I would have to say that there was at least a top ten worthy group of managers of all time
10 Vickie Guerrero, Hear me out on why she is on this list, i think there is a universal understanding that managers purpose is to get their charge over with the crowd either via cheers or boos and Vickie definetly does this, I can't think of any manager currently that if Dolph ditched vickie, he would almost for sure be a top ten face in a moment.
9 Slick, This is mostly because he did have a pretty good stable in the early 90's starting the years off with the twin towers of bossman and akeem then getting power and glory and the singles of the warlord who lets face it back in the early 90's the warlord looked impressive and I still think his feud with davey boy smith was a good feud.
8 Sheri Martel AKA Sensational Sherri, She Paved the way of the female heel manager without her a female manager would be a miss elizabeth type no offense to her but she really had nothing to do with crowd reaction for randy savage outside of wrestlemania 7, Sherri got randy savage over as a heel for more than just having him being as ass to her then when she moved to a then newly turned heel shawn michaels as well as ted dibiase where she played the sugar daddy card on him was great and got both over greatly then she moved over to wcw where i think harlem heat wouldn't have been as great in the mid to late 90's without her, I think that Booker T and Stevie ray learned a lot from her and should be thankful for the lessons because they really started to pick up her charisma near the end of her being their manager and it parlayed into a great run for Booker T and a good run for Stevie Ray.
7 Paul Bearer, He kind of scared me a little when i was younger, he had a great look as manager for the undertaker when taker wasn't saying more than "rest in Peace", later managing mankind and vader I kind of always thought that those two would be pushed better with bearer as their manager.
6 Mr. Fuji, He was just a great manager because you knew that he had that way about him that even when i was a kid in the 80's you knew that there was something about him that made you know that he could truely beat someone up on his own, I mean his time with demolition was great how often do you see someone able to turn teams like he could, I mean come on with the demolition / powers of pain feud the powers of pain started the feud as a pretty well over face team then fuji turned on demolition and the powers of pain became a dominate heel team.
5 Ted Dibiase, I was and still am a fan of Ted Dibiase Sr. From that laugh, his look and his gimmick, you just felt that he had that cockyness to him that sold him to the crowd, now obviously when i talk about him as a manager you have to go to the million dollar corporation, I mean come on when you heard that theme and you knew a member of the corporation was coming out and dibiase would be with them you knew that you wanted to boo the hell out of whoever was coming out, it could be I.R.S, Bam bam bigelow, Tatanka, 1-2-3 Kid, Sid Vicious or even the ones he managed shortly like King kong bundy, Kama (aka the godfather), Xanta Klaus (aka balls mahoney) or the fake undertaker (brian Lee).
4 James Mitchell, anyone suprised that I placed him so high on the list needs to watch any youtube clip of a promo that he gave at any point either as james mitchell, the sinister minister or as James Vandenberg, he just worked so well as the way he spoke made you go damn, early stuff in the 90's with Kanyon, as The Sinister Minister he got Mikey Whipwreck and Tajiri crazy over in the Original ECW, and obviously as Abyss's Manager and Later with Judas Mesias, Black Reign and Rellik
3 Jim Cornette, Another Great Speakers in the manager game, I go right away to his time as vader's manager, as well as old school teams like Midnight Express and The Heavenly Bodies obviously you can't forget that he later coguided the career of the late yokozuna and guided the tag careers of the late Davey Boy Smith and Owen Hart
2 Bobby Heenan, One of the Best of all time, if he came out with anyone they instantly became the biggest heel in the then wwf, I mean look at what siding with him did for andre the giant, Rick Rude, Curt Hennig just for example, It was a tough decision to make him the number 2 manager but...
1 Jimmy Hart, He just always had that you want to punch him quality that I kind of like in a manager, I mean with that bullhorn / Megaphone and that voice you just wanted to be able to reach into the tv and strangle him, that said look at the careers he guided The Hart Foundation, Honky Tonk Man, Greg Valentine, Brutus Beefcake, The Rougeau Brothers, then Jacques Rougeau as the Mountie and Earthquake and that was just in the wwf then he comes to wcw with hulk hogan turns on hogan and gets the dungeon of doom with just an insane amount of people some were quite talented (Meng, Barbarian, Bill Demott,The Giant, Kevin Sullivan and once again the late John Tenta) some where just gimmicked out but jimmy hart somehow got good heel reactions for them too
