Flair, Savage or Shawn Michaels, who was the greatest all round performer wrestling has ever seen

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When the conversation turns to pure in ring performers rather than biggest stars or drawing power, three names consistently come up above almost everyone else in the sport's history. Ric Flair built his entire legacy on the road, wrestling in front of small crowds in tiny towns across the NWA territory system night after night, a schedule that forged what became known simply as the Flair formula, a match structure so effective it is still taught to young wrestlers as the template for how to work an entire crowd across sixty minutes.

Randy Savage brought a completely different kind of genius to the table, a level of match psychology and storytelling that turned every single one of his bouts into a genuine spectacle, most famously his WrestleMania III classic against Ricky Steamboat, a match still regularly cited by other wrestlers themselves as one of the finest examples of in ring storytelling the business has ever produced.

Shawn Michaels, known simply as Mr. WrestleMania for his run of iconic performances on the sport's biggest stage, combined elite technical ability with an unmatched flair for the dramatic, delivering genuine classics against Bret Hart, Undertaker and Triple H across multiple decades that helped define what a WrestleMania main event was actually supposed to look and feel like.

Flair's stamina and territory grind, Savage's psychological storytelling mastery, or Michaels's technical brilliance combined with WrestleMania moment making. Which one actually gets the nod as the single greatest all round performer the business has ever had?