AJ Styles vs Bret Hart

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Consider

• Mat technician skills
• Selling
• Spots/flying
• Submissions
• Finishers
• On the mic
• As a heel
• As a babyface
• In stables
• As a tag team
• As a hero for the kids

Everything.

I legitimately can't decide because they're basically A+ at everything. They're both pretty much perfection. Both had long careers, both led goat heel stables. Both have goat finishers, don't have bad matches ever...have classics with anyone...who is better?

 

[JasoRockStar]

Im gonna say AJ Styles but I'm a bit biased because hes on my Mount Rushmore.


Couldn't vote for him though because I had to check the obligatory osu sucks box

 

[Mr. Negative]

I aint scared to say it.

Bret better as a purely technical wrestler, a tag team wrestler and maaaaaybe as an in ring storyteller.

Edit: and selling.

And since you took it there, yes, Bret is a better "Hero for the kids"

Everything else, Im going with AJ.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

I aint scared to say it.

Bret better as a purely technical wrestler, a tag team wrestler and maaaaaybe as an in ring storyteller.

And since you took it there, yes, Bret is a better "Hero for the kids"

Everything else, Im going with AJ.

Maybe the Canadian kids

 

[Scottie Drippin]

AJ Styles is not A+ at selling. He's like a D

Whereas Bret is the single greatest seller in the history of the sport

 

[Mr. Negative]

Maybe the Canadian kids

honestly thats why I didn't say anything about Face/Heel work.

Being over in your whole home country goes a lot towards face/heel work.

AJ just country if he's not in Japan.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

AJ Styles is not A+ at selling. He's like a D

Whereas Bret is the single greatest seller in the history of the sport

Well Randy Savage is the best seller ever, better than Bret and it isn't close, but AJ Styles is a pretty elite salesman too. I just kinda disagree with that.

 

[Scottie Drippin]

Well Randy Savage is the best seller ever, better than Bret and it isn't close, but AJ Styles is a pretty elite salesman too.

AJ Styles who has spent his entire career ignoring any leg work done so he can still get his shyt in his an elite salesmen

Bret Hart literally limped into matches if he worked earlier in the night and wouldn't do moves if a limb has been damaged.

Bret hobbles around the ring as if he's gone through a war - AJ gonna hit you with springboards flips and twists off the top rope come hell or high water

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

AJ Styles who has spent his entire career ignoring any leg work done so he can still get his shyt in his an elite salesmen

Bret Hart literally limped into matches if he worked earlier in the night and wouldn't do moves if a limb has been damaged.

Bret hobbles around the ring as if he's gone through a war - AJ gonna hit you with springboards flips and twists off the top rope come hell or high water

Fair enough. Bret is better at selling, agreed.

 

[Mr. Negative]

yeah, I'll admit that I edited my post once @Scottie Drippin brought it up and I thought about some matches.

AJ a good seller, but Bret was selling like he was imagining Stu whooping his ass for real.

That "Chest first into the turnbuckle" spot>>>>>

 

[Turtle]

Bret but AJ wouldnt lose in a vote against most others

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

That "Chest first into the turnbuckle" spot>>>>>

Yeah that is legendary.

I think AJ is good at selling until his comeback...he's not THE BUCKS or OSPREY or REIGNS in terms of just saying fukk it when it's time to get moves off but yeah, he will suddenly get "numb" when needed

 

[Reality Check]

• Mat technician skills --> Bret
• Selling --> Bret
• Spots/flying --> AJ Styles
• Submissions --> Bret
• Finishers --> Bret (lot of people have been hurt via Styles Clash)
• On the mic --> slight edge to Styles due to versatility
• As a heel --> AJ Styles by a mile
• As a babyface --> Bret
• In stables --> AJ Styles by a mile
• As a tag team --> Bret
• As a hero for the kids --> Bret

 

[Scottie Drippin]

AJ one of my favorites of all time - but the lack of that element in his work whereas people like Ric and Bret ( and Diamond Dallas Page) worked injury, damage, and exhaustion into their stuff every night is a valid criticism against him in GOATdom.

He and Kurt Angle gave birth to a lot of these no brained new wrestlers who took their stuff to a next level with even less grounding.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Have to go with Bret. I think he had more classics with a variety of opponents. He was the guy that Vince used to say "if you have a bad match with Bret, then you ain't shyt".

Bret was so good that during his tag run with the Hart Foundation, heel commentators like Ventura or Heenan would put over how much of a skilled technician he was. Nobody could hide their respect for Bret's ring work.

Even Ric Flair, after Bret carried a drunk Davey Boy Smith to a classic at a sold out Wembley had to give Bret credit.