Most Athletic Wrestler?

[Guest BobBacklundRules]

I'm not talking about jacked up body freaks, or Flippy McFlippinsteins here...

 

Who is the most athletic wrestler in terms of combining flexibility, agility, and strength. Workrate has nothing to do with it.

 

I'd have to say Rob Van Dam or Rock, and I'm sure Ron Simmons was a stud back in his day.

 

Discuss.

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Kurt Angle?

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RVD

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Angle's not a bad choice. In his day.

 

I nominate Yokozuna for least athletic wrestler.

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Sheldon Benjamin, Lance Storm, Brock Lesnar.

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Since you are not counting workrate, count Sean O'Haire as one of the most athletic. (not that I liked him, but he had a ton of athleticism)

[Guest Phate]

I'd go for O'Haire too.

 

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Meng

[CanadianChick 0]

For the chick side of things, Molly probably. She's strong (weightlifting) and flexible (gymnastics).

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Brock Lesnar. Physically, he could do pretty much anything and even the NFL scouts acknowledged this. He was just out of football so long that he didn't really know how to play at that level, which is why they wanted him to go to NFL Europe. He probably lacks the mental discipline of somebody like Kurt Angle, but in terms of raw ability Lesnar can do pretty much anything. I still find it amazing that someone powerful enough to F5 Big Show is agile enough to do a Shooting Star Press.

 

Meng

 

I consider him more of a great fighter than a great athlete. Kind of like Steven Regal or Dave Finlay.

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Lesnar. For his size? Easily.

 

Angle's second.

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The three of the top of my head

 

1. Brock Lesnar: freakish strength, speed and agility

2. Kurt Angle: Quick, strong, athletic

3. Shelton Benjiman: The guy is strong extremely quick, and agile

[Guest *KNK*]

Scott Steiner in his day should get some respect because he was basically a prototype of what Brock Lesnar would be 10 years later.

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I'll second Lesnar, with RVD and Angle a close t-second.

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Doing flips requires athleticism (and I'm not talking fatman moonsaults. I'm talking 420+ rotation flips).

 

My vote's also for O'Haire.

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Rotating 420+ times doesn't take athleticism, it takes being in space.

 

As for the most athletic wrestler, it's got to be Billy Gunn. Would JR have lied to us all of these years?

[Guest wildpegasus]

athletic wrestler in terms of combining flexibility, agility, and strength

 

 

 

I'm adding endurance into this equation.

 

 

 

 

Some of the most athletic wrestlers I've seen are Chris Benoit, Brock Lesnar, Manami Toyota, the Dynamite Kid and Kenta Kobashi,

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Sean O'haire had an awesome seanton bomb

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AJ Styles

Jason Cross

Samoa Joe (he might look pretty chubby, but to go through the New Japan Dojo training curriculum, let alone teach it, makes you one hell of an athlete)

Rocky Romero

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Shawn Michaels

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I remember Shawn Daivari making a post about Chris Benoit and Rob Conway's warm-up regimen that they go through every day they wrestle; FIVE-HUNDRED Hindu Squats.

 

Obviously the both of them have CRAZY endurance and leg strength.

 

Daivari, meanwhile, managed to do about four-hundred though the last seventy-five were killing him. This led to him pissing out his own broken down muscle fibers that somehow got into his kidney the night where Raw aired from the UK (I think).

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As far as women workers, Manami Toyota is the first name that jumps out to me as far as straight up athleticism. Not very strong, but she excelled greatly in the rest of the categories and put it all together to have great matches.

[Guest BrokenWings]

Jack Evans, when it comes to flexibility.

 

Everyone else who deserves mentioning have been.

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Jack Evans, when it comes to flexibility.

 

Everyone else who deserves mentioning have been.

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Most definitely. Totally forgot about Evans. I just got my first glimpse of his work a couple of weeks ago. I swore there were some bumps he took right on his head and neck where I thought he was going to end up paralyzed.

 

While it's entertaining, Jack Evans is going to have a short career followed by living the rest of his life in extreme pain if he keeps at this pace.

[Guest BrokenWings]

I fully expect him to be in a wheelchair, ala Dynamite, if he doesn't slow down.

 

One of the most defining spots of his flexibility was the...boston crab, I guess, Low Ki slapped on him where he had him by the waist.

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I remember Shawn Daivari making a post about Chris Benoit and Rob Conway's warm-up regimen that they go through every day they wrestle; FIVE-HUNDRED Hindu Squats.

 

Obviously the both of them have CRAZY endurance and leg strength.

 

Daivari, meanwhile, managed to do about four-hundred though the last seventy-five were killing him. This led to him pissing out his own broken down muscle fibers that somehow got into his kidney the night where Raw aired from the UK (I think).

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My brother weighs 68kgs and does 600 every 3rd day... Daivari is just seriously unfit.

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Say, what's a Hindu Squat?

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Holy shit, this guys a beast, I've seen him 700 already and he keeps going!!

[CanadianChick 0]

I remember Shawn Daivari making a post about Chris Benoit and Rob Conway's warm-up regimen that they go through every day they wrestle; FIVE-HUNDRED Hindu Squats.

 

Obviously the both of them have CRAZY endurance and leg strength.

 

Daivari, meanwhile, managed to do about four-hundred though the last seventy-five were killing him. This led to him pissing out his own broken down muscle fibers that somehow got into his kidney the night where Raw aired from the UK (I think).

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My brother weighs 68kgs and does 600 every 3rd day... Daivari is just seriously unfit.

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You've got to be shitting me. Someone who can't do 500 squats isn't "seriously unfit". Think about the absurdity of that statement. If he can't run for 10 minutes, then he's "seriously unfit".