El-P Posted March 12, 2011 Report Posted March 12, 2011 Holy shit. WWF "New Generation" was the cheesiest era ever. Man, a nascar pilot, how cool. Well, not really. Quote
Loss Posted July 4, 2011 Author Report Posted July 4, 2011 "I'm ready to go racing! I'm ready to go racing!" I forgot that his "real" name was Therman Plugg. Quote
Bix Posted July 4, 2011 Report Posted July 4, 2011 "My friends call me Sparky. You can call me Sparky, too!" Quote
Zenjo Posted October 13, 2012 Report Posted October 13, 2012 It's easy to forget how bad the money was in the WWF at this time. Nearly everyone had to have a second job to make ends meet. Quote
Kevin Ridge Posted January 26, 2014 Report Posted January 26, 2014 Jarrett should be happy with his country music gimmick. Yeah, they did introduce a lot of guys who had a vocation outside wrestling. There were so few new guys who were actually wresters. Quote
PeteF3 Posted March 3, 2014 Report Posted March 3, 2014 I have no recollection of any Sparky vignettes at all. I first saw/heard of him when he came out at the '94 Rumble--I absolutely refused to believe there was a wrestler named "Sparky Plugg," and tried to convince my mother who was in the room, when she asked, "Did he say 'Sparky Plugg?'" that Vince had said something else. Quote
garretta Posted February 19, 2017 Report Posted February 19, 2017 I don't recall the Sparky Plugg name lasting more than a few months before it became Bob "Sparkplug" Holly, which was a little better but not much. I could be wrong, since I wasn't following wrestling regularly at this time. The irony of this gimmick and Double J was that there aren't two things more associated with the South in popular culture than country music and stock car racing, and Vince supposedly hates all things Southern with a passion, Southern wrestling included. Neither one of these gimmicks was presented tongue-in-cheek (punful name in Holly's case aside), so could this have actually been an attempt on Vince's part to lure WCW's core Southern audience by giving them at least a few wrestlers they could relate to? Also, I thought I read that Bob Holly really was a part-time stock car driver, which is what led to him getting the Sparky Plugg gimmick. Obviously, Vince didn't continue in this vein, since Tony Anthony wasn't a plumber that I know of and Mike Shaw (Friar Ferguson) sure as hell wasn't a priest. Quote
soup23 Posted August 16, 2018 Report Posted August 16, 2018 Pretty bad introduction and a gimmick that seemed DOA and really regional and polarizing. Quote
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