Childs

Biggest DVDVR beneficiaries: Fujiwara, Lawler, Dundee, Fujinami, Choshu, Bock, Andre, Satanico. Maybe Buddy Rose as well, even though Portland has yet to be released.

I suspect Liger holds on better than Race, Dynamite, Austin, Hokuto, Aja, Takada and maybe Brett.

No way.

WCW became one of the most successful wrestling companies in history during that period. So reducing the story to one long slide down the drain is beyond silly.

Yeah, he was 56, two spots ahead of Fujinami. Two guys who will likely rise bigtime because of the DVDVR project.

Bigger than Benoit, Eddie, Harley Race, Bret, Dynamite? I'd be surprised.

I don't want to start this insanely circular and terrible argument again, but didn't Flair finish 7th in the 2006 SC poll? Do you really feel as though he will climb multiple spots? If anything, we don't really have any new jaw dropping footage and his work after 06 was actively bad. I think it's reasonable to assume he might fall slightly, although he still seems like a lock for the top 10. Flair finished below Benoit, Liger and Eddie in 2006. That ain't happening again. So even if a few others leapfrog him, hard to see him not at least holding serve. I could also see him jumping Kobashi, Jumbo and/or Kawada, all of whom have faced their own little spurts of critical backlash.

The Germans don't bother me, because casual expressions of strength seem perfect for the character. He's a minor god walking among men.

I think Brock is actually a pretty good seller and was also an excellent bumper in his first run. He generally has the initial run of killer offense but rarely does he go a whole match without making his opponent look good. As for the Roadies comparison, he's a vastly greater athlete than either one of them, and that's apparent in every movement he makes. So even if you're only in it for the offense, his offense looks a hell of a lot better.

I think plenty of people here like Show. I view his career positively overall and consider his performance in the Mayweather match to be one of the most impressive in company history. He just never had the sustained run of greatness that would push him into my top 100.

One thing I've never been entirely clear on is how Mascaras was viewed in Mexico.

Mexican Inoki?

Cena, Dustin, Styles, Joe, Brock, Cesaro, Nakamura.

There's no BIGLAV-T?

Seems fine in the sense that no one ever treated it as more than a fun little companion to the main event.

Just to assuage any doubts you might have, you'd hate them.

As I said, I'm fine with that.

I find this whole line of thinking wrongheaded. For the purposes of this exercise, I really don't care if Taker was doing his job from 1991 to 1996. I care that he did little or nothing to suggest he was a great wrestler. I don't hold those years against him in the sense that I think he was awful. But I'm also not giving him credit for what he might have been capable of.

Vader vs. Sting? Austin vs. Savio? Hansen vs. Colon

I happened to watch this the other day, and it was shockingly entertaining considering, you know, Tom Howard and the Predator. If you need evidence of why Hash was so special, consider how much energy the broken down version of him injected into a match like this. It's not the kind of match that would be in the first paragraph of a GWE case, but performances like this really do separate him.

I have just never come away from one of his matches thinking, "Wow, Chris Jericho is a great wrestler." Not once. He did have very good chemistry with Mysterio. I did love his character when he was trying to break out in WCW. He was a handy guy for WWE to have on the roster for a long time. But he was never great at any aspect of between-the-ropes wrestling. I don't think he'd make my top 200.

I've quite enjoyed Haward in my latest run through the British stuff. He's like Cortez in the sense his grappling had a hard edge to it. Little surprise those two matched up so often and so well. Also little surprise that he showed up in the original UWF. I need to watch a few of those matches. He probably doesn't have a large enough body of work for me to list him, but I like him better than guys I will list.

It is a shame a match that good set up a match no one wants to see. But live in the moment, I guess.

I can't help but enjoy Brock, even in this pointless mess.

Sure, but the problem is they piled it right on top of that dogshit New Day segment.