The Underrated: A Series Pt.1

[MizMasta3000]

Ok so every week I am going to highlight a superstar from an company from the past and review about how they were terribly underrated. This is going to happen every week until I get sick of doing it lol. So without any further ado, here is the first Inductee in the class of the Underrated:

None other than...

Spoiler

D'LO MOTHERFUCKIN' BROWN!

Yeah that's right you better recognize that he was one of the most underrated players in the entire attitude era. You talk about The Rock, Stone Cold, Bret Hart, Owen Hart, Shawn Michaels, Triple H, Kane and The Undertaker as the pioneers of the Attitude Era well that's bullshit. No one had atttude like D'Lo Brown. Point blank hands down. He epitomized that era from his chest protector to his freaking theme music

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"YOU'RE the one who sucks punk. Not me."

But it wasn't all about the personality of D'Lo that makes him special. It was his in ring ability. The guy was say 240 lbs and moved around the ring like TAKA. Frankensteiner, moonsaults, frog splashes, back flips, etc. Guys his size wasn't doing that and that made each of his matches entertaining to watch. What's even better is that he has still maintained that wonderful agile gift in the ring. Look at his TNA work. The matches he put on against TNA golden boy AJ Styles back in the early years of the company was phenomenal. He was putting on X-Division matches with guys half his size. Back to WWE in 2008/2009. D'Lo Brown hadn't missed a beat. Still putting on great matches with Santino Marella. Even in the indies, he was putting on great matches with guys like Bryan Danielson and other indy mainstays at the time. It is absolutely a crime that no one really recognizes all the good he has done for the companies that he has worked in over the past decade and a half. Was it the Droz incident? I think not. I get sick of people blaming Droz's accident on D'Lo because HE horribly sold that powerbomb. A multiple time European champion and an Intercontinental Champion, D'Lo should have been at least a main event contender. You all can say what you want but this man is arguably the most underrated superstar of the attitude era. Fuck that. The most underrated wrestler from 1996 to present and you argue me into the ground but you can't argue how gold he was on the microphone, how gold he was in the ring or how solidly he nailed his character.

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[JurassicBonez]

This was a pretty good read. I wasn't a big wrestling fan back during his time, but I did watch. His entrance song (the one in the last video) was the best. I always used that for the Smackdown games on PS1 and used his Sky High move as my finisher.

 

[imported_Adam]

yeah he's a little underrated i guess.... but i'd say someone like x-pac or christian are highly underrated, d'lo was ok but not great

 

[MizMasta3000]

lool xpac

 

[Airfixx]

^^^Are you crazy? ...Or are you just forgetting about the epic-ness of the mighty X-Factor? : P



Good call on D-Lo, MM3000... Was looking forward to his return to WWE a couple of years back... I think I saw like one match and he was already gone.

 

[imported_Adam]

yeah x-pacs underrated, he was overlooked as an nWo member and he's the only one to have held the TNA X Division, WCW Cruiserweight, and WWF Light Heavyweight Championships

 

[MizMasta3000]

^^^Are you crazy? ...Or are you just forgetting about the epic-ness of the mighty X-Factor? : P



Good call on D-Lo, MM3000... Was looking forward to his return to WWE a couple of years back... I think I saw like one match and he was already gone.

Yeah he had a few matches with Santino but that was it for him. He's the head road agent for TNA now. It's sad because he can still go.

 

[He who knows more than Nation]

Meh, he's slightly under rated at best. When you call him the most under rated worker since 1996 you're totally over rating him, and XPac was a better worker than D-Lo. And calling him gold on the mic? Hardly. He spat out a couple of loud blackisms, but please direct me to any good examples of real promos. And finally, while you are ragging on XPac, it's funny that XPac carried DLo to his best match at Summer Slam 98. He was a decent hand and he had his role, but he wasn't good enough to carry anyone and his promo skills didn't exist outside of loud shouting to get heat. He was a mid card talent with mid card talent, he was perfectly utilized and now I'm thinking he wasn't under rated at all.

 

[Mister J]

He was average in the ring.

 

[CMS]

I thought you were joking when reading through it. While he might have deserved some more love, he certainly didn't epitomized to the Attitude Era, nor he was gold on the mic and he certainly didn't deserve to be main event championship contender.

Now, if you talk about his 2008 return, he at least deserved a solid feud for the IC title against Santino Marella, instead of all that Honky Tonk Man shit they pulled

 

[imported_Adam]

yeah the htm, goldust, and piper shit they pulled with santino for the ic title was definitely shit, d'lo or maybe even kofi should have gotten a shot at the title... really anything but those guys..... and really, after that match.. goldust returned... like anybody really wanted him back, he'd been released by wwe cuz he sucked, went to tna and gotten released because he sucked, then came back and im sure its only a matter of months before he gets released again..

 

[...god...]

Um.. what? Goldust is THE SHIT. He should be Pt.2 of this underrated shit and he was truly a significant piece of the Attitude Era.