[1990-09-01-WWF-Superstars] Tugboat vignette

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Full steam ahead.

[PeteF3]

Boats docks boats ships steam. Your usual WWF Sledgehammer of Plot promo. Tugboat's big return would basically consist of mid-card purgatory until the Typhoon gimmick revived his flailing career.

[Loss]

You might say Tugboat's career was lost at sea, amirite?

[soup23]

Tugboat will not be anchored down with injuries and is coming for Earthquake.

[Kevin Ridge]

Tugboat looking healthy. Get well Tugger. Send those letters. He makes boating references to say he will be coming back. Tugboat's career trying to thread water at this point.

[garretta]

Not much of a promo here, but the point is made.

 

Tugboat didn't sink (forgive me) to the midcard right away; he teamed with Bossman against Earthquake and Bravo quite a bit to keep that situation going while Hogan was absent from the house show circuit that fall. He also had a few singles bouts, mostly against Bravo.

 

Tugboat/Bossman might have made an interesting team if there had been a decent heel team their size to send them after, but the only one that qualified was the Demos, who were busy with the LOD.

[drew wardlaw]

Guys I can't think of any puns, I'm sorry!

[GSR]

The Tugster is docking his boat and says that Earthquake and Dino Bravo thought they had him down and out, he was down, but definitely not out! Every time he pulls on a rope or swabs the decks he feels pain in his mid-ships. The Hulkster always told him though, no pain, no gain! He’s back and ready, the boiler is stoked, the charge set and he’s coming full steam ahead!

 

I can’t take Tugboat seriously in that hat. He seemed to be rattling out every boat related pun and reference he could think of here.