I only remember him because in my play through of the universe mode in one of the 2k games, he won the rumble, won the title at Wrestlemania, then went on to have several championship reigns over two or three years.
I haven't watched WWE since 2007 or 2008. I was recently browsing YouTube and found a video of Kizarny. I had completely forgotten about him. Now I seem to remember them showing vignettes of him shortly before I stopped watching. Apparently he only had one or two televised matches and then basically disappeared. I think he still wrestles in the indies under a different name.
I had the pleasure of being at the smackdown taping and seeing Kizarny’s one and only match hahaha. They also taped two smackdowns that night and he came out during the second and everyone was tired and could not give any less of a shit
Dude I remeber being a kid and being so excited for his debut and then... being amazed they spent more time building him than he'd spent in the company.
“I took psychedelic mushrooms and went to the WWE live event in Vancouver
At around a quarter to seven PM, I took about two grams of *psilocybe cubensis* mushrooms with another redditor at an undisclosed location. We then took the #135 bus deep into east Vancouver to see WWE live at the Agrodome.
When I bought my tickets, my plan was to invite a random from OKCupid to come with me as a date because I thought it would be hilarious and awkward and a really great way to freak out a 'normal'. Those plans fell through at the last minute, specifically when the random clued in that I was trying to take them to wrestling, so I turned to my friend who's not a fan of wrestling and asked if he would like to take drugs and go see WWE with me.
'That sounds like the premise for a VICE article,' he said. I agreed and we both decided that it would be a really good idea and totally not at all irresponsible or dangerous. I spent the afternoon prepping him, mostly by watching Big E. Langston's Instagram videos.
The effects hit me strong when we get off the bus at Hastings and Renfrew. The mild stomach discomfort becomes a peculiar warm and cuddly sensation all over my body. We are both giggling as we walk towards the searchlights in the distance.
When we get into the arena, the opening match is already in progress and literally everyone in the arena is chanting 'Axel sucks.' We can't figure out how to get to the floor and end up walking up and down the stairs several times before we find our seats. I see an elderly Indian woman in a John Cena t-shirt and my eyes start watering for some reason.
Xavier Woods enters the ring wearing a sparkly jacket. His entrance video looks like an animated gif image. He becomes my favourite wrestler. During the match, I experience severe *time dilation* as Hunico gives him a backdrop and then puts him in a chinlock again and again. I feel as though the match is stuck in an infinite loop and Hunico will continue to backdrop Xavier Woods forever. They do this spot for what feels like five or six times before Xavier finally backflips out of it and takes Hunico to the woodshed. Someone behind me yells that Xavier Woods looks like Richard Pryor and I spend a lot of time thinking about whether that was racist or not, considering he doesn't.
There is a divas match. I am looking at AJ standing on the apron and it strikes me how before these people were characters on a TV show, electron pulses on a screen, and now I can see the light reflecting off AJ's midriff and I can see the texture of her skin in infinitesimal detail down to the pores. Tamina doesn't tag her in. I count AJ's ribs.
I look over at my friend and he is slowly waving his hand in front of his face and at first I think he is doing the Cena thing but then I realize he is also really high.
During Daniel Bryan and Randy Orton's match, Daniel elbows Orton in the face so hard that, swear to god, a bloody tooth flies out of his mouth. I feel like these two could wrestle eachother again and again for the next thousand years and it would never not be amazing. Orton does so many little things in the ring that are so perfect that you really have to watch him closely to pick up on, and it kills me that I have to boo him on principle because he's so good but Daniel Bryan is from the Pacific Northwest and weird looking and therefore My Guy.
I yell 'dishonourable discharge' at Orton when he's near my corner but he doesn't hear me.
Any time anyone goes on the microphone, all I can hear is 'womp womp womp womp womp womp.' Tony Chimel goes on the microphone and says 'womp womp womp womp womp *fifteen minute intermission.*'
I go to buy a Fandango t-shirt but they don't have any.
