Your Mount Rushmore of WWE mid-carders?

[The Rick Jericho]

Everyone always has the debates about the GOAT or your mount rushmore of the 4 greatest ever in company history.

But let's give some love to mid-carders. These guys may have won a world title and had brief runs in the main event, but their career is widely defined more as a mid carder. Or just who only stayed in the mid-card and helped make that division feel bigger, sometimes with the assistance of the IC or US belt.

Here's my four who I would consider the greatest WWE mid-carders in history:

1. Razor Ramon - He was THE mid-carder of the New Generation. 4-time intercontinental champion. Held the title each year from 1993-1996.

2. Chris Jericho. Yeah, he had runs as a world champion. But I always found his niche as the 9 time Intercontinental Champion. He was a very great mid-carder. When I think attitude and ruthless aggression era, the first guy I think of for mid-card is Y2J.

3. The Miz. Another guy who may have had a world title run. But his career screams mid-card and there's nothing wrong with that. One of the best mid-carders ever.

4. Mr. Perfect/Dolph Ziggler. These guys worked a similar style. They made mid-card matches feel big. The brought the workrate for the IC title. They defined mid-card for their eras. They are so similar that I would have to give them a tie. Them going up against a world champion also made the match feel big, albeit, they had no chance at w world title for the most part. I know Dolph was a WHC, but he was just more natural as that IC/US guy.

[clc]

Asuka - My favorite wrestler ever. I know someone will chime in and say she has too many accolades to be considered a mid-carder, but, she's never presented as the main character (with the brief exception of the lockdown era). Often the 3rd, 4th, or even 5th wheel in the stories, even when she's the champion.

Chris Jericho - as stated above.

Kane - Was briefly a champ, but was really the mid card monster.

Rey Mysterio - Another who was briefly champion, but was mostly mid-card.

Recency bias makes me want to say Gunther, but he's still relatively new and may have main event-er in his future.

[PrimeTyme]

Razor Ramon, Mr. Perfect, Owen Hart, Hacksaw Jim Duggan

[Hypnosis]

Razor Ramon
Mr. Perfect
The Miz
Chris Jericho

[tirtefaa]

Rick Martel
123 Kid/X-Pac
D-Lo Brown
Santino Marella

Runners up are "Ravishing" Rick Rude, Goldust, Mr. Perfect, Shelton Benjamin, Brutus "the Barber" Beefcake, Carlito, Mark Mero, Finlay, One Man Gang, Razor Ramon, Tatanka, MVP, William Regal, Crush, Billy Gunn, Bam Bam Bigelow, Owen Hart, Hercules and Ken Shamrock.

I could honestly go through again and disqualify some of these guys for main eventing some of the bigger events, but I tried to stay away from anyone who was a World champion, or was in the Big 4, but also had *some* success.

[MrElijah]

-Tito Santana
-D'lo Brown
-Crash Holly
-Owen Hart

[Aceorton]

I had Perfect and Razor in my head before I looked at what anyone else had. Man, this is tough. You could make a case for so many people.

I'll add Jake Roberts and Hacksaw Jim Duggan.

Narrowly missing:
- Jeff Jarrett (you could argue his WCW and TNA stuff made him less midcard and more main event, but to me, he's always IC-level Double J/Don't Piss Me Off)
- Chris Jericho
- Tito Santana
- Billy Gunn
- Greg Valentine

[J. Hova]

Mr. Perfect
Razor Ramon
Jake Roberts
Tito Santana

[wgdj]

Jake Roberts
Mr Perfect
Brutus Beefcake
Rick Rude

Easy to see which era is my favourite... 🤣

[zed]

The Miz
Jeff Hardy
Ryback
Carlito

[Ultimo Gallos]

Sparky Plugg
Bob Holly
Hardcore Holly
Funaki

[papagiorgio]

Razor Ramon
Brutus Beefcake
Jake Roberts
Mr. Perfect

These guys were stuck in mostly the mid-card, but won a lot of their matches, which is why I picked them over say a Tito Santana who had some early success as the I-C champ and as part of Strike Force, but was basically a jobber to the stars the last part of his WWF career.

[Push R Truth]

Hacksaw
Mr Perfect
Jeff Hardy
Miz

['Foretold' Joker]

If you won a main event title you are no longer a midcarder so ...

Ricky Steamboat
Goldust/Dustin Rhodes
Owen Hart
Jake Roberts

Edit as I saw this is wwe only, if it isn't then these two below instead of owen and jake.


Christopher Daniels
Jushin 'Thunder' Liger

[fw91]

I'm going to dq anyone who's had a world title run even if a guy like Miz fits. Anyway

1) Razor Ramon
2) Mr. Perfect
3) Jake Roberts
4) Tito Santana

[Finish Uncle Muffin’s Story]

This was a really interesting topic to think about. Mr. Perfect, Razor Ramon, Christian, Rob Van Dam and Jeff Hardy are ones that come to mind for me.

Chris Jericho is an interesting case but at the end of the day, the guy had a WrestleMania main event under his belt, two other World Title WrestleMania matches plus numerous main event matches on PPVs throughout his career. There were definitely some moments where he found himself slotted in that middle of the card role, but I tend to think he's closer to a career main event guy than he is a midcard guy.

[Jonathan Michaels]

I feel like if you disqualify someone like Miz, you don’t get to say elsewhere he’s not a main eventer.

My list

Miz
Perfect
Owen
Kofi

[Doo Doo Dickhead]

I'd like to think I'm on the FAN Mount Rushmore of midcard posters.

[This Player Hating Mothman]

Oct 24, 2023 22:43:05 GMT -5 Doo Doo Dickhead said:

I'd like to think I'm on the FAN Mount Rushmore of midcard posters.

One of whom eroded suspiciously well into a perfect copy of Max Landis's face, only for it to be heavily smashed and defaced in the night by protestors

[The Rick Jericho]

With all the diverse answers, maybe it's even better to do each generation of favorite mid-carders.

Golden Era 1980-93:

Mr. Perfect
Rick Rude
Jim Duggan
Roddy Piper

New Generation 1993-97:

Razor Ramon
British Bulldog
Owen Hart
Goldust

Attitude Era 1997-2002:

Chris Jericho
Kane
William Regal
Ken Shamrock

Ruthless Aggression 2002-08:

Christian
Booker T.
Big Show
Rey Mysterio

PG Era 2008-14:

CM Punk
Dolph Ziggler
The Miz
Wade Barrett

Reality Era 2014-16:

Rusev
Dean Ambrose
Cesaro
Neville

New Era 2016-21:

Kofi Kingston
Sheamus
Bray Wyatt
Kevin Owens/Sami Zayn