Tournament 6.5: Greatest World Champ

[The New F'n Show]

Starting with Buddy Rogers becoming the first WWE Champion I have taken in order from current to past every World Champion in WWE, WCW, TNA, ECW, ROH, and NWA and made this tournament. This gave me 128 even so that's why these companies were used.

As always will be posted by quadrants, polls last 3 days.

Brackets below

Quadrant 1
1.Bobby Roode vs 128 Buddy Rogers
2.James Storm vs 127 Gene Kiniski
3.Alberto Del Rio vs 126 Dory Funk Jr.
4.John Cena vs 125 Ivan Koloff
5.Mark Henry vs 124 Pedro Morales
6.CM Punk vs 123 Stan Stasiak
7.Randy Orton vs 122 Bruno Sammartino
8.Kurt Angle vs 121 Jack Brisco
9.Adam Pearce vs 120 Superstar Billy Graham
10.Rey Mysterio vs 119 Giant Baba
11.Christian vs 118 Tommy Rich
12.Sting vs 117 Iron Sheik
13.Davey Richards vs 116 Harley Race
14.Mr Anderson vs 115 Kerry Von Erich
15.The Sheik vs 114 Dusty Rhodes
16.Eddie Edwards vs 113 Ron Garvin

Quadrant 2
17.Colt Cabana vs 112 Andre The Giant
18.Edge vs 111 Ricky Steamboat
19.Dolph Ziggler vs 110 Ultimate Warrior
20.Jeff Hardy vs 109 Sgt. Slaughter
21.Miz vs 108 Tatsumi Fujinami
22.Roderick Strong vs 107 Jimmy Snuka
23.Kane vs 106 Ron Simmons
24.Sheamus vs 105 Masahiro Chono
25.Rob Van Dam vs 104 Great Muta
26.Jack Swagger vs 103 Barry Windham
27.Chris Jericho vs 102 Big Van Vader
28.Batista vs 101 Don Muraco
29.Ezekiel Jackson vs 100 Yokozuna
30.Tyler Black vs 99 Tito Santana
31.Undertaker vs 98 Chris Candido
32.AJ Styles vs 97 Bob Backlund

Quadrant 3
33.Austin Aries vs 96 Mikey Whipwreck
34.Tommy Dreamer vs 95 Terry Funk
35.Mick Foley vs 94 Lex Luger
36.Jerry Lynn vs 93 Bam Bam Bigelow
37.Triple H vs 92 Shane Douglas
38.Blue Demon Jr. vs 91 Randy Savage
39.Matt Hardy vs 90 Gary Steele
40.Brent Albright vs 89 Naoya Ogawa
41.Samoa Joe vs 88 Masato Tanaka
42.Chavo Guerrero vs 87 Bret Hart
43.Nigel McGuinness vs 86 Mike Awesome
44.Great Khali vs 85 Sid Vicious/Sycho Sid
45.Johhny Nitro/John Morrison vs 84 Taz
46.Bobby Lashley vs 83 Justin Credible
47.Mr. McMahon vs 82 Diamond Dallas Page
48.Takeshi Morishima vs 81 David Arquette

Quadrant 4
49.Homicide vs 80 Ric Flair
50.Abyss vs 79 Kevin Nash/Diesel
51.King Booker/Booker T vs 78 Vince Russo
52.Big Show/Giant vs 77 Sabu
53.Jeff Jarrett vs 76 Scott Steiner
54.Rhino vs 75 Sandman
55.Bryan Danielson vs 74 Mike Rapada
56.James Gibson vs 73 Steve Corino
57.Raven vs 72 Steve Austin
58.JBL vs 71 Shinya Hashimoto
59.Ron Killings vs 70 Dan Severn
60.Chris Benoit vs 69 Hulk Hogan
61.Eddie Guerrero vs 68 Ken Shamrock
62.Goldberg vs 67 The Rock
63.Brock Lesnar vs 66 Low Ki
64. Shawn Michaels vs 65 Xavier

Round 2
1. Buddy Rogers vs Eddie Edwards
2. Gene Kiniski vs Dusty Rhodes
3. Dory Funk Jr. vs Kerry Von Erich
4. John Cena vs Harley Race
5.Pedro Morales vs Sting
6. CM Punk vs Christian
7. Bruno Sammartino vs Rey Mysterio
8. Kurt Angle vs Superstar Billy Graham

9. Andre The Giant vs Bob Backlund
10. Edge vs Undertaker
11.Ultimate Warrior vs Tyler Black
12. Jeff Hardy vs Yokozuna
13. Miz vs Batista
14. Roderick Strong vs Chris Jericho
15. Kane vs Ron Simmons vs Barry Windham
16. Sheamus vs Rob Van Dam

17. Austin Aries vs Takeshi Morishima
18. Terry Funk vs Diamond Dallas Page
19. Mick Foley vs Justin Credible
20. Jerry Lynn vs Taz
21. Triple H vs Sid Vicious
22. Randy Savage vs Nigel McGuinness
23. Matt Hardy vs Bret Hart
24. Brent Albright vs Samoa Joe

