Who Is Better?

[Matt D]

Who's more physically awkward?

 

Greg Gagne, 1993 Erik Watts, or Brett "Hack" Sawyer?

[goodhelmet]

Greg Gagne. Watts looked like an athlete. Sawyer reminds me of Tom Pritchard.

[shoe]

Greg Gagne. Watts looked like an athlete. Sawyer reminds me of Tom Pritchard.

 

What makes you think of Pritchard and Sawyer as being similar?

[goodhelmet]

hair

[Matt D]

I actually like later career Erik Watts more than most people but

 

[shoe]

hair

Lol , I thought you meant they worked similar to you.

[Cox]

I actually like later career Erik Watts more than most people but

 

Man, there is no way that ended well for young Mr. Watts.

[JerryvonKramer]

Watts looked like an athlete.

Have you had your eyes checked recently?

[JerryvonKramer]

I was just looking for a clip of Watts from around 1992 when I stumbled on a match of his tagging with Kensuke Sasaki vs. Arn and Steve Austin in which Arn submits to the STF. I was almost sick into my own mouth.

[ohtani's jacket]

I actually like later career Erik Watts more than most people but

 

I'd laugh only I don't think I could get that high on a dropkick. Rude vs. Watts was cool, but Watts vs. Arn was disappointing.

[goodhelmet]

Watts looked like an athlete.

Have you had your eyes checked recently?

 

More athletes looked like Erik Watts than say this guy...

 

[JerryvonKramer]

 

 

 

 

 

[El-P]

He said athlete. Not Olympic champion.

[Log]

Watts was a division I college quarterback wasn't he?

 

Hell, Howard Schnellenberger made him his starter at Louisville. He knows a thing or two about quarterbacks.

[goodhelmet]

Yeah, the Olympics... I need to create an Olympics thread in the pro Wrestling Mostly folder. Is there anything more worked and as needle stained as the Olympics?

[Matt D]

Someone should remind Parv that this is what an athlete looks like.

 

[JerryvonKramer]

I'm sorry but I will not accept the notion that 1992 Erik Watts is representative of the "typical athlete". The "typical young male" maybe. Hell, I don't look a million miles away from that with my shirt off -- and I'm partial to a burger or three!

 

I will continue to scoff at any claim made about Erik Watts's "althetic" body. "Athletic" my arse!

[goodhelmet]

Yoda: You must unlearn what you have learned.

[JerryvonKramer]

Saying it in a Jedi voice doesn't make it any more true. I would describe Erik Watts's body as "normal". It is ridiculous to suggest that it is "athletic". I will brook no arguments about this.

 

Here are some nice athletes from 1948.

 

 

No needles. No six-packs either.

 

Here is Erik Watts once more.

 

 

More athletes from the 40s

 

 

Erik Watts

 

 

Bill Watts

 

 

Erik Watts

 

[soup23]

I would say Watts in his day looks at least as "athletic" as current day Matt Stafford and Eli Manning.

[shoe]

Watts is more athletic looking than famed footballer Vinnie Jones.

[ButchReedMark]

Or Neil Ruddock, o Neville Southall, or former Wales prop forward Ben Evans, or Shane Warne, several baseball players, and many many more. Watts looks athletic enough.

 

Late 80s Vinnie Jones looked athletic though. Very muscular.

[cheapshot]

E.Watts, to me, is closer to looking like a standard man in the street than to an athlete (or to what I imagine what an athlete looks like). I'm with JVK on this one.

 

But maybe in the context of the time he would look closer to one.

[Matt D]

And really, it wouldn't matter if he was a great wrestler.

 

I mean look at this guy from the same era.

 

 

He looks about the same as Watts, not far off, maybe a little thicker, but it's like night and day.

[JerryvonKramer]

I've got nothing else to say re: Watts himself as this one seems pretty self-evident to me. But I do want to say there's some confusion going on between:

 

1. People with athletic bodies

 

and

 

2. People who happen to play sports

 

The two can be mutually exclusive, as Butch's list of lardy footballers can attest.