The Sandman

[Grimmas]

Discuss here.

[Grimmas]

Worst candidate yet?

 

He is highly charismatic and can be real fun to watch. My favourite match would be against Sabu at House Party '98, but I'd only go 4 stars on that.

[soup23]

Don't see this one at all. Essentially the NAO of ECW with a longer stretch run. The angles and entrance is debatable on the entertainment and overness, the matches are not and I can honestly say I have probably been more impressed with more Ultimate Warrior in ring performances than Sandman.

[Matt D]

A better wrestler when drunk than RVD when high. Neither of them are as good as Mad Dog Vachon with a prosthetic leg, however.

[goc]

 

 

[GSR]

I remember thinking his matches with Cactus from 1995 held up when I revisited that year of ECW, and there was the Spring Stampede match in WCW that he had against Bigelow but that'd be about it.

[Dylan Waco]

Worst candidate yet?

 

He is highly charismatic and can be real fun to watch. My favourite match would be against Sabu at House Party '98, but I'd only go 4 stars on that.

At work now, but I bet I could find 25 nominees who I think are clearly worse.

[El-P]

A better wrestler when drunk than RVD when high

 

Well said.

 

I like the Sandman a lot. The NOA comparison is totally off for most of his, well, peak. Yes, at the end of ECW, Sandman was basically only a prolongued intro, but it was not the case in 95/97.

 

Tons of worse people have been nominated.

[Grimmas]

 

Worst candidate yet?

 

He is highly charismatic and can be real fun to watch. My favourite match would be against Sabu at House Party '98, but I'd only go 4 stars on that.

At work now, but I bet I could find 25 nominees who I think are clearly worse.

 

I forgot about Davey Richards and some others that are nominated. 25 might be a stretch, but there is an amount for sure.

[goodhelmet]

Garbage candidate. No chance of even being considered for the ballot.

[North South]

I never saw any real talent in The Sandman as a wrestler or at really anything else for that matter. But with the likes of other ECW performers such as Tommy Dreamer and New Jack getting nominated, i decided why not him?

 

From what i've saw, his best years as a worker are 1995 and his 1999 WCW run as Hak. The two ECW matches of his that i like would be the '95 ladder match with Mikey Whipwreck and the '98 PPV match with Sabu. I actually don't think his WCW '99 matches with Kendell Windham (Nitro - 4/5/99) and Bam Bam Bigelow (Spring Stampede - 4/11/99) themselves were any bad.

 

Wouldn't be anywhere near my list, but one person did vote for him a vote in the 2006 poll. Take that for what you will.

[Dylan Waco]

I actually liked Sandman and thought he was an underrated worker in a lot of ways. He would make my personal top five hundred. So there is that.

[Timbo Slice]

Actually a pretty compelling character and probably one of Heyman's Top 5 mirages as far as credible guys who were shit in the ring. I did like that when he got in shape for WWECW that he still had a boiler on him. No chance for this list, though.

[shoe]

Garbage candidate. No chance of even being considered for the ballot.

 

Seconded

[JerryvonKramer]

25 really?

 

Was just looking and got to "Jacque Rogeau" and still haven't found one.

 

Joe Malenko maybe.

 

Who nominated Sandman?

[TravJ1979]

Garbage candidate. No chance of even being considered for the ballot.

I agree. The nominations are getting ridiculous.

[highflyflow]

Anyone considering Sandman this time around? I'm not nearly familiar enough with ECW to make a case for him, but I do enjoy Sandman and think he's probably better than he was given credit for in this thread.

[HeadCheese]

I am not considering him but, he is a fun wrestler. His match with Goldberg at WCW Spring Break 1999 is super cool, the One Night Stand 2005 entrance is one of the best entrances ever.