NotJayTabb

Very much a guy who was hurt by ECW closing, he kinda went under the radar from then on. I know he was still working indies because every now and then he'd pop up and still look good, but he never had a TNA run nor turned up in WWE (bar a few WWECW matches). Not saying he'd have gone on to be a top 100 candidate, but it definitely stopped his momentum. Thanks for boosting these threads @El McKell, some interesting names coming back into the mix.

Appreciate it was well past his prime, but when I was watching Prime Time from 1986, I used to dread Tony Garea matches. He wasn't even bad, he was just there, like a plate of unseasoned boiled potatoes. I used to enjoy Scott McGhee far more as a JTTS from that era. However, if someone can point me to a good Garea match from his prime, I'd gladly give it a watch, but he's not making my list.

I think Bob Holly was a good wrestler, and he was as convincing as a peppy babyface who liked racing cars as he was as a grumpy old prick, so he could play multiple roles well. I don't know that I ever looked forward to a Holly match, but I also never felt like turning off when he came out for a match, which puts him over plenty of other nominees here. I've not considered him because I know of at least 100 wrestlers I think are better.

Lashley won the WWE title with that full Nelson, so I think it's fine to beat a member of a midcard tag team with. Also, how soon we forget the Masterlock Challenge

Luna I can see in AEW - she's already been released by WWE once from her NXT UK contract, and she feels like a better fit there. Masha feels like she'd go to NXT though, she's already appeared there a few times, and has wrestled WWE talent on some of those Bloodsport shows.

People say there's no long term booking, but that's another new member of the Bloodline in a couple of decades time.

Ultimately, the Eugene Schnitzel's of this world have a limited ceiling on a list like this. Inevitably the wrestlers who finish high on the overall list will be the wrestlers everyone has heard of and were big stars. Everyone voting knows who Ric Flair or Terry Funk or Jushin Liger is, and will already have an idea of them in their mind, any match watching now is just topping up their pre-existing thoughts. With someone like a Schnitzel, only a percentage of people will bother reading their thread. Of that percentage, less still will bother looking for footage, and those that do may think "Yeah, he's ok, but not top 100 worthy". Only people who really like Eugene Schnitzel will have him on their list, and that probably gets him into the 500s - recognised, but not one of the elite. I look at it the same way I look at Hallowicked - I nominated him (because I've enjoyed his matches for over 20 years) and will have him somewhere between 95-100 (where I'm putting guys I think are great, but are also favourites). No-one else has commented in that thread, I'll almost certainly be the only Hallowicked voter and he'll be one of the lowest ranked guys on there. But he'll still be ranked and I think he deserves that.

Given that one of those 4 men hasn't won a televised match in nearly 2 years, I wonder who's taking the pin.

Given how unimpressive she was on her debut, the continual improvement of Lash Legend over the years has been fun to watch, she's developed into a genuinely fun power wrestler who can't be far from a main roster call up.

The thing I find odd is that the final two career matches of one of, if not THE biggest stars in American wrestling history took place on TNA house shows in the UK, one of which I was at. It was a 6 man tag, but Hogan did way more than you'd have expected. Tremendous professional wrestler, sadly deplorable human being. I still enjoy 80s Hogan matches as almost the ultimate wrestling comfort food. But then I still think the Smiths are the greatest band ever to exist, and Morrissey is a daft old racist too.

He's not making my list, but Johnny Mundo mooning the crowd whilst doing a backflip at a show I went to is someone using their incredible athleticism in a hilariously heelish way.

Every now and then I remember that Kip Sabian won the first ever AEW singles match, then realise he's not wrestled since February.

"Iron" Mike Sharpe is my #100, he's my ideal of what a jobber should be. Always willing to let the face outsmart him, always doing things to make him memorable so that beating him means something, just a guy who makes old episodes of Prime Time less of a slog to get through.

Really enjoyed the 3 Earthquake dark matches they've put up on the Vault. One really fun squash of Sam Houston that's perfectly worked, a squash of Paul Roma that's interesting because Quake is managed by Slick, introduced as Earthquake Evans and wrestles in a plaid shirt and trousers which makes him look far less intimidating, and finally a 2001 match where he's notably trimmer and takes a hiptoss and a suplex bump among other things.

I thought Dickinson was one of the better indy workers of the pre-Covid era, big guy who worked like a killer and had some great looking offence. He also had real live show charisma, crowds seemed to love him whenever I saw him live. There's probably a world where he's not gotten himself cancelled where he goes to AEW and is a big deal there. Unfortunately for his case, his own actions have lead to him having a pretty brief career, and I don't think there's enough there for him to make the list.