Throughout this project I had an idea in the back of my head of an era adjustment. I don’t think I’ll ever flesh that out but I did make a list of the top fishers by birth year.
1894 Jim Londos
1898 Gus Sonnenberg
1915 Les Kellett
1916 Lou Thesz
1918 Freddie Blassie
1919 Al Costello
1920 Mick McManus
1921 Buddy Rogers
1922 Blue Demon (?)
1923
1924 Rikidozan
1925
1926 Verne Gagne
1927 Tibor Szakacs
1928 Johnny Valentine
1929 Fritz Von Erich
1930 The Destroyer
1931 Don Leo Jonathan
1932 Dominic DeNucci
1933 Gypsy Joe
1934 Nick Bockwinkel
1935 Bruno Sammartino
1936
1937 Stan Stasiak
1938 Giant Baba
1939 Bob Armstrong
1940 Jim Breaks
1941 Abdullah the Butcher
1942 Mil Mascaras
1943 Antonio Inoki
1944 Terry Funk
1945 Dusty Rhodes
1946 Andre the Giant
1947 Jose Gonzalez
1948 Carlos Colon
1949 Ric Flair
1950 Genichiro Tenryu
1951 Jumbo Tsuruta
1952 Randy Savage
1953 Ricky Steamboat
1954 Roddy Piper
1955 Vader
1956 Ricky Morton
1957 Bret Hart
1958 Arn Anderson
1959 Sting
1960 Negro Casas
1961 Akira Taue
1962 Mitsuharu Misawa
1963 El Hijo del Santo
1964 Steve Austin
1965 Mick Foley
1966 Yoshihiro Takayama
1967 Kenta Kobashi
1968 Bull Nakano
1969 Jun Akiyama
1970 Aja Kong
1971 manami Toyota
1972 The Rock
1973 Necro Butcher
1974 Rey Mysterio Jr.
1975 Tomohiro Ishii
1976 Hiroshi Tanahashi
1977 AJ Styles
1978 CM Punk
1979 Samoa Joe
1980 Shinsuke Nakamura
1981 Bryan Danielson
1982 Mistico
1983 Kenny Omega
1984 Sami Zayn
1985 Jon Moxley
1986 PAC
1987 Kazuchika Okada
1988 Rush
1989 Nick Jackson
1990 Iyo Ski
1991 Hangman Adam Page
1992 Mercedes Mone
1993 Will Ospreay
1994 Giulia
1995 Toni Storm
1996 Sareee
1997 Tyler Bate
1998 Utami Hayashishita
1999 Miu Watanabe
2000 Momo Watanabe
2001 Mascara Dorada 2.0
2002 AZM
I don’t have biological details on the French wrestlers in the back of the list so that could be a gap. Anything obvious I missed?
Looking at that team, climbing Everest 24 times is crazy work. Ang Dorjee was on Rob Hall's ill fated '96 expedition and the Adventure Consultants company is the one Darby used.
Beyond the optics of the roast itself, it kind of amazes me that they thought a work related roast was a good idea. Would you trust your job telling you to cut loose on your co-workers?
I always found it interesting how Tama was a star incredibly early in his career, before he turned 20. But by the time Rikishi became a star Tama was long faded. Never seen another pair of twins with career paths like it.
I don't begrudge the GoFundMe because there's a ton of expenses not associated with normal medical bills. But yeah, shilling for it on your television show is awkward.
Wikipedia has the Samoans winning tag titles in twelve different promotions. Almost all their footage comes from the last third of their run. I feel like there's a decent handful of their matches that were great but are lost to time.