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Post by Travis605 on Jan 4, 2024 14:22:37 GMT -5
I went to a Southern Illinois Championship Wrestling show a few years ago where Haku was called King Haku--although he didn't have a crown. Here's a thought about a possible Arn Anderson card: Gourdbuster as a singles move becomes Double Gourdbuster Finisher or Add 1 in tag matches. DDT as a singles move becomes Double DDT Add 1 in tag matches. Singles Finisher becomes Spike Piledriver finisher in tag matches. Please legends team…none of those WWF king gimmicks from the late 80s/early 90s. I hated those |
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Post by Pete on Jan 4, 2024 14:50:07 GMT -5
I went to a Southern Illinois Championship Wrestling show a few years ago where Haku was called King Haku--although he didn't have a crown. Here's a thought about a possible Arn Anderson card: Gourdbuster as a singles move becomes Double Gourdbuster Finisher or Add 1 in tag matches. DDT as a singles move becomes Double DDT Add 1 in tag matches. Singles Finisher becomes Spike Piledriver finisher in tag matches. For the DDT/Gourdbuster, I think I'd go with the Backlund/Gordy "sometimes uses..." note. He basically switched finishers in the late '80s with not a ton of overlap. I agree on the Spike Piledriver...he didn't really do a lot of double-Gourdbusters or double-DDTs, did he? Certainly not with Ole and Tully, and I don't recall him doing it as a finisher with Stubbs, Borne, Eaton or Zbyszko, either. |
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Post by Pete on Jan 4, 2024 14:53:32 GMT -5
I went to a Southern Illinois Championship Wrestling show a few years ago where Haku was called King Haku--although he didn't have a crown. Here's a thought about a possible Arn Anderson card: Gourdbuster as a singles move becomes Double Gourdbuster Finisher or Add 1 in tag matches. DDT as a singles move becomes Double DDT Add 1 in tag matches. Singles Finisher becomes Spike Piledriver finisher in tag matches. Please legends team…none of those WWF king gimmicks from the late 80s/early 90s. I hated those At the absolute minimum I have to think "King Tonga" would be okay because that was his ring name pre-WWF. Haku if he's signed will be interesting because he's a guy with a really, really fragmented career. He was a big name in Montreal as King Tonga mostly as a heel, then he's a singles babyface in the WWF (remember, he bodyslammed John Studd on television, so they had plans for him as a single), then he's a babyface tag wrestler, then a heel tag wrestler, then a mid-card singles heel, then a lower-card singles heel, then a tag champion, then a lower-card heel again, then an invincible bodyguard, then a mid-card tag wrestler. And all of those incarnations are *kinda* the same but not really. |
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Post by topdollar on Jan 4, 2024 14:56:35 GMT -5
I went to a Southern Illinois Championship Wrestling show a few years ago where Haku was called King Haku--although he didn't have a crown. Here's a thought about a possible Arn Anderson card: Gourdbuster as a singles move becomes Double Gourdbuster Finisher or Add 1 in tag matches. DDT as a singles move becomes Double DDT Add 1 in tag matches. Singles Finisher becomes Spike Piledriver finisher in tag matches. For the DDT/Gourdbuster, I think I'd go with the Backlund/Gordy "sometimes uses..." note. He basically switched finishers in the late '80s with not a ton of overlap. I agree on the Spike Piledriver...he didn't really do a lot of double-Gourdbusters or double-DDTs, did he? Certainly not with Ole and Tully, and I don't recall him doing it as a finisher with Stubbs, Borne, Eaton or Zbyszko, either. I remember Arn & Tully doing double gourdbusters & DDTs. But it may just be The Mandela Effect. LOL |
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Post by Travis605 on Jan 4, 2024 15:03:09 GMT -5
Please legends team…none of those WWF king gimmicks from the late 80s/early 90s. I hated those At the absolute minimum I have to think "King Tonga" would be okay because that was his ring name pre-WWF. Haku if he's signed will be interesting because he's a guy with a really, really fragmented career. He was a big name in Montreal as King Tonga mostly as a heel, then he's a singles babyface in the WWF (remember, he bodyslammed John Studd on television, so they had plans for him as a single), then he's a babyface tag wrestler, then a heel tag wrestler, then a mid-card singles heel, then a lower-card singles heel, then a tag champion, then a lower-card heel again, then an invincible bodyguard, then a mid-card tag wrestler. And all of those incarnations are *kinda* the same but not really. I’d honestly take a King Tonga in his initial release and then put out a Haku/Barbarian Faces of Fear team |
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Post by natureboi on Jan 4, 2024 15:56:29 GMT -5
I call BS on all this wild speculation!
And, by BS, of course I mean Bruno Sammartino. 😉
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Post by Travis605 on Jan 4, 2024 17:00:59 GMT -5
I call BS on all this wild speculation! And, by BS, of course I mean Bruno Sammartino. 😉 A Bruno announcement could break the Filsinger internet |
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Post by TTX on Jan 4, 2024 17:41:19 GMT -5
I'm willing to be broken for an announcement like that.
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Post by Tournament Master on Jan 4, 2024 17:49:26 GMT -5
I think the Legends Expansion XI set came out in Cycle 1 of 2022, didn't it? Legends Expansion 7 (Vintage) came out cycle 1 of 2021 and Legends Expansion 9 (Early TV Era) came out cycle 1 of 2022. Both were 8 card sets. |
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Post by markyhitch on Jan 4, 2024 18:30:00 GMT -5
For the DDT/Gourdbuster, I think I'd go with the Backlund/Gordy "sometimes uses..." note. He basically switched finishers in the late '80s with not a ton of overlap. I agree on the Spike Piledriver...he didn't really do a lot of double-Gourdbusters or double-DDTs, did he? Certainly not with Ole and Tully, and I don't recall him doing it as a finisher with Stubbs, Borne, Eaton or Zbyszko, either. I remember Arn & Tully doing double gourdbusters & DDTs. But it may just be The Mandela Effect. LOL Surely, Arn's finisher should probably be the spinebuster? That's all I ever saw him doing. |
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