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That’s exactly what I thought. What a throwback.

Sorry to bother, but what’s the context here?

Funker really is professional wrestling. He’d be my 2, but he’s the real number 1.

Exactly me. The single biggest reason I didn’t vote in 2016.

Do you guys I think I wanted the entire match to be a Hansen style brawl? Can you read, bub? I’m talking about the start of the match. Literally the first minute. And I’d rather be curb stomped by Doug Furnas than watch one Ospreay match, let alone 2 in the same night. That’s one of the most absurd correlations I’ve ever seen. The person who wanted BRYAN DANIELSON to brawl a little at Mania is also the same guy that wants to watch two Ospreay avengers style epics? What in the absolute hell is the through line there? Itd be like saying “there are really idiots that want Wemby to get in the post and bang? I bet those same idiots love when the Celtics shoot 60 3’s in a game.”

Hunter has a lot of terrible qualities as a wrestler, but refusing to get his ass whooped to start a match would not be one of them. I’m sorry. Bryan Danielson is multiple times the wrestler HHH is, but since none of us know exactly what happened behind the scenes, I’m going to go with my gut here. It’s on Danielson. What a scumbag I am. Turning what should be a celebration of wrestling and Bryan Danielson into a HHH hate fest. That’s actually kind of beautiful. The PWO I remember.

That’s always been the common argument, but that’s just people projecting their own story to the match. I don’t think Danielson has ever come out and said that’s why he started that way or that was the intention. It’s just what people HOPED his intention was because it was so jarring. At least, to a certain type of fan who thinks wrestling should be a certain type of way. Most fans didn’t give a damn. They love that match.

I think Funk is either the best or 2nd best wrestler there’s ever been. I don’t feel that way about Danielson, but he’s a guy that I fully understand why he is thought of so highly. Not that I don’t think of him highly, I do. He’s certainly the best wrestler to debut post 2000, in my opinion. I have some issues with his work, but not much. If this was a list of the full compass of what being a pro wrestler was, he’d be substantially further down the list. But if we’re talking the match, and everything contained in that time frame of the match, he’s incredible. I still think the most pissed off I’ve ever been watching a wrestling match is HHH/Bryan at 30, and Bryan has a chance to fight a guy who has made his life beyond a living hell for a year, and Bryan decides to come out and..wrestle him. It’s rare that I lose that much respect for a worker in one match, but that really cooled me on him for a while. But he’s pretty undeniable as a worker. He gets it. 99% of the time, he gets it.

This site changed my life so much that I literally stopped watching modern wrestling regularly because it sickened me so much. It showed me what wrestling could (and should) be.

There is certainly a sect of wrestling fans, perhaps the majority, that see Funk as Chainsaw Charlie and the guy who could barely move in ECW. Heartbreaking stuff. But if you’re coming to PWO and voting in a big boy top 100 wrestlers ever list, that can be the case when you come here for the first time, but it better not be by the time you vote.

I agree. If you’re factoring every single thing you possibly can in, this is pretty close to a perfect top 3.

Let’s be real here, I get the everyone has different tastes argument, but everyone in the top 15 should have been in 100% of the ballots. Where you put them, whatever. But there aren’t 100 wrestlers to grace this earth who are better than this top 15. i think Danielson is probably number one, because I can’t imagine he’s not on 95%+ of the ballots.

You already know people are gonna be pissy about the blurbs from the 1 voters because they bring up promos and drawing ability and how over he was. That’s all irrelevant. If you’re able to turn on the tape and watch Steve Austin wrestle and not come away thinking you’re watching one of the best wrestlers to ever walk planet earth, I simply don’t trust your tastes. He was a wrestling supernova. An atomic bomb. A fastball the speed of light. From the time he came out of the curtain to the time he walked back into it, Steve Austin believed with 100% of his being that Stone Cold Steve Austin was just as real as you or I. He, to me, and I know you can say this about Funk and Flair and Danielson and a handful of others, is the embodiment of pro wrestling. He is a pro wrestler to the very core of his soul. Every movement. Every decision. Every breath Steve Austin took for 13 years was pro wrestling encapsulated. No, he doesn’t have a breadth of incredible, take your breath away matches that everyone in the top 5 or top 10 has. But performances? He laps the field. And I say that with all due respect to Gods like Funk and Flair. I think he’s the best professional wrestler we’ve ever seen and probably will ever see.

That’s if you’re only able to judge someone’s peak simply on match quality. I would considered Austin’s peak the 5 years where he’s the single most over wrestler the business has ever seen and not skip 3 years in the middle of that because his promotion turned every match into an angle. the match can be overbooked or short or only serve the purpose of progressing a storyline. That doesn’t change the fact that the dude the match was built around was incredible.

Fired me right the fuck up, brother.