Reccomend matches and locations to watch matches of technical greats.
I've been wanting to do this for a long time now and although Im a big fan of their work I would like to see more and really appreciate the ability of some of the most underrated wrestlers in WWE history. It has almost become fashionable to like these guys rather than the obvious guys like The Rock, Stone Cold, Hulk Hogan etc but my reasoning is wanting to lean more about the true greats and see some great technical matches rather than the PPV main events.
I want to see multiple decent matches by these guys and appreciate their work, im talking about guys like;
Ricky Steamboat "The Dragon"
Rowdy Rody Piper
British Bulldog
Jimmy Snuka
Dusty Rhodes
Jake The Snake Roberts
Rick Rude
Mr Perfect
Randy Savage
Some of these guys where my heros as a child, but obviously back then I had no idea that I was actually watching the technical greats and would like to revisit some of their matches.
Obviously Youtube is going to get the biggest mention, but its difficult to do that when your searching for somebody but you have no idea of some of their great matches, it would be great if there was a collection of videos together or a DVD on these guys.
And recommendations of where to watch these videos or what matches would be great to watch then please say. Thanks
Not a fan of any Edge/Cena match tbh. Its kinda like Cena/Orton for me. Boring, dull feuds with mediocre matches 99% of the time. I quite liked the LMS match between Edge/Cena though, and I ADORE Cena/Orton's NWO 08 match. Other than those I just didn't care.
Re: Reccomend matches and locations to watch matches of technical greats.
Firstly, get Ricky Steamboat's name right . Secondly, remove Jimmy Snuka from that list. He's neither a technical wizz in the ring or good (although I hear ok things about his stuff outside of WWF in the 70's and 80's or something, but I've had zero intentions of looking him up ). Piper isn't technical either, but he does have some great stuff out there. Anyway. Thirdly, http://www.wrestlingforum.com/general-wwe/604063-official-dvd-match-show-discussion-thread.html this is probably the best place to get answers. Ah screw it, I'll merge this with that thread.
(in response to the merged topic regarding Scientific/Technical Wrestling)
Volk Han v Tamura RINGS 1997 is pretty much the default answer here.
A lot of WOS matches are very scientific/holds based but its an acquired style compared to what you get in America, some love it and others can't adjust to the setting and hate it. Lucha is also a great example of matwork and scientific wrestling: Atlantos v Blue Panther 1991 on Youtube has some of the greatest pro wrestling matwork you'll ever see, as does Damiancito El Guerrero v Cicloncito Ramirez from CMLL in 1997.
I've been wanting to do this for a long time now and although Im a big fan of their work I would like to see more and really appreciate the ability of some of the most underrated wrestlers in WWE history. It has almost become fashionable to like these guys rather than the obvious guys like The Rock, Stone Cold, Hulk Hogan etc but my reasoning is wanting to lean more about the true greats and see some great technical matches rather than the PPV main events.
I want to see multiple decent matches by these guys and appreciate their work, im talking about guys like;
Ricky Steam Boat Dragon
Rowdy Rody Piper
British Bulldog
Jimmy Snuka
Dusty Rhodes
Jake The Snake Roberts
Rick Rude
Mr Perfect
Randy Savage
Some of these guys where my heros as a child, but obviously back then I had no idea that I was actually watching the technical greats and would like to revisit some of their matches.
Obviously Youtube is going to get the biggest mention, but its difficult to do that when your searching for somebody but you have no idea of some of their great matches, it would be great if there was a collection of videos together or a DVD on these guys.
And recommendations of where to watch these videos or what matches would be great to watch then please say. Thanks
Guys, I was wondering if you could hook me up with a few of these matches in good quality. If you can, then let me know:
Triple H vs Chris Jericho FL 00
Triple H vs The Rock JD 00
Triple H vs Mick Foley vs Big Show vs The Rock WM 00
Triple H vs Chris Benoit NM 00
Triple H vs Kurt Angle UNF 00
Trying to do a definitive HHH list.
Also, strongly considering doing a John Cena PPV match project, there's only 10-15 PPV matches of his that I don't own. I need to prove that he is a better in ring worker than Dwayne.
There are a lot of people who are better in ring workers than The Rock. However, there aren't too many people that can infuse their charisma into a match, build excitement and drama, and play a strong babyface that can take a beating and sell it like The Rock and make a molten hot, strong comeback. Rock is an amazing athlete. He’s smart about portraying his character and playing the crowd. That's why I'm a fan of his work. For me Rock probably hasn't had a boring match since his Rocky Maivia days.
90s Rock needed someone that was at least as good as he was to have a good match, but by like, 2001 he was great. I remember thinking he was really clearly the better guy in the No Mercy match with Jericho, which is a great match. He looked as good as most people in America in 2002 as well. Had he really stuck around that year it would have been a great one.
Plus, the Austin match at Mania 19 is mostly him, and is a stupendous match too.
Cena's peak is better, definitely, but Cena's had lows and bad feuds with people that I can't over-look if I'm comparing him to Dwayne.
You make a great point. Last summer when Punk won the title one of the first things I thought of was how badass a Punk (face)/ Edge (heel) feud would be. I could see that main eventing Mania this year. Well besides PG boy/Dwayne.
My biggest disappointment was we never got a Edge/Christian feud on Smackdown. That feud would have really been awesome. Edge/Punk too, no doubt.
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