Greatest Midcarder ever!!

[Ruthless-RKO]

Quite simple, the title says it all really...I see a mid carder as a wrestler who fights in the middle of a show/ppv etc.. and mostly for secondary titles e.g. IC, US, X-Division, TV etc.. and you will all agree with me..Yes??

So its simple, I think there are a lot of guys who stayed in the mid card or even upper-midcard, So who do you think was greatest midcarder ever!!

I have to pick Mr. Perfect...this guy was just pure technician and its unlucky how he never got his hands on the WWF Championship back in his Mr. Perfect days...He had 2 good Intercontintal reigns the second of which is where he had the amazing match at SummerSlam against Bret Hart(who he dropped it to)...and to be honest his US championship run was pretty good as well...

Honourable Mention goes to Rick Rude, William Regal, Ted DiBiase, British Bulldog, Roddy Rowdy Piper, Owen Hart, (Just have to mention Shelton Benjamin!!)

As for current mid carders in the WWE I would have to say Christian, Matt Hardy, Kofi Kingston and MVP are the ones that are looking good and some of which I hope will get a world title run soon...

 

[mulkeymania]

as far as pure entertainment value to myself roddy piper is the choice but i must choose matt hardy because the man entertains and an excellent worker in the ring. just my personal choice but all choices are excellent

 

[marklouis]

Wow, that's a hell of a list. I don't think he was the best wrestler, but I'd have to say my favorite was Piper. He was certainly the most entertaining, & Piper's Pit was one of my all-time favorite segments. I really think he should've gotten at leat one run with the title. I know it was in the middle of Hogan's run, but Hogan needed an enemy right? Why not give to Piper for a few months & let Hogan chase the title? You could've done the same thing with the Million Dollar Man. I loved Rude, Perfect, DiBiase, Roberts, but Piper was my favorite.

 

[CyDeez]

Yeah all those choices are great, and are absolutely valid...

It's sort of hard to argue with Piper... But Mr. Perfect and Rick Rude definetly make it a closer race... The Bulldog deserves consideration too...

I'll pick Rude because the mid 90s really could have used a tremendous Heel to feud with Hart for the title... Sure Yokozuna was there, but I believe Rude would have gotten over and cemented his place in Wrestling History!!

Since he passed away young, before he returned to the ring and had his BIG run... He will kinda be best known as the guy that was on Raw and Nitro on the same night, with DX and NWO!!

 

[brighamosity]

If you're talking about people who were never main-eventers, it's really difficult for me to name one, because most good mid-carders eventually went to the main event later in their careers. Razor Ramon and Chris Jericho (during his WCW days) are too that stand out for me, but I acknowledge that they eventually went on to become main eventers. I'm even tempted to say Owen Hart, but even he main-evented on occasion. If I can only choose between people who were NEVER main eventers, I think I have to go with Ted Dibiase. I think it was a lot more dificult to be a main eventer back then because they didn't have Raw, Smackdown, or monthly pay-per-views. Feuds would last 3 months at a minimum (estimated time between pay-per-views). Now, with all the shows and pay-per-views, it's required companies to have much larger main-event scenes so they can rotate them around without them going stale. But back in the late 80's, it was completely common to just have a few main eventers: Macho man, Hogan, and Andre the Giant. I'm sure there are more that I'm leaving out, but my point stands. We have a different main event every month. Half the roster it seems has been in the main event at one time or another. Heck, even Mark Henry has main evented before. So I just don't think the standard is as high for what it takes to be a main eventer. So with that, I would definately have to go with Ted Dibiase. If he were in today's era of wrestling, he would have held the world title several times I'm sure.

 

[JuviJuiceIsLoose]

I'm gonna go with Mr. Perfect being the best Mid-Carder ever. I wouldn't really call Piper a Mid-Carder, because he Main Evented Pay Per Views against Hulk Hogan, and he was without a doubt the biggest heel in the Company at the time.

