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While some stars found great success in exactly the right place and the right time, others saw their shine dimed by the wrong time. Comment below who do you think had wrestled/is wrestling in the wrong era?
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00:00It must suck to have been born at the wrong time, to execute a kick-ass guitar solo,
00:04to deafening silence while remaining convinced that their kids are gonna love it. Wrestling's
00:08no different. The WWE style has changed so often over the years, from the baby oil,
00:12drenched juice-assisted super-adonises of the 80s, to the cartoonish and colourful
00:17characters of the new generation, the grungy, foul-mouthed lunatics of the Attitude Era,
00:21the amateur-leaning, unhinged hosses of the ruthless Aggression Era, to the work-great,
00:25lauded indie darlings of the modern era. Some stars found great success being in
00:29the right place at the right time, whilst others saw their shine dimmed by either being a throwback
00:34to a bygone time, or light years ahead of their time. Here are the 10 WWE stars who
00:39wrestled in the wrong era. And hey, if you're watching this and haven't yet subscribed to
00:43PartsFunknown, if you could hit that subscribe button, it would really help out the channel
00:47more so than you know. Thanks everyone.
00:4910. The Revival, The Golden Era
00:51I mean, The Revival's whole schtick is that they were a throwback, that's why they're called
00:55The Revival. And hey, FDR are going to have a great legacy of matches in AEW,
00:59but oh man, with their intense dedication to tag psychology, roughneck southern brawler style,
01:04and most of all a keen awareness of the rules and how and when to break them,
01:07The Revival would have killed in the 80s, back when tag team wrestling really mattered.
01:12In the first ever Survivor Series in 1987, 10 tag teams competed in a single match,
01:17all with names, gear and gimmicks. WWE could only dream of having 10 proper tag teams today,
01:22that's how far the division has fallen, at least on the main roster.
01:25The Revival could have mixed up with The Hart Foundation, The Rockers, Demolition,
01:29The British Bulldogs, and of course, The Brain Busters, if the universe doesn't
01:33Spider-Man meme itself into oblivion first.
01:359. Ken Shamrock, Ruthless Aggression Era
01:38Ken Shamrock missed out on Brock Lesnar by a few years. Ken Shamrock missed out on Kurt
01:43Angle by a few months. I want to see both of those matches so bad.
01:48Ken Shamrock found a fair bit of success during his run in the early half of the Attitude Era,
01:52but man, when WWE gradually slid into a higher level of work rate with the main event promotion
01:56of Angle, Benoit, Eddie, Mysterio and Brock, having Ken Shamrock as part of the Smackdown
02:01Ruthless Aggression landscape would have been fan-fucking-tastic. He would have eaten John
02:05Cena and sent him back to West Newbury with his jorts pretzeled up in his goddamn colon.
02:10The World's Most Dangerous Man was never the best promo, always felt a little out of his depth in
02:14the Attitude Era's gross-out, characterful excess, but as the Olympic Wrestling Machine ushered in
02:18a new era of what main eventers could and should deliver, WWE Champion Ken Shamrock, I could see it.
02:248. Dean Malenko, The Current Era Roses are red, Violets are blue,
02:29Malenko is great, these things are true. Dean Malenko was one of the great unsung
02:33heroes of WCW, a top cruiserweight and a land where the big boys played. Hopes were high that
02:38he would make a splash in WWE, but much like Shamrock, his stiff upper lip and Iceman demeanor
02:43rendered him boring in the eyes of WWE creative who basically gave up on him after the whole
02:48creeping up on Lita like a dad at a Carly Rae Jepsen concert thing failed to get him over like
02:53Rover. His insane technical ability, speed, and fluidity of movement would have made him a
02:57superstar in NXT and an asset to Smackdown's current landscape of super workers like Cesaro,
03:03Seth Rollins, and Daniel Bryan. I mean, Dean Malenko makes a running powerslam look like
03:07a World Ender. He is the best. He's the best. 7. Aja Kong, Current Era
03:12In 1995, Aja Kong made something of a big splash, eliminating four women, including
03:17champion Alundra Blaze, and being the sole survivor at Survivor Series. She was a terrifying
03:22host, even going as far as putting the heebie-jeebies into management because, quote,
03:25that's not how women are supposed to wrestle. Just watch her crack Alundra in the face.
03:30In the epitome of wrestling at the wrong time, the initial plan was for Kong to challenge Blaze
03:35for the Women's Championship at the 96th Rumble, but in the wake of Alundra defecting to WCW and
03:39trashing the belt, WWE responded in kind by putting the entirety of its women's division
03:44in the bin. Sorry about that, Kong. Instead, she would have fit in perfectly in the post-revolution
03:49era of women's wrestling, a face-painted, stiff-working, unsettling monster with a
03:54completely different silhouette to 90% of the women in WWE she could have cleaned up.
03:596. The Great Khali, Golden Era
04:02Poor Great Khali. A special attraction completely robbed of his specialness by being thoroughly
04:07overexposed on weekly TV. Also, the fact he couldn't really walk didn't help, but you don't
04:11need to be able to walk to make bank in the Golden Era as late career Andre the Giant will
04:15attest. The whole Great Khali as world champion hoo-ha, remember when he was world champion,
04:22that would have been so much more palatable in the time of the Andres and the King Kong Bundys,
04:27a foreign monster with a gobby foreign manager going on an undefeated streak,
04:31the vice grip would have been so much more believable as a finisher back in the day,
04:34would have been one of the most feared moves on the planet, shrouded in the camp
04:38mystery of Golden Era 80s WWE. Someone for Hulk Hogan to polish off in the main event
04:43of Wrestlemania, Hulk out of the vice grip, give him another iconic slam big payday for everyone.
