TSC Evaluation #131: Bad News Brown

[Waterproof]

Bad News Brown gets a 10!
One of the Greatest Heavyweight Judoka
One of The First Anti Hero in Wrestling who was not a face or a heel, The Lone Wolf who would turn on a heel just a fast he turn on a face

The Originator of Stone Cold Gimmick

A great Wrestler who drew heat, Who supposed to Win The WWF Heavyweight Title from Hogan but Hogan didnt want to drop it to a Black Man

And The Man that told Vince fukk You!

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

didn't see enough of his stampede material to give him a full rating.

he was pretty old when he went to the WWF, so I cant punish him for not being a grand worker over there.

 

[Francis White]

Bad News Brown gets a 10!
One of the Greatest Heavyweight Judoka
One of The First Anti Hero in Wrestling who was not a face or a heel, The Lone Wolf who would turn on a heel just a fast he turn on a face

The Originator of Stone Cold Gimmick

A great Wrestler who drew heat, Who supposed to Win The WWF Heavyweight Title from Hogan but Hogan didnt want to drop it to a Black Man

And The Man that told Vince fukk You!

You mean Vince didn’t want him to have the belt?
He owns the company.
Bad News is a solid 8 , charisma and presence was excellent.
Could cut great promos. In ring not so good but and excellent brawler.
Character was 15 years ahead of his time.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

people keep calling him a bad worker, all while only acknowledging his WWF run.

but he was pushing 50 years old when he was in the WWF.

 

[Nintendough]

From watching footage. He is a legit 9. Had the full package. You know a lot of white boys wasnt cool wkth a dominat black man so he isnt remembered how he should be.

 

[mrken12]

 

[Hoss]

I'm biased, but I cannot give this man anything less than a 10.

A lot of great points already made above. I definitely agree that he is underappreciated, way ahead of his time and he doesn't get nearly enough credit for being the inspiration to the bigger stars who borrowed or stole from his act.

Bad News was a classic lone wolf heel and legit my all-time favourite pro wrestler. Sounded and looked like a dude who was there knock somebody the fukk out, but also had an Olympic-level athletic background.

Didn't even start pro wrestling training until he was 34 years old, and you gotta recognize that fact if you say he was a bad worker. There's also the fact that his knees were basically shot by the time he arrived in the WWF. Hey, nobody would ever call him a great worker, but he didn't need to be because his matches looked like fights. He understood what people wanted to see and he gave it to them.

Much respect for the man behind the character. Dude had principles, refused to sell out and had no tolerance for racism or any other bullshyt.


(Gotta add, Jake Roberts says Hogan was legit scared of Bad News, so y'all should add another point to your Bad News score just for that. )

 

[R=G]

Dude would have been gave the boots to Farooq

Not just him...likely Scott and Rick Steiner too who apparently used to punk out everyone in WCW except Ron Simmons, Sting..their friends. I don't think they had issues with Rick Rude either.

 

[patscorpio]

with regards to Bad News Brown you know he's a bad motherfukker when Antonio Inoki tells you he didn't need to do all that rookie shyt in the NJPW dojo and be stretched and shyt..just focus on the pro wrestling training..well most likely an olympic level judoka would cause a lot of physical damage if you tried to fukk him over like that lol

 

[mrken12]

 

[DaKidFromNoWhere]

10
The OG Stone Cold

 

[mrken12]

 

[mrken12]

 

[mrken12]

 

[Mr. Negative]

Bad News holding Antonio's hand to his throat so the ref could count it as a choke and call a DQ....

that's the first time I've ever seen that spot. True Heel Tactics.