Loss Posted July 9, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2010 Yeah, at Halloween Havoc '94, Sherri took more bumps than Hogan and Flair combined and outworked them both. Speaking of that, I think there is a case to be made that from 1989-1991, Sherri was the best worker in the WWF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted July 9, 2010 Report Share Posted July 9, 2010 Yeah, at Halloween Havoc '94, Sherri took more bumps than Hogan and Flair combined and outworked them both.In lingerie no less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strummer Posted July 10, 2010 Report Share Posted July 10, 2010 Yeah, at Halloween Havoc '94, Sherri took more bumps than Hogan and Flair combined and outworked them both.In lingerie no less. I loved how she no sold being in her underwear and just took bumps like normal. Her doing a splash of the top rope in black lace lingerie was awesome and I love this Heenan line from the match Sherri handcuffs Mr T to the ropes "That's not the first time she's used handcuffs on a guy" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strummer Posted July 10, 2010 Report Share Posted July 10, 2010 Am I alone in thinking the "It's Tommy's" angle is up there with the worst of Russo? Dreamer and Beulah get together with no explanation as to why (after he has spent the past nine months beating her up at every turn), then she lies to him about being pregnant, cheats on him with a woman, and then he finds out that he's not going to be a father (something that theoretically would be devastating for your average guy) he's upset for like three minutes and then he's all FUCK YEAH LESBIAN TRIPLE KISS BWAAAAAAAAAAAA making him look like the dumbest meathead on the planet. I know it's just wrestling but if Russo had booked that people would still complain about it today and it certainly belies Heyman's "master booker" reputation. I guess throwing logic out the window is a small price to pay in the mad pursuit of the highly lucrative bisexual wrestling fan demographic. quote the whole angle made Tommy look ridiculous. I thought it was a lame angle at the time and it seems even worse now Kimona was gone from the company soon after anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted July 10, 2010 Report Share Posted July 10, 2010 "...the night Kimona Wanalaya danced atop the ECW arena!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boondocks Kernoodle Posted July 10, 2010 Report Share Posted July 10, 2010 Didn't she get fired immediately after that because, according to Paul, there was too much heat on ECW for letting her do that? And didn't he also promise her before she stripped that they would never air the video and then proceeded to hype it more than anything else in the history of the company? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strummer Posted July 10, 2010 Report Share Posted July 10, 2010 I had heard that Kimona quit after an incident involving Missy Hyatt (um...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted July 10, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2010 What led to her quick WCW departure? Anyone know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boondocks Kernoodle Posted July 10, 2010 Report Share Posted July 10, 2010 She was in WCW for more than a year, actually, and was let go when a bunch of other women were in early '01. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted July 10, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2010 Was she used for most of 2000? If so, wow, I blocked that out. I just remember her in the Varsity Club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strummer Posted July 10, 2010 Report Share Posted July 10, 2010 she managed the Jung Dragons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boondocks Kernoodle Posted July 10, 2010 Report Share Posted July 10, 2010 I don't think she was around from January to August, so she'd be easy to forget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted July 10, 2010 Report Share Posted July 10, 2010 Speaking of that, I think there is a case to be made that from 1989-1991, Sherri was the best worker in the WWF. *The* best is a bit of a stretch, but one of the best, agreed. Savage didn't carry Warrior alone, she was the second best worker in the match. She was awesome against Tenryu at the Egg Dome too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovert Posted July 10, 2010 Report Share Posted July 10, 2010 What led to her quick WCW departure? Anyone know? Broke up with Jimmy Hart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beast Posted July 10, 2010 Report Share Posted July 10, 2010 Speaking of that, I think there is a case to be made that from 1989-1991, Sherri was the best worker in the WWF. *The* best is a bit of a stretch, but one of the best, agreed. Savage didn't carry Warrior alone, she was the second best worker in the match. She was awesome against Tenryu at the Egg Dome too. Loss, unless you're being 100% sarcastic you've just made the biggest P.O.S. statement in wrestling message board history. The contrasting opinion thing can die now because Loss you've just won. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.L.L. Posted July 10, 2010 Report Share Posted July 10, 2010 I think Janet was a result of a lot more than the three items, which I think Tim would agree. The Anti-Titty & Sex Brigade in the country, much like their very close overlapping cousins in the right wing noise machine, have an amazing ability to gin up media heat when they throw a hissy fit. It's not like Karl Rove was sitting in the basement seeing this was something great to divert attention from. The noise started almost *instantly*, and in modern media it was the hot story that night. Lots of folks hitched their cart to it because it's an easy one to get the Family Values crowd all worked up. It's pretty sad that a breast, and not much of it flashed and for a very short time, can drive a chunk of the country batshit and bring a lot of people to their knees. Exactly how much of the audience hadn't seen a breast in their life? 0.1%? We're a really fucked up country. John It was actually less than three items - as tempting as it would be to blame Bush and the Mid-East kerfuffle for everything that's gone wrong with the world since 2000, the notion that titties could roam free on American TV before he brought the hammer down is more than a little far-fetched, and the news media was perfectly capable of covering both Iraq being