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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.

Ikeda is not a shootstylist.

I didn't rank Benoit because I don't think he's a great wrestler. It's that simple!!!!

Sano is the one not making the Top 100 that really bugs me. How can you be great in 4 decades and multiple promotions and styles and take part in half the top junior, shootstyle, and NOAH heavyweight matches and not be Top 100 ever? I get not rating Maeda or Inoki or Jaguar, if you don't like their style, but Sano has something for everyone. I think he was in my Top 25.

I will say that I much prefer Tenryu's "chop you in the throat" approach to Chopbashi. Plus Tenryu will punch you in the face too. I can't remember if I had Low Ki on my list. If I did then it was in that low region which is constantly changing. I think his resume is thinner than people admit. Especially in the last couple years, with the constant bridge burning and going back and forth. Love his early stuff with Red though.

Everyone here has watched a Rock match, and most people here haven't seen many Maeda matches. That is probably the real reason. One guy was on TV and having big matches at the peak of wrestling's popularity. The other guy is a shoot style worker that you'd have to scour the internet to watch. It makes perfect sense to me. And this is why the WKO 100 is superior, as we just ban people who don't recognize shootstyle is badass.

So whait, Brian Pillman has snuck into the Top 100? That sneaky fucker.

Can somebody justify Rock over Maeda? I know Maeda vs. Cena at Wrestlemania would have been so much better.