Comments that don't warrant a thread - Part 4

[C.S.]

5 hours ago, JRH said:

There's also the option that he decides to go back to the WWF around 1996 or so so he can wrestle Austin and Vader again (as well as matches against Owen, Bulldog, or even Shawn Michaels).

I don't see that happening, for a couple of reasons:

1. Vince McMahon was clearly never really a Steamboat fan - at least not to the same degree.

2. Vince Russo definitely wouldn't have been.

"Learn how to cut a promo, bro."

"Turn heel, bro, because swerve, bro."

"Join The Oddities, bro."

[ohtani's jacket]

Yeah, Steamboat in the WWF in 1996 wouldn't have ended happily. His retirement basically coincided with the end of his style of wrestling. He may have been able to extend things in 1995, but honestly, he would have been better in the indies post 1994, similar to how the Rock 'n' Roll Express were better whenever they popped up in the indies than in the big two. If Smokey Mountain had continued that may have been an option. Heyman would have surely brought him into ECW. They basically used everyone in the Monday Night Wars, so there's a chance he would have featured alongside Luger & Co. as the defender of WCW, but we all know how that was booked. If he made it to the Invasion, he probably would have fared better in 2000s WWE than mid-90s WWF.

[Chess Knight]

Steamboat on late 90s WCW syndicated shows being put in random matches with Finlay and Kaz Hayashi and Villano IV would have ruled.

[TheBean]

You know, I was actually thinking Steamboat in ECW could have been a possibility but yeah SMW seems more likely in terms of finding some success. I definitely like the idea of him working WWF with Vader & Owen. It probably would have been short lived. And him working Saturday Night and Thunder here and there with those guys would have ruled. It makes me think of the Larry Z vs Regal stuff in '94. He comes out of semi-retirement to teach some guy a lesson for a summer program 🙂

[JRH]

It would be a definite styles clash, but I'd like to see what Steamboat could have done with Raven (either in ECW or WCW).

[sek69]

I think Raven would have been smart enough to put something together that would have been pretty great. 

[JRH]

So recently one of the holy grails of wrestling media has surfaced, a full episode of WWF Radio:

(Courtesy of Richard Land and his History of WWF Youtube channel, lots of rare WWF material there).

[khawk20]

2 hours ago, JRH said:

So recently one of the holy grails of wrestling media has surfaced, a full episode of WWF Radio:

(Courtesy of Richard Land and his History of WWF Youtube channel, lots of rare WWF material there).

Richard’s channel actually got flagged for copyright violations a few days ago and they shut his channel down. 
however, he announced on fb tonight that he successfully appealed the suspension and he got his channel back.

im happy it’s back and surprised as hell he won his appeal. I doubt that happens often.

[Ricky Jackson]

I think Landy's channel was actually flagged as being a scam for some reason, so maybe it was an AI screw up and YT actually made right

[khawk20]

I believe you are correct. 
 

I do wonder now that it caught attention if it will be flagged for copyright now?  

[Robert S]

On 4/19/2026 at 12:33 AM, ohtani's jacket said:

Yeah, Steamboat in the WWF in 1996 wouldn't have ended happily. His retirement basically coincided with the end of his style of wrestling. He may have been able to extend things in 1995, but honestly, he would have been better in the indies post 1994, similar to how the Rock 'n' Roll Express were better whenever they popped up in the indies than in the big two. If Smokey Mountain had continued that may have been an option. Heyman would have surely brought him into ECW. They basically used everyone in the Monday Night Wars, so there's a chance he would have featured alongside Luger & Co. as the defender of WCW, but we all know how that was booked. If he made it to the Invasion, he probably would have fared better in 2000s WWE than mid-90s WWF.

In 96, Steamboat would have been fine. WWF did some real old-school booking that year and they were not that light on wrestling, though by the fall of 97 he would have felt like a relic.

[JRH]

59 minutes ago, Robert S said:

In 96, Steamboat would have been fine. WWF did some real old-school booking that year and they were not that light on wrestling, though by the fall of 97 he would have felt like a relic.

I could even see he and Davey having a feud based off of their match at The Wrestling Classic and how it ended prematurely (Davey could say that now that he was healthy he could have a real match and beat him).

[ohtani's jacket]

You guys are giving 1996 WWF way more credit than I'm prepared to. 

[Chess Knight]

I think it's up in the air whether whether Steamboat would have been given a solid British Bulldog-like position, or an ignorable Barry Windham position in mid-90s WWF, though I'm leaning toward the latter given they probably would have slapped that fire breathing crap back on him.

 

[DMJ]

I don't think he'd have been a main eventer or anything, but he would've probably been used to get over the emerging heels in 96' - Vader, Austin, probably Foley and Goldust too, maybe Farooq, maybe Sid. I don't think his W/L record would've been great, but throw in matches against the rest of Camp Cornette - Bulldog and Owen - and potentially teaming up with Shawn for the random Raw and I think Steamboat in WWE in 96' produces some quality and gets over.

In 96', Vince had Marty Jannetty, Jake Roberts, Barry Windham, and, at Survivor Series, Jimmy Snuka and Terry Gordy on his roster and all of them were embarrassingly past their prime. Hell, he brought back the Warrior that year. Vince was mocking the old-timers in WCW with the Billionaire Ted sketches with one hand and putting Jake Roberts in PPV matches with the other.

Based on Steamboat's brief comeback in 09', he probably would've come into the WWE in 96' as one of the top 5 best in-ring performers and, at the end of the day, Vince isn't going to throw that away when he's also in the process of trying to make stars out of guys like The Sultan or Mark Henry or Rocky Miavia or Tiger Ali Singh in early 97'. 

[JRH]

This thread also reminded me that we never got Ricky Steamboat vs Sid Vicious, at least as far as I know (they were both in WCW in 1993 so they could have encountered one another).