@@aroyewunolabode3896 Kurt Angle never recieved a single five star rating. Not in the WWE, not in TNA. His highest rated TNA match was 4.5 (v/ Slapnuts) and he had two 4.75's in the WWE (both featuring He Who Shall Not Be Named). This isn't a discredit to Angle, he's clearly one of the greatest of all time. It's proof of the heavy bias that Meltzer had against the WWE product for a very, very long time. It took NXT re-creating the "indy style" for him to take the E seriously again.
I busted out laughing for Slapnuts appearing out of nowhere in this video. And you are right, it's the most random cameo appearance that you could've imagined.
Lars Sullivan being in tag teams was news to me. I remember Lars Sullivan being a monster heel that got outed for posting crazy stuff on bodybuilding forums and being in adult videos with other men.
Apparently AEWs AR Fox also did some movies with men aswell. But cause he hasnt done anything racist or anything people seem not to care about his past.
@@IngasPingas14Exactly, upper management don’t care about that sort of stuff nowadays (Austin Theory and Ricochet both have explicit videos of themselves online). Funnily enough, it’s almost always the most outwardly homophobic people that are caught.
Before his main roster career died on the vine, the NXT run was fun. How he didn't know his message board posts would ruin his career is beyond me, the internet tends to find things like that.
He could have gotten away with the message board posts if he was smart enough to use total anonymity. Problem is, he had actual photos of himself on that board as part of his account, which is the dumbest thing an internet troll (which is what he was, given many of the extreme comments he kept making) can do. Even amateur trolls know not to use real photos of themselves online.
Remember the guy who asked about climate change at the presidential townhall debate and was a huge twitter hero for two days till his Reddit account was identified and became Twitter's greatest villain?
Some interesting roth contenders : -SIN CARA in 2011 (this would be glorious) -Hogan in wwe 2002-2006 -Winter in tna 2011 -DOUBLE J in AEW -Rob Conway narcisist gimmick 2005-2006 -Shane Mcmahon post-return 2016 -Cherry in wwe 2008 -Britanny in TNA 2014 -Lord tensai -The Rock 2011-2013 -Undertaker post-streak -Batista post-return 2014 -Awesome Kong in TNA 2015 -Brandi Rhodes in AEW -Miss TNA Bruce -SNITSKY
Riott Squad Erick Rowan's solo run in 2019-2020 James Ellsworth's short lived push in 2016 Andrade on the main roster RVD's perverted heel gimmick in TNA
His issues aside, the guy was pretty solid in his physique, character and in ring work for a big green guy. I remember his NXT run fondly namely that ladder match for the North American title and how he was presented as a "smart monster." His main roster run was a mixed bag but it produced one of the most hilariously badly acted Matt Hardy segments
He felt like a throwback to the 1950's big scary hairy monster heel. It might have been different looking in a modern sense, but he was just doing what had been done decades before. Shame his head wasn't ok.
His partner in his first match, Michael Blaze aka Michael Richard Blais, should have gotten a fairer shake than he did. He wrestles in Western Canada, where I live, and he never puts out a bad performance, elevates everyone he faces and once did a charity fundraiser for the Stollery Children's Hospital in Edmonton by wrestling matches for nine consecutive hours!
I still remember the photo of 3 then-recent NXT recruits of Finn Balor, Braun Strowman and Lars Sullivan. Finn had already been an established star coming in and Braun ended up doing well in the WWE main roster. Lars took a very long time in NXT development system, probably partly because of injuries seen from his knee brace, and then crashed quite quickly after he actually started working. So much of lost potential.
triple h' developmental was the worst in wrestling history. it did not produce ANY star. and everyone in there was old. they brought in guys in their mid 40s to developmental. again, i repeat, mid 40s in developmental.
@@joecrazy9896 and wcw had the problem of an old roster. everybody knew that at the time. wcw focused on competing instead of developing. right now wwe is not competing with anyone.
It amazes me time and time again where, when and how slapnuts appears in your viedos. Not just in the NWA-TNA review but everywhere else also. Not much to say about Lars Sullivan this time. You covered it all pretty well
Life's been pretty tough for me lately and sometimes i feel like i dont want to be here anymore but your videos always helps me get through every day. RotH is my favorite series and i love rewatching every season of it. Thank you Marky for all of your content and i hope that you won't quit doing them. Merry christmas bro...
