Top Ten Favorite Wrestlers

[FigureFourTapes]

1.Ric Flair

I love the Horsemen, of course he's my number one pick. His matches with Dusty Rhodes made me a fan back in the day, and his fans with Steamboat are the greatest series of matches I've ever seen in the U.S.

 

2.Arn Anderson

WAY underrated, he could get anyone over in a match or on the mic. If only there were more Arn's around these days.

 

3.Owen Hart

Of all the guys from Canada this guy was definately the best, he never got to show his full potential and it's a shame we lost this man.

 

4&5.The Rock N' Roll Express

Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson. The Rock N' Roll Express, enough said.

 

6.Steve Austin

I remember staying up late as a kid to watch this guy wrestle, and when he became "Stone Cold" and enjoyed huge popularity I enjoyed it, mainly because I'd watched him ever since his days in Texas.

 

7.Mick Foley

I love the guy, he's a crazy sumbitch, but I love everything he's ever done. I hate garbage wrestling and I even enjoy his garbage stuff.

 

8.Terry Funk

Watch his early NWA stuff and stuff from Japan, you'll see why this guy wasn't always a crazy sumbitch who went through flaming tables covered with cow manure, or whatever the stips are.

 

9.Bret Hart

Greatest WWF wrestler ever, too bad I despised his WCW run, well except for one match.

 

10.Kurt Angle

Man, I'm surprised I put him in my top ten too! But this guy really is great, and WWE tv is gonna suck without him.

 

Honorable mention:

Chris Beniot

Shawn Micheals

Magnum TA

Eddie Gilbert

[Guest bob_barron]

1.Bulldog

2.Goldust/Dustin Rhodes

3.Mr.Perfect

4.Booker T

5.Chris Benoit

6.The Rock

7.Sting

8.Regal

9.Ric Flair

10.Eddy Guerrero

[Garth]

1-Chris Jericho

2-Kurt Angle

3-Chris Benoit

4-Raven

5-Steve Corino

6-Eddie Guerrero

7-Low Ki

8-Rey Mysterio Jr

9-Chavo Guerrero

10-Hurricane Helms

[Guest Respect The 'Taker]

1. Bret "Hitman" Hart

2. Shawn Michaels

3. The Rock

4. Owen Hart

5. Diamond Dallas Page

6. Steve Austin

7. Kevin Nash - OH FUCKING SHUT UP, I marked for him when I was 11yrs old, ITS NOSTALGIA I SWEAR

8. Randy Savage

9. Mr.Perfect

10. Terry Funk

 

UYI - HAS SPOKEN/POSTED

[Guest Plushy Al Logan]

Hulk Hogan

Bret Hart

John Tenta

Mr. Perfect

Andre the Giant

Randy Savage

Ultimate Warrior

Vader

Undertaker

Steve Austin

[Guest BAR]

1. The Dynamite Kid

2. Ric Flair

3. Bret 'Hit Man' Hart

4. Jyushin 'Thunder' Lyger

5. Owen Hart

6. 'Mr. Perfect' Curt Hennig

7. Cactus Jack

8. Davey Boy Smith 'The British Bulldog'

9. Ricky Steamboat

10. Chris Benoit

Edited July 29, 2003 by BAR

[TheOriginalOrangeGoblin]

1. Bret Hart

2. Randy Savage

3. Mr. Perfect

4. Owen Hart

5. Hulk Hogan - marked for him since I was a kid

6. Ric Flair

7. Sting

8. Ted DiBiase

9. Chris Jericho

10. Kurt Angle

[Guest Your Olympic Hero]

John Tenta

????????????????????????????????

 

Hopefully that was a joke

[Guest Hitman Jebus]

All-Time:

 

1- Owen Hart

2- Bret Hart

3- Shawn Michaels

4- Chris Benoit

5- Ric Flair

6- Davey Boy Smith

7- Steve Austin

8- Kurt Angle

9- Roddy Piper

10- Undertaker

 

Just missed the top 10: Ricky Steamboat, Curt Hennig, Randy Savage, Chris Jericho, Cactus Jack.

[Guest BionicRedneck]

1. Ric Flair

2. Bret Hart

3. Chris Benoit

4. Eddie Guerrero

5. Jushin Thunder Liger

6. Steve Austin

7. Mitsuharu Misawa

8. Toshiaki Kawada

9. Chris Jericho

10. Vader

[Guest eiker_ir]

1. Bret Hart

2. Chris Jericho

 

frome here on there's no order

 

3. HBK

4. The Rock (he just made my list)

5. Owen Hart

6. Angle

7. Benoit

8. Eddie

9. Hurricane

10. Flair

 

 

HM: Foley, E & C, Utimo Dragon, Austin, Rey Mysterio Jr., Chavito, RVD, BookDust, etc...

