Best at specific aspects of wrestling

[Graham Crackers]

Best at swinging a weapon: Bull Pain

Best at taking a back body drop: Gran Hamada (also best back body drop counter)

Best at being cornered by multiple enemies: Mitsuharu Misawa

Best at bumping into a post: La Fiera

Best kneelift: Yoshihiro Takayama

Best triple teams: Los Bucaneros

Best at breaking up pins/submissions during tag matches: Daisuke Ikeda

Best backbreakers: Atlantis

 

 

[flyonthewall2983]

On 4/26/2023 at 11:48 PM, sek69 said:

His DDT is great, but to me Arn's best move was the spinebuster. The snap he got on it was sick as fuck. 

Agreed on the DDT but I think Ron Simmons had the better spinebuster

 

On 4/29/2023 at 10:54 AM, Rocco said:

I always thought Eddie Guerrero had the best powerbomb.  

I liked it better when it was a big man move, but I’ve come around on how it’s used now. Wardlow’s looks like Kevin Nash’s, which isn’t a compliment  (the snake eyes was a better finisher for him).

[elliott]

Ricky Morton was the best at taking a backbreaker the way he'd just ragdoll all his limbs right at the moment of contact. 

[C.S.]

Everyone talks about Terry Funk and Jerry Lawler, as they should, but Bob Cook is right up there with them when it comes to his punching prowess.

 

[Mr JMML]

On 5/1/2023 at 7:34 AM, C.S. said:

Everyone talks about Terry Funk and Jerry Lawler, as they should, but Bob Cook is right up there with them when it comes to his punching prowess.

 

They look great, thanks.

[ohtani's jacket]

Best tweener -- either Bret Hart or Liger

[strobogo]

Best at having their legs splayed on the mat in a realistic way: Bret Hart. I know you know what I'm talking about.

[flyonthewall2983]

Best foot on the rope spot has to be Superstar Billy Graham winning the belt from Bruno

[Microstatistics]

Comebacks: Mitsuharu Misawa

Charisma: Yoshiaki Fujiwara

Being a face: Steve Grey

Being a heel: Jim Breaks

Brawling: El Satanico

Athleticism: Kiyoshi Tamura

On the mic: Scott Steiner

Ring IQ: Eddie Guerrero

Highest floor: Kiyoshi Tamura

Highest ceiling: Kenta Kobashi

Big matches: Kenta Kobashi

Bumping: Mick Foley

Best punches: El Satanico

Best knees: Jun Akiyama

Best kicks: Nobuhiko Takada

 

[Johnny Sorrow]

Best rage after having hair or beard shaved: Jimmy Valiant

[conker8]

Best Headlock : Jack Brisco

[Mr JMML]

Best headbutt: Kintaro Oki

[flyonthewall2983]

On 4/30/2023 at 1:13 PM, Clayton Jones said:

The Spectrum was such an amazing venue to see events at. It simultaneously felt so big yet so intimate. A certain electricity always in the air like a living, breathing entity. Man do I miss it.

I’ve heard the opposite, when it came to rock concerts. Infamously called the “rectum” for how bad the sound was.

[TheDuke]

On 6/25/2023 at 3:45 AM, Johnny Sorrow said:

Best rage after having hair or beard shaved: Jimmy Valiant

Hahaha we need a category for Best Hair! (Or maybe Best Mullet?)

[Al]

47 minutes ago, TheDuke said:

Hahaha we need a category for Best Hair! (Or maybe Best Mullet?)

Ric McCord at Starrcade '83. Never before or since has such an ugly jobber had such good hair.

[KawadaSmile]

Ax at Survivor Series 1990 had notoriously nice hair.

[flyonthewall2983]

I’d go the other way who are the best baldies

[JerryvonKramer]

Going with just one per:

 

Selling: Jack Brisco

Comebacks: Bruno

Basing: not familiar with this term

Control Segments: Yatsu

Charisma: Hogan

Being a face: Steamboat

Being a heel: DiBiase

Face in Peril: Morton

Hot tags: Jumbo

On the mic: Flair

Adding intensity to feuds: Terry

Brawling: Terry

Athleticism: Savage

Ring IQ: Bockwinkel

Highest floor: not sure what means 

Highest ceiling: ditto

TV matches: Garvin

Big matches: Flair

Best looking/most impactful offense: Hansen

Best arena: MSG

[Ma Stump Puller]

 

1 hour ago, JerryvonKramer said:

 

Highest floor: not sure what means 

Highest ceiling: ditto

 

Highest floor refers to range of consistency; not having great matches all the time per-se, but having consistently decent to quite good matches over a long period of time, being able to carry a wide range of wrestlers to a reasonable level of quality. Having a low floor would mean consistently not performing well.

Highest ceiling relates to peak performance/potential: having a high ceiling would mean having really great matches, but maybe that's a peak they've only managed to reach one or two times and they've otherwise been pretty below that.

Random examples off the top of my head

Misawa, for example, would have a tremendously high ceiling, but questionable floor given his pre/post-prime work. Undertaker I guess would count here as well. 

Osamu Kido would have a great floor given his decades of reliable mid-card work and as a tag guy with whoever NJPW fed to him, but his peak matches are more or less a dozen at best, so not that high of a ceiling. 

etc etc

 

[JerryvonKramer]

Okay in that case highest floor is 100% either Arn Anderson or William Regal.

 

Highest ceiling to my mind is Hase or Yatsu.

[fxnj]

18 hours ago, JerryvonKramer said:

Basing: not familiar with this term

Basing means selling for and countering high flying offense.

[Control21]

Comebacks: Mitsuharu Misawa

Charisma: Yoshiaki Fujiwara

Being a face: Antonio Inoki

Being a heel: El Satanico

Brawling: Terry Funk

Athleticism: Kiyoshi Tamura

On the mic: Nick Bockwinkel

Ring IQ: Bret Hart

Highest floor: Volk Han

Highest ceiling: Kenta Kobashi

Big matches: Akira Maeda

Bumping: Mick Foley

Best punches: El Satanico

Best knees: Dick Vrij

Best kicks: Kiyoshi Tamura

[JerryvonKramer]

19 hours ago, fxnj said:

Basing means selling for and countering high flying offense.

Okay no idea!

[JerryvonKramer]

While people are listing specific moves:

 

Harley Race knee drop

Greg Valentine elbow drop

Jumbo running knee 

Ted DiBiase fist drop

Bobby Heenan turnbuckle bump

Ted DiBiase “180” vertical bump

Flair flop

Greg Valentine “tree trunk” face plant or back bump

Bob Orton Jr Superplex

Barry Windham Suplex into a pinfall

Kobashi “fire” hulk up

Dory Funk Jr Butterfly Suplex 

Dory Funk Jr forearm

Billy Robinson European Uppercut

 Paul Orndorff piledriver

Sgt Slaughter bump from top / turnbuckle

Stan Hansen lariat

Jumbo running clothesline 

 

[Dooley]

I feel like Rick Martel has to be mentioned if we're talking about hot tags or rope work.