Professional wrestling thread

During the heyday of World Class Championship Wrestling, Playboy Gary Hart was pretty hated. He always had good feuds with the Von Erichs.

 

Ditto Percy Pringle in his pre-Paul Bearer days. I always like Hart; he was more subtle and sinister than most other managers of that day, which ranged from loud and obnoxious to fucking loud and fucking obnoxious.

Female managers have never done much for me as far as being good manager characters (with the possible exception of the future Marlena as Ms. Alexandra York, teaching midcard faces how to be midcard heels through the wonders of Radio Shack computer technology.

 

Remember, managers by and large back in the day were used as mouthpieces for heels (or, once in a while, faces) who couldn't cut promos.

Cornette and Heenan were in a class by themselves in that respect. The rest either relied on cheap heat or cheating.

Cornette and Heenan could get a crowd into a lather with only a few spoken words. That's a rare -- and lost -- skill.

 

Heenan also wrestled his share of matches. Sure, Corny, Hart and the rest of them did on occasion -- the dreaded (insert babyface here) gets 5 minutes with (insert manager's name here) if he beats the manager's heel -- but Heenan was awesome in this role.

Corny's great too -- remember those WWF rips he'd do against WCW in the 90s? awesome -- but Heenan never had to use a tennis racket, a cane or another prop to get over. Being called Weasel all the time was enough to show who was the best manager at getting heat.

 

I love ya, Claws, and I love Heenan too. But the racquet didn't get Cornette over. It was merely a piece of his overall persona, although he did use it on occasion. It was Cornette's mouth that did the job.

That would be kind of like saying the weasel suit got Heenan over.

 

TNA should move Cornette over to a manager's spot again. He would have been perfect with the Naturals or perhaps Maverick Matt/Kazarian, pre-Raven. Any sort of heel team that needs a mouthpiece to help get them over. That would beat the snot out of an ineffective, easily-intimiated face authority figure.

 

Does anyone else hate Mike Tenay as much as I do?

 

I don't think he's that bad. Didn't he work at WCW before TNA?

 

Yeah, he did. He's one of the reasons I can't stand TNA. Wrestling, that is.

 

Tenay is awwwwwwwwful. What a dork. If he didn't get beaten up in school every day, well, he should have.

 

Agreed. They should put him in the ring with Abyss.

 

Yes. That's one reason why I can't watch TNA consistently. Get rid of the tux, Mikey.

The other reason is Don West. Their shows have too much of a WCW Saturday Night feel for me: bland music, lame futuristic entrances, green neon laser lighting, etc.