Fav Pro Wrestler of All Time?

[the Dark Knight]

I know there's a pro wrestling thread in the tv & movies section, but that usually covers thaughts and reactions to Raw and whatever. I want people to talk about their FAVORITE WRESTLERS OF ALL TIME!!! (crack koom!!)

(in no real order)

Hulk Hogan
Chris Jericho
Ric Flair
Ricky Steamboat
Eddie Guerrero
Arn Anderson
Andre the Giant
Rhyno
Shawn Michaels
Ted Dibiase
Bret Hart
Owen Hart
Chris Benoit
Kurt Angle
Dusty Rhodes
Brutus the Barber Beefcake (whom I've met)
Doink the Clown
Jerry Lawler
Mick Foley
Andy Kaufman (former inter-gender champ, mind you!)

Hey, while I'm at it, my fav managers of all time!

1. Bobby "the Brain" Heenan
2. Hanz Roddy
3. the Slickster
4. Jimmy Hart
5. Classy Freddie Blassie
6. Joel Gertner
7. Bill Alphonso

[JameO]

Hart Foundation, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Undertaker, Eddie Guererro, Chris Benoit, Chris Jericho, Hulk Hogan, Brutus the Barber Beefcake, Mick Foley, Hacksaw Jim Dugan, Bushwackers. Those are pretty much my favourites that I can think of. I was a major Hulkamania and Hacksaw and Bushwackers fan when I was a kid.

[That Matt Guy]

The Hulkster, La Parka, and the Sandman.

[KROW]

My Top 10, in order from most-loved on down, and which has probably changed from the last list I posted (which was on SK), are as follows:

-- Bret Hart
-- Macho Man Randy Savage
-- The Undertaker
-- Kurt Angle
-- Steve Austin
-- La Parka
-- The Rock
-- Brian Pillman
-- Hayabusa
-- Funaki

[azure turtle]

Awright, lemme see here (in no particular order):

Bret Hart
Kurt Angle
Hulk Hogan
"Rowdy" Roddy Piper
"Stone Cold" Steve Austin
Rey Mysterio Jr.
La Parka
"Superfly" Jimmy Snuka
Eddie Guerrero
Rob Van Dam
Ric Flair
"Macho Man" Randy Savage
The Ultimate Warrior (he was cool when I was a kid... now he's nuttier than a fruit cake)
"Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig
The Road Warriors, Animal and Hawk

Favorite Managers:
Bobby "the Brain" Heenan
"Mouth from the South" Jimmy Hart
Mr. Fuji
Brother Love
Miss Elizabeth
Capt. Lou Albano

[Peanut]

"Stone Cold" Steve Austin is my all time favourite. Some others are Rob Van Dam, AJ Styles, Owen Hart, Randy Orton, Road Dogg, Christian, Hulk Hogan, Macho Man Randy Savage, Chris Jericho, and Mick Foley. Of course I like a ton of others, but those are all my big favs.

[ThirdMarioBro]

Hulk Hogan is the man, and always will be. I'm old school, yo.

[Wingnut]

Doink and Dink


j/k

[azure turtle]

LOL! I should add Dink to my favorite managers list. :razz:

[raphael_is_cool]

The Ultimate Warrior, Bret The Hitman Hart (was he really a famous contract killer? :ohwell: hehe) and Matt Hardy

Haven't seen wrestling in years and years now

[Dane E5R]

X-Pac is my all time favorite.

[Kid Icarus]

Tatonka. That weird indian character the WWF had back in.... well, it was a LONG time ago.

[ThirdMarioBro]

I miss the old school WWF. Things were stupid and fun back then.

[KROW]

Tatonka. That weird indian character the WWF had back in.... well, it was a LONG time ago.
I remember Tatanka. He was undefeated until that weird Finnish wrestler Ludvig Borga pinned him with one finger. He fought "The Model" Rick Martel once just to get back his "sacred eagle feathers" and later sold his reservation to Ted Dibiase.

Yes, TMB, the WWF was awesomely stupid and fun back then.

[Kid Icarus]

Yep... I mean, where else can you see a sumo wrestle a stereotypical native american?

