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Post by rowdy1971 on Jul 14, 2017 16:03:50 GMT -5
Give Kevin Owens another few months and he'll be there! HA! I kid...I kid.
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Post by IRS on Jul 14, 2017 16:30:07 GMT -5
Seems like the Authors of Pain are as close as we can get to something like this again. The person would have to really be able to go. Kongo Kong is ing embarrassing to watch with his saggy beef kittens. Brodus Clay sucks too. It's 2017. A 5'9 160 pound Irish guy is the baddest man on the planet. We stopped believing fat truckers were viable bad guys right around the time we stopped saying our prayers and eating our vitamins. Even watching back Yokozuna's sh*t with Owen is hard nowadays. Oh, good. I'm not the only one disturbed by Kongo Kong's saggy moobs.
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Post by Angel Beast on Jul 14, 2017 18:31:56 GMT -5
Look at Bundy then Nia, she is no way an equivalent to King Kong Bundy. Her body structure is close to Umaga. Next to Alexa Bliss, Bayley, Becky, Sasha, Carmella etc were the average sized woman (equivalent to someone like Randy Savage among his male peers), and Charlotte Flair and Dana Brooke were the taller/bigger women (equivalent to Hulk Hogan or Brutus Beefcake among their male peers), then the comparison of Nia to Bundy stands to reason. If you put her in that era of say 1985 to 1995. She'd close in size to Bull Nakano and smaller than Bertha Faye. If she were as big as Faye proportionately than yeah she'd be comparable to Bundy. And if you wanna talk about modern, Piper Niven in the Mae Young Classic is built like Bundy more than Nia.
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Post by tylerbreezee on Jul 14, 2017 19:03:03 GMT -5
Bring Cheex in or the hornswogglin hillbilly
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Post by k5 on Jul 16, 2017 13:58:37 GMT -5
we will absolutely see monsters again. the age of them solely has been over for more than two decades though.
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Post by REAL REVY on Jul 16, 2017 14:27:10 GMT -5
we will absolutely see monsters again. the age of them solely has been over for more than two decades though. That is a good thought Im glad you posted. Monsters will be seen again absolutely. But they have been gone for two decades or maybe more.
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Post by BoJack Hogan on Jul 16, 2017 23:50:40 GMT -5
Ummmm... Mark Henry? His Hall of Pain run in 2010 was pretty damn monstrous. The closest we have now is Strowman, who would equate to an in shape Vader - speaking of whom, he might've single-handedly made WWE dubious towards bringing in bigger guys
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Post by Emerald Enthusiast on Jul 19, 2017 1:06:14 GMT -5
Despite Vince's well-known preference for talents who are built like Greek gods, the fans' tastes are varied. CM Punk was thin, but the fans got behind him. Daniel Bryan was short, as is A.J. Styles, but they got plenty of love from fans. Kevin Owens gained acceptance more quickly and to a greater degree than many of his six-packed counterparts. So it wouldn't shock me at all if somewhere down the line, some guy who is built like a refrigerator brings something different to the table and the fans respond to him.
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Post by Mongo Bears on Jul 19, 2017 6:58:40 GMT -5
RIP Nelson Frazier Jr
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Post by Lorenzo Alcazar on Jul 19, 2017 7:13:13 GMT -5
Weighs 385. Close enough. All monster. I like that he's not fat. He's got the size, the agility, and the presentation. I don't think you're going to see big "fat" guys anymore. The King Kong Bundy/Earthquake era seems to be long long long gone.
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Post by Yayo on Jul 19, 2017 7:54:21 GMT -5
I find it really odd to say not "some 260 pound overweight guy" but then to mention Quake and Abdullah. Those guys weren't monsters.. they were just morbidly obese. No disrespect to either, but Quake wasn't intimidating for anything other than sitting on people, and Abdullah was a maniac; his size had nothing to do with his presentation.
Braun and Authors of Pain fill the monster role nicely, but they're in shape and can actually go. Wrestling has thankfully moved past the Viscera/Yokozuna era. Now that everyone isn't a roided up freak, guys like War Machine and Samoa Joe, who're really big guys but also super athletic, fill those monster roles. That's definitely a good thing
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Post by jakksking1 on Jul 19, 2017 10:10:43 GMT -5
I find it really odd to say not "some 260 pound overweight guy" but then to mention Quake and Abdullah. Those guys weren't monsters.. they were just morbidly obese. No disrespect to either, but Quake wasn't intimidating for anything other than sitting on people, and Abdullah was a maniac; his size had nothing to do with his presentation. Braun and Authors of Pain fill the monster role nicely, but they're in shape and can actually go. Wrestling has thankfully moved past the Viscera/Yokozuna era. Now that everyone isn't a roided up freak, guys like War Machine and Samoa Joe, who're really big guys but also super athletic, fill those monster roles. That's definitely a good thing Earthquake was 6'6 460, he was pretty damn intimidating.
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Post by Dr. Mantis Toboggan MD on Jul 19, 2017 19:17:00 GMT -5
Braun is 385. He is about the size of Big Show.
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Post by Dr. Mantis Toboggan MD on Jul 19, 2017 19:21:04 GMT -5
Give Kevin Owens another few months and he'll be there! HA! I kid...I kid. If anything, Owens has been losing weight.
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Post by Emerald Enthusiast on Jul 20, 2017 1:03:59 GMT -5
I find it really odd to say not "some 260 pound overweight guy" but then to mention Quake and Abdullah. Those guys weren't monsters.. they were just morbidly obese. No disrespect to either, but Quake wasn't intimidating for anything other than sitting on people, and Abdullah was a maniac; his size had nothing to do with his presentation. Braun and Authors of Pain fill the monster role nicely, but they're in shape and can actually go. Wrestling has thankfully moved past the Viscera/Yokozuna era. Now that everyone isn't a roided up freak, guys like War Machine and Samoa Joe, who're really big guys but also super athletic, fill those monster roles. That's definitely a good thing Earthquake was 6'6 460, he was pretty damn intimidating. Not to mention that he was a successful sumo wrestler prior to his WWF run. Any guy who is that big but can still soar high enough to dropkick an opponent isn't someone whom I'd want to meet in a dark alley. The same thing goes for Abdullah. He might not have been the prettiest guy to be on a magazine cover, but a 400-lb man who is well-versed in Judo isn't someone to take lightly.
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Post by A-Rob on Jul 20, 2017 2:12:13 GMT -5
If that person could move like Yokozuna yes otherwise no.
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Post by TheBadGuyChico on Jul 21, 2017 11:06:21 GMT -5
I think size isn't really the issue, workrate expectations are. If you have the mobility of a guy like Yokozuna or Umaga and your presentation is good, i don't see the issue. Guys like Akeem, Big Daddy V, and the like wouldn't cut it today because of their inability to have the type of match fans expect.
Ironically though, i'd rather watch a fat sloth than some of these cruiserweights. Little guys just don't cut it for me. A guy like AJ Styles and even Chris Sabin i'll watch, but some of these guys like the little English ginger, i'm good.
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Post by BSR on Jul 21, 2017 19:30:32 GMT -5
Yeah, but we're talking about proportions are we not? She's the equivalent of King Kong Bundy. Dear lord. I am dumber having read that.
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Post by greenjack1992 on Jul 23, 2017 17:37:26 GMT -5
Yeah, but we're talking about proportions are we not? She's the equivalent of King Kong Bundy. Dear lord. I am dumber having read that.
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Post by BSR on Jul 23, 2017 19:19:08 GMT -5
Dear lord. I am dumber having read that.
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