Worst seller you've ever seen

[Wolf Pac]

Of all the matches I watched from him, my pick would go to Sid. I've never seen a reaction from him especially when he's getting punched in the face, he just seems to stare at his opponent or into space. Hell, even when he got hurt legitimately at WCW Sin, he didn't even sell. The guy is like a robot in the ring.

 

[Mustang Sally]

It goes back a ways, but I thought Tajiri was absolutely miserable at making his opponents look effective. After all, he was a small guy usually facing bigger enemies; when they belted him, you would think he'd go flying. With his athletic ability, he certainly could have taken some believable-looking flops. Instead, he often let the opponent's shot glance off him without reacting to it at all, seemingly intent on setting up his own next offensive move. It looked terrible.

To be fair, management must have talked to him about this because he did improve in his later tenure with the company, but even near the end, he still had lapses.

Ironically, Tajiri's failures made you appreciate how hard it is to do what these folks do in the ring. It makes you realize that the guy in the other corner of a wrestling match isn't actually your opponent.....he's your partner. It's best that all performers keep that in mind.

 

[jcmassen]

Sid was/is bad, but no worse then most of the "big men." Nash only sells when his quad is torn or when someone offers him 50 bucks to lie on his back. However neither are my choice here I would put forth the great waste of space known now as TENSAI! And I offer nothing other then that for an explanation either(because honestly does then need to be explained).

 

[Danger Burger]

However neither are my choice here I would put forth the great waste of space known now as TENSAI! And I offer nothing other then that for an explanation either(because honestly does then need to be explained).

The only reason it needs to be explained is because of the strict rules on spam in these here parts, so i think you should before you offend some one!

I'm gna throw out RW Hawk, (I think it was hawk?) (yeah it was hawk.)

Supposedly this is something he just did. I remember some matches in 97/98 where he would just get up after some moves as it they were nothin. Heres a funy video of it anyway.

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He's the first that comes to mind atleast.

 

[Wolf Pac]

Hawk wasn't meant to sell though on some moves, like whenever he would take a Piledriver. He was supposed to show he tough he is by getting straight up and act like it didn't affect him, which was the whole point of the Road Warrior gimmick.

 

[Danger Burger]

Hawk wasn't meant to sell though on some moves, like whenever he would take a Piledriver. He was supposed to show he tough he is by getting straight up and act like it didn't affect him, which was the whole point of the Road Warrior gimmick.

I get it for the video i posted, that was clearly done on purpose, but i'd seen it in a few matches in the late 90s. It made a joke of the other wrestler and everyone he beat if a midcard tag guy no sells your move in a run of the mill match.
If no selling was part of the gimmick then i didnt get the gimick!... I thought they were post-apocalyptic football players.

 

[Tiffy Lockhart]

Currently Ryback is sub-Cena levels of selling (not a shot at Cena's comebacks, I just think he sells offense in a goofy manner).

He's either getting his ass kicked or in full Ryback mode. There's never any in-between or back and forth. Ryback shouldn't be selling that much the way he's being pushed. It makes guys like Hawkins and Reks look good, sure, but it makes Ryback look like a joke to get beaten on for 3 minutes straight with no offense of his own. He looks helpless.

 

[harrythem]

I get it for the video i posted, that was clearly done on purpose, but i'd seen it in a few matches in the late 90s. It made a joke of the other wrestler and everyone he beat if a midcard tag guy no sells your move in a run of the mill match.
If no selling was part of the gimmick then i didnt get the gimick!... I thought they were post-apocalyptic football players.

mid-card tag guy? Seriously, referring to either Road Warrior as a "mid-card tag guy" is a complete load of bollocks. The Road Warriors are, without a shadow of a doubt, one of, if not, THE greatest tag teams ever! Their whole gimmick was they came out, no-sold everything, then destroyed people. That's what took them to main event status (and they were f'n awesome at it too.) and the mega money. Yeah they tried to carry it on long after their primes but, they was the gimmick. Monsters who couldn't be stopped.

I'd say Sid as well. In short two minute matches against jobbers he looked like the next big star. Then he went to proper matches and, hey presto, he was exposed as the useless oaf he was...mind you, he did cause HBK to say one of my favourite commentary lines ever at IYH December 1996 ("that right there is the most expensive piece of luggage in the WWF").

I'd say Cena's pretty terrible too. He is either dead and comes back to life (and full health) in seconds in his matches. He's bad but, thankfully, he's no Sid.

Oh yeah, if Khali had somehow managed to get the Sid push as a main eventer for as long as Sid did in various companies, I'd have put him up there. thankfully though they realised how dreadful he is (even at walking) and keep his matches short and, relatively, painless.

 

[Larry]

1. Giant Gonzalez - Whether he was just unable, or too stupid, or whatever it was, there was no selling whatsoever. I guess being as big as he was it wasn't too unbelievable that maybe he wouldn't be phased by much, but it was still horrible.

