Fun with YouTube: Big Van Vader
Fun with YouTube: Big Van Vader
Holy crap is there a lot of wrasslin' junk on YouTube.
Here's a neat match between the two guys I consider to be the two best superheavyweights to ever wander into the squared circle, Vader and Bam Bam Bigelow. The match is from 1988.
A couple notes: Bam Bam is just a personal favorite. I credit Bam Bam with giving ECW a lot of its credibility in the late nineties. Where a lot of big guys would have had trouble keeping up with and/or jobbing to smaller guys, Bam Bam went in and had good match after good match. He kept a badass image, and in my mind, he was able to make undersized superstars like Taz and Rob Van Dam a little more marketable.
This is Vader prior to his WCW days. He's got tremendous agility for a 350 pound man. Vader is one of the underrated ring psychologists, as well. Vader has a bit of the Jake Roberts flair for storytelling.
A lot of people blame Vince McMahon for his shitty run in the WWF in the late 90's, with Vince's unwillingness to put over a champion from another company. I blame Vince for a lot of stuff, but not Vader's relatively poor showing in the WWF. By the time Vader made it to the WWF, he was 10 years older than he was in this video, and probably 100 pounds heavier. He wasn't the same Vader. I wouldn't have wanted him in a #1 heel or face position, either.
Holy crap is there a lot of wrasslin' junk on YouTube.
Here's a neat match between the two guys I consider to be the two best superheavyweights to ever wander into the squared circle, Vader and Bam Bam Bigelow. The match is from 1988.
A couple notes: Bam Bam is just a personal favorite. I credit Bam Bam with giving ECW a lot of its credibility in the late nineties. Where a lot of big guys would have had trouble keeping up with and/or jobbing to smaller guys, Bam Bam went in and had good match after good match. He kept a badass image, and in my mind, he was able to make undersized superstars like Taz and Rob Van Dam a little more marketable.
This is Vader prior to his WCW days. He's got tremendous agility for a 350 pound man. Vader is one of the underrated ring psychologists, as well. Vader has a bit of the Jake Roberts flair for storytelling.
A lot of people blame Vince McMahon for his shitty run in the WWF in the late 90's, with Vince's unwillingness to put over a champion from another company. I blame Vince for a lot of stuff, but not Vader's relatively poor showing in the WWF. By the time Vader made it to the WWF, he was 10 years older than he was in this video, and probably 100 pounds heavier. He wasn't the same Vader. I wouldn't have wanted him in a #1 heel or face position, either.
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