Who is the artsiest, most highbrow, heady wrestler to ever grace the ring? Someone who really embodies wrestling being an artform?
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Who is the artsiest, most highbrow, heady wrestler to ever grace the ring? Someone who really embodies wrestling being an artform?
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Bret Hart
Go cry yourself to sleep Dax.
>cry yourself to sleep Dax
yawn gay
The Shawncel is so easily triggered.
this might be it, honorable mentions stone cold, the rock, undertaker, mankind, hbk and owen were are really good with match psychology
i want to add flair, hogan and dusty to this list and also think regal is a cool choice
>Hogan, Carder
Both shit
maybe not the best "moves", especially as they got older, but they were very good at working the match (faking the fight) to get a reaction from the crowd
>working the match
Frick no!
You mean working the *crowd*!
the "art" of professional wrestling is/was convincing people you wanted to fight each other and then going into the ring and making them believe you were actually fighting in a way that made them care who was going to win
t. dumb Black folk that don't know the meaning of "high brow"
and bret sucks
New Jack
Kenny Omega.
He's all gesticulations and facials without substance like the worst kinds of shitty actors. He can't emote sincerely to save his fricking life, prove me wrong if you can.
That's the point. He's a homosexual that is addicted to the smell of his own farts. He embodies the idiotic "smart" mark that thinks that wrestling is some snooty artsy fartsy shit.
>lol I was being stupid on purpose
>lmao worked
Kenny
That ballerina dude looks artsy, think he wrestles in DDT soon.
'member the AoEII lobbies on that shit couldn't never find a game that worked
bob backlund
Regal?
very good choice. he's more theatrical, as in having the art of theater as his main direct inspiration, than any other wrestler i can think of, and he does it without slouching on the actual work on the mat. the perfect synthesis.
regal was like if rowan atkinson was a wrestler. lots of guys can cut great promos but they can't do skits whereas regal was perfect in that role
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Beef Wellington
The world's greatest wrestling artist, Kenny Omega
Ilya Dragunov.
or Cara Noir if you're a gay
kenny for sure
William Regal had an aristocrat gimmick for the whole of his career and does all the superstitious traditional shit like wiping feet and slapping mats.
Frick this logo triggers Battlefield Vietnam flashbacks
its gonna be one of the top 10, what you are really asking is who is the best wrestler because if they arent taking it as an performance artform then they are just doing tandem gymnastics
>top 10 (no order)
stone cold
rock
bret
hbk
andre
hogan
flair
dusty
undertaker
mankind
Raven
So I'm assuming this is considering complete packages. Great ringwork, character work, and, most importantly, genuine audience connection.
It has to be Tanahashi, then. Nobody moves the audience at his will like he does, at least not in the modern era.
Other honorable mentions go to Angle, Austin, Rock, Flair, and Danielson. But Ace is the best.
there's this dusty match in ecw from the year 2000. he was quite obese and out of shape, but man was he working the crowd better than 99% of the guys out there, before or since. a master.
agreed - he really was the man, true legend
The king of kino.
miles ahead
The man, the myth, the legend, Gamespy.
ZSJ or Taichi