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Did you like Scott Norton

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#1 ·
Scott Norton made a brief appearance in WCW before disappearing before his match with Sting at Slamboree 93, then he came back in 1995, and in 1996 formed a tag team with Ice Train. Then he turned heel and eventually joined the NWO. His reason for being in the NWO was never explained, other than he was friends with Bischoff from Minnesota.

He and Buff Bagwell formed a tag team but never went anywhere.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2m98oc_scott-norton-in-action-sting-promo_sport
 
#2 ·
Scott Norton was like the "ultimate mid carder". Honestly I don't know his wins to losses ratio, but it has to be pretty damn high, even if he typically lost to main eventers, he beat *many* midcarders over his career.

I was a big fan of this guy, his shoulder breaker was an awesome move. He rarely talked on the mic, but he did have a pretty entertaining feud with the Cat for a few weeks. The big thing with him was that he looked scary as hell, aside from Steiner, I have to say he was probably the most intimidating dude from the NWO.

Aside from his WCW stuff, I know he was a very prominent wrestler in japan (but don't know much more then that) and he was also a very successful arm wrestler apparently.

That being said, I felt the NWO fit him perfectly, he just had the right look and the NWO definitely was the high point of his career. I can't remember the reason he joined, I believe it was at a time where the NWO was letting WCW guys defect over, but it didn't really get much of an explanation beyond that.
 
#3 ·
I liked Norton when he was in his bad ass, toughest guy in the room, didn't give a shit persona.

I didn't like Norton when he went face in WCW (should of torn Ice Train's head off instead of showing respect). I felt he was out of place in the nWo since he didn't fit the motif but felt it must have been a Japan thing since he was splitting his time between WCW and New Japan. I think he even became IWGP Champion during his run as part of the nWo in Japan.

Hated his run as Flapjack Norton in the AWA, but I don't blame Norton on that as I think he was just breaking into the business at that point.

Norton should have been a bigger player here in the States, but I think he was treated like an absolute star in Japan.
 
#8 ·
I feel the same as RazorRamon69

I was actually watching some old WCW last night, and took note of just how many guys that I perceived as jobbers in the NWO... Scott Norton was one of them.

Not sure why I disliked him so much (not that I hated him, I just tend to skip over his matches), but he was just vanilla to me. The NWO (and the subsequent NWO factions/incarnations) had a lot of guys that I thought were questionable, like Norton, Virgil, Marcus Bagwell, Konnan, Louie Spicolli, Horace, Disco Inferno, The Harris Brothers. I'm not saying that none of these guys were any good, they were just kind of random when you're thinking, "hey, let's put together this monster stable". A lot of them just seemed very random and sort of took away from the group's mystique.... But that's a whole other discussion.
 
#10 ·
Norton got lost in the shuffle. The nWo had too many people for an enforcer like Scott Norton to stand out.

He looked like a tough S.O.B and was a very convincing powerhouse. Unfortunately the nWo was too inflated for him to be noticed. The Japanese appreciated his talents more.
 
#11 · (Edited)
Yep. I was a Flash Norton fan. I'm glad the OP mentioned his blink and you miss it 1993 run because that's where he won me over. He hit some jobber with the hardest clothesline I had ever seen at that point. Plus he was enormous. Dude looked like he could easily tear limbs off of bodies. I thought Norton was a total badass and expected him to be the next Vader. Then he disappeared. :( But I always remembered the guy.

So I was pumped when he came back to WCW in 95-96. I crazily overrated the Norton/Ice Train matches and may have been the world's biggest Fire & Ice fanboy.

I quit watching WCW in August 96 but always wanted Norton to come to WWF. I may have even written a letter to WWF Magazine encouraging them to bring in Norton, Giant and (I think) Malenko this one time. Norton/Bradshaw was my dream team circa 1998. They were like 20 time tag champs in my action figure leagues.

Oh, I also loved Flapjack Norton in AWA. "Guy who eats lots of pancakes" is an awesome pro wrestling gimmick.

Haven't seen much of his NWO or Japan stuff, but he did have a nice hossfest with Giant at (I think) Fall Brawl 97 and there's this one cool Nitro segment where Norton just powerbombs a bunch of jabronies for no real reason.
 
#14 ·
I started getting into him a couple years ago, mostly his Japan stuff but also some WCW, and I think he was a rock-solid "hoss" type. But while, for some reason, any larger-than-average foreigner is a credible main-event threat in Japan, I think he did probably hit his ceiling in the US in terms of position on the card. But I am sorry WCW never really did anything more with him. In another time and place, without the Outsiders running roughshod, Vicious & Delicious would have been perfect heel tag champs.
 
#16 ·
Never minded him, thought he was pretty bad ass. I recognized his abilities pretty early on, and always appreciated them, but never really expected him to get past the midcard. Enjoyed his stuff with Ernest Miller, and I know he was a complete bad ass in Japan. Gotta say, Scott Norton is pretty cool.
 
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