Official "Dark Side Of The Ring" Discussion Thread

[Batter Up]

Half of Godfather's screen time was him juelzing about how much weed he smoked before the Bart Gunn fight

 

[YakSpiller]

Man, this Crispen Wah shyt

Feel bad for his son.

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

Yea I didn't know who he was when I first saw him as a 6 year old kid either but I can appreciate now that he was a star. WWE has just tried to brainwash their fans and erase anyone from history that didn't become a star in their company. And obviously done a good job from the responses in here.

Exactly, these WWE marks are basically brainwashed by Vince & Kevin Dunn

Those idiots were surprised that the crowd popped crazy for Terry Funk the first time he came out, because they didn't think that the fans knew who he wasThey literally think that WWE is the entire world.

But if that's the case, then why did fans pop for ECW/WCW stars when they came out.

Think about how the crowds popped for Jericho the first time he came out with that Y2J stuff.

they were stars ... but only to the small percentage of diehard fans who were watching wrestling on local television. absolutely nowhere near the magnitude of WWE stars.

Ric Flair, Dusty Rhodes, and Sting were absolutely as famous as anybody in the WWE, who were not named Hogan or Savage.

So they basically teamed up to bury Bart Gunn

Oh stop it, JR & Cornette didn't have the power to bury anyone.

Cornette hated Michaels & HHH for the MSG debacle and thought they should've been fired for that.

That was part of why Vader’s run was largely a failure, nobody is gonna be willing to get mauled by him the same way he did in Japan

Vader's run was a failure because Shawn Michaels buried him in everyway possible.

And if other companies were good at creating stars they would still be around.

Wrong.

WCW would still be around if Ted Turn doesn't sell his company to AOL, who wanted to get out of the wrestling business,

 

[TUA TAGOVAILOA]

They're track record is better than other promotions. You can't go by their recent mistakes. Austin, Hall and Nash were all misued and mistreated by WCW and became stars in the WWF. Even Benoit Guerrero and Jericho found more success in the WWF than WCW. Dr. Death wasn't gonna get past mid card stage at that point in his career.

So yea they should have had no problem getting one good run out of a guy who was easily made a star in all of those lesser companies. You should add "imo" to your last statement b/c obviously you have no idea of knowing what could've been. And no one was saying he was gonna be a top star for the future anyway, all they wanted to do is give him one good heel run culminating in a feud with Austin to sell a few PPVs. All they had to do is take it serious and build him up like the legit badass he was, wouldn't have took much

 

[Playaz Eyez]

And if other companies were good at creating stars they would still be around.

Those other companies were creating stars, but either they were spending too much money handing out massive contracts, or their wrestlers weren’t being paid enough band jumping ship for a payday. There’s various factors in why other companies are gone and not creating stars wasn’t one of them. You’re loud and wrong in every one of these posts.

 

[Toe Jay Simpson]

They handled Brawl for All like a couple of frat boys paying homeless people to fight

This is the hardest case against Vince Russo being bad for business I’ve ever seen. They even got Cornette to be halfway articulate about him for once.

 

[threattonature]

So yea they should have had no problem getting one good run out of a guy who was easily made a star in all of those lesser companies. You should add "imo" to your last statement b/c obviously you have no idea of knowing what could've been. And no one was saying he was gonna be a top star for the future anyway, all they wanted to do is give him one good heel run culminating in a feud with Austin to sell a few PPVs. All they had to do is take it serious and build him up like the legit badass he was, wouldn't have took much

Stop it. Dr. Death would've been nothing more than Dan Severn level. Shamrock was way more charismatic and the same "bad-ass" image and he was upper mid-card at best.

 

[MrFirst2doit]

Stop it. Dr. Death would've been nothing more than Dan Severn level. Shamrock was way more charismatic and the same "bad-ass" image and he was upper mid-card at best.

Yeah great point about Shamrock... Not only that, but Godfather and JBL both had Hall of Fame careers post getting KOed in that tournament with JBL especially even getting a lengthy world main title main event run. Also add in Hardcore Holly as someone who has a pretty decent "tough guy" run after....

 

[TUA TAGOVAILOA]

Stop it. Dr. Death would've been nothing more than Dan Severn level. Shamrock was way more charismatic and the same "bad-ass" image and he was upper mid-card at best.

Lol what a terrible comparison. Severn had 0 personality, the total opposite of Dr. Death. Shamrock should have been pushed more but of course Vince had no respect or knowledge about the MMA game, especially at that time.

 

[TUA TAGOVAILOA]

You're acting like Shamrock was held back by anything more than Vince and his group of idiots

 

[TUA TAGOVAILOA]

They were extremely dumb for not capitalizing on a Shamrock vs Severn 3. Vince had no clue what was going on

 

[Brad Piff]

 

[threattonature]

The most fukked up thing about this is they got Bart working a hard core match and being thrown through a table four weeks before Mania lol. Then on this clip having him take them nasty ass suplexes from Dr. Death. Shouldn't they have had him training and making sure he was as healthy as can be leading up to the match unless they were purposely hoping to make him lose.

 

[TUA TAGOVAILOA]

It's crazy that Shane had the foresight and wanted to buy the UFC back in the 90s but Vince wouldn't do it. I'm glad he didn't he would have ruined it as well

 

[Homer Simpson]

Broken neck Austin would've loved to work with Dr. Death.