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I'm a loner, Dottie...
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Wrestler Parallels
So Piper's comment about him and Jericho being similar got me thinking. We've all heard about people claiming someone is the next Stone Cold or the next Rock all the time, and while I'm sure we all agree that you can never replace someone from another era of wrestling there are many parallels between some of the new guys and some of the old ones. This thread is to discuss who you think has a similar spot in the company as someone from the past or has a similar style and such.
I'll go first by saying that we've all heard "Cena is this generation's Hogan" and often people try to compare Punk to Austin, but I don't think that really works. If you look at Punk from a different standpoint, stop looking at him as the anti-Cena you'll notice allot of parallels with HBK. From his size, his ring skills, his mic work and his spot in the company he screams HBK pre back injury. Honestly I could easily see Punk becoming this generations HBK. The guy who never was quite the "Face of the Company", but always had amazing matches, and pulled 5 stars out of even the worst opponent. He's a show stopper with no doubt. Anyway what are some guys you think compare to guys from the past? Who's this generation's Austin, Piper, Bret Hart, etc.? |
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Daniel Bryan is this generation Yokozuna becoz they both had beard
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King of the Ring
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Dolph Ziggler is this generation's Mr. Perfect. He can absolutely go in the ring. Edge is this generations Macho Man. He's just Gold, every match that he put on was good and then there is a huge catalog of Great matches of Edge vs _________
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According to Kevin Nash punk and Bryan are Eddie and benoit
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Gets Hardcore in the gym
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Mason Ryan is this generations (Insert generic big man from the 90's name here)
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Now. Here. Man.
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I'd say Daniel Bryan is this generation's Owen Hart. A supremely skilled in-ring technician, who never quite gets taken seriously due to the fact that he looks kinda weird and has a gimmick of being an obnoxious little shit, especially one who's sick of being in another star's shadow (Bret for Owen, Punk for Bryan).
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Brodus Clay = Rikishi
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Lord of The Vale
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Tensai is nothing but this generations Prince Albert.
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Da Gif/Pic Pimp
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Mason Ryan is RELLIK!
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FIT Challenge Slag People
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Damien Sandow is this generation's Lanny Poffo.
Jinder Mahal is this generation's Tiger Ali Singh. Curt Hawkins is this generation's Christian. |
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Gets Hardcore in the gym
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Ryback is this generations Wrath (athletic big man with the potential to be a huge star, just depends on where he goes after the squash matches end)
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Total Non-Stop Apologist
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Albert Del Rio is this generation's Ted DiBiase
The Big Show is this generation's Andre the Giant Brodus Clay is this generation's Rikishi CM Punk is this generation's Randy Savage Cody Rhodes is this generations Rick Martel |
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Total Non-Stop Apologist
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Damien Sandow is this generation's The Genius
Daniel Bryan is this generation's Owen Hart Dolph Ziggler is this generation's Shawn Michaels Ezekiel Jackson is this generation's Ahmed Johnson The Great Khali is this generation's El Gigante |
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Total Non-Stop Apologist
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Heath Slater is this generation's Disco Inferno
Jack Swagger is this generation's Steve Williams John Cena is this generation's Bob Backlund Justin Gabriel is this generation's Matt Hardy Kelly Kelly is this generation's Trish Stratus |
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Total Non-Stop Apologist
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Kofi Kingston is this generation's Eddie Guerrero
Matt Striker is this generation's Mike Tenay (circa WCW) The Miz is this a flat out rip off of Chris Jericho Natayla is this generation's Jaquiline Randy Orton is this generation's Steve Austin |
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Total Non-Stop Apologist
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Ricardo Rodriguez is this generation's Ralphus
Ryback is this generation's Ultimate Warrior Wad Barrett is this generation's Triple H |
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Don't believe the hype
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The glaringly obvious one is Ryback and Goldberg, and maybe Sin Cara and Rey Mysterio
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Wrestling Marks Rejoice!
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On topic: We'll see how Bryan progresses when he gets to be "The Game" instead of this generation's HHH. Big guy with potential who didn't quite catch on. Got it. Spot on. ... out of curiosity, would that happen to be "killer" backwards? The first two are kinda "duh, that's the point"... the third is an initeresting observation. Both are guys with a load of upside who are a) mishandled and b) in the shadow of their "brother". Maybe a world title run in TNA is in the future of "The Party Starter". |
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Gets Hardcore in the gym
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Total Non-Stop Apologist
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I can see that, based on the fact that they basically have "funketts" and they have the word "Funk" in their name (in Clay's case his nickname) but I'm more going with the "big fat guy that can't really dance having a dancing gimmick" part of it.
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I think the real question here is, "What wrestler is most like you?" and I will answer that question.
Razor Ramon, Scott Hall. Why? Razor Scott by some accounts had a great star potential yet perhaps did not reach a possible apex. He also is fondly with intoxication. Maybe it is more accurate to say that I am most like the unproduced sun of a Razor and Goldust union. |
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Antonio Cesaro has the cocky foreigner-tude of Alex Wright
Damien Sandow has alot of Harley Race in him As for Punk, his build and motion reflects HBK, but his personality and technicality is more reminiscent of Bret Hart. |
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Bret Hart had no personality.
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The Will & The Whey
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I was thinking the other day about some interesting similarities between Kurt Angle and Daniel Bryan.
Both sort of play the goofy heel that people love to razz on. Angle had the "You suck!" to go along with his theme music, while Bryan has the "YES!/NO!" thing. Both Angle and Bryan are known for their ring skills and ability to carry essentially any worker to a watchable match, but neither seems like THE top guy, if you know what I mean? They manage to hover around the main event and are always featured due to their talents, however. They also have submission signature moves (not unique to them, but still), and have a sort of "colour imagery" associated with them. Angle wore the red, white and blue singlets while Bryan always has burgundy featured on his trunks. |
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At the moment, Dolph Ziggler seems a lot like Edge to me. Not just because they both won Money in the Bank, but just how "certain" they both seemed as rising main event heels after winning the briefcase. Money in the Bank was essentially created to elevate Edge to the next level, while Ziggler seems like the most fitting Money in the Bank Winner since.
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Gets Hardcore in the gym
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I think it was Jim Cornette who said Ken Anderson is being a "Stone Cold" knock off in TNA. I think that in a way with the whole "Asshole" thing, trying to be edgy and saying whatever he wants he can somewhat be related to Austin. Even in the way that both were released unfairly could be considered parallels. The diffrence being Stone Cold continued to go from being good to beyond amazing, Anderson started improving, then just became stagnant.
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