Who will be recalled as a great?

[Guest John Hancock]

Show is already respected for what he did in WCW

 

You seem to be massively over emphasising how much the average fan cares about WCW.

[Guest Ciaran The King]

I'm just commenting that Show did a lot in WCW that he will be remembered for

[Guest John Hancock]

Like what?

 

More so than Rey winning the Rumble, or the Guerrero feud, or being the only luchador most Americans have ever seen, or being the most famous latino in a genre with a massively disproportionately hispanic fan base.

Edited August 26, 2013 by John Hancock

[Guest Edgehead]

When I think of Big Show in WCW the first thing I think of is Nash's botched powerbomb

[Guest Ciaran The King]

I think of Goldberg performing the Jackhammer

[Guest John Hancock]

I'm old enough and smarky enough to remember WCW, and even I don't remember him getting Jackhammered particularly vividly. I do, however, remember him getting dropped on his head, in which case we should add Hardcore Holly and Droz to the list.

[Guest Ciaran The King]

You could be right lol

[The Icon 152]

I'm just commenting that Show did a lot in WCW that he will be remembered for

 

Hardly. In fact apart from falling a million feet to death from a roof only to survive I can recall nothing memorable.

[Guest Ciaran The King]

Maybe I am being overly generous to the big show

[King 277]

I'm old enough and smarky enough to remember WCW, and even I don't remember him getting Jackhammered particularly vividly. I do, however, remember him getting dropped on his head, in which case we should add Hardcore Holly and Droz to the list.

 

Show threw a mean dropkick back when he first started out in WCW, then he discovered cheese burgers.

[Guest Ciaran The King]

Couldn't he do a moonsault at one point??

[The Icon 152]

Couldn't he do a moonsault at one point??

 

He Could. Think he never did it on screen though. Nobody wanted to take it.

[Guest Fatherof10minis]

If you mare comparing Rey and Big Shows WCW work. The move I remember more than Nash botching the jacknife, was watching Nash launch Rey like a lawn dart into the side of a production truck in 1996 I beleive. If your basing it on memorable moments only then I choose rey because a good move should be better remembered than a botch.

[Guest Pepsi Twist]

I don't think it's about comparing ring work, I think in 10 years time (barring any massive angle or great moment from either) more people are going to think of Rey, the little guy who flipped all over the place and beat guys twice his size, one of the only Mexican mask dudes a lot of fans will have seen and all the title runs he's had at every level, compared with Big show, the guy who was like a smaller Andre the giant.

Personally I don't like Rey at all, and I occasionally appreciate Big show, but I really can't see any way that Big show stands out above Mysterio.

[Guest Ciaran The King]

No matter what Rey has done Big Show will be known more just because of the Mayweather bout

[Guest John Hancock]

Mayweather won't even be remembered for the Mayweather bout. As fun as it was, that match is barely talked about inward wrestling circles like this site, let alone the real world.

 

It's madness to put "that big guy" higher on the "oh, it's that guy" chart then "the Mexican guy with the mask". Rey Mysterio is the mainstream face of an entire genre of wrestling, a genre of wrestling that happens to be of massive cultural importance to America's biggest, or at least most visible and active, immigrant community. Irrespective of what you think of them as wrestlers, or how famous the people Big Show's been injured by are, or how great he was 15 years ago in a company no one remembers, he's just not a mainstream, instantly recognisable, "Oh, it's him!" guy in the way you seem to think he is.

Edited August 27, 2013 by John Hancock

[Guest Ciaran The King]

To be honest I dislike both stars and I wished they'd both sod off

[Guest pjnugget]

Kane will obviously go down as a great. He's been a massive name in wrestling for 16 years already, and he will probably go beyond 20 by the time he's finished. Cena is a no-brainer too.

I think Kane will be remembered, but necessarily as a great. Cena will for sure. Kane has kind of been in the Undertakers shadow, and never really been as dominant as he probably should be. H e could use a Bobby Heenan type to really push him over the top.

[Guest Ciaran The King]

Kane's been relevant for 15 years, he will be remembered

[Guest John Hancock]

He'll be remembered for existing, not for having good matches.