I felt like that a few years ago. And I was pretty close to not being here anymore. But looking back, it's amazing how quickly things can and do turn around. I just had this very same conversation with a loved one a couple of days ago, shocked at all the wonderful things I would have missed out on had I gone through with it. Jesus loves you. I'm praying for you.
Hey you good man?Yeah Christmas is hard for a lot of people Because it kind of forces you to evaluate Your close emotional relationships that You Have, don't have......Don't want lmao. You can change yourself though .You can also change Who you invite into your life And How you let them affect you. Go see the people That love you If you can.Have a merry Christmas
I know the feeling brother... My fiancée died march 2022 and since then I've attempted 2 times to take my life and was on life support both times. Things get easier though if you let them. Learn to forgive yourself and others. Merry Christmas
There was rumors that Sullivan was suppose to face John Cena at WrestleMania where Cena was to put him over but Sullivan battled anxiety issues and plans were scrapped 🤨
Those rumors were true. He was given other multiple opportunities to be pushed as the next big monster heel but his "anxiety issues" along with the racist and homophobic comments he made in a wrestling fan forum, and his gay porn scenes being brought up also added more fuel to the fire.
Why the frick would you want him to have plethora of moves in his arsenal? He's big and scary, the last thing he needs is an abundance of moves, yet the fact that he kept on doing so many top rope dives is enough in itself.
Lars was weaker in the latter half of his NXT run because he was assured a main roaster call up and 'good' treatment there. His MR run ended to frequent panic attacks with insane controversies surrounding him the whole time. Lars was very athletic but his move pool was shallow and repetitive; I only remember him because he served as a decent opponent for NXT Champion Alister Black.
What ruined Toni’s time on the main roster was that at the time, John Laurenitis, the guy who famous doesn’t care about women’s wrestling, was in charge of talent relations so almost all the women were booked horribly at the time
I remember almost the entirety of this run. I liked seeing him. He had that kind of awkward way of moving which I thought worked pretty well with his character. Really unfortunate that what's in his head got the better of him.
@@AsimpNamedNutsack they got released years ago on those budget cuts, went to the indies mostly on solo runs and Oney Lorcan retired sometime this year
@@iCANTsleep2 maaaaan they were a couple of brute dudes as well. Loved their theme with the punk rock and the "1,2" as they both hold up 1 and 2 with their fingers
@@AsimpNamedNutsack Right? I remember catch Burch for the first time in NXT UK and was instantly a fan. Discovered Oney around the same time and when they teamed up as the ol' 1-2 combination, I was in heaven. Two hard hitting bruisers from opposite sides of the pond? All day.
@@iCANTsleep2 I am not sure if I am thinking of the right person but I could have sworn Oney was working as an instructor at NXT for a while. Yep, just looked. He is an instructor at the performance center now. I would not mind learning from Oney.
Lars had potential sucks all the controversy and anxiety attacks got to him. Personally something I didn't get about him in nxt at the beginning was why was he always asking for tag partners when he could beat anyone himself. I really wanted nxt to give him a story and background about wanting tag partners. Literally something as simple as he admired tag teams of the past and wanted to find the perfect tag partner to create his own tag legacy but he had trouble making friends cause he always beat them up. Eventually team him up with someone like Keith Lee (probably wasn't signed yet) become a dominant team win the championship then feud after they lose the belts and his giant tag partner doesn't let him beat him as easy Edit: I had completely forgot Keith Lee and Lars actually had a match
The weird early gaps are the taping schedule for NXT. They were taping 4-8 shows at once. So to send a guy out with a trial-run, they'd want to analyze it and refine it before sending him out again, but the next actual show taping would be after those other 3-7 weeks of shows.
4-8 shows in front of the same audience? I can't imagine sitting through that and still being interested, let alone excited... even if it's at the low end with 4 shows.
@@othertalk3313 TNA was doing the same thing too for quite awhile. But yeah, you can kind of tell looking at old NXT's, the last show or two before the Takeovers would be really low key with the audience. When they did 8 some of the actual "shows" were like 20-30 minutes or even less though, with a lot of video packages in between on the network version.
