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I feel like they'd have a woman singing a couple of tunes, in which case, Black Velvet is on there. Oh absolutely. Someone needs to crack out Bad Reputation while Saggs pops to the bar

I don't imagine the JSF pull out too many surprises in their set. Probably open with their signature song Bad To The Bone and close with a raucous rendition of Wild Thing. The penultimate song would see Saggs' sensitive side, as he performs a powerful rendition of Lorraine Ellison's Stay With Me, which he'd use to scout for suitable one night stands swaying at the bar.

I think the main thing I've discovered from the project is simply how much I enjoy wrestling. At no point in the process has this felt like a chore to me, and having a good reason to sit down and evaluate guys I'd maybe not have gotten round to watching has made this so much fun. Discovering guys like Breaks, Ogawa and La Fiera, guys who I'm going to continue watching for my own enjoyment long after the full list is published, has made this project so worthwhile. I've mentioned in the past that back in 2010 my interest in wrestling was starting to wain, and that I'd started blogging to see if I could still be bothered with wrestling. Well, if that was like kindling keeping the fire alive, the GWE has been like adding a load of logs to the flame to keep it burning longer. The other thing I've learned is how much more comfortable I am with my opinions than I used to be. My other peak time as a fan before now was in 2003/2004 just after I left university and had more disposable income to spend on wrestling tapes (and could justify spending £10 a tape on CZW shows), and had just started posting on the old Smart Marks forum. At that time, I wrote my first ever review of a show, a WWF CHV of Battle Royal at the Albert Hall. I watched that tape recently as part of GWE for the Flair/Santana & Barbarian/Davey Boy matches, and decided to look up my old review from the boneyards of the TSM forum. It was ghastly. Aside from being a block of boring play-by-play, there was no attempt to analyze the show or give opinions on the matches, it was just some Scott Keith level jokes about Earthquake being fat, Barbarian being a jobber and the Nasty Boys being rubbish. It was like I'd gone in there with this pre-conceived notion that "these are the guys I'm supposed to hate" and decided to try and appeal to other people, especially as I know I was always an Earthquake fan. I hated reading it. I know during the process I've taken some light-hearted stick from JvK about having the likes of Tom Zenk or Barbarian on my ballot, but I'm pleased that I'm comfortable enough as a fan to embrace these choices rather than lie to submit a more "acceptable" list.

Thanks for sharing that. Think I made it to the part where they focus in on Mark Andrews before welling up

When Foley came out at Mania, my loudest friend was insistently telling us all how fit Foley's daughter was. I took great pleasure in being the arsehole to show a picture of her hilariously-awful boyfriend and reading the description from his Twitter profile about having to wear clown make-up because he's so attractive he makes women's clothes fall off. He's SUCH a c*nt

The Jerry Saggs Fiasco sound like they'd perform a wonderful set of 60's, 70's and "modern" rock covers every Friday night at your local bar.

Am I alone in kinda having mixed feelings during the roll-out: part of me is looking forward to seeing where the guys I voted for have placed (so far, 2 of my 100), and the other part is happy not to see them, as it means they've placed higher up the list? Jerry Saggs still hasn't placed yet! Someone was really high on him. That's the kind of thing I love in this project.

It think it's only going to get worse for you. Based on the list so far, I'm not totally convinced I'm the high voter on Barbarian either :-)

I don't hate Ryan, but I don't think all comedy wrestlers are created equal. When I think of good comedy wrestlers, I think of someone like a Mad Man Manson, who did a lot of comedy schtick, but all with the purpose of frustrating his opponent and making them make mistakes that he'd capitalize on. Or Grado, where his comedy revolves around him being a slightly confused chubby chancer, but the character still fits into the world of wrestling. Things like slow motion wrestling, Ryan's penis routine or the entire output of Chuck Taylor feel more like the guy going "Look at how I can make fun of wrestling. Isn't it silly". That said, I quite like some of Ryan's schtick - him proposing to his girlfriend mid-match and then rolling her up in a small package when she said yes (because he needed the winners purse to pay for the ring) was pretty fun.

I seriously felt like Bubba Dudley was an avatar for how I felt, looking at these two idiots with a "What the fuck are these two supposed to be?". Enzo, to be fair, has improved in ring a lot in the last year to the point where he's almost watchable, but the way he judders and skips around like a hyperactive twat just infuriates me. I can't look at him without feeling annoyed. I'm all for wrestlers having something for fans to chant along with, but having to sit through an entire introduction every time - the same introduction - got old real fast in NXT. the line about being so ugly tears run away from their faces was quite good though Cass is just worthless. Terrible wrestler and terrible on the mic. When he goes into the Sawft spiel, it felt like every word had a full stop after it, just trying way too hard.

