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Post by Hit Girl on Jun 2, 2013 15:47:04 GMT -5
Nowhere near
The 1988-1992 roster and the entire Attitude Era roster was superior.
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SEAN CARLESS
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More of a B+ player, actually
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Post by SEAN CARLESS on Jun 2, 2013 16:17:57 GMT -5
Saying this generation is the best in ring is theory and not fact for the simple reason that most have not been given the same opportunity to prove that true yet that other generations had. You can't make a proclamation of something wherein there is no comparable evidence. Until we see everyone have full, long matches wherein they're allowed to show their stuff, it's all just speculation.
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Post by segaz on Jun 2, 2013 20:15:53 GMT -5
1991 Roster Macho Man Flair Steamboat Hogan Undertaker Jauques Rougeau Hennig Valentine Hart Michaels DiBiase Roberts Martel Valentine WAS good, but hadn't been good in many years by this point. Dibiase was declining. Undertaker was green. And Roberts, while being solid was never a great wrestler per se, he just knew how to execute something. I'd give the advantage to what we have now; Cena Orton Cesaro Rhodes Christian Bryan Punk Del Rio Ziggler Jericho And that's not even taking into account the guys who are still great, and given almost zero to do. WWE right now in terms of talent is almost TOO good. Also, 1991 Kerry Von Erich Hawk Animal Owen Hart Davey Boy Smith Rotundo Not one of you guys mentioned Piper. That's a shame. Or Sid Justice. Or Bossman. Or Natural Disasters. And the Ultimate Warrior wrestled in 1991. I'm sorry, but in no way is the roster now better than the dream roster of 1991/92. You even had people like The Mountie, Berserker, Repo Man...... Nope. Todays roster is really talented. And I understand we should look to the future and keep supporting the stars of today. But personally to me as a wrestling fan, I don't think any roster can top that one tbh. MAYBE 2002.
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mizerable
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Post by mizerable on Jun 2, 2013 23:03:58 GMT -5
Are we just naming guys that were with the company at the time? I thought the point was "the most talented in ring", and I won't even put Berserker there, even if I was a mark for the guy. Repo Man was a fun character but he doesn't count either. The Natural Disasters were pretty sloppy too. Also, I'm a huge Piper fan, but in no way was he a great in ring talent outside of a few matches during this period. In fact, this was around the time that I wanted Piper to go away, which unfortunately got worse as the 90's rolled forward.
I'll take the 1991/92 roster to this roster on the pure basis of star power, a lot of which would be hindsight in those terms. Sid Justice, Shawn Michaels, Undertaker and so forth weren't the names that they would become at the time. The reason I'd take this roster is because of how they were booked, NOT because they were better wrestlers.
So even if you took the equation of talent aside, this current roster would still win because you have twice as many guys. It's that simple. Even some of the guys in developmental now, if they were around in 1992, they'd be high midcard by default.
In fact, it's actually a bad thing there are so many talented guys right now, because a shitload of them will never accumulate much in terms of a career with the company.
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Post by -Lithium- on Jun 2, 2013 23:36:17 GMT -5
02 is miles above any other year.
I did like around 07-08, though. Enough good and over major talent to fill all three brands by themselves. Now they barely have enough star power to fill a single roster...
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Post by thelonewolf527 on Jun 3, 2013 0:21:11 GMT -5
I voted No.
These guys are good, but at the same time compared to older generations really aren't all that compelling at times, no matter how good of workers they are. That counts towards in ring abilities in my opinion.
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Post by ritt works hard fo da chickens on Jun 3, 2013 1:50:28 GMT -5
It's definitely a contender. Although I'd lean toward 2001. All the great talent from WCW and none of the big name baggage yet that made them forget about their own undercard, a lot of ECW's best, and a very promising undercard back in when undercard titles mattered more. Plus their developemental system was LOADED. OVW was loaded and it wasn't even their only training facility. They had a lot of exclusivity contracts with a lot of smaller training institutes like UPW which gave them John Cena, Chris Masters, Victoria and also had Christopher Daniels and Samoa Joe. Although I think this roster has more potential. People think Cena is bad these days but back then we had the birth of HHH's ego plus Rock and Stone Cold showing up to eat up the rest of the tv time that the McFamily wasn't using for themselves. In all honesty that era was probably too loaded. Also to put another aspect into perspective of the era, after ECW and WCW were done for CZW was the second biggest American roster. WWF had locked up virtually all the talent they wanted. Although they don't sweat TNA or RoH they don't ignore them either and each has at least a couple of performers who could go with most of the WWE uppercard.
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Post by BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps on Jun 3, 2013 16:04:42 GMT -5
Ever? I doubt it, I'd say the Ruthless Aggression roster was slightly better- but the key word there is SLIGHTLY.
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Post by Paco on Jun 3, 2013 16:58:33 GMT -5
Good lord NO.
The early 2000's roster was UNREAL!
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