The Coolest of All Time

[RedRegan1005]

It's time for the debate that must happen. It could get ugly, but it's an argument that I feel like I have to start. We've talked about whose the greatest on the mic, in the ring, selling, high flying, playing horseshoes and everything in between! But the simple question here is this, Who is the Coolest wrestler of all time? That wrestler who love'em or hate'em, when you see him or hear them talk you just say to yourself, damn this guy is cool. Not cool as in temperature, so Glacier doesn't count HA! But bad jokes aside, here are my top three:

Scott Hall - He was the bad guy. Simple as that and it made him cool. Even his Razor Ramon theme song had a cool bad ass beat to it. He would come out to the ring with a mic and you just paid attention. He had a cool laid back strut then takes the mic, and just says " Eh yo."

Shawn Michaels - Back in the 90's and even when he returned he always just seemed cool as hell. Especially in the 90's. He just had that look like girls wanted him, and guys wanted to be him. He was the Heartbreak Kid, The Showstopper. He was the kind of cool, where if you met him out somewhere, you would be like, I hate this guy. . .But damn it he is so cool!

Ric Flair - I don't care what crap he has done right or wrong in his personal life. I don't care what news you hear about Ric Flair. He is and always will be the man. He has that awesome high roller, suit and tie kind of cool. No matter how old he gets when I see him on TV, he is still the Stylin, profilin, limousine riding, jet flyin, kiss stealing, wheelin n' dealin son of gun! Hands down everybody wants to party with Ric Flair. When it comes to wrestling you wanna be Ric Flair, he is my choice as the coolest of all time. WOOOOOO!!!

 

[JoeyJoeJoe]

To me, it's got to come down to two guys: The Rock and Ric Flair. They both could hold audiences in the palms of their hands whether they were playing faces or heels.

 

[TheICChampion]

Evolution in their heyday were just the ultimate cool guy heels. You see the vignettes and the entrance video with the women all over them....and you gotta be doing something right if the company lets you have a jeopardy over all the titles on the one brand.

 

[Wolf Pac]

"Eh yo chico, say hello to da bad guy!".

Scott Hall/Razor Ramon - Everything about him screamed cool from his greased-back hair, the toothpick in his mouth, the bling, the hawaiian shirts, the colourful ring attires, his mannerisms to his smooth Cuban accent. He even pronounced words cool ("meng") and was very creative with his catchphrases (one of which happens to be my user title and was stolen by DX along with "Suck It"). Hall has one of the best minds for the business and he made it look cool to be bad. Hands down, he is the coolest wrestler of all time.

Following behind...

Stone Cold Steve Austin - He was no role model but Austin was very popular back in the Attitude Era. Apart from older mature folks, who didn't wanna walk into their school or their job, curse like a sailor, disrespect their teachers/bosses, and kick their fellow students/colleagues asses?

Ric Flair/Shawn Michaels - I agree, these guys were playboys. They were the type you hated but were secretly jealous of. Girls wanted to be with them and men wanted to be them. They had shitty cocky smug attitudes but deservingly so, they were rockstars and went around acting like it.

 

[MCMG]

Diesel was pretty damn cool. Effortlessly so. He wasn't all that in the ring. He wasn't all that on the mic but he was "cool".

Razor Ramon, of course had that quality about him. I suppose the NWO were the "cool heels" and the aforementioned two were part of that alongside Hogan but he didn't have the same quality as the Hall and Nash.

 

[Damien"Dark"Starr]

Always thought Rick Rude was pretty cool.

 

[OYDK]

Y'know, I always thought Shawn Michaels was the biggest whimp back in the day. The way he used to dance and dress and look at himself just screamed feminine to me and I never understood how people thought he was so cool. I honestly thought Michaels was more the guy who tried to be cool, but came off like an old school Jersey Shore character... Not a knock on Shawn as he is one of my favorites nowadays, but I just never really got what was so appealing to men about his gimmick.

As for who I think was the coolest, it's all basically been said already:

1. Stone Cold: When Austin would come to the ring, mouth motoring, head shaking, scowl on his face... you just knew shit was about to go down. When he would cut a promo, you would actually believe that he's going to kick everybody's ass. Just the "ahhhh shiiiiit" feeling I got when Stone Cold's music hit made him cool to me.

2. Ric Flair: I guess Ric Flair to me, is what Shawn Michaels was to a lot of other guys? Ric Flair was the guy who got all the money, all the girls, all the titles, and everything he wanted. Ric Flair was the guy I wanted to be.

3. Randy Savage: There was only one "Macho Man" and only one person who could pull it off. Randy Savage was different to say the least, but that's what made him so cool imo. He had so much charisma, and his voice was perfect for the catchphrases he used.