a mess (or in Fox's case, spinning the Iraq mess) and the Janet Jackson thing at the same time. The news media can cover multiple stories at once. I don't know that they can cover any of them well, but they can cover more than one story at once. As for the TiVo thing, I'm not gonna go all ResidentEvil here and interpret my personal experience as a universal one, but TiVo was the whole reason I didn't even know about the wardrobe malfunction until the next day - I used it to just fast-forward through yet another shitty half-time show, and I got to the other side none the wiser. But really, Occam's Razor is right here, and the answer isn't hard to figure out. Americans - for reasons I understand to a point - freak out over boobs on TV. The Super Bowl is one of the most watched - if not the most watched - events on American TV. Naked boob + Super Bowl = EVERYBODY PANIC!!!!!!!!!!!!! Having the Bush administration around didn't help matters, but this would've happened no matter who was in office in any era. I mean, if Gore had (officially) won, am I to believe Tipper would've taken this lying down? Did she only flip out when sexual content was sung about rather than shown on a major TV event? I like defending Bush about as much as I like defending WWE Creative, but my feelings are mostly the same - they legitimately fucked up so much that I just don't get why some people feel the need to invent new ways for them to have fucked up to complain about. Bush as "The Innovator of Censorship" in a society that has only become more permissive as the years have rolled on (not that he helped that cause at all) and that has always had it's fair share of righteously indignant pro-censorship dudes trying to stop the unstoppable is one of the sillier examples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted July 10, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2010 Speaking of that, I think there is a case to be made that from 1989-1991, Sherri was the best worker in the WWF. *The* best is a bit of a stretch, but one of the best, agreed. Savage didn't carry Warrior alone, she was the second best worker in the match. She was awesome against Tenryu at the Egg Dome too. Loss, unless you're being 100% sarcastic you've just made the biggest P.O.S. statement in wrestling message board history. The contrasting opinion thing can die now because Loss you've just won. I'm tired of the whole "I show up at the board every few months to criticize you all for not agreeing with Dave Meltzer on every single thing" act from you. That's not even a "contrasting opinion", Sherri got plenty of praise for her work at the time. I have no problem with you disagreeing with me or anyone else here and explaining why, but it's wrong to attack someone's motives for having an opinion, even if you do think it's the craziest thing you have ever read, which I suspect it's not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted July 10, 2010 Report Share Posted July 10, 2010 What led to her quick WCW departure? Anyone know? Broke up with Jimmy Hart Really ? Aww come on Jimmy.... she was young enough to be your daughter... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boondocks Kernoodle Posted July 10, 2010 Report Share Posted July 10, 2010 Wasn't Terry Taylor the one who was responsible for getting her into WCW? I don't know what that means, just that he pushed hard to bring her in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted July 10, 2010 Report Share Posted July 10, 2010 Wasn't Terry Taylor the one who was responsible for getting her into WCW? I don't know what that means, just that he pushed hard to bring her in.Yes, he was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted July 10, 2010 Report Share Posted July 10, 2010 Speaking of that, I think there is a case to be made that from 1989-1991, Sherri was the best worker in the WWF. *The* best is a bit of a stretch, but one of the best, agreed. Savage didn't carry Warrior alone, she was the second best worker in the match. She was awesome against Tenryu at the Egg Dome too. Loss, unless you're being 100% sarcastic you've just made the biggest P.O.S. statement in wrestling message board history. The contrasting opinion thing can die now because Loss you've just won. I'm tired of the whole "I show up at the board every few months to criticize you all for not agreeing with Dave Meltzer on every single thing" act from you. That's not even a "contrasting opinion", Sherri got plenty of praise for her work at the time. I have no problem with you disagreeing with me or anyone else here and explaining why, but it's wrong to attack someone's motives for having an opinion, even if you do think it's the craziest thing you have ever read, which I suspect it's not. Sherri won WON Manager of the year in 91 and did she ever deserve it. Anyone looking for spotlight stuff from her ought to check out the SNME match between Savage and Neidhart right after WM 5, the Warrior/Savage cage match from MSG right after Royal Rumble 91 where she dies to let the Warrior have revenge, and the Matador/Dibiase match from late dec 91 which was a MANAGER CAM match and fairly amusing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdw Posted July 10, 2010 Report Share Posted July 10, 2010 What Loss and Matt said: Sherry was praised strongly at the time as a manager. It's not just us "contrarians" who think that. Dave put her over all the time back then, and I suspect if one looks they'll find a time or two when Dave made the comment that Sherri was the best performer on a card or a show. I'm thinking Dave's fanboys might want read some of his older stuff. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strummer Posted July 10, 2010 Report Share Posted July 10, 2010 Sherri's interference actually added to matches instead of detracting from them she was awesome all the way until the NWO angle started where all of sudden she looked like she didn't give a shit anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beast Posted July 11, 2010 Report Share Posted July 11, 2010 Has nothing to do with Meltzer. You said Sherri could be called the best "worker" from 89-91 in WWF. Some of the greatest wrestlers ever were in the fed for that time. It's a ridiculous statement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The 3H's Posted July 11, 2010 Report Share Posted July 11, 2010 89-91 was pretty shitty looking back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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