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mrtc2003Posted on 03/09/03 at 22:44:18

There's already a thread going about the best gimmicks in people's TNM circuits but what about the flipside of the coin.  What gimmicks do you wish you'd never thought of?  Which wrestlers do you wish you'd never hired?

I can't think of any acutual gimmicks myself that I hate but there are a couple of wrestlers that I wish I'd never bothered with.  

For some reason that even I can't remember I decided to hire Nikolai Volkoff for one of my early circuits.  Two god-awful matches later he was fired...  

Also in another of my early circuits I hired Mr. Hughes.  As I recall he was supposed to be the bodyguard for Jeff Jarrett but ended up turning on Jarrett and winning the European Title.  Not too bad a storyline you might think except that Hughes' matches were universally awful and, unfortunately, his European title reign lasted for 10 long tedious months.  

Who else has horror stories to share?
91Posted on 03/09/03 at 23:17:51

I take it you don't book your circuit then.

My most noteable one was one I had with Curt Hennig (this all before he died, for the record). I didn't have any direction for him, but I decided to run an angle similar to a dream I had had a while back. What happened was Curt Hennig returned to the WWE again and introduced Brock Lesnar as his new partner - see the irony? Now I didn't have Brock Lesnar, but I did have Crush doing sod all. So I did a similar angle where Hennig was "fired" after a fight on a plane with Crush, then six months or so later I brought them both in as mystery partners in a Survivor Series match, and shortly afterwards, they won the tag belts.

The idea for this was I could get Crush over as a dangerous big man, while using him in a tag environment and using Hennig to make sure his matches didn't suck.

Sadly however not even Hennig could carry Crush and the matches were universally awful, so I had them drop the tag belts a month later and fired Crush. The pair had become nothing but transitional champions to ANOTHER set of transitional champions, since I needed a set of heel tag champs for an angle down the road. The whole thing was an utter mess, frankly.
LillaThrillaPosted on 03/10/03 at 06:03:24

One of the original teams in my PWF fantasy fed was The Simpsons.  Homer & Bart.  With "accurate" workrates...

Then there was Chris Carpenter the Chainsaw Wielding Madman...

The original top stars for IHLW (top = fueding for the IHLW Championship) were Lex Luger, Meng, Kurrgan, Chris the Bambikiller, and Kurt Reigns.

IHLW later saw The New Power Rangers.  Ludxor White, Venum Black, Cosmo*Soldier, Battle Ranger...and Al Green.  Man does Greene suck...

And yet more IHLW: Tzuki.  I figured I'd hire a lucha guy with the 100s all across hit statline - can't go wrong!  Only it turns out he's a mini and his finisher is a crucifix rollup.  So unbooked this guy was squashing all the other normal luchadores.  I desperately had to have 911 destroy him...

I should compile a Worst of IHLW: When Comedy Goes Very Very Wrong.
JoshiPosted on 04/08/03 at 22:25:41

Eh, in one of the TNM-MP feds from the discussion list I was in control of the WWF.

I was trying to find a way to get Test over as I really liked him at the time. This would have been several years ago. Anyways, at the same time I was watching the Rocky movies a lot and loved the Apollo Creed character...

I put 1 and 1 together, and unfortunately I ended up with Carl Weathers coming into the WWF as Apollo Creed and managing Test. Everybody hated it, I hated it, I had one good segment with Christian and Angle making fun of him, and then Test quit on me. Don't say I blame him.
LillaThrillaPosted on 04/11/03 at 04:21:41

And lets not forget the fame Test went on to when he signed with Tommy's WCW.  Didnt he befriend a crazy Sid Viciouos who thought he was a luchadore named El Santo del Nacho? :P

Poor Test, just can't ever get a break...