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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2016 20:57:58 GMT -5
Going to live shows in the very early 90s makes this an incredibly tough call, but Sting, Rick Rude, and Ricky Steamboat are very close to the top.
Also, how well Hogan and Warrior could work a crowd does not have the full effect on TV. MASSIVE pops.
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Post by thetower52 on Feb 10, 2016 21:21:41 GMT -5
If we are going with seen in person. f*** that's hard. I have seen Shawn vs Jericho at mania and the no mercy ladder match. Both are two of the greatest matches I have ever seen. So probably both of them. Undertaker is up on that list as well
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Post by The Kevstaaa on Feb 10, 2016 21:23:36 GMT -5
Nigel McGuinness and Daniel Bryan. I went to a ton of ROH shows and they just put on so many good matches with a variety of opponents.
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Post by FAR5222 on Feb 10, 2016 21:25:44 GMT -5
Daniel Bryan from that 6 man TLC with the Shield.
Cena
Rollins
Sasha and Bayley
Samoa Joe
Undertaker
Shawn Michaels
Orton
Punk
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Post by IMPRESSIVE knightwing1047 on Feb 10, 2016 21:31:23 GMT -5
The best I've seen were The Ultimate Warrior, Austin, LOD commanded your attention, The Rock, Foley, CM Punk, Undertaker (with and without Paul Bearer), Cena and I saw Owens' debut in Richmond, VA... Amazing!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2016 21:35:04 GMT -5
Some people are gonna hate my choice but Davey Richards saw him a local show and dude killed it everything he does looks so smooth up close.
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Post by Porky's Butthole on Feb 10, 2016 21:40:08 GMT -5
I'd have to say The Undertaker. He's one of a select few wrestlers who always had the crowd in the palm of his hand. I saw him when he was in the early years of The "Deadman" phase (SummerSlam 92) and although he rarely showed emotion or spoke, he controlled us all. Then I saw him during the second "deadman" run (against HBK at WM25) when he was still "dead" yet had a bit more of his "American Badass" sewn into it. Again, his ability to control a crowd of thousands was as strong as ever. Taker's longevity has a lot to do with his in-ring ability but I think the main factor is down to his skill of tapping into the heads of fans. I wholeheartedly agree with this. Even as a child, he had me in awe from jump street. The man can come to the ring, make *one* gesture and have the crowd f***ing rabid. That's insane.
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Post by carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army) on Feb 10, 2016 22:21:04 GMT -5
He wasn't in the WWE at the time, but Styles. I saw him in an indy tournament spread out over a few days. In his first match, he botched a move. He then turned that into a weekend-long storyline where he had a phobia of doing that particular move again, getting closer and closer each time, until finally, in the last match, he pulled it off. The crowd completely exploded. To generate that kind of thing on the spot and then to work with your opponents to make them organic parts of multiple matches.... dude's a pro. Do you think there's any chance the original botch itself was a work in order to set up the phobia thread running through the tournament? That wouldn't make it any less impressive, maybe even more so. Just wondering, because I love stuff like that. If so, the original was masterfully done, because it wasn't played up at all... he seemed to follow his natural instinct and just quickly did a followup move to cover. Then later, he loosened up and joked about it (he had the Young Bucks superkick the top rope that he slipped off). And then in later matches the storyline continued. The cool thing about it was, though, something different stopped him every time. He chickened out from doing it, then he kinda halfway did it and stopped midway through, then he was just about to get his courage up... and his opponents stopped him. and THEN he finally pulled it off. It was seriously kind of masterful.
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Post by Bub (BLM) on Feb 10, 2016 22:23:24 GMT -5
Edge for one. I was at No Way Out 2009 when he opened the show as WWE Champion and closed the show as World Heavyweight Champion by nefarious means, and he had the crowd eating out of the palm of his hand. I'd never been in a building so connected to a performer up the that point.
The other is Daniel Bryan. Any time he wrestled here in Seattle, it was insane.
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Post by Ecks Ecks Ringout Ecks Ecks on Feb 10, 2016 23:39:01 GMT -5
I wouldn't rank him as the very best, but for names not often mentioned, Tommy Dreamer always seemed to go the extra mile at house shows. I saw an amazing match between him and Christian at a tiny venue in New Hampshire, and wish it had been given the full TV treatment so I could see it again.
For all the hate he gets now, CM Punk always seemed to treat house shows like they were major PPVs, especially during his heel runs. Rather than by-the-numbers mic work for cheap heat, he'd always do something clever or funny, and the matches were best on the card more often than not.
The very first house show I attended, I got to see Randy Savage and Ric Flair face each other in an amazing match that included a bump over the guardrail and brawling in front of the crowd. Sadly, it was the only time I ever saw the two of them at a live show (not counting later RAW shows where Savage was commentating), but I feel pretty comfortable assuming that both guys regularly gave their all, whether the cameras were on them or not.
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Post by 543Y2J on Feb 11, 2016 0:48:58 GMT -5
Saw Eddie vs Bug Show at a WM Revenge show in Sheffield in 2004. My first ever live WWE show. I was 14 at the time and there was just something about Eddie that was even more captivating in person. Still remember him doing the frog splash on Show and looking like he was flying for a younger me
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Post by ilggant on Feb 11, 2016 1:43:29 GMT -5
Ric Flair
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Post by revolver86 on Feb 11, 2016 1:50:22 GMT -5
Ric Flair, Chris Benoit, Steve Austin, Undertaker, Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, and strangely enough Batista. Was at WM 23 and his match with Taker really should have closed the show. The best indivdual match, I've seen live, was a few nights before, Team Dragon Gate vs Team ROH at All Star Extravaganza. Probably the greatest spectacle, I have ever seen.
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Post by Cvslfc123 on Feb 11, 2016 5:17:16 GMT -5
Whenever I've seen Alberto Del Rio at house shows, he would get the loudest boos of the night. However at tapings it would normally be crickets.
Enzo and Cass did great to get the crowd fully invested in their match with Dash and Dawson at Takeover London, I've never been that emotionally invested in a match live before so it was amazing. The whole crowd was crushed when they lost.
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