@@othertalk3313You also gotta understand, the old NXT crowds were the hardest of the hardcore wrestling fans in Florida. These people would come all over to watch NXT tapings, and more often than not they'd be there while whole storylines took place for TV, so they were just sitting watching everything play out. That Bayley Superfan Izzy got noticed first here and now she's wrestling in the indies herself.
I miss Velvetteen Dream. I'm aware of all of his controversy but bro had endless potential. Plus he's a hometown guy like Lio Rush and Batista so it's always great to see them succeed
The dude likes teens he hits on children I don't know why people are willing to forget that just because it's ok I'm Florida NO IF YOUR OVER 18 THERE IS NO REASON TO SEND NUDES TO UNDERAGE PEOPLE BUT,whatever like you you want to like show s w hat kind of person you are and stuff have a nice day!!
I personally really liked Lars he was green but he was improving and his look was unique it’s a shame that he pretty much drove himself out of wrestling with his actions
It's a shame that Lars was in reality his own worst enemy. The way they presented him he seemed like a genuine monster who could bulldoze anyone and apparentaly was supposed to have a moment where he attacked Cena on RAW but didn't happen because Lars had a massive anxiety attack backstage and didn't do it. Then all that crap about him from the past popped up and it was downhill from there. That and him just getting hurt all the time. His power was insane I must say, really could have been something. Really is a shame
I think the whole tag team ordeal was him actually trying to find a strong partner and if they couldn’t make it on their own.. why should he save them? Survival of the fittest of finding a tag team partner angel.
Big guy, get reaction out of people, scary look. Perfect wrestler for WWE, nothing could stop him to become a star, but sometimes things just didn't happen.
I was at an NXT house show at the St. Petersburg National Guard Armory. Lars had a match and they had him do 3 run ins after and by the end of the show he had destroyed almost all the lower/midcard heels and the tall dude with dreads formerly from TNA
I really thought he was doomed from the start he had a look but he wasnt gonna be a big deal NXT was his ceiling in my opinion not everyone can get over especially went you dont try and make him a big deal.
@@pleaseshutup7053 Well how about you leave his sexuality out of it? Because I didn't say one word about that. What I'm saying is that if you don't even try and push this man don't give the audience a reason to love or hate him He was doomed from the beginning
Lars Sullivan looked like the kind of monster they'd build up to feed to John Cena in a one-sided feud nobody would remember six months later. And really, that would have been the ideal role for him. It's not fair to him either because he could actually work as limited as his moveset was unlike most of the monsters they did feed to Cena. Pity he was such a piece of shit human being.
As far as NXT I think sure ig. But it stinks looking back at people in NXT who had a good lot of potential. I liked Lars. I thought he was a good "monster". He could've easily worn the North American championship. But with a lame call up, anxiety attacks, and the fact he done got hit by controversy, that'll kill it. Same thing with Velveteen 😬 this is someone WWE didn't fully capitalize on, in the right moment.
There was something there and anybody who looks like they can match physicality with the likes of a Brock Lesnar is always worth a shot but he just had too many skeletons in his closet. But knowing WWE, even if he had no issues, they just would have given him some sort of dancing gimmick eventually because that's their go to card with almost every super heavyweight once the invincibility aura wears off. That or an oversized ladies man (like Mark Henry, Viscera or Great Khali) but in the 2020's, that may be considered a bit out of bounds seeing how WWE is past the Diva era now.
I would have made him a midcard monster before putting him in the main event. Give him a dominant IC or US title run - like Gunther's - and then have him smash a world champion. But yeah, his personal issues bit him in the ass.
First time I saw this guy it was a download festival, I came out of it like "who the fuck was that orge looking guy" he was facing the other one who wasn't Moss in a comedy match (as the baby face). I had big expectations form him after that...
Have a great holiday Hawk! Thank you for all the content and entertainment. I appreciate all the efforts. Looking forward to a new year with the channel. Cheers good sir!
Casual reminder that Dave Meltzer gave that NXT Six-Way Ladder Match five stars.
Lars Sullivan has had more five star matches than Kurt Angle.
Good
Dave never gave Kurt a 5 ?
Even his nxt stuff
@@aroyewunolabode3896 He never even gave WWE a single five star rated match during the 2000s.