25. Ric Flair vs Shawn Michaels
26. Kevin Nash vs Brock Lesnar
27. Booker T vs The Rock
28. Big Show/Giant vs Eddie Guerrero
29. Jeff Jarrett vs Chris Benoit
30. Sandman vs Ron Killings
31. Bryan Danielson vs JBL
32. Steve Corino vs Steve Austin

Round 3
1. Buddy Rogers vs Kurt Angle
2. Dusty Rhodes vs Bruno Sammartino
3. Dory Funk Jr. vs CM Punk
4. John Cena vs Sting

5. Bob Backlund vs Sheamus
6. Undertaker vs Kane
7. Ultimate Warrior vs Chris Jericho
8. Jeff Hardy vs Batista

9. Austin Aries vs Samoa Joe
10. Terry Funk vs Bret Hart
11. Mick Foley vs Randy Savage
12. Taz vs Triple H

13. Ric Flair vs Steve Austin
14. Brock Lesnar vs Bryan Danielson
15. The Rock vs Sandman
16. Eddie Guerrero vs Chris Benoit

Sweet 16
1. Kurt Angle vs John Cena
2. Bruno Sammartino vs CM Punk

3. Bob Backlund vs Batista
4. Undertaker vs Chris Jericho

5. Samoa Joe vs Triple H
6. Bret Hart vs Randy Savage

7. Steve Austin vs Chris Benoit
8. Brock Lesnar vs The Rock

Elite Eight

1.John Cena vs CM Punk

2. Bob Backlund vs Undertaker

3. Triple H vs Randy Savage

4. Steve Austin vs The Rock

Final Four
1. John Cena vs Steve Austin
2. Undertaker vs Triple H

Final
John Cena vs Triple H

 

[Slim]

This is going to be too too too too too tough to call. I don't even have a pick right now for who.

 

[Tapout]

If I had to pick? Triple H

I remember in my growing up days this guy was always world champion, and was a mega heel champion. So I'll be pulling for Trips in this one.

 

[Andrew]

HHH won't win the entire thing.

Fuck No. Hard pick but right now I'd say Bret Hart or HBK

 

[Tapout]

He should go a long, long way though. Further then Michaels, I dare say.

HBK didn't do much as a world champion. Honestly.

 

[Andrew]

I know, but HHH won't win it. He might go far, mind you his Kings of Kings gimmick with the title was his best by far.

 

[Slim]

whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Hold up a second. HBK didn't do much for the title? Did you miss Mania XII? Did you miss his reign when he had matches against Mankind, Ken Shamrock, Undertaker? His match against Austin?

HBK was a champion above and beyond Trips. Trips was a good champ but HBK was better. HBK just... delivered in a way that Trips can't. To say that Trips is above HBK... thats a shot.

 

[The New F'n Show]

Only way you can argue Trips over HBK is number of reigns. Quality, Trips had some good ones but Michaels was hot as champ and has a lot of great feuds. A Lot of Trips feuds were recycled. To me Austin, Flair, Hogan, and Race have to be considered of guys not yet named.

 

[Derrick]

Y2J to win this thing. Mark my words. Clearly one of the best champs imo.

 

[The New F'n Show]

I don't think Jericho has a snowballs chance in hell of the winning the whole thing. I am a huge fan of the guys work but he was a very mediocre champion in the overall scheme of things. When I look at a Champion, I look at how important he was to his company, and in my opinion, there are at least 20 guys on this board over Jericho. At least. Anyway working of the writeups have the WWE, WWE World, TNA, and ECW writeups done. Need to still do ROH, WCW, and NWA which will take some time. Hoping to have Quadrant 1 up in the next couple days.

Though it definetly helps that Flair, Austin, Hogan, HBK, and The Rock are all in the same Quadrant.

 

[Keith]

Ric Flair has to win this for me, with maybe the likes of Bret Hart and Race coming close seconds.

Agree that Michaels was much better champion overall than HHH, although it wasn't till his heel reign in 97 than he really got going. Yes he had some fantastic matches in 96, but the HBK character as a face just did not work in the main event picture at least not back then. Also I think he was carried a lot by the likes of Mankind. I am one who thinks Michael's better in ring years came later in his career.

 

[Slim]

His match with Mankind... that was kinda half and half. And yeah HBK's better years def came in his later years.

And... I'm thinking Hogan is not going to get the credit he deserves in this tourney. Just a hunch.

 

[PHX]

Flair will probably win this if I had to pick one person. Well depending on how much they've seen on him. If the people voting only saw his 90's and up stuff then he won't win and HHH, Austin or HBK will.

 

[Crippler]

Ric Flair all the way and i ain't gonna lie but Bryan Danielson in 2006 is right behind him.

 

[The New F'n Show]

Danielson in 2006 was great but I don't think enough people saw him, same with McGuiness whose reign I think was better than Bryan's.