Unfortunately - and, as Showstoppa can attest - I have already elaborated plenty.
As for elaborating further, I consider the expenditure of the flexor tendon energy to be a waste.
Read all of my posts in this thread. They beautifully sum up how I feel about "The Dream."
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=389002.msg5463736#msg5463736
If you'd care to read more elaboration, I will refer you to these:
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=265295.msg5676477#msg5676477
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=353874.msg5101451#msg5101451
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=322982.msg4580533#msg4580533
Wow! I think you have about as much love for Big Dust as I do the red and yellow.
I am going to speak for a certain time frame only. The American Dream worked. I have always said, that he was about as over in the Mid-Atlantic as any wrestler, anywhere, anytime. I think Stoppa would agree at least somewhat with me. And I think the time I am speaking of (80's) is before his days as booker, but I might be wrong.
I absolutely hated the ground he walked on, and always put him down. As I have looked back through the years, I have learned to appreciate him and the simplicity of his gimmick and his ability to keep it over for so long.
He didn't look the best, but he could go an hour with Flair, or Blanchard and not gas which always surprised me. Whatever "it" is, he had it.
Again, I am speaking of his days in Mid-Atlantic and NWA mainly, although as Stoppa said in on of those other threads, he and Murdoch were WAY over as well.
I am not that familiar with his Vince work, but from what I know, I wouldn't like it. I always wrote it off as just another case of Vince absolutely refusing to bring someone in and not change them in some way, usually a very big way.