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Remember,this is subjective work.
10. Ric Flair
People remember Ric Flair as one of the best wresters of all time, but not only was he a great worker, he was a great booker.Ric Flair was a true genius for the business; he created his feuds with Steamboat and Funk, which are considered the best matches of all time.
9.Bill Dundee
Much like Flair, he is remembered for his wrestling, and not his booking. Dundee was another genious booker who wrote for: Lousiana, Georgia, and also co-writer for Memphis.
8. Jim Cornette
Jim Cornette was known for being a great mouthpiece, but what people did not know about Cornette was that he was a borderline genius.
Jim Cornette joined the WCW creative control in 1989 (which is considered the best promotion ever in North American history).
He would later leave in 1990 because of backstage problems with goofball Jim Herd. Jim Cornette in 1991 created Smoky Mountain Wrestling. Smoky Mountain Wrestling only lasted a few years, but it is still remembered to this day.
People loved the style of SMW and some even called it the best wrestling they have ever seen.
Cornette would later on go to WWF, and help there only to butt heads with his arch rival, Vince Russo. In 2003, Cornette’s great booking didn’t stop; he was given the job of the head booker of OWV.
He was a pure genius in that role, and people even said he was just as good as Heyman. Cornette would later give input to TNA’s creative control, but never really got enough power backstage. He booked some of the best things in TNA, though he had very little power.
Cornette as stated created the MCMG vs. Beer Money feud, which was really liked because people thought MCMG were underused, but Cornette wanted to use them.And he also created the big brawl on a Impact not to long ago, which was considered one of the realistic/best brawls in recent memory.
7. Dusty Rhodes
A well-known and very controversial booker; known for created some of the worst finishes in wrestling history, and booking his sons unfairly. But despite Dusty’s flaws, he was an excellent booker.
Many bookers over a five-year period get stale, and lose their mind, but Dusty is different. Dusty has been successfully booking for many years, or so, and has never reach staleness.
Rhodes became a booker for Jim Crockett Promotions while they were competing with the World Wrestling Federation.He is credited with inventing many of the WCW pay-per-view names and gimmicks, such as War Games, BattleBowl, and Lethal Lottery.
6. Gabe Sapolsky
I feel the ROHbots' love, already. All jokes aside, Gabe is one of the best bookers ever. Gabe wrote ROH from 2002-2008 and also FIP, which is like ROH’s brother.
Gabe has created some of the biggest stars in indy wrestling history, and also some of the well-known feuds. Gabe’s talent was that he cared mostly about work-rate, something that has been missing in America.
People can say what they want about ROH, but I do not know how a true wrestling fan could not admit it wasn’t a blast in its prime. Now, Gabe is the head writer for DGUSA, and people are already talking about it.
They just recently had their first PPV, and people are actually comparing it to WM-17. That is how great of a genius this man is, and I hope one day he will be writing for some mainstream company, giving all audiences what they want to see: great wrestling.
5. Paul Heyman
Heyman is much known for his success in ECW, where he turned a typical indy show, into something professional wrestling has never seen before by using controversial violence, characters, and storylines.
Heyman also had a great mind for getting people over. No matter how ugly, fat, short, skinny, or terrible in the ring. Heyman knew how to get them over.
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