Chess Knight

I really, really want to see this.

A music video for a really, really shitty song has a bunch of people wearing Atlantis masks.

I've always thought 'most outstanding' was basically the worker of the year. 'Best technical' is basically 'best mat wrestler' to me. Steve Austin would be the worker of the year for 2001, but wasn't better on the mat/' as technically sound' than someone like Low Ki. I don't really agree with any of it and haven't used 'technical wrestler' to describe anybody for a long time, but that's what my interpretation's of it has been.

Nobuhiko Takada v Akira Maeda (UWF 10/11/88) Yoji Anjoh v Masa Funaki (UWF 6/14/89) Masa Funaki v Tatsuo Nakano (UWF 7/24/89) Kiyoshi Tamura v Volk Han (RINGS 9/25/96, 1/22/97, 9/26/97) Kiyoshi Tamura v Yoshihisa Yamamoto (RINGS 9/21/98) these, to me, felt like really big 'epic' fights. The kind of primer a person could use as an introductory and not really having to worry about 'getting' the story or anything. They just felt exciting off of the bat. I don't have any Fuiwara there which feels kind of odd but maybe I'm just forgetting something. I think he's far and away the greatest shoot style wrestler of all time, but he's always been a 'you have to get him/get the story' sort of wrestler to me. I'd say a match like Fujiwara v Yusuke Fuke 2/24/92 could be a good introductory since the story is (or should be) really easy to 'get'. A lot of Fujiwara's appeal are his subtleties which not everyone will give a shit about.

I can't help but think this "who can go in NOW!?" thinking wouldn't exist if six thousand people weren't inducted the first year. I won't pretend to know more than I do (which is practically nothing), nor will I argue candidacy for or against anybody, but there seems to be a lot of wrestlers getting on the ballot who people think are a stretch. I don't know if having only ten go in in 96 would have saved the HOF of a divisive inductee like Angle or Ultimo, but they probably would have been considered much later, right?

Depends on definition of 'great', but I'd say this is a really great match, the best Orton match ever, the best or second best of 2006 SmackDown (which was excellent), a top 5 SmackDown match ever in general, the best Mysterio match in a year where Mysterio was probably a top three in the world, and probably the second best match of Mysterio's entire WWE run. I have some reservations about saying that but I have none calling it great. 1/13/06 v Benoit is something I reckon I'd call 'great' as well. Orton was really good at making all of Chris' signatures seem really dangerous.

I could have sworn Liger used the SSP in his debut match (as Liger) in 89 v Nogami or whoever it was.

Agreed with everything said about Ron Wright. If WWE are going to use Jerry Lawler's heart attack on TV they should just turn him heel and give him a 1992 Ron Wright character.

I used to know a guy who wrote "ric fleir" because he didn't like Flair and thought 'Flair' didn't deserve proper spelling or something.

Wow, KANE was taken into consideration?

I'd have him top 15, I think.

I've always wondered what it'd be like if it were the other way around. What if Jerry Lawler and Genichiro Tenryu were consensus picks Great of All Times for decades and Ric Flair and Jumbo Tsuruta were only being talked as such since 2008 (or whenever IDK)? I'm not saying or implying at all that Flair and Jumbo would be far more favourable and Lawler and Tenryu would take a back seat, but I think you can slot practicably anyone in that "Been pimped as GOATC for decades" list and they would fall in favour since due to possible over-exposure. New discoveries are exciting. Part if me think some of it IS kind of over-exposure. I don't know if I would have this incredible disdain for Kurt Angle if nobody thought he was great, or a GOATC, with some saying crap like "No Angle on your list means no credibility" or "Angle by far best in ring ever" or w/e. Maybe I'm wrong. But that kind of thing can do that to me. I remember a time years ago when I guy I knew kind of wouldn't shut up about Owen Hart and Brian Pillman. I agreed at first, but his talk would eventually kind of bug me and I lost sight of how good those two actually were. I didn't really want to watch them and looked at Arn Andersons and Bobby Eatons who were newer to me. OJ's saying "this guy being viewed as awesome is kind of boring" and even though I haven't read the wrestlewebs for THAT long, I see where he's coming from. If I made a greatest of all time list, the top three would probably Kawada, Flair and Misawa. It sounds boring and it probably is. But............ at the end of the day there isn't anybody I've seen yet I think is better. It probably won't stay like that forever. Lawler > Flair, Funk > Flair, Hansen > Flair, Fujiwara > Misawa, Fujiwara > Kawada don't look odd to me, I just don't agree (yet..? Maybe). I'unno.

