Ric Flair calls Bryan Danielson an “Okay” in ring performer

[Cartier Murphy]

People don't talk about this at all, but Triple H has some of the WOAT high-profile matches in WrestleMania history. I think it's fully dependent on who he's in the ring with because he can't make a guy look good.

Maybe it's for the best that he doesn't wrestle anymore.

For someone who’s supposed to be some GOAT and prestige performer his track record at Wrestlemania is pretty garbage. He gave one of the best performances of his career with Bryan because with the reputation that Bryan has, it forces someone to bring their best to the table for fear of being to blame if a match isn’t exceptional. HHH had matches as good as this, a few even better, but they’ve all had some shortcut attached to them, some gimmick to help him out. This was a boiler plate, straight up professional wrestling match, and he has never looked better in one or performed more intelligently in any single wrestling match than this one here.

 

[prophecypro]

For someone who’s supposed to be some GOAT and prestige performer his track record at Wrestlemania is pretty garbage. He gave one of the best performances of his career with Bryan because with the reputation that Bryan has, it forces someone to bring their best to the table for fear of being to blame if a match isn’t exceptional. HHH had matches as good as this, a few even better, but they’ve all had some shortcut attached to them, some gimmick to help him out. This was a boiler plate, straight up professional wrestling match, and he has never looked better in one or performed more intelligently in any single wrestling match than this one here.

It should be even more garbage than it is, cause he should have lost to Sting, Brock Booker T and Rock at mania

 

[Metal Face]

You can come at Danielson for being small but not for his in ring skills

Mfer is goated even at 40

 

[nairdas]

Never was impressed by him. Never did anything spectacular in my opinion

Him and CM Punk were always highly overrated to me.

 

[GPBear]

coming from a guy who stole his entire gimmick from buddy rogers, flops around worse than shawn michaels, and is most known for his coked out promos

 

[richaveli83]

lol ric aint the one making those tweets

fat ass conrad probably trying to get a podcast going with bryan danielson or something

 

[richaveli83]

Whats his opinion on Andrade again?

 

[Slic Ric]

Anyone know has listened to Flair over the years, this is not shocking

- He only thinks someone is great if they jacked & having an real wrestling background, you aren't a good wrestler if not - He is actually worst than Vince
- he will only prop up who he is friends with or he is not feuding with at the time

 

[puppetmaster]

Ric is gatekeeping for his generation which is understandable

every time a modern performer starts looking like they’re about to move someone out of the typical all time lists one of the old timers will remind you of how they don’t compare to “their era”

when you look at Bryan’s body of work and see he’s only 40 and could very much do this at the highest level for another 10 if he wanted it’s REALLY tough to try to little buddy him as performer.


eventually the field catches up with the “standard bearers”


The size thing doesn’t work with Bryan.

He passes the eye check of someone that looks like they could hurt people and actually has the ability to do so.

 

[TheGreatShowtime]

Bryan Danielson is the in-ring performer Ric Flair thinks he was.

 

[Mike the Executioner]

The fact I can’t remember a load of them says it all

Mania 16 fatal 4 way - passable, Backlash is how it should have gone
Mania 17 vs Taker - dope
Mania 18 vs Jericho - fine, but shyt buildup, shouldn’t have closed and suffered from being after Rock/Hogan
Mania 19 vs Booker - disgusting finish
Mania 20 triple threat - piff
Mania 21 vs Batista - decent
Mania 22 vs Cena - great
I literally have no idea who he faced at 24 and 25, maybe Orton?
Mania 26(?) vs Sheamus - average
Mania 27 - no idea
Mania 28(?) vs Taker in Hell in a Cell - dope
Mania 29 - no idea
Mania 30 vs Bryan - dope
Mania 31(?) vs Sting - trash
No idea about Mania 32 and 33
Mania 34 - tag match against Kurt and Ronda Rousey - great match and had no right to be as good as it was

24 was the triple threat with Cena and Orton. I might be biased because I started watching wrestling a few months after, but the match was genuinely good. Orton punting Triple H in the head while he was covering Cena was a great finish.

25 was one-on-one with Orton. That match was and it was a shame because the buildup was fantastic. They made it so that Triple H would lose the title if he gets disqualified, which didn't make sense because that feud was personal and needed a gimmick match like Hell in a Cell. And Triple H won when Orton was white hot and doing the best work of his career. It also doesn't help that Undertaker/Michaels overshadowed it.

27 was against Undertaker, no holds barred. It was at least a good match, and the story was told that Undertaker won, but he almost killed himself to make it happen.

29 was against Lesnar. I've actually never sat down to watch this match and I don't plan to. All I remember is the dry ice from Triple H's entrance burning him and Lesnar screaming becoming a meme.

32 was against Reigns and 33 was against Rollins. The Reigns match was horrible, one of the WOAT WrestleMania main events. The Rollins match was okay, but you can tell the feud was supposed to be a big deal and it just wasn't. Plus, it had stupid shyt like Rollins having a fukked up knee and still hitting his usual moves. The one good thing to come out of this match was the "Am I Savage?" promo.

35 was against Batista. Storyline didn't make sense and the match was because it went a half hour. Should have only been ten minutes.

So, out of all the matches I named, only two of them are worth watching.

 

[Tommy Lee Jones]

@Flex Luger And like 24 hours later he tweets

you really think ric flair is writing these tweets?

 

[JuvenileHell]

This is my first time seeing this HItman gives 0 fukks

 

[Peter Popoff]

Cacelusions of grandeur is real. Can this ugly mafukker croak already?

 

[Two Stacks]

Lmao....I didn't keep up with Dragon while in the indies. but from everything he has done in WWF and AEW, he's easily one of the best wrestlers AND performers I've ever seen. Can legit do everything he's asked. I'm already ready for him to be AEW champion.