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

1. Curt Hennig

2. Chris Benoit

3. Ric Flair

4. Rick Rude

5. Jeff Jarrett

6. Arn Anderson

7. Owen Hart

8. Kurt Angle

9. Dean Malenko

10. Tully Blanchard

[Guest Tim Cooke]

1. Kawada

2. Misawa

3. Tsuruta

4. Midnight Express

 

After that, I don't really even care.

 

Tim

[Guest Banky]

1. Eddie Guerrero

2. Steve Austin

3. John Cena

4. Bret Hart

5. Dean Malenko

6. Shawn Michaels

7. Chris Benoit

8. Chris Jericho

9. Scott Hall

10. Kevin Nash

 

I didn't really have a 9 or 10 - I just put Hall and Nash because they were responsible for the nWo, and make shows interesting for reaons other than wrestling. So fucking what?

[Guest wolverine]

1. Toshiaki Kawada

 

Simply put, many of the best in-ring performances I've ever seen came from this man.

 

2. Chris Benoit

 

Fantastic worker who could adapt to any style.

 

3. Akira Hokuto

 

The greatest female wrestler who ever lived.

 

4. Jumbo Tsuruta

 

For longevity as a top worker, he was about as good as it gets. He was involved in MOTDC's in the 70's, 80's and 90's.

 

5. Jushin Liger

 

The greatest Jr. Heavyweight I've ever seen.

 

6. Mitsuharu Misawa

 

The Man in All Japan during the 1990's. I've seen more great matches involving him than anyone else.

 

7. Kenta Kobashi

 

His 1993 body of work is generally considered to be tops in history for a wrestler.

 

8. Aja Kong

 

The best working 'monster' I've ever seen.

 

9. Shinjiro Ohtani

 

One of the all-time great Junior Heavyweights, who peaked in 1996 with his myriad of great matches against a wide variety of opponents.

 

10. Mariko Yoshida

 

She went from a midcard highflyer in AJW, to a wicked badass shootstyle worker in ARSION. From a technical standpoint, she ranks among the best I've ever seen, male or female. One of the best wrestlers in the world today.

[Guest MaxPower27]

1) Benoit

2) Midnights

4) Flair

5) Bret Hart

6) Liger

7) Owen Hart

8) Eddy Guerrero

9) Ricky Steamboat

10) Dean Malenko

 

Just missed: Kawada, Ohtani, Ultimo Dragon

[Mecha Mummy]

This is at the moment, so that's why it's all current guys.

 

1. Raven

2. Matt Hardy

3. Hurricane

4. Christian

5. Angle

6. Foley

7. Nowinski

8. Eddy

9. The Rock

10. Funaki

 

Just Missing: Jericho, Benoit, TAKA, Shark Boy

[Guest Aero]

1. Bret Hart

2. Steve Austin

3. Mr. Perfect

4. Kurt Angle

5. Chris Jericho

6. Undertaker

7. Chris Benoit

8. Jeff Jarrett

9. The Rock

10. Steve Blackman

 

Hon. Mentions: Owen Hart, D'Lo Brown, Eddie Guerrero, Ric Flair, Randy Savage

[HurriShane]

In no real order

1) Triple H

2) Sting

3) Rock

4) Stonecold

5) Bret

6) Angle

7) Foley

8) Savage

9) HBK

10) Y2J

[Guest caboose]

1) Sting

2) D-Lo Brown

3) The Rock

4) British Bulldog

5) Eddie Guerrero

6) Booker T

7) Ric Flair

8) Mick Foley

9) Kurt Angle

10) Chris Jericho

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Can't make a top 10...gotta go 20

 

1. Mikey Whipwreck

2. Chris Benoit

3. Cactus Jack

4. Ric Flair

5. Bret Hart

6. Steve Austin

7. Tommy Dreamer

8. Owen Hart

9. Roddy Piper

10. Kurt Angle

11. Shawn Michaels

12. Chris Jericho

13. Rob Van Dam

14. Mr. Perfect

15. Eddy Guerrero

16. Randy Savage

17. Raven

18. Dean Malenko

19. Sabu

20. HHH

[Guest gwf0704]

1) Ric Flair - Loved his NWA title reigns when he would go from territory to territory to face the top guys.

