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These title reigns were with the secondary championship. The name of the belt doesn't mean they were the top guy or even close

1) Most Valuable Wrestler Shinsuke Nakamura 2) Best In-Ring Wrestler AJ Styles 3) Best Tag Team Young Bucks 4) Most Entertaining Wrestler Shinsuke Nakamura 5) Most Improved Wrestler Rusev Rusev was cripplingly bad in NXT last year and pretty damn good this year. Charlotte and Banks also improved a lot but Rusev stands out to me. 6) Best Non-Wrestler Stephanie McMahon At her best I thought she was really amazing, some of the stuff leading into the Brie Bella match was so great. Heyman was more consistant but I think Steph was better this year. 7) Best Match Wyatt Family vs The Shield (WWE 2/23) 8) Best Feud Daniel Bryan vs Authority Really good feud and basically all the bad parts of it were in 2013. 9) Best Moment of 2014 Daniel Bryan winning the WWE World Title 10) Who to Watch in 2015 Kota Ibushi This is a weird one because even though I suspect Ibushi will have the best year of the nominees in 2015, I don't think he'll have a breakout year where he becomes a real top guy in NJPW. His 2015 might not be that different from his 2014 minus the concussion and it'd still be awesome.

Theyre never really on Youtube, but you can get all of Dragon Gate's big shows and most of DDT's on Dailymotion

One little thing I wanna say as a positive for Dynamite in the Tiger Mask series is that I love at the beginning of their first match when Tiger Mask starts breaking out all his wacky kicks, Dynamite's body language is amazing he's clearly both confused and scared and doesn't know what he should do and I think doing this was a great way of making Tiger look like something different and special just a few seconds into his debut

I'd vote for Bull

I know this has nothing to do with what's actually being discussed but I'd bet that this turns out to be untrue.

As far as I know they have a weekly TV show that airs late at night on a major network, which shows big matches from big events weeks after they happened and also some smaller events (korakuen hall shows etc) are broadcast live on smaller networks like Samurai TV

You know 50 Shades of Grey is a pornographic book with bondage and shit right? How do you suggest incorporating it into wrestling?

Nobody talks about either of these things. The announcers just spend women's matches making jokes or trying to promote Total Divas. But other than this point I agree with almost everything Bill said. This is the opposite of true.

The match you reviewed is the 2013 dome show, the first Okada vs Tanahashi match is in February 2012

It's all part of creating more brand awareness, the more people think about Jimmy Johns the more likely they are to buy Jimmy Johns. The target for advertising aren't people who never tried it, but more people who occasionally buy Jimmy John subs and trying to get them to have the product in their mind so they buy more often

Certainly does to TNA era Jarrett, wouldn't say so for 94/95 WWF Jarrett, I think he was usually pretty damn good there

He doesn't sound as critical about the medical stuff as he could've been If what he says is true. Punk received the fucking worst healthcare treatment I can imagine. He doesn't explicitly tie stuff together that really should've been cos I didn't cop on to how horrible it all was until like an hour after I listened -Gets concussion -Passes concussion test -Throws up every night after matches (because he's concussed) -Gets put on antibiotics -Gets MRSA (which he's more succeptable to because he's on antibiotics) -Doctor fails to diagnose him and gives him more antibiotics

It's fine, but it's way worse than the match they had during the G-1

I don't buy that as an argument, so do you think in the gifs Matt D posted those guys should like bounce off? and what take a back bump?

Well I suspect if I don't make a post here there's a good chance this thread won't ever have any posts. Natsuki*Taiyo is my favourite joshi wrestler of the 21st Century (which I realise is not a great era for joshi), she's a really fun high flier, I'm always excited by the blistering pace she tends open matches with. She also gets points for the way she makes good use of her tiny size ways most people don't, like the way she kinda runs up from mat to middle rope to top rope or the way she gets people up for her sitout powerbomb which I can't really describe. Links to a few matches: vs Yuhi: youtube.com/watch?v=3wR6jVvLw4M my personal favourite Taiyo match vs Io Shirai: youtube.com/watch?v=NJqUgQNml7U vs Kyoko Kimura: youtube.com/watch?v=qCzuADG2Ud8 a fun brawl type thing around koruken Nanae Takahashi, Natsuki*Taiyo, & Yoko Bito vs Kyoko Inoue, Keiko Aono, & Sareee: youtube.com/watch?v=QdDl04BPPr8 A trios match in which I think Natsuki is the standout

