Awards Moderator HarmonicGenerator Posted August 6, 2020 Awards Moderator Share Posted August 6, 2020 (edited) I was readingĀ this today and one of the things it mentions was a never-happened WCW vs. Marvel series in 2000. I thought I'd put my thoughts below the quote box but they've ended up in the quote box and I can't seem to delete them. They are there though, I'm not just linkposting. Quote One of the many undignified things Marvel did around the turn of the century was making a crappy mini-comic in which the WCW wrestlers are a monster-hunting team, which was included with some action figures and promptly thrown away by anyone who read it. It wasn't exactly Watchmen, or even Marmaduke. But it almost got even more undignified: Marvel wanted to let these pretend fighters punk out their biggest heroes. Somewhere around 2000, Marvel editor Ruben Diaz tried to sell WCW on doing a crossover event in which the ridiculous underpants-wearing muscleboys in both companies would get together and fight. Match-ups would have included Spider-Man vs. Sting, Wolverine vs. Chris Benoit, and of course Hulk vs. Hulk. But the most telling part of the pitch are the pages in which 43-year-old Bret Hart, who would have been close to retiring at that time, comically humiliates Captain America, a scientifically enhanced super-soldier who has wrestled with cosmic gods. Again, it was Marvel themselves who made those pages. They were debasing their own characters before they even got to see the wrestlers' inevitably stupid demands, like Hulk Hogan asking for a 10-page sequence in which Rogue of the X-Men gives him a boob job or something. WCW ended up saying no to the crossover, probably because even they knew that a realistic Hulk vs. Hulk match would end in approximately 2.5 seconds. ARTICLE ENDS BUT THE QUOTE FUNCTION MESSED UP SO EVERYTHING BELOW IT IS MY THOUGHTS Ā I had never heard of this before but what a mad thing.Ā Who would you have go over in these matches? What other comics characters could have gone up against 2000 WCW? Vampiro vs. Blade, Big Sexy vs Shredder, Ernest 'the Cat' Miller vs. Catwoman? And would you, as a wrestling fan in 2000, have read these comics?Ā I wouldn't have. Mainly because it's WCW and if I couldn't make myself watch them for free on Channel 5, I'd never have paid for a comic of them. Ā Ā Edited August 6, 2020 by HarmonicGenerator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 Nash squashing the X Men Division would be good.Ā Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB6937 Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 Aunt May vs Judy Bagwell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted August 6, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted August 6, 2020 This would have been set in motion in 1999, when Bischoff was attempting to turn WCW into a variety show, rather than a straight wrestling show. Sort of like how WWE licenses their brand out to Scooby Doo and the Flintstones. WCW had loads of shit they were trying to do. Eli Roth was producing a cartoon mini-series that would air on Nitro, too. Then there was going to be that New Year special with Carmen Electra and Dennis Rodman getting married and KISS playing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted August 6, 2020 Moderators Share Posted August 6, 2020 Thank fuck this never happened. I loved WCW and have never had no interest in comic books other than Viz. No interest to the point of absolute disdain. If this was promoted on WCW it would have done my swede in.Ā Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVM Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 Drat. Could have been a cracking trend.. CZW vs. The Beano would have been great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted August 6, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted August 6, 2020 Angaar TV vs. Viz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Hannibal Scorch Posted August 6, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted August 6, 2020 1 hour ago, PowerButchi said: Thank fuck this never happened. I loved WCW and have never had no interest in comic books other than Viz. No interest to the point of absolute disdain. If this was promoted on WCW it would have done my swede in.Ā Not even the original WCW comics from 91? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted August 6, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted August 6, 2020 Whizzer & Chips vs WCW & NWO would have been fitting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Arch Stanton Posted August 6, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted August 6, 2020 Judging by the tone of that article I'd have loved to have seen Bret Hart tap out Captain America just for the boiled piss and tears it would have drawn from the comic book guys.Ā Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Blog Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 "Cap approached me with tears in his eyes and said that was the best fight he ever had" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 And if Bret lost, heād have used his finger to spell āD.Cā in the last panel.Ā Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted August 6, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted August 6, 2020 3 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said: And if Bret lost, heād have used his finger to spell āD.Cā in the last panel.Ā Except he'd call it "The D.C."Ā Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator Frankie Crisp Posted August 6, 2020 Awards Moderator Share Posted August 6, 2020 The Fingerpoke of Doctor Doom would have done $$$$$. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Tommy! Posted August 6, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted August 6, 2020 34 minutes ago, Frankie Crisp said: The Fingerpoke of Doctor Doom Sounds more like a porn parody. 4 hours ago, IANdrewDiceClay said: WCW had loads of shit they were trying to do. Eli Roth was producing a cartoon mini-series that would air on Nitro, too. Then there was going to be that New Year special with Carmen Electra and Dennis Rodman getting married and KISS playing. Is that the special Bischoff kept pushing as definitely happening with Joey from Friends turning up despite it being planned on a turner network rival station or is this something else? Also did the range of superstar fragrance air fresheners ever get beyond the drawing board?Ā Ā Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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