One of the most retarded fucking arguments about this shit is that this tournament was meant to get Dr.Death over and to set up a feud with Austin.That is so fucking obviously not true for a number of reasons>Vince Russo created the tournament. Ignoring the fact that he's on the records of saying that NO ONE who won the tournament was in line for a feud with Austin, do you really think Vince Russo, a guy who didn't know what a double cross was, designed an entire tournament for fucking Steve Williams?> Austin, during the entire tournament, was a in major feud with Undertaker and Kane. On July 26, he was a in tag match Undertaker vs Kane and Mankind. That tag match set up the main event of Summerslam, which was Undertaker vs Austin. Dr Death lost his fight on July 27, if he had won, when was Austin going to feud with Dr.Death?>Dr Death, was not, in anyway, the favorite to win the fucking tournament. Cornette is a retarded boomer who knows nothing about combat sports. Had he stayed in, Dan Severn would have killed him, so would Steve Blackman and Marc Mero. Godfather could have beaten him and WWE asked for Ken Shamrock, do you think that they taught Ken Shamrock would lost to fucking Dr. Death?Cornette is a retard and what likely happened was that Vince just told Dr. Death that he was a gonna get a big push and face Austin, just like he told so many people during that era. Dr. Death then told JR and Cornette what Vince said and they actually believed.
>>16710709Not to mention, Dr Death had no fucking charisma, they weren't gonna headline with that fucking guy against Steve Austin.
Jr and Jim cornette were the ones who popularized that theory. Blame them
>>16710709You completely misinterpreted what they said and then made up a hypothetical and then made your whole poiny rely on said made-up hypothetical and tried to make that your argument.
>>16710740Cornette, on numerous occasions, started WWE planned and wanted Steve Williams.Vince Russo created the Brawl 4 All, so for Vince Russo to have created a tournament with the idea of having Dr. Death win the said tournament, you would need to assume Vince Russo knew who Dr. Death was before he signed with WWE AND he watched AJPW.
>>16710709Ross, Cornette, Pritchard, Hayes and every other good old boy wrasslin shitter doesn't have a clue.The real creative meeting took place at Vince's house. Russo and Ferrerra wrote the script. After Vince read it they'd meet to go over revisions and long term plans. Shane took the minutes and occasionally chimed in when asked. Then Russo and Ferrerra would write the final draft.Vince left the good old boys to squabble and fantasy book and politic and have their gay little orgies on the road while working them into thinking they had anything to do with what was on screen.
>>16710714Plus, he was well past is prime by then.
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>>16710709Are we arguing about shit from 25 years ago again? I love when /pw/ does that.
>>16710709>Dr Death, was not, in anyway, the favorite to win the fucking tournamentHe was a D1 wrestling finalist, everyone assumed he would be good at shoot fighting. Hindsight is 20/20
>>16710709Heh, BoomerChad here. I am old and ancient enough to have been there live for one of the Brawl 4 All match ups. Ol' Boomster was fully behind Burt Gunn from the jump! and that's the bottom line because the BOOMGOD SAID SO! oh it's true! it's damn true!
>>16710709Russo created it because he wanted Bradshaw to get his ass kicked.
>>16712190this gimmick is dimeless and has shoot go away heat
>>16712259He's been doing it for 8 straight days lol
Austin neck had pussied out on him by now. He wasn’t going to take a power bomb never mind a proper backdrop driver.
WWE fans don’t like legit tough guys. They like theater nerds who work out.
>>16712178>He was a D1 wrestling finalist
>>16712328I said hindsight is 20/20, I've seen his MMA fights. A D1 wrestler would absolutely be the betting favorite against a kickboxer with no grappling experinence like Ignashov today.
>>16712328Dr. Kwab
>>16712328He literally had cancer at this point, anon.
>>16712372Good.
>>16710709The funny thing is Dr. Death would've probably done very well if the rules weren't so fucked and he wasn't 40+ and sawdusted beyond your wildest dreams.As shown here >>16712328 where he is even older and literally HAS CANCER during the fight, you can tell he has no knees left. He can't shoot for a takedown, and it's not that he doesn't know how to shoot for a takedown -- he's a D1 NCAA champion runner up -- he just can't do it anymore because his knees are blown and destroyed.Really the whole thing was pretty sad.But at least it kind of has a happy ending, as the DR DEATH vs. MIKE BARTON (Bart Gunn) REVENGE MATCH ended up main eventing and selling out the Tokyo Dome a few years later because Dr Death was still extremely well liked in Japan where he was dimes.
>>16712283so glad I stopped coming to this board
if pro wrestlers had talent for real sports, they would have career in real sports
>>16712178even if that was the case steve williams in 1997 with a fuckton of injuries was not going to knock anyone out lol
>>16712527Dr Death would've definitely played in the NFL if he hadn't been injured, same way as Vader would've continued playing in the NFL if not for an injury.Hell Kevin Nash probably would've played in the NBA at least as a role-player if not for his injury
>>16712412clearly you didn't
