NotJayTabb

Of all the nominated wrestlers beginning with "H", Hulk Hogan and Hallowicked are making my list, with Harley Race and Hayabusa on the shortlist.

I was the 2016 Ernie Ladd high voter, and he's making the cut for me again. Apart from the Big Cat, El Hijo Del Santo is a lock for my top 10. Eddie Guerrero and Eddie Kingston are likely to place well, and El Dandy and El Samurai are in contention.

Fritz and Finlay are the only ones I've currently got in contention

Likely to make the cut: Daniel Bryan Dick Togo Dustin Rhodes Davey Boy Smith Dump Matsumoto Dusty Rhodes Devil Masami

IF anyone was using BIGLAV to work out their ballot, Sid is one of those guys who would max out the intangibles rating. There's been hundreds of big muscly lads who aren't great workers over the years, but Sid has this aura that makes me still excited to see him, despite how many bad Sid matches there are. Watching Sid in 1999/2000 WCW having terrible matches with Hulk Hogan should have killed off his appeal, but he kinda transcends match quality. He's not making my list by any stretch, but there's wrestlers who'll make the top 100 I'd rather watch Sid than.

Locks for my list: Andre the Giant Arn Anderson AJ Styles Aja Kong Akira Hokuto Alex Shelley Austin Idol Adrian Street Under Consideration/On the bubble: Amazing Red Adrian Adonis Atlantis Atsushi Onita Akira Taue Ayako Hamada

I think it's important to remember that for a lot of people, the final 95-100 slots are likely to be for pet favourites and people who might get overlooked, but in the overall grand scheme of things it'll be the cream who rise to the top. I can't imagine there's going to be a huge wave of votes that push Adam Priest into the top 100, and having guys like this in the lower parts of the overall list add a bit of fun and flavour to the project (and I'm saying this as someone who's currently got Hallowicked ranked at #99). Ten years ago, B-Boy got a #23 vote, and it was barely a blot on the overall list.

My top 10 is still fluid, but at the moment it looks like: Bret Hart Rey Mysterio Jushin Liger Terry Funk El Hijo Del Santo Stan Hansen Daniel Bryan Randy Savage Mitsuharu Misawa Negro Casas

Chad Gable The weird passing of time makes me still think of him as a newcomer, but he's been having great matches for a decade now, he's definitely someone who merits consideration. A great tag team wrestler with a number of partners (American Alpha, Alpha Academy, the parings with Shelton and Bobby Roode), someone who can play goofy heel, intense heel, underdog babyface and work a good match in all those circumstances. The Shorty G run was crap, but Gable was still putting in some good work, he's got quite the catalogue of good matches at this point Matches: American Alpha vs The Revival (NXT Takeover Dallas 2016) vs Jack Gallagher (205 Live July 2019) vs Gunther (WWE Raw 4/9/2023)

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.