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Post by concrete1992 on Oct 18, 2017 9:16:16 GMT -5
Who you got?
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Post by anotherspammer on Oct 18, 2017 9:21:33 GMT -5
LA Park or Paco, I guess.
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Post by Michael on Oct 18, 2017 10:37:13 GMT -5
Depends on your definition of Brawler. Is it guys who do "Brawls" based around hard hitting and strikes? It is guys who do "Brawls" based around weapons and blood and glass and gimmicks? List of guys I would consider "brawlers" by either definition that are in my current Top 100: - Roman Reigns
- Braun Strowman
- Tomohiro Ishii
- Matt Riddle
- Joey Janela
- Katsuyori Shibata
- Oney Lorcan
- Michael Elgin
- Darby Allin
- Matt Tremont
- Pentagon Jr
- Ethan Page
- Jimmy Havoc
And yes, Ethan Page is in that list. I thought this in 2016 and I thought it in the early part of the year: he's one of the most underrated brawlers in independent wrestling. No one thinks of him that way. It's the comedy and the trolling, but I'd put his brawls with Darby up against up there against anyone else's in 2017. I have no idea how I'll narrow this award down by year's end. Almost seems not fair to put Roman and Braun at #1 and #2 since I'm going to have them so highly for so many other things. |
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Post by armsofsleep on Oct 18, 2017 11:26:29 GMT -5
I agree that Brawler is sort of a tough think to quantify nowadays. My lists differ a lot depending on what we are talking about.
Plunder:
- Tremont
- Jimmy Havoc
- Braun
- Ito
- Takeda
- Masaya Takahashi
- Chuck Taylor
- LA Park
- Black Terry
- Janela
If we are talking people who just knock people into next week:
- Reigns
- Shibata
- Ishii
- Lorcan
- WALTER
Also Thatcher doesn't fit either of these perfectly but I love all of his no DQ style matches
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Post by problematic on Oct 18, 2017 19:35:02 GMT -5
I am not a fan of viewing brawlers as guys with strike based offense. That has always seemed to miss the point to me. To me a brawler is someone with a reckless, violent, intense quality to their working style, who either excels in gimmick matches and/or rejects the traditional rules of pro wrestling sportsmanship as part of how they perform. To that end I'm likely to go to bat for guys like Tremont or Gage in a category like this (need to see more Nick, but the four matches of his I've seen this year have all been incredible for what they were) not because they are death match guys, but because they speak better to the term brawler than someone like WALTER or Shibata does.
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Post by concrete1992 on Oct 19, 2017 9:04:45 GMT -5
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Post by notoriousgib on Oct 20, 2017 0:01:59 GMT -5
Tremont would probably be my #1. Only person who will probably contend with him right now is Gage, and that will all depend on how much of his 2017 work I end up seeing.
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Post by lanesthename on Oct 21, 2017 21:25:39 GMT -5
Matt Tremont hands down. Ethan Page is also very underrated when it comes to brawling.
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Post by bossrock on Oct 30, 2017 9:39:40 GMT -5
If we consider "brawler" as the sort of violent, chaotic wrestler reminiscent of a Funk, Foley, or Hansen, then I'd go:
Braun
Rush
L.A. Park
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Post by bucky on Oct 31, 2017 18:50:33 GMT -5
Whoever said Paco knows wtf is up. My man is quietly having himself a year and half of it isn't making tape. Seeing him and Danny Adams in an I Quit on November 18th at a tiny Central IL indy. Kid has it.
Obvious choices here are Tremont and Gage, but I think there's probably a handful of Anarchy dudes who should be in the running too.
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