What Wrestling Styles Do They Need?

[Viola Moonlight]

After hearing about the various WWE releases, watching the new superstars from ECW & the signing of Bryan Danielson... I am stunned at the amount of diverse talent. However, I was studying the actual roster with the potentials/released & came to ask myself the question. What does WWE need more of in terms of wrestling styles & specialists? By this I mean, does the WWE need more amateur cross-overs, luchadors, submission wrestlers, hardcore/backyard, charismatic, big men.... you get the picture.

Basically, which style of wrestling do you think the WWE need more of in the company?


My answer would be to learn towards the charismatic wrestlers. Simply because the WWE is in the crisis mode. They are in dire need of building up the superstars of tomorrow to carry over the company in the next few years as superstars like Batista, HBK & possibly Taker will be retiring & the current 99% confirmed loss of Jeff Hardy will impact greatly on the Main Event scene in the negative. Despite they are doing their absolute best in promoting the future, like the entire SummerSlam card where it was basically the veterans against the new blood, they need guys who are able to over with the crowd. They will need wrestlers to fill the void in the midcard division for the midcarders going to the Main Event spot. Charisma is a vital key in establishing yourself with the crowd & translating that into an in-ring persona. The Miz is an example of one with Charisma. He may not have the best moveset in the world, but once he gets on the stick... the crowd eats it up for the most part. The way he performs in the ring makes his performance & moveset look more devastating than it already is. Don't believe me, watch the clothesline he does whilst the opponent is in the corner.

Any thoughts?

 

[Paradox]

One place that I feel that wwe is lacking is the cruiserweight area. I remember watching some of the wcw guys go at it. Those matches were highly entertaining to me. To me i think that is the one area that they can focus on. Now I for one am not worried about the up coming talent, because the talent is there, it's coming a long just fine. On Raw, you have guys like The Miz, Swagger, Mvp, and Dibiase. These guys are coming a long just fine. Each guy is going there own way to get there. I really think that each of these guys will break out in the next year or two. On the Smackdown side you have John Morrison, Dolph Ziggler. These two guys are going to be good, especially Morrison. So I really don't see that wwe is lacking. Could they use more, possibly, but right now they have the stars that they want to push.

 

[Dexter]

The only wrestling styles they are needing is the one AJ STYLES!!!!!

I GET IT!!

Seriously though, I can never get enough of the high fliers, but they just aren't as entertaining when you've got a high flier against The Great Fucking Khali or Big Show. It just doesn't work. High fliers work best against each other, and for that to work, they need their own division and their own belt.

Bring in more Evan Bournes and give us a Cruiserweight division already. It'd be a great addition to Smackdown.

 

[The Roid Rage]

I was a big fan of Bret Hart and Kurt Angle and still am to quite a degree. These guys were submission experts and that is what I feel is needed in the WWE. You always have matches ending with a big finisher, or a disqualification, and even the count out is more common than the classic submission. To me, submission bring a little more realism to the squared circle. Sure, a big power bomb is devastating and you just might get a 3 count out of that. But what about when a guy says to hell with a 3 count and just decides to make the guy pay by stretching, contorting, twisting, mangling, and outright punishing the opponent? I think that is a bit more exciting. There is an anticipation to a submission when the guy is in the hold whatever it may be that is not present with finishers and screw job finishes.

Speaking of finishers and submissions, when is the last time you saw a good submission? Jericho uses the walls plenty of the time, but no one ever taps. That to me, makes it look weak. Here you have a guy folded in half and he just sits there acting like he's in the worst pain ever but never submits? What is up with that? I thought when you got put in a submission that was why is was such a feared position to be in, because you were going to have to tap out soon or be broken.

The submission style is an art, and becoming a lost one. I've seen Samoa Joe in TNA use his rear naked choke recently but that's TNA, not WWE, and I don't buy into Samoa Joe anyways but that's a whole other thread. There are so many great submission moves that could be used and as I explained it is very vicious looking, and believable. I have been in a figure four, the Sharpshooter, Steiner recliner, Walls of Jericho, Sleeper hold, cross face, full nelson, and many others. Let me tell you, it's believable when a guy taps out from those maneuvers. You rarely see any of this and when you do it never finishes anything, I think that is a disappointment in a lot of ways.

Here's another thing about adding more of a submission style to the WWE. They could compete more with the UFC. As I said the submission adds realism to the product, and if they brought out a guy who was supposed to be a submission expert that could draw people as a result. Look at who there is right now who have and use submissions: Chris Jericho, Chris Masters, John Cena, Triple H every now and then, and Shawn Michaels every now and then. It rarely happens and rarely has a real outcome as a result. I think as stated there are a lot of upsides to it, no real downsides either. Maybe they can do something like that with Bryan Danielson. I think he could pull that off rather nicely.

 

[BananaHeel]

I agree with TGR. People like Angle and Benoit had me interested in the sport entertainment since the beginning. To me it made the show look more Real having the guy tap out in a wicked looking move. I miss true grapplers, those that didn't need much of a personality to get over with the audience (like Malenko). They need more mat technicians with know-how.

I also believe they need more of that charismatic element. Showmen keep the storylines entertaining. They need to bump some people up for that though, because I don't see a nobody coming out of the wild blue and upstaging seasoned stars like Cena and HHH.

 

["Cool Guy" Jensen]

It seems that Vince McMahon is more likely to hire more of the big men and push them to the top. As in the past we've seen Vince McMahon push several untalented big men for apparently no reason. That is until he feels that they've lost any type of potential they once had in his eyes.

However, I would say that what WWE needs is someone who has a bit of a mixture of amatuer crossover, submission wrestler, with charisma. It's not likely to find someone with all those features, but if WWE were to try to find one like that, then I believe they could go far with them. WWE superstars with amatuer backgrounds are terrific performers and I've always been fans of them. Submission wrestling is something that WWE is now lacking of now, with the loss of Chris Benoit and Kurt Angle. I would like to see more people people using submission moves more as a regular... with the upcoming Breaking Point ppv, submissions is a must in the main events. Then we go to the charisma. Charisma is a feature that can take you far in the WWE... some more than others, but having charisma to go with mic skills can help.

So, I can't say that WWE can bank on a single person with a single style, but more of a mixture of atleast two of them.