The Best Technical Wrestler of All Time?

[GhostMan]

I've said this before, to be honest, "technical wrestler" doesn't really mean anything the concept is way more broad than high flyer, brawler, or hardcore. So what you base your opinion on who is the best at it depends on how you categorize technical wrestling.


For example, I have no clue why Bret Hart or Steamboat could be categorized as "technical" when most of their careers they weren't mat based wrestlers. Same with a guy like Flair.

Well these are our opinions. To me a technical wrestler is a master of the ring, a swiss army knife of wrestling. He can do it all and can adjust his style depending on his opponent or the situation he is in. Steamboat and Bret Hart were the epitome of this. Again, this is only my opinion. Wrestlers can fall under these categories:

Technical (Hart, Steamboat, Curt Henning)
Brawler (Cactus Jack, Austin, Taker)
Grappler (Malenko, Benoit, Steiners)
High Flyer (Mysterio, Hardy Boyz, Sabu)

 

[Jmare007]

at Zack Sabre Jr when just in Japan he's behind Hideki Suzuki and Fuminori Abe.

 

[THEREALBRAND]

I can never look at Malenko as an all time great of anything after Bret pretty much called him overrated in his book.

 

[NYChase718]

the guitar is almost on the level of the rocks theme

 

[Crude]

I can never look at Malenko as an all time great of anything after Bret pretty much called him overrated in his book.

Bret is an all time great, but he comes across a little whiny about other guys in the business.

Malenko was great but he wasn't booked right.

To answer the question though....

Ric Flair, Curt Henning, and Bret Hart

Angle wasn't bad either.

 

[Take It In Blood]

 

[Riley Escobar]

Hold up


Did the wwe recycle this theme to make cesaros first theme? ​

Yeah, and both were based off an old James Bond theme song

 

[Piff Huxtable]

at Zack Sabre Jr when just in Japan he's behind Hideki Suzuki and Fuminori Abe.

I wouldn't even list ZSJ due to his physical weakness that keeps him from executing power moves

 

[Novembruh]

I always feel like trying to name the 'best' anything is generally pretty pointless and divisive and leads to people who generally feel similarly about things to argue about minutiae separating a 9.989 from a 9.991 or some pointless shyt.

I feel like there are tiers - simpler. Top-tier technical to me is Malenko/Benoit/Danielson/Hart, and then you go into that secondary tier of the Angle/Singlet Steiner/etc. Trying to argue better in any of the tier groupings just seems pointless, because for everyone saying X > Y, there's a rational, but subjective, reason why Y > X, too.

I just think we can all agree that Zack Sabre Jr. talks all the shyt in the world, but every person I just mentioned by name above would fold that muppet small enough to fit in a FedEx envelope and mail him to himself. But... technically.

 

[patscorpio]

I've said this before, to be honest, "technical wrestler" doesn't really mean anything the concept is way more broad than high flyer, brawler, or hardcore. So what you base your opinion on who is the best at it depends on how you categorize technical wrestling.


For example, I have no clue why Bret Hart or Steamboat could be categorized as "technical" when most of their careers they weren't mat based wrestlers. Same with a guy like Flair.

anything thats not power based or hardcare is technical lol.but all 3 were competent when they actually did mat based wrestling

 

[Hey_zeus]

Billy Robinson probably