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Re: Top 5's
By: simonw Date: August 28, 2012, 11:43 am
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1) Mick Foley because his books made me a wrestling fanatic when
I was a teenager and because "he's Hardcore" ;)
2) Rob Van Dam - One of the great innovators in his day (I'm
talking the 90's here) and pretty much defined everything I
would come to love in wrestling, High Risk, Technical, Hardcore.
3) Triple H - He's a legend, one of the all time great heels at
the end of the 90s and, love him or hate him now, he has pretty
muched defined what it is to be a "professional wrestler" in the
modern era.
4) The Rock - He has his weaknesses in wrestling ability, but
the fact is he the best wrestler ever to pick up the Microphone
and in the ring he is exciting to watch because he can hook the
crowd in like no other wrestler.
5) I have to pick a current wrestler I think which is hard when
I only have 5 overall! - it could be CM Punk, but I'm going with
AJ Styles who, quite simply, is a brilliant all round wrestler.
I don't think I've ever seen a wrestler who can pull off
technical, brawling, high risk and power moves all in one match,
and all the while still be putting over the other guy. I suspect
he is helping run Impact wrestling in the background too.
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Re: Top 5's
By: tnafanforum Date: August 28, 2012, 11:45 am
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Yer I give you that lol. But my top five is good lol :p
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Re: Top 5's
By: Steve B Date: August 28, 2012, 1:07 pm
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Better do a top 5. Not going to rank them because, well, I
can't. these are the wrestlers i've watched the most in my
lifetime i've enjoyed the most
Mick Foley - You'll find me saying that wrestling is about
theatre quite often. Well theatre is about imagination and
nobody captures your imagination quite like Foley. Four
different personas, all with different theme music and slightly
different move sets and even different voices. He is pretty much
the personification of whats good about wrestling. He's not just
blood and guts his work on the mic is amazing. The anti hardcore
promos were spine tingling stuff, getting the whole ECW arena
booing the crap out him while he told Tommy Dreamer to beg
Bischoff to take him to WCW because it wasn't worth it at ECW is
still worth watching now. Yet the ECW crowd loved him enough to
cheer him out of the arena when he left a few weeks later. On
the flip side he won the king of the death match tournament in
Japan and pretty much all of us love it when we hear JR yell
"HE'S BROKEN IN HALF, AS GOD AS MY WITNESS HE'S BROKEN IN HALF"
after Taker throws him off the cage at the King Of The Ring
Tournament in Pittsburgh. Few people have bled as much, taken as
many bumps or done it with as much class and good humour and
skill as Mick yet he still can throw that look at the camera and
chill the marrow in your bones. He's a true legend and has done
so much for the business.
Hulk Hogan - I know, I know. Right now hes a washed up twat
pissing on the legend but without him its unlikely you would be
able to watch wrestling the way you do. In the 80's when Vince
solidified the territories into the WWF he needed someone to
hang the company on. A face. A workhorse. Someone that would
carry the new company on his back and make money and put bums on
seats. For a while it looked like it might be Superstar Billy
Graham or Jesse The Body Ventura but for various reasons that
didn't happen. Hogan happened. He went out nearly every night of
the year and worked to make wrestling and the WWF happen. He was
a shit to his co-workers and he got rewarded for it. He told you
to train, pray and take your vitamins while he was on steroids.
He managed to get into movies. He was recognisable. He was a
fantasist. A liar. But he did it. He carried that company with
virtually no wrestling ability at all but 10 gallons of charisma
in a 5 gallon bucket. Whatever you think of him you got excited
when the first note of "Real American" hit, he was a superhero,
he made the impossible possible, the magic man, a merchandise
machine. He was the 80's and early 90's as far as wrestling
goes. Then the bubble burst and he left WWF for WCW and he only
went and turned heel in one of the greatest swerves in all of
wrestling history. He even did it well. The early days of the
NWO were fantastic. Then the WCW turned to crap and it was all
over. There are fewer people who have brought more to wrestling
than Hogan. You can say "well someone else would have done it if
he hadn't" but you can say that about anyone doing anything. He
did do it.
Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart - In amongst all the wrestling showoffs
you have the lesser names. The forgotten men. The ones who
somehow make brighter stars shine. Theres a really good chance
that without Jim you'd never have got Bret Hart. Theres no
question that the Hart Foundation is one of the greatest tag
teams of all time but why? Jim Neidhart is why, he made that
whole team work. Bret actually did very little he was the shy,
skinny, unsure of himself kid from Calgary and Jim was the one
who gave him the confidence to be a star. Jim did all of the mic
work, did all of the power work for the team, took a lot of the
bumps and did the unglamorous work so that Bret could look good.
