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"TNA Mini match"

Was watching NWA-TNA the other day and they had a mini match with some mexican wrestlers i'm not even going to try and spell. During the match they called one of them the first ever mini-superstar. I thought Max Mini was the first one or was that just some WWE storyline spiel (i think it was WWE, for some reason i've got a feeling it was WCW that had a spell with mini wrestlers but pretty sure it was the WWE) anyone know?

Reefer wrote:
> Do Heat and Velocity have the hilariously named jobbers that
> Superstars had?

Afraid not.

Do Heat and Velocity have the hilariously named jobbers that Superstars had? Oh, how I miss the good ol' days, when I used to actually watch it every week, and not just read recaps.

*wipes tear*

Very_Metal wrote:
> i thought he was ace.. that rocket pack was hilarious..
> aaaaaaah how i miss the days of WWF Superstars... an hour of squash
> mathces and recaps :)

Have you not watched Heat or Velocity recently? The 'Superstars' concept is alive and well.

Reefer wrote:
> Max Moon (who we now know as Konan) is the guy who wrestled in the
> early 90s,

i thought he was ace.. that rocket pack was hilarious..
aaaaaaah how i miss the days of WWF Superstars... an hour of squash mathces and recaps :)

When he almost lost his mask was quite funny as well. Wasn't a technical master class just plain funny

lalakersrule wrote:
> One was definitly a midget, he was only about 3 foot 5 or something
> the other was around 4 foot something. Quite a good match actually,
> better then most of the matches WWE puts on.

I didn't enjoy it at all. It just came of as a bit unbelievable, as one of the guys was significantly taller than the other. Plus the moves were put together with very little thought towards Psychology or selling any lasting impact. Don't get me wrong, it was gynastically very impressive, but a match does need at least some psychology.

One was definitly a midget, he was only about 3 foot 5 or something the other was around 4 foot something. Quite a good match actually, better then most of the matches WWE puts on.

Reefer wrote:
> Max Moon (who we now know as Konan) is the guy who wrestled in the
> early 90s, but he was not a midget.

Actually that's not entirely correct. The Max Moon character WAS created for Konnan and he debuted the gimmick at house shows. But Konnan fell out with WWE management before the character ever made it to TV. The man under the max and stupid suit on TV was WWE veteran and Shawn Michael's long-time travelling partner (pre-HHH), Paul Diamond.

Raven-ous wrote:
> Were they small people or midgets? Max Mini was certainly one of, if
> not the first midget superstar that wrestled in the WWE back in the
> early 90s.

Max Moon (who we now know as Konan) is the guy who wrestled in the early 90s, but he was not a midget. Max Mini was not introduced as a parody of Max Moon until 1997, his first event being IYH: Badd Blood (IYH 18), I believe.

Raven-ous wrote:
> Were they small people or midgets? Max Mini was certainly one of, if
> not the first midget superstar that wrestled in the WWE back in the
> early 90s. If my memory serves me correctly, WCW also had midgets and
> didn't ECW have "hardcore midgets"?
> I don't know what Tenay was on about(was it him who said it?), but
> perhaps the fact that he and Schiavone promoted every Nitro and WCW
> PPV as the "best ever" might shed some light on his lying
> nature.
>
>
>
> "Hulk Hogan vs Horris Hogan for the WCW Championship, this is
> set to be the most exciting Nitro ever!!!!!!"

Actually, they said he was the first mini-superstar? Well, that's possible, the guy could have been forty/fifty years old. Disregard the above rant.