Define what you consider a "Great Wrestler"

**The One** · 06-07-2005, 03:14 PM

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa! Hold on a second there bud. You are telling me that Tully Blanchard couldn't fraw a crowd with the mention of his name? You are saying Tully couldn't make people care about his opponite? Tully Blanchard MADE half of the legends we see today. I love Ric Flair, but if Ric hadn't have gotten the Nature Boy gimmick first, hadn't started wrestling before Tully, there is no question in my mind that everyone would have in their hands "The Ultimate Tully Blanchard Collection". Tully was a man who could do it ALL, and usually do it better then anyone. He was so fucking over, the only reason he never got the attention he deserved was because he was a Horseman, under Flair's shadow, and then he got busted for drug abuse and dropped off the face of pro wrestling. So PLEASE don't go putting Tully in the can't draw catarogy, cause DAMN could that man bring in a crowd.

Anyway on to the topic at hand, what is a great wrestler.

A great wrestler can be many things. I find that my personal choices for great wrestlers are men who excel in all of the fallowing catagories and completly dominate at least one of them, those catagories are; "In Ring Work", "Natural Charisma", "Mic Skills", "Ring Psychology", and of coruse the ever mysterious "X-Factor".

Some examples of great wrestlers are Shawn Michaels, Bret Hart, Tully Blanchard, Steve Austin, Kurt Angle, Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan, Harley Race, and fuck it the list could go on for quite a while.

I understand that ever wrestler brings something different to the table, and as such no one man's efforts can go without notice. Hulk Hogan is (or maybe was) a great wrestler. Although I would rather never see one of his matches ever again, there are plenty who disagree with me, and for that he deserves a spot in pro wrestling to bring in the fans who I am so obviously not.

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06-07-2005, 03:14 PM	#2
The One Boss Posts: 17,611	Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa! Hold on a second there bud. You are telling me that Tully Blanchard couldn't fraw a crowd with the mention of his name? You are saying Tully couldn't make people care about his opponite? Tully Blanchard MADE half of the legends we see today. I love Ric Flair, but if Ric hadn't have gotten the Nature Boy gimmick first, hadn't started wrestling before Tully, there is no question in my mind that everyone would have in their hands "The Ultimate Tully Blanchard Collection". Tully was a man who could do it ALL, and usually do it better then anyone. He was so fucking over, the only reason he never got the attention he deserved was because he was a Horseman, under Flair's shadow, and then he got busted for drug abuse and dropped off the face of pro wrestling. So PLEASE don't go putting Tully in the can't draw catarogy, cause DAMN could that man bring in a crowd. Anyway on to the topic at hand, what is a great wrestler. A great wrestler can be many things. I find that my personal choices for great wrestlers are men who excel in all of the fallowing catagories and completly dominate at least one of them, those catagories are; "In Ring Work", "Natural Charisma", "Mic Skills", "Ring Psychology", and of coruse the ever mysterious "X-Factor". Some examples of great wrestlers are Shawn Michaels, Bret Hart, Tully Blanchard, Steve Austin, Kurt Angle, Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan, Harley Race, and fuck it the list could go on for quite a while. I understand that ever wrestler brings something different to the table, and as such no one man's efforts can go without notice. Hulk Hogan is (or maybe was) a great wrestler. Although I would rather never see one of his matches ever again, there are plenty who disagree with me, and for that he deserves a spot in pro wrestling to bring in the fans who I am so obviously not.