Wrestlers that you were fully aware sucked, but loved anyway.
 

Maybe it's because he's teaming with RYBACK and they form the greatest power tag team since the Road Warriors, but I'm finding that I'm making up reasons why Curtis Axel is awesome, even though I know he's terrible. Lol his theme is my wake up alarm on my phone.

Also loved Viscera. Fat wrestlers are great.

Doink the Clown, Koko B Ware, IRS, The Mountie, Wrath, Norman Smiley, The Nasty Boys, Sid Eudy, Vader, Disco Inferno, BB.

public enemy

Hahaha that gif in your sig

D'lo Brown

I don't know...lex Luger?

Sin Cara

Wait he was awesome. Everyone forget I said that.

lol Vader.

And Hardcore Hak, lets sober up the Sandman and give him rubber barb wire, still great though.

definitely Sandman.

also I'd have to say George Gulas.

Gulas has to be seen to be believed at how awful he was. His daddy Nick owned the Tennessee territory prior to Jerry Jarrett buying up most of it in 1977.

George teamed with a young Bobby Eaton as The Jet Set as well.

George Gulas saves the day in this clip from 1975... and gets ignored lol
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Every member of the Oddities.

Ultimate Warrior :'(

You are a fucking cunt.

Doink the Clown most definitely did NOT suck. In fact...

http://www.tpwwforums.com/showthread...er+fucking+man

...Doink the Clown was the mother fucking man.

Also, Norman Smiley, Vader, and Disco Inferno should not be talked about in such an ill manner, either. Do your homework, bobo. :mad:

lol what is your deal man?

Adam Bomb was my favourite wrestler for a while despite never seeing him in a match.

Duke "The Dumpster" Droese high fived me once at a show, so I decided I was a fan of his from then on, even though I never thought he could beat anyone that wasn't on Superstars.

Max Moon. That outfit was awesome.

Also Sgt. Buddy Lee Parker. I don't know why, but I loved that guy as a kid.

Boogeyman

Mantaur and Damien Demento were a pretty sweet

I'm a Demento mark, for sure.

Droz

Glacier.

What, I marked out for the kick.

I was and always will be a Mantaur mark. Also, El Torito and La Parka.

Gillberg

I was about to say "Lightning Foot" Jerry Flynn, but I forgot that he wasn't shitty at all. If Shawn Michaels is "Mr. Wrestlemania", Jerry Flynn is "Mr. Worldwide".

Jerry Flynn's mullet automatically makes him amazing.

Also loved Bastion Booger.

Liked Marc Mero when he became "Marvellous". He had totally sucked to me before, and I knew he wasn't a great wrestler, then all of a sudden he had this cool theme, this new attitude and the TKO. The fact they talked up his boxing background made the whole thing seem legit.

Secretly wished he had gone further after that, even though I knew he wasn't great in the ring...

La Parka was always amazing Crazy Edgar. Always.:foc:

Plus, Sable.

Sable was gone by the time of Marvellous I thought.

The TKO could get anyone over in 1997 when guys were struggling to find good finishes.

Ill add Flash Funk.

Gimmick and push were shit but by god he was awesome.

No way. Sable is what made Marvelous work.

Also, 2 Cold Scorpio wasn't shitty at all.

Skinner

The Berzerker

Flash Funk was though.

Skinner shits all over the Wyatt family

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Lol the WW *Spit*

Are we talking about workers or characters? Do we have to talk about The Ringmaster here?

Norman Smiley, The Oddities, Tommy Dreamer

Whoa.

Norman Smiley was awesome. (When was a heel)

Tommy Dreamer does not suck sir!

Tommy Dreamer, the most glorified jobber in the history of professional wrestling

You sure you're not thinking of Mikey Whipwreck?

I saw Mikey Whipwreck live and he was fucking awesome. Back when he was with Tajiri and Sinister Minister.

Seriously though, even as a "hardcore wrestler" Tommy Dreamer was underwhelming. Bubba, Taz, Rhyno, Balls, Ian, Tajiri, Sabu, Sandman, New Jack and Raven were all more innovative in their violence and better in the ring. Tommy Dreamer was hardcore and all, but come on.

Damn, I really miss ECW.

The only innovative thing New Jack did was the Wolverine claws, Dreamer was the innovator of violence, why would Joey Styles lie about that?

New Jack had el kabong, forks, cheese-graders and knives to the game...and all while his entrance music played.

