The REAL Reason Rick MARTEL Never WON the WWF Championship

Описание: He held a world championship for 19 months. He set a Royal Rumble endurance record that stood for years. And the WWF never once gave him a singles title shot.
This is not a story about failure. This is a story about how the wrestling industry punishes the men it cannot afford to lose.
Rick Martel spent fifteen years being one of the most technically gifted and dependable performers in professional wrestling. From his legendary AWA World Heavyweight Championship reign in 1984, where he defended the title against names like Ric Flair and Nick Bockwinkel, to his three WWF Tag Team Championship runs alongside partners like Tito Santana, to his transformation into "The Model," one of the most psychologically sophisticated heel characters of the entire Golden Era, Martel delivered at every level the business asked of him.
And at every level, the business took what it needed and moved on.
In this documentary, we examine the institutional forces that kept Rick Martel out of the main event picture in the WWF during the Hulk Hogan era. We look at the collapse of the Can-Am Connection with Tom Zenk and what it revealed about behind-the-scenes politics. We revisit the 1991 Royal Rumble performance that should have changed everything and changed nothing. We go behind the October 1993 Intercontinental Title battle royal, where Martel was used to elevate Razor Ramon and then quietly set aside. And we follow him to WCW in 1998, where he won the Television Championship from Booker T before a devastating injury on a broken leg at SuperBrawl VIII ended his career without ceremony or farewell.
This is the real story of Rick Martel. The AWA World Champion. The three-time WWF Tag Team Champion. The performer who made everyone around him better and was never given the recognition that work deserved.
Tito Santana is in the WWE Hall of Fame. Rick Martel is not. By the end of this video, you will understand exactly why that is, and why it says far more about the industry than it does about the man.

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