TheEvilDoink1987
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Post by TheEvilDoink1987 on Dec 28, 2023 11:38:13 GMT -5
What do you think they could have done with him? It is still weird to think he missed such a milestone event. They wrote him off at the Royal Rumble when he lost the casket match to Yokozuna and subsequently went to heaven.
Assume that the Yoko/Bret/Lex plans are unchangeable, what would you have done with The Undertaker for WrestleMania X?
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Post by The Brain on Dec 28, 2023 12:04:54 GMT -5
Borga or Adam Bomb really are the only logical choices. I know Borga before his injury was penciled in to face Quake in his Mania return so I guess Bomb gets the nod by default
Or if they really wanted to test the waters considering his big showing at the Rumble, have Diesel get a shot at em 2 years earlier.
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Dec 28, 2023 14:07:55 GMT -5
Didn't Taker ask to take that time off though?? I thought it was cause he just had a son and was trying to deal with some nagging injuries.
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Post by The Brain on Dec 28, 2023 14:11:20 GMT -5
Didn't Taker ask to take that time off though?? I thought it was cause he just had a son and was trying to deal with some nagging injuries. Yeah but the OP was just doing a what if he was able to go That's how I interpreted anyway
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Dec 28, 2023 14:39:07 GMT -5
Didn't Taker ask to take that time off though?? I thought it was cause he just had a son and was trying to deal with some nagging injuries. Yeah but the OP was just doing a what if he was able to go That's how I interpreted anyway
Hmmm... if Taker was still around then, we wouldn't have gotten the FakerTaker match at SummerSlam. Which would probably be a good thing overall! Ha ha ha
I mean, Taker could wrestle Adam Bomb I suppose, since he wasn't set for the PPV at first. Taker's goal could be to take out single handedly all the wrestlers that helped trap him into that casket at the Royal Rumble.
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Post by The Brain on Dec 28, 2023 14:43:18 GMT -5
Yeah but the OP was just doing a what if he was able to go That's how I interpreted anyway
Hmmm... if Taker was still around then, we wouldn't have gotten the FakerTaker match at SummerSlam. Which would probably be a good thing overall! Ha ha ha
I mean, Taker could wrestle Adam Bomb I suppose, since he wasn't set for the PPV at first. Taker's goal could be to take out single handedly all the wrestlers that helped trap him into that casket at the Royal Rumble.
Yeah thats really the best option. Wouldve told a good story All leads to the rematch with Yoko at SSeries
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Post by TheEvilDoink1987 on Dec 28, 2023 17:30:45 GMT -5
Didn't Taker ask to take that time off though?? I thought it was cause he just had a son and was trying to deal with some nagging injuries. Yeah but the OP was just doing a what if he was able to go That's how I interpreted anywayĀ Yeah, that was my intention. Almost as if he didn't have that elaborate sendoff angle at Royal Rumble and simply lost the match to return say a few weeks later.
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Post by TheEvilDoink1987 on Dec 28, 2023 17:34:20 GMT -5
Hmmm... if Taker was still around then, we wouldn't have gotten the FakerTaker match at SummerSlam.Ā Which would probably be a good thing overall!Ā Ha ha ha I mean, Taker could wrestle Adam Bomb I suppose, since he wasn't set for the PPV at first.Ā Taker's goal could be to take out single handedly all the wrestlers that helped trap him into that casket at the Royal Rumble. Yeah thats really the best option. Wouldve told a good story All leads to the rematch with Yoko at SSeries That would have been a really cool angle. Of course I wouldn't expect them to have Undertaker fly to Japan to beat up Kabuki, but have him get revenge on a few of the bigger WWF heel names who assisted Yoko at the Rumble. Maybe come through the ring during a match like he would eventually do with Diesel in 1996. And as The Brain said, have that road lead to the ultimate rematch versus Yokozuna at Survivor Series. I love my New Generation shenanigans, but will even admit I would be okay living without The Underfaker stuff if we got something even slightly more intriguing instead.
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Post by nibs92 on Dec 28, 2023 17:36:20 GMT -5
Iād happily forego the Doink match and have Taker face Bam Bam Bigelow. If the Rumble angle went ahead as planned, could have Taker take revenge on Bam Bam for his involvement. Would have been good for Taker to have a decent big man match at WM. Bam Bam would certainly hold his own in that match.
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Dec 28, 2023 18:26:02 GMT -5
Yeah thats really the best option. Wouldve told a good story All leads to the rematch with Yoko at SSeries That would have been a really cool angle. Of course I wouldn't expect them to have Undertaker fly to Japan to beat up Kabuki, but have him get revenge on a few of the bigger WWF heel names who assisted Yoko at the Rumble. Maybe come through the ring during a match like he would eventually do with Diesel in 1996. And as The Brain said, have that road lead to the ultimate rematch versus Yokozuna at Survivor Series. I love my New Generation shenanigans, but will even admit I would be okay living without The Underfaker stuff if we got something even slightly more intriguing instead.
