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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2022 15:14:01 GMT -5
Was reading this on wiki and wonder why WWF didnt try to get one of the greatest tag teams ever:
On October 29, 1990, the Express showed up to the next round of TV tapings only to discover they were not on the card for any of the shows. Since they were not told ahead of time, Eaton was unable to take the day off to spend time with his wife and children. Cornette, already frustrated over what he perceived as the burial of Lane and Eaton by WCW President Jim Herd, discovered the next day that the Express was booked for four matches at the October 30 taping session and they were to lose all of them. After confronting Ole Anderson, the booker at the time, over the scheduling, Cornette was told to "go home" if he disagreed. Calling Anderson's bluff, Cornette walked out of the room and told Lane he was leaving for good. Lane decided that he was going to quit as well, and after they bade goodbye to Eaton (who decided to stay due to his family obligations), both men left and began heading north toward North Carolina; it was not until Anderson came looking for Cornette and Lane later that he realized they had quit. So, for the first time in almost a decade, there was no Midnight Express.
After appearing at Halloween Havoc 1990, the Midnight Express split up when Cornette and Lane left the federation, due to conflicts with Jim Herd and booker Ole Anderson. For the first time in seven years there was no Midnight Express; it was the end of an era in tag-team wrestling.
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Post by The Brain on Aug 2, 2022 15:22:04 GMT -5
Vince's main goal was getting the Road Warriors. When he got em that Summer, it was mission accomplished.No other team was on his radar
Wouldve been awesome to see em have a run in the Federation though. Them against Harts and Rockers wouldve been bangers
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Post by MKSavage on Aug 2, 2022 16:06:24 GMT -5
I thought I heard that they had a meeting with Vince at one point in the late 80s, but they weren't impressed with anything. Vince didn't seem to care about them, to him they were to smaller guys, not what he was looking for. Chances are, he never even saw a match of theirs. I don't think an agreement was reached, so they went back/stayed with Crockett.
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Post by The Brain on Aug 2, 2022 16:31:05 GMT -5
I thought I heard that they had a meeting with Vince at one point in the late 80s, but they weren't impressed with anything. Vince didn't seem to care about them, to him they were to smaller guys, not what he was looking for. Chances are, he never even saw a match of theirs. I don't think an agreement was reached, so they went back/stayed with Crockett. To quote Gorilla ''Highly Unlikely''
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Aug 3, 2022 10:37:35 GMT -5
I watched a shoot interview with Bobby and Stan and Bobby says that Vince wanted him and Dennis back in 1987 and they had a meeting I believe. But nothing came out of it.
Bobby and Stan was never a team Vince cared to have probably because to him, the Midnight Express was Bobby and Dennis is my guess. Though I liked the Bobby and Stan version better than the original.
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Post by JokerFC on Aug 3, 2022 10:54:15 GMT -5
If Vince felt that Eaton & Condrey were superior he was IMHO very wrong. Eaton & Kane were the absolute business....I would have loved to see them in WWF but I wonder how he would have packed them? They would seem incomplete without Cornette if he chose not to go?
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