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Texasmame:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on March 13, 2007, 09:12:46 am ---
--- Quote from: Texasmame on March 12, 2007, 08:31:20 pm ---Well, that was certainly the case in the 80's WWF.  Vince pushed no talant monsters thru the roof.  My favorite of the huge stiffs from that era - The Powers of Pain.  Man, Warlord sucked but I envied that guy's build something major as a 15 year old somewhat skinny kid!  :o
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The Powers of Pain were already multi-time NWA World Tag champs when they got to the WWF.  Vince didn't create them or push them beyond where they already were.

I used to follow the NWA as well, so I was aware of them there.  Just used them as a prime example of the huge stiffs that were dominating the sport at the time in general.  True, Vince didn't start their particular push.




--- Quote ---Not sure if juicing would give you a huge edge in today's wrestling climate.  Sure, you still gotta look at least "in great shape" but not so much "Tony Atlas" buff anymore.

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Look at guys like Chris Masters and Bobby Lashley.  Orton just put on about 20lb of muscle in the last two months.  Batista juices regularly.  A LOT of those guys juice just because it's easier on the road to cycle 3 or so times a year than it is to keep that build year round the hard way.  Not every juicer is 4% bodyfat and 280lb.

Sharidan, Vince won every case the gov't brought against him during those trials.  I'm not saying the guys weren't all juiced but they weren't getting it from Vince.  Hell, Vince himself has been a juicer over the years, very obviously.



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ChadTower:

You definitely don't get the big unathletic dorks you used to get... except for the INHUMANLY BIG unathletic dorks like Khali.

horseboy:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on March 13, 2007, 01:06:11 pm ---
You definitely don't get the big unathletic dorks you used to get... except for the INHUMANLY BIG unathletic dorks like Khali.

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He is terrible. He makes John Cena look like Ric Flair circa 1985.

ChadTower:

He's old, too, and won't be around long.

chopps:
add Arnold Skaaland to that list...   i only remember him as the manager of bob backland but here is a little artical about him from the wrestling observer...
 

Arnold Skaaland passes away
 


by Dave Meltzer

Arnold Skaaland, a fixture on the Northeast wrestling scene dating back to the 1940s, passed away yesterday at the age of 82.

A former part owner of Capital Wrestling Corporation, the parent company of the World Wide Wrestling Federation, Skaaland's public persona during the 70s was as the long-time prelim wrestler who was the public manager of champions Bruno Sammartino and later Bob Backlund. He was also the regular heel manager for Andre the Giant for New Japan Pro Wrestling, where he served the role as Andre's caretaker and Vince McMahon Sr.'s business representative, since McMahon Sr. was Andre's booker.

He promoted wrestling in White Plains and worked the box office and was in charge of taking the receipts from the shows and depositing them during the 60s and 70s, among his other jobs. That job shows the level of trust the other owners would have had in him in such a cut-throat business. We remained working behind the scenes with the company up to the present time.


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