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Who in your opinion is the best all around WWE superstar of all time?

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Who in your opinion is the greatest all around superstar. Mic skills,wrestling,selling,storytelling,charisma etc. If you could only choose one who would it be in your personal opinion?
 
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Re: Who in your opinion is the best all around wwe superstar of all time?

The term "all around" is just a bogus term that smarks made up to support some of their favorites who are not as good as the best. There is no "best all around", there's just "best". And those are The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin.
 
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Everything in consideration...

Randy Savage.

Terry Funk is another answer but not for his WWE work.

Eddie Guerrero is an answer I'd consider, but I have to go with Randy Savage.

The term "all around" is just a bogus term that smarks made up to support some of their favorites who are not as good as the best. There is no "best all around", there's just "best". And those are The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin.
No Hulk Hogan?
 
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Re: Who in your opinion is the best all around wwe superstar of all time?

Chris Jericho is the greatest of all time for me.
"The best in the world at everything he does."
 
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Re: Who in your opinion is the best all around wwe superstar of all time?

Kurt Angle for me. A complete in-ring general, a background in freestyle wrestling (which led to him winning a gold medal at the Olympics), mic skills, involved in some of the most entertaining backstage segments ever in WWE programming, comedic, and carried an accomplished career in the WWF/WWE, TNA, and Japan. The man simply had it all. Plus, a future WWE Hall of Famer!

Besides Angle, Chris Jericho and Shawn Michaels are other names that come into mind as well. :aj3
 
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Stone cold Steve Austin followed by the Rock.

I like y2j etc but Austin had everything and on top of that he took it into the mainstream. The likes of Jericho, michaels, hhh etc will always be missing that part. For me that is crucial in being considered the greatest of all time.
 
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Re: Who in your opinion is the best all around wwe superstar of all time?

Savage, Angle, Jericho and Cena are close for me. The Rock and Stone Cold are the two of the most entertaining of all time but they had pretty weak in ring ability in all honesty. HBK, as much as I like him, I think his promos were always a little bit average but that could just be his recent appearances putting me off them a bit.

The best all rounder ever for me though is CM Punk. The way I look at it when I think of The Rock and Stone Cold, I think of famous promos or catchphrases, when I think of HBK or Eddie Guerrero I think of their best matches. With Punk there's a huge abundance of both of those things, as well as his unique look, his ability to tell a story through his wrestling, his versatility in his characters and how his promos changed for each one, his charisma, his ability to feel a crowd and his range to play both a heel and a face to perfection.
 
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Re: Who in your opinion is the best all around wwe superstar of all time?

Savage, Angle, Jericho and Cena are close for me. The Rock and Stone Cold are the two of the most entertaining of all time but they had pretty weak in ring ability in all honesty. HBK, as much as I like him, I think his promos were always a little bit average but that could just be his recent appearances putting me off them a bit.

The best all rounder ever for me though is CM Punk. He wasn't lying when he said in that ring, on that microphone, hell even on commentary, no one can touch him. The way I look at it when I think of The Rock and Stone Cold, I think of famous promos or catchphrases, when I think of HBK or Eddie Guerrero I think of their best matches. With Punk there's a huge abundance of both of those things, as well as his unique look, his ability to tell a story through his wrestling, his versatility in his characters and how his promos changed for each one, his charisma, his ability to feel a crowd and his range to play both a heel and a face to perfection.
I know people won't give credit to Punk because now it's cool again to hate him but I agree to some point. As short as his
career was, he wasn't as good as Eddie or HBK in the ring but better than Rock and Austin while he was better on the mic
than HBK but not as good as Rock, Austin and Eddie. Yes, I think Eddie was underrated on the mic. The promo he cut with Brock
was my favourite promo of all time. I know it's personal because, for example, I'd rather listen to a Piper promo than Savage.
 
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Re: Who in your opinion is the best all around wwe superstar of all time?

Randy Savage. Great interview believable selling one of the best pure workers in the ring, was equally incredible as a face or a heel. As great as HBK was he was always just an average babyface and had a tendency to oversell moves to a comedic level.
 
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Re: Who in your opinion is the best all around wwe superstar of all time?

In my opinion, I have to go with Randy Savage.
He had charisma, mic skills, he told stories in the ring, technically gifted, had impeccable timing and I can not think of a single bad match he ever had.
He made his opponents look great and in some cases better than they had any reason to be...*cough* Ultimate Warrior*cough*

He would put his ego aside and put people over when the time asked for it and was able to tweak his character enough that it always kept people wanting more.
 
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Re: Who in your opinion is the best all around wwe superstar of all time?

Eddie Guerrero, Chris Jericho, Kurt Angle and Austin come to mind.
 
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Re: Who in your opinion is the best all around wwe superstar of all time?

Savage, Rock, Austin. Couldn't pick one but Savage definitely deserves the mention & was well rounded enough in all areas to have been the top guy in any era.


Edit: The above post has a point with Angle, too. He (and Jericho imo) didn't have glaring weaknesses. Don't think they could have been the top guy but they both could give you anything you needed. Could be likeable faces, despised heels, and could hold their own on the mics while never looking out of place in the water with the sharks.
 
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