I wish Edge got the role of the Joker in the Dark Knight. I imagine it'd be the most unintentionally funny character in any movie ever. Or the role of Shaggy in Scooby-Doo. Just because he looks like Shaggy from Scooby-Doo.

Yeah, I'll get this before '94. '94 has more Mascarita Sagrada, but no Cowabunga. Should place an order before December.

This is the first yearbook that's come out where I actually sat and looked at the listing semi-properly Jerry Lawler vs. Bill Dundee (JIP) (USWA TX 2/23/90) Jerry Lawler vs. The Destroyer (USWA 2/24/90) Atlantis, Villano III & El Satanico vs. Pirata Morgan, Jerry Estrada & Emilio Charles Jr (EMLL 3/16/90) Jerry Lawler vs. Kerry Von Erich (Tri-State 3/31/90) Jerry Lawler vs. Bill Dundee (USWA TX 6/1/90) Kerry Von Erich vs. Matt Borne (Cage Match) (USWA TX 6/1/90) Perro Aguayo, Ringo Mendoza & Lizmark vs. El Satanico, Sangre Chicana & Ken Timbs (EMLL 6/8/90) Espectrito & Piratita Morgan vs. Mascarita Sagrada & Aguilita Solitaria (EMLL 6/22/90) Zeus vs. Abdullah the Butcher (WWC 7/7/90) Cowabunga vignette (USWA 7/21/90) Cowabunga Interview (USWA 8/11/90) Eddie Gilbert vs. Cowabunga (USWA 8/25/90) Cowabunga Interview (USWA 9/1/90) Rayo de Jalisco vs. Cien Caras (Mask vs. Mask) (EMLL 9/21/90) Steve Williams vs. Davey Meltzer (Abrams UWF TV 10/8/90) The Rockers playing video games (Superstars 12/22/90) Nick Bockwinkel vs. Masa Saito (NJPW 12/26/90) and holy fuckballs @ these. I'm still juggling whether to get this or '94 first. Any idea which one you guys got planned next? And congrats to Will and wife for the new little helmet.

Second guy ("High Voltage") was Matt Hardy. He tells on some DVD (IDR which) how he sent that in and then WCW nabbed the "High Voltage" name and used it for the Rage/Kaos tag team three years later.

Has anyone noticed Yokozuna NEVER blinks?

My favourite thing to ever exist. This is one of the absolute best examples I can think of to show that wrestling isn't ALL about being athletic and needing a bunch of moves. But shit, who ever knew Jim Cornette could actually WORK some regular wrestling holds? They do a standard babyface repeated headlock period, and pull it off really well - with Cornette going to the trunks for pinfalls and all. Cornette is really fucking good working the everything; when he goes for a hip toss he yells like it a total struggle, because despite how he poses his muscles before the match, he's weak as shit and knows it. Also yells when getting his moves reversed, and Cowabunga shows him up on everything. That is until Cowabunga takes this totally loony Psicosis bump off of the ropes and nearly mangles his neck. The best thing Cowabunga did, however, was when he was slammed on his back and sells as if he's a REAL FUCKING TURTLE WHO CAN'T GET UP BECAUSE OF HIS SHELL. His shell is actually a soft, flat outfit, but he squirms on his back like a beetle turned upside-down. Corny's great laughing and pointing, just the Earth's greatest weak-ass momma's boy. This whole match was around 17 minutes and was built so, so, so well. Jim Cornette's probably a better worker than Edge. But in seriousness; I swear if he was actually an athlete to a reasonable degree - he probably would have been a great wrestler.****99/100

You should add the 3/1 Tamura/Sakuraba. It's their first of three matches (5/27 being third, their second is only four minutes long) and seeing them do the fast grappling stuff pretty much blows everyone's mind. A good first impression to their final match and on its own it's at least as good as some of the stuff you have listed in blue already. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-dJngBfpEY

I liked when JBL said Sin Cara had been with AAA. Kind of chuckled in a snickering nerd way.

I don't have an account there, but it's good news for me because I've missed Dean's MOTYC thread the past few days. It's not as dorky as it sounds.

I won't get Raw until another 27 hours; I just keep refreshing wwe.com to hopefully get updates on what's going on. It's scary.

Here it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQqKYIXkgLk&feature=plcp Hell yeah. Thanks a bunch.

Goddamnit that first tag was taken down.