From debut to departure - the fastest wrestling binnings

[RedTwoster]

On the subject of ECW, there was the BWO's short-lived run on Smackdown, on the back of JBL legitimately assaulting Blue Meanie on the ECW One Night Stand show for calling him a bully (perfect way to prove an allegation like that wrong - well done, Bradshaw) 

It resulted in Meanie getting a win over JBL on Smackdown - presumably to discourage him from suing the company: 

Then the BWO briefly reformed on Smackdown, taking on the Mexicools in a match before the gimmick was dumped and Meanie was never seen on WWE television again. 

2 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

What about Rob Bartlett who was one of the original announcers on Raw? He got canned pretty sharpish didn't he?

As far as announcers go, whatever happened to Goldenboy with AEW? He announced a show, was genuinely excellent, the company gave him the All Elite graphic...

And then he completely disappeared. 

[Chico Torres]

Some announcers who didn’t have an illustrious WWF career during the New Generation

A rocky start to the post Mean Gene era in 1993 with the out of his depth Jumping Joe Fowler

 

The face of The Action Zone, 1994s hottest new show (for about 3 weeks), the highly excitable Charlie Minn

Incompetent 1995 merchandise shill Barry Didinsky

[Statto]

If we're doing announcers - Adnan Virk.

Previously an ESPN studio host (until he was let go after investigation into company information being leaked) he was hired and thrust into the PBP spot on Raw, and was dreadful at it. He miraculously made it 6 weeks before leaving via mutual consent (claiming the schedule didn't suit him/his family).

[AshC]

Virked himself into a shoot. 

[garynysmon]

Bonnie Blackstone seemed to appear and then disappear quite sharp-ish from the WWF broadcast team in 1993.

[TheBurningRed]

3 hours ago, The King of Old School said:

Also "Jesus" Carlito's bodyguard.

Signed November 2004, had one match with John Cena in December 2004, got injured, then released in April 2004.

He went back in time?

Harry Smith/Davey Boy Jr. Re-signed in July 2021 after wrestling a dark match. Released in November without being on tv.

Eric Young re-signed with WWE in November 2022. Didn’t appear on tv at all and left at some point in 2023 when he asked for his release. 

[tiger_rick]

Bruce Pritchard has a couple of short lived announcing gigs around 1992/93. "The Wizard" on All-American is unmistakenly him. You can hear it in some of the matches in the below compilation. Then Reo Rogers, a weird character parodying Dusty Rhodes that did actually have a couple of segments outside commentary before they quickly realised it was fucking shit.

Pritchard's contribution to the business can, in fact, be summed up with those two words: fucking shit.

 

[RedTwoster]

36 minutes ago, TheBurningRed said:

Eric Young re-signed with WWE in November 2022. Didn’t appear on tv at all and left at some point in 2023 when he asked for his release. 

And fair play to him too, he quit when Vince McMahon made his return as he didn't want to work for him. I can't imagine he's someone who is sitting on a particularly sizeable bank balance, so I can't but respect the fact he seemingly stuck to his morals. 

There are plenty of people with much less to lose who've been unable to do the same. 

Huh, how did that get there?

[Chico Torres]

Surely one of the most impactful short lived announcers, so short lived he never made tv is former Freebird and the Gorgeous one Jimmy “Jam” Garvin. His line from a try out saying “I said are you ready for the Survivor Series” became immortalized at the start of the Wrestlemania song.

Would love to know the story behind it. How of all the things they could have used they took a line from an untelevized try out and how did they even get their hands on it, and why they used that line for a song about Wrestlemania??

[HarmonicGenerator]

4 hours ago, SoloJones said:

On topic, has Gangrel been mentioned yet? He came back with Viscera for a handicap match with the Undertaker and got resigned, didn't have any more matches on TV, got promised some kind of thing in ECW which never happened and got released. Pretty sure Henry Godwin was signed around this time too and then released without many (any?) matches, certainly none on the main roster at least.

And not long after (2008ish? 2010?) D’Lo Brown popped back for a bit. Maybe one televised match against Santino and that was it?

[SoloJones]

5 minutes ago, HarmonicGenerator said:

And not long after (2008ish? 2010?) D’Lo Brown popped back for a bit. Maybe one televised match against Santino and that was it?

Yeah looks like he did a mixed tag involving Kelly Kelly and Beth Phoenix, and a squash loss to Mike Knox in the UK. Whole televised comeback lasted less than 10 minutes of belltime, with lots of house show matches putting over Manu.

[Chili]

35 minutes ago, Chico Torres said:

Surely one of the most impactful short lived announcers, so short lived he never made tv is former Freebird and the Gorgeous one Jimmy “Jam” Garvin. His line from a try out saying “I said are you ready for the Survivor Series” became immortalized at the start of the Wrestlemania song.

Would love to know the story behind it. How of all the things they could have used they took a line from an untelevized try out and how did they even get their hands on it, and why they used that line for a song about Wrestlemania??

Always thought it was because Stock, Aitken and whoever produced the song had no actual real knowledge and just listened for catchy sound clips. I'm punting they actually didn't know what a Survivor Series was. That "I were watching the Wrestlemania" last week when a non fan relative caught an episode of Superstars or something.

[BarryOVega]

15 hours ago, Chico Torres said:

Scott Armstrong in the WWF in 1992 as Lance Cassidy the signing cowboy.

Was he doing a deaf gimmick?

[Chili]

Just now, BarryOVega said:

Was he doing a deaf gimmick?

He was doing an imposter gimmick too given it was Steve.

[Chico Torres]

23 minutes ago, Chili said:

Always thought it was because Stock, Aitken and whoever produced the song had no actual real knowledge and just listened for catchy sound clips. I'm punting they actually didn't know what a Survivor Series was. That "I were watching the Wrestlemania" last week when a non fan relative caught an episode of Superstars or something.

Very likely, but curious on who would have supplied them with this clip specifically that’s just from an unaired demo. They asked for a clip and someone decided to send them Jimmy Jams job interview tape. And that no one said anything after hearing it.