Mike Rotunda had the most baffling fukking career

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How the fukk did this sweat bag get ANYWHERE in the business?

1. Terrible look and body

Even in his rookie years he managed to be :flabbynsick: as hell, as well as having the worst case of hyperhidrosis in the history of pro wrestling. This fukk was drenched in sweat even in promos. His body was so bad every promoter he worked for ended up making him cover it up for the majority of his career. Somehow he got pushed as a heartthrob type by multiple promoters in his early years.

2. Garbage promo abilities

Dude couldn't cut a promo to save his life. Especially as a face. Absolutely dreadful. As a heel, his one note IRS promos were the worst.

3. Boring as fukk in the ring

Didn't matter if he was a heel or a face, the one thing you could count on was Mike Rotunda being in the sweatiest and most boring match of the night on any given card he was.

4. Garbage gimmicks

After the worst versions of heartthrob and All American athlete gimmicks, he moves on to being a boat captain, then investment banker, then tax man, then back to investment banker, then back to generic athlete, then back to tax man. This mother fukker wrestled in slacks, suspenders, and a tie for YEARS.


Yet somehow this dude got excessive TV time in Mid Atlantic, basically ran Florida, was a featured player in both WCW and WWF for a decade straight, then went on to get strong runs in both NJ and AJ YEARS past his prime. This is a guy who was on the first Wrestlemania, has a Wrestlemania match against HULK HOGAN (which he won, btw), was on every WCW PPV for 2 years, every WWF PPV for 5 years, a PPV match against Undertaker, singles matches in Japan with Mutoh, Hashimoto, Sasaki, and Tenryu.

HOW THE fukk DID THIS HAPPEN

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Agree on all points except the promos one (He was decent for what the IRS was supposed to be, it was a cartoonish era) Anyways, his "success" stemmed from two things: He's a legit athlete ...iI believe he did football and amateur wrestling and the second one was his size... he was a big dude like 6'4 250lbs or something along those lines...

so in other words, he was the 80s version of Jack Swagger but with better promos
 

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Good write-up, Rotunda was ass :mjlol: he was even cheeks by WWF cartoon gimmick standards. I’ve never seen a guy get that many chances and TV time without actually doing anything.

And wasn’t he VK Wallstreet as well?? :russ: The most insignificant heatless NWO member ever
When Virgil/Vincent has a more important role than you that's when you've hit rock bottom:pachaha:
 

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Good write-up, Rotunda was ass :mjlol: he was even cheeks by WWF cartoon gimmick standards. I’ve never seen a guy get that many chances and TV time without actually doing anything.

And wasn’t he VK Wallstreet as well?? :russ: The most insignificant heatless NWO member ever
When Virgil/Vincent has a more important role than you that's when you've hit rock bottom:pachaha:
:deadrose:
 
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