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Io fully deserves her place as the highest ranked of the WWE affiliated women. Obviously she came in as a big deal, but the impressive thing is that, without promo time and any particularly big storylines, she's become one of the most popular women on the roster just through ringwork and immense physical charisma. Also on a personal level, her match with Kay Lee Ray in a small pub in Tooting is one of the 3 best matches I've seen live. Talking of immense physical charisma, I love seeing Dusty rank so high. When I was first getting online, people seemed to hate Dusty, the likes of Scott Keith would always be ripping him for his weight or implied laziness. Whereas for me, he immediately grabbed me from the first match I saw him in. Dusty understood how to be a babyface, how to illicit the response he wanted through his ringwork, and how to make a fired up comeback work. So glad to see him in the 100

There's another Baba/Fritz match from the 70s under Texas Death Match rules that's really good as well

Pleased to see the superior English William place higher

Of the remaining active women workers, I think she's better than Mone or Asuka. She also benefits from already being very popular from her time as the ace of STARDOM, and is a rare example of someone enhancing their case in their WWE run by becoming a legit main event level star while also having really good matches.

He wishes! (Spoken as someone who didn't voted Roddy, but did vote for the Z-Man)

I think being a main event wrestler subconsciously can give a wrestler an advantage over his peers. Owens has had PPV title matches and a (night one) Wrestlemania main event which can make him feel a bit "bigger".

I voted Bruno in 2026, but didn't in 2016. I think I'd always thought of him as a limited guy who was in the right place at the right time, but when I watched back he was such a great "walking tall" babyface. Someone who knew exactly what to do to elicit the right reaction from the crowd.

It'll be interesting to see how well the polarizing figures do in the reveal, especially as Grimmas is giving us the breakdown of top 3/top 10/top 25 votes. I suspect the likes of Omega/Ospreay/Moxley will appear on less ballots, but more high votes than the more traditional picks who'll place similarly by getting on more ballots, but less highly. Comparing the breakdown of an Omega vs a Liger for example.

I'll take my little victory lap for my solid ZSJ suggestion, while also thanking you for not commenting on my Mandrews prediction

Even as recently as a few years back, there's a thread in the "Vs" folder to see who the best Shield member was, and Reigns won it quite handily. Yet Ambrose is the only one who's made the top 100, so opinions can swing quite quickly.

My Mark Andrews prediction aged like milk. At the time he was the better, likeable version of Will Ospreay, but he never really kicked on.

Quite surprised to see Cesaro placing lower than 2016, thought he'd have a big rise

Eddie manages to feel incredibly real, despite coming from the world of CHIKARA, which is anything but. He's also one of a handful of wrestlers (Thatcher, Satomura) who's cases were helped on my list by live aura. Something about their presence just adds a bit of extra buzz.

This peaked my interest, so I checked. He gave Alex Wright an 8 and The Barbarian an 11

The nomination process is easier now than it was in 2016, where you actually had to provide match reviews for 3 matches for your nominee, I think we're about right with the current requirement to just list 3 matches. I keep thinking back to the rogue Terri Runnels vote, what 3 matches would be brought up to nominate her? If there aren't 3 matches, then she doesn't deserve to be in consideration, respectfully.

Jim Breaks (#15) is my highest ranked wrestler to fall so far. Based on the WoS culling so far, it didn't fully surprise me, but it's definitely disappointing. Also surprising, but in a positive way, is Necro Butcher still to drop and finishing higher than both Young Bucks.

I very closely associate Valentine with Tito (hence why in my list they were two spots apart, #18 and #16 respectively), so I can't imagine we're too far from the Hammer, sadly.

The other thing with AEW is that "good matches" has long been part of their identity, with wrestlers getting decent TV time each week to spread their wings. If you've been watching Adam Page have matches you've enjoyed for 7 years, then have to go to Youtube to pick out the best Buddy Rose matches from an era where a lot of his TV matches would be angles or short bouts to put him over, then Adam Page starts with a big headstart. It's maybe not ideal (and Page isn't someone I voted for) but it's understandable.

Goldberg deserves those #1 votes for having my favourite Fiend match

I wouldn't say Gordy has aura, but the MVC as a unit do

In 2016, there was a lot more talk about it being "too soon" for wrestlers, that it was hard to judge someone who was still in the middle of their career.

I've lost 36 of my ballot so far. Very surprised Owen Hart hasn't dropped yet. Nor Necro Butcher, some people must have had him very high.

A lot of the drop so far has made me feel like the living embodiment of that Seymour Skinner "Am I so out of touch? No, it's the kids that are wrong meme". Seeing the breakdown of "When did you start watching wrestling?" and being part of the small fragment of 2016 voters who took part this year should have informed me that "a lot of the voters wont have the same cultural touchpoints as you, old man", but it still jarred a little to see people I see as obvious greats ranked so low. But if I was 20 years younger, it would probably feel obvious for Toni Storm to rank ahead of Tito Santana, as obvious for them at it feels preposterous to me. But that's just taste evolving. I wouldn't be surprised to enter a "100 Greatest Actors" poll and see Tom Hardy rank ahead of James Cagney, even if I disagreed, so I don't know why it's surprised me with wrestling. (This is my pre-emptive coping mechanism for when someone like Jericho or Moxley finish ahead of Bret )

As the person who nominated her, Bayley was one of my last 10 cuts. Comfortably the best of the Horsewomen in my opinion, the fact that she managed really smart, really good matches with Eva Marie and rookie year Nia Jax remains a major feather in her cap. Then adjusting from being one of the great babyface workers into being a really fun heel showed some great range. Shame she didn't end up higher. And on the subject of all-time great babyfaces, Steve Grey not cracking the top 200 isn't shocking, but it is depressing. He's a guy who leapt about 60 places from my 2016 ballot, just a terrific wrestler, just so easy to root for. Not as good as Edge though, apparently

There was a small window between Kyle O'Reilly leaving the most boring faction in wrestling and him leaving WWE where he worked as a babyface and let his natural goofy charisma shine through, and it was a total "Where has THIS guy been the past 4 years?", immediately became more interesting.