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  1. Microstatistics
    Rewatched this and it is better than I remember. The first half was pretty great with the power vs smarts dynamic with Shawn adding cool heelish touches and his desperation was great. The second half still doesn't do it for me but I get why people might like it. *** 1/2 but I still think their rematch and the 97 HIAC smoke this. One thing I will say is that I honestly think Shawn was legitimately great between 2002-2010, atleast during the bigger matches, and feel sometimes the criticisms against him can be overblown.
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    Good but nothing more than that and definitely not an all time classic. The first 7-8 minutes were great and interesting but then it went kind of downhill. Kurt's back work was uninspired and Shawn's forgetting about it didn't help matters. The finishing stretch also wasn't anything special. Still overall not bad. Shawn looked good and I thought was carrying the load here. *** 1/4
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    The pinnacle of pro wrestling storytelling. The post match is the greatest moment in wrestling history. ****3/4
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    Beautiful wrestling match. The balance they struck between everything looking pretty/smooth/fluid and yet having an incredible sense of struggle, intensity and violence behind it all is very impressive.
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    Awesome mat based match between two absolute masters of the style. **** 1/4
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    Don't really know what to say except that it has maybe the greatest selling performance in the history of pro wrestling **** 1/4
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    Maybe the most emotional match in the history of pro wrestling. Never have I ever seen a crowd that emotionally invested in a match, excluding maybe only Atlantis vs. V3. It has some issues that prevent it from being absolute top tier but it is one of those definitive must see matches. **** 1/2
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    The best of the Fujinami-Choshu singles series, featuring a masterful performance by Fujinami. A story of pride and honor. **** 1/4
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    One of the all time great 1 hour draws and also easily the best Jumbo vs. Flair match ever. **** 1/4
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    Very good stuff. Hard fought and they managed to generate quite a bit of drama. Lita was good as the babyface challenger and Trish was great as the desperate heel champion. *** 1/2 This time the roles were completely reversed and both adapted to them well. Another good match. *** 1/4
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    The most impressive thing about this match is that in 90 minutes there is literally no downtime at all. Even the Inoki vs. Choshu matwork was compelling. The crowd heat is insane and the fact that that level of heat was consistently maintained for 90 minutes is even more insane. I would say Fujinami was the MVP with Animal as a close second but everyone was great in it. Incredible match to say the least but one I have had trouble rating because it is difficult to distinguish the individual pairings from the overall story.
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    Watched this based on the high ranking and it was quite good. The character work was interesting and Mickie's work on Trish's leg looked really good and Trish sold it extremely well. Also the finish is a good example for why penalizing matches for botches can be counterproductive as the messed up spot at the end can be seen as a positive by saying Trish's bad leg buckled (which adds to the match) instead of treating it like negative and saying they screwed up. *** 1/2
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    Basically all of her 1993 singles stuff against different opponents, the Kandori feud and Queendom, and the 8/94 elimination tag. Queendom and 8/94 tags are among the most ambitious matches ever and she is the driving force for them successfully reaching that top tier GOAT level, IMO. BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT 1. Stan Hansen - Great in the 90s, but his 80s All Japan and some of his AWA stuff was infuriating. One dimensional, bad selling, bad transitions and often dragged down matches to be honest. 2. Toshiaki Kawada - Incredible 1994-95 that was enough for top half finish for me but don't think he is that great outside of that period. 3. Jaguar Yokota - I ranked her well, but I don't think she is as good as her contemporaries MOST UNDERRATED 1. Alexander Otsuka - One of the most skilled wrestlers I have ever seen. Could incorporate anything into his matches organically, and also a brilliant seller. 2. Black Terry - Someone I ranked way too low. Amazing wrestler who can brawl and work on the mat, play face or heel. Gives a great performance in every match he is placed in. 3. Naoki Sano - Had great matches in a variety of styles over a long period of time. BIGGEST SURPRISE/DISCOVERY 1. Jerry Lawler - Someone whose work has completely changed my perception of old school US territory wrestling. His simple minimalist approach works perfectly and he can have a good match with basically anyone. 2. Nick Bockwinkel - Someone I had heard a lot about but hadn't watched much of. His AWA work is out of this world great and he showed tremendous range. His work in Japan is pretty disappointing but his overall greatness is pretty evident 3. Shigeo Miyato - Some random shoot style guy I had never heard of who blew me away with incredible performances between 1988-90 and some after that.
