Who were these Nitro people

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Thanks to everyone who responded to my previous posts asking who various wrestlers were from Nitro shows in '96 and '97.

 

This final post lists the people I don't know from January 1998 until the end of the run.

 

If anyone who could tell me anything about them (other gimmicks, etc.,) then that would be great.

 

Cool.

 

Black Cat (lost to Marty Jannetty, 12th January 1998)

Len Denton (lost to Goldberg, 11th May 1998)

Johnny Attitude (lost to Goldberg, 25th May 1998)

Reese (tagged with Horace Boulder to beat Juventud Guerrera & Van Hammer, 8th June 1998)

Johnny Moon (lost to Stevie Ray, 20th July 1998)

Johnny Powers (lost to Scott Norton, 20th July 1998)

Bull Pain (lost to Konnan, 7th September 1998)

Dale Torberg (beat Kendall Windham, 11th October 1998)

“Fan” (lost to Ernest Miller, 18th October 1998)

Emery Hale (lost to Barry Windham, 14th December 1998)

 

Will Sasso (lost to Bret Hart, 16th February 1999)

“Imposter Kevin Nash” (lost to Randy Savage, 31st May 1999)

Patty Stonegrinder (lost to Madusa, 26th July 1999)

Chase Tatum (lost to Rick Steiner, 26th July 1999)

Little Jeanie (lost to Mona, 9th August 1999)

Johnny Boone (lost to Evan Karagias, 15th November 1999)

The Misfits (tagged with Vampiro to lose to Berlyn & The Wall, 15th November 1999)

Spice (beat Tygress, 22nd November 1999)

Jerry Only (tagged with The Misfits to beat Steve Williams & Oklahoma, 29th November 1999)

Midnight (lost to Curt Hennig, 29th November 1999)

The Maestro (lost to Prince Iaukea, 13th December 1999)

Buzzkill (lost to Madusa, 20th December 1999)

Shane (lost to Tank Abbott, 27th December 1999)

 

The Dog (beat Evan Karagias, 6th March 2000)

Mystery Partner (tagged with Norman Smiley to beat Crowbar, 1st May 2000)

Miss Jones (lost to Jeff Jarrett, 11st September 2000)

M I Smooth (lost to Bill Goldberg, 4th December 2000)

 

Jason Lee (tagged with Johnny Swinger to lose to Billy Kidman & Rey Mysterio Jr, 26th February 2001)

Air Paris (tagged with A J Styles to lose to Kid Romeo & Elix Skipper, 5th March 2001)

“Phony Dusty Rhodes” (lost to Jeff Jarrett, 5th March 2001)

 

Cheers everyone.

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Reese (tagged with Horace Boulder to beat Juventud Guerrera & Van Hammer, 8th June 1998)

...aka "Big Ron Studd". Was a GIANT motherf**er who served as fodder for Goldberg.

He served as a comic relief for me, when he regularly piggybacked Kidman to the ring for a Raven promo.

 

Dale Torberg (beat Kendall Windham, 11th October 1998)

See the Demon, but without the facepaint. He had the gimmick of a race car driver (which I believe was legitimate), but he tore his knee up in this match and returned as Demon in 1999.

 

“Fan” (lost to Ernest Miller, 18th October 1998)

A plant from the independents, I'd assume.

 

Will Sasso (lost to Bret Hart, 16th February 1999)

Actor/comedian from "MAD TV". Bret worked an angle with the guy (including a work/shoot angle on a MADTV episode).

 

The Misfits (tagged with Vampiro to lose to Berlyn & The Wall, 15th November 1999)

A well-known rock band. Real-life friends with Vampiro, so they willingly came in to work an angle alongside of him.

 

Spice (beat Tygress, 22nd November 1999).

Both were Nitro Girls.

 

Jerry Only (tagged with The Misfits to beat Steve Williams & Oklahoma, 29th November 1999)

Frontman for the Misfits.

