The Backstory to the Backstory

I started a thread yesterday with a big old rambling post pwcom.proboards.com/thread/3369/unpopular-opinions-bad-takes-disconnect?page=1&scrollTo=134057 just to set the stage for today's topic.

The major purpose of yesterday's post was to show how limited my perspective was when it came to what was popular in wrestling while I was growing up. I basically judged what was popular (or unpopular) based on my own idiosyncratic tastes and the opinions of a handful of friends/acquaintances. And I'm not sure these other people were "normal" wrestling fans either. For example, my closest wrestling fan friend from about mid 93-early 95 was a guy I quite accurately refer to as "Matt The IRS Fan." Yep. An IRS fan. Totally normal stuff....

I felt it was important to set the stage the way I did because I would never (re)book anything I personally could not believe in. So as "out there" as my Lex Luger superpush, or this upcoming Mr. Wonderful rebook may appear in 2020, these are things I genuinely could have seen happening back in the day. Hell, most of these rebooking projects are just expanded versions of things I envisioned in my head a quarter century ago. Anyway.....

The wrestling business was booming by the Summer of '95 (or so I thought) simply because I had more wresting fan friends than ever before. Counting myself, our main group consisted of 7 hardcore super fans who watched all the wrestling we could (then spent the rest of the week discussing what we had watched) and 2 other casual fans (including a rare Smoking Gunns enthusiast!) who watched mainly just because the rest of us did. For the core group of 7, our lives pretty much revolved around Wrestling, Exosquad(!), and Courtball, with Wrestling coming first.

Getting all 7-9 of us to agree on ANYTHING wrestling-related was a daunting proposition. We were a very opinionated bunch with an extremely diverse set of opinions who argued about practically everything. On the far end of one spectrum, you had me with my oddball tastes and predominately heel loving ways. On the far end of the other spectrum, you had more traditional babyface fans like my brother and a few others (although even these more traditional fans were not without their idiosyncrasies). Then you had a few people in the middle of the two extremes who liked a mix of face and heel wrestlers. A few were growing into early workrate snobs, while I still thought the money was in big, mean, nasty fatties battling heroic musclemen. A wrestler being "over" within our group typically meant people argued over them.... 

Let's use Razor and his Opponents as an example. The bulk of my wrestling fan clique loved "The Bad Guy." I personally could not stand the man who oozed machismo. Instead, I was a huge fan of his rivals- Dean Douglas, Goldust, and the team of Sid & The Kid. So Razor's matches became heated affairs with the pro and anti Razor factions hanging on the edge of our seats during his matches. Applying modern terminology to 1995 logic, this meant Razor and his Opponents were "over" because we were all deeply invested in the outcome of their matches.

Only a select few wrestlers managed to unify all 7-9 of us. So, again applying modern terminology to 1995 logic, this meant those wrestlers were not just over, but over like rover. Getting all of us to agree on anything was a minor miracle. As best I can remember, only 4 wrestlers were over with all of us in late 95-early 96. Let's take a look at this Fantastic Four.....

The first wrestler with unanimous consent was.....Barry Horowitz  :lol:  Yep. We all LOVED the ultimate underdog. Hell, Barry beating Skip is literally what kickstarted this neighborhood wrestling boom! Not a single one of us would have batted an eye if Barry won the IC Title, or Tag Titles with Hakushi. In fact, this is what we WANTED to happen. I personally thought it was inevitable, and anxiously awaited that day. I will even go a step further and say I would have been totally fine with Barry winning the WWF Championship! With my logic being, "If you're going to do a Rocky story, you might as well go all the way." 

A few months later Dean Malenko would generate unanimous consent. Dean was another underdog, albeit one of a different stripe than Howitzer Horowitz. Horowitz was a storyline underdog. Malenko was a real life underdog. Barry turned the "loser" gimmick into a feel good push. Despite being so good, Malenko was more like a real life loser...or at least a non-factor. So we latched onto him as Our Guy. Like Horowitz, a lot of Dean's appeal came from rooting for the underdog. So him beating Ohtani for the Cruiserweight Title on humble Worldwide was a HUGE moment for us. Our guy had made it! Then he even started getting pay per view matches! Hooray! But the good times would not last. Dean's unanimous consent evaporated when stupid Rey Mysterio Jr. debuted and half my clique defected to Team Rey after being wowed by their shiny new toy. Sad. This lead to the Great Rey/Dean Divide and a series of heated matches with total investment. 