@@aroyewunolabode3896 Kurt Angle never recieved a single five star rating. Not in the WWE, not in TNA. His highest rated TNA match was 4.5 (v/ Slapnuts) and he had two 4.75's in the WWE (both featuring He Who Shall Not Be Named).
This isn't a discredit to Angle, he's clearly one of the greatest of all time. It's proof of the heavy bias that Meltzer had against the WWE product for a very, very long time. It took NXT re-creating the "indy style" for him to take the E seriously again.
I busted out laughing for Slapnuts appearing out of nowhere in this video. And you are right, it's the most random cameo appearance that you could've imagined.
The Hawks will never escape Slapnuts
Caught me so off guard lmao never knew ol Slappy was in the thunderdome
Especially Jeff Hardy when he had his worst match since Victory Road and before the Texas Chainsaw Massacre match.
Lars Sullivan being in tag teams was news to me. I remember Lars Sullivan being a monster heel that got outed for posting crazy stuff on bodybuilding forums and being in adult videos with other men.
He was probably good at Tag Teaming with other men
mitch Bennett
Apparently AEWs AR Fox also did some movies with men aswell. But cause he hasnt done anything racist or anything people seem not to care about his past.
@@JHazard1000 There’s nothing wrong with the adult films, it’s the ironic homophobia that makes Lars an issue
@@IngasPingas14Exactly, upper management don’t care about that sort of stuff nowadays (Austin Theory and Ricochet both have explicit videos of themselves online).
Funnily enough, it’s almost always the most outwardly homophobic people that are caught.
Before his main roster career died on the vine, the NXT run was fun. How he didn't know his message board posts would ruin his career is beyond me, the internet tends to find things like that.
He could have gotten away with the message board posts if he was smart enough to use total anonymity. Problem is, he had actual photos of himself on that board as part of his account, which is the dumbest thing an internet troll (which is what he was, given many of the extreme comments he kept making) can do. Even amateur trolls know not to use real photos of themselves online.
Petered out....died on the vine!
IKR, usually it's Tweets that gets you canceled.
Those tweets were from so far back he was in highschool, was a different time where everybody posted things online just to be edgy
Remember the guy who asked about climate change at the presidential townhall debate and was a huge twitter hero for two days till his Reddit account was identified and became Twitter's greatest villain?
He only took a pinfall once? I never realised how protected he was
Some interesting roth contenders :
-SIN CARA in 2011 (this would be glorious)
-Hogan in wwe 2002-2006
-Winter in tna 2011
-DOUBLE J in AEW
-Rob Conway narcisist gimmick 2005-2006
-Shane Mcmahon post-return 2016
-Cherry in wwe 2008
-Britanny in TNA 2014
-Lord tensai
-The Rock 2011-2013
-Undertaker post-streak
-Batista post-return 2014
-Awesome Kong in TNA 2015
-Brandi Rhodes in AEW
-Miss TNA Bruce
-SNITSKY
I can get behind Tensai and the pioneer of Conway Pop himself. I believe that the latter wrestled mostly on shows like Heat, so dunno if he qualifies
Riott Squad
Erick Rowan's solo run in 2019-2020
James Ellsworth's short lived push in 2016
Andrade on the main roster
RVD's perverted heel gimmick in TNA
Left out Deacon Batista
Also the Mexicools in 2005-2006
IT WASNT. MY. FAULT!
His issues aside, the guy was pretty solid in his physique, character and in ring work for a big green guy. I remember his NXT run fondly namely that ladder match for the North American title and how he was presented as a "smart monster." His main roster run was a mixed bag but it produced one of the most hilariously badly acted Matt Hardy segments
You call that a solid a physique he's basically a bit more than the great Khali
@@bzilla-d4ijust because he's not lean and has a high body fat % than other wrestlers doesn't mean it isn't a good physique.
@@LiterallyRyanGosling_ it really wasn't a good physique though in my opinion. His roid gut was the only massive thing on him.
@@PhilMiCoochie His legs were huge
@@PhilMiCoochie pretty much
Absolutely wild that only 1 person from that spectacular ladder match is still with the company.
Make it zero
Now it's 0. Ricochet just jumped ship to AEW
He felt like a throwback to the 1950's big scary hairy monster heel. It might have been different looking in a modern sense, but he was just doing what had been done decades before. Shame his head wasn't ok.
