Judy Bagwell Posted September 22, 2015 Report Posted September 22, 2015 am I only one who enjoyed this run? what did you people make of his stint there? I thought he had a good look for the time and reasonable ring work. I think he struck WCW at the wrong time and was buried by politics and writing. Sting looked disinterested in their feud he would have done well in the WWE in 98 with the same gimmick Quote
Sidebottom Posted September 23, 2015 Report Posted September 23, 2015 If he was going to go anywhere in 1998 (from a creative standpoint) it should have been ECW. He knew this, and he pushed hard for it but Heyman didn't return his calls. Quote
NotJayTabb Posted September 23, 2015 Report Posted September 23, 2015 They really should have kept him as a face. Vamp was getting really over in early 2000 by looking competitive against Flair and Luger, plus teaming with Sting, and he could easily have been their new homegrown face star (homegrown in as much that most fans in the US would only know him from WCW and not be aware of his lucha background). Turning him heel and adding in all the supernatural bullshit really ruined him. Quote
El-P Posted September 23, 2015 Report Posted September 23, 2015 He was a mediocre spot worker with bad promos. The heel turn made everything ten times worse, with the godawful feud with Sting, but he would have been Gangrel in WWF, really. Quote
Jingus Posted September 23, 2015 Report Posted September 23, 2015 He was terrible in the ring. Sloppy execution, nonexistent psychology, ABYSMAL "bumping". He was admittedly charismatic and had the best facepaint in the business (why did it never flake off during the matches like Sting's paint always did?), but that's pretty much all he had going for him. Quote
Sidebottom Posted September 23, 2015 Report Posted September 23, 2015 He was terrible in the ring. Sloppy execution, nonexistent psychology, ABYSMAL "bumping". He was admittedly charismatic and had the best facepaint in the business (why did it never flake off during the matches like Sting's paint always did?), but that's pretty much all he had going for him. This ain't makeup! Quote
Laz Posted September 25, 2015 Report Posted September 25, 2015 Vampiro used a different kind of face paint. I'm going to guess a grease paint type, judging by its consistency and how rarely it would come off. That's what KISS and the corpsepaint wearing black metal bands wear, anyway, and that stuff rarely even gets thin during stage shows. I was a Vamp fan in WCW. I even enjoy the super shitty feud with Mike Awesome and their Halloween Havoc 2000 match. He had (still has, actually) a kind of awkward charisma to him that his sloppiness actually enhanced, and his entrance was a highlight of any card he was on. That "doped up zombie" swagger, if you will. Quote
Benbeeach Posted September 25, 2015 Report Posted September 25, 2015 Was an incredibly cool character. Wrong place wrong time Quote
Mad Dog Posted September 25, 2015 Report Posted September 25, 2015 I really liked the Dead Pool for the short time it was together. Vampiro and Raven would have been an interesting tag team at the time. Quote
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