I'll go with Graham. Now admittedly, I've never been a fan of the "Dweam." He was overweight, obnoxious, and I could understand maybe every two words in twenty that Rhodes spoke. I thought he was incredibly petulant to book Flair the way he did while on the NWA booking team, and for all his talk, he really only held the NWA title for three transitional reigns.

Graham, meanwhile, was simply the more accomplished wrestler. He held the WWWF title for nearly a year, and was among the first heels anywhere to win a major world championship and keep it for more than a fortnight. Incidentally, the two wrestled many times in their career. Graham won a few and lost a few, yet he continuously beat Rhodes when and where it mattered the most.

Perhaps most importantly, Graham was a proven draw throughout the northeast. Rhodes never showed he could draw outside of Florida.

Incidentally, I am currently compiling a list of the 100 greatest wrestlers of all time. It's more of a book, really (well, four books actually) and after years at it, I'm almost done. I've chosen to list the names alphabetically rather than numerically, but had I chosen the latter, it would be easy to rank Graham ahead of Rhodes.

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