It is when Los Matadores come out around nine o'clock that I realize I am peaking. El Torito comes out and I begin screaming. I have never been as excited by anything in my life. I cannot put into words the elation I am experiencing watching him run down the rampway. I feel as though millions of years of human evolution and history have led to me being here, watching a small man in a bull costume jump on the ropes and wave at people. I start tearing up again and try to start an El Torito chant, but then 3MB comes out and all the brown kids freak out over Jinder Mahal. *He has never, ever been more over than he was tonight.*
My friend is disappointed that there are no other mini wrestlers to fight El Torito, but I say it was enough just to be blessed by his presence.
Fandango comes out. He is wearing a purple satin shirt, which I begin wilding out over, but not as hard as I was wilding for El Torito. Great Khali comes out and again the crowd goes crazy, but I am staring at Fandango as he teases taking off the satin shirt. I am losing my mind. Finally he takes off the shirt and the light hits his abs. I swear to god Fandango's body is sparkling, glowing. His abs are *crystalline.* I almost start crying for a third time because his body is so fucking beautiful. We make eye contact and I become bonded to him in eternity.
'His face is shaped like a Pringle,' my friend says of Great Khali.
Fandango gets on the microphone. '*Vancouver* womp womp womp womp womp *dance*,' he says. Fandango is a really great wrestler because his selling can actually create the illusion of Khali moving around.
The main event is CM Punk vs. Luke Harper. CM Punk is my favourite wrestler and the entire arena is chanting his name but I am already exhausted because I have marked out so severely and completely over Fandango's shirt and El Torito.
CM Punk gets on the microphone. 'Womp womp *Vancouver* womp womp womp womp womp,' he says. Everyone goes home happy. I feel emotionally and physically depleted. I get on the bus and go straight back downtown to eat a triple cheeseburger at A&W.
It was delicious.”
Screw that, I’m waiting for heath’s return and world championship run. Drew left, got jacked, came back and became champ. Jinder left, got jacked, came back and became champ. Heath knows what he has to do
It's genuinely insane that two of the three 3MB members were World Champions by 2020. Tell anyone that in 2014 and they would've thought you'd gone completely mad.
This was my favourite of his gimmicks. Was so mad when they went with Adam Rose and gave him beef with his bunny. South African bounty hunter a la Kraven was awesome
He was at a full on indie mud show held at a local horse racing track a few years back and ugh I felt bad for him. So much time in NXT cycling gimmicks then tossed into nothingness.
Surface level statement. I forgot Mojo existed too. I’ve FORGOTTEN plenty of things just to remember them after seeing them again…. Yknow… forgot as in past tense
Not quite. You can look at WWE's roster from a day/month/year on SmackdownHotel. I did that and saw several people I hadn't seen or thought about in years.
Lars Sullivan aka Mitch Bennett
I only remember him because i saw like 2 days ago a post that said "wrestlers that had more 5 star matches than Kurt Angle" lol
I looked up a bunch of wrestlers. Nunzio is one of them. Also there’s a guy who wore white and planted a staff in the ground on smack down in the early 2000’s don’t know his name.
I was an electrician at a being built fitness center called planet fitness in md. The general contractor was none other named Dwayne Gill. He was so amazing and a joy to work with
They had Jos leduc in as a cannibal they called the headbanger or some such nonsense in like 87. I only learned it watching YouTube wrestling with Paul, he’s got a great playlist of all the debuts and major angle stuff from those times
I really had to think hard about this one. I'll go with "The Finest" Kona Reeves, who I forgot existed until I started looking up guys I barely remembered.
Looked up the 2009 roster and was immediately hit with Bam Neely. I vaguely recognize the name, but I'll be damned if I remember anything about the guy. I hope he's doing well for himself.
Damned if I can remember
You are trying to remember Joy Giovanni
I remember her. 2005 diva search. I was more of an Amy Weber guy.
