Kurt Angle should be a lock for everyone's list of Top 5 Greatest Wrestlers

[Notorious 1 E.Y.E.]

Stall Kurt out. Most folks have a wack move . Give him the Rock Sharpshooter, Punk elbow pass

nah, its more like brock shooting starpress bad
cause its like, why would you do that?

his moonsault is like rocks sharp shooter and punks elbow

 

[Riley Escobar]

 

[Golayitdown]

nah, its more like brock shooting starpress bad
cause its like, why would you do that?

his moonsault is like rocks sharp shooter and punks elbow

His moonsault is like Flair's "why are you climbing the top rope" spot cause he never hits it

 

[Riley Escobar]

His moonsault is like Flair's "why are you climbing the top rope" spot cause he never hits it

I don't think he ever hit it in his entire WWE career

Discounting the Hardcore Holly one obviously

 

[Osmosis]

Kurt is one of my favorites but I like his character/mic skills better than his ring work

 

[R=G]

No top 5 for me

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

you right

 

[Golayitdown]

I don't think he ever hit it in his entire WWE career

Discounting the Hardcore Holly one obviously

Lesnar and Angle treated Holly's body like a wrestling buddy doll

 

[TNC]

Jumbo Tsuruta
Jack Brisco
Lou Thesz (who holy fukk was legit ass awesome from the 1950s up to the 80s)
Nick Bockwinkle
Stan Hansen
Genichiro Tenryu
Rick Rude
Steve Austin
Bret Hart
Arn Anderson
Tully Blanchard
The Destroyer
Dory Funk Jr.
Terry Funk
Giant Baba and Andre both were tremendous until early-mid 80s
Billy Robinson
Rick Martel (IMO one of the most underrated guys of all time)
Sayama Tiger Mask
Shinya Hashimoto
Barry Windham
Randy Savage
Dynamite Kid

I'm willing to spot you the bolded, but Angle was more athletic, a better real grappler, and quicker study that probably all named there.

 

[stro]

I'm willing to spot you the bolded, but Angle was more athletic, a better real grappler, and quicker study that probably all named there.

That's all true. But that doesn't mean he was a better pro wrestler than them. He wasn't a quicker study than Jumbo. Or they're about the same. Both were crazy good just a year in.

 

[TheWhackMamba]

In This thread people shyt on 80s Rick Martel like he wasn't the fukkin truth

Probably the same folks that said Kanye and Rhianna have discovered a real talented guy named Paul McCartney after 4-5 seconds came out

 

[TheWhackMamba]

double

 

[JoogJoint]

Lesnar and Angle treated Holly's body like a wrestling buddy doll

I heard he was a redneck bully type, so f_ck him.

 

[Here Comes the Pain]

His versatility as an in ring wrestler and as an on screen character is amazing.

The fact that he was able to have classics outside of his wwe tenure should tell you that dude is the real deal.

Dude is the goat to me and undeniably in the top 5 to ever do it.

To think that people front on him is ridiculous.

 

[Jmare007]

You're welcome to try. That's your opinion though, I doubt you'd be able to get that large a consensus of guys above Kurt.

If your criteria is only US wrestlers that worked in mainstream promotions in the last 20 years, then yeah, Kurt has a very strong case for top 5. That's why the concensus is that's he's one of the GOATs as not a lot of people feel the need to watch an insane amount of wrestling, and there's nothing wrong with that.

But there's a shyt ton wrestling out there, you gotta be really fukking good to be top 5 if you watch a good chunk of it.

On a poll taken by the nerdiest wrestling nerds this year- were people took into account japan, mexico, england and a shyt ton of pre-90's wrestling - Kurt Angle was ranked 68

My top 5 all time list would be

Jumbo Tsuruta
Bret Hart
Randy Savage
WCW era Rick Rude
Arn Anderson

In no particular order. I'm sure you can see why Kurt wouldn't be on my list of top 5. He'd def be in my top 30, though.

WCW Rick Rude lasted like 4 years. That's enough for top 5 ALL TIME?