His partner in his first match, Michael Blaze aka Michael Richard Blais, should have gotten a fairer shake than he did. He wrestles in Western Canada, where I live, and he never puts out a bad performance, elevates everyone he faces and once did a charity fundraiser for the Stollery Children's Hospital in Edmonton by wrestling matches for nine consecutive hours!
Woah that’s madness
Jeff Jarrett being in this video was actually peak comedy
Merry Christmas, shove it squad!!!
Merry Christmas. Have a good one
Merry Christmas
Happy Christmas my friends
Happy Christmas
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays squad
I still remember the photo of 3 then-recent NXT recruits of Finn Balor, Braun Strowman and Lars Sullivan. Finn had already been an established star coming in and Braun ended up doing well in the WWE main roster. Lars took a very long time in NXT development system, probably partly because of injuries seen from his knee brace, and then crashed quite quickly after he actually started working.
So much of lost potential.
Sullivan could've been what Gunther is right now
@@mezykin Or Brock Lesnar the fact that;s what Vince was going for once Lesnar lost at WM
triple h' developmental was the worst in wrestling history. it did not produce ANY star. and everyone in there was old. they brought in guys in their mid 40s to developmental. again, i repeat, mid 40s in developmental.
@@qweasdzxcname I mean, if DDP could start late, why couldn't they.
@@joecrazy9896 and wcw had the problem of an old roster. everybody knew that at the time. wcw focused on competing instead of developing. right now wwe is not competing with anyone.
This dude looks like a mix between Festus and Bruno Sanmartino lmao
Festus Sammartino LOL
I actually liked him as a wrestler he was unique for what it was and his theme song was amazing and fit the 20's era "freaks" vibe
Ironic that Sullivan's career failed, but he sort of saved the career of Chad Gable.
It amazes me time and time again where, when and how slapnuts appears in your viedos.
Not just in the NWA-TNA review but everywhere else also.
Not much to say about Lars Sullivan this time. You covered it all pretty well
This was the most random of all time
That was an amazing find!
Life's been pretty tough for me lately and sometimes i feel like i dont want to be here anymore but your videos always helps me get through every day. RotH is my favorite series and i love rewatching every season of it. Thank you Marky for all of your content and i hope that you won't quit doing them. Merry christmas bro...
I felt like that a few years ago. And I was pretty close to not being here anymore. But looking back, it's amazing how quickly things can and do turn around. I just had this very same conversation with a loved one a couple of days ago, shocked at all the wonderful things I would have missed out on had I gone through with it.
Jesus loves you. I'm praying for you.
Hey you good man?Yeah Christmas is hard for a lot of people Because it kind of forces you to evaluate Your close emotional relationships that You Have, don't have......Don't want lmao. You can change yourself though .You can also change Who you invite into your life And How you let them affect you. Go see the people That love you If you can.Have a merry Christmas
Happy Christmas bro thanks for always supporting.
I know the feeling brother... My fiancée died march 2022 and since then I've attempted 2 times to take my life and was on life support both times.
Things get easier though if you let them. Learn to forgive yourself and others.
Merry Christmas
@@PhilMiCoochiei cant imagine that unimaginable pain but I am very happy you pulled through. Keep going, bro. Life is worth living!
There was rumors that Sullivan was suppose to face John Cena at WrestleMania where Cena was to put him over but Sullivan battled anxiety issues and plans were scrapped 🤨
He was probably going to be built like the next Brock Lesnar, but things happened and next thing you know, he's no longer wrestling.
Actually talked with Lars but yea he has some issues hopefully he can work on them
@@portagasdace21117 the porn film ruined his career like Chyna.
Those rumors were true. He was given other multiple opportunities to be pushed as the next big monster heel but his "anxiety issues" along with the racist and homophobic comments he made in a wrestling fan forum, and his gay porn scenes being brought up also added more fuel to the fire.
He absolutely could have been as big of heel in ring as he is in real life. Damn shame, had such a great look.
That ladder match is probably my favorite gimmick match of all time
Why the frick would you want him to have plethora of moves in his arsenal? He's big and scary, the last thing he needs is an abundance of moves, yet the fact that he kept on doing so many top rope dives is enough in itself.
Lars Sullivan is definitely a member of the "Shove It" Squad 😏
yeah definitely
Lars could have been something but
No.
