If Samoa Joe dressed like Tugboat...
 

Do you think it would:

A) Help him get more over

B) Be cool as long as he still looked angry af all the time

C) He should get Tugboat's theme music regardless

D) All of the above

No

Damn

I can picture Michael Cole saying "The Tugboat is in THE HARBOR" every time Joe charges an appointment in the turnbuckles

Tugboat was a legend who should have been WWF Champ

Tugboat may have gotten further had he dressed like Samoa Joe.

Tugboat never killed Miss Liz

Wasn't Tugboat supposed to be a Hogan opponent at a WrestleMania according to Bruce Prichard?

Tugboat Joe

What happened on 1/5/08, noid?

Couldnt make him any less believable

Pritchard said Tugboat was the one originally in the spot for the "American Turncoat" gimmick that Sgt. Slaughter ended up with leading to WMVII, he was going to defect to Iraq & become Sheik Tugboat.

Which means he was initially scheduled for a run as WWF Champion.

Picturing Samoa Joe doing his same entrance in the same gear with the same tron graphics but inexplicably using Tugboat's theme is hilarious.

Sheik Tugboat is the worst possible name for a wrestler behind maybe only Shockmaster.

And he wasn't even the best Natural Disaster. Wonder why they were allegedly so high on the guy? I hear he's a nice dude, but so was Tenta.

Tenta was fucking awesome.

I guess Fred Ottman was cursed

Even worse than some of Ed Leslie's gimmicks?

They shoulda given him a native American gimmick, call him Tentanka

From a name-only standpoint, yes. I'd rather be called The Booty Man than Sheik Tugboat.

Samoa Boat or Tug Joe would even be better names than Sheik Tugboat.

Tug Joe wouldn't fly in the PG era, though.

He'd get over if he went to North Korea and overthrew Un

Fartmaster Todd would get over doing that.

I think it was the same situation as Ed Leslie always being employed - he was a Friend of Hogan IRL, so he always had job security. Tenta benefited from being Hogan's bud also, I think he pretty much got his run in WCW as The Shark / Avalanche because WCW brass would hire guys on Hogan's word for him to feud with.

Here we go - for anybody curious, the Tugster playing the evil Sultan's bodyguard in Thunder in Paradise II.

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Sheik Tugboat actually existed. :lol:

God damn it, what is life?

Coulda been Slaughter's henchman at WM 7.

They surely would have changed his name, though. He would have been Sheik Typhoon, at least. Mildly better.

Or Sheikmaster

Sheik Tug-a-lug would have been a dope name. You gotta admit that.

I actually like both of those names a lot.

Tugboat with a gangsta rapper gimmick....Thug Boat

Team him with Ice Train and print money.

That woulda got so over

Barring the stupid name, Tugboat being the turncoat heel would've been arguably been better than what we got with Sarge. Remember, WWF totally played up on TV that Hogan + Tugboat were friends, he was the one that helped Hulk train for his return after Earthquake took him out on the Brother Love Show & he had a series of matches with Quake while Hulk was "on the shelf". Hogan being forced to fued with his former best buddy turned evil foreigner would have made for some dramatic storytelling LOL

I lost a bet to Destor, and I had to change my little thingy accordingly for a year, but when I commit to something, I commit.

Tugboat turning on his buddy is fine, but I don't think it needs the Iraqi stuff. It's just too much. Just have Tugboat turn on his buddy because he's jealous of his success. And don't make it for the WWF Title. Run Warrior vs. Savage instead and actually try and push Warrior.

I wasn't totally going to re-book the show, I was just speaking of plugging Tugboat into the Slaughter role without changing the storyline. If we're talking Wishful Thinking booking, scrap everything, have Mr. Perfect beat Warrior at Royal Rumble as a Mystery Opponent for the championship run he never got, Hogan + Perfect have the WM program with no Desert Storm shenanigans.

Tugboat wasn't the star of G.I. Joe though. People had only been familiar with him long enough to know that he was Hogan's fat fuck friend. Tugboat turning on America would have meant nothing.