Originally Posted by Darlene (Post 5621507)

Did you know…when Dough Basham was tag champ he once sold his right side of the body instead of the left because he had so much appreciation for the Japanese puroresu style.

Originally Posted by Helmsphere (Post 5621650)

I feel like you're getting your facts backwards but I'll play the game.

Doug Basham had a career full of matches that were memorable and made me want to invest in his career.

Originally Posted by thekrow (Post 5621920)

Dough Basham? That could have been a thing, a wrestler who is called "as soft as dough" and constantly has other wrestlers grabbing him and pulling on his skin.



Although if I booked Doug Basham back in the day I would have him "Bash" all the wrestlers. Have Doug Basham come out in the middle of a match and just talk trash about the work ethic of the guys in the ring.
"Look at these two! Who thought these two should have a match? " "These moves are pathetic!" "Boring!" "Zero out of 10 stars" "Is that the only move these guys know?" "Why dont you do another sleeper hold, haven't seen that before"
And the commentary team would say, "Doug is BASHING another match!".

Basham would be announced as, "From the internet, DOUG BASH'EM!".

After a PPV,


"You know, last nights big show, the pay per view was absolutely TERRIBLE. The opening match was so boring I would've fell asleep if I wasn't in it! You call that a main event? I counted only 3 different moves during that whole snoozefest, you guys never been in OVW haven't you? Because you might've learned more than two moves. "


After winning a match, Doug Basham would also "bash" his opponent,
"That was the worst opponent I've ever had! Trying to do your finisher when I wasn't even gassed? Who didn't see that reversal coming? And the referee? Getting knocked down by Michael Cole's fart while I was getting my eyes poked? What a joke! This match was easily a 9...out of a HUNDRED AND EIGHT!".



Doug's catchphrase would be, "Beat 'em and Bash'em".

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Originally Posted by Mr. Nerfect (Post 5623752)

I just realized this thread is called DOUGH Basham! HAHAHAHA! Because Doug becomes Dough when you add an h onto it! Oh, Guru Dave. You certainly must feel secure in who you are.

Originally Posted by Some hater online

This might be something that nobody who watched the WWE during the "Ruthless Aggression" era would've expected just based on how easily replaceable Doug Basham was when he was on the main roster. However, first of all you need to remember that the WWE did have developmental territories before NXT and one of them was OVW which was the territory that gave the company a number of top stars. Unfortunately though a lot of the talent that called OVW home never was able to catch on within the ranks of main roster WWE for one reason or another and one of those names was Doug Basham.

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During his time down OVW the man once known as The Machine would spend time as both the top heel and top face in the company. This all would change though when as Jim Cornette said in an interview "One night my top heel came in the door and he was bald." As the story goes they had him shave his head to see what he would look like bald before he came up the main roster mind you at that point Doug had a full head of hair. Just think about this in OVW they had Doug fighting under mask against the likes of Nick Dinsmore, Rob Conway, and Danny Basham trying to spoil the opportunities these good guys were getting within the WWE as far as tryouts and other opportunities go. The main layer of this angle was Doug had a falling out with his uncle Danny Davis and left wrestling only to return on the mask after becoming spiteful of those mentioned above. Now compare this to his first storyline on the main roster where he and Danny had an S & M gimmick with Linda Miles as their handler.

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Overall the Basham Brothers were a solid tag team and among the best in the division during the weakest points for the WWE's tag teams. But it is hard not to wonder how things would've been different had the WWE saw the talent and potential Doug had to be a singles competitor as oppose to wasting him within a placeholder tag team. Honestly, I think that seeing Doug's success in the lower level I think that Doug could have be a stable mid card singles talent to add more depth to the WWE. I've seen a little bit of Doug's work at the time and he had potential but for some reason management didn't see it in him or didn't get the point of developmental at the time. Now some might point to Doug's short singles run following the split the Basham's had due to the draft, but I do think at that point it was a little "Too Little Too Late" for anything to really happen.