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Xero
02-23-2011, 08:18 PM
List and discuss some wrestlers who wouldn't get over or even get a real chance in today's mainstream wrestling scene that were big deals in their time.
MoFo
02-23-2011, 08:28 PM
Bruno Sammartino.
JimmyMess
02-23-2011, 08:34 PM
Iron Sheik
Providence Peep
02-23-2011, 08:38 PM
Paul Roma, anyone? Can someone tell me how the fuck he became a Horseman? Piece of shit.
Seth82
02-23-2011, 08:44 PM
probably any heel german gimmicks

like Baron Von Raschke

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c228/BaronVonRaschkeFan05/nazi2520baron.jpg
Snowden
02-23-2011, 08:47 PM
Dusty Rhodes. Wouldn't get a look in the WWE, doesn't have the "look."
Tazz Dan
02-23-2011, 08:58 PM
Ultimate Warrior
Ruien
02-23-2011, 09:01 PM
Lex Lugar.
Mr. Showtime
02-23-2011, 09:06 PM
The bushwackers
DrCrawford
02-23-2011, 09:41 PM
a pg cena before he became a star. he'd be a joke like cryme time was
Lock Jaw
02-23-2011, 09:58 PM
The Road Warriors.

Really, any tag team.
Heisenberg
02-23-2011, 10:03 PM
Tatanka
Jordan
02-23-2011, 10:14 PM
The Road Warriors.

Really, any tag team.

I think they would be HUGE. WWE loved marketing them in the early 90's, imagine what they could be today if they were young.
Lock Jaw
02-23-2011, 10:20 PM
Random tag team that gets jobbed out/split up/released.
Providence Peep
02-23-2011, 10:27 PM
Somehow, I don't think a dancing African-American man with chains around his neck ("Junkyard Dog") would be popular today.
CSL
02-23-2011, 10:29 PM
Ultimate Warrior

Fuck that noise, Warrior would have been over at any time in any era.
Ermaximus
02-23-2011, 10:44 PM
George Steele
Honkey Tonk Man
The Headbangers
dingdongyo
02-23-2011, 10:46 PM
dean malenko
XCaliber
02-23-2011, 10:48 PM
New Age Outlaws since they were a tag team and they couldn't make it in the PG era.
Lock Jaw
02-23-2011, 10:52 PM
Somehow, I don't think a dancing African-American man with chains around his neck ("Junkyard Dog") would be popular today.

http://www.allwrestlingsuperstars.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/R-Truth-wwe-superstar-1.jpg

:shifty:
Jordan
02-23-2011, 11:05 PM
Fuck that noise, Warrior would have been over at any time in any era.

Agreed.

Also, I think Dusty would make it somehow, he had a good look in his youth and he was fucking amazing in the ring and on the stick. Plus, he'd just book himself the Title anyway :rant:
Jordan
02-23-2011, 11:12 PM
This is a tough question and mostly I am coming to think that most of the really successful guys were on top for one reason or another, so they all have at least one thing that makes them deserving. For instance I though Sgt. Slaughter, but no either as a heel or a face he would totally get over today. He has great size, skills, good on the stick, great finish he'd be over easy. Another was mentioned, The Ultimate Warrior... Even though he came in at a time when we were dead tired of Hulkamania and needed something new and fast, Warrior still has "it" and there is no denying. I believe he would have been over regardless of Hogan, in spite of his limited skills and the specific time.

If your great, your great. It's that simple, just look at Jerry Lawler 61 years old and so damn good he's getting Cenaesque promo time.
Brigstocke
02-23-2011, 11:22 PM
Blackman, Take that Lockjaw.
Tazz Dan
02-23-2011, 11:42 PM
Fuck that noise, Warrior would have been over at any time in any era.

I'd love to agree, but I just don't see it. If some roided up bloke ran out and started shaking the ring ropes these days, he'd get laughed and/or booed out of the building. And that saddens me :'(
Tazz Dan
02-23-2011, 11:43 PM
Blackman, Take that Lockjaw.

Blackman was never over anyway :-\
SlickyTrickyDamon
02-23-2011, 11:43 PM
Too Cool would not be one, because they were THE greatest dancing Tag Team. EVER.
DaveBrawl
02-23-2011, 11:53 PM
I'd love to agree, but I just don't see it. If some roided up bloke ran out and started shaking the ring ropes these days, he'd get laughed and/or booed out of the building. And that saddens me :'(

That's not why Batista was booed out of the building.
Tazz Dan
02-23-2011, 11:55 PM
I see where you was going with that, but it kinda of fell flat.
Fat Aaron
02-23-2011, 11:57 PM
The Undertaker comes to mind. If his gimmick wasn't already over with the crowd I don't think he could make it today without a totally new gimmick.
DaveBrawl
02-24-2011, 12:01 AM
I see where you was going with that, but it kinda of fell flat.

I'm sorry.
MoFo
02-24-2011, 12:04 AM
Yokozuna would be a comedy jobber.
Disco Apocalypse
02-24-2011, 01:14 AM
Y2J / Millenium Man
Tazz Dan
02-24-2011, 01:29 AM
Y2J would get over quite easily.
Anybody Thrilla
02-24-2011, 01:38 AM
"Hacksaw" Jim Duggan
Lock Jaw
02-24-2011, 01:59 AM
Hacksaw would get over just for the fact that he is Pro-USA and waves a USA flag. He probably would not have been as "big" as he was. More a low card kinda guy that you wonder how they haven't been released by now, but stick around forever.
Lara Emily
02-24-2011, 02:01 AM
Tera Ryzing and Jean-Paul Levesque
Vastardikai
02-24-2011, 02:42 AM
80's era Bob Backlund.

He could work like a motherfucker, but it took him 2 minutes to say nothing. Seriously...

<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6YF67XhcTrM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

apart from the goofy Howard Cossel (sp?) impression from Vince, listen to both promos and tell me who you think sold this match.
Rammsteinmad
02-24-2011, 05:13 AM
If Steve Austin was around today instead of the Attitude Era he probably wouldn't have flourished so well.
MoFo
02-24-2011, 12:09 PM
Sandman.
Ultra Mantis
02-24-2011, 01:40 PM
Mick Foley
RiX1024
02-26-2011, 06:23 AM
Agreed with Sandman even though it might increase the under-age drinking population.
RiX1024
02-26-2011, 06:23 AM
percentage, whatever.
Mr. Nerfect
02-26-2011, 07:32 AM
If Steve Austin was around today instead of the Attitude Era he probably wouldn't have flourished so well.

I agree with this. Not because of any lack of talent on Austin's part, but the WWE wouldn't push the boundaries with him. He'd be a really solid talent that could talk playing a PG character that would not really connect with people on nearly the emotional level that Stone Cold did.

And that's not me taking a shot at PG, just that Austin's rebellion against tradition, of sorts, in the late 90's really helped turn over a new era. With the WWE as adjusted as they are now (which creates a paradox in discussing this scenario, really, given how much Austin has had to do with their success), I doubt he'd be given the same opportunities.
Disco Apocalypse
02-26-2011, 08:32 PM
Y2J would get over quite easily.

No shit. What I mean is the gimmick of Y2J or the Millenium Man... In terms of era-specfic gimmicks, Y2J takes the cake.

I'm struggling to think of a date in our life times where a gimmick could be based on it.

Maybe 2012, he could be a mexican wrestler prophet called Apocalypto...