Undertaker was another wrestler we all liked. 'Taker had always been popular in my neighborhood. He was basically God to my much smaller 93-94 wrestling fan clique. And while we did unanimously like 'Taker in 95-96, it was honestly a step down from the love he got from that different set of friends in 93-94.

And the 4th wrestler with unanimous consent is none other than the man of the hour.....

Mr. Wonderful Paul Orndorff

To be continued....

The Backstory

Mr. Wonderful had been in WCW for about 3 years by the time in question. Up to September '95 he wasn't a guy I thought about very often. His TV Title run in '93 was....alright. His "Pretty Wonderful" tag team with Paul Roma was.....less than alright. Leading up to September '95 there's a decent chance I had forgotten Orndoff was even still in WCW. Admittedly, much of that is because I barely watched any WCW in the year leading up to Fall Brawl '95, which was the very first WCW pay per view I ever saw. 

I did not have any real nostalgia for Mr. Wonderful's 80s WWF run either since all the highlights of that run, save one, took place before I became a wrestling fan. Although I will admit I had always considered him The King of the Piledriver. Yes, even above Lawler up to this point in time.

In closing, Mr. Wonderful up to September '95 was just your typical, run of the mill WCW wrestler.....another old guy whose best days came a decade earlier in 80s WWF.

That all I changed when I saw this wonderful video at Fall Brawl '95.....



Oh. My. God. Instantly over. And I mean that without a trace of irony. My friends and I genuinely thought this was brilliant. Were we idiots? Probably. But it struck a chord with us. This was THE highlight of Fall Brawl '95, and it had us all abuzz for the next week or two. Everything about it was just so wonderfully Pro Wrestling.... 

Here is the story of a once great man who has lost his mojo. He is suffering through a losing streak. He's experiencing self doubt. Until! A weirdo psychic who for some reason wears an AMAZING fake afro goes all proto DDP with a rah rah motivational speech for the ages. Mr. Wonderful gets his mojo back and we're off to the races.....

The way I remember it, this video aired on all WCW programming for a week or two. So we got to relive it in all its glory time and time again. Mind blown! When I discovered this MASTERPIECE was considered "Wrestlecrap" years later. The disconnect is real. I thought, and still think, this is on the shortlist of greatest things in WCW history. It instantly made Mr. Wonderful the most over WCW wrestler since The Black Scorpion! Or so I thought due to all of that "extremely narrow perspective" stuff I've been harping on about for the past few days.

Oh, but it soon got even better when this WONDERFUL piece of music debuted as his new theme.....



There was no turning back now. Mr. Wonderful was our WCW Guy. It was unanimous. We would have followed that man to the ends of the Earth....or to WCW main events. That would have worked too. 

He was technically still a heel, but even my babyface fan friends loved Mr. #1derful. He was so gloriously over the top. How could you NOT love this man? So we all became totally invested in this new and improved Mr. Wonderful character.

They did an angle where he broke his now-trademark mirror and started doubting himself again due to the whole "7 years of bad luck" thing. WONDERFUL! And it soon became even more wonderful when our favorite psychic, Gary Spivey, showed up to once again give Our Hero his mojo back in another 10/10 segment....



Our Hero was riding high. Mr. Wonderful was the most over wrestler WCW had produced.....in years? Ever? The sky was the limit. Then tragedy stuck when those heinous Horsemen, lead by that annoying little troublemaker, Brian Pillman, performed the most dastardly deed these beautiful baby browns had ever seen.....
*Skip ahead to 2:13





You want to talk about heat? You want to talk about being emotionally invested in an angle? Well, here ya go. This shit was real. We're talking Serious Business. My friends and I were APPALLED. This was like my own personal version of Earthquake squashing Hogan or Owen concussing Shawn. Even I, Ric Flair fanboy #1, wanted Orndorff to destroy those Horsemen jerks after this. And I'd have parted with ALL THE DIMES to see it happen.