 

[FromGlasgow]

I would say Bret Hart was the coolest also the coolest group was the NWO group Hogan, Nash and Hall or maybe even the Fabulous Freebirds they seemed cool back in the day.

 

[MC_Live]

These types of debates are always subjective. Depends on how one interprets the criteria. Like I think Corey Taylor is one of the coolest SOB's the planet has ever seen. But there are people who hate everything the guy does. Ask me, Slipknot is Super Cool. As someone else, Slipknot is the Devil. So it's tough.

I would think the most popular answers are Steve Austin and the Rock. In modern society, what's cool is usually brought down to what's "in", or popular, as far as a mass opinion is concerned. I don't think there's ever been anyone more popular on a wide, main stream level than Austin and the Rock. People listened when they talked, and watched when they fought. They were all over the place, and these guys are just "cool". They're two of the most entertaining superstars ever, and people still to this day talk about them, and try to emulate them. So if you ask me, the way I look at it, these two are probably the "coolest" wrestlers in history.

 

[HeroForHire]

Scott Hall is my favorite wrestler of all time, and I don't think anyone could pull of being cool as he did. Whether it was Razor Ramon or the nWo he was always someone who oozed being cool. He was such a good bad guy. I don't remember a heel before him that got cheered the way he did when he was suppose to be heel. It was one of the heels that you had to turn face because he was over. Then when he turned face he didn't miss a beat.

 

[L@RISANO]

You can't have a thread about being cool and not mention this guy.

But seriously, for most cools I'd have to go with Stone Cold or Razor Ramon.

Both cool, badass guys but they portrayed it in different ways.

 

[Radical Canadian Goose]

Obviously it has to be a tie between Scott Taylor and Brian Christopher. I mean their team name had cool in the title. Sorry somebody had to say it.

In all honesty I would have to say Bret Hart. Strutting down to the ring in his pink and black gear (a man must be manly to wear pink lol) handing his sunglasses to children in the front row, I always wanted to be that child. As years went on he didn't seem as cool to me, he became a whiny bitch stuck on the past. I still love the man though.

Razor Ramon is a close second. How can you not find a man who oozes machismo cool?

 

[Charismatic Enigma]

I think it really depends on your definition of cool.

Most of the responses thus far that I've seen, are more under what I would classify as a badass. Or maybe the kind of guy you'd want to hang out with.

When I think of cool (particularly from 1999-2009) would be Jeff Hardy, but that is largely because what I find "Cool" is more along the lines of artistic and flashy. In this way I also found Ultimate Warrior to be very cool.

If I was going for all around, including out of the ring, I'd probably think Jericho would be a good option as well, because he is very personable, is friends with people from all walks of life, and has pursued his two passions in life and succeeded at both, wrestling and rock, both of which are pretty cool in my opinion.

 

[Hollywood Naitch]

The obvious picks are Razor, Shawn and The Rock to me. All guys oozed charisma, played their roles with an effortless cool, and were the wrestlers that male fans wanted to be.

However, one guy that I thought was extremely cool back in the day (not so much now) was Randy Orton during his Evolution days. Orton was a great looking kid, fantastic physique and clearly the golden boy of the company, rolling with the top dogs in HHH and Ric Flair. Evolution was the modern incarnation of the Four Horsemen with the suits, the private planes, the women, the money and the Championship gold.

You knew from the smug expression on Orton's face when he strolled down the ramp that he knew he was fucking cool, even the arms outstretched pose he did on the turnbuckles showed this. You could tell he was an arrogant prick, but dammit I wanted to be him. Very cool.

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[Wrestlingaholic]

Everything about Shawn Michaels character was the antithesis of cool - arguably if he wasn't one of the greatest wrestlers of all time (he's my favourite), but everything else was the same, he'd have had Cena-style reaction 10 years before Cena got them.

To me the coolest character is clearly the Rock. Admittedly I'm (just) too young for 1980s Horsemen era Flair, where the Rock took elements of his character from, but no one in my time watching (since 1990) connected with popular culture the way in which the Rock did. The mannerisms, the eyebrow, the catchphrases, the '$500' shirts. Just the way in which he carried himself. Austin v McMahon couldn't have carried the Attitude Era alone - it would never have been as big if it were just down to them, especially in Austin's year on the shelf.

 

[The Warlord]

I think when people bring up Shawn as the cool guy everyone wanted to be they are talking 96-98 ...not the 92-95 village people "cool." Lol

You can thrown in Edge too...his character was pretty badass. Entering through the crowd then backing it up in crazy high risk matches...all the way to the rated R superstar days.

And an honorable mention to Bret Hart. If you were a kid growing up and watching wrestling like myself in the late 80s early 90s you probably had a pair of the hitman shades doing the hitman walk around the house.

Geeez...wrestling was so cooool!!

I miss being a kid