Wrestlers who were ahead of their time

[MrSinnister]

I'll raise you Jaguar Yokota. She was working like that in the late 70s and early 80s. Also influenced Manami Toyota.

shyt's better than a lot of men's matches. She looks like a Japanese Tamsin Greig, who is the ultimate woman if you happen to fall in love with one with that lesbian mannish hair style and facial look. Hate crop tops on women, but they got big in the 80's.

 

[Ozweego]

Beat me to it. Read the whole thread and started thinking about Ken Shamrock being ahead of his time, when you consider guys like Angle, Daniel Bryan, Brock Lesnar, Kyle O'Reilly, and Zack Sabre, Jr.

You've got so many guys incorporating the stiff shoot-fighting into their ring work. Hell, look at how the MMA wave influenced The Undertaker of all people. Imagine if Shamrock was 15-20 years younger and working today.

Imagine if Shamrock would've upped the work-rate as time went on and came back to have a match with Angle in his prime.

I would have died for shamrock vs nak.

 

[Atsym Sknyfs]

Doink

Dean Malenko .. imagine the man of 1000 holds today.. talking about he wont use the same finisher 2 matches in a row etc...

 

[Theodoresolderbreh]

High key, Mike Awesome.

He was essentially the blueprint for :brawk: , in my opinion, and was one of the best wrestlers in the world when he jumped to WCW as ECW champion. Super athletic powerhouse hardcore wrestling big man that could fly. If WCW hadn't ruined him, he could have absolutely been champion there and if he'd come up in this generation, he'd be over as fukk.

awesome bomb i agree with all of these brehs. Sidenote if you put awesome kong in the Medusa or chyna era you think she would have been a star?

 

[Kevin_Nash]

I paved the way for wrestlers to appear in mainstream films. Well ahead of my time before any Samoan Midget.

 

[patscorpio]

Still makes me mad that 2 cold scorpio couldn't get a run with any title in the wwe. fukking innovator

 

[patscorpio]

innovator

 

[prophecypro]

Kama on his UFC shyt?

 

[Heelish]

Landed on his face

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

High key, Mike Awesome.

He was essentially the blueprint for :brawk: , in my opinion, and was one of the best wrestlers in the world when he jumped to WCW as ECW champion. Super athletic powerhouse hardcore wrestling big man that could fly. If WCW hadn't ruined him, he could have absolutely been champion there and if he'd come up in this generation, he'd be over as fukk.

Wow you are right

 

[patscorpio]

Landed on his face

benoit trained in japan..that was nothing..he showed fighting spirit

 

[mrken12]

Bumping this up for Goldust. Especially with the recent news about LGBT characters.

 

[PYRRHUS 88]

Mr Perfect

He would have been the top heel during the New Generation era having classic main events against Bret and Shawn but his body was breaking down by then

He was so unfortunate to have his prime during the Hogan/Warrior era

 

[Buzzed Lightyear]

Scottie Steiner. His moveset is too much for this era but he could dumb it down & still be a beast. He'd have set it off in the late Attitude/early Ruthless Aggression era with people like Brock, Angle, World's Greatest Tag Team, Benoit, & Jeff Hardy.

Sidenote: He founded & BUILT Suplex City.

 

[King P]

Kanyon...his moveset was dope

Razor Ramon when he first dropped was ahead of his time, and helped usher in the era of cool heels.

If you look at the "success" of Bray Wyatt, you have to think Waylon Mercy was ahead of his time as well

Wont disagree with that, but I will say that the Four Horsemen were really the 1st cool heels.

Superfly Jimmy Snuka...

One of the early Samoans in the game... and was the only guy in his era comin' off the top of THE CAGE when just coming off the top rope was considered a big move.

Snuka isn't Samoan though. He's from Fiji