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Post by joey joe joe junior shabadoo on Feb 20, 2015 19:21:50 GMT -5
.... who has the accolade of being the most famous wrestler to never work for the WWE?
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Post by Hypnosis on Feb 20, 2015 19:27:03 GMT -5
Great Muta.
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Post by Sponsored by Groose Wipes on Feb 20, 2015 19:28:08 GMT -5
Great Power Uti and Chris Benoit.
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Post by KevFalcön07 on Feb 20, 2015 19:29:45 GMT -5
From a global and wrestling historical perspective, probably El Santo.
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Feb 20, 2015 19:32:20 GMT -5
Jushin Thunder Liger.
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Post by CeilingFan on Feb 20, 2015 19:45:40 GMT -5
AJ Styles
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Post by joey joe joe junior shabadoo on Feb 20, 2015 20:16:06 GMT -5
hmmmm, no clear winner I guess.
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Post by joey joe joe junior shabadoo on Feb 20, 2015 20:16:19 GMT -5
Big Daddy?
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Post by joeiscool on Feb 20, 2015 20:24:59 GMT -5
he did wrestle a few times in the wwe. |
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Post by Sam Punk on Feb 20, 2015 20:30:10 GMT -5
Gotta be AJ Styles. Or El Dandy.
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Feb 20, 2015 20:30:45 GMT -5
You'd probably have to go with an international star who primarily wrestled outside of the U.S. (Mitsuharu Misawa, Great Muta) or wrestlers from many decades ago (Lou Thesz, Verne Gagne). Or wrestlers who are both international and from decades ago (Rikidōzan, Santo). There's also some of today's biggest international stars like Tanahashi, Okada, Shinsuke Nakamura, or Minoru Suzuki.
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Post by Beets by Schrute on Feb 20, 2015 20:41:46 GMT -5
Gorgeous George?
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Post by PsychoGoatee on Feb 20, 2015 20:45:13 GMT -5
Not really biggest, but for me Samoa Joe, Christopher Daniels, and AJ Styles were the most prominent guys who weren't in WWE in the past decade. Comparable to Punk and Bryan etc. (Chris Daniels had a brief jobber run at WWE early on though)
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Post by Ishmeal Loves Kaseyhausen on Feb 20, 2015 20:53:09 GMT -5
Disco Inferno
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Post by joey joe joe junior shabadoo on Feb 20, 2015 21:14:09 GMT -5
Not really biggest, but for me Samoa Joe, Christopher Daniels, and AJ Styles were the most prominent guys who weren't in WWE in the past decade. Comparable to Punk and Bryan etc. (Chris Daniels had a brief jobber run at WWE early on though) so did Joe |
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Feb 20, 2015 21:16:49 GMT -5
Not really biggest, but for me Samoa Joe, Christopher Daniels, and AJ Styles were the most prominent guys who weren't in WWE in the past decade. Comparable to Punk and Bryan etc. (Chris Daniels had a brief jobber run at WWE early on though) All of them have at least one WWE TV match under their belts. |
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Post by KevFalcön07 on Feb 20, 2015 21:19:37 GMT -5
You'd probably have to go with an international star who primarily wrestled outside of the U.S. (Mitsuharu Misawa, Great Muta) or wrestlers from many decades ago (Lou Thesz, Verne Gagne). Or wrestlers who are both international and from decades ago (Rikidōzan, Santo). There's also some of today's biggest international stars like Tanahasha, Okada, Shinsuke Nakamura, or Minoru Suzuki. I thought of most of the names you just listed, but the reason I say El Santo is probably the one is because he was hands down the biggest star Lucha Libre ever produced. He was not only a mega star in the ring, but starred in dozens of movies in Mexican cinema. I know Mil Mascaras, one of the count-on-one-hand comparable names to Santo in Lucha history worked at least a couple of matches for WWE in the late 70's and Santo was still active in the ring at that time, so the possibility of him coming to New York may have been a little more probable. I really doubt you can compare the fame that Santo had to Lou Thesz in the U.S. and I don't even put Rikidozan on the list of possibilities since he was murdered not long after WWWF had formed after breaking away from NWA. |
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Post by ToyfareMark on Feb 20, 2015 21:24:37 GMT -5
Abraham Lincoln?
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Post by Joe Neglia on Feb 20, 2015 22:33:37 GMT -5
Of the guys who actually qualify, Nikita Koloff is up there. Abdullah is too, as he's never actually worked a match for them, just accepted the HOF induction.
Many of the names said so far have worked for McMahon at some point. Styles, Samoa Joe, even Lou Thesz and Gorgeous George have worked for McMahon or his father's company at some point (in fact, George was one of their first guys before he became huge).
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