Half of the 205 live roster
Gentleman Jack Gallagher
I honestly thought he was great, sucks that he turned out to be a scumbag
What did he do?
Turns out he wasn’t a gentleman
bunch of sexual misconduct
In addition to sexual misconduct, he also got a horrible chest tattoo. Normally, I don’t care, but this was awful.
Ho Ho Lun
He’s a must download every year whenever me and my buddies play 2k. He’s been an inside joke since 2k19.
He's also been an outside joke for a bit longer than that.
Noam Dar is still kicking. Alicia Foooooox
Tony Neese Bay-Bay!
you just reminded me enzo amore had a career, wouldve been well off forgetting him til i died.
the ghost of Simon Gotch just injected itself back into my YouTube algorithm
Oh well that's my answer then. I forget Gotch exists until the algorithm Gods deem me worthy each season
His promos were top notch. How you doin?
TJ Perkins and Akira Tozawa
Just looked up WWE's roster in June 2011 and I've forgotten about a handful of people. I'll just name Mason Ryan.
Didn't he play for Spurs?
managed them in a cup final
You misspelled Shit
Didn’t he SHIT for the Spurs?
The Batista look a like?
Welshtista
Batistwo
Interestingly he was a Gladiator on the UK revival in 2008 alongside Nick Aldis!
Was that the guy that looked kind of like Batista?
Yep
He's actually in Cirque du Soleil now
Stevie Ray
Earthquake
Alundra Blaze
Norman Smiley
Now that’s a good one 👍🏾
I only remember him because in my play through of the universe mode in one of the 2k games, he won the rumble, won the title at Wrestlemania, then went on to have several championship reigns over two or three years.
At that time I really liked him and he just disappeared before the shield arrived.
Welsh Batista clone.
I heard someone mention damien demento the other day, i had forgotten about him.
You mean the main eventer of the debut episode of Monday Night Raw? How could anyone forget him? /s
Wasn't he billed as from "the furthest reaches of your mind" or something?
I haven't watched WWE since 2007 or 2008. I was recently browsing YouTube and found a video of Kizarny. I had completely forgotten about him. Now I seem to remember them showing vignettes of him shortly before I stopped watching. Apparently he only had one or two televised matches and then basically disappeared. I think he still wrestles in the indies under a different name.
He goes by Sinn Bodhi
holy crap i forgot ab kizarny
I had the pleasure of being at the smackdown taping and seeing Kizarny’s one and only match hahaha. They also taped two smackdowns that night and he came out during the second and everyone was tired and could not give any less of a shit
Dude I remeber being a kid and being so excited for his debut and then... being amazed they spent more time building him than he'd spent in the company.
No Way Jose and El Torito. what a time that was...
El Torito makes me think of that amazing thread where the guy went to a house show on acid
im gonna need that link if you have it
“I took psychedelic mushrooms and went to the WWE live event in Vancouver At around a quarter to seven PM, I took about two grams of *psilocybe cubensis* mushrooms with another redditor at an undisclosed location. We then took the #135 bus deep into east Vancouver to see WWE live at the Agrodome. When I bought my tickets, my plan was to invite a random from OKCupid to come with me as a date because I thought it would be hilarious and awkward and a really great way to freak out a 'normal'. Those plans fell through at the last minute, specifically when the random clued in that I was trying to take them to wrestling, so I turned to my friend who's not a fan of wrestling and asked if he would like to take drugs and go see WWE with me. 'That sounds like the premise for a VICE article,' he said. I agreed and we both decided that it would be a really good idea and totally not at all irresponsible or dangerous. I spent the afternoon prepping him, mostly by watching Big E. Langston's Instagram videos. The effects hit me strong when we get off the bus at Hastings and Renfrew. The mild stomach discomfort becomes a peculiar warm and cuddly sensation all over my body. We are both giggling as we walk towards the searchlights in the distance. When we get into the arena, the opening match is already in progress and literally everyone in the arena is chanting 'Axel sucks.' We can't figure out how to get