Phil Schneider

FYI Togo has come out of retirement and is running a wrestling school in Vietnam of all places. I reviewed a match where he worked in a three way tag opener in Singapore under a mask http://segundacaida.blogspot.com/2016/01/luckily-dick-togo-had-something-in.html

You have long been afraid of me

AWESOME!!

We have had a bit of drought, lets hope they are cuing up something awesome for tomorrow.

Hey did suck in ROH, but had plenty of fun matches in other feds during that time, so I wouldn't say he was unwatchable for two years, just booked badly in ROH

Why would he end up on your list at all then? I also think he kind of sucks, but he isn't sniffing my list

Anyone have that Larry Z v. Putski Texas Death match? That is weirdly intriguing

Ki might have been a top 5 guy in 2015, he really only wrestled a handful of times, but they were all great, Ki v. Rey Jr. is my MOTY, loved Ki v. Dickinson, the AAA trios was a blast and Cide/Ki v. Hit Squad was another great performance. I honestly could see myself ranking him above Danielson, although I admit that might be a bit crazy.

When watching for the Memphis sets I remember how bad Hashimoto would kill Chris Frazier, he would work regular against the other jobbers and maul Frazier. Have you seen this match? Maybe my favorite live match ever and a great obscure Hashimoto match

All I want for Christmas is an awesome Jose Lothario match

Links? That sounds awesome

Hadn't see in it years and it was as great as I remembered, loved all of the little things Ian did here driving his knuckles into Hero's ribs, that headbutt to the back of the head, all of the knee work was great too, and I loved the finish. I wish more of this Ian stuff was online, but I am not sure any of his best stuff outside of this is online.

Here is an Meth-lab BattlArts match with Chris Hero which is a great example of what I love about Ian Rotten https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1zpyogaicY

A couple of reasons. I'm still a sucker for a Great Match and Hunter has had quite a few of them. He's not "on" as often as I'd like, but when he's on he's on. Also I haven't watched enough new wrestling (new to me, not recent) to have 100 guys that I've watched enough of and rate to honestly place above him. Same goes for other heavily flawed guys with lots of great matches that in a perfect world I'd be able to eliminate, Edge and Angle being the obvious ones. I am basically excluding Japan so I can't fault you for that. It just means you have something to work towards for the next one. I think there won't be a guy on my 100 that I feel really doesn't belong there, even with my blindspots. We'll see though. As your boss, I am going to make you watch a bunch of Fujiwara

Its really good

Intangibles 10? So she is as great as Ric Flair or Steve Austin or Hulk Hogan or Negro Casas or Jerry Lawler at character work?

Six and half year career has to discount her completely. Someone would have to be the among the top five best in the world without question for three or four of those years for someone with a six and half year career to sniff a list. I can't think of anyone who comes close outside of maybe Volk Han, and I don't think Han is going to make my list. Of course Han is one of the greatest mat wrestlers of all time and basically headlined a promotion with multiple classic matches. Trish was better then Victoria at six minute piss break matches. A half a decade of solid 5 minute matches to kill time while people got beer. somehow making you one of the best 100 wrestlers in history seem totally bonkers to me.

Some one put up Shinya Hashimoto v. Dylan Knight v. Steve Corino v. Gary Steele in an iron man match from Pennsylvania. Probably my favorite live match ever. Master class by Hashimoto, still have the signed bandana I caught

Here is Necro v. Ki from IWA-MS, another awesome non-death match Necro match

Eric's Segunda Caida live blog is over here http://segundacaida.blogspot.com/2015/12/wwe-tlc-2015-live-blog.html

I went ahead and reviewed that over at SC http://segundacaida.blogspot.com/2015/12/if-world-hate-you-you-know-that-it.html

Here is an SC review of Wayne v. Preston Quinn from 2014 http://segundacaida.blogspot.com/2015/05/2014-ongoing-match-of-year-list.html and a Qunni/Pat Cusick v. Damien Wayne/Mike booth tag from 2014 http://segundacaida.blogspot.com/2015/04/2014-ongoing-match-of-year-list_22.html

Bob Sapp v. Nogiera would be the most pro-wrestling great fight I have seen.

I was a little hesitant about digging into the Davey Richards tag period, so far I only reviewed Dragon brawls, and a long tags with Davey Richards of all people as his partner was pretty daunting. This however was fucking choice. Jack Evans is really best as American indy Kikuchi and Super Dragon lays a horrific ass kicking on him, stretching him in unnatural ways, dumping him on his neck and beating the grits off him. At one point he just pokes him in the trachea. He also gives him a curb stomp on the side of his neck, and a bunch of different bits of violence I can't even describe. Evans had some pretty offense, he cracks Richards with one of the best pele kicks I can remember, and hits a spaceman plancha into a 450, which was totally bonkers. Richards was pretty much just doing Benoit shtick here, and kept it pretty simple, he did a little goofus selling, but was in the background enough so he didn't bother me. This did stretch, with three separate long beatdowns on the faces, still when the beatdowns are this nasty I don't mind it. Finish run was pretty exciting and the long finish runs were always what bugged me about PWG and the length here was fine.