Greatest 21st Century Wrestler - 1st Round A - Jeff Hardy vs. Chris Benoit

[Crocker]

I wouldn’t have Hardy in my own top 32 but he was massively over, entertaining, had some great matches and was part of one of the greatest tag teams of all time where as Benoit was a child murdering piece of shit, so Jeff gets my vote.

 

[JakeYourBooty]

Hardy has his demons but addiction is still very much a factor/disease. By some miracle it's only ever got him in shit n never hurt anyone.

I agree on all that

 

[Comrade Khan]

I agree on all that

it's a rough subject and drunk driving affects millions of people, so I totally understand why it ticks people off a lot too

 

[JakeYourBooty]

I understand addiction on a personal level
But you gotta learn and evolve and not put other people at risk

 

[Comrade Khan]

I understand addiction on a personal level
But you gotta learn and evolve and not put other people at risk

Oh I understand personal responsibility and his great failures exercising judgment.

 

[JakeYourBooty]

Oh I understand personal responsibility and his great failures exercising judgment.

That wasn’t meant to come off insinuating to didn’t

 

[Hidden Blaze]

Yeah, addiction is sadly one of those things that affects not only the addicted, but the people around them also.

 

[Comrade Khan]

That wasn’t meant to come off insinuating to didn’t

same here, i was agreeing with you

 

[Kim Jong Umb]

Jeff is my favorite wrestler of all time, but these past 6-8 years I been begging for him to stop wrestling. These two lives might end up being similar to lif Jeff doesnt get his act together. Jeff Hardy career should of ended right bout after the Broken Hardyz first TNA run end.

 

[Jimmy King]

I was a fan of both, still like Jeff to a degree but I’m going with Benoit.

 

[Deadd2009]

Since we're going on just wrestling ability, it's Benoit. 2003-04 he was considered to be one of the greatest wrestlers of all time and tbh i'd rather watch Benoit/Angle over and over again before anything Jeff Hardy related.

 

[Chris]

Yeah idc how people pick their criteria to vote, I just wanna make sure people don't think they have to only consider in-ring and in-ring only bc wrestling vs sports entertainment tribalism makes people think "wrestler" only means workrate bell to bell and not the entire business we watch. If anyone wants to simply vote for best bell to bell wrestler then idc

@Death By Looch it's settled, the next tournament has to be "best sports entertainer of the 21st century"

 

[Death By Looch]

I'm sorry, if I made it confusing with the title of the tournament.

 

[Chris]

You didn't, the Internet made it confusing 20 years ago by starting this wrestling vs entertainment civil war when everything is wrestling lol

Funny this one seems to be the only one where people are saying they have to vote for the better bell to bell wrestler and then in other threads they're voting based on all the criteria too tho

 

[Chris]

I don't even like doing end of year awards for wrestling (shocker, not just the in ring part) anymore bc the first award is Wrestler of the Year and before we can ever talk about candidates it's "wait but do you just mean workrate bc you said wrestling" even tho the second award is usually best in-ring worker, followed by best mic skills third lmao