I also wouldn't call Ted Dibiase a Mid-Carder, because he Main Evented Wrestlemania and SummerSlam.

As far as the WWE goes, I think Mr. Perfect was the best Mid-Carder. He had it all from great mic skills, to amazing in-ring ability, to the best manager of all-time in Bobby the Brain Heenan. With regards to Lex Luger, Curt Hennig was the Total Package.

If you're gonna include guys like Piper and Dibiase, you might wanna rename this poll "Greatest Superstar to never become WWE Champion".

 

[theHeadliner]

I'd have to say Owen Hart. He was a work horse, held the tag, IC titles, won KOTR 1994, and was a great wrestler. I'm surprised he's not on the list.

 

[holdingholder]

My pick would be Scott Hall, but from this list I would have to go with Rude, the back injury really robbed him of the best years of his career when he would have been contending for the WCW title during WCW's rise to prominence.

 

[MarcusFenixX]

YES Mr. PErfect is the perfect choice for this thread, i also agree with above posters who said roddy piper and matt hardy.

Thinking outside the box though, and here me out on this...

THE HURRICANE aka Gregory Helms.

1. the longest reigning mid carder champion of all time. whether he was pulling an epic upset over The Rock, teaming with S.H.I.T. (super hero in training) Gregory Helms was ALWAYS entertaining.

 

[Miz>Awesome]

I think Razor Ramon should have been on the list. He was in a main event on rare occasions, but was pretty sound as a midcarder.

I would also have included guys like Test, Konnan and Ahmed Johnson... all those guys were total workhorses and never really got into the spotlight as much as they should have

 

[mrbooker]

Not Scott Hall(who was a maineventer) but this is easily Razor Ramon by a landslide. No mid carder, not one was iconsidered Top 5 of their company, also the list of names Razor feuded goes on and on macho man, HBK, Diesel, hart, ted dibiase etc...

 

[lgreene9187]

As soon as I saw the question, Mr. Perfect (not the AWA Curt Hennig) immediately jumped to mind. However, as I perused the list of options, some are laughable. Mid-carders from back in the day were much more important in the regional days. How could you leave off Tully Blanchard, Arn Anderson, Jimmy Garvin, Blackjack Mulligan, etc.? These guys never held world titles but were major players during their eras.

 

[Kenny Powers]

It would have to be between Henning and Rick Rude. Two of the best competitors never to hold a world title in WWE or WCW. Curt had awesome matches with every competitor under the sun such as Bret Hart, Tito Santana, Shawn Michaels. He had the look, arrogance and technical skill to do anything in the ring. Rick Rude a childhood friend of his was the same way. He had some classic matches with Ricky Steamboat, Jake the Snake, and he even managed to give the Ultimate Warrior a decent match.

Its a toss up between these two great competitors.

 

[StopIt]

I would have to pick Curt Hennig. Every week, he would put on some good ass matches. and come one. He's Mr.Perfect!!
He would put on nice matches with almost everyone. And he has never held a World title which is sad :/

 

[Ruthless-RKO]

If you're gonna include guys like Piper and Dibiase, you might wanna rename this poll "Greatest Superstar to never become WWE Champion".

Yes, I do know that some of them main evented, but that was like only afew times, they may have been in the main event a few times, but they never really cemented their place in the main event scene did they?? Unlike guys like Hogan, Bret Hart, Randy Savage etc..

 

[Davi323]

I agree with JuviJuiceIsLoose, Roddy Piper shouldn't be on this list. He never won the WWF title, but he was certainly a main eventer. So was the Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase. Not winning the WWF title during the Hogan years is =/= to midcard status. And for those two, you obviously aren't old enough to remember each having lengthy feuds with Hulk. Especially not when you consider that both men headlined Wrestlemania.

