Ric Flair or Terry Funk are the greatest wrestler of all time

[TL15]

Flairs charisma is/was off the charts but you can’t throw athleticism in there like that. Even when he was in his peak he wasn’t revered as one of the best athletic wrestlers. Flairs best matches were because he built a ton of crowd heat/connection and they wanted him to get his just due. Not as versed in Funk tho so no comment from me on him.

 

[CarbonBraddock]

Flairs charisma is/was off the charts but you can’t throw athleticism in there like that. Even when he was in his peak he wasn’t revered as one of the best athletic wrestlers. Flairs best matches were because he built a ton of crowd heat/connection and they wanted him to get his just due. Not as versed in Funk tho so no comment from me on him.

flair was wrestling well into his 50s or whenever, you have to be athletic to do that.

 

[Jmare007]

flair was wrestling well into his 50s or whenever, you have to be athletic to do that.

And no one was doing fast paced stuff like he did with Steamboat and Windham, specially the length of those matches.

 

[Paper Boi]

i like terry funk more than ric flair.

dude was more versatile.

bret hart ain't never lied about ric flair's matches.

 

[get these nets]

Was a WWF kid but used to go to cousins house and watch TBS and the nwa wrestling...

What was it about Terry Funk that have y'all calling him the GOAT?

I don't see it and never did.

Ric Flair is perhaps the goat HEEL and did the best Promos, and Roddy Piper rivals him in both categories

 

[Grifter]

there was a music video of this feud and match set to skynyrd's "simple man" that seems to have disappeared from the internet

This one?

 

[CarbonBraddock]

Was a WWF kid but used to go to cousins house and watch TBS and the nwa wrestling...

What was it about Terry Funk that have y'all calling him the GOAT?

I don't see it and never did.

Ric Flair is perhaps the goat HEEL and did the best Promos, and Roddy Piper rivals him in both categories

able to work all kinds of matches with all kinds of people in all kinds of locations for like 200 years.

 

[TL15]

flair was wrestling well into his 50s or whenever, you have to be athletic to do that.

Never said he wasn’t athletic breh.

I said that’s not why his matches were must see.

Steamboat, Snuka, Macho, Sting etc were all putting on much MORE athletic matches in Flairs prime.

Of course he was athletic, as are most/all professional wrestlers. But that’s not what makes him one of the greatest.

 

[Jmare007]

Was a WWF kid but used to go to cousins house and watch TBS and the nwa wrestling...

What was it about Terry Funk that have y'all calling him the GOAT?

I don't see it and never did.

Ric Flair is perhaps the goat HEEL and did the best Promos, and Roddy Piper rivals him in both categories

Funk was an amazing heel and a great babyface, could work literally any style and did whatever it was necessary to make a match worth a watch. And he did it for 40 years, the motherfukker made a clusterfukk of a "legends" battle royal at a PWG show a experience by cutting a promo and making you believe that he and Roddy Piper wanted to kill each other, and he was 67

You add that ability - that I've only seen in only one other person, Eddie Guerrero - to a bunch of classic matches and the dude is above anyone else imo.