If you had to create your own wrestling fed from scratch, but could recruit ANY WRESTLER EVER, from any point in history — so you could have mid-80’s Jake The Snake alongside post WWE-Bubba Ray / Bully Ray, or whomever you wanted, and money was not an issue… who would you pick? Who would be your top ten talent?
If you had to create your own wrestling fed from scratch, but could recruit ANY WRESTLER EVER, from any point in…
If you had to create your own wrestling fed from scratch, but could recruit ANY WRESTLER EVER, from any point in…
I actually got that with mid-80s NWA. But my top ten talent (I don’t know if this is actually in order):
1) Ric Flair circa 1986
2) RVD circa 1997
3) Dusty Rhodes circa 1982
4) Sabu circa 1997
5) Jimmy Garvin circa 1986
6) Bruiser Brody circa 1984
7) SCSA circa 1998
8) Foley circa 1999
9) Rick Rude circa 1991
10) Sting circa 1989
In no particular order rick flair, Shawn Michaels, Mick Foley, rvd, Jeff hardy, Aj styles, undertaker, razor Ramon, Bret hart, demolition.
Uggghhhh I forgot Bret
How did I leave out stone cold… Hmm lose axe from demolition
I had played at this idea a while ago with my brother. We had a limit to make it so that you couldn’t select anyone from before 25 years ago, and you had to have 25 wrestlers.
Give me a day or so and I think I could dig up my notes on that and post them.
I started thinking about my choices as they would have been in the early 90s obviously much more limited choice being in the UK pre sky and internet. Hogan, warrior, rocker’s, million dollar man, Bret, legion of doom, demolition, although macho man and undertaker should both be in there.. This is hard 🙂
“Hard Times” era Dusty Rhodes, Ric Flair, Sting, The Rock, SCSA, Lance Storm (Don’t Blame Canada version), Dean Malenko, Rey Mysterio, Eddie Guerrero (Latino Heat version), The Undertaker.
THis is so hard, but here are the ones I have right of the top of my head.
This is mostly a work rate list based on what I like to see. with that said
I would swap out Arn Anderson on for Shawn Michales based on the higher tempo , but I’m a mark for Arn’s Promo skills
Mitsuharu Misawa in his prime,
Bret Hart title run years,
Dynamite kid early years,
Kenta Kobashi Tripple crown years.
Kota Ibushi (now)
Kenny Omega ( 2 years ago)
Shinsuke Nakamura (4 years ago)
Randy Savage (prime)
Arn Anderson (prime)
KENTA (a few years ago three or so ?)
Honorable mentions are
Vader, but I’m not sure where he fits in this group.
Kenji Muto, simply as a butt kicker…
Arn how did I forget him! Was one of my first favourite wrestlers think i still have the 80s action figure in my loft lol
Man this is hard. But the TOP 10 Guys/Main Eventers I would have:
(I’m so clearly ECW biased)
Raven (circa 1996)
Chris Jericho (circa 1998)
Bret Hart
Taz circa (1995)
Steve Austin (circa 1998)
Booker T (circa 2000)
The Three Faces of Foley (circa 97)
Amazing Kong
TAKA Michinoku (circa 97)
Spanky/Brian Kendrick
Announcing Team: Jesse Ventura (big Shocker there) & Joey Style (best play by play man in the biz)
Honorable Mentions: Jim Crocker as The Colonel manager to the stars!
We can do announcers. Because it’s Gordon Solie, by himself, saying “soo-play” over and over.
Andre the giant, haystacks calhoun, bob backland, owen hart, mick foley (3), stone cold, HHH, Rock, Chyna, Xean Ambrose.
Announcers: Vince MaMahon, Gorilla Monsoon, Jerry”The King”Lawler, and Taz
Sorry that’s Dean Ambrose.