Favorite Veteran of 2015

[ShinChan]

So 2016 has arrived. I wanted to know

Which is your favorite veteran of 2015?
▶For me, Its The Sting!

Although i didnot like the too much interference in his debut match against Triple H at Wrestlemania 31 and also his debut loss, Yet it was an awesome moment for me to see him debut in WWE at Wrestlemania 31. Then his return after Summerslam was awesome too and i loved his match with Seth Rollins at Night of Champions. Unfortunately he got injured. I hope he recovers properly.

EDIT- Kane is behind by a slight fraction at #2, Triple H at #3, The Undertaker at #4, Mark Henry at #5 & Big Show at #6!

Thoughts & Votes?

 

[J.J.]

Not that he's my favorite but I have to roll with Kane. He had done a great job over the last two years of putting others, while still being involved in major storylines. Kane's versatility has kept him from getting as stale as say the Big Show. Whenever he puts on the mask it breaks up the monotony a bit. When I recount the last 3-5 years, at least Kane has been involved in some quality stuff. Team Hell No, he had a pretty good match at Extreme Rules with Bryan, AJ Lee love triangle, and his dissent from Rollins had some entertaining points.

 

[That N Word]

Mines is a name you forgot to add to the list...JOHN CENA! I met him and Kane in 2015 and they are great people in real life mainly Kane. But my reasoning is all those great matches he had and what he has done for the US Title and how guys like Owens and Cesaro started getting main rosters pushes because of their matches with Cena. So I say he is the Veteran of 2015.

Kane is #2 on my list for what he has done with the younger talent and he had a quite entertaining 2015. So on the poll I voted for him.

 

[ShinChan]

Not that he's my favorite but I have to roll with Kane. He had done a great job over the last two years of putting others, while still being involved in major storylines. Kane's versatility has kept him from getting as stale as say the Big Show. Whenever he puts on the mask it breaks up the monotony a bit. When I recount the last 3-5 years, at least Kane has been involved in some quality stuff. Team Hell No, he had a pretty good match at Extreme Rules with Bryan, AJ Lee love triangle, and his dissent from Rollins had some entertaining points.

Exactly why i was split up between Sting & Kane! But in the end, I went with Sting over Kane with the margin of 51-49. Thats because he is so efficient at the age of 56!

Mines is a name you forgot to add to the list...JOHN CENA! I met him and Kane in 2015 and they are great people in real life mainly Kane. But my reasoning is all those great matches he had and what he has done for the US Title and how guys like Owens and Cesaro started getting main rosters pushes because of their matches with Cena. So I say he is the Veteran of 2015.

Kane is #2 on my list for what he has done with the younger talent and he had a quite entertaining 2015. So on the poll I voted for him.

I didnot forget him. I didnot add him on purpose. I have added wrestlers of age >40 & Cena is 38. Moreover i too loved his run in 2015 for his great matches with Cesaro & Kevin Owens and US Open Challenges were just awesome and unpredictable which added icing to the cake. Every week we tuned in Raw to know his opponent and see quality matches!

 

[the_peoples_adam]

The Undertaker..
He worked two blockbuster matches against Brock this year and also did great with promos..
but only if you dont count John Cena as a veteran yet like me.

 

[ShinChan]

I liked The Undertaker VS Brock Lesnar at Hell In A Cell but not at Summerslam..... I lost interest in Undertaker after his long feud with Brock and the trading of low-blows to each other.... It felt like unreasonable i mean the whole feud which started with Undertaker costing Brock the title.. I have started disliking Taker after that feud and his win over Wyatts!

 

[Aquaman6686]

I've got to go with Triple H. He's one of the few veterans in WWE who understands what his purpose is. Every other veteran is too willing to put over every young guy who comes along. Triple H understands that he should only drop a loss when it really means something, hence why a win over Triple H is a much bigger deal than a win over Kane or Big Show, since everyone beats those guys.

Two years ago my answer would have been Undertaker and I never would have thought that would change. But seeing him flush his entire legacy down the toilet to stroke Brock Lesnar's ego made me lose all respect for Undertaker. I have no respect for someone who has no respect for themselves.

