What is your favourite style?

gimmick

This is basically a rip off of the thread in sf about style of play. The question is equally simple in wrestling terms - how do you like yours?

The way I see it, the following are the most common styles

• WWE main event
• Mat based technical wrestling
• Fast paced, high flying
• hardcore
• power
• striking

Mat based would obviously be as it suggests, based around amatuer styules, where a body part(s) is meticulously worked over.

Fast paced would be a type of match where hurricanranas and suicide dives happen as a matter of course a number times throughout.

Hardcore would refer to ECW style affairs, where the use of weapons and the sight of blood is common place.

Power would be where the is not a great deal of techical finesse, but it is all about the devastation a guy can cause with his raw strength.

Striking refers to a stiff match with plenty kicks and chops etc

So again, the question is, which is your favourite, and more importantly, why? Additionally, maybe tell us a wrestler who epitomises your choice.

gimmick

So, in order to get the ball rolling, I find it hard to name just one definitively as I am a big fan of both technical and striking matches. Overall I wouold have to go the very technical slow paced route.

My main reason for this is that I believe that in pro wrestling, ones offense shoudl make perfect sense. And in a mat based match, where attention to detail of your opponents weaknesses is paramount, the wrestling can be made look very believable and you can see why a fella is attempting what he is.

My prime example of this, which will come as no surprise to anyone, is Brian Danielson. The way the man works the ring is done better by no one in the world at the moment. As I have already mentioned, attention to detail is vital. Danielsons attention is incredible. He will start on one part, and will go on to another once the first is suitably weakened. The parts he choses are not random, it is usually something which will dimninish the arsenal of another.

Best exaple of this, and it combines both technical and striking is Danielson Vs KENTA at ROH Glory By Honour 2006. It is a masterpiece of a match in every single way. If you have not seen it, find and enjoy it.

That is all..

geeky

I'd probably peg mat-based as my favourite - there's oddly more scope for creativity and yet it still looks fairly logical/realistic. Angle-Benoit, for example, was just perfect.

I enjoy good high-fliers (mysterio before he became totally predictable) but not zero-psychology spot-monkeys, and a good striker can make a match. Not that pushed on pure-power wrestlers, and Hardcore does nothing for me.

gimmick

Thing with hardcore is that any fool can do it. You do not need a physique or a look. All you need is to be wiling to do stupid things. Watch CZW as an example of this.

jaykhunter

ah let's not bash any style of wrestling in this thread, it's a favourites thread. But yeah, hardcore BYW is my least favourite.

Right now, since i'm starved of it a bit, I wanna see so fast-paced spot monkey matches. TNA used to have one X-D clusterf**k every month but now they don't, and I miss it. And the Guns barely get any air time, or wrestle with other X-D wrestlers for that matter. I love the pace, the fluidity and the variety of moves. (My only problem with this style is that rarely there's a story told in the match. I also hate botching, seeing amateurs go soley for this.)

I could only watch one, two max spot monkey matches in a show, but I could watch Kurt Angle all day every day. Fast paced, perfectly executed, varied, hard-hitting mat-wrestling. Awesome. In general, I find WWE's matches too slow for me these days.

Something that I love watching but couldn't do it week-in, week-out is puro (specifically KENTA's matches). The beat the tar out of each other, with stiff kicks and punches, high work-rate, give it their all. It's amazing.

2nd Row Donkey

I would have though I'd go for high flying, high paced style matches but then again I never enjoyed any match as much as some of the Angle/Benoit/Jericho stuff has played out over the last 10 years.

Agreed on the hardcore stuff. It enjoyed it when WWF/WWE initially pushed it but got bored of it very quickly.

flahavaj

I'd be a bit of a nerd for slow paced technical wrestling myself. I find nothing more satisfyling than watching someone like veteran liger or Arn Anderson pick apartt a body part and then having the cop on to use the story they've told during the mtch to play into the finish.

Wuith regards the options given in the OP, I'mnot sure where your average HHH or Cena match (indeed any WWE main event) would fit into the catefories given? Especially whennyou consider the majority of posters would be pure WWE fans?

chordtype

As a big fan of pureso I would probably say striking.

I adore 90's All Japan so this is probably where this stems from.
More recently, Kobashi versus Joe from Ring of Honor is one of my favourite matches ever and it is basically built around striking. You could probably count the amount of other moves on both hands. Yet the crowd are so into it. You don't need to do flips to get a match over.


