Wrestling Misfits

Correct. Hogan had IT. Look at some of his WWF work. Sure he's not the greatest wrestler in terms of ringwork, but his inring charisma, his pyschology and overall ability to bring the crowd into things. Look at the Andre/Hogan WrestleMania III match. Has a bad reputation online in terms of its inring quality, but if you actually watch it, instead of going "Its not Flair/Danielson/Jumbo (delete as applicable)" you can see how well that match is brought together. It's essentially a blueprint on how to do a good 8-minute main event.

And I'm not a fan of Hogan, but I can respect his deserved place in wrestling history. And certainly not the worst by any means.

Brawler is a bit like Barry Horowitz: Underrated because of his status as a jobber, but if you watch some of his matches you can see a keen wrestling brain in action. The man's been with the 'E for nearly twenty years. Why? Because he can wrestle, is a company man, and can make anyone look good in the ring.

Khali is great. He looks intimidating, he sounds intimidating, his offence is devastating (oh its just a chop to the head...yeah, you try getting chopped in the head with a hand that size and laugh it off, besides, look at the hit on Jeff in the Battle Royal, it looked like it could seriously hurt!), he gets in the right places for his spots, a win over him can make anyone credible (he's a 7.2 giant - anyone beating him makes them more credible), he's shown a desire to improve noticeably since he debuted, and while he might not reach the levels of a young Andre or The BigShow or Taker in terms of great big men, he's nowhere near worth the chants of "You Can't Wrestle!"

Triple H-Khali will be very enjoyable, no doubt. Better that than Triple H/Palumbo, Triple H/Snitsky, Triple H/Viscera, Triple H/Santino, Triple H/Taker (strangely they have lousy chemistry), HHH/Kozlov, HHH/Lance Storm, HHH/Hacksaw Jim Duggan, HHH/Booker T, etc etc etc.

It wont be as good as say, HHH/HBK part seven million or HHH/Foley or anything like that. But it will be acceptable. And in between a Hell in a Cell and some clusterfuck of a RAW title match (definetly not a Elimination Chamber now, since they have the HIAC up there), we need a nice climbdown match. Khali brings that perfectly.
Main event of Summerslam here. Vince just got everyone in India to buy his PPV. So thats about 256.7 million buys straight off. Add in the usual North American and European buys, and it could be the biggest selling PPV of all time.

Godfather, I was not fond of. But I just read that Shawn Michaels has big-upped his KOTR95 match with him, and said he was a good guy to wrestle against, so I might need to go watch some of his earlier stuff and re-evaluate.

Most of the Divas? Currently, yes. But I'd exempt most of the RAW divas (Mickie, Beth, Katie, Melina) and Victoria and Nattie. Not much of a fan of the others, though we do have a soft spot for Maria here. (She can be squashed quite convincingly)

Goldberg, I don't like. So my thoughts on him may be slightly biased.

Batista carries himself like a heel so well, and he's the face. He's like the bad guy from Deliverance.


Haystacks was a man who, by all accounts, was starting to suffer from the cancer which killed him when he arrived in WCW. He had been more of a exhibition wrestler in his heyday, booked everywhere across Europe because, unlike his babyface rival Big Daddy, Martin Ruane was a nice guy.

Not a hell of a wrestler. But he didn't need to be. He'd come in, scare everyone shitless with his size, squash a few locals, then cement the local name by putting them over. That's what Haystacks did, and he did pretty damn well.

But by 1995, he'd been out of wrestling for nearly a decade, had put on more weight, was in his fifties and dying. What he had prior was gone.

And by late 98 he was dead, having outlived his old nemesis Big Daddy by a year.