@@nehemiahpouncey3607he was unbelievable basic. He had no potential in my opinion.
Lars originally came from NXT.
That's where he should have
Stayed.
@@Camhobza then he did p*rn i
Heard.😂
Markyd has been putting out a ton of content. Keep it up dude
He had a good look and was solid in the ring. But certain opinions outside of the ring, mental health issues and injuries ruined him.
Lars was weaker in the latter half of his NXT run because he was assured a main roaster call up and 'good' treatment there. His MR run ended to frequent panic attacks with insane controversies surrounding him the whole time. Lars was very athletic but his move pool was shallow and repetitive; I only remember him because he served as a decent opponent for NXT Champion Alister Black.
His introduction as a jobber beating up his partners after the match was based off Cactus Jack's debut in WCW.
What ruined Toni’s time on the main roster was that at the time, John Laurenitis, the guy who famous doesn’t care about women’s wrestling, was in charge of talent relations so almost all the women were booked horribly at the time
The man also had one of the best entrances that I've seen in NXT.
I remember almost the entirety of this run. I liked seeing him. He had that kind of awkward way of moving which I thought worked pretty well with his character. Really unfortunate that what's in his head got the better of him.
I enjoyed his nxt run and thought his look was cool he reminded me of a wrestler from the 60s kind of like King Kong Bundy
Yeah, exactly. He was believable and his general awkwardness only helped. It felt like he could and would destroy someone.
@@thehater6189 Yup what could have been with Lars Sullivan and Velveteen Dream !
Damn do I ever miss Danny Burch and Oney Lorcan.
What happened to them dudes?? I forgot all about them but glad I was reminded
@@AsimpNamedNutsack they got released years ago on those budget cuts, went to the indies mostly on solo runs and Oney Lorcan retired sometime this year
@@iCANTsleep2 maaaaan they were a couple of brute dudes as well. Loved their theme with the punk rock and the "1,2" as they both hold up 1 and 2 with their fingers
@@AsimpNamedNutsack Right? I remember catch Burch for the first time in NXT UK and was instantly a fan. Discovered Oney around the same time and when they teamed up as the ol' 1-2 combination, I was in heaven. Two hard hitting bruisers from opposite sides of the pond?
All day.
@@iCANTsleep2 I am not sure if I am thinking of the right person but I could have sworn Oney was working as an instructor at NXT for a while.
Yep, just looked. He is an instructor at the performance center now. I would not mind learning from Oney.
Lars had potential sucks all the controversy and anxiety attacks got to him. Personally something I didn't get about him in nxt at the beginning was why was he always asking for tag partners when he could beat anyone himself. I really wanted nxt to give him a story and background about wanting tag partners. Literally something as simple as he admired tag teams of the past and wanted to find the perfect tag partner to create his own tag legacy but he had trouble making friends cause he always beat them up. Eventually team him up with someone like Keith Lee (probably wasn't signed yet) become a dominant team win the championship then feud after they lose the belts and his giant tag partner doesn't let him beat him as easy
Edit: I had completely forgot Keith Lee and Lars actually had a match
The answer is, no he did not have what it takes, to be a main eventer. He was a great value version of Snitsky & Heidenreich's love child.
21:46 I have a new favorite “a wild slapnuts appears”
The weird early gaps are the taping schedule for NXT. They were taping 4-8 shows at once.
So to send a guy out with a trial-run, they'd want to analyze it and refine it before sending him out again, but the next actual show taping would be after those other 3-7 weeks of shows.
4-8 shows in front of the same audience? I can't imagine sitting through that and still being interested, let alone excited... even if it's at the low end with 4 shows.
@@othertalk3313 TNA was doing the same thing too for quite awhile. But yeah, you can kind of tell looking at old NXT's, the last show or two before the Takeovers would be really low key with the audience.
When they did 8 some of the actual "shows" were like 20-30 minutes or even less though, with a lot of video packages in between on the network version.
@@othertalk33134 shows of NXT back then is like the same length as one episode of RAW tbh
@@othertalk3313You also gotta understand, the old NXT crowds were the hardest of the hardcore wrestling fans in Florida. These people would come all over to watch NXT tapings, and more often than not they'd be there while whole storylines took place for TV, so they were just sitting watching everything play out. That Bayley Superfan Izzy got noticed first here and now she's wrestling in the indies herself.