[KROW]

The same place where you can see enormously muscle-bound men with painted faces wearing bright red shoulder pads with black spikes.

[XERO]

Plus, they spew green mist out their mouths.

Lovely. :roll: :lol:

[JameO]

Oh come on now Tajiri is awesome!

[KROW]

Tajiri wasn't the first to use the green mist. There was The Great Muta and the friggin' awful Kwang, who was really Savio Vega in a different gimmick.

[XERO]

I loved it when Diesel eliminated Kwang at the '94 Royal Rumble. :lol:

[the Dark Knight]

Yep... I mean, where else can you see a sumo wrestle a stereotypical native american?

Yeah, and where else could a rich white man come out with a black man servant? Now THAT was funny!

[GK Punk]

I loved it when Diesel eliminated Kwang at the '94 Royal Rumble. :lol:

I loved it when Diesel did anything. Nash is pure gold.

[Voltron]

Back when I used to watch it:

Hulk Hogan
Macho Man Randy Savage
The Undertaker

In highschool my nickname was "Mick Foley."

[azure turtle]

I remember Tatanka. He was undefeated until that weird Finnish wrestler Ludvig Borga pinned him with one finger. He fought "The Model" Rick Martel once just to get back his "sacred eagle feathers" and later sold his reservation to Ted Dibiase.

Yes, TMB, the WWF was awesomely stupid and fun back then.
LOL! I remember that! The WWF used to have such funny gimmicks and storylines. :lol:

Kwang was bad, I agree. Anyone remember Bastion Booger? Duke "The Dumpster" Drosee? Repo Man? Heh heh... those were the days.

Some of my favorite storylines from that era include: Jake "The Snake" Roberts getting blinded by Rick Martel's perfume spray (forgot what he called it), Marty Janetty getting thrown into the window of Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake's barber shop by Shawn Micheals (the Rockers no more!), and Ultimate Warrior getting stuck in one of Undertaker's coffins (the Warrior then puked up a bunch of yellow stuff while the EMTs were trying to revive him, lol!).

[GK Punk]

LOL! I remember that! The WWF used to have such funny gimmicks and storylines. :lol:

Kwang was bad, I agree. Anyone remember Bastion Booger? Duke "The Dumpster" Drosee? Repo Man? Heh heh... those were the days.

Some of my favorite storylines from that era include: Jake "The Snake" Roberts getting blinded by Rick Martel's perfume spray (forgot what he called it), Marty Janetty getting thrown into the window of Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake's barber shop by Shawn Micheals (the Rockers no more!), and Ultimate Warrior getting stuck in one of Undertaker's coffins (the Warrior then puked up a bunch of yellow stuff while the EMTs were trying to revive him, lol!).

Wasn't the model's perfume called Arrogance?

[Lisardo]

RVD, Booker T, Eddie Guerro, Chris Beniot, Chris Jericho, Hulk Hogan, Undertaker, John Cena, The Hart Foundation, Kane, Randy Orton, Big Show, Jake 'The Snake' Roberts, Brutus 'The Barber' Beefcake, Roddy Rowdy Piper, HBK, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Goldburg, Ray Mysterio, just to name a slew.

One thing I also noticed today when they showed that old clip of WrestleMania 5 of Rowdy Piper and Morton Downey Jr. (was it?) on Smackdown! tonight, was how much Rowdy Piper reminds me of Jericho. I mean, they look sorta simliar, act alike with similiar personalities, and have the same kinda voice. *sometimes wonder in cases like this if they are related or something* Anywayz....

[azure turtle]

Wasn't the model's perfume called Arrogance?
Why, I do believe you're right, old bean! :D GK is always there to help me whenever my WWF memory goes astray.

I always got a kick of watching Rick Martel spray himself or the crowd with Arrogance. Hilarious stuff!