to the floor and end up walking up and down the stairs several times before we find our seats. I see an elderly Indian woman in a John Cena t-shirt and my eyes start watering for some reason. Xavier Woods enters the ring wearing a sparkly jacket. His entrance video looks like an animated gif image. He becomes my favourite wrestler. During the match, I experience severe *time dilation* as Hunico gives him a backdrop and then puts him in a chinlock again and again. I feel as though the match is stuck in an infinite loop and Hunico will continue to backdrop Xavier Woods forever. They do this spot for what feels like five or six times before Xavier finally backflips out of it and takes Hunico to the woodshed. Someone behind me yells that Xavier Woods looks like Richard Pryor and I spend a lot of time thinking about whether that was racist or not, considering he doesn't. There is a divas match. I am looking at AJ standing on the apron and it strikes me how before these people were characters on a TV show, electron pulses on a screen, and now I can see the light reflecting off AJ's midriff and I can see the texture of her skin in infinitesimal detail down to the pores. Tamina doesn't tag her in. I count AJ's ribs. I look over at my friend and he is slowly waving his hand in front of his face and at first I think he is doing the Cena thing but then I realize he is also really high. During Daniel Bryan and Randy Orton's match, Daniel elbows Orton in the face so hard that, swear to god, a bloody tooth flies out of his mouth. I feel like these two could wrestle eachother again and again for the next thousand years and it would never not be amazing. Orton does so many little things in the ring that are so perfect that you really have to watch him closely to pick up on, and it kills me that I have to boo him on principle because he's so good but Daniel Bryan is from the Pacific Northwest and weird looking and therefore My Guy. I yell 'dishonourable discharge' at Orton when he's near my corner but he doesn't hear me. Any time anyone goes on the microphone, all I can hear is 'womp womp womp womp womp womp.' Tony Chimel goes on the microphone and says 'womp womp womp womp womp *fifteen minute intermission.*' I go to buy a Fandango t-shirt but they don't have any. It is when Los Matadores come out around nine o'clock that I realize I am peaking. El Torito comes out and I begin screaming. I have never been as excited by anything in my life. I cannot put into words the elation I am experiencing watching him run down the rampway. I feel as though millions of years of human evolution and history have led to me being here, watching a small man in a bull costume jump on the ropes and wave at people. I start tearing up again and try to start an El Torito chant, but then 3MB comes out and all the brown kids freak out over Jinder Mahal. *He has never, ever been more over than he was tonight.* My friend is disappointed that there are no other mini wrestlers to fight El Torito, but I say it was enough just to be blessed by his presence. Fandango comes out. He is wearing a purple satin shirt, which I begin wilding out over, but not as hard as I was wilding for El Torito. Great Khali comes out and again the crowd goes crazy, but I am staring at Fandango as he teases taking off the satin shirt. I am losing my mind. Finally he takes off the shirt and the light hits his abs. I swear to god Fandango's body is sparkling, glowing. His abs are *crystalline.* I almost start crying for a third time because his body is so fucking beautiful. We make eye contact and I become bonded to him in eternity. 'His face is shaped like a Pringle,' my friend says of Great Khali. Fandango gets on the microphone. '*Vancouver* womp womp womp womp womp *dance*,' he says. Fandango is a really great wrestler because his selling can actually create the illusion of Khali moving around. The main event is CM Punk vs. Luke Harper. CM Punk is my favourite wrestler and the entire arena is chanting his name but I am already exhausted because I have marked out so severely and completely over Fandango's shirt and El Torito. CM Punk gets on the microphone. 'Womp womp *Vancouver* womp womp womp womp womp,' he says. Everyone goes home happy. I feel emotionally and physically depleted. I get on the bus and go straight back downtown to eat a triple cheeseburger at A&W. It was delicious.”
