THE WRESTLING THREAD: HHH KEEPS DOING HHH THINGS.....
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They will probably add Balor to that Universal title match.
Dude got hype at the tag in......went shocked at the turn......then turnt up again when they started kicking Stings ass. Guy went on a roller coaster of emotions in 5 seconds.dude was hyped as fuck.
Some more good heel turns
Hacksaw Butch Reed goes heel on Junkyard Dog(Started the hottest black on black rivalry ever)
Lex Lugar goes heel on Ricky Steamboat(Steamboat sold the hell out of his beatdown even begs Lugar for mercy)
Ernie Ladd heel turn on Cowboy Bob Ellis(famous 70s heel turn by the way the Mongols were later known as Nikolai Volkoff and Bill Eadie AKA Masked Superstar and Demolition Axe)
Ernie Ladd again this time he goes heel on Dusty Rhodes(Turning of Bob Ellis was one thing but to turn on Dusty Rhodes made you very hated)
Ole Anderson turns heel on Dusty Rhodes(Turned into a five on one beatdown by Ole, Gene, Ivan Koloff, and The Masked Assassins inside a cage, this grew legendary heat)
Hacksaw Butch Reed goes heel on Junkyard Dog(Started the hottest black on black rivalry ever)
Lex Lugar goes heel on Ricky Steamboat(Steamboat sold the hell out of his beatdown even begs Lugar for mercy)
Ernie Ladd heel turn on Cowboy Bob Ellis(famous 70s heel turn by the way the Mongols were later known as Nikolai Volkoff and Bill Eadie AKA Masked Superstar and Demolition Axe)
Ernie Ladd again this time he goes heel on Dusty Rhodes(Turning of Bob Ellis was one thing but to turn on Dusty Rhodes made you very hated)
Ole Anderson turns heel on Dusty Rhodes(Turned into a five on one beatdown by Ole, Gene, Ivan Koloff, and The Masked Assassins inside a cage, this grew legendary heat)
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They should have tagged everyone in this pic. I know Rich Swann & ACH along with the Private Party guys I've been trying to get everyone in this thread to follow. The other 4 guys I don't have a clue on. We need for Indy brothas to get some shine.
Man y'all going way back before my time. Only other person who probably was Upgrade Dave. Haven't seen him post in over a year.
Yoooooooo that A.A. caused Randy AND Jeff to corpse. That was fuckin' vicious.
Which means Vince will start interfering again with the micromanaging to get some credit lol.
That is classic, but you sure it tops these three?
Hell yeah Hogan was forced down our throats, anything fresh was well worth it. Plus JCP crowd was hot
Yeah Ho Kogan got stale after WM3. Fans cheered when Savage and Orndorff turned on him. Andre was the only shocking turn when he came to Piper's Pit with Bobby Heenan. Prior to that Andre was a perennial baby face loved the world over.
I'm not sure about all that. Hogan went on to have the most watched match in tv history in North America with Andre with 33 million people watching on NBC. The WWF was actually given a live television prime time spot because of Hogan's popularity.
When you say forced down people's throats that title goes to people like Cena and Reigns.
SOME fans cheered for Savage I agree, but I think a real small portion sided with Orndorff. I do know that was some of their best business in all the 80's with that feud. Hogan and Savage had the ppv buy rate number that the WWF couldn't touch until 1998, so I can't see how Hogan was stale to the masses after Mania 3. It may have been boring since he seemed invincible compared to the contenders after Andre, but once the end of 1987 came with his SNME matches with Bundy and then the Andre rematch in February in 88 they were hot again.
I think people were more susceptible to being forced feed back in the '80s. I mean being told to say your prayers and eat your "vitamins" doesn't work in todays day and age.
I don't know the fans turned on Hogan in 1991 and they were still trying to have him as a face. I think Hogan was what the people wanted. When they didn't want him anymore when he got stale they turned on him.
The fans started turning on Hogan from here vocally as WWE sweetened the audio when the fans were cheering for Sid when he threw Hogan out of the Rumble and Hogan did that heel move to pull Sid out the Rumble. The fans were also starting to side with UT and Warrior over Hogan too.
Hulk Hogan also wasn't as corny as people remember as Cena and Roman were. Hogan use to do heel tactics and had more of an edge in his prime. Jesse Ventura use to call it out all the time in his matches. Watch Hogan's matches from 84-88. It wasn't until 1989 with No Holds Barred Hogan was trying to keep this squeaky clean more cartoon character because he was thinking of Hollywood more. He was also not trying as hard in 1990 plus because it seemed that Vince was trying to have Warrior replace him.
The fans still preferred Hogan overall though which is why he got back the belt in 1991(horrible Slaughter feud) and was brought back early in 1990. The Rock even mentioned how the fans turned on him because he got stale when Hogan came back in 2002 when they did that face to face.
Hulk Hogan reinvented himself in the Monday Night War era and almost helped put Vince out of business. Hogan just had charisma unlike most of the wrestlers which is why people watched him.
and unfortunately DOA when he gets called up
its interesting NXT uses old school and silly gimmicks but WWE doesn't push em cause they are old school/silly.
what character has had the smoothest transition? Nak, Rusev, Samoa Joe, Balor? All have been misused on the main roster
its interesting NXT uses old school and silly gimmicks but WWE doesn't push em cause they are old school/silly.
what character has had the smoothest transition? Nak, Rusev, Samoa Joe, Balor? All have been misused on the main roster
