Fun Facts/Forgetten Storylines/Things never explained

[PTBG]

I got a bunch:
-Had Stone Cold not "taken his ball and left", was he supposed to do a storyline with Eddie G? I remember they were throwing seeds around about them feuding and what was up with Chris Benoit turning heel when he returned for no reason?


-Does anyone remember this fake Christopher Daniels look alike that had this dark character and was supposed to have a feud with the Undertaker in 2008 on Smackdown? I don't remember his name at all, but they ran vignettes for him but he never debuted.

-What happened to the Big Bossman in the 2000s and why did he just leave out of nowhere in 2000? He made a strong return in 1998 and was mad over as a heel and cutting classic promos.

-Was Billy Gunn originally the supposed to be the one that ran over Stone Cold instead of Rikishi? And was there any other potential wrestlers that was supposed to be "the one" that ran over Austin?

-Was there any serious speculation that Flair would return to the WWE in 1998-1999 because of the Bischoff situation?

-Why in the world was Bret Hart so badly used in WCW? And why was his debut done so bad?

-Any truth that the Big Show vs. Stone Cold was supposed to main event WrestleMania 15?

-Was Kurt Angle supposed to debut after WM 15? I remember he did a segment during Sunday Night Heat before Mania. Why did it take him until the end of 1999 to make it to the active roster?

-Any truth that Disco Inferno was supposed to be Rockabilly in 1997?

-Has Ricky Steamboat ever been a hell?

-Why did Bob Backlund disappear practically when Hulkamania started and did he feud with the Iron Sheik after he lost the belt to him?

-Any truth that Ric Flair believed that Alex Wright could be a main eventer and was there any big feuds or programs Alex Wright was supposed to be in?

-Why was Edge unover and practically had X-Pac heat as a babyface when he returned in 2004? He was a very good and over babyface from what I remembered in 2002 on Smackdown before he got his neck fused.

-Had Brock Lesnar decided to stay with the WWE in 2004, what were the original plans for Brock for WM 20 and were there any plans for him after WM 20?

-Any truth that Yokozuna was going to sign with WCW in 1996-1997?

Daps and pos. rep for anyone that can answer these.

 

[Kongo McMicheal]

I remember hearing that Austin requested the program with Eddie believing he was the best guy in the company at that point. He was disgruntled being pushed out of the main events for the NWO and working with Scott Hall who was still bout that life. That whole Lesnar thing sent him over the top and he dipped and Eddie had to work with Flair and Bubba Ray in the meantime.

Bret hart had a lot of enemies, people that didn't wanna see him shine. Hogan avoided him like the plague and Hall and Nash were kliq'd up so the only guys who would put him over were Flair and Hennig. Nash and Hogan had all the stroke so they weren't gonna let him do anything significant.

Backlund wasn't happy with the direction the company was headed in, he was in the undercard for a bit after he lost the belt and Mcmahon wanted to change his character and he wasn't having it.

With Yoko it was a few things, Bischoff offended him (I remember Konnan talking about it), the Samoans have loyalty to Cokeboy and he was too fat to really do anything serious at that point.

 

[FreshAIG]

Michael Cole called Kane and Taker, Step brothers...is this correct?

I know I am super late, whose ashes where in the original urn?

Half brothers. In storyline, Paul Bearer had sex with Undertaker's mother and she birthed Kane.

He probably misspoke

 

[Starburst]

Now that ADR is a face, what happened to his fleet of cars? is he no longer an aristocrat from Mexico?, is he broke? or did WWE overspend on the lease budget?

 

[bear27]

-Why in the world was Bret Hart so badly used in WCW? And why was his debut done so bad?

-Any truth that the Big Show vs. Stone Cold was supposed to main event WrestleMania 15?


First one is politics really bret couldnt beat those wcw guys at that and his heart was never in it after montreal.

Second was supposed to be for wm16 or that was the plan at least but Austin was meant to be very protective of his spot and wanted to show he was the clear top guy in the company so he beat him within the first few weeks Big Show was there.

 

[j7thirty]

Maybe it was explained but how did the undertaker go from deadman to biker?

Why don't they do more factions nexus was the last one but before that it was non existent?

 

[Scotch Hall]

-Was Billy Gunn originally the supposed to be the one that ran over Stone Cold instead of Rikishi? And was there any other potential wrestlers that was supposed to be "the one" that ran over Austin?I heard at one point they were playing around with the idea that Gunn was going to be but HHH axed that.