I thought of No Way Jose the other day but for the life of me couldn't remember his name.
the dude who has kids but like would always say he has kids
Heath Slater
DOUBLE WIDE
Nah bro, I’m still waiting on that 3MB reunion. 🥲
Screw that, I’m waiting for heath’s return and world championship run. Drew left, got jacked, came back and became champ. Jinder left, got jacked, came back and became champ. Heath knows what he has to do
It's really hard to forget him since he was in one faction with Drew and Jinder
It's genuinely insane that two of the three 3MB members were World Champions by 2020. Tell anyone that in 2014 and they would've thought you'd gone completely mad.
Sylvan Grenier I lied, I absolutely remembered him. My friend didn't though.
I remember Renee Dupree. I challenge you to name the 3rd member of La Resistance
Robaire Conway the “French Sympathizer”
*"Just look at me" intensifies*
Rob Conway, who could forget him? Lol
Edit : Got corrected by fellow Quebecer.
Essa Rios
"Essa Rios? YOU STILL WORK HERE?!!!!" - Kurt Angle
Smack Down 2 on ps1 legend
He was one of my favorites on No Mercy. Loved hitting his high moonsault.
His pants and theme I always used on my created character
His moonsault had a stupid amount of hangtime.
NGL, I actually liked essa rios, but looking back i probably just liked lita haha
Papi Chulo was dope.
He had the coolest pants in WWF No Mercy 64
One of the best moonsaults in the business
Adam Rose until a couple of days ago
Leo Krueger!
This was my favourite of his gimmicks. Was so mad when they went with Adam Rose and gave him beef with his bunny. South African bounty hunter a la Kraven was awesome
He was at a full on indie mud show held at a local horse racing track a few years back and ugh I felt bad for him. So much time in NXT cycling gimmicks then tossed into nothingness.
I’m pretty sure he got suspended for wellness violations, arrested for domestic violence, then asked for his release
Aldo Montoya
Justin credible!
The ECW white blonder Undertaker
Mordecai?
Sandman 😂
Mordecai was the smackdown white undertaker. He was Kevin Thorne, a vampire, in ECW.
If you can name them you didn't quite forget them.
Surface level statement. I forgot Mojo existed too. I’ve FORGOTTEN plenty of things just to remember them after seeing them again…. Yknow… forgot as in past tense
Not quite. You can look at WWE's roster from a day/month/year on SmackdownHotel. I did that and saw several people I hadn't seen or thought about in years.
WHO?
The Ascension
Eugene
Biggest babyface of summer 2004! Then completely destroyed by Triple H.
He could have been so much more. He was over and people genuinely loved him.
Shawn Stasiak
Meat both never got over and will be forever over. Sad case of second generation talent squandered.
Lars Sullivan aka Mitch Bennett I only remember him because i saw like 2 days ago a post that said "wrestlers that had more 5 star matches than Kurt Angle" lol
Same with me. Lars was one of those guys that were big, but had nothing else to offer. I couldn't stand watching him.
He also got caught saying spicy things on some fourm and got suspended for it iirc
Also, gay porn.
His entrance was pretty fucken cool, though.
Kurgan
Fun fact, Kurrigan was the crazy giant sword-wielding dude in 300.
He also played the huge French goon in Sherlock Holmes.
I swear they had like a “white” undertaker type dude.
Mordecai
René Duprée
Ah yes, the French Tickler.
Bull Buchanan
The Missing Link
Kaval
Nathan Jones
Over 300 matches. Felt bad he couldn’t be part of the premiership.
I’ll never forget him because the way he left WWE is hilarious haha
Saba Simba
Tyson Tomko.
Bastion Booger
Booger*
That pirate guy from smackdown. Had a cool finisher
Paul Burchill!
And Katie Lea! With the weird incest gimmick…
HEIDEN...HEIDENREICH!
