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Post by maddog1981 on Nov 30, 2013 3:22:06 GMT -4
TNA: Monty Brown is the obvious first pick here. He was picking up some huge steam heading into 2005 and they got scared and jobbed him to Jarrett. This right here is where the company as a whole went wrong. Brown wasn't perfect but he was new and different and fans were drawn to him.
WCW: Goldberg, they should have never jobbed him until fans weren't paying to see him anymore.
RoH: Sami Callihan, they double fucked up with Sami. They waited until his hot act started cooling down to sign him and then they just jobbed him out when they finally did bring him in. I think he's the biggest glaring mistake that they made as a company.
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Post by MT on Nov 30, 2013 4:31:15 GMT -4
I don't think Sami ever cooled down until he hit WWE developmental and disappeared from sight. I DO think ROH should have brought him in regularly and done something with him way before they did.
In WWE, and opinions will vary on these two, but I think the landscape could have been a lot different in the mid to late 2000s if they'd have used Matt Morgan and Rob Conway right. What they did with Morgan and that stuttering thing was especially appalling. They had a guy who had everything they needed to mold into a guy who could make them real money and they blew it hard. Conway got saddled with that whole weird package where he was picking fights with random old "legends" and had that Village People look and bizarre music---I love that theme song for the sheer oddness but it sucked the energy out of the building when it played. It was just not wrestling theme music.
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Post by maddog1981 on Nov 30, 2013 8:23:08 GMT -4
Morgan is a good choice. He was awesome in OVW. Great talker and not a bad worker.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2013 21:06:11 GMT -4
Wait, Sami was 'cooling down' in 2008 and 2009? Did I read that right? He was cooling down in 2009 when he became one of the more talked about guys on the indies. Okay, then.
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Post by maddog1981 on Dec 2, 2013 1:30:02 GMT -4
Either way, they totally blew it with him. He could have been an asset to the company.
I left the WWE off because that's a novel even if you stick to the last decade. I think DB, Ziggler and the PTP are recent examples that don't surprise me.
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