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Honorable Mentions: The Shield. I love what they are doing with these guys. Their promos are top shelf, love the Joker style deal. And their TLC match was my WWE MOTY for 2012. 1) Antonio Cesaro- My favorite guy in WWE right now. Was always a fan of him in ROH and I knew he would fit right in as a player. I actually really liked his "Main Event" match with Khali last week(?). Really made Cesaro look like a badass when he "neutralized" Khali. I'm dying to see him in a ppv match with Punk or Danielson. 1 more thing, they dusted off Slaughter for a squash on Raw, how bout they bring back vader for a 10 minute bout for the 20th Anninversary Raw? 2) CM Punk- Cesaro has taken my top spot as a favorite, but Punk is still the best. He's been trying to play Ric Flair with the Ryback for a few months but now with The Rock feud started he's back to being 'The Man'. Also looking forward to the rumored Undertaker Mania feud. 3) Big Show- always been a fan of his. Was lovin' his WHC run, I like a monster heel. Too bad its over and he's back to mediocrity. 4 & 5) Stan Hansen & Dan Spivey as a team. On the Youtube front, I've been watching all of their early 90's AJPW stuff. I watched about 4 of their bouts against Gordy & Dr. Death and those are about as good as power tag matches get. Also liked the match vs. The Funks where it started with Dan slamming Terry out of the ring to the floor.

Some of his heel work and mannerisms were pretty great. The man knew how to piss people off, perhaps so well that his face promos were never that special. Yup I'd put HBK in my top 10 for sure. Yes he was a great bastard heel. But again I'm sure its not popular here but I loved his build promos in his last 3 Mania programs. The Old Yeller stuff with Flair was spot on and the need to end the Streak was great. You can't tell me that WWE isn't missing his presence on every show, always a shot at having a MOTYC out there.

I voted for Ric Flair. We could go on and on about who's the better wrestler, but that comes downv to taste. If you factor in promos and character Flair wins by a mile. In my eyes, and I know he's not popular around here but the only guy that comes close to Flair as a total package in north America is Shawn Michaels.

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... which never came into it. Nagata didn't even shoot for the takedown at any point - Mirko blocked a quick clinch attempt and high-kicked him. But in fairness to them, Mirko was coming off being taken to a draw by Takada of all people, a worse shootfighter than even his biggest detractors would consider him to be as a wrestler. As Ditch said, though, putting him against Fedor (the fucking Pride champion) was lamb to the slaughter 101. I guess it was just to show nagata as a badass who would take an asskicking from literally THE two toughest men in the world at that point. I give Yuji credit afterall, he has giant brass balls to get in the ring with those two guys. Also its a little rub just to take on 'the best'. It would have been ideal to feed Yuji some 'tomato cans' so he could actually, you know, win a fight. Also a fight that was interesting that I have not seen mentioned was the Liger fight. He wore the heavyweight mask of course. He went for the freaking Coppo Kick(spelling?), missed of course(would have made his Legend 10x if he had hit it and KO'd the guy) and got mounted and beat down if I remember correctly.

Lonvg time lurker here, 1st time poster, hope donvt embarass myself much. Cena winning was the absolute right decision. He is the undisputed #1 guy in the promotion, and he had come off a lot of jobs, jobs that could make the kids lose some faith in him(similar to how I did when Hogan jobbed to Warrior @ Mania 6(bad bad decision in retrospect huh?). He was coming directly off a clean as a sheet job to The Rock in the most watched Wrestlemania of all time(still don't get that booking, but I'm hoping they do a trilogy, with John winning 2-1). not to mention putting over Punk all summer, and making a star and a clearly defined #1 face to the fans, and creating a foil for himself for years to come. Basically if Lesnar was in for a REAL contracted year like Goldberg in '03(don't get me started on the stop/go booking of him) then yeah, the "Outsider" Lesnar needed the win. But as it is Lesnar is the modern day Abdullah the Butcher. Comes into the terroritory to boost buys/viewership by working top guys a few times a year, but is never positioned as THE top guy. Cena will be main eventing 1 million+ buy Manias and breaking merchandise records for the next decade, while Lesnar will be doing shoot interviews cutting down WWE. I just hope hope hope they use Lesnars Mania program and all his dates to put over Bryan or Punk. Or if they must, a faux MMA exhibition with Taker. Please no H' rematch. Loved the Summerslam match, but only as a 1 off deal.