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Post by redsword1 on Nov 13, 2008 14:00:38 GMT -5
yea they dropped the ball big time on him
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Post by Patrick Bateman on Nov 13, 2008 15:13:46 GMT -5
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Post by indywrestling on Nov 13, 2008 18:51:36 GMT -5
the greatest? not in any way possible, his stuff in ecw was awesome but after that he did nothing, and i for 1 was pissed to see him hang up his boots for a microphone, he could of been great but didnt, he and joes would have been the match to see now a days
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Post by robl7up on Nov 24, 2008 16:11:54 GMT -5
True ECW legend...Not sure how he would of done had he been given a real WWE push.Would he had gotten over long term??? not sure...
Certainly he was over in NYC debut against Angle. But that was his home town..
I'm thinking he probably would have gotten a I.C title run if he would of beeb given a chance.
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Post by wwfhasbrowwf on Nov 25, 2008 17:32:26 GMT -5
Greatest? No. Raven and RVD are better as far as ECW goes, but being an ECW legend, Taz is one of the top wrestlers of all time. ECW just has a lot of them. I do really like Taz. I hope all the ECW originals win the WWE Title RVD one more time, Sabu, Sandman and Raven and if Joey Styles and Taz could call the action, it would be great. I hope Taz gets a 3-disc DVD some day. Taz and RVD could of put on better matches then they did, there was a lot of potential there. Ecw is great, and Taz is one of the greats.
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Post by moogie101 on Nov 25, 2008 20:15:37 GMT -5
Well the sad thing is that the WWE gave him a great debut.
He came at the Royal Rumble as Angle's mystery opponent in his hometown to a huge roar from the crowd & just freaking wasted him in a brutal fast paced squash choking him out in a few minutes for the win.
Sadly it went downhill very quickly from there.
In ECW though he was quality, just a total kickass wrestler who looked like he was beaqting the hell out of everyone. Still says no-one throws a meaner suplex than Taz's Head & Arm, that was insane.
He managed to esculate the TV strap until it meant more than Douglas' World Title & then took the World belt for a lengthy reign where he carried the company.
In the WWE though the obvious height isue was far too much to overcome in a company that has forever been built on the premise that Size Matters.
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Post by markallenkellner on Dec 1, 2008 15:22:43 GMT -5
He could've been huge, maybe even a world champ. I guess they thought he was too short and wouldn'r be believeable. He debuted to a huge pop and ended Kurt Angle's winning streak. Watch Paul Heyman's work/shoot, what he says about Tazz was pretty well the truth:
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Post by irishcollector on Dec 1, 2008 18:59:08 GMT -5
Yeah !
Taz was awesome in his day .I loved his match with Mike Awesome and Masato Tanaka at Anarchy Rulz
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Post by instant classic on Dec 2, 2008 16:21:02 GMT -5
I wouldn't say the greatest wrestler ever but he was pretty great in ECW.
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Post by EMINЭMツ on Dec 3, 2008 6:24:59 GMT -5
Yea taz should of had a way bigger push.
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Post by Calcifer Boheme on Dec 7, 2008 13:12:16 GMT -5
His matches with Bam Bam are pure gold.
I love his work in ECW, and I think Heyman did wonders promoting him. i'm not sure even if he had been pushed right if it would have worked in WWE. But I guess that's something we'l never really know.
But oh well, he's still great as a commentator and I'm sure he'shappy to be making the money in the business he loves.
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Post by spawnsyxx9 on Dec 7, 2008 16:24:35 GMT -5
Best of Taz(z): Survive if I Let You! would be an awesome collectors set.
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Post by Heresy on Dec 11, 2008 13:34:11 GMT -5
I revisited his debut on youtube the other day... just amazing. Why he didn't become a huge name in WWE I'll never know.
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Post by Kenny Powers on Dec 11, 2008 22:22:10 GMT -5
I always like Tazz. I think WWE really blew it with him. He had such an awesome debut at the Royal Rumble defeating Kurt Angle and then they totally dropped the ball.
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Post by jfinnomore on Dec 30, 2008 8:52:51 GMT -5
Taz was a beast of a man in ECW. some of the best matches in ECW involved either him, rvd or jerry lynn. Makes me miss those days when taz would suit up and choke someone out.
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Post by samsson on Dec 30, 2008 14:27:29 GMT -5
The two biggest problems Taz had in the WWE was size cause VKM has size issues  and his neck was in pretty bad shape by the time he entered the WWE. He talked about not getting the surgery to repair his neck ( kind of like the one Beniot and Angle got)and how that shortened his career.  |
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Post by Warheart on Dec 30, 2008 14:28:54 GMT -5
TAZ was the man. but i still like his "Big ups! to...." he's still an ok commentator. but one bad ass wrestler.
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Post by sidekickfreak on Dec 30, 2008 16:42:59 GMT -5
i hate how wwe is using him he became a world champion to a wwe announcer
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2009 15:07:15 GMT -5
Taz would've been a great world champion. But hell he's still an awesome commentator.
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in' over the guy really was.
