For me it was Gino Hernandez...
Old school.. but had it all..
Could cut a promo like no other...
No doubt, Gino was great. He loved that cocaine though. One of those WCCW documentaries talked about how he just couldn't let it go and he knew it.
To the OP it would be David Von Erich.
The heir apparent to Fritz...he just had that business sense which Kerry and Kevin never had. I've heard that Kerry was Fritz's favorite but he had the most faith in David.
Solid on the mic, shot entertaining promos, ring psychology, great size at 6'6.
By December of 1983 he was well on his way to being right up there with the very small group of wrestlers who could rival Ric Flair and very likely would have held the NWA strap in 1984 and be over doing it.
Had he stuck around and went to WCW during the later part of the 80's like some have speculated he had that one heel turn in him and would have made an excellent Outlaw type wrestler in the South during that period.
He never would have fit in WWF but was tailor made for that Southern style of WCW wrestling.
Like some of these other guys...you just wonder what could have been.