Best Wrestler Alive Tourney 1st Round --- Cody Rhodes vs. Tommaso Ciampa

[2CT]

Cast your vote for the best wrestler alive using the following metrics

Ring work (10)
Mic work/promos (10)
Personality/gimmicks (10)
Overall rating (10)
Number of matches you like from each person

The poll closes after 7 days and if there's a tie the poll extends for an additional 24 hours

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Cody Rhodes

Championships and accomplishments

Alpha-1 Wrestling
A1 Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Ethan Page

Bullet Proof Wrestling
BPW Championship (1 time; first and last champion)

CBS Sports
Promo of the Year (2019) – Silver Spoon
Smack Talker of the Year (2019)

Global Force Wrestling
GFW NexGen Championship (1 time)

National Wrestling Alliance
NWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

New Japan Pro Wrestling
IWGP United States Championship (1 time)

Northeast Wrestling
NEW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

Ohio Valley Wrestling
OVW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
OVW Television Championship (1 time)
OVW Southern Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Shawn Spears
Fourth OVW Triple Crown Champion

Ring of Honor
ROH World Championship (1 time)
ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship (1 time) with Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson
ROH Wrestler of the Year (2017)

Pro Wrestling Illustrated
Most Improved Wrestler of the Year (2008)
PWI ranked him #8 of the 500 top singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2018

Rolling Stone
Best Special Effects (2015)

WhatCulture Pro Wrestling
WCPW Internet Championship (1 time)

World Wrestling Entertainment
WWE Intercontinental Championship (2 times)
WWE Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Drew McIntyre (1) and Goldust (2)
World Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Hardcore Holly (1) and Ted DiBiase (2)
WWE Tag Team Championship No. 1 Contender's Tournament (2012) – with Damien Sandow
Slammy Awards (2 times)
Outstanding Achievement of Baby Oil Application (2010)
Tag Team of the Year (2013) – with Goldust

Wrestling Observer Newsletter
5 Star Match (2019) vs. Dustin Rhodes at AEW Double or Nothing on May 25
Worst Gimmick – Stardust (2015)

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Tommaso Ciampa

Championships and accomplishments

Chaotic Wrestling
Chaotic Wrestling Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
Chaotic Wrestling New England Championship (1 time)

East Coast Wrestling Association
Super 8 Tournament (2011)

Millennium Wrestling Federation
MWF Television Championship (1 time)

NXT
NXT Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Johnny Gargano
NXT Championship (1 time)

Pro Wrestling Illustrated
PWI ranked him #67 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2014

Ring of Honor
ROH World Television Championship (1 time)
March Mayhem Tournament (2012)

UPW Pro Wrestling
UPW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

Wrestling Observer Newsletter
5 Star Match for unsanctioned match vs. Johnny Gargano on April 7th, 2018 at NXT TakeOver: New Orleans
Feud of The Year (2018) vs. Johnny Gargano

Xtreme Wrestling Alliance
XWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

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[The Rainmaker]

Wrestling has more than one... royal family.

*Cue the pyro*

 

[Breh the HitMang]

ill ride for my nikka Cody, the ultimate hustler, his passion brought us ALL IN and AEW and its been piff.

 

[Mr. Negative]

Cody gonna forever get props from me for basically leaving the E and pulling some RZA level altering of the course of wrestling history, and yeah he gets what makes a wrestling match work

but he's not a better wrestler than Ciampa

Hell, one of the biggest complaints about Cody over the course of his entire career up until AEW was he could do everything wrestling wise but wrestle a good match.

 

[PharaohAtem]

I’ll pick Ciampa for that short period where he came out to nothing but boos

 

[Jmare007]

You look at the brackets, the people getting eliminated and then this fukking matchup comes up

 

[mrken12]

Neither of them should be in this tournament. Or at least not this early in their careers.

 

[Mr. Negative]

Off Topic, but I just realized I voted Reigns over Goldberg, now they bout to headline Wrestlemania

 

[TheGodling]

These two were selected for a Best Wrestlers tournament?

I vote 'Present'.

 

[BrehWyatt]

This is a close one because people are basically going to vote on two people who are in the midst of the BEST RUN of their careers.

Cody might eek it out because he's on some shyt with the AEW stuff. Nothing to do with it, but his lasting impact on wrestling as a whole might help him.

 

[Cartier Murphy]

I didn’t really expect either of these two names to come up at all, much less now. I’m over Ciampa and the main event scene of NXT in general, so Cody gets the vote for me, weekly WM entrance and all

 

[8WON6]

how did cody make it on to any kind of best wrestler alive shyt?

 

[2CT]

Neither of them should be in this tournament. Or at least not this early in their careers.

"this early in their careers" when they both been at it for over 10 years

 

[krackdagawd]

Omega eliminated and one of these bums going to the next round

 

[Tres Leches]

Off Topic, but I just realized I voted Reigns over Goldberg, now they bout to headline Wrestlemania

2 cold predicted this shyt