Troyvang

It’s been said, but I’ll repeat it. The nominations are good, because they are a good list to start from. I had legitimately not seen 80% of the wrestlers on my list before starting to watch for gwe. If not for the list of nominees, my list would have been VERY different. It expanded my scope of who was importantly enough to even consider. He didn’t make my list, but I got to see a couple of really good Chase Steven’s matches that I wouldn’t have because “he’s just the blonde Natural,” solely because he got a nomination.

I have 62 left. I’ve been the high voter on four (Toshiyo Yamada, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Super Astro, and Lizmark). I don’t regret any of those votes or really any of mine. I don’t think any of them were throw away or silly and I’m fine not fitting with the norm. Also, responding to another topic on the board today: this is why nominations are needed. Without them, I probably wouldn’t have watched much from any of these four and they all ended up in my top 40.

Thanks! Yeah, I tried not to be swayed by what the rankings “should” be and really tried to just go with my gut.

Making fun or for real? I watch wrestling to enjoy it and watching little roly poly Super Astro jump around head butting guys makes me happy

I’m just a huge fan. In everything I’ve seen, she is extremely crisp in all of her offense and it all looks great. She’s especially great in the tag matches I’ve seen.

I love watching Yamada. Kicks. Suplexes. My kind of thing. I always get happy when I’m going to watch a match of hers.

Now that I’ve finalized and submitted my list I can say that he came in at 16. Whenever I put on a match of his, I kept thinking, “he’s not that well-regarded, he won’t be good in this one.” And inevitably, he’d prove me wrong and stand out time after time.

I love him. Top 20, maybe top 15 for me. He just really is right up my alley for what I like to watch. Hard-hitting, tough stuff. I like seeing when his name comes up to watch.

He’ll probably end up top 20 for me. I came in to this project thinking”he’s got such a big rep, I know he’ll be lower/not make my list.” But man, time after time, promotion after promotion, I come out of the match thinking, “wow, he’s so good.”

Too early, but it’s good to get him on the radar for the next go round

I have no background on Japanese wrestling. The first match from Japan that I watched was when I started doing this project a couple of years ago. That is to say that I have no preconceived notions of this realm of wrestling or who is overrated, underrated or whatever. Looking at my big spreadsheet, as it currently stands, Sasaki will likely end up in my top 10 unless a lot changes between now and submission time. I like what I like. The thing I like most is big dudes striking the crap out of each other and hucking each other around. He delivers that in spades and I’m not afraid to admit it.

I'm going to say it: I love watching this guy wrestle. I wonder if it's what Jetlag posted above me talking about how he was judged at his time. I just started watching Japanese wrestling in 2022 when I started doing this project. The matches I'm seeing against Nakajima, Akitoshi Saito and others are just really hitting with me and he's going to be really, really high on my list. Just prepping everyone for that, haha

I just watched the 1/29/15 match with Rave and it was awesome. Just a super tight 16 minutes with a lot of great spots, back and forths and a really good finish with Rave getting the tap out. 5 stars for me.

Just watched the Jake match that was in the nomination. The best participant was Warlord, who was in Jake's corner.