WCW Monday Nitro Live Watch-Along: From the Beginning

[Tremendez]

All this talk about people being too short, but if you looked at the guys from this generation, though Dean, Benoit and Eddie, they all still had bodies that looked like they could hang with a guy like sting.

 

[Barry Poppins]

All this talk about people being too short, but if you looked at the guys from this generation, though Dean, Benoit and Eddie, they all still had bodies that looked like they could hang with a guy like sting.

If all three of them were even like 2 inches taller they'd be megastars

 

[Tremendez]

If we could find a talent like that, I would bring a guy out of the truck division and bring him up to watch that guy’s back and make sure we didn’t lose an asset like that.

 

[Barry Poppins]

I mean shit, Bret Hart wasn't much taller than those guys, he was only 6' tall

 

[Tremendez]

If all three of them were even like 2 inches taller they'd be megastars

Maybe not as much, Dean, but definitely Benout and Eddie would’ve been much bigger stars.

Dean, probably if he had got him a good mouthpiece would’ve been a solid icy champion for years.

 

[Tremendez]

I mean shit, Bret Hart wasn't much taller than those guys, he was only 6' tall

Even Bret struggled to let Vince give him the ball.

 

[Tremendez]

Ironically, though Vince‘s boy toy Shawn wasn’t really that well built and if I was a body guy, I would take a Benoit Dean or Eddie over Michaels purely from that standpoint.

 

[Barry Poppins]

Maybe not as much, Dean, but definitely Benout and Eddie would’ve been much bigger stars. Dean, probably if he had got him a good mouthpiece would’ve been a solid icy champion for years.

There's no reason I don't think Dean could have been a short-term world champion in 2000 has they not jumped ship

 

[Tremendez]

There's no reason I don't think Dean could have been a short-term world champion in 2000 has they not jumped ship

If they were taller or in general because in general, I’m not thinking so. Benoit was definitely going to be a focal point of the maintenance scene and maybe Eddie.

 

[Tremendez]

Main event scene*

 

[Blazehausen]

Bret would have won more world titles if not for Bill Goldberg

 

[Barry Poppins]

Also, everybody talks about Dean, but Joe Malenko was also really good in Japan at this time period

 

[Barry Poppins]

In fact Dean & Joe teamed together a few times in WCW

 

[Tremendez]

Bret would have won more world titles if not for Bill Goldberg

Honestly, the more I’ve looked into that situation. It’s honestly 50-50 on Bret. Typically a concussion doesn’t just end your career, but it got progressively worse because the man had 5 to 6 more matches after that a couple of them being hard-core matches and he took some pretty bad bumps, including power bombs and chokes slams from Sid and Kevin Nash. When Jeff got a concussion at the exact same time. His wife actually called WCW and they pulled him immediately from the road and he was back to working in the next month. Bret, just for whatever reason didn’t want to take the time off to get a proper assessment and it cost him his career.

 

[Blazehausen]

Honestly, the more I’ve looked into that situation. It’s honestly 50-50 on Bret. Typically a concussion doesn’t just end your career, but it got progressively worse because the man had 5 to 6 more matches after that a couple of them being hard-core matches and he took some pretty bad bumps, including power bombs and chokes slams from Sid and Kevin Nash. When Jeff got a concussion at the exact same time. His wife actually called WCW and they pulled him immediately from the road and he was back to working in the next month. Bret, just for whatever reason didn’t want to take the time off to get a proper assessment and it cost him his career.

Oh I agree. I'm not a Bret guy. I always take my shots at him whenever I can