Pro Wrestling 10 List Thread

Wrestling’s Greatest No-Sells

  1. Money in the Bank 2024: Randy Orton hits his middle-rope DDT on Jacob Fatu, starts pounding on the mat to signal he’s getting ready for an RKO, then looks up to see that Fatu is back on his feet and completely unfazed
  2. WrestleMania XII: The Ultimate Warrior pops right back up from Triple H’s Pedigree.
  3. WCW Clash of the Champions XXX: Randy Savage needs to revive Hulk Hogan, and Hogan could pop up with bulging eyes upon no-selling a diving elbow drop from the top turnbuckle, so…
  4. Samoan wrestlers in general being immune to attacks to the head
  5. The Undertaker sits up right away after taking any other wrestler’s finisher
  6. Sting no-sells a guitar shot from Jeff Jarrett in TNA.
  7. Al Snow no-sells a chair shot from Mick Foley
  8. Fall Brawl 1999, Jim Duggan no-sells Berlyn’s offense. Berlyn eventually wins after Duggan is closelined by Berlyn’s bodyguard, then Berlyn performs a neckbreaker.

Wrestling’s Greatest No-Sells

  1. Money in the Bank 2024: Randy Orton hits his middle-rope DDT on Jacob Fatu, starts pounding on the mat to signal he’s getting ready for an RKO, then looks up to see that Fatu is back on his feet and completely unfazed
  2. WrestleMania XII: The Ultimate Warrior pops right back up from Triple H’s Pedigree.
  3. WCW Clash of the Champions XXX: Randy Savage needs to revive Hulk Hogan, and Hogan could pop up with bulging eyes upon no-selling a diving elbow drop from the top turnbuckle, so…
  4. Samoan wrestlers in general being immune to attacks to the head
  5. The Undertaker sits up right away after taking any other wrestler’s finisher
  6. Sting no-sells a guitar shot from Jeff Jarrett in TNA.
  7. Al Snow no-sells a chair shot from Mick Foley
  8. Fall Brawl 1999, Jim Duggan no-sells Berlyn’s offense. Berlyn eventually wins after Duggan is closelined by Berlyn’s bodyguard, then Berlyn performs a neckbreaker.
  9. Big Bubba Rogers shrugs off chair shot from Dusty Rhodes.

The chair wasn’t gimmicked to break either.

Wrestling’s Greatest No-Sells

  1. Money in the Bank 2024: Randy Orton hits his middle-rope DDT on Jacob Fatu, starts pounding on the mat to signal he’s getting ready for an RKO, then looks up to see that Fatu is back on his feet and completely unfazed
  2. WrestleMania XII: The Ultimate Warrior pops right back up from Triple H’s Pedigree.
  3. WCW Clash of the Champions XXX: Randy Savage needs to revive Hulk Hogan, and Hogan could pop up with bulging eyes upon no-selling a diving elbow drop from the top turnbuckle, so…
  4. Samoan wrestlers in general being immune to attacks to the head
  5. The Undertaker sits up right away after taking any other wrestler’s finisher
  6. Sting no-sells a guitar shot from Jeff Jarrett in TNA.
  7. Al Snow no-sells a chair shot from Mick Foley
  8. Fall Brawl 1999, Jim Duggan no-sells Berlyn’s offense. Berlyn eventually wins after Duggan is closelined by Berlyn’s bodyguard, then Berlyn performs a neckbreaker.
  9. Big Bubba Rogers shrugs off chair shot from Dusty Rhodes.
  10. Like the previous entry, Meng (Haku) shakes off a Million Dollar elbow from Dusty Rhodes. Dusty then picks up a wooden chair and shatters the seat over Meng’s head. Meng doesn’t react in the least.

Next topic:

** Best Manager/Valet**

Best Manager/Valet

  1. Bobby Heenan

Heenan and Bockwinkle were a fantastic pairing. The wise-cracking Weasel and the rich, intellectual Champion were perfect together. The Heenan Family was a great vehicle for both Heenan and his charges.

Best Manager/Valet

  1. Bobby Heenan
  2. The Grand Wizard of Wrestling

He was before my time, but I love his style and I love that a gay Jewish man in the '70s had the balls to call himself “the Grand Wizard” as a way of mocking the KKK.

