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I can't find it in a hurry but someone in this thread mentioned if Big Boss Man had a ceiling if he had not goofed the Steve Austin spot. I think the Boss Man gimmick reached it peak and that's cool, everything doesn't have to be a main event gimmick.

Could you imagine a heel Boss Man in 2026? Some psychotic troon would've ended up killing the guy
 
I can't find it in a hurry but someone in this thread mentioned if Big Boss Man had a ceiling if he had not goofed the Steve Austin spot. I think the Boss Man gimmick reached it peak and that's cool, everything doesn't have to be a main event gimmick.

Could you imagine a heel Boss Man in 2026? Some psychotic troon would've ended up killing the guy
I would imagine that Boss Man would've had a few week angle with Austin but wasn't going to get a world title reign or even probably a PPV match vs Austin. There's no way that he would've gotten a title reign with the stacked roster they had then. Back then there were a lot of two week angles where one week, a guy would do something to someone and then the week after would be their match and that was it. Given that Austin was feuding with the corporation, I would guess that would've been the case here.

Next week's episode is gonna be sad. Renegade was a green wrestler in the WCW Power Plant (or whatever the equivalent was at the time). He was no where near ready but looked a bit like Warrior so they called him up, pushed him hard, but he didn't have the charisma of warrior and was dogshit in the ring being green and all that. Real warrior signs, so he gets buried, then released, then commits suicide.
 
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Next week's episode is gonna be sad. Renegade was a green wrestler in the WCW Power Plant (or whatever the equivalent was at the time). He was no where near ready but looked a bit like Warrior so they called him up, pushed him hard, but he didn't have the charisma of warrior and was dogshit in the ring being green and all that. Real warrior signs, so he gets buried, then released, then commits suicide.
You can't help but to dread stories like his because from what I understand he died broke, no family, no kids just dust in the wind. Poor guy was a victim of circumstances and realistically if he had hung around, he might've found his footing and carried his career a little further. The WCW Power Plant was one of the worst things to happen to wrestling in those days and The Renegade is another unfortunate example.
 
This week’s JCW Lunacy gets to the first match in 17 minutes after the opening. Russo is slacking!
 
I guess Russo wasn’t totally slacking. Only 4 matches on the show, not counting the throwback match. Speaking of which, I know it’s probably licensing issues necessitating it, but the audio for the throwback matches being removed is really annoying.
 
As if the MCMG aren’t worth signing.

Some of you guys would bitch if he hadn’t signed them, bitch that he did sign them and don’t even watch the product. It’s so tiresome.

Yeah, this is kind of stupid. I never knew about the MCMG when they were in their prime as I basically felt TNA wasn't worth my time (hell, WWE wasn't, either) but watching retrospectives where their shit is highlighted, they were really fucking good.

I don't mind them getting a golden parachute from the Snow Man.
 
I can't find it in a hurry but someone in this thread mentioned if Big Boss Man had a ceiling if he had not goofed the Steve Austin spot. I think the Boss Man gimmick reached it peak and that's cool, everything doesn't have to be a main event gimmick.

Could you imagine a heel Boss Man in 2026? Some psychotic troon would've ended up killing the guy
Yeah, I think that might be a bit exaggerated to say that mistake cost Boss Man a big run against Austin or something. I can't think of a PPV between Survivor Series 98 and Wrestlemania XV where they would have fought. I'm sure they had a RAW match around that time too, but things moved so fast back then it's hard to remember. Austin was feuding with the whole Corporation anyway.
 
Yeah, this is kind of stupid. I never knew about the MCMG when they were in their prime as I basically felt TNA wasn't worth my time (hell, WWE wasn't, either) but watching retrospectives where their shit is highlighted, they were really fucking good.

I don't mind them getting a golden parachute from the Snow Man.
Its not the signing, it's bollox that comes after. Big fanfare, talk of creative freedom and being themselves finally only to be quickly jobbed out and forgotten about. It will be exactly what happened to them in WWE, but people that blindly defend AEW like it's their senile parent are incapable of admitting this. ROH and Evolve are on the same level. MCMG will be stuck with some jobber and competing for the trios titles. They could be fed to the Nu Dayz whenever those pricks show up.
 
wwe have diluted their brand so much that who the fuck cares. its funny that punk is having all that he ever wanted in the coldest and shittiest product since maybe 94-95? real twilight zone shit
I don't wanna step on someone else's gimmick, but I don't think it's a coincidence at all. At this point the only people still giving a shit about CM Poseur are the stinky niggers off that misplaced borough of Minneapolis called Chicago.
AKA, he's likely fed up with people who just go there waiting to go to or back to WWE. Probably why he has no interest in Kross - Tony knows what's up there.
While I could see the logic of that...

Does anybody really think fucking Kross of all people is getting another chance with WWE?
 
Yeah, this is kind of stupid. I never knew about the MCMG when they were in their prime as I basically felt TNA wasn't worth my time (hell, WWE wasn't, either) but watching retrospectives where their shit is highlighted, they were really fucking good.

I don't mind them getting a golden parachute from the Snow Man.
That's the attitude I have whenever AEW signs someone I like that are well pass their golden years. "I'm just happy that they're getting paid well." It doe irk me that a decent portion of wrestling fans get exposed to great acts once they've lost a portion of their luster though. I have to explain to friends that Tomohiro Iishi was a beast in his prime and they respond by saying something to the effect of "why did they hire him if he's past his prime then?" Granted, I know that the core contingency of AEW's fans could care less about that because most of them are already familiar with the indy scene and the New Japan alumni, I would like AEW to keep growing to really make WWE sweat.
 
Yeah, I think that might be a bit exaggerated to say that mistake cost Boss Man a big run against Austin or something. I can't think of a PPV between Survivor Series 98 and Wrestlemania XV where they would have fought. I'm sure they had a RAW match around that time too, but things moved so fast back then it's hard to remember. Austin was feuding with the whole Corporation anyway.
Exactly. There's no way that Boss man was going to have a feud of any length with Austin. Austin was feuding with the corporation, which obviously includes Boss Man, but at most that screw up cost him like a match against Austin the following week and that'd have been it. They wouldn't have had a PPV match just based on that.

The only way that I can think of that happening is that they'd have had Austin vs Boss Man at St. Valentine's Day Massacre in February with Vince's Wrestlemania title match on the line (remember, Vince won the RR that year) instead of it being Vince vs Austin, but given that Vince vs Austin would draw way more money than Boss Man vs Austin and they had to debut Big Show somehow, I doubt even that'd have happened. Royal Rumble wouldn't have had Austin vs Boss Man given that Austin was the 1st entrant, and Austin vs Undertaker would've still happened at the December 1998 PPV. Survivor Series 1998 did have Austin vs Boss Man in the tournament but it was mostly just Austin vs a Corporation member more than anything

So I think it's more hindsight fantasy booking done by Dark Side Of The Ring, similar to when Jake Roberts said that he was going to get a title win over Warrior in summer of 1991 until Warrior got himself fired (spoiler: no, that wasn't going to happen since Warrior was already not champion by that time and Roberts was so unreliable given his addictions that there's no way they'd have given him the title). Also, in that story, I can't blame Warrior for telling Roberts that he'd better fucking show up to events they were booked on given that Jake had a habit of no showing around that time due to being stoned off his ass.
 
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