Best wrestler today.

[Mike Leroi]

Who in your opinion, is the best wrestler today?

[edgehead1984]

I'll go by company.

NJPW: Yuji Nagata & Hiroyoshi Tenzan
AJPW: Toshiaki Kawada
NOAH: Kenta Kobashi
0-1: Masato Tanaka
WWE: Chris Benoit
TNA: AJ Styles

But the Overall best wrestler right now is Kobashi.

[Mike Leroi]

I'll go by company.

NJPW: Yuji Nagata & Hiroyoshi Tenzan
AJPW: Toshiaki Kawada
NOAH: Kenta Kobashi
0-1: Masato Tanaka
WWE: Chris Benoit
TNA: AJ Styles

But the Overall best wrestler right now is Kobashi.

Hmm.. If there was a tournament involving those wrestlers, who do you think would win and why?

[edgehead1984]

Kobashi, defeating Nagata in the finals.

He has shown the world that he is able to adjust to any style and keep his character evolving through the years and through his injuries. From his early moonsaulting days to the burning lariat days, then through his surgeries and rehabiliations, then his triumphant return this past year. He is the best wrestler today, and he also carries NOAH on a precarious thread.

[Mike Leroi]

Kobashi, defeating Nagata in the finals.

He has shown the world that he is able to adjust to any style and keep his character evolving through the years and through his injuries. From his early moonsaulting days to the burning lariat days, then through his surgeries and rehabiliations, then his triumphant return this past year. He is the best wrestler today, and he also carries NOAH on a precarious thread.

Well, what do you think of benoit.
Also, how do you think a match between benoit and kobashi go?

[edgehead1984]

A Kobashi-Benoit match would be great, in fact if the supposed NOAH-WWE cooperation happens, that's the match I would like to see.

[Mike Leroi]

A Kobashi-Benoit match would be great, in fact if the supposed NOAH-WWE cooperation happens, that's the match I would like to see.

If they were allowed to be the main event or at least given the time for a great match (like 20 or 30 minutes), how do you think it would go?

[edgehead1984]

I'd give them 40 minutes, and the match would be back and forth, with submission holds and near-falls. Benoit would trade blow for blow with Kobashi. Kobashi would end up using the Burning Hammer for the win.

[Mike Leroi]

I'd give them 40 minutes, and the match would be back and forth, with submission holds and near-falls. Benoit would trade blow for blow with Kobashi. Kobashi would end up using the Burning Hammer for the win.

You don't think that benoit might win?

[edgehead1984]

It all depends on who's booking, but I think the match could go either way, but, Kobashi is the better wrestler IMO.

[Mike Leroi]

It all depends on who's booking, but I think the match could go either way, but, Kobashi is the better wrestler IMO.

Well, I haven't seen much of Kobashi.
But, from what I have seen and heard, he is becoming one of my favorites.
However, I have seen alot of Benoit and am a big fan of his because of it.
I'd like to think it could end in a draw.

[edgehead1984]

So Could I

[Devilchild]

I read through this thread and I honestly can't sat that I am 110% certain of my opinion on "who's the best wrestler is" I like so many different wrestlers for many different reasons.

My tops right now:

Nagata
Kobashi
Beniot
Christopher Daniels
Styles
Tenzan....the list could go on and on.

[forumsubmissionsexpe]

How about Kurt Angle? Does nobody else think he is right up there at the moment as one of, if not the best?

[Pheonix_Chi25]

NJPW: Tenzan even without the belt he was red hot and Nagata
NOAH: Kenta Kobashi, and he wants to fight Lesnar?
AJPW: Satoshi Kojima and Toshiaki Kawada
Zero-One: Shinya Hashimoto
TNA: AJ Styles
ROH: Samoa Joe
WWE: (Tie) Chris Benoit and Rob Van Dam
NWA-Wildside: Onyx, the best kept secret in an indy fed, him and ROH Champ Samoa Joe.