Alright, here’s your eye-opener for Sunday.
RD has inducted hundreds of bad gimmicks, angles, shows, matches, and moments onto our beloved site over the past 13 years, and they’ve all met his criterion for “crap”.
But what if they don’t match ours?
Kind of like how football fans feel Cris Carter should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, while the selectors have yet to give him his day, we Crapophiles (there’s a word) can surely remember something RD inducted that we don’t agree with.
For me, it’s Flash Funk. Yes, maybe WWE should have made him 2 Cold Scorpio, nimble wrestling machine, all along, but to me, he was just fine as a Dolemite/Shaft-inspired sasser who could boogie just as well as he could duke it out. In a “kangaroo court” where we harass RD, that would be my testimony against The Deal.
How about you? If you could remove one entry from WrestleCrap’s hallowed (horrored?) halls, what do you pick?
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I might be the only person alive who liked Ready 2 Rumble.
No, there’s at least two of us.
Flash Funk stays IMO. The gimmick was crap and overshadowed Scorp’s talent.
Repo Man.
This goes back to the beginnings of the site but it always bothered me that “Pillman’s Got a Gun” was considered Wrestlecrap. This angle basically created the Attitude era and really solidified Steve Austins image of being a cold hearted SOB that would do anything to get what he wanted.
I second this. Triple H invading Orton’s house was Wrestlecrap but Pillman/Austin wasn’t.
Art Donovan. I’ve said many times it wasn’t Art’s fault that he knew nothing about the product. I’ve always felt the entry on him was more mean spirited and misdirected than it needed to be. If anything more blame should have been put on Vince for allowing a guy who knew nothing about the product to do color commentary on a PPV.
Awaiting the Double J defenders in 3…2…1…
Jeff Jarrett is one of the ten best wrestlers of the last twenty years and his gimmick was gold.
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I got to say Repo Man for sure
And I agree with R.D. Nashville invading Double J was crap
I believe Repo Man was on here just because while it was meant to be bad, it got over and eventually became good, so I believe that induction was out of respect.
I think the Adam Bomb induction had potential until he turned face.
Vince Russo’s infamous shoot promo at Bash At The Beach 2000.
Hogan’s ego was at it’s peak, and Russo basically snaps & says, “I’m not taking your BS anymore!” Naturally, Hogan being the jerk that he is, quit on the spot & later filed a lawsuit.
One of the three good things Russo did in his career. (The other two were his Wrestlecrap interviews.)
Agreed.
I would say Roxxi Laveaux, but I was the one who inducted her. I figured that she would be inducted eventually anyway, so I might as well have been the one to do it.
“The Model” Rick Martel, and the WrestleMania VII Blindfold Match between him and Jake Roberts.
The Rock vs. Mankind Empty Arena Match
I was a big HOG mark back in the day. I lost my shit when he sloped DeBiase on Raw.
Also Andre Reed deserves to be in Canton.
I remember liking T&A when I was a kid, and for that reason, I still don’t think it was crap
Rick Martel as The Model. It was such a great gimmick especially after leaving Tito Santana behind.
And I can’t defend the Blindfold match at all, but the build was amazing for it.
The Model gimmick wasn’t crap at all. As someone who was a fan of the babyface Martel since his AWA World Champion days, The Model came off as if he had been a dastardly heel his entire career.
I have no problem with the Blindfold MATCH being inducted as Wrestlecrap, but, you were in the wrong on inducting The Model, RD.
I agree, definitely NOT crap at all. The Model gimmick worked well, was over as a heel gimmick, and Martel played it well.
I’m still shocked the disgusting John Cena getting stabbed in 2004 never got an induction – an absolute insult to anyone with half a brain plus it beared more than a passing resemblance to the Bruiser Brody tragedy – it was the angle that made me hate John Cena with a passion