Jan 4, 2022 23:09:28 GMT UT said:

Jan 4, 2022 21:47:22 GMT 🤯 said:

Every time Strobe posts, it's with proof of why he belongs on my Mt. Rushmore of PW posters.

You have a Mt. Rushmore of PW Posters?

Who doesn't?

I would have minded Duggan slamming Yoko. That would have made up for all the kind of uneventful run he had in WWF.

Jan 4, 2022 2:39:26 GMT Baker said:

Cagematch says he worked the '93 Rumble so that's weird. He did leave a few days after the show. Typhoon stuck around going solo for a few months before defecting to WCW where he became the Shockmaster. Quake did come back in early '94 to finally have that Yoko program, but I am sad to report it did not live up to the Colossal Jostle of your dreams and Quake would soon depart again. They did have a Sumo Match on Superstars though. 

The end of the Disasters was a bit odd.

The Disasters were feuding with the Shrinkers, who had helped cost them the tag titles to Money Inc, who had gone on to feud with the now face Nastys. Both of those tag feuds seemed like they could've been prime for either Rumble or Mania matches (in storyline, the Nastys stepped aside to let Hogan/Beefer have the shot against DiBiase/IRS).

Then Quake didn't work any matches between Dec 13 and Jan 22.

Typhoon didn't work again in 1992 after Dec 13 either but from Jan 1 started working Bam Bam on house shows and had a match that was aired on TV in late Jan.

Quake came back and worked Yoko a couple of times before the Rumble, where Quake eliminated Typhoon before Yoko eliminated Quake.

Early Feb, Typhoon lost to Doink on RAW.

Mid-Feb, Ramon beat Typhoon on RAW while Perfect watched from the interview platform and then they had a brawl. As a side, both Ramon/Perfect or Ramon/Savage made complete sense as Mania matches stemming from long-term feuds. For seemingly no reason, Savage was just on commentary and they did Perfect/Narcissist and Razor/Backlund. It isn't as if they did that because they didn't want either Perfect or Razor to lose, because Luger beat Perfect. They also had Razor beat Backlund in a few minutes, his first WWF pinfall loss ever, something you could've at least built to or talked up beforehand and made it a big deal.

Filmed in late Jan, aired in late Feb, Quake's last appearance was a loss to Bigelow.

Typhoon kept working after Quake left, often on house shows against Doink (or Bammer as sub for Doink). A few TV matches here and there. Working with other early-to-mid 1993 rejects: Repo Man, Berzerker, Terry Taylor, Damien Demento, Skinner, Papa Shango.

Loses a KOTR qualifying match to Bammer at MSG on May 10 and in terms of working consistently, that is the end of Typhoon really. Two more random house show appearances (May 27, July 18) and he'd be gone. August 18 was the Shockmaster's debut.

Back to the beginning, because the Disasters basically just stopped as a team abruptly in mid-December, the Headshrinkers moved on to working with High Energy, which seemed an ideal feud to have them win, especially with someone like Owen able to make their offence seem deadly. Because Hogan/Beefer ultimately needed the tag title shot, pivoting to Shrinkers/Nastys for Mania would've made sense. The Shrinkers were a new heel team and should've been built up as a threat and someone of importance for the Steiners to beat, not just beaten by them at Mania.

After previously talking about Duggan's slightly raw deal in terms of big matches on TV, I got to thinking of others who may have gotten short-changed.

For some reason The Berzerker came to mind and in terms of where 🤯 is up to with Superstars, he is just about to be gone, with his last appearance in a battle royal on the 2/15/93 RAW.

His TV debut was on the 2/17/91 Wrestling Challenge as The Viking. Fuji became his manager on 3/10/91 Challenge. Think the first TV appearance with name change to Berzerker was 3/26/91 PTW.

After months of random opponents, his first regular house show opponent was Snuka in July/August. Snuka would hang around until February 1992, but they probably should have gotten rid of him sooner. Maybe they could've had Berzerker put him out of the Fed to get him over. Really, that would've been a cool thing to have had Taker do. Have Mania VII be Snuka's last match. Maybe Taker could've brought out a casket for the big show and put Snuka in it post-match. Would've fit well at the time, since he was talking about burying Warrior after his career was to be ended by Macho that night, to set up their feud.

SummerSlam 1991: Beating Snuka here could've definitely happened, but this was such a stacked show that it is hard to justify adding this. Could be billed as a battle of wildmen.

He had a short house show run with Tornado when he was being winded down. This is where the cancellation of SNME hurts as this is a match that you could've seen on an autumn show. He then moved on to facing The Hammer.

Survivor Series 1991: In a Series tag match opposite Tornado, but it was mainly about Slaughter taking the kayfabe-injured Anvil's spot on Duggan's team. Steamboat was supposed to be on the face side (feuding with Skinner at the time) but left and was replaced by the repackaged Tito Santana. Big Bully Busick was supposed to be on the heel team but left and was replaced by Hercules (back as a singles after Roma's departure in October). The faces pumped the heels 4-0 with Duggan pinning Berzerker to end the match. Feels needless to pin him at this point. Could've had him dump Kerry to the outside and do his dive over the ropes on to him and just HUSS! until they are both counted out. Protects both to an extent and puts Berzerker over as a madman.

Post-Series, he was on house shows against Tornado before moving over to Davey Boy.

Royal Rumble 1992: Given that a big part of his character was throwing people over the top rope and winning by countout, he should definitely have had a featured spot in the Rumble. Have him toss a few people out in quick succession while Heenan goes crazy on commentary that this guy is going to win and hoping he stays away from Flair. Maybe even have him lose control and do his jump out on to the third person he eliminates and just husses without even realising he has eliminated himself. Continues to get him over as completely mad.

Continued to work with Bulldog in Jan and Feb, before moving on to Crush (who would not return on TV repackaged until May) as main opponent in March.

WrestleMania VIII: He was supposed to face Davey Boy here, but the match was cut for time. I remember their December MSG match being a fun sprint and they could've had the same here on a stadium show. They could have done with an angle heading in though.

Post-Mania, Berzerker feuds with Taker and finally gets an angle, famously trying to stab Taker with his sword. On 7/6/92 PTW, Berzerker won a 40-man Battle Royal, so they used that part of his gimmick in a positive way. Unfortunately, about 6 weeks out from SummerSlam (presumably due to poor business), they shuffled almost every feud around and changed Taker's SummerSlam opponent to Kamala, even though he was going to feud with him after SummerSlam so they had to do a non-finish.

SummerSlam 1992: Berzerker ended up losing a nothing match to Tatanka here, which was one of three cut from the US PPV that was aired days after the event. Absolutely zero reason to not do the Taker blowoff here. Berzerker could've had 2 stadium matches with stars, Davey and Taker, in 1992. He ended up with only one against Tatanka, which he lost in 5 mins, and was shown on a September PTW.

Berzerker did not work much between Slam and Series, but his main opponent was Crush. Berzerker lost a WWF Title match to Bret on the 11/9/92 PTW during their push to make Hart the "fightingest champion of all time".

Survivor Series 1992: Berzerker was not on the show and Crush was in a dark match against Repo. Given that they moved to mainly singles matches on this show, they could definitely have run Crush/Berz. Again, could've done with an angle.

Worked with Crush, Tito, Duggan post-Series before moving on to Backlund in early 1993.

Royal Rumble 1993: Like I would've wanted the previous year, they could've given him a little spotlight role. Have a few eliminations, rather than just the one (Virgil) he got. He was eliminated by Taker, which isn't a bad choice. Could've had Backlund do it to get over his freakish strength.