 

2) David Von Erich - Used to like the fact that he was the "mean" Von Erich.

 

3)Andre the Giant - At the time, big men like him with his power and agility were a rarity. (and I dont mean his fat WWF tenure either)

 

4)Tommy Rich/Buzz Sawyer - Just because their feud felt so real you could swear their matches seemed personal. The last battle of Atlanta at the Omni is a classic.

 

5)Mil Mascaras - When he was younger the man could flat out wrestle. Still remember his match against El Canek on an old Mexican wrestling broadcast with holds, counterholds and submissions that would make Angle, Benoit and Malenko blush.

 

6)The Undertaker - Loved the Deadman. Dont much care for biker man.

 

7)Bruiser Brody - Again, skill, agility but such brute force and power for a big man. Truly awesome.

 

8)Chris Benoit - The man can wrestle and love his constant offense.

 

9 - Stone Cold Steve Austin - Just due to attitude.

 

10 - Rick Rude - Good wrestler, better heel. Loved the opening routine to his matches.

[Guest Canadian Crippler]

1. Chris Benoit

2. Eddie Guerrero

3. Dean Malenko

4. Kurt Angle

5. Bret Hart

6. Owen Hart

7. Chris Jericho

8. Jerry Lynn

9. Low-Ki

10. Christopher Daniels

 

Special mentions: Super Crazy, Mike Awesome, Sabu, Masato Tanaka, Tajiri

[Guest Coffey]

1.) Hulk Hogan

2.) Raven

3.) "Crow" Sting

4.) "Stone Cold" Steve Austin

5.) Kurt Angle

6.) The Ultimate Warrior

7.) Diamond Dallas Page

8.) "Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase

9.) Scott Norton

10.) American Dragon

[Guest Dynamite Kido]

1. Dynamite Kid

2. Ricky Steamboat

3. Ric Flair

4. Bret Hart

5. HBK

6. Rick Rude

7. Sting

8. Cactus Jack

9. Rob Van Dam

10. Roddy Piper

[Guest papacita]

1. Michaels

2. Chyna

3. Perfect

4. Sting

5. Austin (heel)

6. Pillman

7. Jericho

8. Old School Taker

9. Eddy

10. Bret (pre-97)

 

HM's:

Owen

Taz(z)

That woman stealing bastard Sean Waltman

[Guest Respect The 'Taker]

Did Chyna really WRESTLE? As opposed to just flipping around the ring trying to keep her mega-jubs contained in her 6-sizes-too-small top?

 

Eh, like it would change anything with Papacita.

 

UYI

[Ultimo Dugas]

1. Ultimo Dragon (no shit)

2. Diamond Dallas Page

3. Chris Jericho

4. Sting

5. Bret Hart

6. HBK

7. Rey Mysterio Jr.

8. Dean Malenko

9. Kurt Angle

10. Hurricane

 

You'll notice I'm a bit biased in that I favor WCW wrestlers mostly considering thats what I watched throughout my markdom.

[Guest natholy]

1. Bret Hart

2. Mick Foley (any of his characters) Mostly WCW AND ECW Jack

3. Ted Dibiase mostly his MidSouth work espically working as a hell in feuds against Duggan and TA when going for the North American title.

4. Terry Funk just totally nuts and a pleasure to watch.

5. Ryuji Yamakawa Deathmatch icon who has such a fighting heart and charisma about him.

6. Ricky Steamboat what more do you need to say, you can pop in a Steamboat match and be almost 100% guaranteed of something exciting

7. Rick Rude great worker saved his best for last his WCW run was pure Gold feuds with Steamboat and Dustin Rhodes were a highlight.

8. The Fantastics MidSouth One of my fave tag teams to watch knew how to put on a realistic great tag match, great workers that are always overshadowed by the Rock n Roll Express unfairly in my view.

9. Ric Flair

10. Brian Pillman very enjoyable worker, the Hollywood Blondes rocked anybody remeber Flair for the old Pillman doing a great pension natch parioty but I just loved his loose Cannon stage ...

[cawthon777]

1. Bret Hart

2. Chris Benoit

3. Curt Hennig

4. Ric Flair

5. Eddie Guerrero

6. Rick Rude - "...What I'd like ta have right now ..." = pure gold

7. Rob Van Dam

8. Chris Jericho

9. Booker T

10. Steve Austin - especially as a heel