[1991-04-28-WCW-Main Event] Danger Zone: Brian Pillman

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Brian Pillman makes homophobic comments toward Paul E. Dangerously while standing there with his shaved body in orange underwear.

[PeteF3]

Sid Vicious is notably persona non grata in the talk of Pillman's "revenge." Good promo aside from those unfortunate asides ("I CALL THAT JOHNNY B. GAY!").

[Kevin Ridge]

Pillman is not in a humorous mood but the only laughing matter is Paul E’s sexual preference. Dangerously wants to talk about Flair, Anderson and Windham but Pillman would rather ask why Paul E isn’t around any women. What a good guy.

[soup23]

Good promo once we put aside the political incorrectness.

[garretta]

I didn't like this at all. I know a lot of people around WCW at this time didn't like Heyman for this reason or that, but to go out there and encourage/tell Pillman to sandbag him on his own interview segment was wrong. Of course, Pillman's comments got a huge pop, but that's neither a justification or an excuse for doing something like that to the poor guy. Maybe a few months later when he was back managing and this could have been turned into a money-making program it would have been understandable, but not now.

 

I noticed that they didn't include Sid in Pillman's rogue's gallery, too. Didn't Sid go against Gigante at SuperBrawl? Maybe they didn't want to distract the audience's attention from that match, although that wouldn't explain why Pillman was still targeting the rest of the Horsemen even though Flair and Arn had other commitments on that card.

[dawho5]

I didn't care for Pillman ignoring Sid either. I didn't think it was anywhere close to necessary to go all homophobic either. He cut a really strong, fired up promo without it and all that stuff does is distract from what he was out there to talk about.