Awards Moderator Onyx2 Posted January 22, 2019 Awards Moderator Share Posted January 22, 2019 Invoking the Jr clause (1982) Stan Hansen. Huge draw in Japan, pretty much wrestles a rough-house WWE style and would've been a great brute against Hulk, or teaming with someone like Windham, but definitely managed by Heenan. (This is another one stymied by HOF like Abby) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted January 22, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 22, 2019 Bit cheating as he did work for WWWF, plus he worked the WWF/AJPW supershow, headlining against Hogan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vamp Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 Did L.A. Park or Vampiro ever for the 'E or 'F? Park's been a headline talent in Mexico pretty consistently for a long time as well as having a fun run in WCW. Vampiro was a draw in Mexico for a period and had feuds with Sting in WCW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members El Mistique Posted January 22, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 22, 2019 Masa Chono could be considered for this. Worked WCW quite frequently in the 90s. Are modern day workers considered for this? Okada and Tanahashi have both had a couple of bouts in TNA of note. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted January 22, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 22, 2019 Kimberly Page has to be up there. Amazing they didnt hire her. DDP would have been champion still if he'd have given Vince the free reign the Bisch was allowed on her. Although, Dallas would have had to shag Linda to keep up appearances, so is it really worth the Mania payday? Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVM Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 Historically Muta, Brody as mentioned. Arguably Vampiro but not on the level of the other two. Are we including wrestlers that have done dark matches as eligible? In which case, in modern day I'd say Kenny Omega, Young Bucks, Okada and Christopher Daniels are good examples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted January 22, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 22, 2019 @AVM Kenny Omega actually worked for WWE. He got signed to Deep South and Johnny Ace loved him. Then he quit, because the training was pointless and Harley Race kept phoning to office telling them he was a cunt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members garynysmon Posted January 23, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 23, 2019 Depends on many factors. In north America, some of the Japanese wrestlers already mentioned can't be described as big names in all honesty (precisely because they never worked the biggest stage.) It has to be someone from WCW/NWA or the territory days who never made the jump doesn't it? Chris Adams, Abdullah and Kevin Sullivan spring to mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator HarmonicGenerator Posted January 23, 2019 Awards Moderator Share Posted January 23, 2019 8 hours ago, AVM said: Historically Muta, Brody as mentioned. Arguably Vampiro but not on the level of the other two. Are we including wrestlers that have done dark matches as eligible? In which case, in modern day I'd say Kenny Omega, Young Bucks, Okada and Christopher Daniels are good examples. If we’re looking at modern day types I’d add Alex Shelley for that list. Daniels has technically appeared because he was one of the Conquistadores when E&C were doing that in 2000. But I wouldn’t say that counted. The Bucks have definitely been enhancement on Velocity or SmackDown at some point, I’m sure of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Really Big Shoe Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 Yes Matt worked enhancement for WWE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The King of Old School Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 The answer to this is clearly Abyss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted January 23, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 23, 2019 8 hours ago, garynysmon said: Depends on many factors. In north America, some of the Japanese wrestlers already mentioned can't be described as big names in all honesty (precisely because they never worked the biggest stage.) It has to be someone from WCW/NWA or the territory days who never made the jump doesn't it? Chris Adams, Abdullah and Kevin Sullivan spring to mind. That's why it's clearly Muta. As big as most stars in Japan and afar and well known to tons of US fans either through his work in the territories and NWA or just from written media were he jumps off the page. Fucking Alex Shelley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members TheBurningRed Posted January 23, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 23, 2019 12 hours ago, AVM said: Christopher Daniels are good examples. He was one of the Los Conquistadores in the Edge and Christian vs Hardy Boys feud. He wrestled on tv. Maybe at a PPV? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Dem Wanz Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 23 hours ago, Carbomb said: I reckon The Great Muta is probably the best shout. I looked up Inoki, because I remember there being something about him having a "phantom" WWF championship reign, but his Wiki didn't say if it was a WWF or NJPW event. HOWEVER: I just found out that he converted to Shia Islam, when he was negotiating the release of Saddam Hussein's Japanese hostages, and that he officially changed his name from Kanji Inoki to Muhammad Hussain Inoki! I assumed this was a joke I didn't understand, then Googled it and found out its completely true Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted January 23, 2019 Author Paid Members Share Posted January 23, 2019 100% true, yeah. As is Inoki purchasing a Caribbean island because Fidel Castro told him it had buried pirate treasure on it. Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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