LariatMMBOPPO Posted July 16, 2015 Report Posted July 16, 2015 Brian Kendrick's run on Velocity as various masked characters representing sports mascots:
JaymeFuture Posted July 16, 2015 Report Posted July 16, 2015 Big Show and Billy Gunn's run as "The Show-Gunns" tag team fits the bill I think. They'd argue and basically take potshots at each other to send the company message, but they weren't a terrible team.
Hawkeye12 Posted July 16, 2015 Report Posted July 16, 2015 Dustin Runnels in 1998 WWF feuding with Val Venis.
LariatMMBOPPO Posted July 16, 2015 Report Posted July 16, 2015 Dustin Runnels in 1998 WWF feuding with Val Venis. I thought that was a fairly memorable part if only for being representative of the Attitude era.
El-P Posted July 16, 2015 Report Posted July 16, 2015 It is. Pretty iconic of that time period actually. Black Reign however, seems to be forgotten by everyone.
The Chief Posted July 16, 2015 Report Posted July 16, 2015 PN Newz as a Baldie in 1999 ECW Brad Armstrong, WWECW House Show worker and occasional announcer Wahoo appearing on WWF TV in 1994 with Strongbow and Tatanka
Loss Posted July 17, 2015 Report Posted July 17, 2015 Hulk Hogan as the darkside Hogan in October-November 1995 after Kevin Sullivan shaved his mustache. Kind of a proto-Hollywood run.
Gregor Posted July 17, 2015 Report Posted July 17, 2015 The Union. Sid as a face after WrestleMania 13. Heel Mike Tenay. Sable's association with the Oddities. When was it that WWE hired a bunch of '90s guys to wrestle dark matches? I remember D'Lo Brown being one of them, and I think that Too Cold Scorpio and one of the Godwinns were in that group, too.
goc Posted July 17, 2015 Report Posted July 17, 2015 D'Lo actually made it to TV for 2-3 matches on Raw. I think he had some kind of mini feud with Santino.
Strummer Posted July 17, 2015 Report Posted July 17, 2015 Stephanie and Shane co running RAW in late 2008. Shane just sorta disappears and Steph is GM for a while. No one ever talks about this era. This all eventually led to the Orton legacy storyline and Trump bought the show and then we got actors running the show every week
The Chief Posted July 17, 2015 Report Posted July 17, 2015 The Union. Sid as a face after WrestleMania 13. Heel Mike Tenay. Sable's association with the Oddities. When was it that WWE hired a bunch of '90s guys to wrestle dark matches? I remember D'Lo Brown being one of them, and I think that Too Cold Scorpio and one of the Godwinns were in that group, too. Gangrel was hired for the new ECW but never made it out of OVW. Godwin was hired but just worked dark matches tagging with Ray Gordy. Scorpio unfortunately got saddled with the Flash Funk gimmick again and never made TV but he worked Helms on European tours. He made the Raw Reunion show in 2007 as Funk after he was released. D-Lo actually made Raw and had a mini fued with IC Champ Santino before quietly getting released. Tatanka of all people got a one and a half year run on Smackdown out of all these guys.
Mr. Lacelle Posted July 17, 2015 Report Posted July 17, 2015 Recon & Sniper from The Truth Commission being called Apocalypse. Also Ron & Don Harris being called The Grimm Twins, Jason & Jarrod Grimm.
Loss Posted July 17, 2015 Report Posted July 17, 2015 Tatanka's Smackdown run was pretty fun if I remember right.
Hawkeye12 Posted July 17, 2015 Report Posted July 17, 2015 Recon & Sniper from The Truth Commission being called Apocalypse. Also Ron & Don Harris being called The Grimm Twins, Jason & Jarrod Grimm. Sniper and Recon were actually Armageddon.
DMJ Posted July 17, 2015 Report Posted July 17, 2015 Just watched Pat Tanaka as "El Gato" in WCW at Great American Bash 96'. Pretty decent match considering the crowd is dead (at one point Konnan hits him with a powerbomb to the arena floor) and almost makes me wonder if the crowd would've been more enthused if they had just brought him out as Tanaka.
khawk20 Posted July 17, 2015 Report Posted July 17, 2015 I can't say it's truly "forgotten" because it's not by the guys that saw him in there, but the work Bobby Heenan did for Bruiser before he became an AWA Mainstay is often talked about by the Chicago gang as his best stuff.
