DR Ackermann

Terry Funk in Mexico

Jerry Lawler vs Satanico in Memphis

Could we also see the number of voters from each decade?

The people have spoken. Correctly.

Tenryu had 97.1 votes per point. I think the highest so far. You love him or you don't rate him. He was my number 2.

Bret could be great. Bret usually wasn't great. Bret was close minded, temperamental and arrogant. That was part of what made him great and what usually didn't. Bret either couldn't or wouldn't go out and have a good or entertaining match with no notice. It had to be on Bret's terms. He had to have time to plan. He had to feel he had something to gain from it. From 89-97 here are so many more great Brian Pillman performances than Bret Hart performances. Better Pillman matches. You can say this about a lot of wrestlers in comparison to Bret. His peak is minimal and overblown. The dude wrestled for over 20 years and we have so much of it on tape and it is such a small window of greatness.

I had Foley at 51 for what it's worth. But honestly a lot of the guys in my ballot could move around. It was what I was feeling at the time.

Michaels vs Mankind at Mind Games was my favorite match for years. Probably still my favorite Shawn match. Pretty plunder free, although they do a little bit of stuff with a chair and a casket if I remember right.

You could describe Jericho similarly, but with a much, much, much lower hit rate.

At this point it's apparent that a number of voters are heavily weighing Foley's promo skills.

"• AJ Styles is the FIRST one to win The WWE World Title outside of North America • ONLY ONE to win a singles Championship at a WWF House Show in the last 25 years • THE ONLY ONE who held IWGP, WWE, NWA, TNA WORLD TITLES **2X EACH** • The Inaugural ROH PURE Champion AJ Styles is the *only* professional wrestler in the history of the business to have won the IWGP,WWE,NWA and TNA World Titles. He is the first* western wrestler to win the IWGP title Twice* and the only American wrestler to win it twice He is the only wrestler of the 2010s who Main Evented The Tokyo Dome and Madison Square Garden while competing for the World Title" Very important criteria for determining who was the best in-ring.

I had Dundee at 20 actually. Personally I think Steamboat's case is really made from 89-94. I think his real peak started in 92, maybe late 91 and lasted until the back injury forced his retirement. He was a good worker in the 80s but I think he is overly mythologized because of the canonized matches in that time frame. He could be laughably bad. Horrible in Japan.

My top 10. 1. Terry Funk 2. Genichiro Tenryu 3. Jerry Lawler 4. Negro Casas 5. Stan Hansen 6. Nick Bockwinkel 7. Yoshiaki Fujiwara 8. Tatsumi Fujinami 9. El Satanico 10. Buddy Rose 4-9 are pretty interchangeable.

15 of the remaining 20 made my ballot, but only 3 of them were in my top 20.

Based on various number 1 blurbs, a lot of new voters are factoring a lot of criteria beyond the in-ring. I don't think it was every formally stated that in-ring should be the sole criteria, but to me that is what we are supposed to base this on and the original intent/spirit of the process.