Phil Schneider

He has had a heck of last five years as he has moved into the touring lucha indy scene and is consistently one of the best performers on the small shows which end up on youtube. Just had a classic with Black Terry. Kind of reminds me of lesser Rey Jr., spectacular high flyer in his youth, tremendous veteran as he got older

Pretty crazy that I was arguing something along the lines of "How can we expect a 68 year old man to still put on incredible performances" and then I watch a 68 year old man put on an incredible performance. What a fucking legend

I just watched that to try to find a 2020s Terry classic, and it was incredible. His performance in that match was as good as the stuff a decade ago, and Marvin was great too. It's on IWTV if folks have that, and pretty much a must see.

He is also 68 years old, I mean even if he hasn't had great matches in the latter half of his 60s, I don't think we can hold that against him. He was having Match of the Decade contenders in the early part of his 60s.

I know this is entirely on ringwork, but I do think we need to take into account that Christian was one of the five biggest stars of the Attitude era.

Dominic Garrini has been improving a lot, and has been doing some really fun stuff as both a stiff brawler and a shootstyle worker. His match with Kingston last weekend was a classic

I mean Juventud Guerrera has a thread, but no one seriously considered him in that thread. Juvi also had an amazing couple of years and not a ton outside that time. Although you could find more good post-prime Juvi, then post-prime Rude who had his career cut short by that injury

Matt mentioned that new Race NWA title match in the Race thread, and man what a bag of shit that was. Ted was outside my list anyway, but Matt reminding me of that match puts a nail in his coffin.

I think Rude's run is just too short to put him on a list of the 100 greatest wrestlers of all time. I think if it was 100 greatest 5 year peaks, you can make the argument, but honestly a couple of good years, when you compare it to guys who have had 20+ year careers, I just don't think he has a chance. It has to be Volk Han level stuff, and Rude was never that.

NWA Anarchy is a bit of a footage black hole, I was able to track down the NWA Elite vs. Devil's Rejects War Games for my book, but most of Anarchy doesn't seem to be available, and there are some killer match ups in that fed

I am interested to see what Matt Makowski will do in the next five years, he is already one of the indy guys I most look forward to watching and has only really been at it for a couple of years. The Chris Dickinson matches are highlights so far

Five years is a long time, who are some guys who might make it with five more years of output?

Sangre is a better comparison. Although I am not sure that criticism of Necro really applies. He basically did retire, he has had five matches since 2016. I mean pretty much every wrestler ever who didn't die young would show up occasionally for old man nostalgia matches.

That SHLAK match hurting him would be like rating Negro Navarro poorly because he has begun to slow down in his 70s. I mean Necro isn't in his 70s, but he basically is. Also I actually thought that SHLAK match had some real moment of smart work, especially considering how awful SHLAK is and how physically limited Necro is. I am not going to rank Dynamite Kid but it isn't because of that MPRO match.

I don't really consider the WWF runs of 80s territories guys. It's pretty much always bad, so I wouldn't ding DiBiase or JYD or Duggan, although I do think the fact that they could still be excellent in that constraint really helps Piper and Valentine

Here is a review of a great 2 Cold vs. Kingston match from IWA-MS http://segundacaida.blogspot.com/2019/01/kingston-with-gravy-mercedes-add.html

I helped put together the Mid-South set and there were some deadly dull DiBiase matches we didn’t include. There are some high end brawls but the average DiBiase house show match was sominex

Drop some match recs. On the surface Mercedes as a top 25 seems insane, but I like her a lot and could see myself convinced to put her on a list

Guys what are we even doing here?

I could have sworn that Scott Decker had a Jerry Lawler vs. Ronnie Garvin match on one of his comp tapes, I can't find any record of the match lists from those comps. I would assume it would have been either 9/3/88 or 10/30/88 which are the only two singles between the two on Cagematch

Roy Lucier has gotten a ton of Tenay's lucha collection and is uploading it on Youtube, a lot of that stuff is stuff that Lynch didn't have and is new, so hopefully those will show up. Satanico vs. Emilio Charles in a hair match sounds amazing.

I think OJ has seen some British stuff which is widely out there Is there any Japan handhelds or TV which Dan is still hunting Obviously there is a bunch of Houston stuff which is in limbo

When I posted about the Panther vs. Santo bloodbath in the Panther thread, I was thinking about footage that we know exists but don't have. What else is out there, but not out there.

I vaguely remember an AWS Panther vs. Felino match from around the same time. Anyone have that?

I was at that show! Caught Hashimoto's bandana