 

[S.J. Maximus]

In terms of who I like the most, Triple H gets my vote. He may have only wrestled once in 2015 but that one match was my single favorite match of the year (Sasha/Bayley is an extremely close second) and he has made the most appearances on WWE television out of everyone on the poll. Perhaps if he wasn't so involved backstage and spear-heading the best wrestling show in the world in NXT we'd see him get more physically involved but I'll take what I can get.

If this thread is more about the "MVP", however, I find it hard to give it to anyone but The Phenom himself. After almost 5 years of working once a year, Mark Calaway has mustered the physical and mental strength to work more high-profile matches than everyone else on this list combined. Although I personally didn't care for his match at WM31, he definitely turned back the clock for his two bouts with Brock and I thoroughly enjoyed the nostalgia of his teaming effort with Kane at Survivor Series. Kane was great, Sting was phenomenal, but Taker simply had a larger volume of matches in 2015.

 

[LBGetBack]

Chris Jericho. He wasn't around much on TV, but I thought him only wrestling live events and not working PPV or TV for awhile was a cool and unique thing. And then that event in Japan that was only on the Network was a very good performance, and his suprise PPV appearance teaming up with Reigns and Rollins was cool. I liked the unpredictable and unconventional nature of Jericho's year.

 

[Aquaman6686]

Chris Jericho. He wasn't around much on TV, but I thought him only wrestling live events and not working PPV or TV for awhile was a cool and unique thing. And then that event in Japan that was only on the Network was a very good performance, and his suprise PPV appearance teaming up with Reigns and Rollins was cool. I liked the unpredictable and unconventional nature of Jericho's year.

Chris Jericho is a great option as well. The idea to have him only do house shows was brilliant and something I think WWE will do more of in the future. House show business has been in the toilet since ending the Brand Extension, but having a top star that fans could ONLY see at live events was a stroke of genius.

 

[SSJPhenom]

Have to go with 'Taker. The Phenom, the Deadman, Demon of Death Valley, etc.

2015 was a huge year for 'Taker and fans of 'Taker, like myself, had to be very happy to see him as much as we did. Let's face it, this was the first year since 2010 (I believe) where he's wrestled multiple PPVs. Not only was he more active this year, but he was in 2 great matches with Lesnar. Their HIAC match was easily the best of their feud and their Summer Slam match was far and away better than their Wrestlemania match. I honestly wished that their Mania match had have been like their Summer Slam match, but whatever. He had a good match with Wyatt at WM and then he and Kane had a "Meh" match against the Wyatt family at Survivor Series. Why that wasn't a traditional Survivor Series match I'll never know. Anyways, 'Taker was definitely my favorite veteran of 2015 and he's often my favorite veteran of any year.

Love me some Undertaker.

 

[Azane]

I think Kanes done the best job of putting over talent, and being there on a weekly basis, back and on stage.


Mark Henry and Paul Wight both did excellent jobs as well, but I think Mark Henry's been lack luster since the Hall of Pain ended, and The Giant's been overexposed to where it's not that special (although it's insane in person, even if you've seen him a dozen times, he's one of the men larger than life in person).

Undertaker putting over Brock... Whatever? I like him, but no need to keep putting Brock over and over and over again, plus the Wyatt feud and Survivor series 25 years didn't do too much besides spoil the match. (and them completely dropping the Wyatts stealing kane+Takers souls, well, ya, they literally just ignored it after 1 week).

Sting.... Man, WWE stained his legacy, but that injury is just a ton of bad luck. Although it was interesting that the way they originally had NoC booked, Sting had a legitimate chance of getting a WWE title reign.

Triple H... I just feel like he didnt shine as much as a competitor as he did authority figure, so I don't feel like comparing him in the same light is even fair.

 

[Navi]

I went with HHH. Even though he's part time on the roster, he still puts on one hell of a good show when he's out there. You know when he shows up something is going to happen, and it usually does.

He's not afraid to take a hit, as we saw in the case with Reigns or put anyone over, again as we saw with Reigns. He has an eye for the business, and I don't give a damm about what he used to be like, he is now part and parcel of it. And I think he really does "what is best for business."

Not only that, look at how he's bringing in new talent, and some older ones to keep this ship sailing. Reports are Sting would never have stepped into a WWE ring if it hadn't been for HHH. HHH is the one who reached out to him, and the guys from NJPW, who still have yet to debut.

