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Castrum
07-10-2009, 06:16 AM
For me, it has to be The Rock:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTAVYTN4PpU&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Ftv%2Eign%2Ecom%2Farticles%2F100% 2F1000668p1%2Ehtml&feature=player_embedded

A close second might be Austin or Triple H.

EDIT:

More:

(Kane speaks for the first time!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3X1AeJnXMI&feature=PlayList&p=0EF95B33E07A53A0&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=25

(Skip to 8:50 for epic lulz)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itUHwvpxcQM&feature=related#watch-main-area

BONUS (Funny Moments)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC4ZAs5jbLo&feature=PlayList&p=0EF95B33E07A53A0&index=26&playnext=2&playnext_from=PL

AKAtheMilkman
07-10-2009, 06:21 AM
Ray mystrio!!!

Orange
07-13-2009, 04:13 AM
The Rock or Jeff Hardy.

Maawdawg
07-13-2009, 08:55 AM
Mick Foley/Cactus Jack/Mankind, all his personas but Dude Love, he was definitely my favorite wrestler. He took insane beatings and was great on the mic.

Castrum
07-13-2009, 09:13 AM
I always thought Mick Foley was a cool guy, but I never thought of him as a badass wrestler or a dude with a cool theme (aside from Mankind, possibly), hence why he never registered with me as being "one of the greats".

Maawdawg
07-13-2009, 09:31 AM
I didn't know a lot about Foley but when I started watching his old matches that is when I started following him. It gave me a much bigger appreciation of him in the 90s. Some of his old matches against guys like Terry Funk were flat out crazy and even his fights against the Rock and the Undertaker were at a whole other level from what anyone else was doing at the time even though they were drastically scaled back in violence from his old stuff. Foley towards the end of his career was kind of an everyman character because he played himself, a wrestling fan who got to wrestle. Mankind was definitely his best character though.

I also liked Chris Jericho back in the WCW days, moreso than what he morphed into in the WWE of late (when I watch occasionally). He was fantastic on the mic and played a very good heel. I was also a big Flair fan though his career, especailly when he was the 4 Horsemen leader/bad guy. I tend to lean more towards the guys who play the in between roles I guess, now that I look at my list. Guys who some people like but other people hate. For me mic skills are as important for liking a wrestler as entertaining matches.

I liked watching Shawn Michaels and Jeff Hardy in matches most but they weren't my favorite overall wrestlers. Shawn Michaels because I could never shake the Marty Ganetti "Rockers" affiliation he started with to like his solo character. Jeff Hardy because though his match style was awesome he was really below average on the mic. The Rock was entertaining on the mic but I don't think he was as good in the ring.

Going back to when I was growing up I was a huge British Bulldog, Roddy Piper, and Ricky Steamboat fan and my favorite tag team of all time was definitely Road Warriors/Legion of Doom, noone else came close.

Castrum
07-13-2009, 10:23 AM
I never particularly liked the WCW. Some of their wrestlers were cool, to some degree, but there were too many "generic wrestler with a normal name" (or just simply a terrible name; case in point, The Giant) guys for me to really care. I like wrestlers more when they have some kind of theme to them; guys like Randy Orton are just boring to me.

Of course, there was also the fact that the WCW ring entrances were horrid, which was a large sticking point for me.

I grew up with WWF sporadically from my birth until about 1996 (my dad was a huge Hogan/Randy Savage fan, so he had a thing for the WWF). Then, in 1997 or so, the whole Attitude Era thing started popping up in WWF, with Stone Cold, The Rock, D-Generation X, and so forth. That's really the time that I was into wrestling and discovered my "heroes"; anything before or since I haven't really cared about (Undertaker will always be awesome though :-P ).

Maawdawg
07-13-2009, 10:31 AM
When WWE Raw and and WCW Nitro were both on Monday in the same time slot I used to flip back and forth but my overall time was probably at least 2/3 WWE, if not 3/4. It was nice to have both options to fill the time of those 2 hours. Wrestling shows naturally have a lot of downtime so the two options made for a better 2 hours of overall viewing.

WCW had a worse overal presentation the WWE but it has some good wrestlers, I used to watch my favorites over on WCW but the rest of the time was spent watching the majority of the WWE's show.