Ricky Jackson

You are clearly a person of surpassing taste and quality. I will wear my new avatar with pride. George gets big points from me for basically inventing the act that gave us Flair, and to a lesser extent Bockwinkel, and hence all of their imitators. Every time I see a George match I see a spot I wish someone would steal today. Plus I once saw him hit the mother of all piledrivers on some match on ESPN Classic back in the 90s I haven't been able to find since. Amazing worker who would have gotten over any place, any time. That's a pretty compelling argument in a tiny paragraph, actually. Not the sort of direction I'd go, but you pass the gauntlet. I had George at 94 I think. I'm not going to claim that he has a ton of great matches on tape or whatever, but his peak as a draw and household name was HUGE, basically the biggest wrestling star between Londos in the 30s and Hogan in the 80s and surely one of the top 10 stars ever. Also hugely influential as Lee pointed out.

Wooooooooooooo!

My vote for worst match I've ever seen

I think I'm really going to like the list that has Gorgeous George at number 5

That's probably the best assessment. Number of great matches being weighted so heavily bugged me a lot, especially if it was more important than how someone performs. Some people were just in positions to have a TON of great matches and to have those seen by a lot of people. Others did not. The folks who didn't get those chances aren't necessarily worse than those who did. Being in position means they still have to take advantage of that opportunity. And doing so may very well be why they're so often put in such a position. True. However looking at someone like Bret who constantly had to face pirates, dentists, clowns and everybody else and compare that to Kobashi who got to face Misawa, Kawada, Taue, etc.. There is no way Bret would ever be able to equal that many great matches in that situation. Does that mean Kobashi is automatically better? He may be better, but there is more to it than that. Preach on brother

I did. But it's already been established my list was written on the back of a napkin during a work break a few weeks ago. Lol

I dunno, at least Graham's universe was full of headlining 20,000 + sellouts for a super hot territory and not part of cards that couldn't draw flies to shit, if you want to be technical about it. (You know I love ya Parv, don't sick the feds on me for subversive statements)

Also, the 80s Nintendo John Cena theme used on the show is up there for Greatest Wrestling podcast music Ever

What were his 70s highs? Laying an egg against Harley? I'll give him this: he could sell better than he's given credit for. And was demonstrably a better wrestler than Jesse Ventura. I didn't vote for Graham, but his WWWF stuff in 76-78 from MSG and Philly is mostly good, never bad, and often really memorable. Vs. Bruno, Dusty, Putski, Mascaras (two otherwise crappy wrestlers), Backlund, are almost as good as it gets in NYC during this time. I probably should've found a spot for Superstar

Haha...I was the high vote on Wrestling II. Couldn't have worked out any better for an avatar switch

Plus Heenan trained and started his career as a wrestler, and wrestled extensively in all the other areas he worked, including a fair amount in WWF Steven, surely you can find a better pic of Heenan. Preferably one from the 70s with a classic crimson mask

Matt and Stacey rock! Natural podcasters. Great chemistry. Fun debut

Marty and I are claiming exclusive podcast rights for a tag team countdown show on Tag Teams Back Again. ☺

That King Konga pic is so awesome I almost want it as MY avatar

Yeah man, west is the best

That's so frustrating. Don't give up guys. Having to re-record audio is a major pain. The deal with one persons voice not recording happened to me randomly a few times a couple years ago. I don't think I ever figured out why other than that's the kind of random shit the Skype recorder does

All these damn gif's are spiking my data, but glad you were amazed

I would've just put Pete Doherty at 92 or whatever if knew this was going to come up haha

I had a great time doing this with Sleeze but by the end I was running on fumes and basically playing the "check out this podcast for my views on this guy" card quite a bit

Oh wait, I wasn't the high vote on Fuji. Never mind. Not sure who it will be

Great idea. I'll change mine to Mr.Fuji when I get home from work

Can't lie, seeing a podcast that long is a huge buzzkill. Just need to be prepared to make dents and get through it in time. But loving it so far. Makes the commute and traffic a whole lot more tolerable. Oh believe me it's a buzz kill for me as well. Going in to this I wanted it to be the "concise" GWE pod. Silly me

https://soundcloud.com/jerryvonkramer/tag-teams-back-again-episode-15-gwe-top-25-sell-out-special (PTBN link to follow) Kelly and Marty jump on the GWE bandwagon and somehow talk for 4 hours and 40 minutes on only their top 25 wrestlers ever. Foolishly they thought they would also have time to run down their top 25 tag teams as well. (haha...next time we promise!) So GWE junkies, here's another dose to feed your addiction!

The boys will be back in about two weeks. Card subject to change, as we may first review the September and October 1982 Spectrum shows as a farewell to the wonderful commentary of Kal Rudman.