Bradshaw's getting a monster push

[Guest KOR420]

Bradshaw has always been a mid to low carder,and all of a sudden he's tagging with austin? why the push Now?

[Guest Cataclysm911]

He's a hoss. He also may be "intense" but that is pure speculation.

[Guest Redhawk]

I thought that with the roster split, they could introduce some new blood to the main event scene. This was NOT what I had in mind. I mean, Bradshaw? X-Pac? Wow. Whatever happened to RVD or Booker T? Hell, I'd rather see Regal in the main event scene than Bradshaw and X-Pac. At least Regal has mic and selling skills.

[Guest Caliban]

JR's had a hard-on for him ever since '98.

[Guest]

Maybe if Bradshaw was getting a monster heel push I would be Okay with him being in the main event scene. I'm just not buying the babyface crap. Hell, him and Triple H are head to head.

[Guest]

Bradshaw in the main event WTF he sucks. Bradshaw in main events = Low PPV buyrates = low television ratings.

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

He must be banging Steph too...or HHH.

 

Seriously...I could stomach a Bradshaw run at the Euro title...maybe if he contended for the IC belt and got beat by RVD I could watch (RVD seems to make Taker and Goldust matches watchable...so what the hell)...but a match against Hall at the ppv?

 

Gee...I guess he's even with Austin in the respect from the WWF department.

 

coughHHHcough

[Guest Mystery Eskimo]

Bradshaw has a PPV match, Booker T doesn't. How does that work?

[Guest]

Why?

 

Because BRADSHAW = RATINGS!!!!

 

Look at these dream matches that may happen thanks to the WWF:

 

Bradshaw vs The Undertaker

Bradshaw vs HHH [smell the INTENSITY]

Bradshaw vs Nash

Bradshaw vs Bossman [Dream Match Come True]

Bradshaw vs Austin

 

You talk about *****? Bradshaw will deliver all that and more.

 

And he is a HOSS!

[Guest Hogan Made Wrestling]

The response to Bradshaw's push is exactly why the WWF will never take smarks seriously. People on the net whine and complain about new people getting pushed, and when they do, its "no, not them! someone I like!". The fact that Bradshaw is not "in" with the net crowd has nothing to do with whether he should be given a shot or not. And if his push does fail, the smarks will put all the blame on him, while if a guy like Jericho doesn't work out it has to be the bookers faults or "backstage politics" since Jericho has already been chosen for greatness in the net's mind and so none of his failures could possibly be his fault.

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

And Hogan Made Wrestling pulls out the "lump everyone on the internet into the same group and generalize everything" card again.

 

Do you just cut and paste your responses?

[Guest Hogan Made Wrestling]

If the shoe fits...

[Guest Just call me Dan]

Oh, TAG!

I've voiced this in another post, but everyone loves Bradshaw in Texas, but we'll see this die down soon.  I'd compare him to Rikishi, he'll flop.

Although Hall will get all the blame for the match sucking and being heatless Sunday.

[Guest KOR420]

thats not what i meant anyways,i meant to ask why now,since he's been around forever,why now make him a star,i mean one week he's jobbing to some retard and then the split happens and all of a sudden he's a superface,protector of all WWF superstars(i.e. Kane,Austin)

[Guest Hogan Made Wrestling]

"thats not what i meant anyways,i meant to ask why now,since he's been around forever,why now make him a star,i mean one week he's jobbing to some retard and then the split happens and all of a sudden he's a superface,protector of all WWF superstars(i.e. Kane,Austin) "

 

Isn't this EXACTLY what people wanted to come out of the split? But I guess not, people just expected the split to push blonde Canadian wrestlers...

[Guest Singular]

[i've voiced this in another post, but everyone loves Bradshaw in Texas, but we'll see this die down soon]

 

Just like everyone in Canada loves Lance Storm and Chris Jericho.  

As far as Bradshaw getting pushed, I dont see a push.  He did a tag main event in his home state with a fellow Texan.  No biggie.

Now he is going to feud with the mid-card NWO.  Where is the push?

[Guest]

Jericho's push was both his fault and the WWF's. I just don't understand what they see in Bradshaw. There are bigger and more charasmatic guys out there.

[Guest TheMikeSC]

Bradshaw has a PPV match, Booker T doesn't. How does that work? >>>

 

 

Screw that. How in the world can Bradshaw have a PPV match while half of the friggin' ME at WM doesn't have one yet?

           -=Mike

 

...No, Rock v Hogan was not the friggin' ME.

[Guest Flyboy]

It's quite simple wrestling termology... he's a hoss.  

 

Simple as that.

[Guest TheMikeSC]

<<<Oh, TAG!

I've voiced this in another post, but everyone loves Bradshaw in Texas, but we'll see this die down soon.  I'd compare him to Rikishi, he'll flop.

Although Hall will get all the blame for the match sucking and being heatless Sunday.

>>>

 

 

Well, it's not lke Scott has actually produced a single decent match since he returned to the WWF. If the match stinks, I'd place a nice chunk of blame on him.

                                 -=Mike

[Guest cabbageboy]

I dunno, I'm not all that opposed to Bradshaw's push because what the hell, they gotta push someone.  It reeks of Albert's push last year though, when he was not over at all yet they put the IC on him.  The push is fool's gold as far as titles go because Bradshaw isn't remotely gonna win the world title, and he is a bad fit for the IC division (besides if they jobbed RVD out to him I would vomit).  

 

The main problem Bradshaw has is that he simply has never been much to write home about.  He's been around for about 6 years but has never done much aside from a decent tag push in the APA and maybe the Euro title.  It's hard to push someone that is so set in mediocrity.