Best Manager/Valet

  1. Bobby Heenan
  2. The Grand Wizard of Wrestling
  3. Paul Heyman

Perhaps the best of the modern day.

I should have added ‘Advocate’ to the topic! He is certainly the best right now.

Best Manager/Valet

  1. Bobby Heenan
  2. The Grand Wizard of Wrestling
  3. Paul Heyman
  4. Jim Cornette

More commentator these days. He made several tag teams into major stars managing them directly and setting up rivalries with other tag teams. He was active in matches to, not just standing outside the ring and shouting, he was often up on the ring apron and taking bumps.

Best Manager/Valet

  1. Bobby Heenan
  2. The Grand Wizard of Wrestling
  3. Paul Heyman
  4. Jim Cornette
  5. Percy Pringle / Paul Bearer

So many good choices to choose from. It was hard to pick one.

Best Manager/Valet

  1. Bobby Heenan
  2. The Grand Wizard of Wrestling
  3. Paul Heyman
  4. Jim Cornette
  5. Percy Pringle / Paul Bearer
  6. Miss Elizabeth

The First Lady of the World Wrestling Federation.

Best Manager/Valet

  1. Bobby Heenan
  2. The Grand Wizard of Wrestling
  3. Paul Heyman
  4. Jim Cornette
  5. Percy Pringle / Paul Bearer
  6. Miss Elizabeth
  7. Prince Nana

Much like the Grand Wizard, I love his fashion sense (and his dance moves), he works as a heel or face, and I like how he works his real ancestry (he’s descended from an Ashanti prince) into his persona.

Best Manager/Valet

  1. Bobby Heenan
  2. The Grand Wizard of Wrestling
  3. Paul Heyman
  4. Jim Cornette
  5. Percy Pringle / Paul Bearer
  6. Miss Elizabeth
  7. Prince Nana
  8. Gary Hart

He was a genuine manager and did all the paperwork and travel bookings for his guys. He was active for a few decades by portraying that sneaky varmint presence at ringside, always plotting and scheming, and he put his talent over like a master.

…I think you’re understandably confusing a sneaky-varmint schemer with a politician.

Uh, no. I was not referring to the disgraced politician.

Well, I learned something; I figured you were talking about Jimmy Hart, who, as it happens, was a sneaky-varmint schemer of the non-politician type. Much obliged!

In fact,

Best Manager/Valet

  1. Bobby Heenan
  2. The Grand Wizard of Wrestling
  3. Paul Heyman
  4. Jim Cornette
  5. Percy Pringle / Paul Bearer
  6. Miss Elizabeth
  7. Prince Nana
  8. Gary Hart
  9. Jimmy Hart

…the Mouth of the South! The Man You Love To Hate! Manager of everyone from Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage to Bret Hart and the Honky Tonk Man, and always looking oh-so-punchable!

Best Manager/Valet

  1. Bobby Heenan
  2. The Grand Wizard of Wrestling
  3. Paul Heyman
  4. Jim Cornette
  5. Percy Pringle / Paul Bearer
  6. Miss Elizabeth
  7. Prince Nana
  8. Gary Hart
  9. Jimmy Hart
  10. Sherri Martel

She had some great runs working with Randy Savage, Ted DiBiase, and Harlem Heat, among others.

Next: Legit tough

  1. Meng/Hauku

Stories about Haku are legendary. Bobby Heenan told a story about Haku getting into bar fights and pulling someone’s eye out. Allegedly, bookers in WCW would be wary of asking him to put someone over.

Legit tough

  1. Meng/Haku
  2. Brock Lesnar

Former UFC Champion who spends his off-hours chucking logs on his farm.

Legit tough

  1. Meng/Haku
  2. Brock Lesnar
  3. ‘Dirty’ Dick Slater

One time protege of Dusty Rhodes, he had no special martial arts skills outside wrestling but he was fast, strong, aggressive, and known for knocking people out if he got pissed off.

Legit tough

  1. Meng/Haku
  2. Brock Lesnar
  3. ‘Dirty’ Dick Slater
  4. Minoru Suzuki

aka The Murder Grampa