However, recently I've been getting really into Dragon Gate and DGUSA and always loved those TNA spotfests. Those early monthly PPV's where they would just throw 4 or 5 X division guys into the opening match and it was nearly always awesome.

Diabhal Beag

Spotfests. Anything involving various high-spots (MITB match) and various wrestlers taking amazing bumps.

Machismo Fan

flahavaj wrote: »

With regards the options given in the OP, I'm not sure where your average HHH or Cena match (indeed any WWE main event) would fit into the categories given? Especially when you consider the majority of posters would be pure WWE fans?

I'd consider the WWE style an entire style in it's own right - kick/punch based, finisher based style and more story orientated. As for my own favourite, I'm a fan of the fast paced stuff but not overly spotty (though nothing beats a good spotfest now and again). The kind of Chris Sabin style which doesn't go completely overboard on the spots.

gimmick

flahavaj wrote: »

Wuith regards the options given in the OP, I'mnot sure where your average HHH or Cena match (indeed any WWE main event) would fit into the catefories given? Especially whennyou consider the majority of posters would be pure WWE fans?

That is a fair point actually. Should I just edit to "WWE Style main event" perhaps?

flahavaj

gimmick wrote: »

That is a fair point actually. Should I just edit to "WWE Style main event" perhaps?

Sure why not. I definitely its a style unique unto itself, one you don't see on the indies , Japan or anywhere else except maybe TNA.

Also shocked no one has answered "doggy.":pac:

jaykhunter

flahavaj wrote: »

Sure why not. I definitely its a style unique unto itself, one you don't see on the indies , Japan or anywhere else except maybe TNA.

Also shocked no one has answered "doggy.":pac:

lol. maybe for fear of promoting the Road Dogg!

Butch Cassidy

My favourite 4 wrestlers have always been Austin, Bret Hart, HBK and Mick Foley. I think between the four of them there's a bit of everything there. Hart was a bit technical, Austin a bit of a puncher/kicker (after his neck injury at least), HBK did some jumping off the ropes and Foley could take a chair shot fairly well...

Nowadays the hardcore stuff has jumped the shark, punchin/kickin has gotten a bit boring and you can only see the same moonsault so often so I'd probably prefer the technical kinda stuff.

The Volt

Technical style above all. Samoa Joe v AJ Styles v Chris Daniels back in 2005 for the X-Division Title says more about Pro Wrestling as an art than any words could say.

Fitzy101

I like a bit of it all tbh ..I could watch a Kurt Angle/Desmond Wolfe technical match and love it but then watch a MCMG match with tons of spots and love it aswell.

Favourite Wrestlers are Punk & Joe though so I like seeing some powerful striking.

gimmick

^ Thats a fair answer, as I suppose my original question pigeon holes far too much. I also like a nice spotfest now and then, hence my liking of Dragongate. I love fast paced matches with the likes of MCMG and The Bucks. I love stiff as board 90s Japanese matches with Kobashi and Misawa. I also enjoy putting in an old ECW DVD from time to time for something easy to watch.

flahavaj

I think the main thing is that each style is done well.

I love spot fests when they're as well executed as the original WWF TLC matches or the Dragon gate Six Mans, but i hate sh*tty indy spot fests done by geeks in baggy shiny pants.

Hardcore wrestling can be done amazing well when its meaningful and theres a reason for peopel to hate each other such as the HHH/Cactus Jack Streetfight or the Funk/Lawler empty arena match.

Etc etc.

I love all genres of wrestling equally tbh and my choice on any particular day purely depends on my mood. But if I'm taking the time to watch something all I ask is that a bit of thought and skill has been put into it.

Fitzy101

flahavaj wrote: »

I love spot fests when they're as well executed as the original WWF TLC matches or the Dragon gate Six Mans, but i hate sh*tty indy spot fests done by geeks in baggy shiny pants.

Amen to that, I get so pissed off seeing some CZW guys trying get a pop from the crowd by jumping off a ladder but then botching every spot in the match lol.

JP Liz V1

It has to be technical wrestling for me but also like the high flying stuff maybe a mixture of both

Charisteas

Douglas Williams would love this thread!

chordtype

I love indy guys who like to 'get all their $hit in' no matter what.