Art Barr

[5.0] "Art Barr was definitely an amazing talent. Eddie got the frog splash from him which says a lot. He was also a fantastic heel and in a different era may have reached main event heights. He also plead guilty to raping a 19 year old female in 1989. That's not speculation, it's fact. That's partially why he was never going to get work in a bigger promotion. When he was hired by WCW in 1990, that charge followed him which meant fax machines and phone calls. If he were still alive he'd easily be a 0 but he's been dead for over 30 years."

[9.0] "Art Barr possibly known as the best oregon wrestler of all time and even though in the US he was never a headliner but in Mexico he became the greatest heel to go to another country. The inventor of the frog splash and a man who can draw heel with facial expressions and language unheard of at the time. Very ahead of his time and his career lived on in Eddie Guerrero who are now deceased way too soon. Rest in peace."

[5.0] "Another guy with talent who went before his time. His heel team with Eddie Guerrero was good stuff down in AAA and their matches with Konnan were fun. I only rate him this low because he never got a chance to hit his peak. He was still in the process of getting there."

[9.0] "A talent that unfortunately died just as he was hitting his strides, Art Barr was one of first talents that would lead to the modern high-flying styles, which he taught to Eddie Guerrero, his tag team partner in Mexico. It's bittersweet that his best match, an absolute classic at When Worlds Collide, was his last match, and in it, you could see just how good he was and get an idea of how good he could have been had he lived past the age of 28. Not only was he a gifted high-flyer, he was a master of body language, and even with a mask on, you could feel his emotions."

[7.0] "Tremendous potential that was unfortunately never truly realized. Almost on par with Eddie Guerrero, I think his entire career could have been just that and be enough for a lengthy, legendary time in the business... but alas, taken far too early."

[7.0] "Hard guy to rate because his time in the industry was so short, but he had great potential & innovated one of the best top rope moves in all of wrestling. His Juicer gimmick in WCW was weird & bad, but he really hit his stride in Mexico alongside Eddie. Very unfortunate that his life ended when it did."

[8.0] "An innovator of the modern cruiserweight/high-flyer style, "Love Machine" Art Barr was considered too small, for his era, for major US companies to really take seriously (and his "Juicer" run in WCW was a non-starter), but he found great success south of the border, especially as part of the Gringos Locos stable and while teaming with Eddie Guerrero in AAA. He was finally able to show the US audience what he was capable of when he and Eddie faced Hijo del Santo and Octagon in a classic match at the legendary WCW-produced AAA pay-per-view "When Worlds Collide" in November 1994, but it would be bittersweet as this turned out to be Barr's last match; he passed away only a few weeks later at age 28."

[9.0] "Art Barr was a great wrestler. Too bad he died at the age of 28 in 1994."