Wrestlers in Fighting Games

[agent817]

This is kind of similar to my other thread about fictional wrestling games. I was thinking of fighting games lately, as well as Beat Em Up games. Everyone knows of Zangief in the Street Fighter series, but there are other wrestlers in 2D, as well as 3D fighting games. Like Hugo in Street Fighter III, as well as El Fuerte if Street Fighter IV. Also, Big Bear/Raiden in the Fatal Fury series. Also, Tina and Bass Armstrong in the Dead or Alive series. As for Beat Em Up games, I can only think of Max Thunder from Streets of Rage 2, and Mike Haggar from the Final Fight series. Though those two characters made for some powerful guys in those guys. I sometimes wonder if Max was supposed to be that big, or if somebody at Sega drew him to be too bulky, but the guy looked too big that it was a wonder that he even moved, let alone did dropkicks or baseball slides (Which was his dashing attack I believe). As for Haggar, I liked how Capcom decided to give him a spinning piledriver as one of his moves in Final Fight 2 and 3 and I believe it was one of his special moves in Saturday Night Slam Masters.

What are some other wrestler characters in fighting games, as well as Beat Em Ups? I would kind of count some of the grapplers like Alex (From SF3) or even Ralf and Clark (From KOF) as well.

[Spankymac is sick of the swiss]

Does Sabin from Final Fantasy VI count? Man SUPLEXED A FREAKIN' TRAIN!

[agent817]

Probably, I would count it.

[FinalGwen]

Frank West's covered Raws, you know. It's the only way to explain all the wrestling moves he uses.

[nickcave]

King and Armor King from Tekken

[Pervy Stone Cold]

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[agent817]

I almost forgot these two: Wolf Hawkfield and El Blaze from the Virtua Fighter series, though the latter made his debut in the Virtua Fighter 5 and is a Lucha Libre style wrestler. Wolf is a pretty good character to use, but the Virtua Fighter games, you have to really know how to play as them as it requires a little bit of skill to learn how to master certain characters.

Also, I guess Jeffry McWild counts as well. His style may be Pancratium, but he had some wrestling moves if I recall and had a powerbomb as one of his grappling moves.

[Dr. Mantis Toboggan]

Also Rainbow Mika from Street Fighter Alpha 3 was a wrestler.

[Perigryn]

Ramon from King of Fighters has a familiar moveset:

[Pervy Stone Cold]

Nov 15, 2010 23:23:54 GMT -5 agent817 said:

I almost forgot these two: Wolf Hawkfield and El Blaze from the Virtua Fighter series, though the latter made his debut in the Virtua Fighter 5 and is a Lucha Libre style wrestler. Wolf is a pretty good character to use, but the Virtua Fighter games, you have to really know how to play as them as it requires a little bit of skill to learn how to master certain characters.

Also, I guess Jeffry McWild counts as well. His style may be Pancratium, but he had some wrestling moves if I recall and had a powerbomb as one of his grappling moves.

He's like a secondary (next to Wolf) wrestling character. Some other moves he does are the Samoan drop, Go 2 Sleep, Spinebuster.

[Angus Mcloud]

Masked Muscle from Super Punchout!!

[Pervy Stone Cold]

A game that really sucks, Pit Fighter. Buzz is a wrestler in that game.

[agent817]

Nov 16, 2010 0:05:52 GMT -5 Dr. Mantis Toboggan said:

Also Rainbow Mika from Street Fighter Alpha 3 was a wrestler.

Man, why did I not think of her? She was actually a pretty good character two use, even though I have yet to master her, but I tried pulling off the moonsault in mid-air, but I couldn't do it. I think I've only done it once.

[DavidArquette]

Nov 15, 2010 20:48:23 GMT -5 nickcave said:

King and Armor King from Tekken

Armour King is f***in' awesome!

[Michael Coello]

Nite Owl II in The End is Nigh had a few wrestling moves, like a hurricanrana and a flying legdrop.

[N E O G E O B O Y S]

Tizoc / Griffon Mask in Garou/ Fatal Fury Mark of the Wolves

He is heavily based on Tiger Mask too

And also, has the best wrestling stage related to any videogame ever

[Evilution E5150]

Craig Marduk from the Tekken series, hes based on Nathan Jones of all people

[agent817]

Nov 16, 2010 10:14:34 GMT -5 Pervy Stone Cold said:

A game that really sucks, Pit Fighter. Buzz is a wrestler in that game.

I was also under the impression that the character of The Executioner from that game was supposed to be a wrestler.

That game did suck looking back. Though I wonder what the deal was about the opponents in that game. You had a guy dressed in Lavender, a biker, a guy who wears camo pants and a tanktop, there was also a female opponent, etc.

[Red Impact]

There's also Jae-Mo Kang from Rage of the Dragons, the fighting game SNK based on Double Dragon.

[A Platypus Rave]

All of his grapples tend to be variants of suplexes and in the first you collect wrestling masks