Timbo Slice

Parv is totally getting the Dory avatar.

I've only had Heenan and Dump so far on my list. Hogan and Trips are getting some big time voting love from some people, it looks like.

Steven, you definitely ranked Khan because I got to make my Tejano Khan joke during the podcast

SUWA would have made my list for sure.

The only one to drop for me so far is Heenan, and he was above Davey, which makes the entire project worth it for me.

Hilariously enough, I didn't vote for Killer Khan, which sucks because thus ends my "Tejano Khan" joke with Johnny on Brainbuster

Ray Rougeau with the best sell job of placement on the entire list so far. I think we will have something crazier than Kendrick at 9. MANY things crazier.

Sato, Martin, Dream Machine and HTM are all people I thought long and hard for before I went to my final cuts. I think they were part of my Top 175. NOTE: Of the four, Sato was highest.

That's why I posted it. I at least want people to guess about who it could be.

Although I do feel we will have someone voted #1 around that range

Yeah realized as I posted I probably should have said 150 or so.

Two questions really. The above question AND where they land on the list. I think it's KENTA at around 325. Who you got??

Still angry about SUWA not getting nominated. Shame.

I love that Gedo got a vote, but Jado did not.

Was it SUWA? I bet it was SUWA.

Nakamura's entrance got leaked and it looks pretty great.

The problem with that thinking is that they'd let Roman do something similar, when in reality, they were getting their asses whooped so much that they basically just let a lot of guys do whatever at the time Rock is talking about. They don't have that crutch to lean on here. And this is way worse than what Cena was getting. Cena's won over a lot of folks that used to hate him over the years, and the whole brooding thing from Roman doesn't work considering Cena's entire gimmick was him being outspoken. There are basically zero things in the environment WWE has created that would allow Reigns to have his Rocky Maivia transformation.

Loss' point is the one that sticks with me, as my point is that if you take fan growth as an indication of buying into acts over time, the Cena comparisons don't hold water. He was a complete exception because he had the type of personality that still lent itself to guys buying in even if they didn't like the push. Reigns has not proven that so far, and the growth of fans who don't buy it is much greater than the casual fans who do. In a sense, they're cannibalizing their own growth by sticking to antiquated processes.

I am in like Flint. And I am damn tired.

My point is that they are only going to be able to do that for so long. I understand there are more house shows than live TV shows and merchandise plays a big part, but they really do risk falling even further down now that that "vocal minority" bullshit is becoming more and more of a majority. Those types of fans aren't going to go away, and as we've seen it's only grown in the last few years.

I should be shocked that they're going off house show reaction and not the more public reaction, but I'm not.

Yeah, what Steven said.

I'm not going to talk down anyone's list at all. Going through this thing, I had about 200 guys on my initial list that I could have included, and I had an incredibly tough time getting down to 100, and like I said previously, there are gonna be times where my consistency lacked in spots more than others. Steven and I already know we are gonna have disagreements, but at the same time, my "optimism" for this is discovering what people find in high regard when it comes to wrestling. This was a discovery project for me and whether my list is "right" or not, I did the best I could putting it together and am stoked to see people's lists who are much, MUCH different than mine.

Beyond stoked for his debut. Weird to say that a monster heel deserves a shot like that but he definitely does. Absolutely outstanding.

That's a great point and one that frankly seems inherent to a lot of my selections.