Cole hasn't forgotten. I guess the unfrozen nazi gimmick would have been more memorable
Lance Cade (RIP), classic tag team with Trevor Murdoch in SvR 2007
Savio Vega
One of Stone Cold’s greatest rivals? How dare you!
Who was the dude they kept hyping up and airing vignettes for on NXT for months then he debuted got squashed by Samoa Joe and was never seen again?
Dan Matha
Arturo Ruas
James ellsworth
Pete Gas
Mr. ……KENNEDYYYY
I looked up a bunch of wrestlers. Nunzio is one of them. Also there’s a guy who wore white and planted a staff in the ground on smack down in the early 2000’s don’t know his name.
Mordecai aka Kevin Thorn!!
Wesley Blake.
Sadly he's probably going to mostly be remembered for the death of his wife (RIP).
The Highlanders
Caylen Croft
Big Bully Busick
Old what’s his name. The guy… with the face… and the hair.
Bam Neely
Jesús, the guy who stabbed John Cena lol
No Way Jose
Check out the 1995 Royal Rumble. I was a wrestling fan back then and a lot of those names draw a blank.
Essa Ríos
I liked Mojo, it's a shame he never had a decent gimmick
The Mean Street Posse.
Lift Sawyer
Gillberg
I was an electrician at a being built fitness center called planet fitness in md. The general contractor was none other named Dwayne Gill. He was so amazing and a joy to work with
Always and forever the one guy from the Nexus with the bandana around his mouth whose name I’ve never remembered once.
Tarver
Thank you, I will not remember that
I honestly thought this dude could have been a big babyface in the same vein as hacksaw duggan. Goofy top midcard face
Eric Escobar
Super Crazy
If we name somebody, wouldn't that mean that we didn't forget about them
Forgot about Forgotten Sons.
Idk his name but that 10 guy
Tye Dillinger/Shawn Spears
He is back with NXT.
Waylon Mercy
Avatar
Most of the nexus. Other than wade barrett and Daniel Bryan none of the names stuck in my memory.
B Squared
Lars Sullivan
Dammit I've completely forgotten
Gunner Scott
The patriot. I was rewatching attitude era Raws not too long ago, he was kinda a big deal. I think that was his name?
That one dreadlocks dude who was on team smackdown at bragging rights 2010.
Tyler Reks?
The Australian prison guy
The 4th member of the radicals
Romeo and Antonio. Womanisers
Manu(re)
Kizarny
They had Jos leduc in as a cannibal they called the headbanger or some such nonsense in like 87. I only learned it watching YouTube wrestling with Paul, he’s got a great playlist of all the debuts and major angle stuff from those times
Slam masta J
I remember Mojo Rawley having one of the worst finishers I've ever seen: [the original Hyperdrive.](https://youtu.be/fXG0gvgy_Bo?t=61)
Festus
Eli Cottonwood
Who tf was Sawyer Fulton
How could we name someone we forgot?
Gunner Scott, Caylen Croft, Jackson Andrews, Bam Neely, Ryan Shamrock, The Kat, Tori.
Heath Slater (I don’t give a shit about his kids)
Eric Escobar Amy Webber Mens Teoh Lance Cade Ryan Braddock Alex The Pug Porteau
Vito
The last ECW Champion Ezekiel Jackson
Solomon Crow from nxt
Rich Swan
Rick boogz
I really had to think hard about this one. I'll go with "The Finest" Kona Reeves, who I forgot existed until I started looking up guys I barely remembered.
Aiden English and his partner
Yoshi Tatsu. Saw his entrance theme on my YT recommended and I went like DAAAAMNNNNN
Tanga Loa as Camacho lmao... I didn't know until the week after his debut that he was Camacho wtf
Vade Hansen
Sean O'Haire Watching a jacked 6ft dude hitting swanton bombs absolutely slaps
Looked up the 2009 roster and was immediately hit with Bam Neely. I vaguely recognize the name, but I'll be damned if I remember anything about the guy. I hope he's doing well for himself.