[Guest Your Olympic Hero]

Bradshaw vs. Scott Hall = DUD!

[Guest]

Bradshaw vs _ = DUD!

[Guest]

Hey guys, relax. I'm sure Bradshaw can pull at least -** out of AlkaHall. At LEAST. This could be great.....just give Shaw a chance to work his magic.

[Guest Redhawk]

I think one reason people get mad when pushes for guys like Jericho get dropped while pushes for Bradshaw get approved is because ... I don't know ... Jericho is TALENTED.

 

Really, think about it. I don't even like Jericho all that much, and even less as a babyface, but the guy can talk the talk and walk the walk.

 

Bradshaw, on the other hand, has like, 5 moves. Clothesline from Hell, Back elbow, Vertical suplex, Fallaway slam, and a Big boot. And he's not exactly ripping it up on the mic either. He's basically Stone Cold Steve Austin divided by 3.

[Guest papacita]

He must be banging Steph too...or HHH.

Hey I heard APA stood for Always Pounding Ass. I guess now we know what they meant.

 

As far as the push goes, if they're gonna push him they need to switch him up to a midcard heel, cuz I really can't see Bradshaw as a top face.

[Guest Phr33k]

You act as if Jericho won't be on Backlash at all. He'll run in and cause Edge to lose to Angle. OR, they could do ANOTHER Y2J face turn and have him feud WITH Angle in an upper-midcard storyline. That would make ME happy, not to mention Anglesault. I hope.

[Guest evenflowDDT]

The main problem Bradshaw has is that he simply has never been much to write home about.  He's been around for about 6 years but has never done much aside from a decent tag push in the APA and maybe the Euro title.  It's hard to push someone that is so set in mediocrity.

That's really the reason anything dealing with Bradshaw is a shock to so many people.  He's just never been really interesting, to me at least.  The APA was just sort of an "OK, they'll show up every now and then, they're not totally terrible but not really exciting either, I can deal with that" deal for me, and since I've only been watching since 2001, I never had the joy of seeing Black Jack Bradshaw or any of the like.  To me, Bradshaw is the perfect high-midcard person, lacking any defined personality (other than ALWAYS POUNDING ASS~!) or exceptional ring-work, but drawing enough to show that he's obviously not too terrible.

 

Also notice that he is on the RAW brand, whose top faces right now are Stone Cold and Kane... they need all the fresh blood they can get.  And also don't forget, like has been mentioned before, that this "mini-push" of Bradshaw's is also greatly influenced by cheap regional heat.  Notice they never mentioned on RAW that Undertaker is also from Texas, as well as Booker T

[Guest One Bad Apple]

and since I've only been watching since 2001 ... *snip*

Really?  How exactly did you start and what kept you coming back?  Curious.

 

 

 

The response to Bradshaw's push is exactly why the WWF will never take smarks seriously. People on the net whine and complain about new people getting pushed, and when they do, its "no, not them! someone I like!". The fact that Bradshaw is not "in" with the net crowd has nothing to do with whether he should be given a shot or not. And if his push does fail, the smarks will put all the blame on him, while if a guy like Jericho doesn't work out it has to be the bookers faults or "backstage politics" since Jericho has already been chosen for greatness in the net's mind and so none of his failures could possibly be his fault.

I know it's a pretty sweeping generalization ... but, to me, it's as accurate as a sweeping generalization could be.

 

 

 

Also notice that he is on the RAW brand, whose top faces right now are Stone Cold and Kane... they need all the fresh blood they can get.

I agree.

 

To me, Bradshaw is the perfect high-midcard person, lacking any defined personality ... *snip*

I think he has a very defined personality, it's just that he's never had much that can be defined. The character is very one-dimensional.  That one dimension makes it understandable that he's sometimes labeled as a copy of Austin, especially considering the most major qualities he has that Austin doesn't are smoking cigars and drooling over women (if you want to call those "qualities").  Austin, on the other hand, has several traits Bradshaw doesn't really show much of. That's because Austin has leagues more depth.

 

Now that Bradshaw's not just sitting backstage playing poker, he's getting a chance to have actual feuds which will allow him to develop and eventually set him apart from Austin, aside from the fact that they're both rooted in the same soil.  

 

I'd say he's off to a promising start.  He explained that he doesn't like the nWo because they attack people in numbers and attack them from behind.  Austin didn't like them because they decided to fuck with his title shot and attack him from behind and attack him in numbers. Bradshaw sticks up for someone when he sees them being dealt an injustice; Austin only gives a damn about himself.

 

 

thats not what i meant anyways,i meant to ask why now,since he's been around forever,why now make him a star,i mean one week he's jobbing to some retard and then the split happens and all of a sudden he's a superface,protector of all WWF superstars(i.e. Kane,Austin)

Despite the APA's stagnancy, Bradshaw and Faarooq were always made to look extremely strong.  They were put over as hard-living tough guys and never really suffered too many convincing losses.  They were also given matches, singles and tag, where they completely crushed their opponents more frequently than most of the other guys in the company.  Sure ... they were often against guys Crash and Funaki, but that's not the point.

 

They tended to stay away from the top guys, which kept their aura of unstoppability (new word) almost completely intact.  This let them to continue looking like total bad-asses that just happened to be cemented into midcard roles.

 

Now that they've been split up and a big deal was made about it, the company looks like they want to try and capitalize off of Bradshaw's strong credibility.

 

Oh, and Bradshaw was never jobbing to retards—he was giving them autographs because Rikishi was charging.

 

Just my take.

[Guest]

Sorry but Bradshaw is midcarder for life. He has to personality, is bad in the ring, in promos and has no heat outside of Texas. He will flop and then I hope he gets fired.