But WCW almost ruined their big money angle a mere 5 days later. After this heinous attack, which, to WCW's credit, they had the announcers treat as a huge deal, Mr. Wonderful showed up fresh as a daisy the next weekend on Worldwide. Wtf? How is Mr. Wonderful completely fine after what just happened to him on Nitro?? Why are the announcers completely no selling this big money Horsemen/Wonderful angle?? It was an even bigger mind screw than finding out people didn't like 1995 WWF, Undertaker vs. Underfaker, or this Mr. Wonderful run. And that's when I first realized WCW Worldwide was a week behind in my area. I don't know if it was like this everywhere else, but WCW Worldwide would always be a week behind here in Baltimore. Typical "lol WCW." 

As luck would have it, the Worldwide match in question was the most glorious bout Wonderful had during this run. It's a squash of Disco Inferno that only lasts like 10 seconds, but completely gets both characters over in that short amount of time. It's actually one of my favorite squashes, and most efficient uses of time in pro wrestling history. Enjoy!



Back in the normal timeline, they did indeed make a big deal of Wonderful's injury. The storyline was he would be out of action for a while due to a serious neck injury caused by the Horsemen's spike piledriver. Major bummer.

A few weeks later Ric Flair won the WCW Championship for the first time in a year and a half. Then Arn beat Hogan twice. The Horsemen were once again riding high. And that was great! But it caused this weird dichotomy where I'd root for Flair, Arn, and Benoit (FUCK Pillman) over anybody else, but still wanted to see Wonderful come back to kick all their asses. It's here where I got the idea into my head that Mr. Wonderful was going to come back, run through the Horsemen, and actually take the WCW Championship from Ric Flair. Just take my dimes already!!! 

Wonderful came back to cut a fiery babyface promo at the January Clash of the Champions where he vowed revenge on the Horsemen while my friends and I popped huge.

A few weeks later on Nitro a mystery man who was heavily implied to be Orndorff attacked either Arn or Pillman (I forget which) with....a broom. OK, that seems lame on paper, but my friends and I were ALL IN on Orndorff as a vengeful vigilante....almost a full year before Crow Sting, I might add! Hmm....I wonder if Sting's vigilante gimmick was at least partially inspired by this aborted Orndorff angle? Wouldn't surprise me. I can definitely see similarities.

Alas, aborted it was Orndorff's real life injuries were too severe. He never did come back. I think the broom attack was the last mention of the Orndorff/Horsemen angle. For months I held out hope that my WCW Hero would return outta nowhere to claim his vengeance. But he didn't. And I soon moved onto other things.

BUT! Tomorrow I am finally going to write what should have been. Which is to say....

Mr. Wonderful: 1996 WCW Main Eventer

Jul 19, 2020 2:21:21 GMT Baker said:

For example, my closest wrestling fan friend from about mid 93-early 95 was a guy I quite accurately refer to as "Matt The IRS Fan." Yep. An IRS fan. Totally normal stuff....

I felt it was important to set the stage the way I did because I would never (re)book anything I personally could not believe in. So as "out there" as my Lex Luger superpush, or this upcoming Mr. Wonderful rebook may appear in 2020, these are things I genuinely could have seen happening back in the day.

Still need to read The Backstory, but dropping feedback whenever I finish a post...

If Matt didn't grow up to become an accountant, actuary, auditor, or ideally an agent for the Internal Revenue Service then I'll forever be even more mystified by his fandom.

Hey, was that a shot at my Sid rebook!? You calling me a nonbeliever?! I'd totally be okay with Sid holding the belt through the 90s to hand to Brock to carry through the 2000s (the millennium, not the decade).

-_-

Love the Howitzer shoutout!

You never forget your first Heel to Babyface turn. For me, that was Mr. Wonderful in 1985. Was either #2 behind Tito or #3 behind Steamboat. Helped that I hated everyone he feuded with - Piper, Orton, and Muraco. Looking back, he never got one over on any of those guys in major matches. It was always a countout or dq finish with him coming out like a chump getting himself dq'd or counted out too many times. guess he pinned Piper a few times at untelevised house shows. I really liked him anyway. enough to be super pissed when he turned on Hogan. that feud or Hogan vs Savage earlier in the year was the most I was ever behind Hulk. Looking back, I would have loved to see him feud with heels in 85 they might've been willing to have lose. Terry Funk is the first one to come to mind.

Something about Orndorff really reminds me of Owen Hart. Might be the look and demeanor. He also turned a lot for the 80's, similar to Owen as a face in 87 then turning heel the next year. people didn't switch allignment like that very often in the 80s so 2 face turns and a heel turn in a little over 2 years was rare.

