Hardcore Holly's future

[Woo]

I just saw this on a wrestling website.


According to a report by The Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Bob "Hardcore" Holly is no longer being used by WWE right now and at age 45 he may not be brought back.

The feeling among those within WWE right now is that someone like The Undertaker would have to go to bat for him one more time if they were going to consider using him on a regular basis. It's no secret that Holly has a reputation for being much like a Japanese wrestling veteran in that he works very stiff with newcomers and carries an old-school mentality that they have to prove they can "survive" in a tough profession.

Holly did this same thing with Brock Lesnar by sandbagging him on a power move that forced Lesnar to overpower him and Lesnar ended up dropping Holly, breaking his neck. For those wondering why WWE didn't go any farther in his promo with Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase Jr., the company decided against airing promos done by Holly as they didn't feel the interviews were good enough and they just decided to drop it. Many have compared Holly's role in WWE to the one that Funaki has in that Vince McMahon always keeps them around, but never has any plans to ever do anything with them.


Damn I thought Holly would be around forever. Not that I care for the guy one bit. He's been around for years and has done squat all other than being a twat. I can remember exactly one good match he's had and that was thanks to Angle making him look like a star. He also can't promo at all. My only question is how he lasted as long as he has with the WWE?

[MetalBlade]

I thought Holly was OK.
I never really had a problem with him.
Sure he's always been a jobber, but I thought he was a jobber in the vein of Barry Horowitz, who I liked immensely.
I remember a very good recent match he had with Rob Van Dam, where RVD suplexed him over the top rope through a table and Holly recieved a gorgeous gash across his back, resulting a reasonably entertaining feud for a few weeks.

As for Holly making youngsters "pay their dues", yeah he is one of the old-schoolers in that respect.
I read a story once where he suplexed Al Snow and held him upside down for about a minute as he pulled Snow's trunks to one side and exposed his penis.
You gotta respect a guy who does that.

[Woo]

Aug 9, 2008 11:48:06 GMT -1 MetalBlade said:

I read a story once where he suplexed Al Snow and held him upside down for about a minute as he pulled Snow's trunks to one side and exposed his penis.
You gotta respect a guy who does that.

Ah, the penis suplex. Yeah that was described in Mick Foley's first book. Foley described Holly as having a sick kind of glee on his face while he did it.

As for the whole "making youngsters pay their dues" I remember reading about how Holly was on Tough Enough and beat the crap out one of the wrestlers, just to make him "pay his dues". I think he did it just to make himself feel good. Makes a change from getting his ass kicked by the WWE superstars.

He did some stupid as well. He fought Angle, who was in his first year and Angle ended up breaking his arm. Then he fought Brock in his debut year, tried to be a cock and ended up having his neck broke. You would have fought he would learn not to mess with the newbies.

[MetalBlade]

Yeah I'd love for Kimbo Slice to join and Holly to attempt to make him pay his dues.
Kimbo would smash both Holly's orbitals, pop his rotator cuff, dislocate his jaw, wrench his wrists, rupture his spleen, tear both his quadraceps and shatter his c4, c5 and c6 vertebrae.
And that's before he finishes him with a heart punch which splits his pectoral into four, and collapses both lungs.

[Steala]

Not if Bob can hit him with the Alabama Slam first!

[MetalBlade]

Ha!!
I almost forgot his name was BOB.
After years of calling him Hardcore it's hard to remember him as the bemulleted stock-car-gimmicked jobber of the mid 90s.

I just read WWE fired a stack of superstars this weekend including Shannon Moore, Big Daddy V, Nunzio and referee Nick Patrick.
WWE must be losing a hell of a lot of money.
Sounds like I'm not the only one who's seen the light and stopped watching that steaming pile of dingo's kidneys.

[Steala]

When the term "superstar" is used to describe a referee, and even worse, Nunzio, you know WWE has destroyed its meaning.

[Woo]

Haha.

The WWE do this every year anyway. Seeing how gets fired in the Summer is more intresting than Summerslam these days.

I wonder if Bob will go back to NASCAR now. With his dull personailty and lack of skill he'll fit right in. (Montoya excluded, he rules)