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ParanoidObsessive 09/19/17 4:46:51 AM #85:	Zeus posted... Sadly, I wasn't really watching when he was still a big deal. I also wasn't watching when Cornette was a big thing so my first real exposure to Cornette was when he was playing the GM or whatever on TNA and, as a face, I wound up hating him because I mostly just found him annoying. The problem with Cornette is that he was very much a Southern wrestling guy, so unless you were a big fan of wrestling in the 80s AND lived in the South (because otherwise, you were probably a WWF fan exclusively), you probably weren't going to really appreciate him (because his run in the WWF was mostly meh at best). Mid-South and early WCW really weren't getting a ton of airtime outside of their own region, while WWF was going national (and then global), and basically shaping the perception of what top-tier wrestling is supposed to be for most people. Most people who liked his run in WWF are mostly thinking of the period when they let him do his mostly-uncensored "shoot" promos that the smarks loved (much like CM Punk's "pipebomb" years later really sparked a lot of excitement), but that wasn't really the bulk of his time there, so I can see why a lot of people might not appreciate him if all they really know about him is that he was a minor annoying manager in the early 90s. Bobby "The Brain" Heenan was very much a phenomenon of 1980s WWF (which is when a lot of older modern wrestling fans first started watching), and his manager heel persona helped shape a larger perception for a lot of people of what a heel manager SHOULD be (with Jimmy Hart being the slightly lesser other half of that equation). His influence actually goes back a bit earlier, and he was one of the best things about the (otherwise mostly lackluster) WCW product while he was there, but 80s WWF (especially anything involving him interacting with Gorilla Monsoon) was pretty fantastic. It's hard (especially in this day and age) to really go back and watch old stuff and see why Cornette got so over originally, but most of Heenan's best work is probably available on the WWE Network if you've got it and ever feel like going back to check it out (though awkward promo-ing and the quality of the wrestling product itself might make it hard for modern fans to really appreciate as a whole). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:886873301] in All Geek's... [t:75748636]...</cite> <quote><cite>Zeus posted...</cite> <quote>Sadly, I wasn't really watching when he was still a big deal. I also wasn't watching when Cornette was a big thing so my first real exposure to Cornette was when he was playing the GM or whatever on TNA and, as a face, I wound up hating him because I mostly just found him annoying.</quote> The problem with Cornette is that he was very much a Southern wrestling guy, so unless you were a big fan of wrestling in the 80s AND lived in the South (because otherwise, you were probably a WWF fan exclusively), you probably weren't going to really appreciate him (because his run in the WWF was mostly meh at best). Mid-South and early WCW really weren't getting a ton of airtime outside of their own region, while WWF was going national (and then global), and basically shaping the perception of what top-tier wrestling is supposed to be for most people. Most people who liked his run in WWF are mostly thinking of the period when they let him do his mostly-uncensored "shoot" promos that the smarks loved (much like CM Punk's "pipebomb" years later really sparked a lot of excitement), but that wasn't really the bulk of his time there, so I can see why a lot of people might not appreciate him if all they really know about him is that he was a minor annoying manager in the early 90s. Bobby "The Brain" Heenan was very much a phenomenon of 1980s WWF (which is when a lot of older modern wrestling fans first started watching), and his manager heel persona helped shape a larger perception for a lot of people of what a heel manager SHOULD be (with Jimmy Hart being the slightly lesser other half of that equation). His influence actually goes back a bit earlier, and he was one of the best things about the (otherwise mostly lackluster) WCW product while he was there, but 80s WWF (especially anything involving him interacting with Gorilla Monsoon) was pretty fantastic. It's hard (especially in this day and age) to really go back and watch old stuff and see why Cornette got so over originally, but most of Heenan's best work is probably available on the WWE Network if you've got it and ever feel like going back to check it out (though awkward promo-ing and the quality of the wrestling product itself might make it hard for modern fans to really appreciate as a whole). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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