Who were the most overrated wrestlers of the 2000s indie wrestling boom?

[stro]

Colt Cabana was never good, and his podcast only exposed him as being borderline retarded. That dude would be nowhere if Punk hadn't insisted his dumb jock buddy get booked with him wherever he went. It's staggering to me that I was in Chicago last summer and there was a giant One Hour Tees billboard with his goofy ass head on it in the center of downtown, yet you listen to him on his podcast and realize how fukking slow his brain works.

My man is moronical.

 

[CM_Burns]

Teddy Hart shouldn't be on here, he was 10x more charisma and entertainment value than most Indy guys, even "good ones"

 

[Heelish]

I wish I had it but the video of teddy hard jumping off a basketball hoop or something...the guy doesn't catch him right and hart hurts his knee and goes fukkING BALLISTIC...that was hilarious and when I was done with that guy

Finally found it

(14 minute mark)

 

[CM_Burns]

Morishima is a great example, in some sense he was a good worker but the guy looked like a complete fukking bum, yet was booked as the Indy version of Vader or Lesnar.

People talk about Samoa Joe looking unbelievable as an athlete, well brother he has nothing on Morishima.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Teddy Hart shouldn't be on here, he was 10x more charisma and entertainment value than most Indy guys, even "good ones"

No he doesn't

Of that era, punk, Bryan, Steen, moxley, Tyler black, hell, the afformentioned samoa Joe, all had more entertainment value...stop it

 

[CM_Burns]

No he doesn't

Of that era, punk, Bryan, Steen, moxley, Tyler black, hell, the afformentioned samoa Joe, all had more entertainment value...stop it

Tyler Black had no charisma. Great athlete and worker but he was a very generic (arguably still is, but he was clearly worse in this area back then) character and promo.

Moxley didn't have those legendary moments like Teddy Hart in the indies, even if most of Teddys were about getting fukked up.

The rest I agree with. Nobody rates Teddy Hart better than those guys though, I'm saying I still put him above a Roderick Strong, Davy Richards partner (forgot this guys name), etc because he actually made you care about him/his matches.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Finally found it

(14 minute mark)

YOU fukkING fakkit...TRYING TO END MY CAREER FOR A fukkING CHARITY SHOW

beyond classic

 

[CM_Burns]

YOU fukkING fakkit...TRYING TO END MY CAREER FOR A fukkING CHARITY SHOW

beyond classic

That 5 minutes was incredible, he was like a high school gym 98 Stone Cold there

 

[stro]

Morishima is a great example, in some sense he was a good worker but the guy looked like a complete fukking bum, yet was booked as the Indy version of Vader or Lesnar.

People talk about Samoa Joe looking unbelievable as an athlete, well brother he has nothing on Morishima.

Morishima was legit. Especially in NOAH. Both were believable as athletes because....both were actually athletes and did athletic stuff.

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

Christopher Daniels

 

[Jmare007]

I'd say Chris Hero. Most of his early to late 2000's work doesn't hold up well, at all. It took a long time, and a couple of trips to NOAH, for him to have more focused matches and really become a good worker imo.

I agree that Cabana was/is completely forgettable, but I don't think he was ever viewed as a very good wrestler. People thought (think) he had a funny act and was entertaining, but never a "you have to watch him" type of wrestler. Not sure he can be overrated.

Agreed on Low Ki. Great matches and all but his act grows tired the more you see from him, and his ego is too big for him to evolve as a wrestler.

Morishima was legit. Especially in NOAH. Both were believable as athletes because....both were actually athletes and did athletic stuff.

Morishima was largely (don't ask me how) a disappointment, he never had the kind of run he had in ROH and was never able to "figure it out" as a star in Japan. He had sparks here and there, but dude should've been a success and the combination of NOAH's retarded booking and him never putting everything together fukked him. Don't think he's overrated though, mostly because I don't think anybody rated him that highly

 

[Hey_zeus]

London and Kendrick.
I know paul London blew up because of his early roh run which was very good. His wwe run had it's moments with and without Kendrick. He seems to have had best work very early in his career.

Kendrick i always found dull. Decent tag worker but struggled to stand out as a single. Both him and London seemed to be going through the motions since the mid 00s.

Hate to agree on lowki but i do. Dude was so talented, but never put it all together to consistently have good matches like his contemporaries.

Roderick Strong is the definitive vanilla midget. No charisma. No promo ability. No likability. Video game moveset without ability to make it mean anything. His best matches are with bryan Danielson and we know why.

 

[The axe murderer]

Finally found it

(14 minute mark)

YOU fukkING fakkit...TRYING TO END MY CAREER FOR A fukkING CHARITY SHOW

beyond classic

"I GOT WWE shyt COMING UP"

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

I was a HUGE Bryan and Kendrick fan...I thought FOR SURE The THE Bryan Kendrick was gonna make it and i never missed snack down then. They tried too hard with the VERBAL bryan Pillman comparisons and tried to.make him HBK too...it just didn't work right...I think injury ended it or weed, but it never hit rigt

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

"I GOT WWE shyt COMING UP"

"Call the fukking ambulance "