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Desert Island: Wrestling

Waylon Mercy has a question for the blog, involving an internet favorite, Top 5's...
If you were going away somewhere and had to pick the Oeuvre of 5 wrestlers total (Oeuvre means the works of a painter, composer, or author regarded collectively: "the complete oeuvre of Mozart".)

Which 5 wrestlers do you take?

You can take every match they had, every promo or angle leading up to their matches but it's only those 5 wrestler's career. Nothing else.

Thank you. I look forward to your answer.

Pretty interesting question. I'd have to go with....
1. Chris Jericho - He's my all time favorite, so it goes without saying. You'd have such a massive archive of promos, angles, & matches that I honestly feel you could be infinitely entertained on the island with just his career. Plus I'm sure I could work out a deal where I could also get his flashy Lite-Brite jacket, and the islander chicks would love it. 
2. Mick Foley - I could basically give the same answer for him as I did Jericho. Plus it'd be a refreshing change from your typical wrestling to watch some of his stuff from Japan. 
3. Ric Flair - I think that's a pretty obvious one. Plus, I could use his lines to pick up the aforementioned island chicks. "I got 25 women over there in my Coconut-Bamboo Limo and they're all DYIN' for me to go Whoooo!"
4. Hulk Hogan - I need to make sure I get the nWo stuff, and with Hogan that also means I get his red & yellow WCW days, which are always great for entertainment. Who wants to live on an island where you don't have access to Darkside Hogan, which in turn brings Darkside Macho and his sword? I don't. 
5. Macho Man - Duh. Also, I don't know if anyone listens to Chris Hardwick's podcast, The Nerdist, but you should. There's one episode in particular, when he has Joe Manganiello as a guest. Joe loves pro-wrestling, and is impeccable at impressions. He gives what is hands down the greatest Macho Man impression anyone has ever heard. It's incredible. He also does a mean Jesse Ventura. It would serve you well to check it out.

Oh, and after you've been on the island for a while you discover on the other side there's a Beach Boys concert going on.

Comments

  1. Too many questions.

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  2. Bret Hart, Steve Austin, Macho Man, Mick Foley, The Steiner Brothers

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  3. Bret, Shawn, Foley, Austin, Hulk

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  4. Ric Flair, Bret Hart, Daniel Bryan, Shawn Michaels and Kenta Kobashi

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  5. http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110308032724/batman/images/0/0f/The_Riddler_defeated_2.jpg

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  6. Hogan, Savage, Hart, Michaels, Jericho.

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  7. Ok...can someone start a sister thread with the question "If you were stranded on a desert island with a TV, VCR, and a tape that was only big enough to hold 5 matches, which 5 matches could you stand to watch on an endless loop until you starved to death?"

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  8. Ric Flair, The Rock (for the promos alone), Chris Benoit (who?), Steve Austin, and Roddy Piper.. that'd be a shitload of matches, promos, interviews and enough variety to keep me entertained for a few years..

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  9. Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, Ric Flair, Rey Mysterio Jr. and The Rock. Good variety in styles, both in terms of promos and wrestling, plus a wide array of great storylines.

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  10. Psh, why stop there?
    If you were stranded on a desert island, and all that you could bring was a tape of 5 wrestlers hitting 1 move each, which 5 moves could you watch in an endless loop until you inevitably ran afoul of something poisonous?

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  11. Austin, The Rock, Flair, Benoit, and Scott Steiner. With Steiner, you get both great matches (Steiner Brothers) and comic relief.

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  12. What I'm looking for is long careers and little overlap. For example, you get most of Dusty's stuff with Flair.


    1. Flair - Easy choice and a huge career to select from.
    2. Mick Foley - My favorite wrestler of all time, and you basically get a "Best of ECW" with him.
    3. CM Punk - My favorite current wrestler and you get his ROH run for some smaller scale goodness. It was between him and D-Bry, but promos won out.
    4. Steve Austin - Ok there is a lot of overlap with Foley, but there is just too much good stuff to ignore.
    5. Jerry Lawler - For Memphis goodness and the Kaufman feud.

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  13. In no particular order:


    Jake Roberts - may not have had the career of others that will be on this list, but he is the reason I watch wrestling, and the fucker was truly evil at times. He had a number of great matches and programs, and his promos were nearly always awesome.


    Mick Foley - my 2nd favorite wrestler, and not much needs to be said about his work.


