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I guess if I have any hope related to GWE and the outside world it's that the threads will be a resource for someone who comes along in a year or two, hoping to dig deeper. The Smarkschoice threads played that role for me before they disappeared. As for the post-project lull, it was inevitable. I know that whenever I go through an intensive wrestling analysis period, I usually need to exhale for a few months before I dive back into something else. I assume it's the same for others and that things will pick back up when the '80s sets come out or there's something particularly interesting to talk about in WWE. We can't have a board-galvanizing opus going on all the time.

Can't speak for others, but I really don't care if it meant anything to anyone else or not.

I just watched that tag this morning and thought it was a mess, despite some nice moments. Way too long and way too many momentum shifts. Every tag match doesn't need to follow classic Southern formula, but each tag to a partner should mean something. The match should have some kind of shape. I don't know, they really lost me. Hero-Thatcher and Riddle-Alexander were really good, though Thatcher needs to stop throwing slaps, especially against a striker of Hero's caliber. They make him look weaker than he is, and he has plenty of strike options between the uppercuts, the body punches and the head butts.

Awesome, thanks.

The huge 70's footage dump with a bunch of new/rare matches that just went up on YouTube might change that. Where's that?

They're 2 for 2 on great matches. I hope they have something worthwhile for AJ now that Rollins and Reigns are going to be paired. If he didn't make his bones in those two main events, not sure how he would.

These guys are a fantastic match-up.

I've never thought Ambrose was very good, but the fans did care about him for a long time. Jericho has even taken that away. What a terrible drag he's become. He wouldn't make my top 1,000 wrestlers ever.

That cage is ridiculous, and not in a good way. My expectations for this could hardly be lower.

This has been a quality wrestling show.

I understand it's 120 teams but agree there's little need to stretch it out over a whole month. If that's the pace Beast and Low Blow need to go at, it's understandable, and I appreciate their efforts. But this was never comparable to GWE, so I imagine a lot of us would be cool with a quicker roll out.

These guys had the crowd (and me) hooked despite all the bullshit. That's saying something. Great performance by both.

The wrestling in this match has been really good though.

Nothing screams new era like a title match built around the McMahons.

Why can't they keep this shit on RAW?

Jesus that was dumb.

It's equally amazing that people think Ambrose is something special.

Sounds like he might be OK. That's a relief.

Perrito is the obvious scary comparison.

Looked legit. Slamming your neck against the ropes is no joke.

I don't think it's either/or for the most part. The majority of those who recorded podcasts also posted extensively in the threads.

Kris with the unexpected heel run-in, spurring another subjectivity debate after the countdown wrapped. Dastardly!

Niche was not a patronizing term in this context but a catch-all for styles that were seemingly ignored by large segments of voters. The implication was only that shootstyle, joshi, British stuff, etc. were effectively reduced to niches in this process, not that they're inherently niches.

1) Stan Hansen 2) Toshiaki Kawada 3) Genichiro Tenryu 4) Kenta Kobashi 5) 'The Nature Boy' Ric Flair 6) Jumbo Tsuruta 7) Mitsuharu Misawa 8) Tatsumi Fujinami 9) Daniel Bryan 10) Shinya Hashimoto 11) Yoshiaki Fujiwara 12) Nick Bockwinkel 13) El Satanico 14) Terry Funk 15) Jushin 'Thunder' Liger 16) Rey Mysterio Jr. 17) Jerry 'The King' Lawler 18) El Dandy 19) Vader 20) 'Playboy' Buddy Rose 21) Riki Choshu 22) Akira Taue 23) El Hijo del Santo 24) Jun Akiyama 25) Billy Robinson 26) Barry Windham 27) Kiyoshi Tamura 28) Steve Grey 29) Naoki Sano 30) 'Lord' Steven Regal 31) Volk Han 32) Ricky 'The Dragon' Steamboat 33) 'Beautiful' Bobby Eaton 34) Yuki Ishikawa 35) Chris Benoit 36) Ricky Morton 37) Arn Anderson 38) Fit Finlay 39) Jack Brisco 40) Bret 'Hitman' Hart 41) Eddie Guerrero 42) Rick Martel 43) Marty Jones 44) 'Macho Man' Randy Savage 45) Negro Casas 46) 'Goldust' Dustin Rhodes 47) Daisuke Ikeda 48) Dick Murdoch 49) Giant Baba 50) Jim Breaks 51) Shinjiro Ohtani 52) Sangre Chicana 53) Akira Maeda 54) Yoshihiro Takayama 55) AJ Styles 56) Bill Dundee 57) Aja Kong 58) Ron Garvin 59) Dick Togo 60) Pirata Morgan 61) Ted DiBiase 62) Masa Fuchi 63) Dynamite Kansai 64) 'Mr. Perfect' Curt Hennig 65) Andre the Giant 66) Alexander Otsuka 67) John Cena 68) Chris Hero 69) Low Ki 70) Shawn Michaels 71) Osamu Nishimura 72) Minoru Suzuki 73) Brock Lesnar 74) Tito Santana 75) Tsuyoshi Kikuchi 76) Clive Myers 77) Kazuo Yamazaki 78) Masa Saito 79) 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin 80) Bull Nakano 81) Terry Rudge 82) Yoshihiro Tajiri 83) Nobuhiko Takada 84) Greg 'The Hammer' Valentine 85) Black Terry 86) Devil Masami 87) Carlos Colon 88) Samoa Joe 89) Shinsuke Nakamura 90) Akira Hokuto 91) Tully Blanchard 92) Owen Hart 93) Hiroshi Hase 94) Negro Navarro 95) Atsushi Onita 96) Invader 1 97) Necro Butcher 98) Yoji Anjoh 99) CM Punk 100) 'Dr. Death' Steve Williams