I removed my link. I was pretty sure everyone knew about the guy's video who I posted and I was just surprised he wasn't taken yet. I removed it anyways. Sorry.
Guess I am up, one question, if I draft someone do I get their personalities? Example, I draft Stone Cold do I get him as the Ringmaster, and as Steve Austin in the Hollywood Blondes?
Team Stylin' and Profilin' is proud to select in the first round, from Charlotte, North Carolina,
The Nature Boy Ric Flair
Flair started wrestling in 1972 so he will fill my pre 80's category nicely.
Flair is among the most well known wrestlers in the world, and has been one of wrestling's biggest stars since the late 1970s.
Flair is recognized by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) as a 16-time World Heavyweight Champion (8-time WCW Champion, 6-time NWA Champion, and 2-time WWE Champion) although his actual tally of World Championship reigns varies by source - some totaling as high as 21.
Stylin and Profilin'
Entrance Video
WrestleMania 24 Shawn Michaels vs Ric Flair
WHOOOOOOOOO!!!!
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Guess I am up, one question, if I draft someone do I get their personalities? Example, I draft Stone Cold do I get him as the Ringmaster, and as Steve Austin in the Hollywood Blondes?
With my first selection, in the 1980-1990 category I am proud to select...
"Curt 'Mr.Perfect' Hennig"
The son of Larry "The Ax" Hennig, he started his career in the AWA and then later moved on to the WWF then WCW. He also made appearances for TNA very late in his career. He is a former AWA World Champion, A former WCW US Champion and WCW World Tag Team Champion (with Barry Windham) and a 2-time WWF Intercontinental Champion. In 2007 the late Curt Hennig was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by his good friend Wade Boggs. The next generation of Hennig's is also in the business aswell, Joe Hennig (Curt's son) is currently signed to a WWE developmental contract and wrestling in FCW.
2009-2001
1991-2000
1980-1990 - Curt Hennig
Pre-80's
Tag Team
Stable
Women's
Personality (announcer/valet/manager/bodyguard/special referee)
Storyline
Title Belt
PPV
Match
With my first Selection team Piper's Pit Stains is happy to select in the 1980-1990 category the legend and my favorite wrestler as a kid:
"Rowdy" Roddy Piper
Roderick George Toombs (born April 17, 1954) better known by his ring name "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, is a semi-retired Canadian professional wrestler and film actor. Despite having no actual connection to Scotland, he was billed as coming from Glasgow, Scotland and was known for his signature kilt and bagpipe entrance music. He earned the nickname "Rowdy" by displaying his trademark "Scottish" rage, spontaneity, and quick wit, and was also nicknamed "Hot Rod". He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2005 by Ric Flair.
Greatest ever Pipers Pit (with SuperFly)
Piper started insulting Snuka's Polynesian heritage by bringing out pineapples, bananas, and dropping coconuts onto the table; this was to make Snuka "feel at home" in an act of "remorse" after Snuka was not given much time to speak the previous times he was on Piper's Pit. Snuka took offense to this and Piper then attacked Snuka by smashing him over the head with a coconut and shoving a banana in his face. He followed this up by whipping Snuka with his belt. Snuka was legitimately knocked woozy allowing Piper to leave before Snuka, now seriously enraged, could fight back.
In the tag Team division... Team Droopy's Dungeon selects.....
Manager "The Mouth of the South" Jimmy Hart had been using the name Hart Foundation to describe the stable of wrestlers that he managed before his arrival and did so early in his WWF stint. That usage was eclipsed, however, by the tag team of Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart, managed by Jimmy Hart and originally a part of the larger Hart Foundationstable.
The Hart Foundation tag team began when Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart, already managed by Jimmy Hart, joined up with Bret "Hit Man" Hart (whose sister he had already married)[3] to form a heel tag team. The name Hart Foundation, already used by Jimmy Hart, derived from the fact that both wrestlers and manager had Hart in their family names.[1]
According to Bret Hart, the tag team originated after Bret turned down the "Cowboy" Bret Hart gimmick he was given, claiming that he didn't really take a liking to it.[4] He then suggested to WWF management that he would much prefer to be tag-teamed with Jim Neidhart. Management first laughed at the idea, claiming that Bret didn't have the heel look that was appropriate, but months later just as Bret was about to quit, he was given what he wanted: he was allowed to turn heel, and was partnered up with Neidhart and Jimmy to form the Hart Foundation.[1]
The Hart Foundation is regarded as one of the best tag teams during wrestling's 1980s heyday.[5] What set the Harts apart from their contemporaries was their respective wrestling styles - Neidhart was more of a brawler/power wrestler,[3] whereas Bret on the other hand was a more agile, sound and polished technician who used ring psychology to his advantage.[6] This characteristic and uniqueness in the Hart Foundation was at that time rare yet successful, leading to two reigns as WWF Tag Team Champions.[7]
The Hart Foundation were involved in perhaps some of wrestling's greatest tag-team matches of all time, and they were constantly involved in feuds with various other teams including the British Bulldogs, the Killer Bees, The Rockers, and the Rougeau Brothers.
Okay...to finish up Round 1, Team Malfunction Junction chooses in the Pre-80s Category...