 

Midnight (lost to Curt Hennig, 29th November 1999)

Linda Miles clone who was "a sister" of Booker and Stevie Ray. Booker, being the face at that time, stuck up for her. Stevie turned on them both and aligned with "Big T" (Ahmed Johnson) and Clarence Mason (aka the short black lawyer from the HBK/Bulldog feud in 1996).

 

The Maestro (lost to Prince Iaukea, 13th December 1999)

Decent wrestler. He was originally booked to wrestle under his gimmick name (Gorgeous George III), but WCW introduced Savage's new girlfriend (Stephane Bellars) under that name. He had a half-decent valet to accompany him, but I'm blanking on that person's name.

 

The worst part of his gimmick? As his entrance, he would be lowered to the stage entrance by a giant platform, while playing a piano positioned on said platform.....YES, he had the Liberace/Adrian Street gimmick.

 

Buzzkill (lost to Madusa, 20th December 1999)

Brad Armstrong, during the atrocious "Let's get him over impersonating his brother" period.

 

The Dog (beat Evan Karagias, 6th March 2000)

aka "Al Green". The gimmick took a more literal meaning, when he began to adorn the traits of a dog....you can fill in the blanks there.

 

Miss Jones (lost to Jeff Jarrett, 11st September 2000)

An DA-YUM FINE female who served as Ernest Miller's valet.

 

M I Smooth (lost to Bill Goldberg, 4th December 2000)

aka "Ice Train". Played the gimmick of a limosuine driver who would be bribed to rat on wrestler's actions while in his limosuine.

 

“Phony Dusty Rhodes” (lost to Jeff Jarrett, 5th March 2001)

Ric Flair under heavy make-up.

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Emory Hale Big bald guy, Jimmy Hart's protege and a guy that would end up following Hart to the XWF etc. I THINK he's hospitalized right now in fairl serious condition.

 

Len Denton One of the legendary masked Grapplers was Len Denton, its not exactly a common name, so I assume its the same guy.

 

Bull Pain Indy guy, wrestled for ECW and in Memphis before this, did a lot with IWA: Mid-south after. Hardcore-brawler type

 

Chase Tatum Powerplant guy. Teamed breifly with Master P's "No Limit Army" in the Redneck/rapper fued.

 

Shane Virgil/Vincent/Curly Bill in another of his "name of the competition" gimmicks, this time making fun of Shane McMahon

 

Air Paris AJ Styles regular tag team partner at the time, in Air Raid, these guys were the only two to really come up from WCW's "development deal" with NWA Wildside at the time. Paris is pretty much out of the business now if I remember right.

 

The Maestro (lost to Prince Iaukea, 13th December 1999)

Decent wrestler. He was originally booked to wrestle under his gimmick name (Gorgeous George III), but WCW introduced Savage's new girlfriend (Stephane Bellars) under that name. He had a half-decent valet to accompany him, but I'm blanking on that person's name

 

That was "Symphony" AKA Ryan Shamrock

Edited September 9, 2003 by ToddRoyal

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The Misfits

Jerry Only

 

Ahem. The Misfits aren't just well-known, but are fucking legends. Nothing against you, Andy, but I shook my head when I saw this.

 

Maestro

 

To elaborate on one of bravesfan's responses, the name of the Maestro's valet was Symphony, otherwise known as Ryan Shamrock and Alicia Webb.

 

Reese

It should also be noted that Reese played The Yeti in Kevin Sullivan's Dungeon of Doom.

 

EDIT: Todd Damn You! I would've and should've had the answer to the Maestro thing earlier, but my net went on the fritz.

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I THINK he's hospitalized right now in fairl serious condition.

IIRC, Hale contracted pneumonia after serious complications from his kidney surgery.

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Little Jeanie (lost to Mona, 9th August 1999)

 

She was an indy women's wrestler, brought in to give Mona something to do, basically. Her and Brandi Alexander seemed to have a few feuds on Saturday Night with Mona. She also wrestles as "Sweet Destiny" in the indies.

 

And, oh yeah, I had to be one of the few people who marked out for MI Smooth. *sigh* I miss WCW.

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Black Cat

 

I'm guessing it was this guy...

 

http://www.highspots.com/arena/prof/blackcat.htm

 

Mystery Partner

 

Now that I remember, I think this was Ralphus.

