The ‘Gangrela Effect’

[BomberPat]

17 hours ago, Browser Brady said:

You are hardly misremembering this ?

 

 

I'd be amazed if I ever saw that segment as a kid; I never watched RAW, and I can't imagine that segment made it on to any of the highlight shows. I also think I was probably done with wrestling at that point - I think I watched from '94 to '96 and maybe a bit of 1997; I have a vague memory of seeing the clip of Shawn Michaels superkicking Bret when he was in a wheelchair, which would be about a month earlier than this, so maybe, but I still think it's unlikely.

I'm mostly replying just to say what an awfully booked bit of business that is. Just like the Rumble you were in, you introduce these two massive heavyweights, only to immediately have Davey Boy bodyslam one of them, and then have them go evens brawling with the fucking Headbangers, even getting cut off while going to the top rope. Mental.

[Olly1984]

19 hours ago, Browser Brady said:

You are hardly misremembering this ?

 

 

Vince using the term " Uniquely constructed individuals" made that 3 minutes not a massive waste of time 🤣

[CTXRussomark]

1 hour ago, BomberPat said:

I'm mostly replying just to say what an awfully booked bit of business that is. Just like the Rumble you were in, you introduce these two massive heavyweights, only to immediately have Davey Boy bodyslam one of them, and then have them go evens brawling with the fucking Headbangers, even getting cut off while going to the top rope. Mental.

Cornette has mentioned Davey went into business for himself because he had no interest in working with them.  So that basically killed them dead on arrival. 

[Chico Torres]

The Headhunters were great and I remember seeing great pictures of them in the magazines and on the seedy WING tapes you would get from tape traders. The problem that was evident when they came to the WWF was that they were actually a lot shorter than you expected and they were doomed when the expectation of fat guys were the likes of Yoko, Earthquake, Vader etc. Unfortunately they were just too small.

[BomberPat]

which is frustrating, because being a tag team of identical twins should be enough to get around at least some of that - they're not as big as an Earthquake or a Yoko, but there's two of the fuckers. They should have been Three Minute Warning before Three Minute Warning, fat lads doing moonsaults and fucking people up. 

But for all that 1997 gave us a lot of good things from the WWF, it was hardly an embarrassment of riches for the tag team division - if there were some smaller teams for them to lob about, maybe they'd have fared better, but it's all Davey Boy and Owen and the DOA and Nation of Domination, all other massive lads. And when they did get a proper team in Furnas & LaFon they never knew what to do with them either.

It's just weird that twice they did a one-off appearance, got fucked off by Davey Boy, and then vanished.