-Was there any serious speculation that Flair would return to the WWE in 1998-1999 because of the Bischoff situation?I always heard that Flair wanted to sign with Vince in 1998, and Vince asked around if that was a good idea and Triple H said hes too old, he can't go anymore. What a suprise years later in 2001 when hes all on his dikk. I guess Triple H was paranoid at that time, it would have been one more person in 1998 going over him.

-Any truth that the Big Show vs. Stone Cold was supposed to main event WrestleMania 15? I always heard they were supposed to main event at Wrestlemania 16, they wanted that Andre Hogan build but Big Show wasn't as over as Vince wanted him to be. So thats why they changed it to 4 people or something like that

-Why did Bob Backlund disappear practically when Hulkamania started and did he feud with the Iron Sheik after he lost the belt to him? He didn't think Hogan was that good, thats why he dropped that belt instead to iron shiek, and sheik dropped it to Hogan. I guess he didn't like the direction they were going in, he wanted someone with a wrestling background.

-Any truth that Yokozuna was going to sign with WCW in 1996-1997? Konnan said he was gonna bring in Yoko and wanted to have him talk to Eric B. he got offended by that.

 

[So UnThotful]

I got a bunch:


-Does anyone remember this fake Christopher Daniels look alike that had this dark character and was supposed to have a feud with the Undertaker in 2008 on Smackdown? I don't remember his name at all, but they ran vignettes for him but he never debuted.



Daps and pos. rep for anyone that can answer these.

Hade Vansen Promo - YouTube

dude name was hade vansen, dude was suppose to come in with a stable (kevin thorn was suupose to be one of them) but after that promo aired vince got cold feet about the taker feud (was right around Wm time) and canned it and dude got released like a month after

 

[Seth Brundle]

I've wondered about this very same thing, breh. The only reason I can come up with (and it's a fairly weak reason) is that it's collateral damage from the Benoit thing. The Two Man Power Trip spent a lot of their time together feuding with Benoit and Jericho, and since Benoit is never mentioned anymore, there's not a lot of Two Man Power Trip footage they can use.

That shouldn't stop them from at least occasionally mentioning their alliance though, without mentioning their opponents.

Alternatively, the intention was for Trips to turn face in breaking up the Power Trip. Had he not got injured, it probably would have played out much differently. But in the very least with Austin being the heel and Triple H being the face, I think, as the Power Trip imploded.

Austin did cut a promo the week following H's quad tear, saying Hunter just couldn't cut it. It lead me to think there was much more planned, and that's all they got to do with it.

They probably ignored it subsequently because so much had happened by the time HHH returned, and the idea would have no traction since in its original conception it never even got an opportunity to germinate.

Perhaps.

 

[DANJ!]

I got a bunch:
-Had Stone Cold not "taken his ball and left", was he supposed to do a storyline with Eddie G? I remember they were throwing seeds around about them feuding and what was up with Chris Benoit turning heel when he returned for no reason? They were gonna have Benoit and Guerrero run together for a while as a unit... even had them leave Raw for Smackdown together- they got swapped for Jericho, Test, and Christian. But once that happened, they ended up getting quietly separated.

-Has Ricky Steamboat ever been a heel? Unless it was in a regional territory, Steamboat has never been a heel to my knowledge. I recall Pat Patterson saying Steamboat pitched the possibility of a heel turn at one point, and Pat told him he was too nice of a guy and a natural babyface to be a heel. He told Steamboat "I could send you out there and have you cut Hogan's arms off and they wouldn't believe you."

-Why was Edge unover and practically had X-Pac heat as a babyface when he returned in 2004? He was a very good and over babyface from what I remembered in 2002 on Smackdown before he got his neck fused. He came back to nice fanfare, but just wasn't clicking as a face anymore. He started doing these intense/angry Ultimate Warriorish promos about taking out Evolution one at a time- especially one where he came out and just told Orton "I... DON'T... LIKE... YOU!" Those promos fell flat and then he gradually started getting booed. So after it became clear that it wasn't working (by this point he was getting "Edge you suck" chants), they gradually started turning him.

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

Those angry promos carried over to his heel run as well but people stopped booing and stopped caring. As I've always said, Edge owes his career to Matt Hardy and his bytching.

 

[Heelish]

^ Not the only wrestler that owes his career to a Hardy

 

[Smokebreak]

punk/hhh/steph/johnnyace



who was textin who brehs

 

[Notorious 1 E.Y.E.]

mystery gm?

it was hornswaggle under the ring the whole time

 

[TheGreatShowtime]

punk/hhh/steph/johnnyace



who was textin who brehs

I thought they said it was Johnny Ace texting Nash?