It’s 1999, who would you have the hardest time believing would ever be WWE champ one day?

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Bradshaw - he reminded me of Crush or Brian Lee. Big men that they kept repackaging and pushing but never stuck that slowly ended up fading away. I was sure that was his fate.
Rey - Strictly off size and at that point WWF had never shown of letting smaller wrestlers near the title. Even Bret and Shawn who were considered tiny for the titles were both still decently sized compared to Rey being a full blown cruiserweight.
Eddie - Same reason as Rey
Christian - In 99 saw nothing from him that showed he'd be given a larger role.

 

[Metal Face]

Bradshaw by far.

 

[Art Barr]

The correct answer was Christian.
As he was a top trained experienced savant worker and lhw champion on damn near debut. Yet was viewed as inferior to vkm man crush.
on a certain type of performer ala billy gunn. Except this time for the taller lower quality worker incomparison to christian.
Where evem edge self admittedly would tell everyone he was not in christian's league as a worker.

Back then christian had big is better to deal with. Plus in perception by vkm.
was only on as a favor from his man crush type in edge.



Art Barr

 

[Art Barr]

Bradshaw by far.

Only because bradshaw was a former nwa champion.
Would that have been the reason.

As vkm regardless of whomever it was. In that era if you had a nwa title reign of any kind. He was gon bury you in a demeaning gimmick and style of work.
Via metrics ehen bradahaw came along.
He was hw champion material.
that would have been buried by proxy by vkm just because of where he was on the oppossing company card. This was during all types of admin issues with the nwa as well.

Art Barr

 

[Art Barr]

100% Christian. He looked like a complete sidekick scrub back then, and didn't really stand out at all without Edge.

Not when he debuted.
Christian got nerfed because he was That much visually better inring and as an accompanying character.
than gangrel and edge at that time.


Art Barr