From: foleye@xanth.CS.ORST.EDU (Stilt Man)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Re: Real World's Champ
Date: 15 Oct 92 22:15:24 GMT
Organization: Oregon State University

In article <1992Oct15.013129.16405@husc3.harvard.edu> murray@husc8.harvard.edu (Brendan Murray) writes:
>
>We're still in a stage of total denial over here (Ric didn't lose,
>Ric didn't lose, Ric didn't lose, NOOOOOOOOOOOO!).  It just
>doesn't make any sense.  It makes so little sense that people on
>da net have been concocting the most ludicrous scenarios (e.g.
>Papa Shango beating Hart for the belt).  There are only a limited 
>number of reasons to give Hart the belt, and none of them make sense:
>
>1. Hart will be the next long-term face champion.
>   This is almost laughable.  He can't draw, and tho I personally like
>   his no frills character, he just doesn't fit the WWF champion 
>   prototype (i.e., the long-term face champion prototype).
>
>2. He's a transition so that the belt can go to another heel.
>   But why?  Flair's the best heel they got, especially at a time 
>   when their heel depth is the lowest ever (besides Flair and Razor,
>   the number three guy is who?  Kimala?  Papa Shango? Nailz?). With 
>   the possibility of Hogan coming back, and the certainty of a large
>   push for Backlund, does Vince really think that these guy'll do
>   better money challenging guyz like Nailz? 
>

I don't know what Herb has to say about it, but there was one thing that crossed
my mind.  What if, when Flair jumped to the Whiff, he demanded that he have an
equal number of title reigns with Hogan at the time, so Vince wouldn't try to
make a smear campaign out of him.  That would put him at not one, not two, but
THREE title reigns.  After all, Razor certainly doesn't strike me as champ
material, and all the other heels in the federation are just about specifically
designed for one particular feud.  Michaels?  I could see him as I-C champ, but
no way is he World Champ stuff, esp. after jobbing for Flair himself before he
turned heel.  Nailz?  Puh-leeeeeeeeeeze.  (If Vince does this, he'll need a
taster for his food . . . lots of them, because he'll go through them quick.)
Kamala?  Maybe in the USWA, but in the Whiff?  The only guy I can think of is
Luger, and he's under contract to WCW not to wrestle until next spring.

I'm not suggesting that Flair will win it a third time, it just crossed my mind.
This is all, of course, assuming that this isn't one of these "ghost title
changes" Vince is famous for.  Remember when Piper supposedly won the belt
from Flair in those cage matches last winter?
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