Been on an 80's wwf binge lately. havent checked out early 90s WCW in a while. Kinda drawing a blank on Orndorffs run there outside of matches with Steamboat and Cactus. might have to check some stuff out. I know Orndorff was busy training guys at the powerplant in 96 but maybe have him come back as a cornerman to someone like the Giant or Savage who is feuding with Hogan in 96. Horsemen were getting face pops early in that year so I can't think of anyone for Orndorff to back that year against Flair (unless he joins the dungeon). maybe Eddie

Jul 19, 2020 10:34:57 GMT 🤯 said:

Jul 19, 2020 2:21:21 GMT Baker said:

If Matt didn't grow up to become an accountant, actuary, auditor, or ideally an agent for the Internal Revenue Service then I'll forever be even more mystified by his fandom.

Hey, was that a shot at my Sid rebook!? You calling me a nonbeliever?! I'd totally be okay with Sid holding the belt through the 90s to hand to Brock to carry through the 2000s (the millennium, not the decade).

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Mr. Wonderful: 1996 WCW Main Eventer (at last)

September 95-February 96: The Build

*Not much changes during the early stages of Mr. Wonderful's push. But I'm going to recap it anyway.....

-Loses a lot leading up to September '95. Starts questioning whether or not he really is Wonderful.
Fall Brawl '95- Regains his mojo with the help of psychic/motivation speaker Gary Spivey. Debuts the new and improved Mr. Wonderful character.
-His iconic opera-style theme debuts a short time later. The next night on Nitro, I think.
-Has another bout of self doubt after breaking his now-trademark mirror. Gary Spivey once again comes to the rescue. 
Nitro 12/11/95- Is brutally attacked by the Horsemen, culminating in a spike piledriver on the floor. Orndorff is stretchered out.
Nitro 12/18/95- It's announced Orndorff is injured and will be out for an indeterminate amount of time, and may never return at all.

*Wonderful wasn't in any feuds during this 3 month run in real life. And that's fine. He doesn't need to be in any feuds yet. The idea is just to rebuild him with wins over lower card talent. The one thing I'd do a little differently is book him against more heels to prepare the fans for his impending face turn. But it's not a major issue. The key is just getting him on tv. Put that man with that gimmick on tv and he is bound to get over.

January 96 Clash of Champions: Cuts a fiery babyface promo vowing revenge on the Horsemen
Nitro 2/5/96: Is strongly implied to have carried out a vicious broom attack on a Horseman.

*During Wonderful's in ring hiatus, the Horsemen's cowardly attack is replayed ad nauseam to get it into the heads of fans that this is a Very Big Deal. 

February 96-July 96: The Revenge

*After multiple posts, and several days of hype, here is where this project finally begins in earnest....

Superbrawl 96- The Horsemen had a big night in real life. I don't want to change too much. So we'll say they had Orndorff barred from the building. It doesn't need to be a big thing. Just a seemingly throwaway line from Schiavone will suffice. This was the night of the infamous Pillman/Sullivan "Bookerman" Match. This event also featured Ric Flair recapturing the WCW Championship from Randy Savage.

Nitro 2/12/96- Main Event celebration featuring new WCW Champion Ric Flair and the Horsemen. They're flanked by masked security a la Shane Douglas at Barely Legal because Flair is so hated. Swerve! One of the security guards is Mr. Wonderful! He beats the Horsemen with his baton while the crowd goes wild. This is obviously a blatant ripoff of ECW's Barely Legal angle, but if you're going to plagiarize, at least steal the good stuff.

Nitros 2/19, 2/26, 3/4 1996:  Sees Mr. Wonderful stalk the increasingly paranoid Horsemen with a series of vigilante attacks. Pillman one week. Arn the next. And finally Ric Flair. The Horsemen have had enough. They challenge Mr. Wonderful to fight one of them at Uncensored. 

Nitro 3/11/96- Mr. Wonderful accepts the challenge! As luck would have it, his doctors have just cleared him to wrestle. Mr. Wonderful cuts another fiery babyface promo. He'll take the Horsemen out one by one. But he wants to begin with the little shit who started it all- Brian Pillman.

*Orndorff was out for 3 months in this universe. That's plenty of time to sell an injury angle. Steamboat was out for less time when Savage crushed his larynx. Michaels was out for less time all 3 times he did an injury angle in 95-early 96.

