Wendell Cooley Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Bret wore bright colours too, though. His pink cossie was very pretty and he had those shiny glasses. Not as tall, granted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffbag Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Crush was the shits and couldnt draw a dime if you gave him a pencil, some paper and a year long art course with Tony Hart  plus he nicked his finisher off Stu Francis from Crackerjack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakeRobertsParoleOfficer Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 I was a big crush mark back then  Ill never forget an epi where he was against Luger (at the peak of that Narcissist gimmick) and basically got to sling Luger about (never saw luger press slammed before or since) and make Luger look like a jobber (luger won by count out after Doink interfered).  Think Wwf missed the boat there. An ic run would have made sense! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted March 20, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted March 20, 2013 Crush was the shits and couldnt draw a dime if you gave him a pencil, some paper and a year long art course with Tony Hart He was a short-term face midcarder who had a feud with a clown. He was never in a position to draw. The argument here is that if he had the opportunity, he may well have drawn. I think he would've, he was popular with the fans during his brief face run in his card placing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted March 20, 2013 Moderators Share Posted March 20, 2013 Crush was the shits and couldnt draw a dime if you gave him a pencil, some paper and a year long art course with Tony Hart  Yeah, but when I was 7 he was ONE COOL DUDE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted March 20, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted March 20, 2013 I really liked all of Crush's looks, even jailbird Crush. He looked the business whatever clobber he had on I reckon. Â Hawaiian Crush could have been great in that position if given the chance. Of course we'll never know, but the fact he was so popular despite not being around that long or having many big feuds shows he had something. People liked him, he had a great look, a cool finisher, cracking music which was instantly recognisable and the few times he faced off with established names like Yoko, Luger or Michaels people were behind him. Â Was Crush ever in the running to dethrone Flair in late '92? I read that there was meant to be a list of 5 or 6 names before Vince settled on Bret. Was it ever said who the others were? I guess Savage would be one. Crush might have been considered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted March 20, 2013 Moderators Share Posted March 20, 2013 Tito Santana claims he was one. I suppose you can buy it if Vince was looking to expand with a latino audience but I'm sceptical. Â Hart, Davey Boy, erm... Dunno. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted March 20, 2013 Author Paid Members Share Posted March 20, 2013 Tito Santana's one of the "if it wasn't Hogan, it would have been me or Valentine and the world have all been dandy" types, though. Tito seems to have been considered for every major occurrence in the history of the business if you ask him. Â They'd just signed Bret up to a contract a few months previous so he wasn't going anywhere and he wasn't on steroids at the time, so he was the only one to really fit the bill until Yoko turned up. Putting the belt on big lads like Davey Boy or Crush would have had questions being asked. You hear all sorts of stuff around that time period, like Matt Bourne saying Hogan refused to do a program with him at WrestleMania IX. Like Hogan was coming back to wrestle a clown with fucked up teeth. Â A lot of stuff went on with Crush to keep him from his destiny. He was taken out of the Royal Rumble with some bullshit clown related injury so he wouldn't take the plunge over the top rope. Doink was just a major pain in the arse, otherwise Crush would have surely won the Rumble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted March 20, 2013 Moderators Share Posted March 20, 2013 That's an interesting one. If not Hogan, who? I'd say probably Kerry Von Erich. Vince McMahon was already licking his arse on All American about 6 years before he even got to New York, doing features on him and his brothers on TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted March 20, 2013 Author Paid Members Share Posted March 20, 2013 Hogan was just perfect for the vision they had looking back. He had the Rocky film going on, he had the big steroid body, he was super charismatic on talk shows and news pieces. Hogan was so 1980s. Venice Beach, mates with Mr T, on the juice the lot. He was a mix between an action hero and a cartoon character. Its strange to think how he pretty much says mental stuff that gets him in trouble these days, because in the days when they'd bombard him with questions about the business being fake and stuff, he seemed to know every trick how to talk his way out of stuff. I suppose getting old and attention seeking has caused him to go a bit crackers. In the 80s, though, he was the perfect pro wrestler. Â If not Hogan though, I can only think of Kerry Von Erich getting put in that place. Or Dusty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted March 20, 2013 Moderators Share Posted March 20, 2013 I was thinking Dusty, but Dusty would want too much power I think. Even though he did well when he went up north as an attraction. Michael Hayes seems like Vince's kind of wrestler, fuck he gave him Dave Wolfe was a manager and everything when they got the Freebirds in for a failed fortnight, but it probably wouldn't work. Tommy Rich was burned out and too southern. Tony Atlas talked like his mouth was full of ballbags. JYD was probably starting to wind down as a draw... Â So, a world where Hulk Hogan doesn't exist, who does he get? Maybe Duggan as a rank outsider? Make Sarge the #1 face as he was drawing well as the #2? But he was never going to give up that GI Joe deal. It's a thinker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bully Busick Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 I always thought Don Muraco had good Face value He could talk ,was built well for the time and could do what was needed in the ring He was a good option if like you say Hulk never came in. Â Mr Wonderful too would have been a front runner i believe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Butternut Squash Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Curt Hennig. Guy was once one of the best face workers in the world although, like Kerry, maybe didn't have the personality to carry a company. Dusty's the only one that comes close really. And he's not really close to Hogan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted March 20, 2013 Moderators Share Posted March 20, 2013 Late '83s early for Hennig, I reckon. He was just doing jobs on WWF TV earlier that year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted March 20, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted March 20, 2013 I was gutted when he didn't beat HBK for the IC Title at King Of The Ring. I really thought it was his big chance, seriously Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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