Reply With QuoteI didn't like Too Cool, I thought they were lame (no offense), but I did like Brian Christopher when he was working the light heavyweights and Lawler kept denying he was his son, that was pretty funny stuff.
God I used to love these Guys.
Grand Masta Sexay (Bryan Christopher aka The King Junior aka Bryan Lawler)
and Scotty 2 Hotty.
They were so entertaining, wether it be wearing do rags and funny hats, funny pants or just dancing, these guys were so cool. I just wish Scotty 2 hotty went places after they broke up, I think he got a few more tag straps and maybe a cruiserweight title.
Lawler came back to WWE Raw for one night back in like 2006 or so. got fired the next week. I think he jobbed to Kane. I believe Drugs were involved in his firing. and it wasent the first time he had been in the shit for drugs.
I think Bryan Lawler could of made use of his Dad's "the King"gimmick, make him the king of cool or some shit like that.
then there was Rikishi. something about a fat samoan dancing and rubbing his arse cheeks in peoples faces that makes me laugh and feel sick at the same time.
R.I.P Too Cool, you are missed.
I didn't like Too Cool, I thought they were lame (no offense), but I did like Brian Christopher when he was working the light heavyweights and Lawler kept denying he was his son, that was pretty funny stuff.
Last edited by DaBadGuy; 06-22-2010 at 10:30 PM.
Yeah, The King must really be ashamed of him.
I thought The King could even pull afew strings to get GMS back in the WWE.
Looks like he is going to end up in the same place as X-pac.
Brian Christopher got fired because he got arrested trying to smuggle drugs across the boarder. There is no place for him in today in the WWE.
What I recall reading is that he had on him, supplements that aren't legal here, but are in the US, when they came across the border for a show.
But whatever, Too Cool and Rakishi were the worst things going in the summer of 2000. It would have been perfect if they weren't stinking up Raw every week. And when Too Cool beat E & C for the tag belts, THAT was Wrestlecrap. They even gave Rakishi the IC belt if I recall.
Rikishi was so not Wrestlecrap. He was incredibly mobile, hit like a Samoan Finlay, took bumps very few guys his size ever did (off the top of the Cell, for example), and fucked cats all kinds of up with the Rikishi Driver. In fact, the two worst things about 'Kishi were the stinkface and the Too Cool association.
Last edited by MissouriDragon; 06-22-2010 at 09:55 PM.
Hey man Too Cool went over the Road Warriors at Wrestlemania didnt they?
oh and the drugs was a small bag of cocaine covered in methamphetamine residue, according to Brian Christopher and he said the blow was his because he was covering for a friend (yeah right) .
Main Event Mark Fuerstein brought the worm back last week too. A testament to the awesomeness of too cool. Scotty 2 Hottie just died a little inside when the guest host stole his move.
I was about about 10 when too cool were doing there thing, hence why i most likely enjoyed them.
these days have to watch hornswoggle and chavo. fuck that.
I think that's what I hated about him. I found him somewhat entertaining during his brief heel run in September of 2000.Originally Posted by MissouriDragon
1). First of all it's Rikishi. Or Mr Fatu. You may not like him but please respect him.
2). Second of all, read Missou's post. He's right.
3). Too Cool were one of the most over things on T.V. Fuck Hornswoggle- Too Cool were the most over PG gimmick before the PG era started. Even if you hated them, they still got huge pops.
4).
Enough said.
5). Rikishi has more talent in his left ass cheek than most guys on the current roster do. Though it is a rather large area.
6). I found your use of the word "stinking" amusing. Usually its Rikishi's opponents who stunk. Nothing as satisfying as seeing someone you hate receiving a stink face- particularly if you believed wrestling was real.
7). Rikishi and Too Cool have provided all other lop posters with 5 years of nony. I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for them. Do you really want that? (don't answer that).
8). Scotty and Sexay weren't ever going to be world champions individually so they formed a tag team. A few years later, after their release, everyone and their moms was bitching about lack of tag-teams. Too Cool were a real, proper tag team who served their purpose.
9). I love those guys. So fucking much. To call them Wrestlecrap is like taking my wife and punching her in the face. They made me follow wrestling for this long. They still do. I'm a wrestling fan for life because of Too Cool. Because of Rikishi.
Thank you.
Had arguably the best superkick ever too.
There's a place for fun tag teams in the mid-card. Too Cool filled it well and were massively over. It can't all be intense blood feuds on a show. They deserved every cent they made, because they genuinely got big pops and entertained people at the shows, even if they weren't the main reason the fans bought tickets. Rikishi is different. He was genuinely a near miss as a main eventer. That's a seven figure deal and he was there on merit.
Before the Radicalz moved over, Rikishi against Val Venis for the IC was about as good as it got in the WWF attitude era mid-card.
Last edited by makeo; 06-25-2010 at 07:46 PM. Reason: I'm sure there are some better mid-card matches but meh, Snow, Bob Holly, Rikishi and Val Venis from '98 is what I remember.
I always found Too Cool to be rather entertaining and Rikishi very good in the ring, and one of the best bigs of the last 10 years. After being saddled with some wrestlecrap gimmicks like the Sultan he finally found something that worked for him. It also seemed for a while like he could’ve been a main eventer player and the whole storyline of him being the one who ran over Steve Austin could’ve been what finally elevated him to that next level. It was one of the hottest angles of that year, but overtime lost a great deal of momentum.
