2017 Pro Wrestling Thread

I hope new Spike TV keeps Bar Rescue. That's my only non-Total Divas reality TV guilty pleasure.

 

Or if Khali and Beth Phoenix had a kid ...

 

We need a bit of action here on this thread. I'm going to try a little series of who's the greatest...(this is all subjective, of course.)

I'll start off with an easy one: Who's the greatest Intercontinental Champion?

You can just mention the wrestler who you think is the greatest, or you can also say why you believe so and so is the greatest.

 

Honky Tonk Man. Just ask him yourself.

 

Honky Tonk Man is the cheeky answer, but he's also the right answer in a lot of ways. He was the champion during wrestling's first big boom period, had a memorable gimmick and some great feuds and matches during his title reign. He elevated the Intercontinental title to a place of prominence.
It helped that the world champion at the time, Hulk Hogan, rarely defended the belt outside of PPVs and Saturday Night's Main Event, and didn't regularly appear on the weekly TV show. Honky Tonk Man did.
He's not the greatest wrestler ever to hold the IC belt (that could go to any number of guys), but what he did with and for that title makes him the first name that comes to mind when it's mentioned.

 

I'll try to post a new question every 24-hours or so. Depending if there is any interesting wrestling discussion going on.

 

Chavo Classic passes away

 

I don't know who the greatest IC champ was, but Tito Santana was my favorite.

 

Even before his little run with the E, he was one of the more respected Mexican wrestlers in the 70s and 80s.

He had a tremendous program with Piper in the dying days of the Los Angeles territory. The highlight of this was Piper, after insulting Mexicans multiple times (less PC era back then), agreed to apologize and said he would play the Mexican national anthem on his bagpipes. The big moment came, and Piper proceeded to play La Cucharacha.

RIP

 

Intercontinental Champion: Maybe it's because I started following pro wrestling just as he won the belt, but I'm going with Randy Savage. I just feel that he really elevated that belt, and could make himself up to be almost the equal of Hogan, though nobody was going to beat the Hulkster. And Savage, of course, was able to work some fantastic matches, culminating in the classic Wrestlemania III bout with Ricky Steamboat. (I'd love to say Steamboat was the best, but the reign just wasn't long enough for him).

 

I'm gonna with a modern day pick and say the Miz. I just think his work while champion was phenomenal and he elevated that belt.

 

Savage is right there, and a good pick. Hard to argue it.
And I know it was a different era in how they handled the belts back then, but it blows my mind that he only held three championships in the WWF (the Intercontinental once, and the WWF Championship twice). If he'd come along 15 years later he'd have been a 12-time world champion with the way they handle the titles now.