    Shawn Michaels - by the time he was done, I'd say he was the best ever overall.


    Randy Savage - kind of a gimme.


    CM Punk - while he's probably far from done, he already has a rather impressive body of work. Having him on this list gives me the ***** match he had with my current fave, Daniel Bryan, the pipe bomb promo, and his WWE title run. The rest of his work is gravy.


    Love Daniel Bryan, but I'm not familiar with his ROH stuff. Fuck Hogan. I've never been a mark for Flair, though I do acknowledge his greatness. I never cared for Austin. I am a Brett Hart fan, but I'd rather have the other 5 guys listed.

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  14. If you were stranded on a desert island and all you could bring was a tape of five wrestlers making an entrance, which five entrances would you watch?

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  15. "Plus, I could use his lines to pick up the aforementioned island chicks."


    Spoken like someone who can land any woman in the world.

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  16. Do we get the complete oeuvre of The Beach Boys, or are they just playing a short set?

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  17. Steve Austin
    The Rock
    Shawn Michaels
    Chris Benoit
    Kurt Angle


    Yep.

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  18. CM Punk is worth it just for his trilogy vs. Samoa Joe.

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  19. Bret and Austin (because both cover a long span of time, including both tag team and singles wrestling), Edge (for the tag team ladder spotfests, the Smackdown Six era, and the offbeat shenanigans), and Raven and Punk (because I've never really seen any of their early work, and if I'm stuck on an island forever, I'd like to have something new to watch).

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  20. Flair
    Sting
    Vader
    Jericho
    Shawn

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  21. Hogan, Austin, Rock, Foley and Shawn. Yeah.

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  22. Forget about the list, where do I get my electricity on said deserted island to watch all this stuff?!?

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  23. 1. The Rock -- His run covers the best of the Attitude era to now, and features some of the best promos ever.
    2. Kane -- Harkens back to my childhood with the cartoonish gimmick, but with better-quality wrestling/production value.
    3. Bully Ray -- The tag-team goodness, some overseas stuff, ECW in its prime, and his TNA solo run has been awesome.
    4. Shawn Michaels -- Because.
    5. Jeff Jarrett -- Old-school Southern stuff, some WWE pre-Attitude and Attitude era, some Mexico, some Japan, and some WCW/NWO material.

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  24. richard householderAugust 12, 2013 at 6:21 PM

    Never found Steiner funny.

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  25. TheRealCitizenSnipsAugust 12, 2013 at 6:35 PM

    If you bring the Ultimate Warrior he could power it with destructicity.

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  26. Really close to my own list.. I almost added Kurt Angle, but I don't think I could sit through his TNA years.. even on a deserted island with NOTHING else to do.

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  27. From the same place the people in those Wrestlemania promos get their PPV feed, even though they are using antennas and rabbit ears.

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  28. Most of those I could live with just their WWE run, really.

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  29. Flair, Hogan, Misawa, Savage, Austin

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  30. Steve Austin - his WWF/E stuff is fantastic, but I select him for his WCW and ECW matches just as much. You get Dangerous Alliance stuff, Hollywood Blondes and Monday NyQuil with Bongo.

    Randy Savage - some of my favorite matches, interviews and angles all involve Savage.

    Arn Anderson - for the tag team matches with Tully.

    Shawn Michaels - one of the best collection of matches maybe ever.

    Raven - because I felt like I need some more ECW represented here, and his ECW work was always a lot of fun.

    On random days, I could replace Raven or Anderson with Vader, Hogan or Flair, but that was the list I would choose today.

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  31. why use the word oeuvre? Especially when you go on to explain that it means complete works, when you could have just used the phrase "complete works" such a douche-y thing to do. by the way as if we are to believe you really use the word oeuvre in everyday life you use the definition and example word for word as given by google. pathetic.

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  32. Scream09_HartKillerAugust 12, 2013 at 8:03 PM

    1) Shawn Michaels.
    2) Chris Jericho
    3) Steve Austin
    4) Kevin Nash because he gets me most of the nWo stuff.
    5) The Rock? I really didn't like him until his heel turn in 2003 but I'd get the Foley feud in 1998/1999 and some great matches with Angle, Benoit, etc.

