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🗓️ 3 August 2023
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Weird twists of fate that changed people's lives and WWE careers FOREVER... Simon Miller presents 10 WWE Disasters That Became Life-Changing Moments...
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0:00.0 | You can't account for anything in wrestling, and you can be the best in the world when WWE rings you up, signs you, and then tells you you're gonna have to be man-tar. |
0:09.0 | I don't think that's gonna work out. The thing is, it could. Sports entertaining is so mad, there's no knowing how things will play out, which is why I'm sound from what culture, please go touch that subscribe button, and this is 10 WWE Disasters that became life-changing moments. |
0:25.0 | Number 10, Mankind Thrives, despite the gimmick. So this ties right into the intro. When Mick Foley got signed by WWE, he was presented with Mason the Mutilator, complete with ridiculous costume and mask. |
0:37.0 | So utterly ridiculous, even Foley knew this was not good, who the hell was gonna make this work. |
0:43.0 | It was very much of the time, as in the mid-90s, the WWF was obsessed with job-related gimmicks, and because we'd never had a mutilator before, well, we'd better change that ASAP. |
0:53.0 | Because Mick is a smart cat, though, he didn't want to just say no. He found a compromise. He would happily wear the head gear, but just wanted to be called Mankind. |
1:02.0 | As soon as he got his own creative brain into it too, you know what happened. He added so many layers to this gimmick. He became the World Heavyweight Champion. It's quite the success story. |
1:12.0 | The real turning point was those series of interviews he did with Jim Ross, where Mankind bared his soul, using Foley's real-life story, and when Mick Man saw this, his eyes lit up too. |
1:22.0 | Mick Foley became one of his guys. So really, we should all learn from this. Stay calm, have an alternative, and then go out there and smash it. |
1:30.0 | Mrs. Foley's baby boy, Rocks. Number 9, Becky Lynch takes a real punch. Have you ever heard that saying that goes, a door closes, but a window opens? |
1:38.0 | Well, whenever it is, big O. |
1:40.0 | Because WWE were ready to go big with Becky Lynch after SummerSlam 2018, even though they wanted her as a heel. |
1:46.0 | This was silly because fans had decided they loved her, but you know the deal with that? Shut up! |
1:51.0 | We then built the Survivor series, and when Raw and Smackdown were fighting, Naya Jack's whack-beaks for real, and Broker knows. |
1:58.0 | Instantly, all plans route that window we just talked about? Or were they? |
2:02.0 | Because Lynch reacted to blood all over her face like such a badass. Even though she wasn't cleared to wrestle, she just became the best. |
2:09.0 | Nobody was as cool and edgy, plus she used her social media game to ruin people. This was the guy. |
2:15.0 | It also gave birth to the man character which was super cool, and by the time she got the green light to go, forget about it. |
2:21.0 | It's why she was part of the first women to ever main event WrestleMania the following year. Without her, |
2:26.0 | I don't think it happens. Becky was just so ridiculously popular and deservedly so. |
2:31.0 | She totally earned this spot, and it all clicked, when she got smacked for real. |
2:35.0 | What a world. |
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