Cornette has spoken about this in the past. He’s said that if you see the vignettes you’d think you’re looking at one of the biggest stars in the wrestling industry. But when it came to his antics outside the ring, he just couldn’t get them under control. Cornette mentioned a brother “whose name is almost Sean” who would mouth off and constantly get Sean into trouble.

Plus, if you think about it, it’s hard to think of an actually good O’Haire or Jindrak match. They had that athleticism and they make for fun gifs now, but they both were pretty much just there on their best days.

Super easy, barely an inconvenience.

Considering how much of the roster is just tiny “flippy shit” athletic guys, O’Haire having that athletic ability PLUS size, PLUS some personality should have been a lock for at least a good stint in the upper midcard.

Just gonna casually ignore that thekrow stole our beloved Curtis's gimmick???


The KOTF should not stand for this treachery.......

Curtis isn’t around. I’ll allow it as a loving tribute.

thekrow > Curtis

Hey now

I enjoyed that krow post but I got excited that Curtis was back

thekrow! C-fed forum!

Curtis sucked

Curtis was the man

This is true. They will focus on archaic demos that work for them and ignore demos that don’t. They will ignore the stigma of wrestling, the global appeal of one product over another, and its content rating and how that affects ad rates. It’s Meltzer talk so he always had something for his newsletter on slow news weeks, and was largely used to trash WWE to sell those letters to disgruntled WWE fans — the ones you will find angry online looking to buy content outside WWE’s purview.

He’s carried the narrative into AEW, ignoring that their audience is largely going to age out of the “desirable” 18-49 demo by the time TV contract negotiations are through, and to focus on ways he can twist AEW into being a success when it’s just not as popular as the other product. Period.

He’s a true ratings mover. Who else gets spikes of a couple of thousand people? And we all know attention = approval.

You son of a bitch

gertner

listen

you may be in constant contention for my favorite poster but i WILL put you on ignore and brag about it over this

I CAN JUST START FOLLOWING WCW DEEP CUTS MYSELF BUDDY

Lmfao I love both of you and will put you on ignore just to feel like I belong

This thread has weird energy

https://i.imgur.com/XHXdR6p.jpg

Who would ever put Lock Jaw on ignore? You should read every post and accept them into your heart as was intended

Lmfaooo

God I have to click view post a lot now.

Someone tell me what Seph is saying.

Wanna click 'view post' on Fan so bad rn but I just know it's something about fed bad :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

That looks ALMOST as good as Vbulletin default White :lol:

Thanks.

Nice photoshop @Seph :roll:

i've said it before and i'll say it again

tpww green 4 life

I KNOW YOU SEE ME OUT HERE SEPH YOU COWARD

Love tpww green

I’m trying TPWW Green for the first time. I’m enjoying the experience.

THE POWER OF TPWW GREEN IS UNPARALLELED

Green vs red like a lightsaber battle

check the spammy votes man

green gets no love

The default red and yellow made me see all the politics, brother. Now I am in calm green heaven.

One day some of you will figure out how to unlock the secret TPWW deep purple theme and your life will change forever. Love vBulletin easter eggs.

Smoooooke on the waaaaater.

Boat on the tracccckkkkkksssss.

I’m on TPWW Red 4 life. Have tried green and blue and it just didn’t hit the same. The classic red and yellow is the only thing that actually feels like TPWW to me, brother.

It’s not as if guys with substance abuse issues weren’t pushed in the past in spite of that. But yeah, maybe it was just too great a burden in his case.

Like most guys in late WCW, he was just given his name and told to work. The vignettes suddenly gave a charismatic, athletic guy with a great look, direction and a catch. The vignettes were attention grabbing because he had real charisma too. There was definitely star power there.

It’s just sad that he wasn’t given the opportunity to debut the character as it was. I think it could have been so intriguing and he could have been a massive star.

With O’Haire, I think it was more the violence and arrests. Or the situations that could have been arrests but someone things got smoothed over/covered up.

I get what you’re saying. I liked the vignettes too and got swept up in everyone thinking they were good too. But the guy couldn’t take it to actual live promos or his ring work. If he was destined to be such a big star, they would have found a way to make way more money off him. Heyman was behind these vignettes, yeah? This is like outside the myth that the WWE fucked everything up. Sean O’Haire was a guy with a look and a kind of presence in certain contexts that couldn’t deliver overall.

O'Haire, with the right work, could have been huge. He could work in the ring and showed he had charisma, and a great look.

If I recall, the first great big moment of his gimmick was convincing Spanky to streak through the arena. Then they teamed him up with Piper which just made him seem like a bitch.

He might have benefitted more in WWE by being teamed up with Jindrak again for a while until both developed more fleshed-out personalities. Aw well...