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Post by ASR (therockisback) on Sept 19, 2024 13:21:02 GMT -5
www.wrestlinginc.com/1656849/bruce-prichard-recalls-scrapped-wwe-title-plans-owen-hart/Apparently he was gonna win it but the plans were changed, for whatever reason...damn. This would have been amazing. Owen winning it at least once should have happened. Bret could have won it back right away, like a month later. I'd even say that Owen should have won it 2/3 times. We could have even gotten more WM & SummerSlam matches with Owen vs Bret.
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Post by MKSavage on Sept 19, 2024 18:59:14 GMT -5
Would have been interesting. I think he could have had a short reign. If they didn't go with Diesel as the champion in 1995, I could see Owen being the one to defeat Bret at Survivor Series 1994 then losing it back to him at the Royal Rumble or WrestleMania 11 in 1995.
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Post by Nivro™ on Sept 19, 2024 19:41:18 GMT -5
I like Owen but I still stand firm that guys like Owen, Perfect, Rude, Piper etc were all better off not getting runs as Champion. As great as those guys were none of them were to the level of whomever "the guy" was at the time and it would have just came off more like a participation trophy than an classic title reign.
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Post by wholefnshow420 on Sept 19, 2024 20:28:16 GMT -5
Owen did win the title and they should have just let the house show result from when he won it actually stand and rolled with it on the tv program just imagine the matches and with Shawn Bret razor diesel bulldog Ahmed and goldust he could have had as heavyweight champion
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Post by The Brain on Sept 19, 2024 20:55:23 GMT -5
Only time I could see is if they gave em Backlunds spot at SSeries. He then holds the belt to the Rumble where he drops it to Diesel
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Sept 19, 2024 22:32:45 GMT -5
Only time I could see is if they gave em Backlunds spot at SSeries. He then holds the belt to the Rumble where he drops it to Diesel
I was thinking the same thing, it would have to be Survivor Series where he won it.
I like that he never held it though. Him winning his first title as a Tag Title with the guy who ended Bret's first title reign in Yokozuna was better for his career than him winning the WWF Title to lose it days later to Diesel, or two months later to Diesel at the Royal Rumble.
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Post by hbkjason on Sept 19, 2024 23:34:34 GMT -5
I really like Owen Hart, but I just do not see him ever being WWF Champion. He was great in the role that he was, he didn't need to be Champion.
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Post by sinfony on Sept 20, 2024 6:21:17 GMT -5
While Survivor Series 1994 would have made some sense in Owen being the useful heel to use to move the title on to Diesel, I'm not sure they could have had yet another Bret vs Owen match on a PPV at that show. You already had WM10 and Summerslam with them opposing one another - two fantastic matches, admittedly, but I don't see how you create the angle that's going to draw the attention for yet another one-on-one match at the very next PPV.
My only regret about the Survivor Series 1994 is that they couldn't find a better interim titleholder than Backlund. That - and the subsequent drubbing by Diesel - really weakened the credibility of the title imo, but they had tanked the roster by that time and spent the previous 18 months bungling Luger and Flair and pushing Savage out of the in-ring picture so I guess there were too many alternatives.
Ultimately, I just don't see Owen as world champion material. At that period, it seemed like they only really had Bret, Shawn and Diesel who had the overall package for that spot. Razor they rushed into a title match too soon at RR93 and so he ended up just operating at IC level afterwards. It's no surprise that the title just bounced around these 3 guys in 1994-96. Vince and Pritchard and co just didn't create anyone credible who could operate at the world title level.
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Post by JokerFC on Sept 20, 2024 12:24:16 GMT -5
Only time I could see is if they gave em Backlunds spot at SSeries. He then holds the belt to the Rumble where he drops it to Diesel Only feasible time. Not World title material for me and never was. Outstanding upper mid card heel but I don't really believe there was ever any genuine plans for him to hold it. If there was it would have been Owen that took it from Backlund. Vince chose Backlund over Owen in 1994....tells you everything you need to know. Also? Im pretty sure Prichard is doubling back on himself here(which is common)...Im pretty sure he said on another episode of his podcast there were never any plans for him to win the belt. |
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