malbaker86
Gators
Sorry to up this thread but it HAS to be the Kevin Nash storyline. I mean Kevin Nash....in 2011?!?!?!?!? SERIOUSLY?!?!?!?!?
Biggest botched storyline of this era
- Thread starter Ed MOTHERFUCKING G
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That Nash shyt by a landslide.
Imagine if after Austin blew up with that 3:16 promo, they immediately threw him in angle where he got attacked by Bob Backlund every week, never got revenge, and then ultimately had a PPV match against Pat Patterson and lost clean.
shyt was just
The purpose of getting Nash involved was to get Punk over with the Attitude/NWO era crowd who stopped watching wrestling and guess what it worked.
I can remember when one of my friends, who no longer watched wrestling, came over one day and I turned on Raw (This was when that Kevin Nash angle was red hot). He knew who Nash was because he used to watch WCW religiously back in the day.
When the segment happened between Nash and Punk, he asked me
"So Big Sexy has heat with that guy?"
I told him yeah
Then he was like so I guess Punk's one of cool wrestlers from the current era huh.
It wasnt a flop angle. Trust me.
GoddamnyamanProf
Countdown to Armageddon
Trust you? Why on earth would you write that dumb shyt when every wrestling head with common sense can see that angle was dogshyt and helped absolutely no one. Punk was already over with the old crowd that respected strong wrestlers and characters, and if he hadn't been, having him get his ass kicked by HHH and Flabby Nash damn sure wasn't gonna do it. In fact, the only explanation of the entire thing is that it was some hazing test to see if Punk was good enough to recover after going through booking hell, before they officially made him a top name in the company. In other words...It was not supposed to be good.
The purpose of getting Nash involved was to get Punk over with the Attitude/NWO era crowd who stopped watching wrestling and guess what it worked.
I can remember when one of my friends, who no longer watched wrestling, came over one day and I turned on Raw (This was when that Kevin Nash angle was red hot). He knew who Nash was because he used to watch WCW religiously back in the day.
When the segment happened between Nash and Punk, he asked me
"So Big Sexy has heat with that guy?"
I told him yeah
Then he was like so I guess Punk's one of cool wrestlers from the current era huh.
It wasnt a flop angle. Trust me.
seanjohn21276
Pro
After more consideration, it has to be the way the E dropped the ball with The Summer of Punk. After the original pipebomb, they had mainstream buzz for a reason other than Linda's misguided Congress campaigns or someone dying. Now if they were going to insert Nash and have Big Lazy be Paul's goon and have Paul turn heel and have Punk go over the both of them, then, that wouldn't have been a problem. But we saw what happened after Summerslam and, yeah, Punk recovered but it wasn't the same afterward though.
The lack of respect to Big Sexy in this forum never ceases to amaze me
So you want a living legend, someone who has paid his dues, changed the wrestling business in 1996/1997. became the 2nd biggest face in wrestling in 1998 to be someone's bodyguard?
HHH never beat Punk clean. Punk was ambushed by Nash and HHH took advantage in that match.
The angle would have helped Punk but HHH got injured after the botched jacknife powerbomb and this ruined the whole thing.
There were plans for HHH to put over Punk from what I read.