Lance Storm discusses a moment in WCW he regrets

[Dog Based Gremlin]

Goat WCW wrestler in the dying years

 

[llt23]

Man even his promos were on point during that time. I haven't kept up with him much outside of knowing he runs a school, but that's disappointing as a fan to hear that he hates that run so much.

If u ever hear his podcast it just sounds like a guy whos full of himself. Puts his own work rate over like crazy, hes a mark for Lance Storm. And he thinks he knows everything about booking even though he is stale bread on the mic, and has never shown he has a creative bone in his body. That run used his lameness to his benefit. It was actually smart how he was booked.

 

[The Girl From Innsmouth]

If u ever hear his podcast it just sounds like a guy whos full of himself. Puts his own work rate over like crazy, hes a mark for Lance Storm. And he thinks he knows everything about booking even though he is stale bread on the mic, and has never shown he has a creative bone in his body. That run used his lameness to his benefit. It was actually smart how he was booked.

You're going for a triple crown in wrongness, aren't you?

 

[CM_Burns]

not true,..

the only time wcw was actually good and making a ramp toward sumfin different was when lance had most of the belts. Which was later used for the same angles in tna with angle and just used recently for the Seth Rollins WWE and us title dual champion runs as well.
yet lance'a actual quality was more entertaining and he played it as complete heel.

wwf is the only promotion who was such low quality they could never utilize storm effectively. As right now most of the grapplers they sign are a derivative of storm in some capacity. Or use angles storm excelled in when surrounded by principals known for actually producing quality.


art barr

WCW was only ever good in the Russo era where a generic "I'm a good wrestler" guy, who's heel heat comes from him being boring and a "real wrestler" who isn't an entertainer had a run with multiple belts? I don't see it brother. That was a down time in the territory for a reason.

A lot of flavorless indy guys are Storm-like, but to credit him with the template of "I'm a 5'8-6 ft nondescript white guy who's fairly athletic and in decent shape, but not oustanding in either way" and has no character, is giving him too much credit. That's not a creative gimmick, even if he was the first do it.

People talk about XPac heat or Jeff Jarrett heat, I'm not seeing how LanceStorm isn't in that same category. Aside from being crisper or more athletic.

 

[Scottie Drippin]

WCW was only ever good in the Russo era where a generic "I'm a good wrestler" guy, who's heel heat comes from him being boring and a "real wrestler" who isn't an entertainer had a run with multiple belts? I don't see it brother. That was a down time in the territory for a reason.
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Except he was massively entertaining during this run, which is why everyone bar a few noted weirdos remembers it fondly. As someone else noted in this thread, it's a time his deadpan and serious nature was used to tremendous affect, especially in the midst of the insanity that was WCW 2000. You're applying the feelings of him during his WWE run when everyone in here is talking about WCW 2000. When he got on the mic and said "If I can be serious for a moment" in those days, that was NOT go-away heat. That I was I want to see this guy get his ass kicked heat. He was a great heel.

It spiralled out of control once they started bringing in a bunch of others for the Team Canada and the MIA thing, but Lance's heel run was a refreshingly clear, clean, concise, and well executed angle until of course it became a victim to the misguided excess of the era attaching all those other moving pieces to it.

Hell even Team Canada was fine but MIA was such a dumb idea to use as the faces, when a better stable idea could have really gotten some guys over, instead it's a collection of overlooked midcarders plus Booker because WCW.

 

[jackswstd]

Lance was always entertaining to me.