Ric Flair
Dude wrestled pretty much everyone from 1974-2008. That's a LOT of generations and styles
Dude wrestled pretty much everyone from 1974-2008. That's a LOT of generations and styles
Spin: GOAT Match Resume?
- Thread starter Golayitdown
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Francis White
i been away to long, my feeling died.
HBK
Brett
Steamboat
Flair
AJ
Brett
Steamboat
Flair
AJ
Tanahashi and Okada both have insane resume
I'm shocked it took this long.Not one JeriGOAT mention?
lets get some lists going. name a top 10 for the guy you think has the best resume. ONE GUY tho.
A lot of his best matches helped get other people over too (vs Triple H, vs Edge, vs Orton, vs The Rock, etc.).
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This is actually a pretty good thread. Here is what I think.
So you could say Tanahashi or Okada in Japan. Nakamura is in WWE now but he was and still would be in their class.
Take it back a generation and you can say that Misawa takes this. With Kobashi a super close second. And then Kawada is kind of like a close third much like Nakamura. But, still its interchangeable really.
Speaking in terms of the American Wrestling, there are so many options.
You got guys like Punk, Cesaro, Owens, Zayn, Nigel, Hero, Jericho, Steamboat, Joe, Foley etc. Who have a ton of highly rated matches. Good workers in some fashion or at some point in their life. But you don't really hear them in the ALL TIME resume category. (This is not to say that they are not great but their are a few that are just a cut above them)
Brock, Austin, Savage, Edge, Taker ,Sting, Cena, HHH & Rock etc. are WWE and/or wrestling greats in some fashion, yes. But strictly match quality was not their biggest and/or only point (this is not saying they could not work). They have put on all time classics and are greats but they shined in overall areas too. Character work, Mic Work etc. Where some of these guys looked at for their great match resume shined just for that reason (that is not a knock).
So that comes down to
HBK
Styles
Benoit
Bryan
Flair
Angle
Bret
These are the 7 American/Canadian names of the past 30 years or so that truly get tossed around in terms of a resume category. Who is the king with them is really hard to say honestly.
So you could say Tanahashi or Okada in Japan. Nakamura is in WWE now but he was and still would be in their class.
Take it back a generation and you can say that Misawa takes this. With Kobashi a super close second. And then Kawada is kind of like a close third much like Nakamura. But, still its interchangeable really.
Speaking in terms of the American Wrestling, there are so many options.
You got guys like Punk, Cesaro, Owens, Zayn, Nigel, Hero, Jericho, Steamboat, Joe, Foley etc. Who have a ton of highly rated matches. Good workers in some fashion or at some point in their life. But you don't really hear them in the ALL TIME resume category. (This is not to say that they are not great but their are a few that are just a cut above them)
Brock, Austin, Savage, Edge, Taker ,Sting, Cena, HHH & Rock etc. are WWE and/or wrestling greats in some fashion, yes. But strictly match quality was not their biggest and/or only point (this is not saying they could not work). They have put on all time classics and are greats but they shined in overall areas too. Character work, Mic Work etc. Where some of these guys looked at for their great match resume shined just for that reason (that is not a knock).
So that comes down to
HBK
Styles
Benoit
Bryan
Flair
Angle
Bret
These are the 7 American/Canadian names of the past 30 years or so that truly get tossed around in terms of a resume category. Who is the king with them is really hard to say honestly.
Exactly. It has to be Flair, especially since he was wrestling more than 300 times a year for a lot of those years, and he wrestled so many of those years as the travelling NWA World Champ, where his job was to hit every city once or twice a year and go 60 minutes with the local babyface challenger.
Obviously most of the matches weren't on TV, but for sheer quantity over his career it's got to be Flair.
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