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Old 07-22-2007, 04:35 PM   #41
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Old 07-22-2007, 06:17 PM   #42
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Pinnacle of Dean Malenko for me was his feud with Jericho in WCW over the Cruiserweight Title.
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Old 07-22-2007, 06:18 PM   #43
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That and all of his run in ECW
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Old 07-22-2007, 06:22 PM   #44
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Old 07-22-2007, 07:36 PM   #45
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No, not even close. I honestly always liked Dean MUCH more than Benoit, and probably about equal to Guerrero, if I'm being honest, but that was just me.

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Old 07-23-2007, 11:32 PM   #46
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Poor Dean, He was the only guy Lita turned down lol
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Old 07-24-2007, 02:48 AM   #47
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Poor Dean, He was the only guy Lita turned down lol
On-screen, anyway.

Personally, I don't think Malenko would have been as successful as Chris Benoit or Eddie Guerrero. When The Radicalz first arrived in the WWE, Benoit and Guerrero got special attention, right from the start. It was obvious they were the ones the WWE most cared about, even if Dean was just as, if not actually more talented than both of them.

Since I smartened up as a wrestling fan, and went to check his WCW shit, I've really been a fan of Dean Malenko. He has almost a Samoa Joe quality to his matches, in that he doesn't look like he could be as agile or technically apt as he is.

Malenko would be able to make it in a TNA, or a ROH. His skills would speak louder there, and his kind of ironic charisma would shine through and be utilised much better. In the WWE he would be forced to dress up as Santa Claus, and reveal that he traced his lineage back to the North Pole.

If Dean Malenko decided to make an in-ring return, I think he would be treated much better than he was even in WCW. He would be pushed as someone comparable to Finlay, an upper-midcarder, put over as a former Horsemen and one of the greatest wrestlers of the nineties. I doubt even then he would be made World Champion, though. He might get to work a few tag team main events, and even get a shot at the World Heavyweight Championship in a Fatal Fourway Match on PPV.
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Old 07-24-2007, 10:31 AM   #48
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The WWF didn't even want Malenko. They wanted Benoit and Guerrero and thought Saturn might be handy. They only got Malenko because all 4 stuck together. They also sent feelers to Shane Douglas before Malenko.
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Old 07-24-2007, 12:23 PM   #49
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How old was dean when he retired? 59? Yeah, if he didn't make it by then, he wasn't going too.
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Old 07-24-2007, 12:24 PM   #50
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The WWF didn't even want Malenko. They wanted Benoit and Guerrero and thought Saturn might be handy. They only got Malenko because all 4 stuck together. They also sent feelers to Shane Douglas before Malenko.
Wait, so they wanted Shane Douglas? So, why was Douglas so intent on keeping the bridge burnt?
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Fuck knows. They also talked with him before he went to WCW in 1999.
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Fuck knows. They also talked with him before he went to WCW in 1999.
Shane Douglas is the dumbest person ever then. Sure, WW(F)E would punish him for a bit, then if he put up with it, he would have gotten pushed and still have good job today, instead of being some TNA bitch. Hell, he could have added something to the ECW crap.
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Old 07-25-2007, 09:32 AM   #53
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If Dean Malenko hadn't retired, do you think he would have been as successful...

...as Eddie Guerrero and Chris Benoit?
So, basically, would be be dead? Yeah, probably.
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Old 07-25-2007, 09:36 AM   #54
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Wait, so they wanted Shane Douglas? So, why was Douglas so intent on keeping the bridge burnt?
There were reports that Douglas had wanted to give WCW "another chance" to talk things out. The other four had their minds made up, though.
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Old 07-25-2007, 11:14 AM   #55
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So, basically, would be be dead? Yeah, probably.
Believe it or not, I didn't really consider their deaths part of their success...unless you want to count the fact that Eddie Guerrero is now in the Hall of Fame, but that's another talk for another time.
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