Which is ironic, cause Taker went to Japan during that time frame between Wrestlemania X and SummerSlam to compete in a Royal Rumble event that was held in Japan. I believe Taker won the Rumble there too! It was during the WWE/Japan joint federation things.
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Post by MKSavage on Dec 28, 2023 18:53:06 GMT -5
Iād happily forego the Doink match and have Taker face Bam Bam Bigelow. If the Rumble angle went ahead as planned, could have Taker take revenge on Bam Bam for his involvement. Would have been good for Taker to have a decent big man match at WM. Bam Bam would certainly hold his own in that match. Of the guys possibly available, Bam Bam would have been the best choice. But the WWF was building the Doink/Bigelow feud up for months, so I doubt they just throw away the payoff match at WM. With that probably being the case, Adam Bomb seems to make the most sense. He was a big guy who they were trying to build as unstoppable, so I could see Taker going through him at Mania. I do like the idea of Taker going through all of the guys that put him in the casket at the Rumble during 1994, then finally facing Yokozuna at the Survivor Series at the end of the year. If that's the case, he could beat the lesser-known guys on Raws and Superstars throughout the year and face the bigger names at the PPVs. I could see Adam Bomb at WM10, Bam Bam Bigelow at KOTR94 and Crush at SSL94. He could beat guys like Double J, the Headshrinkers, Kabuki, and Tenryu on Raws and Superstars. I probably wouldn't have Taker face Diesel just yet. After the Royal Rumble, they seemed to be pushing Diesel to be somebody, so having Taker come in and beat him during that run might not have been the best thing to do. They could have saved it till after Diesel became the IC champion, then have Taker challenge him on a Raw. The match kind of ends in a double-DQ, this way Taker gets his hands on Diesel, but he doesn't beat him.
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Post by MKSavage on Dec 28, 2023 18:54:16 GMT -5
Didn't Taker ask to take that time off though?? I thought it was cause he just had a son and was trying to deal with some nagging injuries. Yeah, I always heard he had a bad back and needed time to heal it. I also thought I read that just after he came back, he was still wearing a back brace while wrestling.
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Post by Jackass Pacific on Dec 28, 2023 20:20:27 GMT -5
Yeah but the OP was just doing a what if he was able to go That's how I interpreted anyway Hmmm... if Taker was still around then, we wouldn't have gotten the FakerTaker match at SummerSlam. Which would probably be a good thing overall! Ha ha ha I mean, Taker could wrestle Adam Bomb I suppose, since he wasn't set for the PPV at first. Taker's goal could be to take out single handedly all the wrestlers that helped trap him into that casket at the Royal Rumble. wasn't that more or less his storyline against the million dollar corporation? just without the stuffing him in the casket part though
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Dec 28, 2023 21:50:26 GMT -5
Hmmm... if Taker was still around then, we wouldn't have gotten the FakerTaker match at SummerSlam. Which would probably be a good thing overall! Ha ha ha I mean, Taker could wrestle Adam Bomb I suppose, since he wasn't set for the PPV at first. Taker's goal could be to take out single handedly all the wrestlers that helped trap him into that casket at the Royal Rumble. wasn't that more or less his storyline against the million dollar corporation? just without the stuffing him in the casket part though
Yeah, but that was kind of by accident it seemed.
IRS stoke the urn, had a match with Taker at Rumble, Bundy steals the urn, has a match with Taker at Mania, Kama steals the urn, has a match with Taker at SummerSlam... Taker really had an issue with Ted DiBiase that year all because of the FakerTaker debacle.
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Post by TheEvilDoink1987 on Dec 29, 2023 5:06:57 GMT -5
wasn't that more or less his storyline against the million dollar corporation? just without the stuffing him in the casket part though Yeah, but that was kind of by accident it seemed. IRS stoke the urn, had a match with Taker at Rumble, Bundy steals the urn, has a match with Taker at Mania, Kama steals the urn, has a match with Taker at SummerSlam...Ā Taker really had an issue with Ted DiBiase that year all because of the FakerTaker debacle. Taker had a pretty rough road between 1992-1995. His angle with Jake could have had legs, but obviously got derailed once Roberts left following their WrestleMania VIII match. After that, things got messy for a while. He spent the remainder of that year in a one-sided feud with Kamala that resulted in a grand entrance at SummerSlam, but two unremarkable PPV encounters overall. Turn to 1993 where he was put up against the incapable Giant Gonzalez for about nine months before having the sendoff angle against Yokozuna at the 1994 Royal Rumble. I actually enjoyed that match and consider it one of the lone bright spots of this stretch. When he returns later that summer, you have the brutal Underfaker storyline which spawned off into a very long and very monotonous 15 month feud with Ted DiBiase's Corporation that concluded in the fall of 1995. Let it be known, I absolutely love this era of The Undertaker, but man he had to endure some really lame feuds and mediocre opponents during that run.