-But there's still one potential problem. Pillman worked Bischoff into a shoot and got his release. Besides, I highly doubt jobbing to Mr. Wonderful was in Pillman's plans. So I'll go with two potential options here.....

Uncensored Option One: Orndorff gets his revenge by beating Pillman to a pulp in a No DQ Piledriver Match where anything goes, but pinfalls are only counted after Piledrivers. This becomes Pillman's swan song. Orndorff then gets the rub of being the guy to run Pillman out of WCW. He gloats about this for months. 

Uncensored Option Two: Pillman pusses out at the last minute and is replaced by fellow Horseman Chris Benoit with the storyline being Benoit has a chance to "earn his Horsemen stripes" by taking Orndorff out once and for all. Orndorff beats Benoit in a fairly uneventful match.

*Option One is obviously better. I just question how realistic it is.

April-May: Orndorff goes on a tear through lower card heels while continuing to the stalk/taunt The Horsemen not unlike the way Stone Cold would harass Mr. McMahon a few years later. The Horsemen are now terrified of this vengeful warrior and willing to do anything to protect Flair's belt. If Orndorff/Benoit doesn't take place at Uncensored, it happens on an episode of Nitro during this stretch with the same storyline and result.

Slamboree 96: Dammit! Orndorff is stuck teaming with Arn. They obviously brawl and end up losing their match due to an inability to get along.

May-June: Orndorff continues to beat lower card talent in singles matches and works some tag matches with other top babyfaces against various Horsemen combinations.

Great American Bash: Orndorff beats Arn Anderson in some kind of stipulation match. Benoit & Sullivan are already doing a wild brawl. So I guess we'll make this one another Piledriver Match.....with Orndorff becoming #1 Contender if he wins. *Spoiler Alert* He does win. Three down. One to go. Unfortunately, this means we must hold off on Mongo

June-July: Hype goes into overdrive for the big Flair/Orndorff match. They wrestle on opposite sides in more tag matches and get into a few heated backstage brawls. 

Bash At The Beach: He did it! Mr. Wonderful is your NEEEWWWW WCW Champion! After 7 months, he has scored the ultimate revenge. Just imagine it....

Mr. Wonderful stands victorious over a bloody, beaten, and battered Ric Flair....the WCW Championship held aloft for all the world to see.....thousands of Floridians marking out....all while this plays.....



All. The. Dimes.

But the good times do not last. The feel good moment of the year is immediately followed by the greatest, most impactful, and most memorable heel turn of all time- Hulk Hogan joining the NWO. Off the charts juxtaposition. 

Hogan and Orndorff are once again on a collision course with destiny.

July 96-On: The End

July-August: The NWO takes over. Orndorff rallies the troops as he is now one of the lead generals for Team WCW. It practically writes itself. Hogan. Orndorff. Two historic rivals set to do battle one more time, only now the roles are reversed from their 80s heyday.

Hog Wild: DAMMIT! The dream is dead. Hogan has won.   The NWO now rules WCW wrestling. Maybe have Orndorff play "Hogan" while Hogan plays "Orndorff" during their match in a neat twist on their 80s rivalry. But the results remains the same- existential sadness.

*Orndorff's big main event push revolved entirely around him getting revenge on the Horsemen who had wronged him. He was never destined for a long title reign. As luck would have it, perfect timing ensued with Hogan turning heel on the very same show I had always intended on giving Orndorff WCW Championship. I didn't even really pre-plan the Hogan/Orndorff stuff! It was just a perfect coincidence.

Nitro 8/12/96: Orndorff is too demoralized to even show up. The NWO has a disgusting celebration in his absence. But there is a light at the end of the tunnel! Orndorff has been granted a rematch against Hogan at the upcoming Clash!

August Clash of the Champions: Hogan gets DQed. But Orndorff is the real loser. Hogan retains the title. Orndorff gets pummeled when Hall & Nash interfere. They put him through a table. Razor's Edge or Jacknife, it matters not. Orndorff once again gets stretchered out while the villainous NWO gloats.

Nitro 8/19/96: It's announced the NWO's vile attack of Mr. Wonderful has reaggravated Orndorff's neck injury the Horsemen caused last year. Rumor is it's even worse this time than it was last time. Next week we will hear from Mr. Wonderful himself.

