 11, 2015 Kidman was wrestling in 07? Wiki says his last WWE match was 08 but he wasn't hired by them as an agent until 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Kidman in Panama. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp5waiWSTpE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnyLaw Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Is he still an agent? If so, why isn't he in the new Stooges group? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 He's the guy who times everything backstage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Web Conn Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 vs Sting vs Horace Hogan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hail Sabin Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 At the Jeff Peterson Cup 2006 in his match on Day 2 for some reason the people sitting next to me in the front row all decided to get up and leave during Kidman's match then return to their seat once the match was over. We heard from a wrestler after the show once Billy got back to the locker he grabbed his stuff got in his car and went home very pissed off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StretchMediatedHypertrophy Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiWORlUHYKI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingus Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 I think Kidman's definitely become underrated over the last few years. The IWC used to love him back when Nitro was on the air, but a lackluster WWE career and being on the butt-end of so many running jokes and online memes haven't helped his reputation. Which is too bad, cuz until he started putting too much weight onto his tiny frame, Kidman was really damn good. All people seem to remember now is botched SSPs and countered powerbombs, but Kidman was one of those rare Good Cruiserweights who didn't make everything look so damn effortless out there. He sold more than most high flyers, and did a damn fine job of conveying just how difficult it was in an athletic sense to be pulling off all those high-risk moves. Sadly there's practically nothing from his career on Youtube, but ol' Dailymotion has a few bits and pieces. Here's him and Rey (a sadly forgotten duo who had great chemistry) teaming against Juvy and Psicosis on some random Nitro, complete with a prematch vignette with Eddy G hosting an LWO party (which looks, um, rather incredibly racist in hindsight): http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x51de8_rey-mysterio-kidman-vs-lwo-4-1-99_sport Kidman tears shit up with a debuting Mikey Whipwreck: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5qzgf_kidman-vs-mikey-whipwreck-14-3-99-p_sport part 2 http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5qzku_kidman-vs-mikey-whipwreck-14-3-99-p_sport And this might have honestly been Hogan's MOTY for 2000, if not his last really good match in his entire WCW tenure: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3nhx7_hulk-hogan-vs-billy-kidman_sport Sorry for the shitty DM video quality, but it's all I could find. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingus Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 And a few more, nicely illustrating Kidman's timeline throughout his career. Some things change, but others stay the same: Kidman vs the Guerreros across the years (a warning for the squeamish, the 3rd match includes Benoit): http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7sxor_kidman-vs-eddie-guerrero-27-12-98_sport http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xxjovs_wcw-superbrawl-ix-1999-billy-kidman-vs-chavo-guerrero-jr-cruiserweight-title_sport http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xxxfer_chris-benoit-billy-kidman-vs-the-guerreros-12-12-2002_sport http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6syp7_smackdown-2-01-2003-billy-kidman-vs_sport http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8egti_rey-mysterio-chavo-guerrero-vs-kidm_sport Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron Moose Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 Kidman/Mysterio v World's Greatest Tag Team was also great fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greggulator Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 There was an awesome Kidman/Rey vs. Eddie/Juvi match from Nitro that the IWC went nuts over at the time. I may have voted it as the Best Match of the 90s, even. EDIT: From the 12/28/98 episode of Nitro. I need to rewatch this ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Web Conn Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 Kidman/Mysterio v World's Greatest Tag Team was also great fun. vs Juventud Guerrera vs DDP vs Evan Kouragous vs Kaz Hayashi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidKash202 Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 I have it on VHS somewhere but does anyone have a link to a match he had vs Liger on WCW Pro? It had to have been around 96 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingus Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 There was an awesome Kidman/Rey vs. Eddie/Juvi match from Nitro that the IWC went nuts over at the time. I may have voted it as the Best Match of the 90s, even.Looked around, couldn't find it. Tarnation , dadgummit, and fiddlesticks. Oh well, here's a couple more Billy/Eddie singles matches as a consolation prize: I have it on VHS somewhere but does anyone have a link to a match he had vs Liger on WCW Pro? It had to have been around 96I couldn't find any copies of the whole thing, but on the WWE website here they've got the last two or three minutes of the match. And it's really weird just how uncannily the young Kidman looked exactly like modern-day Chuck Taylor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mistah Na1m4rk Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 Kidman beat Hogan, brother. Who says the Hulkster is a selfish jerk who never puts anyone over and intentionally undermines the heat of all other wrestlers in any given promotion who threaten his position? People who don't know he put Kidman over, that's who. Whatcha gonna do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidKash202 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Hated his Shooting Star Press man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infinit Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Flock era itchy faced Kidman was fun. And at one point he was banging Torrie Wilson on the regular...that probably overshadows anything he did in the ring lol. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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