04:495. The Viking Raiders, New Generation Era
04:52Oh man, how did WWE screw up the war Viking Raiders machine. A bunch of huge dudes who can
04:57move like lightning with killer chemistry and the kind of beards that launch ships.
05:00The problem was that their gimmick was almost too strong.
05:03Viking, heard WWE, dashing out and heading to the nearest Uncle Smiffy's costume shop
05:08of tawdry knick knack bollocks and returning with all the Norse bulls**t their little arms
05:12could carry. Thing is, that kind of camp colourful ostentation that shows up as
05:15cringeworthy under today's harsher spotlight was all the rage in the pastel smeared 90s.
05:20With an OTT silhouette, a uniquely larger than life gimmick, in the early to mid 90s,
05:24the Viking Raiders could have inherited the Legion of Doom's crown of hyper tough,
05:28hyper violent face painted scary boys and hell, at least it would have saved us from
05:32men on a mission WWE Tag Team Champions. Also, we could have had Viking Raiders vs
05:37the Steiner Brothers and I want that more than I want a vaccine.
05:404. Dean Ambrose, Attitude Era Or in other words, John Moxley I guess.
05:45For real though, if only Dean Ambrose was allowed to go full Pillman in WWE,
05:49what we could have seen. The man has a scary amount of drawling charisma on the mic,
05:54and I am fascinated by the idea of Dean Ambrose but without a script in his hand and the freedom
05:58to be as 90s edgy as he wanted. Genuinely, he could have sat right in the middle of the
06:03Venn diagram of Cactus Jack, Raven and Pillman. A dank haired, crazy eyed, barbed wire wrapped
06:09monster with the kind of hypnotic freewheeling promos that suggest monsters under the skin.
06:14And also, and this may be an unpopular opinion, but he probably wouldn't have pushed a hot dog cart
06:18to the ring, beat up a dummy with random tools or accidentally electrocuted himself with a telly
06:22like a massive f***ing plankton. Just a thought. 3. Ivory, Current Era
06:27I mean we could have populated this entire list with women who were super talented and
06:30would have absolutely burned it down today. Melina, Beth Phoenix, Victoria, Jazz, Molly Holly,
06:36bloody hell AJ Lee left the big dub months before the revolution, and she was one of the most fully
06:41formed characters around. AJ Lee vs Sasha Banks, yes please, but of all the women to feel the most
06:47out of time, it's got to be Ivory. Incredibly talented, ace in the ring Ivory, whose biggest
06:52moments in the Attitude Era saw her thoroughly ruined by China at WrestleMania X-7 as one part
06:57of a sex obsessed purity cult, but saddest of all, saw her being pinned for the WWE Championship by
07:03goddamn 76 year old fabulous Moolah, but hey 1999 was a rough year for everyone.
07:09Ivory was routinely embarrassed and underused, most often outclassed by more well known and
07:14boobier opponents, but going back and looking at her work, hell even decades later looking at her
07:18appearance and evolution, Ivory was one of the best in the game for a time, with the potential
07:22to be a great character as her work as superb heat magnet in RTC proved. She would have been
07:26a great hand in today's post revolution women's division. 2. CM Punk, Attitude Era
07:32This might be a controversial pick, not least because controversy follows CM Punk around like
07:36a lovesick puppy. You could argue that the pipe bomb was an indication of someone who was in
07:40exactly the right place at exactly the right time, an insider indie tweener tearing back the surface
07:45level artifice of wrestling at the height of its staleness, but also, Punk in the Attitude Era
07:49would have been dope, and that's the bottom line, because Pepsi Phil said so. CM Punk, however you
07:54think of him as a wrestler, is one of the greatest mic workers of all time. He is, and just saying,
08:00the preachy straight edge persona work gangbusters against Jeff Hardy in the PG era, just try and
08:05imagine that gimmick, supported by that level of charisma and in ring acumen, in the Attitude Era
08:10against, let's say, Stone Cold Steve Austin. A few of the Attitude Era's favourite things are,
08:15mic workers capable of dropping unscripted bombshells, creepy sanctimonious cults,
08:19and demonising anyone who had the temerity to encourage people to stop stuffing their
08:23bodies with poison. It's true, it's damn true. 1. Braun Strowman, New Generation Era
08:29In 1995, Vincent Kennedy McMahon would have tap danced across an ocean of broken glass to get
08:35someone like Braun Strowman in the mid 90s. After the steroid scandal purged all of the most
08:40musclebound boys from his merry-go-round of ground and pound, he scrambled for other forms
08:45of big to populate his main event, which translated to tall or heavy. Someone like
08:50Braun Strowman, able to achieve that combination of special attraction height, body-ody-ody without
08:56the gas, and crazy speed, all while being more than serviceable on the mic, man the world would
09:01have been his if WCW hadn't gobbled him up first. Braun's gone off the boil now, but his best work
09:06in the company always had an air of throwback about it, a ludicrous cartoon carnival strongman
09:12performing extraordinary feats of strength watching Strowman flipping an ambulance blew
09:17people's minds in 2017. In the New Generation Era, that kind of angle would have guaranteed him
09:22a world title run. And that's our list. Which wrestlers do you think would have found more
09:26success in a different time? Let us know below, and don't forget to like and share this video
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