One thing I also noticed today when they showed that old clip of WrestleMania 5 of Rowdy Piper and Morton Downey Jr. (was it?) on Smackdown! tonight, was how much Rowdy Piper reminds me of Jericho. I mean, they look sorta simliar, act alike with similiar personalities, and have the same kinda voice. *sometimes wonder in cases like this if they are related or something* Anywayz....
The only way we'd know for sure is if Jericho started wearing kilts. ;)

[Leo656]

1. Hulk Hogan is, and will always be, The Man.
2. Bret Hart. Excellence of Excecution. He made wrestling seem real.
3. Kevin Nash. His wit, JackKnife, and hair were all godlike.
4. Chris Benoit
5. Sting
6. Randy Savage
7. Goldberg
8. Diamond Dallas Page
9. Roddy Piper
10. "Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig

Honorable mentions go to Raven, Vader, Chris Jericho, Brian Pillman, and Dean Malenko.

Quick correction:

Muta wasn't the first to spew the dreaded green mist; to the best of my knowledge, Japanese legend The Great Kabuki was the first to do the mist gimmick. At one point I believe the NWA/WCW was claiming that Muta was Kabuki's son (mostly playing up the fact that they both used the mist), however this was not true. Also, Kwang/Savio Vega, never spewed the mist as I recall.

There were also a few other types of mist that Japanese wrestlers would spew besides green, each different color would supposedly have a different effect:

Green mist = blinding
Red Mist = choking
Yellow Mist = produces unpredictable effects, such as blinding, choking, dizziness, etc.
Turqoise mist = releases Scott Hall from the Phantom Zone

[Wingnut]

Well Leo if anyone had any questions about the various colors of mist is wrestling, you sure as hell answered them. Great post :)

[KROW]

Damn. I forgot about Kabuki. But Kwang/Savio did use the mist. I remember one incident in the Royal Rumble (circa the mid '90s, the actual year escapes me) he flushed it a Rick Steiner, and it was green.

[XERO]

Yeah, it was the '94 Rumble, as I mentioned earlier.

Then Owen Hart came out, kicked Rick's ass, threw him out, only to have Deisel come, and eliminated everyone's asses.

Deisel owned the Rumble...until Shawn Michaels came out. :roll:

[KROW]

Yeah, Nash was showing his superiority that year. He eliminated everybody until Macho came out.

[XERO]

'94 was the best year for the WWF to me.

[Leo656]

Let no one say I don't know that I've been corrected. I guess Kwang/Savio DID spew the mist; I just missed that particular Royal Rumble due to the lack of good video stores around here, and at that point without Hogan around my wrestling fandom wasn't so hot for about a year, so I didn't order it. I've always wanted to see it just for the historical value of the "Diesel Rampage" and the double-winner finish...

Of course, another reason I wouldn't have remembered it is my complete and total avoidance of anything even remotely related to Savio Vega. Seriously, Favorite character to pummel in Street Fighter II? Vega. Why? Cuz I can kinda sorta make believe I'm beating the hell out of a slightly thinner, whiter, more pixelized version of Kwang, that's why. I mean, man, that guy was just awful.

Oh, and I forgot to give The Nature Boy an honorable mention. I hesitate to call him a huge favorite, but he always had good-to-great matches, had awesome psychology, and I could just watch his matches for hours (and have, once the box set came out :D ) . The one with Vader at Starrcade '93 was probably my personal favorite, just for the physicality of it.

[ThirdMarioBro]

Of course, another reason I wouldn't have remembered it is my complete and total avoidance of anything even remotely related to Savio Vega. Seriously, Favorite character to pummel in Street Fighter II? Vega. Why? Cuz I can kinda sorta make believe I'm beating the hell out of a slightly thinner, whiter, more pixelized version of Kwang, that's why. I mean, man, that guy was just awful.

Same here. I always thought Capcom named the character Vega in the US because of him. Never liked him since the Street Fighter II Movie (animated). I hate anyone that messes with Chun Li.


Oh, and add Captain Lou Albano to my wrestler list........for obvious reasons. Hell, he's probobly what got me to watch the WWF in the first place. Still, no one touches Hogan.

[Leo656]

Oh, and add Captain Lou Albano to my wrestler list........for obvious reasons.

Yeah... totally obvious...
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[XERO]

Blame Jim Ward for that one. :roll:

[Demented Utrom]

I liked old school Kane interferes in matches and the nwo.Undertaker.