>Dude would've aged like a fine wine had he not fucked with all those drugs.
or had anything but shit tier hair genetics
Is there a bigger mark for themselves in the business?
Gavin Taylor
Anthony Taylor
>On the other, having the guy you're dropping it to say that he wouldn't do the same for you would make my blood absolutely fucking boil.
know what would help me cool down? knowing that I could make him look like complete shit in the actual match AND I'm about to get paid loadsofmoney from WCW AND I'll never have to work with these cunts again
it's fake. drop the title.
When even Cornette who loves Bret and hates Shawn Micahel's guts says Bret should've dropped the title, you know you've fucked up.
Adrian Richardson
It's not a rational way of thinking user, but it is how you act like a man in a fake sport full of faggots.
Dominic Johnson
Shawn was objectively a very good-looking man in his prime. All his "sexy boy" persona didn't come out of nothing.
If only he could stay off the drugs like you said he would look much better today.
Austin Howard
Two points of contention.
1. Shamrock was more over.
2. For you. If you like wrestling to look like pillowfighting then sure. Shamrock was not as polished, and the consequence of that is that his offense looked more realistic, which is a good thing, because you hook audiences into an emotional response (which is the point of pro wrestling) by suspension of disbelief. Realism = suspension of disbelief. Overselling = bad wrestling.
HBK has great timing but that's it imo, the value of having great timing for complicated sequences is not as valuable as making people shit themselves with your regular offense. So "good worker" is kind of a smark meme. An example of this is kazuyuji fujita as IWGP champ who everyone blew up for being shit, but his matches were hot because he made people sit on the edge of their seats wondering if he was going to concuss his opponents, and that atmosphere built an engrossing story which elicited a strong emotional response from the audience, who watched in horror as he shoot soccer kicked Shibata in the head over and over in the hottest match NJ had seen in years.
Good "worker" is a meme IMO. That's part of why I think it should've been Shamrock. He was also just plain more over than HBK. Bret was doing the right thing (ironic for a guy obsessed with good "workers" and being "safe" to the point of boring repetitive faggotry).
Jack Stewart
Even so, the WWE should not have indebted itself to an upstart like UFC. In this case, what would have happened had it gone under or had a scandal?
Isaac Gutierrez
While there was a moment in time when Shamrock was over and the fans would've accepted him as a world champion, he was one of the worst ever on the mic that's ever been in the business
Go watch his night after King of the Ring 98 promo. Truly dreadful delivery.
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Jason Scott
Under no circumstances was Shamrock more over than 90's Shawn. The nineties was Shawn's peak stardom.
Zachary Smith
Reasonably good argument I guess.
Josiah Ward
I believe he could have worked with being bald