Mount Rushmore of Wrestling

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Who's on your Mount Rushmore of Wrestling? In my opinion, you can't have a Mount Rushmore without Steve Austin, Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair with the 4th man being up for debate.

Of course everyone has a different opinion and some people probably won't even have the aforementioned three guys on them. It doesn't matter what reason you choose them for whether it's the best wrestlers, biggest stars, wrestlers that you liked the most etc.

QikBax

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gerrybbadd

My ideal would be Bret, Shawn, Austin and Taker.

However, the most likely would be Hulk, Austin, Flair and Dusty

Pentecost

Melina, Alicia Fox and The Bellas

Bounty Hunter

Austin, Hogan, Flair and (Kane and Big Show of course)...

Triple threat between Bret, HBK and The Rock for the 4th spot then we get a classic wrestling screw job as Vinnie Mac makes himself no.4.

Andre name would get thrown into the mix but not chosen, just like Taker.

Imnotthehulk

Cena, Austin, Hogan, Rock.

If Cena had come along ten years earlier, and been able to compete in the attitude era, he would've been as beloved as Austin and The Rock. Love him or hate him he's been the face of the WWE (and wrestling) for the past decade or so, and has put on a lot of great matches.

I think the rest are in for obvious reasons. Left out the likes of Bret Hart and HBK because their times at the top of the business really weren't that great, bar a few matches against each other.

sky88

Always thought vince belongs up there when people have this chat but guess its more about wrestlers.

Hogan Austin rock i think cant be argued and id probaley pick HBK

grames_bond

the groutch

is that Taker, or Vigo from Ghostbusters 2?

montyrebel

to me you have to have Gorilla Monsoon up there, Bruno Sammartino, Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant

Andersonisgod

I'm going with Rikidozan, Antonio Inoki, Giant Baba, Mitsuharu Misawa. Without Rikidozan there is no Baba or Inoki, so there is no AJPW or NJPW and Misawa is the greatest wrestler of his generation whose split from AJPW to create NOAH changed puroresu.

From an in ring point of view I would say Kobashi, Liger, Manami Toyota, Tanahashi (bit controversial but dammit I don't care)

Bounty Hunter

google images says this = Mount Rushmore of Wrestling (top result)



Mystery solves I guess, big Dave wins

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Rock Lesnar

Bruno, Hogan, Austin, and Undertaker for me.

Chip Whitley

It's a tough one, if you want to be representative across a few decades you could say Bruno, Hogan, Austin & Cena.

But personally I'd say Hogan, Flair, a Taker and Austin.

Griever931

Ageyev

Whoever the biggest aggregate draws were in terms of ticket sales, PPV buys and merch other revenue. I guess that would be something like Sammartino, Flair, Hogan, Austin, Rock and/or Cena. Not sure who the biggest Japan and Mexico draws would be...

You could also take into account people who changed, innovated or otherwise significantly influenced the business not to mention personal taste. However, drawing power is a good point to start at since it is more objective and can be empirically proven to a degree.

rossie1977

if you are talking just the states then frank gotch, lou thesz, hulk hogan and maybe vince jr i dunno

the first three are probably about as close to washington, lincoln and jefferson as you will get in us pro-wrestling history

Blue_Dabadee

Bruno Sammartino, Hulk Hogan, Stone Cold and John Cena.