TheEvilDoink1987
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Post by TheEvilDoink1987 on Dec 29, 2023 17:19:02 GMT -5
I've made a few Ludvig Borga threads over the years, but this seems like a good time to resurrect that topic.
Thirty years ago, you can honestly say that Borga was a potential favorite to win the upcoming 1994 Royal Rumble. He was pushed to the moon in late 1993 and seemed destined to emerge in the main event picture. Ludvig was then injured at a house house against Rick Steiner in early 1994 which subsequently ended his WWF run.
I know he had some very personal and societal issues, but I've always wondered what he could have done in the WWF in 1994 and beyond had they kept pushing him. The company was pretty short on main even heels. It seems like they were all in on trying to get him to the top of the card.
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Post by hitmancmedge on Dec 29, 2023 17:31:05 GMT -5
I don’t think he was ever in the running to win. I think the bloom was off the rose and he was most likely gonna lose to Tatanka at the rumble and I mean they penciled him to feud with and most likely lose to Earthquake at Mania.
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nibs92
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Post by nibs92 on Dec 29, 2023 18:32:34 GMT -5
Was a fan of Borga. Would have loved to have seen him get a decent main event run.
A healthy Borga would have made an interesting foe for Bret after WM10.
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Post by The Brain on Dec 29, 2023 20:41:21 GMT -5
Was a fan of Borga. Would have loved to have seen him get a decent main event run. A healthy Borga would have made an interesting foe for Bret after WM10. Same here. Always said he played the evil foreigner to a T. Still got his Hasbro MOC |
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Post by jason88cubs on Dec 30, 2023 10:56:57 GMT -5
Wasn't he going to get in a feud with Luger?
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Post by The Brain on Dec 30, 2023 11:06:32 GMT -5
Wasn't he going to get in a feud with Luger? The feud got started post SSlam and ended at SSeries On the topic of the scrapped Mania match, here's a shot of the early build...  |
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Dec 30, 2023 12:20:47 GMT -5
When Borga came back in 2002 and changed his ring name to "Brock Lesnar" he did pretty well for himself!
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Post by nibs92 on Dec 30, 2023 12:32:49 GMT -5
When Borga came back in 2002 and changed his ring name to "Brock Lesnar" he did pretty well for himself! Yeah I loved when he did the shooting star press on the now bald Ken Patera at WMXX |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2023 12:38:58 GMT -5
Wasn't he going to get in a feud with Luger? The feud got started post SSlam and ended at SSeries On the topic of the scrapped Mania match, here's a shot of the early build... this would have bee an interesting match on a side note, im more pissed at what ufc did to him giving him a greco roman wrestler (randy couture) right off the bat. i really wanted to see what borga could do fighting stand up and what not. the other 2 fighters in the 4 man tourny on the other bracket woulda been better fights for him. and no fault to him as alot of guys in early ufcs were falling prey to all the real wrestlers coming out to fight. takes mega skill to stop double legs from olympic caliber wrestlers. |
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Dec 30, 2023 12:39:20 GMT -5
When Borga came back in 2002 and changed his ring name to "Brock Lesnar" he did pretty well for himself! Yeah I loved when he did the shooting star press on the now bald Ken Patera at WMXX
Ha ha ha ha!!! Yes!!! Ken Patera shaving his head and going by the name Kurt Angle was interesting during that era.
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Post by nibs92 on Dec 30, 2023 12:51:24 GMT -5
Yeah I loved when he did the shooting star press on the now bald Ken Patera at WMXX Ha ha ha ha!!! Yes!!! Ken Patera shaving his head and going by the name Kurt Angle was interesting during that era. It’s true! It’s true! |
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Post by The Brain on Dec 30, 2023 13:52:24 GMT -5
The feud got started post SSlam and ended at SSeries On the topic of the scrapped Mania match, here's a shot of the early build... this would have bee an interesting match Gotta wonder if they wouldve let it be competitive or would he suffer the same fate as Bomb in a squash Quake wins though either way as main reason why they brought em back was to feud with Yoko |
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Dec 30, 2023 16:01:01 GMT -5
this would have bee an interesting match Gotta wonder if they wouldve let it be competitive or would he suffer the same fate as Bomb in a squash Quake wins though either way as main reason why they brought em back was to feud with Yoko
The Earthquake 1994 year is randomly weird too. Comes back the Raw taping after Royal Rumble, works singles as Fred is still in WCW as Shockmaster at the time. Gets into the program with Borga at Mania but that goes south cause of injury so Adam Bomb takes that squash beating. Then onto the sumo wrestling feud with Yokozuna, and then.... gone!
