KB"s Wrestler Challenge #7- Roberts vs. Blanchard

[klunderbunker]

This week we have a battle of those guys that are viewed as great, but never had their run in the main event.

Introducing first, we have a man that brought an entirely different dimension into wrestling. He was a master of head games and wrestled a style that wasn't seen before his time. His finisher is legendary and his influence can't be denied on any level. From Stone Mountain, Georgia, Jake Roberts.

His opponent was one of the backbones of the NWA. Never really in the spotlight but always just on the brink of it, this man is a very popular man among the smarks. His finisher was cool and unique at the same time and I don't recall anyone using it other than him. He was part of the most elite group in wrestling history and was semi successful in the WWF. From San Antonio, Texas, Tully Blanchard.


You know the rules, do it however you'd like.

 

[klunderbunker]

THis has been up for a week, but I'm hoping that the forums being down is the reason no one has spoken in it. That being said, I have to go with the Snake.

No one had ever seen anything like him at the time and haven't since then. His finisher was so unique that there was nothing like it at the time. His in ring style was so unflashy that it was completely new. The snake at the end of the matches was always a fun treat no matter who it was against. He put a fucking snake on people. How cool is that just by looking at it?

Blanchard was good, but he was just another technical guy in the NWA. He was by far the weakest of the Horsemen and jsut kind of went along for the ride. Don't get me wrong, he was great in the ring, but when you put him in there with the guys he was with, he was in over his head.

 

[My$terio_Fan]

I'd go with Snake also. The man wasn't anything special in the ring but something about him captured peoples attention. The snake was also a great prop and helped bring him over. Blanchard was good but the weakest chain in the Horseman. The only thing is some people may only know Jake because of his drug/booze filled past and present back the man did entertain the fans and thats worth something.

 

[Monkey_Mania]

As much as I hate to vote against my boy Blanchard, I have too. Jake Roberts was the man. He created a simple move like the DDT and made it dangerous. The only person to ever do that. He had the mic skills that most people wish they had. He also had the psychology down to a science. Roberts is hands down one of the best workers of all time.

Blanchard may have been able to outmatch him in holds and physique, but that will only get you so far. You have to have the total package. Roberts almost did. Blanchard had only a few. I love Tully, but Roberts takes this hands down.

 

[Davi323]

I am going the other way. I used to love Jake the Snake Roberts, I respect what he accomplished in the ring, but I just think overall, Tully Blanchard was the better wrestler, and while he didn't have as much individual success as Roberts did, (although he did win 11 singles titles) He was one of the pivotal members of the greatest wrestling stable ever assembled. Tully Blanchard will forever be a "Horseman", as well as his long term teaming with Arn Anderson. Remember, it was Blanchard and double A, as the Brain Busters, that ended the 478 day reign of Demolition.

Finally, Blanchard never had to compete in a blindfold match against Rick the Model Martel. That alone is enough for me to vote for him over Roberts.

 

[IrishCanadian25]

As much as I love Tully Blanchard, and as talented as he was, he was also a bi-product of the success that Flair, Anderson, Dillon, and the Horsemen as a group enjoyed. They were one of those stables where the whole was greater than the sum of its parts.

Jake, however, was at his best as a loner. He was a good face, but as a heel he redefined heel psychology. Almost every heel feud he had was strong - especially against Savage and against Undertaker even.

Blanchard didn't succeed - he barely survived - unless Arn was around, whether it was in the Horsemen in NWA / WCW or as The Brainbusters in WWF.