My girlfriend thinks Hulk Hogan is the greatest (fake) wrestler of all time. I think its "The Nature Boy". Who is your greatest "champion"?
HBK. When it comes to mike skills and matches, it has to be Shawn Michaels. There were just so many memorable matches with Shawn Michaels. And the boy takes his share of lumps. The coolest match of Hulk Hogan is him picking up Andre, but seriously, for the last 10 years, he's being wrestling or what ever you want to call it like crap. So many matches in WCW where you just don't see a good job by him, pretend to get hit too fast, ducking to fast, etc, he wrestles like he's afraid to get hurt. He gets by because of his name and he does have charisma, but if you want to talk about the show, he's really not that great. Rick flair prolly has the best mike skills of the three, but he's just as bad or even worse at putting on a good show than Hogan.
Its funny cause if you put a real wrestler in the ring with these guys, they would cry like little girls.
Hmm. What do you mean? A lot of these wrestlers have amateur backgrounds. Brock Lesner, Kurt Angle, a freaking Gold medalist, Shelton Benjamin.
El original Santo El Enmascarado De Plata Don't you bring your fake-*ss American wrestling into this... No one could fly from the third rope and land with his head onto his opponent like THE MAN. If you want to argue REAL wrestlers, answer me: did you ever see the one you vote here LIVE? I saw this guy live. No one like him.
fake ass american wrestling? When ever I catch a quick glimpse of lucha libre, man that **** looks horrible sometimes. They don't sell spots right. Don't forget to join the new OOTP baseball sim league. look at sig.
I erased your wasted space on my reply. Please explain "they don't sell spots right". Are you talking about a commercial spot, the 7up guy, or dogs with an eyepatch? EDIT: I was kidding about that American thing... I know I am probably the only one thinking "LUCHA LIBRE" when someone says "wrestling" here. I mean fake *ss because it's a gosh darn soap-like spectacle now. Watch the technique and the high-flying acrobatics of the Mexican wrestlers on Galavision... better than just beating up a dude and having a "finishing move." That whole WWe daughter-of-the-president-turned-slut killed it for me and many others. "Hey, Mr. President of this wrestling association, I want to be a wrestler." "OK. What do you do?" "I beat up dudes and at the end I dance with a girl on top of them." "Nah... Ravishing Rick Rude already did that. What else can you do?" "I can put a snake on top of them after I beat them up." "Nah... Jake 'the snake' Roberts already did that. What else?" "I can cut their hair once they lose to me?" "NOPE. Brutus 'the barber' Beefcake already did that. WHAT ELSE?" "Ummm... I got nothing." "I got it! Come to the ring with a laptop, and act like you will connect your opponent to the Internet and stream his brains live to a BBS!" - The story of BBS GUY! (new WWe Champion of '06)
It comes down to either Hulk Hogan, Steve Austin, The Rock, or Ric Flair. You could make a strong case for any of those guys. Bret Hart and HBK just did not do the kind of buisness those four did. That's not really a knock on them, neither did anyone else.
In the old days, wrestlers actually HAD to be hard asses because they had to protect the business and themselves. I think the amateur-to-pro ratio was a lot higher too. The best quote regarding that I've read is that nowadays wrestlers are actors trying to be fighters, whereas back in the day wrestlers were fighters trying to be actors.
