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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Aug 21, 2018 11:42:41 GMT -5
I am friends with Duke The Dumpster on Facebook, and he said that apparently there were plans for him to go heel in '96 and join up with Ted DiBiase, I wonder how that would have went down if it had??
I wonder if those plans got squashed when Ted left the company?? Or maybe when Austin arrived in early '96 and was put with Ted. Either way, it's a shame the Duke heel turn never happened. Just because I would have loved to have seen how they would have made a garbage man become all rich like with Ted DiBiase.
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Post by koreygunz on Aug 21, 2018 12:30:26 GMT -5
Would have made sense. The garbage man gets tired of the struggle and meager living and sells out to Dibiase. Sounds like a late-95 WWF storyline!
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Post by Hulkster2001 on Aug 21, 2018 12:40:13 GMT -5
I doubt it would work, no offense but this would’ve sucked
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Post by The Brain on Aug 21, 2018 15:11:10 GMT -5
It would've been interesting since the trashman gimmick was going nowhere so a change wouldn't hurt but in the end they made the right decision going with Austin instead.
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Post by Butchers on Aug 26, 2018 15:43:04 GMT -5
He still turned heel didn't he? So it sounds plausible that could have been the plan, but Dibiase left for WCW. Would have been an interesting pairing, shame it didn't happen.
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Post by The Brain on Aug 26, 2018 16:38:23 GMT -5
He still turned heel didn't he? So it sounds plausible that could have been the plan, but Dibiase left for WCW. Would have been an interesting pairing, shame it didn't happen. No. He just remained pretty much a jobber until he left that Summer. Only difference about em during 96 was his short hair. |
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Post by warriorlynx on Aug 26, 2018 18:55:49 GMT -5
I just never understood why Duke wasn't billed literally as a "Duke". A heel gimmick with an ally for Jerry "the King" Lawler or a face as Lawler's opponent vying for his crown.
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Post by The Brain on Aug 26, 2018 19:06:09 GMT -5
I just never understood why Duke wasn't billed literally as a "Duke". A heel gimmick with an ally for Jerry "the King" Lawler or a face as Lawler's opponent vying for his crown. Him as an ally to King with the name Duke sounds interesting. Only interaction we got was the brief feud they had in 94 stemming from him dumping trash on Lawler on an episode of Superstars lol. |
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