Timbo Slice

Wasn't TAKA one of those guys that was really good at a young age? The other guy for me is Ohtani. Absolutely fantastic basically from the start.

Just absolutely the worst news. In recent times, the whole Rhodes Family vs. Shield/Authority feud was my favorite thing in 2013, and the payoff at Battleground was one of my favorite moments of the year. But he also had the greatest promo of all time. RIP to the Dream, and may he be dining with kings and queens in the great beyond.

Actually, Rippa made Meiko Satomura the Wrestler of the Day this morning and her 1999 was tremendous with the 4/4/99 tag and the fucking fantastic title match against Aja in September. She's in the running.

The only joshi wrestler I'd consider would be Hokuto for 93, maybe Kong for 94. Hash had a great 94-96 but I don't think he ranks at the top above any of the AJPW guys. I have problems with Kobashi being the go to guy in 1993 because I don't think he was the best guy in any of the matches he was a part of, role or not. Jumbo's 90 is superb, but his 91 is layered more with tag matches as opposed to standout singles matches (Although the Kawada match is a top-flight match). So off the top of my head: 1990: Jumbo 1991: Lyger 1992: Misawa 1993: Hokuto (Just beating out Hansen) 1994: Kawada (Just beating out Aja Kong) 1995: Taue (I'll hear an argument for Kawada or Misawa though) 1996: Lyger (I almost put Ohtani here, too, but 1996 NJPW juniors is the best the division ever was for me) 1997: Misawa 1998: Kawada 1999 is a wild card year. Nobody in Japan stood out, really. I almost want to put either Tamura or Volk Han here. I like the Yoshida nods but I'm not sure if she has the match quantity. Maybe Ishikawa? BattlArts was in full swing at that point, right? Will's pick of Tajiri is a fun one because there wasn't a better character in ECW than him at the time. Honestly, Kobashi is a boring choice, and he had far outlived his usefulness to me at this point, and was only getting pushed because Kawada had broken his arm again and Misawa had the book. Hell, I'd probably take Vader over him and that was only because he was at least motivated in '99. Not familiar with Mexico at this point, as it seemed like a downtime until Mistico started making his run. Santo was winding down, Dr. Wagner, Jr. was too busy no-selling in NJPW...I dunno. Nobody in the States jumps out at me either.

If we're talking about actually making money, if the Portland Sports Arena isn't on there... MSG or the Dome is Boardwalk, the other Park Place.

Kawada has the best men's singles match I've ever seen and the two best men's tags I've ever seen. That's an incredible peak, and while Tenryu definitely had himself some high points, I don't think it matches Kawada even with the longevity argument.

Finn winning the belt in Tokyo would be nice, but the big draw has to be Joe/Owens, right? Even with Owens running with the main roster, can't see him dropping the belt jussst yet.

I forgot to update this list after we did the Larry Z show a few months back on the PWSS. Yeah, Larry seems like a lock for my list now, just because he had such high end stuff. He doesn't have more than a lot of the other guys on this list as far as quantity goes, but when he was on, there were few heels better, if any. And his fiery babyface stuff against Regal is absolutely top notch. I'm gonna have him on there without a doubt.

Hell yes, they are going to be on my list. Absolutely great team. I feel bad for nominating MVC before them because I sat here thinking they had already been nominated. Yet here we are. Awesome heels, probably the best thing Manny ever did, and Rick got to finally be the heel that made him a superstar. It was only about seven months, but they were a fantastic seven months.

One match not on there that I'd at least recommend but only has Punk as far as GWE nominees is the Chicago Street Fight from Death Before Dishonor 2004: Night Two (07/24/04) with him and Ace Steel vs. Dan Maff and B.J. Whitmer. It's at least a good match, if not great depending on how much you enjoy that style of wrestling.

Wait a minute...No RICK RUDE AND MANNY FERNANDEZ? Um, nomination via general principle.

Makes sense. He did get presented in TNA as a guy you didn't want to mess with, but when Hernandez got added he really did just play your generic little guy with the big guy muscle behind him. I also haven't really gone back and looked at what he's done in a while to warrant a hard case, just recollection, but he seems like someone that was really hot at a time when indy wrestling was at its hottest and stood out amongst the rest.

He had a few bright spots for the WWF/E, but he mostly shined in the MPro tags and like Dylan said, that's hard to get him hard consideration for a list like this.

Miracle Ecstasy Driver!!!!!! I liked Men's, but he wasn't someone that I thought was better than any of the other MPro guys. Like, I don't think he was better than Yakushiji. Won't be on here, even though he was a part of some of the best tag team matches I've ever seen.

Really good tag worker, but I don't see him matching up well with some of the other guys of his era, even though I did like NOAH mid-card matches as much as anyone. Won't be on my list.

Great tag worker, but as a singles worker I didn't really see it. He got surpassed pretty easily by a lot of his peers. Won't see him on my list.

When this gets done in another 10 years, I wouldn't be surprised to see him in somebody's Top 25, maybe even Top 10 if they're lucha driven. But now, he's on the outside looking in.

If there were only wrestlers and not journalists that voted in the WON poll, he would already be in. There are definitely some good spots with Orton, but way too much in the doldrums. Can't see him.

Nah. He DID look like a gigantic baby at times, though. Seriously, his head was huge.

He was fantastic in the AWA stuff I watched but I didn't get to the WOS stuff. If it's as good as his AWA stuff, he'll be in the mix.

Won't really be able to consider him until I see the Rio IC Title tourney footage.

Nope. He had a few surprisingly good matches, but overall, no shot.

Always remember Dream on the Memphis set because he had such a great promo after his turn. Really charismatic and fun to watch, but I don't know if I'll have room for him.

I think he was so smart that he got dumb in the business to an extent. Just really tried to overplay everything. Should have kept it simpler. Doesn't hold up.

The one thing I'll say is that I did like him vs. Ohtani, 6/6/01 vs. Kawada and I did like one of the Tenryu matches. Outside of that? Eh.