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Originally Posted by Mr. Nerfect
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.
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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.