John Nord

One guy that wasn't my favorite or anybody that I really took that much notice of was the Bruiser Brody Light or wannabe clone John Nord. Now don't get me wrong when Nord was tagging with Jake 'The Snake' Roberts in Mid South I thought he was pretty cool.



I really didn't mind the WWF's version of Nord who was dubbed as 'The Bezerker'. I liked the Viking outfit and gimmick. I thought they could have done a lot more with him but they made the mistake of letting him do his own interviews and he just didn't have it on the mic. He could talk but he didn't come off as menacing.





Even when Nord was morphed into Yukon John Nord I thought he was pretty funny. But even then he was upstaged by the stupid gimmick given his partner by Verne Gagne 'Flapjack' Scott Norton the barrel chested lumberjack who could eat more pancakes than anybody.





But the one gimmick that Nord had where he was really successful was as Bruiser Brody's tag partner. Now Nord was good size, had curly hair and a beard and wore Brody like boots but he was not near the legend Brody was and the fact that he barked and basically did his own verion of Brody's gimmick turned me off. Still the two of them (Brody and Nord 'The Barbarian') had a good steel cage match in the A.W.A. with Jimmy 'Superfly' Snuka (one of Brody's tag partners from Japan) and the caucasian Gumby of pro wrestling Greg Gagne.





Nords last run was in W.C.W. where he was hired to work in Eric Jerkoff Land. Nord was still solid, still big and still just lacking something. But when I really started liking Nord is when I watched his shoot interview. The guy is funny as hell and it is probably that funniness or jovial kind of personality that just didn't make him a good badass when they made him talk and even when he worked and was making goofy faces in the ring. Still Nord outside the ring is a true character. Catch his shoot. He is very entertaining.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEeAlPDOH0Q&feature=related