[1993-10-16-WCW-Saturday Night] Amateur Challenge

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Mr. Monopoly, who wants to eliminate all competition, is actually a pretty good gimmick idea.

[Kevin Ridge]

Mr. Monopoly. Vince missed out on using that gimmick name for himself.

[PeteF3]

This patronizing announcer continues to make the bile rise in my throat, though I suppose with videos like this it'd be hard to blame him.

[garretta]

I've heard the narrator before, Pete. He's done most of the WCW voiceovers since Turner bought the company, and I think I've also heard him on some non-wrestling stuff for TBS too.

 

I agree with everyone about Mr. Monopoly; that might have been a good name for DiBiase if he'd come to WCW about this time.

 

They're batting around .500 with these, if you can believe it. There's at least the germ of good ideas or pieces of talent in quite a few of these videos so far. We know Matt Hardy made it, and WCW used the High Voltage name later, so that's two segments that actually turned into something out of nine so far, plus at least one other gimmick that could have worked with Mr. Monopoly and at least one other guy who might have made a decent wrestler with training. That's not a bad percentage any way you slice it, especially when there were probably quite a few submissions that were ​total crapola.

[soup23]

Mr. Monopoly is a gimmick that is calling for a CHIKARA run. This was worse than the offering from the week before.