Who is the worlds best wrestler

[Pringles]

Brian Danielson is by far the best athlete iv seen since kurt angle's injury. Tho i hear Danielson is going into MMA soon. Matt Sydal is also amazing but moved from ROH to WWE where they quickly taught him how not to wrestle as Evan Bourne. Shame on them.

WWE sucks and Jericho is the best thing they have. Tho i used to love the Hurricane.....im so sorry... :-S

 

[Jharry5]

The Rock, or Mick Foley. I could never decide.
Didn't watch the early 90's stuff, so I can't say anything about any of them.

Don't like the really modern stuff though.

 

[VsFighter]

Oh my gawwd. Wrestling is fake and X-Men are real?! The entertainment industry dun tricked me again!!

Really tho, thanks for starting this thread. It made me take a walk down nostalgia lane. Magnum T.A. Was a childhood fav, and about 24 years later I see why. Unfortunate what happened to him though:

http://slam.canoe.ca/SlamWrestlingBiosM/magnum_ta-can.html


Classic textbook match Vs Nikita Koloff, the ref goes crazy 7 min in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoeXxx2RpL8

Shot at Flair

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV6-Rl5C5L0

 

[cleverlymadeup]

Dan Gable, Carl Gotch, Frank Gotch or Lou Thesz

they all have wrestling moves named after them

 

[jim_doki]

Chris Beniot, Bret Hart, Shawn Micheals, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Chris Jericho and The Undertaker (although the latter two are slipping a bit in their old age)

 

[Ruzzian Roulette]

Bret Hart, easy.

 

[tenlong]

Who cares? It's all fake anyway

its all fake. its like a night time soap opera. even in old ecw the matches are rigged. how it got to the end result was random. you didn't know what was going to happen.

 

[Kayevcee]

The Ultimate Warrior was not the best wrestler in the world, but the most enthusiastic! Also the least hinged.

-Nick

 

[jim_doki]

Ok, wrestling is fake. It's scripted. well done for figuring that out sherlock. now if you don't mind, I'd like to see you lift a 300 pound man over your head and drop him safely. Oh what's that? You can't? oh well then perhaps you could leap from a 20 foot ladder, flip on the way down and land on top of another person without injuring either of you. No? In that case, Shut the fuck up

 

[slevin8989]

Matt Hardy and Jeff Hardy as a team

 

[Undead Dragon King]

I loved it how a wrestling star (I forget who) stepped into a UFC ring and got his ass handed to him on a silver platter.

Wrestling has been proven to be a moot point now.

 

[JWAN]

Who cares? It's all fake anyway

This

wait a minute, you mean that those folding chairs that are being smashed on peoples necks are fake?

OR

are the people fake?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!

DU DU DUUUUUU!

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but to answer the question
Hulk Hogan
he is also the greatest American ever
(+2 brownie points to whoever guesses the source of that line)

 

[InifniteWit]

Cael Sanderson.

 

[Same River New Water]

I only watched the odd wrestling match over one year when I had cable TV, but at the time The Rock was the most entertaining. I'm sure he wasn't the most athletic or capable of the craziest stunts, but he was such an engaging person to watch, whether he was wrestling or just talking to the camera, that he really stood out.

I don't know much about the current crop of wrestlers, but John Cena was interviewed on Australian TV recently and he was a surprisingly funny, clever, level-headed guy. I expected a psycho-jock from looking at him, but he wasn't like that at all.

Who cares? It's all fake anyway

This

I third the notion.

And I'd like to endorse this statement as well.

Did you all open a topic called "Who is the world's best wrestler?" just so you could say "Who cares, wrestling is fake" as though nobody noticed? Are you under some kind of contract to post in every thread, regardless of whether you have anything to say?

 

[squiggothhunter]

Brock Lesnar. WWE or UFC the man is a champ

 

[Glerken]

Who cares? It's all fake anyway

This

I third the notion.

And I'd like to endorse this statement as well.

Did you all open a topic called "Who is the world's best wrestler?" just so you could say "Who cares, wrestling is fake" as though nobody noticed? Are you under some kind of contract to post in every thread, regardless of whether you have anything to say?

Actually, yes.
Please save me. They have me locked in a basement.
All they let me do is post on the Escapist.
Please, help me, I haven't seen daylight in ages.

 

[Arntor]

BRET HART.

The best there ever was, the best there ever will be.

 

[Same River New Water]

Actually, yes.
Please save me. They have me locked in a basement.
All they let me do is post on the Escapist.
Please, help me, I haven't seen daylight in ages.

Haha, fair enough. I'll call the cops and let them know there's an Emergency on the Internet...

 

[UsefulPlayer 1]

Spiderman!!!!