At the end of the video anonymous posted, Lawler says, "What if you match up Rikishi's ass and Mae Young's breasts?" as the camera zoomed in on Rikishi's ass. We won't be hearing lines like that for a while.
And Too Cool was also part of one of the best matches in the history of RAW (at least one of my favorites) just based of the circumstances and crowd.
Part 1
Part 2
I actually used to list that match in my top 3 ever. For fan reaction, match entertainment value and the shockingness, it can't be surpassed. It was awesome.
Anonymous, I respect your devotion to the team of Too Cool and Rikishi, but I must admit, holding Too Cool in such high regard is kinda like saying that The Bushwhackers (at least the WWE's version) are your favorite tag team ever. The 'Whackers were very over, they had a funny dance they used to do, they even licked people's faces (which is probably even grosser than the Stinkface), so, the comparison isn't so far-fetched. They were also excellent at jobbing to other teams, being in the midcard, and nothing more.
As for Rikishi being a "near-miss" main eventer, well, that's a cloudy issue in my eyes. Yes, the writers/bookers fucked up the "I did it fo' da' Rock" angle - in fact, by running Austin over with a limo just to help the Rock, he basically was made to look like a stooge or henchman, not a stand-alone singlers star. As a matter of fact, if I'm not mistaken, this angle led to a Rock/Rikishi feud that ended unceremoniously with Rock beating him in a squash (despite the fact that, according to rumors, it was the Rock who was most supportive of Kishi's push). I might be wrong, but I don't even remember Kishi having a blow-off match with Austin either.
Then, there was the Hell In The Cell 6-man match where he fell off the top of the cage. The spot actually came off as a bit choreographed and unspontanious (sp?) and, in terms of "oh shit" factor, it was not the "Mick Foley KOTR 97'" moment that, obviously, the company was hoping to have it be. In the end, again, it seemed that Rikishi had went along with an angle that really only highlighted that he was NOT a main eventer. Another "star-making moment" that wasn't meant to be.
After that, Rikishi didn't seem to have the confidence of the company, so, the pushes and the break-out moments never happened again for him. To some, it seems that this was undeserved. In my opinion, though, Rikishi did not stand out or break-out when he had a chance to, even if this was probably more of the bookers' fault than his own. It was a tough break, but it wasn't like he was wrestling circles around the competition - he was good, maybe great, but NOT incredible. In fact, I think Umaga's feud with Jeff Hardy was better than any rivalry Rikishi had in his entire WWE career. Maybe that's because Umaga was given the opportunities and minutes to put together real wrestling matches (while Rikishi's matches were generally midcard filler), but any way you cut it, Umaga knocked the ball out of the park when he needed too and Rikishi didn't.
Rikishi was so much more over than Umaga it wasn't even funny. Wrestling-wise it's probably a toss up. Some people fail to realize how popular this guy was for some time. His popularity definitely petered out like most do but he definitely had a better run than most people though a fat guy in a thong would have.
I stand corrected on the Austin/Rikishi thing.
Also, while I can't say Rikishi wasn't mega over (he was), I don't think I could ever be convinced that Too Cool (strictly Scotty 2 Hotty and Grandmaster Sexay) were anything special. A good midcard team during the company's peak Attitude years. Would they rank on my list of top 20 tag teams of the past 20 years? No way in hell. Like the APA, another team that I think is vastly overrated by some, they were a team that played a role but ultimately were very one dimensional. A comedy act - pretty much just Public Enemy minus the beer guts, table spots, and credibility.
Rikishi really suffered from bad booking more than anything, but I also think, despite the evidence produced (the video above of Rikishi getting a massive pop), he wasn't taking the industry by storm the way Goldberg did. He was very popular. He was very talented. He was very poorly booked and his heel turn was a major flop, BUT I'm not sure he would've ever been a WrestleMania headliner even if they had executed his heel turn perfectly (or if they hadn't turn him heel at all). At that time, the competition in the main event scene was just too incredible and when the character fell flat, it really sunk (unlike, say, Chris Benoit or Eddie Guerrero or Big Show who were able to work their way back into being legit main eventers after previous runs in the main event weren't so hot).
Hey they have a pin fall victory over the road warriors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA6MVnaVB9o
Oh and here is a bonus match
Tajiri vs Brian Christopher in 1997 (before Tajiri found himself in ECW)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4n5R58o_ok
While normally you are correct nony, you forgot to mention that they were also the best PG gimmick to date.
Too Cool rocked. And if they didn't, S2H wouldn't have been employed for as long as he was.
That 10 man tag almost brought me to tears on how good wrestling once was.
Is it strange that I find it really surreal to watch that match and realize that only one of those 10 guys is still wrestling for the company anymore, and two of them aren't even alive?
I brought my younger brother to a show last year and he has no interest in wrestling but Scotty managed to get him engaged in a match, he even waited at the end to get an autograph. Scott seems like a genuinely good guy who loves what he does and as much as I personally dislike it he does it well. On a side note that ten-man has been a perrenial favourite of mine for years. Oh the sometimes great old days.
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