This is the first in a series of reminders that El Dandy is objectively and undoubtedly the Greatest Professional Wrestler of all time. No other individual performer comes close his level of real jam up and extremely underrated performances, innovation and working attitude.
- El Dandy was one of the first wrestlers to study the tapes from japanese UWF promotion and incorporate it's shootstyle into the regular lucha libre, roughly 15 years before Bryan Danielson, Davey Richards and other assorted goons received lots of attention for using sloppy ankle locks and weak looking "MMA" elbow smashes
- El Dandy is the greatest single match worker of all time excelling at a variety of styles including long, technical masterpieces working with matwrestling skills several leagues ahead of anyone else at the time, or right now, epic bloodfeuding payoff brawls as well as a mixture of all the above.
- El Dandy is the greatest multiman match worker of all time, always knowing exactly when to work high end, fast paced exchanges or focused technical wizardry in order not to draw the focus away from other wrestlers.
- El Dandy had the greatest most durable workrate of all time carrying sloppy wrestlers like Black Warrior and Antifaz del Norte to great matches and having an epic feud with Negro Navarro many, many years after reaching his peak, starting with his series of great performances during the 80s and still going after having a very good showing in 2011's Torneo De Maestros and good matches against El Solar, Fuerza Guerrera and others in 2012.
- El Dandy was the most selfless wrestler of all time sacrificing himself to jobber duty without hesitation in order to not take the spotlight away from lesser talent such as Chris Jericho, Lance Storm etc., even willing to put over the useless David Flair.
- El Dandy was involved in the greatest feud and angle of all time when El Hijo del Santo turned heel in 1996, producing several of the greatest matches ever including their epic mask vs. hair match, where Dandy was still selfless enough not to shove himself down the fans' throat as the babyface of the match when many of them decided to side with Santo.
El Dandy far surpasses the likes of Ric Flair, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kurt Angle and Rob van Dam.
What follows is a list of video clips that should convince anyone who has the gall to dismiss El Dandy's abilities otherwise.
I'm honored that Dave and Bryan were also CC'd on this one.
- El Dandy was one of the first wrestlers to study the tapes from japanese UWF promotion and incorporate it's shootstyle into the regular lucha libre, roughly 15 years before Bryan Danielson, Davey Richards and other assorted goons received lots of attention for using sloppy ankle locks and weak looking "MMA" elbow smashes
- El Dandy is the greatest single match worker of all time excelling at a variety of styles including long, technical masterpieces working with matwrestling skills several leagues ahead of anyone else at the time, or right now, epic bloodfeuding payoff brawls as well as a mixture of all the above.
- El Dandy is the greatest multiman match worker of all time, always knowing exactly when to work high end, fast paced exchanges or focused technical wizardry in order not to draw the focus away from other wrestlers.
- El Dandy had the greatest most durable workrate of all time carrying sloppy wrestlers like Black Warrior and Antifaz del Norte to great matches and having an epic feud with Negro Navarro many, many years after reaching his peak, starting with his series of great performances during the 80s and still going after having a very good showing in 2011's Torneo De Maestros and good matches against El Solar, Fuerza Guerrera and others in 2012.
- El Dandy was the most selfless wrestler of all time sacrificing himself to jobber duty without hesitation in order to not take the spotlight away from lesser talent such as Chris Jericho, Lance Storm etc., even willing to put over the useless David Flair.
- El Dandy was involved in the greatest feud and angle of all time when El Hijo del Santo turned heel in 1996, producing several of the greatest matches ever including their epic mask vs. hair match, where Dandy was still selfless enough not to shove himself down the fans' throat as the babyface of the match when many of them decided to side with Santo.
El Dandy far surpasses the likes of Ric Flair, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kurt Angle and Rob van Dam.
What follows is a list of video clips that should convince anyone who has the gall to dismiss El Dandy's abilities otherwise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WIc62hVvGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0fLKAa3QFU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMpe0N7GRvg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEbIWqFsU70
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga7GQP0R8U0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8IJh6AaF-Y&pxtry=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8IJh6AaF-Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WINhp1agEBQ
And, finally, a professional and known ring mastermind testifying to the greatness of El Dandy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZe6LvqQaVk
Who are you doubt El Dandy?
HOnestly, who the fuck is El Dandy?