People should check out his early work, Mitch Bennett could work very stiff
At least one day you will prove the afterlife exists when you are haunted by Jarrett’s ghost so obviously that there can be no room for doubt.
I miss Velvetteen Dream. I'm aware of all of his controversy but bro had endless potential. Plus he's a hometown guy like Lio Rush and Batista so it's always great to see them succeed
Some part of me still hope and wait for him to return now that hhh is in charge
Dream was his Homeboi as much as Adam Cole and Ciampa were.
@@togucvinw7keep that creep away
The dude likes teens he hits on children I don't know why people are willing to forget that just because it's ok I'm Florida NO IF YOUR OVER 18 THERE IS NO REASON TO SEND NUDES TO UNDERAGE PEOPLE BUT,whatever like you you want to like show s w hat kind of person you are and stuff have a nice day!!
All i remember is he went on a meltdown on twitter and disappeared
It's crazy to think that Lars Sullivan of all people can say that he had a 5 star match in WWE.
So did Bull Buchanana (2001 Royal Rumble) not talking about Meltzer. I'm talking about 5 star match universally agreed by fans
God that era of FIVE STARS LARS lol
16:39 Hawk: "They fight on the ring apron"
Subtitles: "They fart on the ring apron"
Dude, the song at 24:40. What's the name? It's great. Great video. I really like ROH and Slapnuts randomly appearing on a monitor was hilarious.
I personally really liked Lars he was green but he was improving and his look was unique it’s a shame that he pretty much drove himself out of wrestling with his actions
Wasn't expecting to see Slapnuts in a video about Lars Sullivan lol.
Merry Christmas and happy new year looking forward for another year of the hawk
Ok, the "Wild Slapnuts" was the most unexpected one😂😂
It's a shame that Lars was in reality his own worst enemy. The way they presented him he seemed like a genuine monster who could bulldoze anyone and apparentaly was supposed to have a moment where he attacked Cena on RAW but didn't happen because Lars had a massive anxiety attack backstage and didn't do it. Then all that crap about him from the past popped up and it was downhill from there. That and him just getting hurt all the time. His power was insane I must say, really could have been something. Really is a shame
Lars indie career as mitch Bennet was surprising to say the least
They did the exact same build in 1990 for Cactus Jack in WCW, so they couldn't do it too often
3:19 Wow, what good resistance to stop the tag😪
I think the whole tag team ordeal was him actually trying to find a strong partner and if they couldn’t make it on their own.. why should he save them?
Survival of the fittest of finding a tag team partner angel.
i miss this era of NXT so much, i went to a show with my late dad and we were in awe of the size of Lars Sullivan on the ring apron
Big guy, get reaction out of people, scary look. Perfect wrestler for WWE, nothing could stop him to become a star, but sometimes things just didn't happen.
It's a shame when someone that has a great look and shows improvement turns out to not be fit mentally for the business.
I joked about it before but now it's confirmed, there is no escaping slapnuts, period. 🤣😂🤣🤣
Funny that they let him have a break because of his mental state when usually any break drops your run
Jeff Jarrett is everywhere! 😂😂😂
I live in the same town as him and have seen him multiple times at grocery stores lol. Even got a picture with him
What’s he doing now?
He had the same condition as Andre The Giant and Big Show, known as Acromegaly. He had it treated early on, but that explains his physique.
ive never seen a ribcage like that, his abdominal area is bizarre looking
I was at an NXT house show at the St. Petersburg National Guard Armory. Lars had a match and they had him do 3 run ins after and by the end of the show he had destroyed almost all the lower/midcard heels and the tall dude with dreads formerly from TNA
He has a permanent look of who farted on his face
1:49 Lars was having a flashback to his porn days.
Hawk, you put out quality at a nearly daily basis. It’s good to have a playlist of new videos to queue up while I’m sick.
21:50 You are JOKING. Incredible.
He had a great entrance theme, and looked monstrous, but his personal demons and green work pretty much killed his appeal.
I forgot he existed 😂
I really thought he was doomed from the start he had a look but he wasnt gonna be a big deal NXT was his ceiling in my opinion not everyone can get over especially went you dont try and make him a big deal.
