El Boricua

Los Pastores vs. Jay & Mark Youngblood (Spring 1985)

Randy Savage vs. Hercules Ayala (3/2/85)

Carlos Colon vs. Bruiser Brody (Chain Match) (Summer 1984)

Abdullah the Butcher vs. Andre the Giant (9/17/83)

El Gran Apollo vs. Buddy Landell (5/8/83)

El Gran Apollo vs. Dick Steinborn (February 1983)

Carlos Colon vs. Tully Blanchard (1983)

Gino Dellaserra & Pierre Martel vs. Los Mercenarios (11/27/82)

Ric Flair vs. Carlos Colon (10/16/82)

Ric Flair vs. Tommy Gilbert (9/4/82)

Abdullah the Butcher vs. Carlos Colon (September 1981)

I'd say the goal was more taking the Other candidates and moving them to other groups since Other had served its purpose apparently. The ones that could be moved to US historical went there, while the rest got lumped with Europe. I'm pretty sure that was the reasoning behind the shifts and this is the end result. It still comes off (whether intentional or not) as paying just lip service to any place that is not North America or Japan. I'd think you'd at least make more headway conversation wise if you went Europe, Atlantic (Central America, South America, Caribbean and Africa) and Pacific (India, Singapore, rest of Asia, New Zealand, Australia and Pacific islands). It would at least allow opportunity for research and education (regardless if in the end no one gets elected, which is a likely result).

I do not get why Europe is now being included in the mish-mash miscellaneous group after being separate up to now. It comes off as only paying lip service to there being wrestling outside of North America and Japan. This does not help any of those candidates. I think the better option would have been Europe staying separate and doing two miscellaneous groups (an Atlantic and Pacific group).

Well this ground to a halt.

I'd say Savage vs. Warrior at Wrestlemania 7 is an example of where everything matters pre match to post match. Pre match establishes that Elizabeth is there and Warrior walking instead of running adds a layer of seriousness to what is about to happen.

Heard the El Boricua signal, Bryan is this guy: http://www.cagematch.net/?id=2&nr=2751 You may have seen him teaming up with Eric Escobar in AAA a couple of years ago. He started out in IWA as part of the Lucha Libre 101 stable with Eric Alexander (aka Eric Escobar), Chicano and Abbad. His name back then was Bryan Madness. He would eventually bounce between both companies and other local feds as an upper midcarder from the mid-00's onwards. Better known as "La Amenaza" Bryan. I'd say there is no one factor that allowed IWA to jump ahead of WWC, but two major factors where that it was not the tired same old stuff WWC was throwing out, and it definitely did not hurt initially to have some WWF involvement during the Attitude era period where it was hot. If I'm remembering correctly, the first eventual major jumps from WWC would be Glamour Boy Shane and then Chicky Starr and Victor the Bodyguard. Ray Gonzales' jump was definitely huge when it happened. It was the moment where you knew WWC was up crap creek. Heck, the legal fallout from the jump is what led him having to wrestle as the masked El Rey Fenix when he first arrived even though everyone knew who it was. I've said it before, but even now I'm still amazed it was IWA that folded and WWC is still around. If you went back to that time period and said it would be WWC surviving you would have been laughed out of the room.

For now. I'm guessing it's being saved for the aftermath of the Steamboat & Brisco vs. Jumbo & Yatsu tag match that will likely result from this.

Out of curiosity, who was winning the final match, Flair or Sting?

Or Parv loves model ships and Sal is his supplier. If you needed titles with history, wouldn't it have saved you money just buying the AWA at this point. They were barely off TV (or just about) at that point, makes more sense I would think.

It'll be interesting to see how the rankings change as we go along 2016.

I remember that in Puerto Rico at this time one of the channels for the cable company (I think it was channel 10) was basically an add for the PPVs that were coming up played on a continuous loop. The wrestling PPVs would have this control center show that would play hyping up the PPVs.It basically went over the announced card and recapped the feuds where there was one. For the Rumble 91 one, Mean Gene would run down the entrants into the Royal Rumble with certain people getting to cut a short promo after they were mentioned. One of the ones to actually cut a promo was Andre. I was pumped for Andre coming back, but alas it was not to be. I've always wondered how exactly would he have been booked if he had been able to appear.

When the Park family made their appearance on the stage, it reminded me of an NES Ice Hockey team lineup.

My personal request on this (and no one has to listen to me) is that if people do this, that they post the top 150 instead of just the top 100, because I think in some ways, it's a cooler and more interesting list and it's even more stacked with names that will be new to people and that they can be introduced to and explore. In agreement with Matt on this.