They bring in Fred as Typhoon again, and have him go at it with Yoko at house shows, and then Typhoon works Diesel and then... gone!
A weird year for the Natural Disasters team in their singles runs.
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Post by The Brain on Dec 30, 2023 16:11:06 GMT -5
Gotta wonder if they wouldve let it be competitive or would he suffer the same fate as Bomb in a squash Quake wins though either way as main reason why they brought em back was to feud with Yoko
The Earthquake 1994 year is randomly weird too. Comes back the Raw taping after Royal Rumble, works singles as Fred is still in WCW as Shockmaster at the time. Gets into the program with Borga at Mania but that goes south cause of injury so Adam Bomb takes that squash beating. Then onto the sumo wrestling feud with Yokozuna, and then.... gone!
They bring in Fred as Typhoon again, and have him go at it with Yoko at house shows, and then Typhoon works Diesel and then... gone!
A weird year for the Natural Disasters team in their singles runs.
Yeah it's a shame they just missed each other during that time. A ND reunion wouldve been a nice boost to a tag division that was in rough shape Have em as heels and feud with newly turned babyface Headshrinkers for the belts. A feud that didnt get off the ground in late 92 |
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Post by hitmancmedge on Jan 1, 2024 16:02:42 GMT -5
I feel like I read somewhere he expected to be making more, be a main event guy and neither happened, and being asked to lose to Owen in a KOR qualifier was the icing on the cake.
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Post by TheEvilDoink1987 on Jan 1, 2024 18:55:36 GMT -5
I feel like I read somewhere he expected to be making more, be a main event guy and neither happened, and being asked to lose to Owen in a KOR qualifier was the icing on the cake. Never heard that before. A heel versus heel match sounds pretty strange. |
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Post by hitmancmedge on Jan 1, 2024 19:41:57 GMT -5
I feel like I read somewhere he expected to be making more, be a main event guy and neither happened, and being asked to lose to Owen in a KOR qualifier was the icing on the cake. Never heard that before. A heel versus heel match sounds pretty strange. Earthquake sorry |
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Post by JokerFC on Jan 2, 2024 20:20:00 GMT -5
Vince loved Borga & its heavily rumored he was going to get all those eliminations that went to Diesel in the end. Buuutttt he got injured and some other stuff happened in the locker room too.
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Post by hulkjoegan on Jan 3, 2024 15:20:11 GMT -5
Vince loved Borga & its heavily rumored he was going to get all those eliminations that went to Diesel in the end. Buuutttt he got injured and some other stuff happened in the locker room too. This all sounds interesting ….do you have any more details? And if not, this would be a very interesting thing to ‘fantasy book’ from an alternate timeline! |
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Post by JokerFC on Jan 3, 2024 17:50:51 GMT -5
Vince loved Borga & its heavily rumored he was going to get all those eliminations that went to Diesel in the end. Buuutttt he got injured and some other stuff happened in the locker room too. This all sounds interesting ….do you have any more details? And if not, this would be a very interesting thing to ‘fantasy book’ from an alternate timeline! His Nazi tatoos caused quite a bit of a stir in the locker room & a few wrestlers complained to Vince because the Fink in particular was majorly upset by them. Tony had got them in the stupidity of youth but kinda like Slater(or was it Murdoch? whichever of them did a spot in the 90s) being in the Klan? Vince wanted no part of that action. At the time he had enough headaches with steroid trials, potential jail time etc. But Vince was super high on Tony Halme...there is more than one guy has said he was in for that monster showing in the RR. Vince had top tier plans for him. Both Prichard &JR have spoke about it on their podcasts. SSeries 93 podcast with Prichard I believe....on a side note? my hasbro Ludvig Borga was unstoppable man. Put Snuka, Roberts, Rude, Koko B Ware & Akeem on the shelf for good..... |
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