Paid Members tiger_rick Posted February 27, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted February 27, 2018 Not sure there'll be enough of these but worth a go. Mine is Doug Dillinger. I remember his name coming up all the time in PowerSlam. Head of security Doug Dillinger split up this fight or held back this guy. He seemed like the one guy no one messed with. I kept waiting for the day he got in the ring. I was expecting it to be a big introduction of a top wrestler, like the WWF did with Test over a much shorter timespan. I think in my head, he was a young Steve Williams. When I finally got some WCW tapes, I was stunned to find he looked like Bill Watts' Dad. Still think its a shame WCW never learned to protect their up and coming faces as well as they did Dillinger.Ā Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted February 27, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted February 27, 2018 Almost any of the old OVW lot, outside of the "big four" of Brock, Cena, Orton and Batista. You'd read rave reviews in magazines about Doug Basham, Nick Dinsmore, Brent Albright, and whoever else, and then when you finally got to see them they were as bland as they come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted February 27, 2018 Author Paid Members Share Posted February 27, 2018 Ron Waterman KLAXON! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members mim731 Posted February 27, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted February 27, 2018 Reckless Youth. I saw his name bandied about in Powerslam, in the rankings lists in PWI and various other places only to finally clap eyes on him, and he was this unspectacular indie-riffic T shirt wrestler. Proper letdown that was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted February 27, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted February 27, 2018 God, yeah, Reckless Youth. Pretty much made his name by working independents close enough to PWI head office to get regularly featured, all while his tag team partner was writing for the magazine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator HarmonicGenerator Posted February 27, 2018 Awards Moderator Share Posted February 27, 2018 1 hour ago, BomberPat said: Almost any of the old OVW lot, outside of the "big four" of Brock, Cena, Orton and Batista. You'd read rave reviews in magazines about Doug Basham, Nick Dinsmore, Brent Albright, and whoever else, and then when you finally got to see them they were as bland as they come. This was my first thought. Basham, Dinsmore, Damaja and Rob Conway. (I actually quite liked Albright). My second thought would be the ECW guys featured in Mick Foleyās first book who I had no frame of reference for. Especially Tommy Dreamer - whatever image Iād built up of this extreme hero in my head, it was NOT what the real Tommy Dreamer looked like. Finally, bucketloads of indy guys youād hear raves about online who turned out to be lads in pleather (Super Dragon, Chris Hero), really scrawny or skinny (Zack Sabre Jr, Adam Cole) or a combination of the two (Mike Quackenbush). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bukamania Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 Justin Credible. Used to read how well he was in doing in ECW. Then he return to WWF in 2001, and he did absolutely nothing for me. Blame the alliance all you want but he was shit in general. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Joe Joe Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 Mordecai or Nathan Jones. The promo videos for both really hyped them up and then... well.Ā Also, Tryton/Trytan in TNA. Everyone expected Ultimate Warrior 2.0 and he was gone after a matter of weeks. The Gabbo of Wrestling perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 Lord Tensei. I remembered him as A-Train of course, but after hearing all about his great work overseas I was expecting more in the way of improvement. Instead he pulled down his tights, squatted in the centre of the ring, and birthed the "Albert in Japan" meme that practically defines this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted February 27, 2018 Moderators Share Posted February 27, 2018 48 minutes ago, Joey Joe Joe said: Also, Tryton/Trytan in TNA. Everyone expected Ultimate Warrior 2.0 and he was gone after a matter of weeks. The Gabbo of Wrestling perhaps? Come on! If you're going to nick someone else's opinion do it in a slightly less obvious way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grecian Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 Mistico as Sin Cara in WWE. I'd not seen any of his work prior to signing with WWE, but reportedly a huge international signing, the new Rey for the Mexican audience, press conferences, video packages... I was expecting a high flyer who could mix it with the best, quick paced bouts, and a guy destined for greatness. Then he fell off the top turnbuckle... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Joe Joe Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 1 hour ago, Chest Rockwell said: Come on! If you're going to nick someone else's opinion do it in a slightly less obvious way. Sorry, I am drawing a blank. Which part, Trytan or Gabbo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted February 27, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted February 27, 2018 Probably means nothing to anyone but longtime BritWres fans but for me, MK McKinnan. Having never seen a fight club pro show I was told forever that he was the guy they had most likely of making waves nationally. Then I saw him wrestle and it was a woeful level of "is that it?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCW Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 Shane Douglas, RavenĀ the aforementioned Tommy Dreamer and Sabu (who I pronounced as Say-boo) all from Mick Foley's descriptions of them in Have a Nice Day and various articles in PS during the late 90's/early 2000's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thevestofdeanambrose Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 I'm sure my old EWR fed main event sceneĀ from my youth is full of candidates. Sean 'Hare, Mark Jindrak, York and Matthews and as mentioned above Nick Dinsmore andĀ Rob Conway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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