Who do you think is the smartest person in professional wrestling?

[King Kamala]

Discussion in Meltz thread got me thinking. Who is the smartest person in professional wrestling? Is there anyone smart in this godforsaken industry?

You know who might be my weird dark horse pick? John Cena. He seems lowkey smart in intellectual sense and street smart sense. He seems like very shrewd business knowledge, like learning how to speak proficient Mandarin. Only dumb stuff I've heard is him buying 57 suits at a time and letting Ric Flair peer pressure him into breaking straight edge but Naitch could probably talk anyone into cutting loose and I guess a man's got to look to good guest hosting fourth hour of The Today Show.

 

[Hawk 34]

 

[Big Beard Booty Daddy]

As in legit a smart person, or just smart about the business? Brandon Thurston is incredibly smart. He runs Wrestlenomics, and I know Meltzer gets a lot of his numbers info from him.

Raven is a member of Mensa, isn't he?

 

[King Kamala]

Overall smarts. About business and in life. Like Raven is intellectual but burned a lot of bridges being an arrogant dipshit

 

[geniusMoment]

SID

 

[alkeiper]

I stan for Veda Scott, law school graduate.

 

[Brooklyn Zoo]

Kevin Nash

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Kevin Nash

I don't think Nash is like a financial investing wizard or anything but I think he's very savvy about the way finances/business works in general. We all know how he kind of swindled WCW basically but you weren't seeing that from Hogan, Savage, Luger, or others. A lot of his stories/comments remind me of the way most millionaires accumulated and keep their wealth compared to the 'perception' of what a rich person should be like.

My other answer is Vince McMahon. Knock him for his booking, stealing talent, etc. but WWE has basically been the company since the early 1980s and still outlasted WCW when it looked like a certainty that WWF was in dire straits and could fold.

 

[Brocklock]

Similarly to Nash, Jeff Jarrett always finds a way to be back in a somewhat prominent position.

 

[Valeyard]

Maria.

 

[Dandy]

Foley

 

[Valeyard]

Wait, do people booked as one-offs count? Because God got booked, and he's the best promoter ever.

 

[strummer]

Well, Raven, Kimberly and Disco Inferno all competed on Win Ben Stein's Money in 97

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

chris nowinski far and away

 

[Epic Springs]

In terms of getting the maximum amount out of their value: Nash, Lesnar, and Goldberg among others.

 

[Laz]

Wait, do people booked as one-offs count? Because God got booked, and he's the best promoter ever.

Yeah, but he also gave Rush Limbaugh a push and created HPV, sooooooo...

Real answer: the Rock. Only guy to get out of the business during his prime as a star and become a bigger star than he was while in it.

 

[snuffbox]

Yeah, the Rock is the correct answer.

 

[King Kamala]

The Rock is a great choice. And I wouldn't be surprised if The Rock will be at his wealthiest in a decade or two when he is too old to be a credible full time action star and has to work behind the scenes.

 

[Brooklyn Zoo]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1317638357816664065

 

[Valeyard]

Nash 2 Nash

 

[King Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1317638357816664065

WAIT A MINUTE! Darren Aronofsky directed Requiem for a Dream not Steven Soderburgh.

I can't believe I am doubting NASH.

 

[Hawk 34]

Maybe he meant both the movie AND a separate piece of artwork he has from his friend Steven Soderbergh that share the same anniversary.

 

[Valeyard]

Nash must be an Erin Brockovich fan too.

 

[King Kamala]

I like imagining NASH taking an annoyed and confused Scott Hall & Sean Waltman to see Schizopolis.

 

[Valeyard]

Clique MST3K is potential viral gold.

 

[BruiserBrody]

Clique MST3K is potential viral gold.

The ludes would have them snoring by the 22 min mark

 

[Valeyard]

Current day Hall, Nash, and Waltman chillin' and watching Ready To Rumble would be good stuff.

 

[Laz]

I want them to be forced to play Nitro or Thunder from the PSX

 

[HarleyQuinn]

David Otunga is a good choice for this question by the way with his Harvard Law degree.

Also MsChif! "Collins graduated from college as a genetics scientist.[4] Along with her work in professional wrestling as MsChif, she works at a microbiology laboratory.[71] In October 2010 she was featured in the PBS series "The Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers".[5]"