Most underwhelming in-ring wrestler compared to their presentation?

[reserved_one]

Hands down

 

[Finn Baller]

imagine if it would've been someone like Rob Van Dam with the Glacier gimmick

 

[Cattle Mutilation]

imagine if it would've been someone like Rob Van Dam with the Glacier gimmick

 

[XannyWarbucks]

Can I add someone with a qualification?

Possibly controversial, but WWE Main Roster Shinsuke Nakamura. Shinsuke should have way more classic matches than he has at WWE, but I feel like he phones his matches in far too often for someone of his caliber. He’s had some good runs here and there, but for the most part I’ve been disappointed and believe they can utilize him better and he can show more effort.

That's a good choice, forgot about him. I think after 2014, his body was done. He gave people one match with Sami and went on to phone it for the rest of his career. But even in NJPW, for his last year dude was phoning it in like crazy, while Tana, Naito, Shibby, Okada, AJ, Goto, Ishii... and more were killing it.

 

[staticshock]

Negging all Chris masters slander

Tread carefully

 

[Tres Leches]

didnt know chris masters had stans in here

 

[Paper Boi]

Thread starts and ends with Bray. Y'all just naming people you don't like. But Bray is the definition of this with Kross a distant second.

nah i actually liked Vampiro in other shyt but in WCW they had him feuding with Sting and he was out there mailing it in

 

[DANJ!]

Can I add someone with a qualification?

Possibly controversial, but WWE Main Roster Shinsuke Nakamura. Shinsuke should have way more classic matches than he has at WWE, but I feel like he phones his matches in far too often for someone of his caliber. He’s had some good runs here and there, but for the most part I’ve been disappointed and believe they can utilize him better and he can show more effort.

Nakamura to me is kinda like... the Bushwhackers. Or better yet, Dusty with the polka dots.

He's getting older, he's probably made more money in WWE than he ever has by doing less, and doesn't really have to bust his ass doing anything and still remains over. He's riding the wave at this point, probably closer to the end of his career, and probably knows he's not gonna be a main-eventer anyway at this point.

 

[Tj Bronson]

Hands down

Immediately came to mind when I read the thread title

 

[XannyWarbucks]

Hands down

GOATcier.

 

[XannyWarbucks]

Nakamura to me is kinda like... the Bushwhackers. Or better yet, Dusty with the polka dots.

He's getting older, he's probably made more money in WWE than he ever has by doing less, and doesn't really have to bust his ass doing anything and still remains over. He's riding the wave at this point, probably closer to the end of his career, and probably knows he's not gonna be a main-eventer anyway at this point.

Yeah, this is kinder. AJ honestly feels like this as well, especially after he carried WWE in 2016-2017.

 

[phrank kastle]

Bray & Kross, yea.

Another one for me would be Becky. I like her character work/promos, but she’s always been pretty mid in the ring to me

 

[Slic Ric]

Wyatt
Edge
Orton
Seth Rollins
Moxley

 

[Reality Check]

didnt know chris masters posts on The Coli

Fixed.

 

[Starboy52]

Can I add someone with a qualification?

Possibly controversial, but WWE Main Roster Shinsuke Nakamura. Shinsuke should have way more classic matches than he has at WWE, but I feel like he phones his matches in far too often for someone of his caliber. He’s had some good runs here and there, but for the most part I’ve been disappointed and believe they can utilize him better and he can show more effort.

I think a lot of it comes from people thinking that the matches he had with AJ (Before coming to the E), Sami, and now GUNTHER were the norm for him, rather than the exception. I'm not gonna say he's like Randy where he coasted the majority of his career and gives you maybe 1 fire match a year to remind you that he CAN do that. But Shinsuke did start clearly moving at half speed in the ring for most of his matches at some point, and his better performances started becoming fewer in between.