Pick Bret Hart, Sting or Shawn Michaels for top babyface

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You are starting a wrestling company and you have the choice of Bret Hart, Sting, or Shawn Michaels to join your company as your perennial babyface/title chaser.  Each man is in the prime of his career. Tell which wrestler you chose and why.

[Robbymac]

Sept 19, 2014 12:05:15 GMT -5 @tafkaga said:

You are starting a wrestling company and you have the choice of Bret Hart, Sting, or Shawn Michaels to join your company as your perennial babyface/title chaser.  Each man is in the prime of his career. Tell which wrestler you chose and why.

As top babyface? Sting by a mile.

In his prime Shawn was a more natural heel and Bret just wasn't as likable and charismatic as Stinger.

[kidwow]

Sting. Surfer Sting had tons of charisma, so much in fact that he won over most demographics (kids, women and even the men who were die-hard traditionalists). He also a look that was unique and yet everchanging with (until late 1996) the only constant being his enthusiasm and bleach-blond buzzcut.

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Sting, and it's not even close.

[comahan]

Sting for me as well, especially if we're talking Sting from the late 80s. He had an amazing look, was the most exciting person in wrestling, was super fresh, had off the charts charisma, and was a really solid worker on top of it. All he didnt have was a great promo, but it was passable enough.

Bret and Shawn are both unbelievable talents, but as the face of a company and my top draw, I'm choosing Sting every time if I have the choice.

[The Dark Order Inferno]

Sting by a mile. I love Bret, but Sting just had everything needed to make money for a company, looks, charisma and a great attitude. He and Bret would have had some awesome face v face encounters in a well booked company... Shawn on the other hand is a natural heel, the boyhood dream stuff where they tried to make him into Bret was abysmal.

[Sir Woodrow]

I'd go with Sting as top babyface, but frankly Bret & Shawn are going to be main eventers too in this promotion, the three of them together at that stage? We'll blow WCW & WWF out of the water, now, who do we get for tag teams & midcard?

[Kevin Hamilton]

Babyface? Sting, easily.

Shawn and Bret are better than him at many things, but being a white meat face ain't one of em.

[Clash, Never a Meter Maid]

Sting by light years. Great in the ring (actually, I think he was underrated in his prime, and maybe even on par with both Shawn and Bret), solid on the mic, likable and marketable persona, and doesn't have as many "big ego" stories as the other two.

[somsta]

I get how everyone's inclination seems to be to pick Sting. And, I love the guy, he's one of my five favorites of all time. However, Sting was the face of a company for ten years, that only had success when he dissapeared into the rafters for 18 months. Granted, a lot of other factors played into that, and I have no doubt that if Sting had gone o WWE in, say, 1990, he would have drew huge.

Bret and Shawn could have great matches with anyone. Sting could have a good match with anyone.

I think that Bret was able to generally connect emotionally with a crowd slightly better than HBK, so I would go with him, but it's really a toss up.

At some point you may want to turn your top face heel, and Bret and Shawn would be a much better choice.

It really depends on what you'd want. If you want the larger than life super hero, then yeah, roll the dice with Sting. I prefer a slightly more realistic, in ring based champion though. But you really couldn't go wrong with any of the three.

[Milkman Norm]

To echo pretty much everyone else Surfer Sting was big in WCW and could have been huuuuuuuge as a late 80's early 90's WWF face.

[mizerable]

EASILY Sting.

Bret is okay.

I love Shawn...but mid 90s Shawn was a TERRIBLE character.

[TGM]

I still think post 2002 Shawn Michaels is probably the best wrestler I've ever seen, so maybe I'd pick him, even though he only had 7 years left.

If we're talking mid 1990s Shawn, then yeah, screw that. Bret could do it all so I'd pick him.

[berlynwright]

Sept 20, 2014 3:05:33 GMT -5 TGM said:

I still think post 2002 Shawn Michaels is probably the best wrestler I've ever seen, so maybe I'd pick him, even though he only had 7 years left.

If we're talking mid 1990s Shawn, then yeah, screw that. Bret could do it all so I'd pick him.

1994 Bret
1996 Michaels
2000 HHH
2002 Angle
2004 Benoit
2005/2014 AJ Styles
2007 Cena
2013 Bryan


All had amazing years and best i've ever seen



going back to the topic, Sting easily. Starrcade 97 did biggest buyrates in WCW history thanks to Sting's face value alone. Going even further back, he was such natural babyface as the beach blonde cut dude

[Magnus the Magnificent]

What I take from this and the Heel Champion Poll is that people would want a promotion based around Surfer Sting fighting the valiant fight against Rick Rude and Curt Hennig.
I would certainly watch the hell out of that, for sure.

[Doctor Of Style]

Sting. Bret never drew money outside of Canada, and Shawn didn't really find his way until DX. Sting was a successful main eventer for years.

[Deleted]

I'm honestly surprised it's this close. I thought about putting Dusty Rhodes on the poll instead of Shawn Michaels, but I thought there are a lot of people on this board who didn't watch a lot of Dusty's work pre-WWE. At very least, I figured there would be a stronger Bret following.

Put me down for Sting as well. While he wasn't quite on Bret's or HBK's level as a worker, he didn't need to be. He was still really solid in the babyface roll, and his babyface charisma was beyond either of the other options.

[The Trashman]

Bret could carry a company while Sting needed to be carried by people like Flair and Rude to good matches. Give me Bret any day.

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

LOVE the idea of this thread. I think Sting wins this one hands down. Bret is my favorite in-ring worker of all time so I kind of hate to see it. However, to be a successful promotion you need to bring in the casuals/shit munchers and Sting was great at that. I'd rank Michaels last. In what I think in his prime he was a total prick so he'd be a locker room cancer.

[DjZonk]

Reverting back to who I loved the most as a kid: Bret Hart.