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Wrath was pretty awesome in WCW.

Always had a soft spot for Sandman and Justin Credible

Also Naked Mideon

Vader was not a bad wrestler. Like, at all. In fact, he's one of the better big men ever.

Right. You want a bad big man, look at TL Hopper or something. Not like anybody actually liked him, though.

First RAW main event:


http://youtu.be/M2q2LhLMRTg

Upon further review, he wasn't even that big.

Rob Bartlett is the fucking worst

I really liked Lash LeRoux too. He wasn't good though.

David Flair was pretty shit wasn't he? I liked him when I was younger. Crowbar too. What about Vampiro? Is he considered a good "wrestler"?

What about Kronik? I loved them. How are they generally perceived?

Also don't most Internet people hate Jeff Jarrett? He's probably like my 2nd favourite heel ever.

I remember legitimately believing that they were going to do a year+ long angle where they trained David Flair to be the next Nature Boy. Like he'd come back and just be massive and be really good because his dad taught him everything he knew etc.

Yeah, that would have been really cool.

Giant Gonzalez.

Granted, the only thing I have ever saw with him was his debut at Rumble 93. But I remember as a kid being like "OH MY GOD LOOK AT THAT MONSTER!" and then "OH MY! HE IS POWERFUL ENOUGH TO MANHANDLE THE UNDERTAKER!!"


Then I never actually saw any of their matches, or anything he did afterwards. But whenever I would watch the VHS of Royal Rumble 93, I always looked forward to his appearance.

Wait if Kronik, Jeff Jarrett and Crowbar are awful then count them on my list too.

Also the KISS Demon and probably 85% of the late 90's-01 WCW under and mid card.

Kiss Demon wasn't a wrestler, it was a being from beyond reality.

The Berzerker.

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Actually thought Morgan and Jones would be something back then...:nono:

Fuck it, I though the Eugene character was fabulous

Nathan Jones.

Also Jeff Jarrett, since we may be counting him.

Love Jeff Jarrett.

The "Don't Piss Me Off" Jeff Jarrett was fantastic.

Abe "Knuckleball" Schwartz

Repo Man

Until Triple H saw he was getting some reactions and felt the need to go over him. :nono:

Gangrel

Gene Snitsky

Was Test good? I liked him.

He called me a retard on Twitter.

Hulk Hogan.

Growing up, I was the only person I knew who liked Test.

He was...

Then Triple H noticed he was getting a reaction and had to put himself over him. :nono:

Nathan Jones because I wanted so badly for him to be good.

If he just could've not fallen on that spin kick spot. The WWE would've had a big bald Australian who could do spin kicks, I guess.

Gangrel. Although I've no idea whether he actually 'sucked' or not. Pretty irrelevant to me at the time, the guy acted like a fucking vampire. Fully entertaining.

There's a pun in there somewhere if someone wants to find it

Are we talking sucked in the ring/weren't great technical wrestlers?

Hogan, Warrior, Gangrel, Road Dogg

If he sucked, it wasn't his fault.


It looks like a lot of us (yes, including myself) wanted badly to like Nathan Jones in spite of him being a super green powerlifter he could portray someone who was somewhere between not that bright and not that mentally stable, and yet still charming. Add into the fact that he had the in of a lifetime by being "Undertaker's student". The bit where 'Taker comes up to him in the back and is like "Hey, it's time for your match." and Nathan's like "Already had it!" and opens the locker room door on someone rolling around on the floor post ass-kicking who I forgot until I looked up the clip even though his theme song, ironically, said we'd remember him.*

Gangrel was a special case. Pretty much ANYBODY would look badass rising out of a ring of fire and spitting "viscious liquid" to get amped for a match. And this was back about "Interview With A Vampire" time... if he had looked more like Kevin Thorne instead of Meat Loaf, he would have been a huge merch mover with the ladies and it totally wouldn't have mattered how shit he was in the ring. Plus, he was a starmaker. E&C and The Hardyz got over huge after hanging around him for awhile. If only Lo'Down had hired Gangrel as their manager instead of Tiger Ali Singh, we'd be talking about them as one of the best tag teams ever right now!



* "... still makes me chuckle a bit inside." I don't know how I omitted a whole portion of a thought there.

lol Tiger Ali Singh fuck me forgot about that bloke. Didn't he try and sue the WWE once?

I liked him during his thing with Steiner and his ECW run was good with Knox when he came back roided to the fucking gills.