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After Ric Flair, who is/was the best at chops

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Watching a lot of Chris Jericho matches and his chops seemed lethal. I always remember him and Benoit having nasty looking chops idk if that has to do with their stiff strong style Japanese style.

anyone else known for dangerous chops
 
#51 ·
This is the 100 percent correct answer.

Wahoo McDaniel,a pro wrestling hall of famer and legend, is known in the annals of wrestling history for his painful chops. It is astounding how we have another thread where the lack of wrestling knowledge is evident especially for a subject like this where the general consensus of wrestling historians would give the answer as Wahoo McDaniel. Even Flair's chops paled compared to the chops of Wahoo McDaniel.
This should be a no brainer answer.
 
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#31 ·
Tajiri does really stiff chops< as do many other Japanese wrestlers. American wrestlers actually disliked working with him because he does them so hard.
 
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Benoit's were killer.
 
#11 ·
In terms of WWE-associated guys, Benoit. Steamboat always seemed like he could hold his own with Flair too. And if you expand the question to the larger world of wrestling, you have to mention Kenta Kobashi, whose chops are easily the most devastating-looking I've ever seen, Flair's included.
 
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The man that Flair got the idea to get the chop as a central part of the offense over from (Wahoo Mcdaniel) had some hard chops that Flair said were the hardest, but to me the hardest chopper was Kobashi when he wanted to. Yes, some of those machine gun chops got cheesy and kinda weak vs a guy like Sasaki with a jacked physique/big chest, but boy when Kobashi wanted to he could chop the shit out of a guy. I mean: not even in a machine gun variant but go to from 3:12 to 3:23 here another thing about Kobashi is guy would chop more near the neck as opposed to the chest, which psychologically makes so much more sense if your gonna throw a fundamentally nonsensical move like a chop, and sometimes Kobashi would go to the head.

Honorable mention to Benoit with those ripped to shreds forearms and blacksmith hands chopping and Bob Holly could lay them in hard too. Eddie Guerrero didn't have a hard chop, but had a pretty chop. Austin's story of "fu and your chops" regarding Pillman and being a pussy to Pillman's chops is funny and telling.
 
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