15 Best Ever Storyteller Wrestlers

Actions speak louder than words...

By Adam O'Brien /

The world of professional wrestling is fit to bursting with story-telling mechanics: things to tell you what€™s going on, who to cheer and, crucially, why you should buy the upcoming PPV. But aside from promos and podcasts, vignettes and talkshows, the most effective way of telling a story often comes between the ropes themselves. The industry has seen hundreds of unique, incredible athletes, or performers who just ooze a natural charisma that some struggle their whole career to acquire. Only the best of the best can truly tell a story, and make a person feel emotion and get behind a match, while letting their actions speak for them. You can go through all the necessary motions, pull off all the high spots and completely capture the crowd, but if you can€™t tie in facial expressions and body language to accentuate the importance of your match, you€™re simply not going to be remembered as well. The fans stick with the characters that make them feel something, and give them goosebumps, because their every move evoked raw emotion and suspended disbelief. It takes a special kind of talent to make such an over-the-top, exaggerated industry so believable, and these are the best of those stars...