From what I can gather by reading the posts on here I'd say most of you are what I'd call wrestling purists with an impressive knowledge base and a love of this great 'sport'. The question I'd like to ask is did any of you actually enjoy a Big Daddy bout? or like me did you find the whole farce an insult to your intelligence and an insult to wrestling that kept better wrestlers out of the limelight and made some great stars look like fools?
I certainly don't want a keyboard fight with anyone who enjoyed a Daddy match, just interested as to what it was you enjoyed?
I can be quite scathing towards wrestlers who annoyed me and while I had no time or interest for the likes of The Royal Bros or Johnny Saint I could certainly see the appeal some would find in the squeaky clean Royal/Faulkner getting his butt kicked by the bad guy and then fighting his way back to victory and in Johnny Saint's case I can see that he was an amazing technician and I understand that many would appreciate that. But The Big Daddy pantomime leaves me cold, in my opinion he offered absolutely nothing to wrestling and was partly responsible to its downfall. If you disagree that's fine but what was it you enjoyed?
He also had some other finishers back then such as a necklift/hangman (a submission in the chokeslam position) and an over the shoulder backbreaker. He would also stomp fallen opponents and boot them in the back of the shoulders after a posting.