Missed Opportunity Mondays

[BringThePain834]

This is a thread that I will be updating every week. The first one this week, we'll be looking at Eugene, and how there was a great opportunity provided simply due to the circumstances, and how WWE blew it.

At ECW One Night Stand 2006, they should have had Eugene cut a worked shoot, dropping the gimmick he had at the time, and then bagging WWE on-air for making the gimmick go on for too long, and how joining the ECW brand will make him "real". He could have said that he was inspired by Joey Styles' worked shoot promo on Raw a couple of weeks earlier. The fans at ONS would have popped for it, because Eugene would then be an "anti-WWE rebel" who jumped to Heyman's brand to be "himself". I'm a fan of the original Eugene gimmick, but it did go on for too long. Once he came back after his time off for personal problems in late 2005, there wasn't anything left in the character. Dropping the gimmick at One Night Stand would have greatly freshened Dinsmore up and it also would have created a new wrestler for WWE ECW that Raw certainly wouldn't miss.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

Sandman should've caned the special out of him

 

[thestud77]

In my opinion Eugene should have never been signed considering his disability. It was probably hard for WWE management to get him to remember scripted promos and they were more than likely afraid he was going to get hurt if he kept wrestling. I think he did a good job for as long as he did considering his handicap.

 

[nightmare]

In my opinion Eugene should have never been signed considering his disability. It was probably hard for WWE management to get him to remember scripted promos and they were more than likely afraid he was going to get hurt if he kept wrestling. I think he did a good job for as long as he did considering his handicap.

Are you fucking kidding me?

 

[BringThePain834]

In my opinion Eugene should have never been signed considering his disability. It was probably hard for WWE management to get him to remember scripted promos and they were more than likely afraid he was going to get hurt if he kept wrestling. I think he did a good job for as long as he did considering his handicap.

This doesn't surprise me considering you thinking that everything in wrestling is real.

 

[thestud77]

This doesn't surprise me considering you thinking that everything in wrestling is real.

I'm not stupid I know pro wrestling is fake but the guy who played Eugene did really have a mental handicap. Of course he wasn't as bad as he played in tv he was sorta like that kid that played corky on life goes on but I'm sure WWE officials were nervous about him getting hurt and did the right thing by taking him off tv.

 

[nightmare]

So many insults & questions. So little time.

Somebody else is gonna have to take this one. My brain already hurts.

 

[BestSportsEntertainer]

In my opinion Eugene should have never been signed considering his disability. It was probably hard for WWE management to get him to remember scripted promos and they were more than likely afraid he was going to get hurt if he kept wrestling. I think he did a good job for as long as he did considering his handicap.

Eugene was a character. He didn't actually have a disability.

 

[BestSportsEntertainer]

This is actually a decent idea. I'm not sure it would've worked, but it's better than nothing.

 

[Lee]

I'm not stupid I know pro wrestling is fake but the guy who played Eugene did really have a mental handicap. Of course he wasn't as bad as he played in tv he was sorta like that kid that played corky on life goes on but I'm sure WWE officials were nervous about him getting hurt and did the right thing by taking him off tv.

Being related to Bischoff gets you places.

 

[BaconBits]

I'm not stupid I know pro wrestling is fake but the guy who played Eugene did really have a mental handicap. Of course he wasn't as bad as he played in tv he was sorta like that kid that played corky on life goes on but I'm sure WWE officials were nervous about him getting hurt and did the right thing by taking him off tv.

Dude. Stop. Just. Stop.

 

[BringThePain834]

This week's Missed Opportunity, we'll be looking at Roddy Piper as champion, and this comes from an article that I wrote a number of months ago on thesportster.

It’s been said the key reason that Piper never got a run with the belt because he was already so massively over that he didn’t need the rub of the championship. But yet it still seems off that a man who was such an icon of 1980s WWE never got a run with the belt.