Finally got around to doing the googling required to find some Natsuki*Taiyo reviews: http://deathvalleydriver.com/forum/index.php?/topic/1241-2014-yesno-ddt-joshi-and-the-lil-indies/&do=findComment&comment=153457 and she's in one match reviewed in each of these old 411mania articles: http://411mania.com/wrestling/into-the-indies-11-22-11-dantai-taikou-flash-tournament-part-2/ http://411mania.com/wrestling/into-the-indies-11-29-11-dantai-taiko-flash-tournamet-part-3/

I have not seen this. Do you recall which show, so I can check it out? Nitro: January 25th 1999 Google is pretty useful for stuff like this

It's hard to answer a question like 'when did WWE commentary go to hell?' because it's had lots of ups and downs. It was much worse in 2011/12 with heel Michael Cole and Booker T, or the horrible commentary team of Vince and Doc Hendrix, I think Cole is pretty damn good right now even if Lawler and JBL are terrible. But what do I know my favourite commentary team is Mike Tenay and Don West

That's the one from The Great American Bash in 96? When I watched that show about a year ago I was shocked at how boring that match was, didn't like it at all

I watched a few of Rogers matches yesterday, four matches from the Chicago film archives, including an absolutely fantastic match with Lou Thesz, and then a 61 match with Pat O'Connor and a 63 match with Killer Kowalski. I've decided from this small enough sample that he's clearly amazing and as Bill says ridiculously smooth and should be in my top 100 but it'll be difficult to figure out where he belongs without more stuff to watch

This is me as well, although I think we are part of a smallish group who thinks that way. I think that the way that Matt's post is phrased almost all wrestling fans would agree with him, because the 'effect' is all anybody really is impressed by, it's just that what using your ability to great effect is means very different things to different people

I wouldn't make that sort of judgement since I took place in the original poll without being particularly qualified. What I was trying to get at is that if you've identified your priorities (as some people have) then I hope they properly explore them as Parv has been doing, for example, or Matt. I realise not every one can participate to that extreme, but two hours over eighteen months is doable. I just wanna point out that two hours over 18 months isn't actually a small amount, because if you do it for all the nominees it'd have to be like 9 hours a week over 18 months

Rob Van Dam Saw people mentioning him in the 'your top 100 right now' thread and even though he's a long shot to make my list I figure he should be nominated http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/14627-rob-van-dam-vs-dan-kroffat-ajpw-super-power-series-060995/ http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/11402-sabu-vs-rob-van-dam-ecw-the-doctor-is-in-080396-stretcher-match/ http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/26715-rob-van-dam-vs-bam-bam-bigelow-ecw-house-party-011098/

I put together a list of around 100 possible top 100 contenders in no perticular order about 2 weeks ago before i started actually watching anything for this project. Figured I may as well post this here, in large part for myself so i can easily look on here and see who drops off this by the time I've watched stuff from all the nominees Kenta Kobashi Misawa Kawada Dr. Death Vader Jumbo Hansen Jun Akiyama Taue CM Punk Edge Cena Jeff Hardy Daniel Bryan HHH Jericho Benoit Christian Eddie Guerrero Angle AJ Styles Samoa Joe KENTA Hero Kyle O'Reilly Michael Elgin Davey Richards Sami Zayn Ricochet Tozawa Shingo Masaaki Mohcuzuki Chris Daniels Dynamite Kid William Regal Tanahashi Nakamura Shibata Nagata Minoru Suzuki Okada Ibushi Devitt Low-Ki Steen Austin Aries Claudio Castignoli Flair Steamboat Ted DiBiase Terry Funk Dory Funk Curt Hennig Arn Anderson Tully Blanchard Brian Pillman Austin Foley Mysterio jr Psichosis Johnny Saint Tiger Mask 1 La Parka Jerry Estrada Negro Casas El Hijo Del Santo Jushin Liger Great Sasuke Koji Kanemoto TAKA El Samurai Jinsei Shinsaki Randy Savage Scott Steiner Bret Hart Owen Hart Bobby Eaton Stan Lane HBK Seth Rollins Hulk Hogan The Rock Brock Lesnar Lioness Asuka Chigusa Nagayo Dynamite Kansai Toshiyo Yamada AJA Kong Manami Toyota Mayumi Osaki Akira Hokuto Kyoko Inoue Juventud Natsuki*Taiyo Mutoh Hashimoto Riki Chosu Kensuke Fujinami Ultimo Dragon