Most Underrated Wrestler - Who hasn't gotten their due?

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WeaponsGradeAutism

WeaponsGradeAutism

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I'm going to make this simple, I may be a nerd. But I also appreciate wrestling.

To start this off, who was that one guy that people overlooked. That guy who should have been world championship material, but wasn't.

My pick to start us off. Darren Matthews/Lord Steven Regal/William Regal. He is a literal wrestling encyclopedia. He knows his history and his moves.

When you see his work, it's pretty much spectacular. However, his personal demons kept him out of that spotlight. What if, folks?
 
WeaponsGradeAutism said:
I'm going to make this simple, I may be a nerd. But I also appreciate wrestling.

To start this off, who was that one guy that people overlooked. That guy who should have been world championship material, but wasn't.

My pick to start us off. Darren Matthews/Lord Steven Regal/William Regal. He is a literal wrestling encyclopedia. He knows his history and his moves.

When you see his work, it's pretty much spectacular. However, his personal demons kept him out of that spotlight. What if, folks?
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It never won't upset me that Regal seemed to be on the push of his life as King of the Ring AND GM of Raw around a decade ago, only for him to end up getting suspended just as he was about to start a pretty big feud with Triple H. That always felt like Regal's last chance and yet again, his issues with substance abuse ended up. Someone as talented as Regal deserved much, much better
 
Scott Steiner, in his prime and even a little past it, was always a great technical and highly athletic performer that could put together a really explosive match with anyone. And as he got crazy his promos got so much better
 
I also think Brian Pillman didn't get his due. Injuries, mental illness and his heart exploding took him before his true prime.

Dean Ambrose hasn't even come close to the true lunacy of Brian. And as I said about him, Brian would either be a successful man... Or a subject in the Lolcows forum under Skitzocow.
 
Arn Anderson worked the mic like a champ and could work a match like no other. He made wrestling believable but always played second fiddle to Flair or was stuck in a tag team

Jerry Lynn, Dean Malenko, and Lance Storm were aces in the ring and generally likeable guys backstage but were classified as "vanilla midgets".

Rvd fucked up bad getting busted for weed right after winning the WWF title... I don't even think he held the world title in the original ECW even tho he rarely lost.

Mike Awesome was a monster got fucked by WCW and never recovered.

Scott Hall never got a huge ride on the top like Nash did.

Roddy Piper main evented both Starcade and Wrestlemania and yet it always rubbed me wrong that he never held a major title.

Raven had a lot of success in ECW but got buried in WCW and WWF
 
I haven't watched wrestling since punk left so maybe he's a bigger deal now but I always felt like Dolph Ziggler never got the recognition he deserved.

The dude would sell a move so well my heart would stop because I worried he'd injured himself. He's an absolute joy to watch in the ring which I think is his problem, it made more sense to make him lose become of how good he was at it.
 
WeaponsGradeAutism said:
I also think Brian Pillman didn't get his due. Injuries, mental illness and his heart exploding took him before his true prime.

Dean Ambrose hasn't even come close to the true lunacy of Brian. And as I said about him, Brian would either be a successful man... Or a subject in the Lolcows forum under Skitzocow.
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Good call on pillman. If he had come around today, he'd be a world champ. He wasn't the smallest guy, but he wasn't big enough in the 80's and 90's to be a top guy
 
And honestly, Davey Boy Smith... Should have been a world championship holder. But another casualty of the Michaels ego train.
 
Flowers For Sonichu said:
Mike Awesome was a monster got fucked by WCW and never recovered.
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I recently watched a classic WCW PPV from 2000, and there was a match between Mike Awesome and the Insane Clown Posse. A real mat classic right there.

I felt bad for Mike, especially when he delivered an Awesome Bomb on top of a bus and one of the Posse landed too close to the edge and slid head first onto concrete as Mike desperately tried to grab his leg to save him.

He always struck me as a guy ruined by the booking of WCW (I think he was working the 'That 70s guy' gimmick at the time.) because his moveset was pretty cool.
 
Lorento said:
I recently watched a classic WCW PPV from 2000, and there was a match between Mike Awesome and the Insane Clown Posse. A real mat classic right there.

I felt bad for Mike, especially when he delivered an Awesome Bomb on top of a bus and one of the Posse landed too close to the edge and slid head first onto concrete as Mike desperately tried to grab his leg to save him.

He always struck me as a guy ruined by the booking of WCW (I think he was working the 'That 70s guy' gimmick at the time.) because his moveset was pretty cool.
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Don't forget the fat chick thriller. I hope Russo got a shout out in the suicide note
 
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I'll probably get some disagreement on this one, but Sean Morley/Val Venis. Around the early 2000s he started working under his real name and was a solid upper midcard/low tier main event heel, and then one day he randomly gets fired by Steve Austin and rehired under his old stale Val Venis gimmick and was a jobber to the stars for the rest of his career.

I don't know how far Psicosis could have gotten - I'm not saying he was World Champ material - but he deserved way better than he got. If Rey Mysterio got to be World Champ, Psicosis should've at least made it to US or Intercontinental level.
 
Darwin Watterson said:
Muhammad Hassan. Over a decade later, and I'm still upset about what happened to him. He was a bit green in the ring, but he was getting better. The dude was AMAZING on the mic, though, and his character was a clever play on the classic "foreign wrestling heel" gimmick.
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Yeah Idk why the just didn't rebrand him... He wasn't even of middle eastern descent
 
Flying McDaniels said:
I'll probably get some disagreement on this one, but Sean Morley/Val Venis. Around the early 2000s he started working under his real name and was a solid upper midcard/low tier main event heel, and then one day he randomly gets fired by Steve Austin and rehired under his old stale Val Venis gimmick and was a jobber to the stars for the rest of his career.

I don't know how far Psicosis could have gotten - I'm not saying he was World Champ material - but he deserved way better than he got. If Rey Mysterio got to be World Champ, Psicosis should've at least made it to US or Intercontinental level.
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iirc Psicosis stayed pretty active down in Mexico after WCW
 
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