His feud with Hogan helped shape the company majorly and “Piper’s Pit” set the tone for so many other interview segments. Even as a heel, he had legions of fans with his great ring work and should have gotten a run with the title, even a brief one as the matches with him and Hogan would have been massive sellouts. It would have pushed Hogan up a bit more with regaining the title and could have sparked WrestleMania II up majorly. It also would have filled a hole for Piper’s criteria and made him even more of an icon and helping an already great time in WWE be even better.

 

[Makaveli31]

It’s been said the key reason that Piper never got a run with the belt because he was already so massively over that he didn’t need the rub of the championship. But yet it still seems off that a man who was such an icon of 1980s WWE never got a run with the belt.

His feud with Hogan helped shape the company majorly and “Piper’s Pit” set the tone for so many other interview segments. Even as a heel, he had legions of fans with his great ring work and should have gotten a run with the title, even a brief one as the matches with him and Hogan would have been massive sellouts. It would have pushed Hogan up a bit more with regaining the title and could have sparked WrestleMania II up majorly. It also would have filled a hole for Piper’s criteria and made him even more of an icon and helping an already great time in WWE be even better.
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I AM ICONIC!

Vince didn't like heel champions. The only way a heel (especially in the '80's) would get a run with the belt was as a "transition champion" a la Sheik, Slaughter etc..Vince;s main revenue generator at the time was house shows so a house with "WWF World Champion" on the marquee vs a Killer Kahn, a King King Bundy, or Roddy Piper would sell out more than a marquee with "WWF World Champion" Roddy Piper on it. Remember these guys were touring 300 plus days year. There was no room for interruption. As much as WrestleMania was a success the house shows were bigger revenue generators and let's face it. Hogan was the top draw.

As far as Roddy goes he would've made a great champion but I honestly don't see him as being the "face" of a company. Especially in the "big man" territory of the WWF at the time. He was the perfect heel or a solid mid-card babyface. A guy who could change on the pace of a card. Instead of a big plodding big man match he was high energy. I think he would've have taken that hiatus he might have been in line for a possible I-C run.

 

[Blade]

This week's Missed Opportunity, we'll be looking at Roddy Piper as champion, and this comes from an article that I wrote a number of months ago on thesportster.

It’s been said the key reason that Piper never got a run with the belt because he was already so massively over that he didn’t need the rub of the championship. But yet it still seems off that a man who was such an icon of 1980s WWE never got a run with the belt.

His feud with Hogan helped shape the company majorly and “Piper’s Pit” set the tone for so many other interview segments. Even as a heel, he had legions of fans with his great ring work and should have gotten a run with the title, even a brief one as the matches with him and Hogan would have been massive sellouts. It would have pushed Hogan up a bit more with regaining the title and could have sparked WrestleMania II up majorly. It also would have filled a hole for Piper’s criteria and made him even more of an icon and helping an already great time in WWE be even better.

Is plagiarism against the rules on this site? Because it really should be.

 

[Fire Marshall Bill]

Is plagiarism against the rules on this site? Because it really should be.

Where's GSB when you need him?

 

[klunderbunker]

I'm not stupid I know pro wrestling is fake but the guy who played Eugene did really have a mental handicap. Of course he wasn't as bad as he played in tv he was sorta like that kid that played corky on life goes on but I'm sure WWE officials were nervous about him getting hurt and did the right thing by taking him off tv.

Just....no.

 

[klunderbunker]

Someone link me to the original Roddy Piper article.

 

[L@RISANO]

Someone link me to the original Roddy Piper article.

http://www.thesportster.com/wrestling/top-20-missed-opportunities-for-wwe/

 

[klunderbunker]

And BTP claims to have written that?

 

[L@RISANO]

And BTP claims to have written that?

I'd be shocked if he actually did.

 

[klunderbunker]

So will I, as Weyer reads my stuff and regularly comments on it.

 

[L@RISANO]

Guy has a total of 173 articles on that site. Based on how BTP posts on here, I'd be lost for words if he actually wrote anything at all.

 

[klunderbunker]

Well we're not the main page and don't tolerate plagiarism so I'm thinking prison.