JerryvonKramer Posted July 17, 2015 Report Posted July 17, 2015 Terry Funk in WCW circa 2000. I had completely blanked on that and had no memory of it whatsoever until a random Funk vs. Meng match came up in a search I was running the other night.
RocketCrypt Posted July 17, 2015 Report Posted July 17, 2015 "Hollywood" Bob Holly in early SMW, portraying a movie star gimmick complete with shades, a mullet, a terrible mustache and a Bret Hart inspired pink singlet. The antithesis of what he would later become.
GSR Posted July 17, 2015 Report Posted July 17, 2015 Recon & Sniper from The Truth Commission being called Apocalypse. Also Ron & Don Harris being called The Grimm Twins, Jason & Jarrod Grimm. They once had a match against the Hardy Boyz on Superstars (who went by the name of The Jinx Brothers) in a period of the Hardy's career that is forgotten.
Loss Posted July 17, 2015 Report Posted July 17, 2015 Speaking of Jeff Hardy, didn't he have some bizarre Jackass-style prankster gimmick for a few weeks in 2002 to play off of his personal problems at the time?
SomethingSavage Posted July 17, 2015 Report Posted July 17, 2015 "Hollywood" Bob Holly in early SMW, portraying a movie star gimmick complete with shades, a mullet, a terrible mustache and a Bret Hart inspired pink singlet. The antithesis of what he would later become. Damn shame, too. A neon-wearing D-list actor called "Hollywood" Bob with a thick hick accent could have been all kinds of awesome. Everything about that gimmick was glorious cheese. It's just too bad he didn't transition right over into the WWF with that. We didn't get to see a glimpse of that personality again until the Big Shot stuff and Crash. All the Backlund talk on the board recently reminded me that Bob returned to "manage" Kurt Angle for about two weeks back in 2001. So there's that. Plus they were trying to have Kurt adopt the Chicken Wing as his submission finisher at that time, which THEN reminded me... Of that time when they were trying to push the ankle lock as Batista's new submission finisher. I want to say it was around 2009 or so. It was definitely before the big heel turn against Rey, when it was just kind of dropped.
Death From Above Posted July 17, 2015 Report Posted July 17, 2015 Terry Gordy getting like 2 months(?) in WWF in 1996 as The Executioner, and quickly being fed to The Undertaker then disappearing, as basically a small add-on to the Mankind vs. Undertaker rivalry. How long did Brad Armstrong last as Arachnaman before Marvel threatened legal action against WCW and the gimmick was dropped? Pez Whatley having at least one match in UWF-i is pretty goddamn random. FMW had that weird little window where they had some sort of relationship with the WWF. Shawn Michaels did a guest referee spot, and they also ran a Vader vs. Ken Shamrock match.
Hawkeye12 Posted July 17, 2015 Report Posted July 17, 2015 "Hollywood" Bob Holly in early SMW, portraying a movie star gimmick complete with shades, a mullet, a terrible mustache and a Bret Hart inspired pink singlet. The antithesis of what he would later become. Damn shame, too. A neon-wearing D-list actor called "Hollywood" Bob with a thick hick accent could have been all kinds of awesome. Everything about that gimmick was glorious cheese. It's just too bad he didn't transition right over into the WWF with that. We didn't get to see a glimpse of that personality again until the Big Shot stuff and Crash. All the Backlund talk on the board recently reminded me that Bob returned to "manage" Kurt Angle for about two weeks back in 2001. So there's that. Plus they were trying to have Kurt adopt the Chicken Wing as his submission finisher at that time, which THEN reminded me... Of that time when they were trying to push the ankle lock as Batista's new submission finisher. I want to say it was around 2009 or so. It was definitely before the big heel turn against Rey, when it was just kind of dropped. Don't remember the ankle lock thing for Batista, but he did have a brief run using the clothesline as a finish. I think it was Jericho he KOed on RAW, and they kept it up for a few weeks in summer 2004 when he faced Edge and Jericho at Summerslam for the IC title. The Executioner was cool just because at one point Dok Hendrix interviewed Paul Bearer, Mankind, and the Executioner. A Freebird reunion! And he even got a Jakks figure with that gimmick.
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