Hounds Of Justice Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Jesse Sorenson was kinda like that gimmick in TNA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Pitcos Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Are there any examples of wrestlers with the gimmick of American football player, with the exception of Mr Touchdown in CHIKARA? Â Thanks. Â Nigh-on every cunt who wrestled on an American show where Jim Ross was commentating. Â Â WCW Ron Simmons? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyattSheepMask Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Are there any examples of wrestlers with the gimmick of American football player, with the exception of Mr Touchdown in CHIKARA? Thanks. "Forget that shit..." Â Â "...HERE COMES MONGO!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hounds Of Justice Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Al Green as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdgarTheSlouch Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Al Green as well. That'd be Kevin Greene. Unless you're thinking of this guy: Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hounds Of Justice Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 There was a wrestler called Al Green but yes I meant Kevin Greene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted May 5, 2015 Moderators Share Posted May 5, 2015 It was part of Steve WIlliams' gimmick, along with wrestler. especially in the Varsity Club Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hounds Of Justice Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Alex Riley when he was first on NXT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeanoTheGame Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 That was a great character for Riley. It was as if he'd walked straight out of Not Another Teen Movie into NXT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyattSheepMask Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 Did WCW ever make a play for The Undertaker on the Monday Night Wars. I'm watching RAW & Nitro from that era on the Network currently and a July 96 episode of RAW had a promo for the WWF Superstar-Line posing the question 'will Summerslam be The Undertaker's last match in WWF?'. Now I never called the Superstar-Line back in the day, but I imagined it would have been in full Kayfabe mode so it seems odd that they would suggest that Taker would be leaving before said match had happened Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco Blick Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 Did WCW ever make a play for The Undertaker on the Monday Night Wars. I'm watching RAW & Nitro from that era on the Network currently and a July 96 episode of RAW had a promo for the WWF Superstar-Line posing the question 'will Summerslam be The Undertaker's last match in WWF?'. Now I never called the Superstar-Line back in the day, but I imagined it would have been in full Kayfabe mode so it seems odd that they would suggest that Taker would be leaving before said match had happened  Apparently WCW wanted to bring him in as a biker under his real name. Taker wasn't happy with the direction of his character in the WWF hence giving him the biker gimmick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted May 9, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted May 9, 2015 (edited) Undertaker was supposedly gone after Summerslam 1996. Ending of the Mankind match was that Mankind had supposedly killed off the Undertaker. He was definately away to WCW. Must have been a snag in the contract somewhere that meant it didn't happen. Â I'm watching RAW & Nitro from that era on the Network currently and a July 96 episode of RAW had a promo for the WWF Superstar-Line posing the question 'will Summerslam be The Undertaker's last match in WWF?' Â "Mean" Gene said basically the same thing on an advert for the WCW phone-line too. Edited May 9, 2015 by bAzTNM#1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted May 9, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted May 9, 2015 This sounds like bollocks to me.  Now I never called the Superstar-Line back in the day, but I imagined it would have been in full Kayfabe mode so it seems odd that they would suggest that Taker would be leaving before said match had happened  In kayfabe, it very well could have been "will this be The Undertaker's last match in the WWF because that's how badly Mankind is going to batter him."  Apparently WCW wanted to bring him in as a biker under his real name. Taker wasn't happy with the direction of his character in the WWF hence giving him the biker gimmick.  Taker wasn't happy with the direction of his character in the summer of 1996, which is the time period up for discussion, so the WWF responded by changing his gimmick four years later?  Undertaker was supposedly gone after Summerslam 1996. Ending of the Mankind match was that Mankind had supposedly killed off the Undertaker. He was definately away to WCW.  Well, the ending that they actually went with clearly wasn't meant to be the end for him since he was on Raw the very next night, and I'm not having that him leaving was conveniently scuppered between a PPV and the next night's taping.  "Mean" Gene said basically the same thing on an advert for the WCW phone-line too.  Gene made loads of bullshit up on his hotline, anything to get people to call and/or watch Nitro. There's even a chance somebody at WCW saw the Raw in question and heard JR ask "could this be the Undertaker's last match in the WWF" and thought "Fuck me, they're giving us a story here, let's pretend he's coming here!!"  Unless someone's got any Observer quotes from the time or a Butch or Ian can at least tell me they read it in the Observer at the time, I'm not buying it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ant Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 Does anyone have an idea of Power Slam magazine's circulation figures? Â I started buying it in 1996. 1 or 2 copies available in one local newsagent and WH Smith. Fast forward to the Austin Wrestlemania victory and it seemed there was piles of them everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco Blick Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 Â Apparently WCW wanted to bring him in as a biker under his real name. Taker wasn't happy with the direction of his character in the WWF hence giving him the biker gimmick. Â Taker wasn't happy with the direction of his character in the summer of 1996, which is the time period up for discussion, so the WWF responded by changing his gimmick four years later? Â Â Yep. He signed a big new deal with the promise of a gimmick change at some point in the future when it best suited both parties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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