Now to be fair Jim was mostly fuelled by coke but I don't think
we should let a fondness for bolivian marching powder cloud our
judgement here, these guys work hard. Jim was unique. A genuine
anvil throwing champ, he once threw his motorcycle into a
swimming pool. Once threatened to powerslam a drunk Vince. Wore
that beard and never once bore Bret ill will when Bret went into
singles competition. We're talking about a stand up guy here.
Yeah, Jim is a character. He's definitely up there.
Daniel Bryan - lets say you go to Shawn Michaels wrestling
school and you're pretty much the only graduate and you come out
and you are a phenomenon but you can't talk. What do you do? You
bum around the indies for years making a name for yourself. You
go to Japan and call yourself The American Dragon, you learn the
craft, you get better, you get precise, you hone the trade. You
go to ROH and dominate for the short time you are there. You
keep doing that until you eventually try for the WWE. You go to
NXT and end up in the Nexus. You go through that and get buried
on air by Cole. The problem Cole has that even though Cole is
probably the worst announcer WWE has ever had people still
listen to him and actually pay attention to him and because you
can't talk you struggle. But eventually your tremendous talent
makes them stop listening to that little pissant and start
watching you. Luckily you have a friend called CM Punk and he
helps you talk and find your voice. You manage to come up with
the simplest catchphrase since "WHAT" and now people are paying
attention. You're better than Punk, better than the rest of the
WWE, so good that you can lose in 18 seconds at WM and it
doesn't matter too much because you're such a legitimate talent.
You are Daniel Bryan
Steve Austin - Give Me A Hell Yeah! No Austin, No attitude era.
Its that simple. Another merchandise machine, another wrestler
with limited ability but limitless charisma. There are lots of
similarities with Hogan but Austin doesn't seem to have been a
shit to people. He shaped, defined and restructured wrestling in
the 90's so it became viable again. We all loved to see him, we
loved hearing him swear and drink beer and hit the boss. It was
fun its that simple.
Just bubbling under who didn't make it were Taker, Piper,
Savage, Roberts, Perfect & Andre
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Re: Top 5's
By: simonw Date: August 28, 2012, 2:09 pm
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Steve, you almost made me cry with that post. Amen to that.
Someone who clearly knows their stuff!
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Re: Top 5's
By: ElaineHouse Date: August 28, 2012, 11:07 pm
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in no particular order aj styles sting kurt angle steve austin
reic flair. honorable mentions john cena the undertaker cm punk
randy orton austin aries james storm mick foley {or who he is
this week}
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Re: Top 5's
By: Danni Date: August 29, 2012, 2:53 pm
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[quote author=Steve B link=topic=362.msg2247#msg2247
date=1346170812]
I'm shocked Daniels makes it into peoples top 5's.
You honestly don't like anyone better than Daniels in decades of
wrestling?
[/quote]
To me...nah. I've always liked him, He entertains me, he can
work & he is an amazing guy outside the ring. Honestly, to me,
There's no one more appealing.
I've watched ALOT of wrestling through the years and no one gets
close to how much I like him. Not even the "classics"
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Re: Top 5's
By: tnafanforum Date: August 29, 2012, 2:59 pm
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He did help make TNA bigger and yer he is an amazing inringer.
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Re: Top 5's
By: Sel Date: August 29, 2012, 8:47 pm
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Mmk, I'll give my top 5 based on who I enjoy watching the most
and have entertained me over the (far too many) years;
1. HBK - Loved him ever since he turned heel and split the
Rockers. Still the consumate pro, he makes any match shine like
a big shiney thing, not only elevating himself but his opponent
also. Even adore his mic work.
2. Curt Hennig - The Wrestling Genius. You'll find few people
that believe he was anything but absolute gold in the ring.
Taken far too soon alas, or maybe just at the right time so that
he could never be recalled as anything but Perfect.
3. Bret Hart - His shades are shiny.
4. Austin Aries - Think it's well documented just how surprised,
impressed and over all just flabbergasted by the spritely fellow
with the mutton chop beard.
5. Can't choose a 5th. Don't make me choose a 5th! You suck!
HHH? No, maybe, definitely a top contender, but, meh, balls.
Nash? Possibly, but he can be an arse although nWo wouldn't have
been the same without him. Savage? Hah, yeah, he rocked but
there were some darker moments where I had to look away. Rick
Rude? After his shaved headed heel turn he just got better, in
my opinion. Samoa Joe? Angle? Lance Storm? Dean Malenko? Jake
Roberts? Great Muta? Lyger? Scott Steiner? Bleh, nope, can't do
it. I'll just answer the Gobbledygooker to alleviate the
pressure.
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