From Grenoble, France, The Eighth Wonder of the World...Andre The Giant.
Andre Rousimoff was born in France in 1946. By the time he was 12 years old, Andre stood 6-foot-3 and weighed 200 pounds, the result of acromegaly, a disorder that causes the bones to grow at an accelerated rate, and to continue to grow beyond the age of physical maturity. He eventually topped 7 feet tall and weighed over 500 pounds.
While still a teenager, Andre moved to Paris to train as a wrestler. Andre soon became a worldwide sensation, becoming a top draw everywhere he traveled. In 1973, Andre signed with Vince McMahon Sr.'s WWWF, a company he remained a part of until his death 20 years later.
For the first 14 years of his WWWF/WWF career, Andre never lost a match via pinfall or submission (although, he did lose some matches that weren't under the WWF banner). His first WWF pinfall loss came at 1987's Wrestlemania 3, in front of a reported crowd in excess of 90,000 at the Pontiac Silverdome. Andre lost that match to Hulk Hogan, who retained the World Championship title.
In February 1988, Andre won his first and only World Championship, defeating Hulk Hogan. However, Andre (who was still a heel at the time) immediately handed the belt to The Million Dollar Man, Ted DiBiase. The title was stripped from both Andre and DiBiase, which led to a title tournament at Wrestlemania 4. As a result of all of that, Andre never defended his title.
As the 80s drew to a close, Andre's health faltered and his in-ring appearances became less frequent. Andre eventually succumbed to congestive heart failure in 1993, at the age of 46 (he was actually long-lived for someone with acromegaly).
Shortly after his death, Andre became the first inductee into the WWF Hall of Fame.
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Now, to start Round 2, Team Malfunction Junction chooses in the 1991-2000 Category...
From Winnipeg, Manitoba, The Lion Heart...Y2J...Chris Jericho.
Born in 1970 in New York State, where his father (Ted Irvine) was a professional hockey player for the New York Rangers, Chris Irvine grew up on the mean streets of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
At the age of 19, Irvine moved to Calgary, where he began training with the Hart Brothers. Irvine took the ring name Chris Jericho, and started wrestling in front of small crowds throughout Western Canada. During his early career, Jericho worked in promotions in Mexico and Japan, as well as smaller regional promotions in North America.
In 1996, Jericho caught the eye of Mick Foley, who recommended Jericho to Paul Heyman, owner of the upstart Extreme Championship Wrestling. Jericho's time in ECW was short-lived because WCW quickly came calling, with Ted Turner's open cheque book.
Jericho debuted in WCW in August 1996, and quickly caught the audience's eye, becoming a force in the Cruiserweight Division. Jericho had many memorable feuds in his early years with WCW, most notably one with Dean Malenko, who was billed as "The Man of 1000 Holds". To goad Malenko, Jericho claimed to be "The Man of 1004 Holds"...and would recite some of his many holds, most of which were arm bars, the rest of which were mostly made up...
"The Saskatchewan Spinning Nerve Hold"
Eventually, Jericho went on to hold the WCW Cruiserweight belt 4 times, and the Television Title once.
In early 1999, Jericho was heavily courted by the WWF, and he eventually signed a long-term contract to work with the McMahons. Jericho's debut was promoted through the use of a digital countdown clock that promised the beginning of the New Millennium. On August 9, 1999, Jericho had probably one of the most memorable debuts in WWF history, interrupting a promo being given by The Rock...
"It doesn't matter what your name is!"
On December 9, 2001, Jericho did something no one expected him to do at the time, and in one night, defeated The Rock for the World Championship Title (the former WCW belt), and Stone Cold Steve Austin for the WWF Title to become the First "Undisputed" World Champion. At Wrestlemania 18 on St Patrick's Day, 2002 in Toronto (I was there), Jericho lost the Undisputed title to Triple H.
A confrontation between a couple of Winnipeg boys...
Jericho has held virtually every major WWF/WWE Title during his career, including the Intercontinental Title a record eight times. He was also named the WWE Wrestler of the Year at the 2008 Slammy Awards in December.
Here are all of the titles Jericho has held...
ECW Television Championship (1 Time)
WCW Television Championship (1 Time)
WCW Cruiserweight Championship (4 Times)
WCW Championship (2 Times)
European Championship (1 Time)
World Tag Team Championship (3 Times)
Intercontinental Championship (8 Times)
WWE Championship (1 Time)
Undisputed World Championship (1 Time)
World Heavyweight Championship (2 Times)
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Concerning Mr.Irvine... "Armbar!". Hehe.
My next pick will definately be in the 91-2000 category and I am really struggling between two guys, wish I could pick them both, gotta find a loophole hehe.
I miss the Rock. I was huge into WWE, went to Wrestlemania in Seatlle, went to a Smackdown in Seattle, saw Raw in Vancouver twice, and the Rock Bottom PPV. He was the best. So good on the mic and got the best crowd reactions and always put on an entertaining match despite having pretty limited wrestling skills.
If he were to come back, I would revert back to my old ways of watching every Raw, Smackdown and PPV event. It will never happen, but I can dream.
