What factors of a pro wrestler do you find most necessary for them to be entertaining? Mic skills, mat skills?
Question by Life’s MVP: What factors of a pro wrestler do you find most necessary for them to be entertaining? Mic skills, mat skills?
Grade each category on a scale of 1-10 (10 being the most important) on how important it is for each wrestler to have each skill in order to entertain you. How much weight do you put on each category as far as entertainment.
Here’s Mine:
Mic Skills – 10 – Superstars with a way with words are usually the most entertaining for me.
Charisma – 6 – A lot of times I can be entertained simply by the quality of what I’m watching/hearing w/o the superstar actually TRYING to create a response. At times hearing the crowd cheer does get me more into it though.
Selling Moves – 9.5 – During a match it’s always more entertaining for me when superstars sell the moves to a believable extent. There is a fine line between underselling & overselling and the guys that do it well are definitely entertaining.
Being on time (sharpness in-ring) – 8.5 – This is more important than actually being able to wrestle for me. When superstars have unnatural hesitations, botch moves, and the timing is off it really messes up the entertainment for me and makes me remember I’m watching a scripted match. Making me think that is not good.
Wrestling ability – 5 – Actual wrestling isn’t truly that important to me, and sometimes when they overdue the mat wrestling stuff in the beginning of matches it becomes boring. I respect the talents of all of the wrestling prodigy’s from college, but actual mat wrestling doesn’t really entertain me.
Entrance – 6 – I think I put more emphasis on the entrance than most. The first few words/notes of certain peoples theme song always find a way to get me hyped up for what’s about to happen, and fireworks and antics do a good job of getting me hyped up too. Entrances that are too long, have too much pandering to the crowd, have stupid songs, or where the wrestler does stupid stuff during the entrance really annnoy me. Not too drastic though.
Finisher – 8 – Superstars with finishers that are believable and a tad realistic are usually the most entertaining for me. When matches end with dumb finishers it’s quite upsetting, but when I know I can look forward to a match ending with a finisher that can come out of nowhere or looks nasty… it gets me more interested.
Appearance – 5.5 – Some wrestlers just look bad *** like Randy Orton, Stone Cold, Jericho w/long hair, etc, and others have sweet ring attires, etc, that make me more inclined to watch. But wrestlers that look stupid w/not so sweet ring attires can sometimes make me less interested. It’s not too drastic, but everything is better when it looks sweet.
Size – 5 – I cannot say that I have ever been genuinely entertained ever by anybody over 300 pounds except Undertaker, Kane, Vladimir Kozlov, and others I can’t think of at the moment. It’s just not believable at all that somebody 300+ pounds can really lose to somebody 250 pounds or less. Other than the 300+ pounders though size really isn’t that important for me.
Uniqueness – 5 – I like superstars that do things that nobody else does. Rey Mysterio has always been a guy I found entertaining. Even with this though, you have to understand that there are only so many things that you can actually do in a ring so I don’t put too much weight on it.
What’s yours? If you wanna add another category I don’t have that’s cool. For copying purposes…
Mic Skills
Charisma
Selling Moves
Being on Time (sharpness in-ring)
Wrestling Ability
Entrance
Finisher
Appearance
Size
Uniqueness
Then… pick a random superstar and rate them in each category.
MVP
Mic Skills – 9.5
Charisma – 7
Selling Moves – 8
Being on Time (sharpness in-ring) – 7
Wrestling Ability – 7
Entrance – 7.5
Finisher – 3
Appearance – 8
Size – 9
Uniqueness – 9
The answer with the most thought gets the 10 points, and you can star if you agree with mine… And you can star if you think this topic is interesting. 🙂
I’m just now realizing how long this thing is… *shocked*
Best answer:
Answer by Ultimate oppurtunist
7- When I was a kid that’s all I cared about but now that i’ve grown up i just like guys killing each other
7- Same as Mic skills if you ask me
15- I love when guys oversell. See Shawn Michaels VS Hulk Hoan
10- Sharpness- (Has nightmares about Jackie Gayda)
10- If you can’t wrestle you better bring the rest of these to the table
Ie. Santino
0-Entrance- Don’t care
8- Finisher- I don’t want wrestle mania to end with the great Drop Toe Hold. Just imagine. And he runs to him..wait! DROP TOE Hold 1…2..3. NEw champ New Champ New champ
1-Apperance- As long as you wear clothes I’m good
1- size- As long as I can see you i’m good
10- Uniqueness What makes you, you.
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