Let's name some underrated "hidden gem" quality runs in wrestling

[TransJenner]

Rick Martel as a face in 98 WCW

Desmond Wolfe in 2009/10 TNA

Great Sasuke's ***** matches with TAKA at Canadian Stampede and RAW one night later

Man the coli really fukks with him

I only knew of him from buying some wrestling game on the Sega
I like the theme song

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

William regal on his way to winning king of the ring

So much this. I still get chills seeing dude walk to the thrown with this evil cold look on his face like "I finally conquered a broken empire".

Going to have to peep that on the Network

Anywho:

AJ Styles in TNA 2013-14

Sure it was a knockoff of Crow Sting but , dude made that miserable promotion worth watching during that silly Aces and 8's angle. Plus that theme song:



So good, it was one of the themes that I sampled on the Maschine

 

[DamienWayne]

Kofi/ orton run

 

[julesocean]

Sting's "heel" you punks don't respect tradition run in TNA circa 2008

fans didn't wanna boo him at that point between being a legend and being right on a lot of his grievances but Samos Joe had him motivated. Sting was cutting some of his best promos around that time.

Sting can work well as a heel. Even when he was playing fake heel when the Hogan BFG heel turn storyline was going down.

 

[RammerJammer]

Idk if it's underrated or not but a lot of people remember Bryan in 2013-14 but his heel run was gold

He was just a humble Mr MiTB, then when he cashed that shyt in on The Big Show and he let it go to his head, starting cheating his way out of matches, used his girlfriend AJ and was just a straight up a$$hole

 

[PYRRHUS 88]

Tyson Kidd's heel run in NXT when NXT was becoming a thing

 

[Slic Ric]

Finlay's indy run when he was fired from WWE is fukking great. There's one match with Timothy Thatcher that is


I know it's not underrated by TSC but Hall Of Pain Mark Henry is one of the GOAT comeback runs ever, don't think a lot of people really appreciate what he did during that year.


Vader's run in All Japan and NOAH.

Come to the realization, NOC is Randell's best match ever and Mizark carried him

 

[OHSNAP!]

Man the coli really fukks with him

I only knew of him from buying some wrestling game on the Sega
I like the theme song

Well check out his stuff with Finlay, Booker and TV title feuds from back then, he was only around for a couple of months maybe, but showed great babyface fire and busted his ass (unlike other WWF relicts at that point)

 

[JohnB]

Saturn in WCW 98-99
RVD in WWE 2001
John Morrison As ECW Champ
Albert/Giant Bernard run in NJPW
Benoit & Malenko as a Tag in WCW 99
Dustin Rhodes early WCW run

 

[daboywonder2002]

Goldust's 13-14 run was lowkey superb

At one point he was a top 3 worker on Raw delivering piff matches on a regular basis, that Hurricanrana off the top rope

He came back, he dropped some weight. But there wasn't anything special about it. I can't go that far

 

[daboywonder2002]

Off the top, I'm gonna say Mark Henry smackdown champion run. The heat,The theme music, the matches against D Bry. Dude was everything.

D-Lo Brown- european title run. The moveset, the Xpac battles, etc.

 

[Momentum]

I would say rusev as well, but
smackdown killed his career.

OOOOO you didn't knoooow?

Cesaro was the best WRASSLER in the company at that point, even better than Bryan

Dolph's late 2011-early 2012 was my favorite incarnation of him tbh. I thought he played the "arrogant show off" perfectly

Wrestling is fake.

 

[Grifter]

D-Lo Brown- european title run. The moveset, the Xpac battles, etc.

 

[Conscious Pilot]

Carlito in 2005 up until getting Pinned by Cena before Edge cashed in the inaugural MITB At 2006 NYR.

 

[8WON6]

Am I allowed to say the Usos over the last like 3 years? If we want an official start i guess we can say that Battleground match they had against the Wyatt family. Whenever that was is the start. Switched them heel and they got even better.