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Post by MKSavage on Dec 29, 2023 8:45:01 GMT -5
Yeah, but that was kind of by accident it seemed. IRS stoke the urn, had a match with Taker at Rumble, Bundy steals the urn, has a match with Taker at Mania, Kama steals the urn, has a match with Taker at SummerSlam... Taker really had an issue with Ted DiBiase that year all because of the FakerTaker debacle. Taker had a pretty rough road between 1992-1995. His angle with Jake could have had legs, but obviously got derailed once Roberts left following their WrestleMania VIII match. After that, things got messy for a while. He spent the remainder of that year in a one-sided feud with Kamala that resulted in a grand entrance at SummerSlam, but two unremarkable PPV encounters overall. Turn to 1993 where he was put up against the incapable Giant Gonzalez for about nine months before having the sendoff angle against Yokozuna at the 1994 Royal Rumble. I actually enjoyed that match and consider it one of the lone bright spots of this stretch. When he returns later that summer, you have the brutal Underfaker storyline which spawned off into a very long and very monotonous 15 month feud with Ted DiBiase's Corporation that concluded in the fall of 1995. Let it be known, I absolutely love this era of The Undertaker, but man he had to endure some really lame feuds and mediocre opponents during that run. Yep, a terrible run for Taker in terms of feuds and matches. I was not a huge fan of the Undertaker during this period. It seemed that Vince saw him more as an attraction than a champion; he kept putting him with other huge guys that looked impressive but couldn't carry a match. To me, until Mankind arrived in 1996, Yokozuna was his best opponent. Though, I thought Taker was perfect for Warrior, Hulk and Sid in 1991. The Jake feud could have been great, and could have carried over into the summer, with Jake pairing up with his old Mid-South buddy, Nord the Barbarian (the Berzerker). I could be mistaken, but the original plan might have been Taker vs. Sid at Summer Slam 1992, but Sid quit the company because he couldn't deal with Warrior and I he may have failed a drug test too. I'm guessing if that would have happened, then the Kamala feud wouldn't have. Interesting to think about.
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Post by The Brain on Dec 29, 2023 8:56:13 GMT -5
Taker had a pretty rough road between 1992-1995. His angle with Jake could have had legs, but obviously got derailed once Roberts left following their WrestleMania VIII match. After that, things got messy for a while. He spent the remainder of that year in a one-sided feud with Kamala that resulted in a grand entrance at SummerSlam, but two unremarkable PPV encounters overall. Turn to 1993 where he was put up against the incapable Giant Gonzalez for about nine months before having the sendoff angle against Yokozuna at the 1994 Royal Rumble. I actually enjoyed that match and consider it one of the lone bright spots of this stretch. When he returns later that summer, you have the brutal Underfaker storyline which spawned off into a very long and very monotonous 15 month feud with Ted DiBiase's Corporation that concluded in the fall of 1995. Let it be known, I absolutely love this era of The Undertaker, but man he had to endure some really lame feuds and mediocre opponents during that run. Yep, a terrible run for Taker in terms of feuds and matches. I was not a huge fan of the Undertaker during this period. It seemed that Vince saw him more as an attraction than a champion; he kept putting him with other huge guys that looked impressive but couldn't carry a match. To me, until Mankind arrived in 1996, Yokozuna was his best opponent. Though, I thought Taker was perfect for Warrior, Hulk and Sid in 1991. The Jake feud could have been great, and could have carried over into the summer, with Jake pairing up with his old Mid-South buddy, Nord the Barbarian (the Berzerker). I could be mistaken, but the original plan might have been Taker vs. Sid at Summer Slam 1992, but Sid quit the company because he couldn't deal with Warrior and I he may have failed a drug test too. I'm guessing if that would have happened, then the Kamala feud wouldn't have. Interesting to think about. Easily.Great chemistry. Not surprising since they were close IRL
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Post by ASR (therockisback) on Dec 31, 2023 3:51:02 GMT -5
Iād happily forego the Doink match and have Taker face Bam Bam Bigelow. If the Rumble angle went ahead as planned, could have Taker take revenge on Bam Bam for his involvement. Would have been good for Taker to have a decent big man match at WM. Bam Bam would certainly hold his own in that match. Taker vs Bam was the best option
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Post by Back to the Codyverse on Dec 31, 2023 15:49:51 GMT -5
I could've done without Savage and Crush. Taker vs Savage with a good reasoning and build could've been good.
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Post by TheEvilDoink1987 on Dec 31, 2023 18:23:45 GMT -5
I could've done without Savage and Crush. Taker vs Savage with a good reasoning and build could've been good. I thought the initial build got off to a hot start and they definitely didn't rush it either. That feud started in September and ran all the way through WrestleMania X - seven months - with angles to further it along at the two PPVs within that span. The match itself just totally fell flat in my opinion especially with the flubbed ending. They probably did stretch it out too long to the point where people just didn't care as much by the time they had their big match.
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