Ha ha, I'll be truly shocked if there was another Zenk voter! As the list was progressing, I was starting to wonder just how high I'd actually put Zenk on my list. Never did I consider that a second person might have put him on their ballot. Good work anonymous voter

Yeah, it's really nice to find out others have voted for your more unusual picks

Given the latest call-ups and the WWE's penchant for 6-man tags, I just know we're getting closer to a Ziggler/Enzo/Cassady trio who will be my all-time most hated team

Really happy that I wasn't the only James Mason voter as I'd feared. Him and Allmark are the kings of the All-Star style, but I just think Mason is slightly more rounded and has more tenure. Plus a 100% WWE TV win/loss record :-)

There's something I love about Brian Knobbs not making any lists, but Jerry Saggs at least making someones #89 spot (based on the first results roll-out)

Maybe it's the environment I watched it in (drunk in the Nottingham branch of Rileys with my mates) or maybe because I'm a contrary fucker who actually preferred the guys that were put over in some of the "trolling" results (Ryder, #TheLads, Reigns), but I really enjoyed Mania. Most of my friends are casual fans, and they enjoyed the show for the most part - loved the ladder match, enjoyed the antics of the New Day and the LoN, enjoyed all the segments with the old boys (especially the Rock) and I was pleased to note they all really enjoyed the women's title match (and not JUST because they liked "that hot Irish one"). The only match we all agreed was terrible was Shane/Taker. As an added bonus, even though 4/5 of our table was Team Roman, the 1/5 who was Team HHH was so loud about it, the other loud HHH fan in the room bought our table a pitcher of beer in solidarity. As a comparison, though NXT was a much better show, and the only event I'll watch again, the circumstances (loud pub with drunken friends vs sat in my spare room with my iPad, trying not to wake up my girlfriend) meant I probably enjoyed myself more watching Mania.

If you rank your most eccentric pick by how high on your list they are as the only voter, I'm pretty sure Zenk is my most eccentic pick.

There's 3 guys in my 90-100 range I thought I might be the only voter for, so I'm really happy they've had other voters.

I'm sure I'm not going to be the only person who's now been looking at the Nominees list to see who isn't included here, thinking "What, THAT guy got a vote??". Such a huge list of names that have charted, can't wait to see the results roll out

Just realised I'm going down to London that weekend anyway, so going to this show on the Sunday seems entirely do-able. I like the little Stardom I've seen, and Nixon and Storm are both really good, so this is very tempting

Joe was a last minute placing for me. It was towards the end when I placed a few 00's indy guys, and I realised I'd overlooked him entirely. He's my #99

Shock because it didn't feel like the finish, rather than at the result. No, that was at the result I feel. That crowd LOVES Bayley. Her losing the title was a pretty big deal. Exactly. It was because they cared should have read the rest of the thread and replied later, but I'll reiterate. If they cared so much then why were they all sitting when the finish came? I totally agree with the guy who said that the shock was at least in part b/c that didn't feel like the finish. And IMO it's not because the work didn't make it feel like a finish but because the crowd was inexplicably not treating it like a finishing stretch. No one was expecting Bayley to lose by submission, either by tap or pass out. My impression was they got a little to cute and decided to copy the Meisha-Holly finish and no one picked up on it. I know when the bell rang my reaction was of the "wait, what just happened" variety, I thought for a second maybe the timekeeper messed up. I think it didn't help that it missed a few visual clues that we've become accustomed to as fans. Normally you get a tap out or the referee doing the three-arm-drop, so the fans are expecting a bell, but here there was nothing. Bayley's arm slumped to the mat, but that won't play to someone 5-10 rows back. I think the ref trying the arm three times would have signalled to the crowd that they needed to react.

Kinda hate to burst your bubble, especially as you enjoyed the show, but Asulka isn't a heel. She's been portrayed as a face her entire NXT tenure and was only in the title match after helping Bayley beat the two biggest heels in the women's division in a tag match. She's not as overwhelmingly virtuous as Bayley, but she's still a face

Not just that, it felt like the Horsewomen thought Bayley would win because they'd fought her, and knew how hard she worked, but they'd never faced Asuka. Dana and Emma had both been on the receiving end of an Asuka beating and knew what she would do to Bayley. Made it feel like Becky, Charlotte and Sasha had managed to leave NXT at just the right time to avoid getting Asuka-d

Ridiculous that a match as great as the tag opener ended up being only the 4th best match on the show. Absolutely fantastic show from start to finish. I do wish there had been time for the Drifter match, partly because I dig Samson, but also letting the crowd have a chance to do some mass booing after Zayn/Nakamura might have improved the crowd reactions for the women's match. Tiny nitpick aside, that was so good