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Ok, I was watching NWA Wrestling Classics...which is basically old episodes of NWA Worldwide, for those of you who don't have Sky/don't live in the UK.

 

This week, amongst the numerous squash matches(and The Freebirds baby!), a match featuring the old school pudgy jobber and...Owen Hart. Now this was sometime in between WrestleWar 91 and Superbrawl 1 I think. Hart wrestled as the Blue Blazer in 1989/1990, and was back by 1992. But I can't remember ever seeing him on a WCW PPV.

 

So...how long was he in WCW for...what was the deal with him being there(surely Bret would've wanted his brother in the WWF with him)...and what happened while he was there.

Guest The Real Nosferatu
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He was only there for a few months. I believe he did a stint in Japan after his WWF run and then went to WCW - could be wrong. Showed up back in the WWF around November.

I think thats about right. He was suppose to go to WCW in fall of 1990 but kept pushing it back while working in Japan, until around winter of 90/91.

Guest The Rising Star
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Owen Hart and jobber should never be in the same sentence.

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It was weird watching the match...remember, this was back in the days of the Blue Blazer. Hart was doing stuff that you wouldn't see anywhere else in WCW...except maybe from 'The Juicer'...it just surprised me WCW didn't snap him up.

 

The fact he was wearing a too tight yellow/orange singlet was weird too.

Guest wayzing
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Owen also tagged with Brian Pillman in NWA. They were called Wings. One would think a team like that would fit right in in that environment but they just disappeared.

 

But hey! We got the Dynamic Dudes, right.

 

:comfort:

 

there there

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Owen also tagged with Brian Pillman in NWA. They were called Wings. One would think a team like that would fit right in in that environment but they just disappeared.

Are you sure this happened? I thought it was just a Apter-mag rumor at the time...

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Owen also tagged with Brian Pillman in NWA. They were called Wings. One would think a team like that would fit right in in that environment but they just disappeared.

Owen wasn't in WCW long enough to have a tag team partner, especially not Pillman who was feuding with the Horsemen at the time.

 

IF that happened, it was in Stampede.

Guest Corey291
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I have one or two matches on tape with Owen Hart wrestling in WCW. He wrestled Rip Rogers and pretty much squashed him.

 

-Corey

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I have one or two matches on tape with Owen Hart wrestling in WCW. He wrestled Rip Rogers and pretty much squashed him.

 

-Corey

Totally off topic...Rip Rogers is like a cross between Steve Corino and the pink obsessed Steven Richards. I actually thought he was Corino for about a minute first time I saw him.

Guest The Real Nosferatu
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Pillman/Owen were WINGS in Stampede.

 

Maybe your confusing the fact incase they tagged once in NWA and just assume otherwise.

Guest Your Olympic Hero
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Totally off topic...Rip Rogers is like a cross between Steve Corino and the pink obsessed Steven Richards. I actually thought he was Corino for about a minute first time I saw him.

I agree. Rip Rogers was one of those heel jobbers who was around for like 10 years, never winning a match. Kind of like The Gambler. Jobbers were pretty bad ass, I wish they would come back :headbang:

Guest The Real Nosferatu
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Rogers = I think another Stampede guy from the 80s.

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Pillman/Owen were WINGS in Stampede.

Pillman/Bruce Hart were Bad Company in Stampede.

 

Not to be confused with the Pat Tanaka/Paul Diamond Bad Company in the AWA from the same time period.

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Pillman/Owen were WINGS in Stampede.

Pillman/Bruce Hart were Bad Company in Stampede.

 

Not to be confused with the Pat Tanaka/Paul Diamond Bad Company in the AWA from the same time period.

I think the Tanaka/Diamond team spelled it "Badd Company" ... I have memories of DDP spelling it out "B, A, Double-D Badd"

Posted

Totally off topic...Rip Rogers is like a cross between Steve Corino and the pink obsessed Steven Richards. I actually thought he was Corino for about a minute first time I saw him.

I agree. Rip Rogers was one of those heel jobbers who was around for like 10 years, never winning a match. Kind of like The Gambler. Jobbers were pretty bad ass, I wish they would come back :headbang:

Yeah...he got clubbed the hell out of by Ron Simmons on a show a couple of weeks ago(weeks before Owen's debut)...pity the jobbers today are actual talents like Stevie Night Heat.

Posted

Heh, that match actually woke me up this morning. He completely squashed his opponent. Just like every other match on that show.

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Pillman/Owen were WINGS in Stampede.

Pillman/Bruce Hart were Bad Company in Stampede.

 

Not to be confused with the Pat Tanaka/Paul Diamond Bad Company in the AWA from the same time period.

I think the Tanaka/Diamond team spelled it "Badd Company" ... I have memories of DDP spelling it out "B, A, Double-D Badd"

You are correct, sir!

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