**Crush Crushed?**

[TheEvilDoink1987]

When you look back at the feud between Doink and Crush it's hard to ignore the fact that the rivalry was pretty one-sided.

Crush wasn't setting the WWF on fire, but by late 1992 he was gaining solid momentum as a babyface. The guy had size, agility and most importantly one of the sweetest mullets to ever step foot inside a ring. A major push looked inevitable.

Then came the feud with Doink. It started with the infamous cast-whooping on Superstars that caused Crush to miss the Royal Rumble match. At Wrestlemania IX, Doink beat Crush again with the help of another Doink. In June at King of the Ring, Doink distracted Crush in his match against Shawn and cost him the Intercontinental title. A few weeks later on Raw, Crush found himself taking on Yokozuna. After being defeated, Crush received four Banzai Drop's and was put on the shelf. We never saw Kona Crush again.

What happened here? Doink made Crush look like a fool for months. You would think he'd eventually get his revenge, but it never happened. Part of me believes that they blew the feud off to begin Crush's heel turn, but whose gonna take a heel seriously when they just spent the entire year getting owned by a clown?

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it was strange for sure.I kept waiting for Crush to get his own back....

it wasnt like that in my Hasbro fed though.....Doink was my star heel jobber so Crush flattened his ass!!

[LeighD]

Sept 22, 2011 23:15:23 GMT -5 TheEvilDoink1987 said:

When you look back at the feud between Doink and Crush it's hard to ignore the fact that the rivalry was pretty one-sided.

Crush wasn't setting the WWF on fire, but by late 1992 he was gaining solid momentum as a babyface. The guy had size, agility and most importantly one of the sweetest mullets to ever step foot inside a ring. A major push looked inevitable.

Then came the feud with Doink. It started with the infamous cast-whooping on Superstars that caused Crush to miss the Royal Rumble match. At Wrestlemania IX, Doink beat Crush again with the help of another Doink. In June at King of the Ring, Doink distracted Crush in his match against Shawn and cost him the Intercontinental title. A few weeks later on Raw, Crush found himself taking on Yokozuna. After being defeated, Crush received four Banzai Drop's and was put on the shelf. We never saw Kona Crush again.

What happened here? Doink made Crush look like a fool for months. You would think he'd eventually get his revenge, but it never happened. Part of me believes that they blew the feud off to begin Crush's heel turn, but whose gonna take a heel seriously when they just spent the entire year getting owned by a clown?

^ That line made me laugh out loud!

Yeah Crush vs. Doink was definitely one-sided. Maybe they had planned for Crush to get his revenge, but decided not to after his face stint failed to gain the fanfare WWF wanted.

On a side note, any idea as to why Doink wrestled Mr. Perfect THREE times in a KOTR Qualifying Match? I mean Mr. Perfect himself was coming off feuding with Flair and Luger so to be taken to the limit with a clown was either showing the fans Perfect was losing it or Doink was one tough mo'fo.

[jammer311]

Doink was a wrestling machine though during that era. That match he had with Bret Hart at SummerSlam was good! The thing I don't get either is that Crush should have gotten his revenged at KOTR against Doink in a one on one grudge match, and had HBK vs. Marty Jannetty for the IC Title there and had HBK win it back from Marty at that ppv with the help of the debut of Diesel.

Crush could have came off the win of destroying Doink and thought he could take on the world. So come the July 4th body slam challenge, he comes close but doesn't so he gets a title match. He loses to Yoko and he starts to get frustrated. Savage gets a title match and Crush screws him out of the title, and attacks him.

It made no sense to why Crush got injured by Fuji and Yoko, only to come back and side with them.

As for Doink, after KOTR when he gets destroyed by Crush, he could have left TV until SummerSlam when he came out to replace The King.

Ahhhh creative booking 101, something the WWE lacked at certain times.

[jason1980s]

I feel Crush could just never get over despite how many times WWF kept bringing him back and trying. I liked him growing up no matter what the gimmick but now I see things differently.

He's probably the main reason the Demolition heel turn failed. Sure Ax left but maybe if they hadn't replaced him Smash could just go quietly and become a new character quicker rather than the loss at Wrestlemania 7 to an outside team.

In 1992 he was getting a big push but there would always be more over and talented guys like Savage, Perfect and Hart. Even with the face turn and Dink, Wink and Pink, Doink could have more to him than Crush.

Heel turn comes, he has boring music, can't talk for himself and Fuji can't do much talking to get him over. Yokozuna was a bigger heel and better which may overshadow Crush. Even Ludvig Borga was a more interesting character. Savage was on his last run and not really an active competitor so there wasn't much between that feud.

Crush was an afterthought after Wrestlemania but when Perfect left while feuding with Luger, Crush was put into the feud. After a loss to Luger at Summerslam Spectacular Crush sort of dissapeared only to reappear when WWF needed more wrestlers for Royal Rumble. I think Vince was even surprised to see Crush, LOL.

He was fired for gun charges but brought back AGAIN in late 1996. Despite the almost real life gimmick he didn't go far as a single, was put into Nation of Domination but that really didn't do much having him in the Nation. He was kicked out and then brought the DOA together. Putting the fake Undertaker, and the Harris Twins (another two guys who WWF kept bringing back despite not getting over, ever) and coupled with the bad factions, that run couldn't go over well.

Finally he was gone after Survivor Series, destroyed by Kane. But he would come back four years later as Kronik. They were asked to go back to developmental after a bad PPV match.

Now what that tells me is that even though the guy has been wrestling for about 10 years he's just not that talented to be on the main stage without going for more training or character development. Evil Doink could probably get one over on Crush many times but even for a final revenge match to give Crush closure he didn't have the talent or character to get it done in kayfabe.

[jason1980s]

Sept 23, 2011 10:49:04 GMT -5 @jammer311 said:

It made no sense to why Crush got injured by Fuji and Yoko, only to come back and side with them.

Ahhhh creative booking 101, something the WWE lacked at certain times.

That's like Ricky Steamboat on the same team as Jake and Macho Man at Survivor Series.

[nibs92]

i suppose with Crush i feel he came in at the wrong time.

Demolition were on the way out when he joined and were about to be replaced by the L.O.D. as the dominant muscular type.

He came back as a face around about the summer of 1992, when the WWF were in the middle of a drug scandal. Hogan had disappeared and the general popularity of the product was down.

come 1993 the WWF was pushing in a different direction, putting more emphasis on smaller more athletic performers who could actually wrestle.

he never had a chance of getting over. his face just never seemed to fit.

had he come in around 1987 or 88 then he might have had a better chance.

[LA Times]

Crush was pretty over as a face when he was using the Head Vice as a finisher.

[-=[ CRuSH ]=-]

As you can probably tell...I was a huge fan. I always hated the big muscular wrestlers as a kid but Crush? man oh man I thought he was awsome.

You know whats funny? As a kid I never put two and two together that he was the guy out of Demolition

Ignorance is bliss I guess

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The two did have a match shortly after king of the ring 93 , it is obvoiusly after because of lawlers referal to bret not being a king at the start.