El Boricua

Nah, just the Puerto Rican one. 🙂

I'd probably make it 80s and before and 2010s plus due to base size.

Look how well hardcore wrestlers did this go around, not surprised Foley got that bump since he would be the most high profile wrestler associated with that style.

It penalizes wrestlers due to language barriers, which is why promos and other stuff not in ring aren't the focus. In ring charisma would count.

In a similar boat as DR regarding Moxley, don't have any emotional connection with him and feels derivative of other wrestlers. The little Stinger in me is delighted by Sting's placement. 😀

39 of the top 50 were on my ballot, let's see where they drop.

The greatest wrestling practionter of doing this and doing that cannot be contained.

Tanahashi strikes me as the least polarizing of the recent New Japan top stars, I'd expect him to be the highest finisher of that bunch.

It's the Cody effect.

I'm thinking these may be influenced by: Cornette having a podcast makes Eaton (Midnights) have more modern visibilty for inclusion as a legacy cannon great. 2010s New Japan being more valued in voting means you have to include the All Father of New Japan on your list (plus the aura from gifs like the one of people lining up to get slapped by him). Dusty is the All Father of Codyism with Cody's most prominent programs in WWE invoking his all time great father. Tully resurfaced in AEW which gives him that modern visibility boost as a cannon great plus the legacy cache of being part of the quintessential Four Horsemen lineup. Windham is Uncle Howdy plus the legacy cache of being part of the quintessential Four Horsemen lineup. Bruno has aura qnd also is the Babe Ruth of early WWE. For the old timers it's about who has in some way remained relevantly visible in the modern landscape to where someone not deep diving beyond that scope would feel that these are the legacy cannon guys one should sprinkle somewhere on their list.

At this point, some of the conversation is more along the lines of very good to great worker at a style I don't care for, so that's going to be a case where the disagreement over a specific wrestler will be harder to reach an understanding over.

I've got 58 left. Unlike last vote, while there are still some gaps to shore up, there are other areas where it's not really a gap and more that it just doesn't appeal to me.

Glad Bruno and Dandy survived. Sadly, not surprised by Rose. And we still have not reached the 40% ballot threshold.

Don't think anyone ranked so far has been on at least 40% of ballots yet.

It'll probably be something like Sammartino, Dandy, Windham, Rose, Benoit and Low Ki.