Dindeleux Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 I'm going back a bit here, and I may be not seeing something fairly obvious, but was there any reason that Shaun Michaels wasn't part of the WM30 build up, or was he and I completely pied him? Shawn had one eye on something else at the time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted September 10, 2014 Share Posted September 10, 2014 Seems to be true from what I see. He was an impressive specimen, and not a bad wrestler actually. I have no idea where it came apart for that guy. Almost every time his name comes up, it's been good stuff that's been said, and he had time ahead to get it right, yet WWE just decided he was shit from the off. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djchapsticks Posted September 10, 2014 Share Posted September 10, 2014 The vignettes for the Devil's Advocate character were brilliant. Thought provoking, sinister and he had a natural look of a big mean b*****d that he was a great fit for it. Unfortunately, WWE at the time were hitting it out the park at the time with such 'amazing' characters as Simon Dean, Rico and Torrie Wilson's da, that they had no idea what to do with a character who could have been potentially very good. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreenMonster Posted September 10, 2014 Share Posted September 10, 2014 When O'Haire started out in WCW he seemed like an absolute surefire future main-eventer but it just never happened for him in the WWE 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cb_diamond Posted September 10, 2014 Share Posted September 10, 2014 Suicide according to pro wrestling.net 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted September 10, 2014 Share Posted September 10, 2014 I liked O'Haire in the late 90s when WCW were begging for new guys to shut the faces of those old fuckers who were running the show. His tag team with Mark Jindrak was awesome - total newbies but athletic freaks. WWF/E didn't like him at first during the Invasion, besides they had stars galore, so he went to OVW and was a bit of a grump by all accounts. He came back, his new gimmick didn't kick on and he was injured in a motorbike crash so WWF/E cut their losses and sacked him. He then went to Japan and had a tryout on a smaller show against the now-biggest star in Japan, Hiroshi Tanahashi, but management thought he wasn't right or fit enough. If you can't work a match with Tanahashi something is wrong, but Japan will forgive your sins if you have size. Did some indies, had another tryout with WWE and they passed on him and he quit to do MMA. Stories of his unpleasantness as a man abound, nonetheless I was a fan for the period that I got to see him and it's sad that he's gone. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted September 10, 2014 Share Posted September 10, 2014 He then went to Japan and had a tryout on a smaller show against the now-biggest star in Japan, Hiroshi Tanahashi, but management thought he wasn't right or fit enough. If you can't work a match with Tanahashi something is wrong, but Japan will forgive your sins if you have size. Bit harsh that. AJ Styles had a match with Tanahashi which didn't click either, and that was when AJ Styles was fantastic the first time around. Sometimes it just doesn't click. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shuggie_Murray7 Posted September 10, 2014 Share Posted September 10, 2014 I loved O'Haire when he was with Piper. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Bit harsh that. AJ Styles had a match with Tanahashi which didn't click either, and that was when AJ Styles was fantastic the first time around. Sometimes it just doesn't click. I've seen all three of their matches and thought they all had a little something. If you mean the TNA one, that one got Russo'd. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 It's a real shame to hear about Sean O'Haire. He was one of my favourites in the dying days of WCW. It was always impressive seeing a guy his size doing a swanton bomb. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1800Mitch Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Shame for anybody to die. But there were some disturbing stories about Sean beating up women (albeit I believe found not guilty). All the same, RIP. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shuggie_Murray7 Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 Good hand for Vinnie Mac? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WFAANW Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 Good hand for Vinnie Mac? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 He'd probably just be another 'foreign menace' character. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shuggie_Murray7 Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 I'd give him a goalkeeper gimmick. Everytime anyone touches him he hits the deck and the ref stops the match for about 5 minutes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreenMonster Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 I'd give him a goalkeeper gimmick. Everytime anyone touches him he hits the deck and the ref stops the match for about 5 minutes. Do they not already have some English guy on a development deal who had been a goalie in the lower leagues down south ?, maybe a future tag-team on the horizon "The Shot-Stoppers" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 "This next song goes out to our friend Mark Calaway, The Undertaker. He's not doing real well right now and we want all our fans to keep him in their thoughts and prayers." That was apparently said by Fred Durst at a Limp Bizkit show in San Antonio. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ginger Prince Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 Random..... Wonder what the story there is. Dunno.. Maybe something to do with Undertaker not being in a good way with regards to his health? Just a hunch though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
underdogunderdog underdog Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 Who do folk think the bunny is? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 It's Sami Zayn. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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