Tbh he has no character other then being a big guy, these days everyone needs a “thing” to get over and he just didnt try to be special
He could have gotten over as a gay monster
@@Notsbaby On the contrary. It's in the past that you needed a thing. Today, as long as you are good in-ring, fans will like you.
@@Notsbaby Well that's what I'm saying. They didn't make a really good effort of pushing him
@@pleaseshutup7053 Well how about you leave his sexuality out of it? Because I didn't say one word about that. What I'm saying is that if you don't even try and push this man don't give the audience a reason to love or hate him He was doomed from the beginning
I forgot about Lars and velveteen working together, I wonder how the backstage dynamics were between those two ? 😂🤣
Didnt expect a wild slapnuts to appear
I thought he was snitskys son when I first saw him and that's the biggest impression he has on me 🤣😂
Lars Sullivan looked like the kind of monster they'd build up to feed to John Cena in a one-sided feud nobody would remember six months later. And really, that would have been the ideal role for him. It's not fair to him either because he could actually work as limited as his moveset was unlike most of the monsters they did feed to Cena. Pity he was such a piece of shit human being.
So like a Gene Snitsky or a Heidenrich sort of level?
Nah John Cena stopped working then so he would have put him over @@Markyd123
Thanks for the Christmast Gift Marky!
Lars shouldn't have bothered becoming a wrestler. He should have stuck in the adult industry and continue making man on man movies.
Mitch Bennett had potential, but couldn’t rise to the occasion. 😂
I'm sure if he stuck around longer he probably would have had a dance gimmick.
He always reminded me of The Hills Have Eyes
Michael Berryman.
Lars having a win over DIY in a handicapped match is wild
14:36 dude caught him while running? Thats impressive
This guy was a carnival sideshow act
I think JJ gives you a hawkgasm.
21:47 You can't escape him lmao. Slapnuts is everywhere
It would be so cool if the could gimmick his opponents boots so they literally fly off when hit with a clothesline
4:00 exactly what i said. Why not the guys he murked already
He could've been the next Snitsky.
When he injured Jeff Hardy I said fuck him
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As far as NXT I think sure ig. But it stinks looking back at people in NXT who had a good lot of potential. I liked Lars. I thought he was a good "monster". He could've easily worn the North American championship. But with a lame call up, anxiety attacks, and the fact he done got hit by controversy, that'll kill it. Same thing with Velveteen 😬 this is someone WWE didn't fully capitalize on, in the right moment.
Mr Hawk you see the guy with the TNA Slammerversey Shirt on 10:36
Stink he never had match John cena
A generic look for the 1860s. He looks like a confederate soldier on the Hawk's vitamins.
Alot of these names are just "Ohhh yeah! That guy!"
Was 24:38 a scene from one of the movies Sullivan starred in?
He was far too busy with his side game to fully focus on the wrestling
Lars have a 5 star rated match under his belt lol
There was something there and anybody who looks like they can match physicality with the likes of a Brock Lesnar is always worth a shot but he just had too many skeletons in his closet. But knowing WWE, even if he had no issues, they just would have given him some sort of dancing gimmick eventually because that's their go to card with almost every super heavyweight once the invincibility aura wears off. That or an oversized ladies man (like Mark Henry, Viscera or Great Khali) but in the 2020's, that may be considered a bit out of bounds seeing how WWE is past the Diva era now.
I would have made him a midcard monster before putting him in the main event. Give him a dominant IC or US title run - like Gunther's - and then have him smash a world champion. But yeah, his personal issues bit him in the ass.
Lars Sullivas was one of the best big man in WWE last 10years
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First time I saw this guy it was a download festival, I came out of it like "who the fuck was that orge looking guy" he was facing the other one who wasn't Moss in a comedy match (as the baby face). I had big expectations form him after that...
he had potential but he had hiss own personal demons and wwe straight up cant even book monsters anymore
It's too bad Lars didn't work out. He would have BLOWN the competition away!
Anyways Merry Christmas Mark.
Those videos of him blowing competition are X-rated.
How Keith Lee has fallen since this time in nxt, he means absolutely nothing in aew
Have a great holiday Hawk! Thank you for all the content and entertainment. I appreciate all the efforts. Looking forward to a new year with the channel. Cheers good sir!