You know that little thing called Hulkamania? That was because of his feud with Piper. Hogan and Piper were the banes of each other's existence. They feuded in the WWF when Hogan was the top face, they feuded in WCW when Hogan was the top heel. They feuded in decade #3 when both returned to the WWE. They were both inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame on the same night. Rowdy Roddy Piper and Hulk Hogan are forever connected...Roddy Piper was perhaps one of the two greatest heels in wrestling history. Definitely not a midcarder.

Ted DiBiase and Hogan had a lengthy feud, that lasted the better part of a year. It involved Andre the Giant giving him the belt, it also gave us the Hebner twins/evil ref angle. To claim DiBiase never cemented his status as a main eventer is utterly ridiculous. Wrestlemania IV's entire tournament was built around DiBiase's attempts to purchase the WWF title. I will say that once again...THEY DESIGNED AN ENTIRE WRESTLEMANIA CONCEPT OUT OF THE DIBIASE/HOGAN FEUD. Then he feuded with Hogan some more, with the MegaBucks vs. the MegaPowers, and a Survivor Series match. Midcarder my ass.

I am going to assume that the OP considers Ricky Steamboat to be a main eventer and not a midcarder as well, or else his exclusion from this list would be scandalous.

With that being said, for my money, its got to be Mr. Perfect. Why this man was never thrust into the main event scene during the early/mid 90s I will never know. He had all the talent, he had the charisma.

 

[Hollywood Naitch]

I would go for Christian

The guy was part of one of the best tag teams of all time (Edge & Christian), holding the tag team belts 7 times, as well as single reigns with Chris Jericho and Lance Storm as his partners.

As a singles competitor in the WWE, Christian has had 3 Interncontinental title runs, he has been light heavyweight champion, Hardcore champion, and has held the European title once. Since his return from TNA, Christian also held the ECW title on 2 occasions

That is 17 seperate title reigns with 5 different credible championship belts, (I know the ECW title was technically a World Title, but it was a never a main event level title in the 'E)

Christian has been consistantly popular with the WWE fans ever since his debut, and many fans think he deserves a push to the main event and a chance to run with a proper world title in the WWE.

As a member of E&C, he was part of some of the greatest tag team matches of all time, and in singles action he has also had many great matches over the years.

It is for these reasons, I think Christian is the best mid-carder ever in the WWE, and should have been a choice on the poll, instead of guys like Chavo.

 

[Money Inc.]

I'm going to have to go with Ravishing on this one.

Rude's ability to get over was brilliant in my mind. He was in a "family" full of guys who had no charisma, and yet he was flooded with it. When you add in the Brain by his side he is 100% the best mid-card performer in wrestling history.

He also got some decent work out of the Ultimate Warrior. His feud with Sting was probably more favorite of his.

 

[WWEWrestleFest]

I wouldn't call Rick Rude Ted DiBiase, or Roddy Piper "midcarders." They were all main event guys (examples: Piper during the first WM, DiBiase during WM 4, and Rick Rude during SummerSlam 1990) Rick Rude even held the WCW world belt for a bit. Just because they were never WWF champions doesn't mean they were midcarders.

Anyway, my vote goes to Mr. Perfect. No pun intended, but Curt Hennig was absolutely perfect.

 

[Ruthless-RKO]

I wouldn't call Rick Rude Ted DiBiase, or Roddy Piper "midcarders." They were all main event guys (examples: Piper during the first WM, DiBiase during WM 4, and Rick Rude during SummerSlam 1990) Rick Rude even held the WCW world belt for a bit. Just because they were never WWF champions doesn't mean they were midcarders.

Again, just because they were involved in 1 or 2 main event matches doesn't mean they had a permanent place in the main event scene....

Let me give you an example...The Great Khali...What is he? Midcard to undercard for me!! However he has been in the main event scene once or twice and gone on to even main event SummerSlam but do you consider him a main event wrestler?? I didn't think so..

And I am fully aware that Rude held the WCW International Heavyweight champion...