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  33. Muta, Raven, Hogan, Savage, Taker

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  34. 1) Brooklyn brawler
    2) Barry Horowitz
    3) iron mike sharpe
    4) Dennis stamp
    5)paul Roma

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  35. 1) Bret Hart. My all-time favourite. 'Nuff said.
    2) Shawn Michaels. I could do without his second run, but everything up til his first retirement is absolutely essential.
    3) Kurt Angle. Between 2000 and 2006 he was so good it's scary, his TNA stuff is very good too.
    4) John Cena. Perhaps its just because he's been the top guy for so long, but a disturbing number of my favourite matches from the current era involve Cena. So I may as well just stop fighting it and admit I'm a fan.
    5) Vader. Wrestlings best ever big man. Mostly for his awesome runs in WCW and Japan, but his WWE stint had it's moments as well.

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  36. Michaels, Austin, Rock, Flair, and Savage.

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  37. That question is kind of more interesting to me than the main post.



    Hart Foundation at Canadian Stampede


    Sandman at One Night Stand 2005
    HBK at Mania 25



    Punk at Money in the Bank


    Ultimate Warrior at Summerslam 1988

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  38. If I choose Dennis Rodman, do I get his basketball games as well?

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  39. 1) Flair
    2) Punk
    3) Jim Cornette - you've got the whole run for both versions of the Midnight Express, plus the Heavenly Bodies in SMW, WCW and WWF and the Yokozuna run
    4) Eddie Guerrero - lucha, ECW.WCW, WWE
    5) Great Muta - besides the NWA/WCW run, his puro collection spans NJPW, AJPW and even Hustle.

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  40. "I am a Brett Hart fan" - but not so much that you spell his name properly.
    This has been going on for more than 20 years now; why do people keep spelling it 'Brett'?

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  41. 1) Scott Steiner
    2) Sid Vicious
    3) Scott Steiner clone
    4) Sid Vicious clone
    5) Scott Steiner and Sid Vicious gentically engineered hybrid

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  42. Trish, Sable, Torrie Wilson, Stacey Kiebler, the less obnoxious Bella twin

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  43. Tough question. I'd have to go with Bret, Perfect, Raven, Flair, and Jarrett. Yes, I like Jeff Jarrett...we all have our flaws as fans.

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  44. This is a tough one but I have to go with the following five in no particular order:
    1. Shawn Michaels
    2. Jeff Jarrett
    3. Macho Man
    4. Ric Flair
    5. Hulk Hogan

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  45. 1) Savage
    2) Jericho
    3) Bret ( that way I also get the Hart Foundation)
    4) Hawk ( Hawk and Animal were pretty much always together in the 80's, so I'm getting two for one here).
    5) HBK ( again I picked him so I would get the Midnight Rockers stuff as well).

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  46. What no Tom " Rocky" Stone?

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  47. Um. Because Brett is not an uncommon spelling, and human beings are imperfect creatures?

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  48. If you could only watch one year of wrestling, what would it be. Doesn't have to be for a single promotion. Just matches from one calendar year. I'd probably go 1997.

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  49. Good list because in theory you will see matches from every WWE guy at that time.

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  50. Punk, HBK, Jericho, Austin, Savage.

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  51. That's a good point on Cena. He's not been one of my favorites since 2005- he's actually the main reason I got back into wrestling after a three-year hiatus- but as stale as his character has gotten he's been a part of so, so many awesome matches and storylines.

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  52. I'm not sure who that was. Might pull out dennis stamp and put someone like dale wolfe or someone on there. I'd just watch squash matches all day!!

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  53. Is it cheating to say Gorrilla Monsoon, Jim Ross, Jerry Lawler, Tony Schiavone and Gordon Solie to have all of their announcing careers? Haha

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  54. I'd probably pick 1997, too, because it was right before I got into wrestling. So it's mostly fresh, but I've seen a lot of it and know I'm getting some serious awesomeness.
    I would have to do some more research on what happened in which specific years from other before-my-time years, because it all runs together. But from my time frame, 2000 is an easy choice.

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  55. Steambot, Angle, Michaels, Flair, Bret Hart.

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  56. Savage, Angle, Hart, Guerrero, HBK.

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  57. Caliber_Winfield_The_3rdAugust 14, 2013 at 9:15 AM

    Yeah, God-forbid people learn a new word.

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  58. Ric Flair
    Arn Anderson (this would happily include all his tag work with Ole, Tully, Eaton, and Zbyszko)
    HBK
    Midnight Express (as a unit)
    Steve Austin

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