What is the best style of pro wrestling today?

What is the best style of pro wrestling?

We've come far from the time when all you needed to be in the pro wrestling business was a good name, big muscles and swagger. We now look back at the grey area in pro wrestling with agony and are far more interested in the wrestler's ability rather than his looks.

Pro wrestling is a religion, culture, hobby, sport and soap opera to many across the world. There are thousands of memories that can be shared by millions of pro wrestling fans of all ages. Many of those memories are fueled by general preference for a certain wrestler and or attending the event, but nothing is better than knowing that there is a wrestler who uses the style you have been a fan of since the beginning.

Join me after the jump as I discuss the best styles in pro wrestling and cast your vote in the poll.

Lucha Libre

Lucha Libre is a style of pro wrestling that implements its own high-flying aerial based assaults from a wrestler who wears a designed mask and usually wrestles out of Mexico. If not Mexican the wrestler is probably performing a gimmick he/she came up with or were told to portray from the wrestling company itself. Lucha Libre wrestlers are usually cruiserweights who are put on wrestling shows to give an exciting match with one wrestler displaying highlight reel maneuvers from their ring entrance to the end of the match. The art of high flying was carved from the Lucha Libre style, as wrestlers would pull off moves usually seen by a Luchador without wearing a mask or being from Mexico. Lucha Libre wrestling is a tradition. Everyone has tried it or everyone has watched it at one point in their life in Mexico.

Pros: Being a masked Luchador is similar to being a popular anime character, whether you are a heel or a face; people love masked Luchador's for their athleticism and animated like appearance. Lucha Libre wrestling is extremely popular in Mexico and most of its top wrestlers are as well.

Cons: Lucha Libre wrestlers have had a hard time translating their style over to other countries where the men are all wrestling alike. Some Luchadors look astonishing in Mexico wrestling men their size who wrestle with a style compatible to their own but those Luchadors soon look stifled once they come to the big leagues and get into it with men of all different shapes and sizes.

WWE Originated

The WWE originated style is one in which the wrestler is trained from WWE training facilities and are only used to wrestling a certain way in front of a certain group of people. The WWE training style is used to train a wrestler an mold them into a WWE superstar once they are presumed "ready for the big leagues." John Cena, Randy Orton, Zack Ryder & Kelly Kelly are all superstars who originated from the WWE's training facility and are all with the company today. The WWE originated style is the quickest way to get to the WWE and be accustomed to the style of wrestling and particular interests of the WWE brand itself.

Pros: What better way to get to the best Pro Wrestling organization in the world today than to ride with them since day one? The WWE originated style ensures that a superstar knows what to expect and how their asked to perform on the grandest stage in pro wrestling.

Cons: Have you ever heard of Eugene or Rob Terry? These two are WWE originated superstars that aren't with the company to this day. Showing loyalty and devotion to the company isn't enough. Creative more than likely needs to have something for you if you yourself don't have anything going. If they can't find anything, their is a huge chance they'll drop you in a heartbeat. Wrestling is about growing and learning styles so that you can be prepared for anything. You'll have to work ten times harder than the Indie guys since you were sheltered in Florida for five years before getting called up by WWE.

Puroresu

Puroresu is hardcore, smash mouth wrestling that is treated like a legitimate with as little precaution towards your opponent as possible. Puroresu implements mixed martial arts like attacks and grappling like submissions with pure technique and savage intent on making the scene look as hurtful and realistic as possible. Since the great Mitsuhiro Momota's death, Puroresu has created popular Japanese wrestling stars like Mitsuharu Misawa, Antonio Inoki, The Great Muta & Giant Baba

Pros: A great wrestling match is one that makes you believe that one wrestler is significantly hurt or in a legitimate fight with someone who is trying to take them out. Puroresu wrestlers are always going hard with every maneuver they use in any given match. The reason wrestling is so highly regarded in Japan is because of their hardcore style. Therefore, Japan treats wrestling as a legitimate sport. To quote Mick Foley -- "If the WWE was based on talent alone, Taka Michinoku would've been the WWF Champion."

Cons: Pro wrestling is an extremely dangerous career choice and with someone trying to knock your head off in Japan, it could lead to serious injury or even death. Mitsuharu Misawa died doing what he loved, but you wonder if it would have happened in America? AJPW academy students have died in training. Maybe it's a little too hardcore and needs to be toned down a bit. Daniel Bryan fought Yoshi Tatsu in Japan in an extremely technical thriller but in America, Yoshi Tatsu hasn't quite been given the chance to put on high quality technical matches for gold, just like many other Japanese wrestlers who never made it big in the WWE or TNA.

Indy

Independent wrestling today is well known as birthing the success of guys like AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, CM Punk, Evan Bourne, Austin Aries, Jack Evans, Teddy Hart, Daniel Bryan and thousands more. Independent wrestling is more of a format than style of pro wrestling, but it has branded some of the best finishing maneuvers, matches and characters the pro wrestling scene has witnessed in a long time. Independent wrestlers have traveled across the globe and have wrestled in millions of independent promotions for years before reaching the big stage. Indy wrestlers have wrestled all types of wrestlers and can -- and must -- adapt to almost any style in order for them to gain recognition to one day get the call from the top companies.

Pros: Indy wrestlers get a ton of recognition for going from show to show and making their own fanbase without the help of the WWE hype machine. Independent wrestlers get a chance to wrestle millions of superstars who may one day become future WWE Superstars. They can blend styles together and once the WWE calls them up -- if they do --they are probably the most ready to make the transition.

Cons: Indy guys go 10 years without getting the recognition so many of them deserve and once they are actually given the spotlight, we've seen time and time again that it can be taken away from them with the greatest of ease. Indy Wrestlers may only be compelling on the independent circuit and may crumble under the pressure of becoming a superstar in the WWE or TNA.

And that's a wrap.

Well, Cagesiders, what is your favorite style of pro wrestling today? What did I miss?

Don't forget to cast your vote in the poll below and express your favorite wrestling styles as well as argue the alternative in the comments.