Grimmas Posted February 22, 2022 Report Share Posted February 22, 2022 El McKell said - "Excellent at playing a monster, terrifying prescence, knows exactly how much to give an opponent, breaking out occasional explosive quickness just enough to make it special when he does it. Legit isn't even that big but comes across like he's huge with how he carries himself. A good comparison for him is Mark Henry as someone who is from the same place and time and also really 'gets it' whenit comes to being a monster big man. But unlike Henry, Umaga stepped it up and had great matches when it was asked of him with CM Punk, Jeff Hardy and in an all time classic with John Cena." w/D-Lo Brown vs Keiji Mutoh & Bob Sapp (AJPW - 22nd February 2004) vs Brian Kendrick (21st Janurary 2008) vs John Cena (28th January 2007) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troyvang Posted March 23, 2022 Report Share Posted March 23, 2022 I am a huge fan of Umaga. He could move so well for a guy his size, looked great even in losses or when he was selling a lot. I don't think he'll end up making my list, but he was a genuinely good big guy worker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ma Stump Puller Posted March 23, 2022 Report Share Posted March 23, 2022 I'm a bit confused about the Mutoh & Sapp match being included here: it's decent, don't get me wrong, but it's not really a good example of the guy actually doing anything significant: he just shoulder barrages with Sapp a bit and they both exchange chokeslams. He's by far the least interesting of the four men included, even if he does land a top rope splash at one point (through Mutoh needs to roll into position so that he actually lands it) Better examples of early Jamal quality would be his Triple Crown bout against Kawada (12.06.2004) or his actually pretty good Korakuen brawl with Kojima (25.09.2004) during the latter's redemption arc after his long losing streak. He has respectable showings elsewhere as well with a awesome David vs Goliath bout with Kaz Hayashi (13.04.2004) as well as numerous fairly alright tag team brawls. I don't think he would be on a top 100, but all of this and his later solid Umaga work (even if it did kinda start to get tame after the Cena feud) makes him a very respectable choice here. If this was top 150, he'd have a spot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmcoor Posted March 30, 2022 Report Share Posted March 30, 2022 I liked umaga in wwe but I should probably go back and watch more of his stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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