Nitro 8/26/96: Mr. Wonderful confirms the rumors. The doctors have said he must retire or risk permanent paralysis. Orndorff thought long and hard about it. He's a fighter. He doesn't want to give up the only profession he has ever known. But then he thought about it some more. He's no longer a young man. He has a family to feed. He accomplished everything he ever set out to do in the wrestling business. So, with a tear in his eye, Mr. Wonderful announces he has a major announcement to make next week. 

Nitro 9/2/96: Mr. Wonderful officially retires   The NWO gets kayfabe credit for doing the deed. The heroes of WCW come out one by one to congratulate the Wonderful one until nobody is left. It's all very emotional. Nitro is about to wrap up....when this plays....



Flair & Arn stroll out. Aww shit. What's gonna happen now? Hugs and handshakes! That's what! The Horsemen and Orndorff have buried the hatchet. Orndorff grabs the mic one last time....

For one last fiery babyface promo. WAR GAMES! NWO vs. Sting, Lex Luger....

FLAIR & ARN! 

Orndorff has issued the challenge! And he leaves with one last line....

KICK THEIR ASS!

Fall Brawl '96: Team WCW does not, in fact, kick NWO ass. They lose A heartbroken Orndorff was at ringside as the Manager for Team WCW. He remains on tv as the "Gary Spivey" rah rah guy for Team WCW. Maybe he does a bit of commentary on the side.

Halloween Havoc 96: Hogan does it again. This time beating Savage. But Orndorff comes out after the match. He's got a little surprise for The Hulkster.....



OH! MY! GOD! Hulk Hogan looks as if he's seen a ghost. His old rivals, Piper & Orndorff, have come back to haunt him. The 80s never really end, you see. Roles just change as time marches on.

*Orndorff starts off as Piper's manager but gets slowly phased out as the months roll on.

Starrcade 96: Piper w/ Orndorff beats Hogan in a non-title match.

Superbrawl 97: Hogan defeats Piper w/ Orndorff with the title on the line this time

Halloween Havoc 97- Hogan defeats Piper in the "Age In A Cage" rubber match when Orndorff turns on "The Hot Rod." DAMMIT!!!!

*Orndorff uses the old "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" logic that most defectors to the NWO used. Orndorff has been losing to Hogan for 12 years. It's time to stop being a loser, and start being a winner. He can even beat up Gary Spivey for NUCLEAR HEEL HEAT. 

*That's about it for Orndorff. He shows up from time to time with the NWO, but makes minimal impact beyond that initial turn a la Dibiase or Dusty. In later years, he would occasionally show up as a special guest legend/referee/commentator, while also continuing his real life duty as head trainer at the WCW Power Plant.

Just sitting here thinking about the downside to this otherwise wonderful project. Namely two of my big 1996 WCW guys in Mongo and The Giant getting the shaft. And, yeah, that sucks. But it was inevitable. There's only so much room at the top. Some must sink so that others may swim.

Also thinking about starting another rebooking project to kill time until System posts the Animal Warfare finals and I can finally go away for a little while. I'm open to suggestions.

Jul 21, 2020 1:53:33 GMT Baker said:

Just sitting here thinking about the downside to this otherwise wonderful project. Namely two of my big 1996 WCW guys in Mongo and The Giant getting the shaft. And, yeah, that sucks. But it was inevitable. There's only so much room at the top. Some must sink so that others may swim.

Also thinking about starting another rebooking project to kill time until System posts the Animal Warfare finals and I can finally go away for a little while. I'm open to suggestions.

Redo Warrior's runs in the WWF? Namely his initial run as world champ through late 1992 (and beyond!?) and/or his return for a second go in 1996?

Jul 21, 2020 18:36:06 GMT 🤯 said:

Jul 21, 2020 1:53:33 GMT Baker said:

Redo Warrior's runs in the WWF? Namely his initial run as world champ through late 1992 (and beyond!?) and/or his return for a second go in 1996?

Meh. Thanks for the suggestion, but Warrior just doesn't interest me.

Jul 22, 2020 1:18:40 GMT Baker said:

Jul 21, 2020 18:36:06 GMT 🤯 said:

Redo Warrior's runs in the WWF? Namely his initial run as world champ through late 1992 (and beyond!?) and/or his return for a second go in 1996?

Meh. Thanks for the suggestion, but Warrior just doesn't interest me.

Hence the challenge!

Do you have an era and/or promotion preference?

I'll toss out off the wall challenges all day!