10 Greatest WWE Sellers Of All Time

Selling is one of the most undervalued traits that a professional wrestler can have. It's crucial to elevating a match and getting the fans invested in the outcome. It's more important than the actual moves that are being performed.

In fact, if you had to choose between a wrestler with only two moves in his entire arsenal who could sell amazingly well and a wrestler with an unending bag of offensive tricks who refused to act like anything ever phases him, you have to go with Wrestler #1 (or you could take the worst parts of both examples and go with Kevin Nash).

Because without them selling each other's moves, you're basically just watching a couple of guys engage in a predetermined ballerina routine. A willed suspension of disbelief can only take a viewer so far so, yes, the moves actually need to look like they hurt an appropriate amount.

It's basic acting principles, really.

Some performers do this pretty well, while others have made selling its own art form and whether you realise it or not, these are the guys who ultimately make the finished product so compelling.

A lot of the stunts that Mick Foley has been involved with don't necessitate much selling because...well, you can just look at what the crazy bastard just did and understand how damn painful it was. There's really no need for him to "sell" you on the devastation of flying twenty feet off a steel cage and crashing through an announce table.

Because of that, Foley often gets overlooked as one of the great sellers of his day.

But Foley sold every beating he took in the ring - and he took many - with realistic facial expressions and unmatched verbal skills. Every gasp and grunt added to your involvement in the match, so that even on the rare occasions where he wasn't getting chucked into barbed wire or having his body broken in half, fans could still appreciate him as a tough-as-nails underdog.

To put it bluntly: Mick Foley made getting the sh*t beat out of you look GOOD. There were two reasons Foley was the trendiest rag doll of the Attitude Era:

1) He'd do just about anything for a pop, and

2) He could sell a generic bodyslam like it just broke his spine.

Those are two pretty wonderful traits to have in this business and they served Mrs Foley's Baby Boy well.