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Post by Cap on Jul 18, 2019 15:05:18 GMT -5
Gun to my head, if someone said who - at their very best - was the greatest wrestler ever, I'd probably say Eddie. If we are talking just PEAK, I'm not sure he is touchable as an all around performer.
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Post by microstatistics on Aug 6, 2019 0:44:08 GMT -5
I guess you can penalize him for those gaps in his career, but yeah Eddie at his best was about as good as you can be at wrestling.
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Post by elliott on Aug 6, 2019 0:49:45 GMT -5
Its really interesting. When he was in WCW you'd hear he was better in ecw, Mexico & Japan. Then when he was in wwe you'd hear he was better in WCW. In the end would any argue in a million years that his non-WWE stuff is better than that last WWE run?
I would love to reexamine his indy run before he went back to the WWE because I remember some great shit from that time period.
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Post by Cap on Aug 6, 2019 6:52:15 GMT -5
I would argue his best work work was in the WWE by far (in that last run). Its where he hit his highest highs. I still think his title run, short as it was, was phenomenal. He played a great heel and a great face, had (in my mind) absolutely elite matches, and was involved in some of the best feuds of the time period.
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Post by KB8 on Aug 7, 2019 4:52:37 GMT -5
I'm on board with Eddie at his best being as good as pretty much any other wrestler in history at their best. I'd actually say he had a couple peaks that were about level, though both were short. In '97 he put everything together and that heel run was unbelievable, but it didn't really continue into 1998. The second peak I'd say is '04-'05 (tbf, 2002 and 2003 weren't terribly far off even if he never had the same opportunities to showcase it), and unfortunately that was cut short by his passing. He died as the best wrestler on the planet and his performance in that Smackdown match with Mysterio is about as good as any individual performance I've ever seen.
I do think the run in Mexico is the weakest of his career, and he always struck me someone who was more comfortable working a more "American" style, which I guess to an extent never hurt him too much in AAA. That said, that Eddie/Santo v Casas/Panther tag from 1987 that showed up on youtube last year is tremendous and 19 year old Eddie looked like a fucking prodigy. Of course being in there with three of the ten best luchadors ever wouldn't have hurt, but I'd never seen him work the mat like that at any other point in his time in Mexico. So now I'm convinced there's a bunch of Juarez footage sitting in someone's garage that shows those early years in Mexico were Eddie's best there and he was actually amazing at the lucha libre and I will not hear a word to the contrary.
Also, not that I've mentioned it already, but he's my favourite wrestler ever and I couldn't leave him out of my top 15 even if I tried (I think he was #12 on my GWE ballot).
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Post by Cap on Aug 7, 2019 7:35:27 GMT -5
I would agree that he thrived in America where he could use lucha influences moreso than when he was immersed in the lucha style.
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Post by elliott on Feb 10, 2021 19:00:55 GMT -5
Been thinking about Guerrero since MJP made the above comment.
Interesting that Bryan has essentially been a candidate for the best wrestler in the world for longer than Eddie's actual career lasted.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2021 1:26:43 GMT -5
One of my favourites and the guy who kept my flagging interest in rasslin going till 05. Would have been cool to see him heeling it up week-to-week in AEW.
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