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The Misfits

Jerry Only

 

Ahem. The Misfits aren't just well-known, but are fucking legends. Nothing against you, Andy, but I shook my head when I saw this.

I'm a Brit (which is why I saw very little of Nitro) and British music and American music is very different in terms of what gets promoted and stuff.

 

Thanks for all the information people - much appreciated. Hopefully some more to come too.

 

Cool.

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The Misfits

Jerry Only

 

Ahem. The Misfits aren't just well-known, but are fucking legends. Nothing against you, Andy, but I shook my head when I saw this.

I'm a Brit (which is why I saw very little of Nitro) and British music and American music is very different in terms of what gets promoted and stuff.

 

Thanks for all the information people - much appreciated. Hopefully some more to come too.

 

Cool.

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Also a Brit, has an actual misfits CD...

 

I didn't know what i hated more, watching the misfits in the ring in wcw or when they were with the oddities (i assume it was the same group?)

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I didn't know what i hated more, watching the misfits in the ring in wcw or when they were with the oddities (i assume it was the same group

 

I think you're thinking about the Insane Clown Posse. ICP was the group that was with the oddities in the WWF and then went to WCW where they were treated as actual wrestlers and formed the Deadpool stable with Raven and Vampiro. They also had their own fed (Juggalo Championsh*t Wrestling) at one point

 

The Misfits were a different band (one that Vampiro claimed to play backup for at somepoint) that were also associated with Vamp in WCW, actually wrestling a cage match at one time.

 

Misfits are the face-painted rock group, ICP is the face painted rap group.

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Attitude - Muscled jobber who hung around on Saturday Night for a while.

Johnny Moon - Actually a WCW referee at one point.

Emery Hale - Big motherfucker who did the "Hale" gimmick on WCW Saturday Night shortly before Russo canceled it. Had Sullivan stayed on as a booker, GAB 2000 probably would've seen Hale vs. Hogan for the WCW Title.

Patty Stonegrinder - Ugly, fat lady.

Chase Tatum - Very, very cut guy who, when he first appeared on WCW SN, a few people figured he'd wind up being something. Apparently he had a bad attitude and horrible skills to boot, so once the posse broke up, he was released.

Johnny Boone - Referee who got angry with Karagias. Madusa made out of with him, and Evan scored the win. Never mentioned again.

Jason Lee - Indy guy brought in as fodder when the WCW geniuses decided to do a WCW Cruiserweight Tag Title Tournament with a serious lack of Cruiserweights.

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The Maestro (lost to Prince Iaukea, 13th December 1999)

Decent wrestler. He was originally booked to wrestle under his gimmick name (Gorgeous George III), but WCW introduced Savage's new girlfriend (Stephane Bellars) under that name. He had a half-decent valet to accompany him, but I'm blanking on that person's name.

It was the woman who played Ryan Shamrock and she was named Symphony in WCW. Get it?

 

WCW in '96 steals Hall and Nash and three years later the best they are doing is stealing a stripper who played a midcarder's brother.

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The Misfits

Jerry Only

 

Ahem. The Misfits aren't just well-known, but are fucking legends. Nothing against you, Andy, but I shook my head when I saw this.

I'm a Brit (which is why I saw very little of Nitro) and British music and American music is very different in terms of what gets promoted and stuff.

 

Thanks for all the information people - much appreciated. Hopefully some more to come too.

 

Cool.

<<<<

 

Also a Brit, has an actual misfits CD...

 

I didn't know what i hated more, watching the misfits in the ring in wcw or when they were with the oddities (i assume it was the same group?)

Prepare to be ripped a new one by Misfits fans for even comparing them to Insane Clown Posse.

 

EDIT: I think Emory Hale is or was doing the Lord Humongous gimmick on the indy scene. I saw a pic of him in the costume on Google.

Edited September 13, 2003 by LaParkaYourCar

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^^^

 

They both suck.

 

 

 

 

 

BRING IT ON~!!!

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Oh I don't care really, but I know someone might have taken offense to it.

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