His work with NXT is nothing short of exemplary, in a few short years it's become it's own brand, and some of the matches are better than what we see on the flagship show. He knows how this business works in and out of the ring, and when he does get the keys to the kingdom I have no doubt the WWE will be in better shape than it is now.

 

[Mustang Sally]

Had Undertaker been around as much as Kane in 2015, I might have chosen him......but since he wasn't, Kane is my favorite veteran performer.

His flexibility of character is amazing. When wearing his suit, we got to see him as a tough enforcer of Authority policy, an unwilling 'yes man' as a stooge for the Levesques, a comedy enabler/deterrent for champion Seth Rollins, a disgruntled corporate officer ready to split from his bosses at any moment.

In contrast with all that was the in-ring Kane......with a mask or not, he was consistently the destroyer, willing to put over young talent as a performer in the late stages of his career should, yet kicking ass in the interim.

On this forum, we keep reading posts saying he should retire because he's slowed down so much and is not the Kane of old. After scanning that, I'm watching him use dropkicks and still jumping from the top rope.....and only hope I can move as well as him at age 48.

 

[Bernkastel]

That's gotta be Kane! That's gotta be Kane! I feel I've got to give the nod to my favorite superstar of all time. He really gave me a rush of nostalgia again. Watching him fight Seth Rollins for the company title brought be back to my teens watching him face Triple H for the world title. Man, those were good times. I didn't mind the Corporate Kane angle as much because I knew there would eventually be a payoff to it and there was. The Rollins/Kane match was kind of weak compared to the match they had on RAW the week before, though honestly I was so blinded by nostalgia glasses that I didn't realize how bad the match was until I tried watching it a second time. :/. The match he had against the Wyatts with Taker was also kind of weak, but really, that match was purely fan service from the get go. So no complaints here.

Undertaker would be my second choice.

 

[THTRobtaylor]

Jericho would a strong pick - if only because he probably did more to energise fans in the year than any of the others on the list. I am sure the main reason behind the "house show tours" was cos it was a chance to have fun wrestling again without the red light... but he made a big point of bigging the tour up every chance he got and did extra shots along the way.

Compare that to Taker, who only seemingly reluctantly, showed up a bit more often. Herny who spent the whole year injured more or less and Kane and Big Show, who started off with a "thank you" in the Rumble and just went down...and down...and down.. in people#s estimations the rest of the year.

2 guys no one is talking about - Bubba Dudley... he had a massive impact in the Rumble (that pop was HUGE) and then he and D-Von made tags a little more fun for the 2nd part of the year.

The main pick for me, isn't wrestling anymore...but is a massive part of NXT and thus the WWE... William Regal was a big part of making NXT great TV and you can see from Breaking Ground how important he is to the whole WWE... bringing in talent, scouting it, training it, bollocking them when they need it and providing leadership by example... He's my pick.

 

[kadroan]

I'd say Taker. His storylines told great stories. From his return costing Brock the title to him facing The Wyatt Family again.

 

[AegonTargaryen]

Sting!!!! The Stinger!!!! Sting all the wayyy baybayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

I can't conceive how one can pick anyone else.

My reasons are the same as Kapu.

Also, I lost interest in Taker long back(after WM26). What a boring fucking veteran.
He had one of the lousiest years in his career in 2015. Same old reshash.
At 50 yrs old, teaming up with Kane(45) against Wyatts, with little to no buildup and winning a lousy tag match at Survivor Series was one of the laziest and most worthless things I've had to watch. This match should've mainevented a SMACKDOWN.

Anyhow, so it's Sting for me.

If not Sting, I'd have gone with John Cena. The guy did quite a lot in 2015 as @WCWF cited, and this is coming from a guy(me) who is probably the most vicious John Cena hater out there.

Btw, agreed with everything@ Sally. Kane is adorably versatile! One is shocked when one thinks of the really limited role he once played as the "tormented, deformed half-brother of The Undertaker" and what he actually is able to play, in 2015 . I love Kane and the role he has been playing for the last few years, but Sting was just too novel in 2015 to not be chosen for this honour! So yeah, Stinggggggggggggggg all the way baby!