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Shawn-Cena-Santo is a hell of a triple. I'm a little surprised I was the only one to lift him all the way to the top. He has that "mystique". I didn't have Hart on my list at all. Carl Greco was my No 100, and Hart ain't no Carl Greco. Not gonna whinge about Hart though. People like who they like. With Santo, Satanico, Dandy, Fujiwara and Murdoch 5 out of my Top 10 are gone. EDIT: I just noticed the average vote for Santo is 22. Damn!

I sift through the current joshi that gets uploaded once in a while and I have to say 97% of it is so bad I think it would take a miracle for the scene to get back to it's old form.

Good to excellent matches in 4 decades is still an achievement that not many wrestlers can boast Especially not Brock and Punk. Fujiwara was among the guys I considered for my #1 spot. He ended up being my 2nd highest ranked japanese worker. So 2 DVDVR 80s sets can give you an 80 place bump?

Since you called me on Bull's great matches, what are those great matches in 4 decades in several different styles ? I'm asking simply one per decade. 80s Marty Jones vs. Dave Finlay (4/4/84) 90s vs. Regal at Uncensored 2000s vs. Benoit in 2006 2010s vs. Tajiri at WNC Now that was easy!

Finlay has great matches in 4 decades in several different styles. It's not all in that 2006 run. He's still about 15 spots too low. Aja took some beatings during the discussions, with people calling her overrated and boring etc. I actually watched some of her Arsion stuff in the last week and it wasn't too hot. She also really hasn't done much in the 2000s compared to Satomura. Wonder if I haven't overrated her placing her in my 60s.

Hell no. I'd like to see Punk or Brock having an epic match with Zack Ryder.

Hokuto is someone I almost didn't rank because I saw a few really disappointing matches from her "peak". Don't think she was a Top 5 worker in 1993. Good thing her 1990-92 period is underrated. The idea of Han as some kind of spotfest worker is ridiculous. He was a LOT better than Tamura at getting good matches out of shitty dutch kickboxers, aging karate guys or other untrained dudes. Stuff like Volk Han vs. Sotir Gotchev isn't praised along with the best of RINGS stuff but it exists and it's very very good. Tamura had the problem that he could look like he was eating up and squashing guys, as if he wasn't in trouble at all, which is why like half of his U-Style matches feel like squashes, while Volk was a master of looking beastly and vulnerable at the same time.

Is it telling that none of these guys made my list at all? The one WWF guy who I ended up loving even more after watching loads of his stuff for this project is Greg Valentine. Mostly everybody else just got kinda grinded into dullness. By the way, Valentine finishing ahead of all these guys is really gonna irk some people. I know your average smart fan doesn't care at all for him.

It mystifies me how Baba gets so much support. Andre is more compelling at working holds and a better giant than Baba. I recall a lot of matches where Baba added nothing aside from gangliness. What are those epics? I watched all the Nakano I could find and there wasn't anything GREAT. LCO are good but not Top 100. But yeah they are good. Better than Chris Jericho easily. I like them both as singles workers a lot.

Gosh it's been like what, 6 years since they last met? Satomura has mostly been putting skinny young girls over, so her fighting a bigger, threatening opponent was nice and refreshing here. Aja is looks fatter and slower, but ain't bad at all here, as she came across as a lumbering menace. All of Satomura's basic holds and attacks to soften up Aja ruled, really she may have the sharpest offense in the world, and when they trade blows, they are just killing eachother. Also has a few nifty spots and Aja's signature selling to keep you interested. Could have done without the wandering crowd brawls and the slightly over the top finishing run, but their selling is so good I'll forgive it no problem. Also, I love Meiko busting out the Scorpio Rising.

Bull Nakano is too high. Altough I love how it just says "Bull Nakano" in her list of recommended matches. She's def. not a great match girl but what a character.

Brisco did insanely well. Like how on earth did that happen? People have been saying that they didn't include certain guys because "they couldn't dive into them..." does Brisco even have 20 matches to dive into? Not that I don't like the guy, but he's never blown me away like other 70s workers.

Just thought again of Dylan's "Otsuka's like Kurt Angle but actually good". Angle-Ishikawa probably would have been the former's best match ever, right? Please stop that. Otsuka and Angle have nothing to do with eachother aside from being bald guys in singlets. They even suplex people in different ways. I imagine Ishikawa vs. Angle would've been like Ishikawa vs. Sekimoto. Do you have anything to back that up because all pre-2008 Panther is exactly what I want from him.

The Martel matches are fun, nothing more. Pretty standard heel vs. local face stuff. I prefer Schumann vs. Horowitz. I didn't consider Schumann at all. Someone whose career broke down along with the territory, hence leading to these bizarre matches with Brookside OJ mentioned above where they were trying to work like ECW. He still has some good matches throughout the 90s.

My request for the 2026 countdown is that we get 3 pages of discussion about Otto Wanz and Alan Kilby.

Hase makes the list, but drops 45 places. Another painfully inoffensive pick.

I didn't really like those DK vs. Rocco matches. DK vs. Jones is great and you wish he'd worked like that all the time. I don't really care for his post-england work. Tito making the list is kind of a shock to me. Higher than Garvin or Parka too. I thought he was considered borderline. Great worker for what he is though.

It's kinda weird that Ohtani actually made the top 100. I think his 2000s stuff gets barely pimped. Like there are what, 5matches from that 16 year period that get praised (ignoring the outstanding GOTNW post on page 1)? For me Ohtani is a mixed bag. I actually like those matches vs. Mochizuki, Tajiri, Delfin, Sasuke, the rookie squashes etc. better than the stuff with Liger and Ultimo. He made my list but not terribly high.

Thinking about whether I'd rather watch Taker lumbering around, throwing shitty punches and getting his spots in or Angle doing count along germans and restholds, I've decided I'd rather stick a nail into my throat than continue thinking about this.

Piper is a favourite of mine that I just couldn't justify including on my list. The guy at his best incarnates pro wrestling. His Portland stuff is blowaway great too. Happy he finished ahead of all the "name" guys from 89-84.

Watch more wrestling. I suggest by starting NOW. And if you have stuff, upload it. If you don't, buy some tapes. Gee they're 3 bucks a pop these days. Be adventurous

Does everyone forget Garvin vs. Tully? It's one of the best TV matches ever!

Nakamura is someone I'd put in the same tier as Hogan or Undertaker. Quite a character with some highs and lows and never really convinced me he was GREAT, but people watch his stuff. Well actually I'd be interested if his early "Phenom" stuff got people to vote for him.

Dean ranking Parka at 4 is lovely. I do wonder if there are people who voted for Parka because they remember him as the funny WCW jobber.

Ikeda suffers from being pimped as a stiff machine. He is an asskicking machine, but he can also go on the mat, sell incredibly well from underneath, can incooperate junior elements and even comedy elements and is an excellent tag worker, like a japanese Tully Blanchard. All that and we know he was good from the get go and is still a good wrestler in 2016. So he has an excellent case even with so many if his matches not being taped. It feels very weird that he only makes the Top 100 by a hair. His Top 20 matches stomp a lot of very well respected wrestlers.