2. Goldberg - Yeah, get pissed for all I care, Goldberg sucked at everything except making dumb fucking faces and hitting his finish. He didn't sell for shit at any point, and it made everyone he wrestled look bad as a result. FUCK GOLDBERG. That's my stance, it always has been, never will change. He was a disgrace to wrestling.

3. Great Khali - It's easy to pick on the giants, but it's also accurate. Khali doesn't sell well and that poor bastard's been made to job out to all kinds of people. You'd think by now he'd figure something out, but like Gonzalez he's probably just to big and cumbersome to really make it look good without making it look fake and over exaggerated as well.

4. Ultimate Warrior - I might be stretching a bit here with Warrior, but it's true that for a long time he was pretty shitty in the ring and part of that extended into his ability to sell his opponents offense. Now his character wasn't the type to be dominated or by hurt REALLY bad by much, but he still just wasn't good at it even when he was supposed to. Eventually Warrior did develop into a solid wrestler, not brilliant by any means, more of a showman as he always was but eventually he was able to put on a decent match. For the majority of his time though, he was outright horrible at selling.

5. Old School Undertaker - Once again, big guy, gimmick doesn't really constitute being a great salesman, but it was still SHIT! Granted, Mark Callaway wasn't exactly a tenured vet yet either, he was still pretty green honestly, buuuuut that doesn't entirely excuse the shitty selling. He's a piece of enlightenment; part of the reason his gimmick consisted of him being relatively impervious to damage was to mask the fact that he wasn't very good in the ring. That tells you something right there, he just wasn't there yet as an in-ring performer. Great gimmick, he played it well, but not a great salesman when it came to opponents offense.

 

[Danger Burger]

mid-card tag guy? Seriously, referring to either Road Warrior as a "mid-card tag guy" is a complete load of bollocks. The Road Warriors are, without a shadow of a doubt, one of, if not, THE greatest tag teams ever! Their whole gimmick was they came out, no-sold everything, then destroyed people. That's what took them to main event status (and they were f'n awesome at it too.) and the mega money. Yeah they tried to carry it on long after their primes but, they was the gimmick. Monsters who couldn't be stopped.

I'v been watching wrestling since far beyond their prime then. They were a great tag, no doubt, but i'm watching Raw 97/98 onwards and these guys are in tag matches, middle of the card. Its not a subjective judgement for that period. And in that position i found the no selling pretty stupid. But theyre hardly really the worst if theyre doing it on purpose.

 

[Soulblazed]

Scott Steiner-Never sold moves well, especially when he wrestled against HHH..Sid sells moves better than him yet Steiner cuts arguably the funniest promos of all time..

 

[The 1-2-3 Killam]

There are a LOT of indie guys that don't "get" the art of selling. I'm not sure what it is; maybe arrogance or pride? I guess I understand people being afraid of looking weak, or perhaps just not wanting to put another guy over as somebody who could hurt them. Especially in the indies, where you may only get one shot in front of a big-time talent scout, or whatnot.

Bottom line, and this is just a personal thing for me, if you can't sell you're not going to impress me as a pro wrestler. I've seen whole 20-minute Ring of Honor matches where guys run around, knock each other down, and get right back up. For 20 minutes. I mean, I'm glad they're not Cena-ing every match, spending 95% of it on the mat. But you have to sell a move; your job is to wrestle a match, half of that goes to making your opponent look good. There are indie guys whose entire character is not shake off moves like they were nothing. I've got news for you: that works for the 500lb. Big Show, but it does NOT work for Roderick Strong.

My current least favorite worker is Dean Ambrose. I watched that so-called "epic match" between him and Seth Rollins. The one that was supposed to prove why Ambrose is the next big thing in the WWE. I hated it. Rollins looked great in the match, even on the defensive. But Ambrose doesn't sell things. He doesn't put his opponent over; when he does "sell" a move it's to get knocked down, and come right back up, intentionally acting like it was no big deal. He's not that great a worker, and at times he's even sloppy, trying to hit big spots to get a cheap pop from the crowd. I flat-out don't like him, and I'm trying to figure out why Justin LaBar is ALWAYS preaching his debut.

 

[bigbootydaddyV]

Of all the matches I watched from him, my pick would go to Sid. I've never seen a reaction from him especially when he's getting punched in the face, he just seems to stare at his opponent or into space. Hell, even when he got hurt legitimately at WCW Sin, he didn't even sell. The guy is like a robot in the ring.

LMAO... damn dude... pretty brutal if you are saying he didn't even sell well when his leg snapped in half in real life hahaha.... While i agree Sid was pretty bad at selling and got by a lot of his look, I don't know that I'd go as far as to say he was the worst of all time. I really don't know who I'd give that to but I just had to comment bc I found that pretty funny.