ReplyDeleteComes close his real level of jam up??? What the heck does that mean?
ReplyDeletesigh.... but we dont post "the salt in the eye"...
ReplyDeleteI can't say I'm familiar with the guy but he sounds like a great worker. Any chance WWE puts him in the hof?
ReplyDeleteHe was real over In WCW
ReplyDeleteAll kidding aside, I really did dig the los Fabulosos team in the late WCW. el Dandy and Silver King had some good charisma
ReplyDeleteGamefaqs use to REALLY big into El Dandy.
ReplyDeleteThey also loved Funaki for some reason
DON'T DOUBT THE POWER OF EL DANDY
ReplyDeleteHe's a heck of a wrestler, a great technician in the ring, and a jam-up guy. Frankly I think he deserves a shot at the U.S.Title.
ReplyDeleteBret Hart, what a comedian!
ReplyDeleteI just tried to google for the mask vs hair match mentioned above and this post is on the first page of the search results, yet another testament to the greatness of El Dandy
ReplyDeleteI heard he's on tap for 2015. Bret Hart is slated to induct him. Not a live speech, mind you, just an old standard def clip of his el dandy nitro promo.
ReplyDeleteI'm actually more of a La Parka fan, but to each his own.
ReplyDeleteThat's a lot of work for an obvious punchline.
ReplyDeleteReading this took 2 minutes of my life I'll never get back.
ReplyDeleteWhat about Hypnosis?!?!?!
ReplyDeleteAwesome. (Who doesn't love that interview?)
ReplyDeleteLater, El Dandy visited Bret Hart's hotel room and, with tears in his eyes, said "I am so sick of this joke."
ReplyDeleteSo this is the last time I'm doing this. I'm not doubting El Dandy.
One of the 1000 wrestlers Bret thinks is better than HHH.
ReplyDeleteINDEED
ReplyDeleteI could watch this interview all day long. This is by far the (intentionally) funniest moment of Bret's career. Anyone who says Bret was dull or didn't have personality needs to watch this interview --- talk about a perfect delivery of these absurd lines.
ReplyDeleteI for one, never doubted El Dandy for a moment.
ReplyDeleteIn all seriousness, Dandy is probably at worst a top-15 worker ever. That's not har har "who are you to doubt El Dandy" irony either. He's one of the best mat wrestlers *and* best brawlers in the history of lucha libre.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of the greatest professional wrestler of all time, here's what Bret Hart had to say about the greatest compliment he's ever received...It took him a minute to think of it because he had to sift through the 1000's of compliments he's gotten.
ReplyDelete""(Long pause) I
think it’s that I was often told by the wrestlers I worked with that I
was their best match. That was every single one of them, from Mr.
Perfect to my brother Owen to the Bulldog to the Undertaker to Steve
Austin — almost every single one of them pulled me aside and said the best
match they ever had was the one against me. The list goes on — 1-2-3
Kid, Kevin Nash, Roddy Piper, Yokozuna — and I think it’s true. Every
match was a different story, and we made magic. The other thing is that I
never hurt anybody in all the years I wrestled. I had wrestlers come up
to me and thank me for the match every night, thanking me because there
was never any extra aches and pains or injuries. No animals were harmed in the making of my movies!""
See, it's not just me, he really does talk like that!
But on topic, is this a joke? I know El Dandy as the chubby luchador that Bret mocked in a promo....he's more than that?
He's a serious professional.
ReplyDeleteTheir match at One Night Only (their third on PPV) was outstanding, but not as good as Taker's big three with Shawn or the second one with Hunter. I have a hard time thinking of a fifth one that's better.
ReplyDeleteI liked that thing they briefly did with Kaz Hayashi and La Parka too. They should have kept at it with both those teams.
ReplyDeleteI was always partial to Silver King, and how Mike Tenay would point out to not let the stocky appearance fool you!
ReplyDeleteWell that payoff was obvious miles away.
ReplyDeleteWell at the time you could argueTaker at least, with only HITC having taken place when Bret was still with the company. . .
ReplyDeletei more like the fact that Gene BURIED Psychosis and El Dandy in the promo.
ReplyDeleteOp forgot to mention El Dandy was great at parking cars too,could've easily been a 2 sport superstar.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw5yUEyG4Bk (56 seconds)
No Way Out vs Angle?
ReplyDelete