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    Seems like fun MOST CONSISTENT 1. Kiyoshi Tamura - Match for Match, the best ever 2. Buddy Rose - Regardless of opponent or length of match, always did something fun and exciting to make every match compelling. 3. Rey Mysterio Jr. - His style and approach works against basically everyone and always produces good matches HIGHEST PEAK 1. Akira Hokuto - When it came to epic storytelling and drama, she was unmatched 2. El Satanico - Mastered every aspect of pro wrestling to have amazing, different matches with whoever he faced 3. El Dandy - Versatility, nuff said 4. Mitsuharu Misawa - Height of his powers ace Misawa was a sight to behold BEST ALL ROUND WORKER 1. Tatsumi Fujinami - Could have a good to great match with anyone in any style. 2. El Dandy - Brawl, matwork, high fly, high impact stuff he could do it all. Could also play different variations of rudo and technico. 3. Terry Funk - Range from lovable babyface to sadistic psycho and everything in between. Could do technical, brawls, hardcore etc.
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    Every bit of information I've found about this match on the almighty internet had led me to believe this is the match in question. If that is indeed correct well.......I didn't care much for it. I found it amusing that they used "exposing Flair's ass" as a highspot. There was a spot where Morton went for an O'Connor Roll but Flair hung on to the ropes after which O'Connor did a backward somersault. It's a spot we've all seen about a million times. Here Morton sold it like it was an actual bump which looked incredibly stupid and a lazy means of transition. A lot of mediocre brawling. I liked Morton's Hiptoss/Dropkick combo. **1/2 The match you linked is not it. This is the match in question. After a rewatch, I think the GAB Morton cage match is easily his best non-Steamboat match with maybe his best performance. I honestly feel he was better in brawl/hard-hitting style type stuff than in his more traditional title defenses.
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    Watched this based on the review above and it actually is a really good match. Surprisingly violent and the theme of power vs. speed/smarts was played to great effect. The match was also filled with great selling by both but particularly by Reigns. His selling of the hurt hamstring was amazing. He looked really really good in this and it's unfortunate he will never get the credit for it as per the John Cena syndrome because of his unpopularity it somehow means he is a terrible wrestler. *** 3/4 The overbooking was unnecessary but didn't really hurt the match. For a moment, I thought this suddenly turned into El Satanico vs. El Dandy after the lowblow spot but Styles was not actually faking.
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    The greatness of El Satanico, in his 50s carries a mediocre opponent to a very good match with his offense, selling and by adding little touches to the match. ****
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    This is a MOTDC for me. Regal's best performance ever which is really saying something. This had it all. Violence, character work, awesome facial expressions and selling and tremendous psychology. Extremely well structured and paced too, had no wasted moments. **** 1/2 - **** 3/4
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    Good little comedy match on the 2014 Mitsuharu Misawa tribute night.
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    1980s MOTDC. Probably the most influential match in history. ****1/2
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    THE match that made Terry Funk a giant babyface in Japan. Great heat, violence and drama. Must-see ****
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    Rewatching this after some time and it is still awesome. Disgruntled Robinson trying to take down Baba and gets increasingly frustrated as the match goes on. One minor complaint is that Baba could have sold Billy's legwork better specifically because he lost one of the falls due to a leg hold.
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    Flair's average vote is pretty insane especially considering the sample size of ballots.
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    Your ballots

    Microstatistics replied to Grimmas's topic in 2016

    1 Genichiro Tenryu 2 El Satanico 3 Jushin Liger 4 Negro Casas 5 Tatsumi Fujinami 6 Kenta Kobashi 7 Kiyoshi Tamura 8 Akira Hokuto 9 Jun Akiyama 10 El Dandy 11 Daisuke Ikeda 12 Eddie Guerrero 13 Jumbo Tsuruta 14 Mitsuharu Misawa 15 El Hijo del Santo 16 Terry Funk 17 Mayumi Ozaki 18 Buddy Rose 19 Bret Hart 20 Akira Taue 21 Shinya Hashimoto 22 Yoshiaki Fujiwara 23 Nick Bockwinkel 24 Volk Han 25 Vader 26 Daniel Bryan 27 Ricky Steamboat 28 Steve Austin 29 Devil Masami 30 Alexander Otsuka 31 Bull Nakano 32 Pirata Morgan 33 Minoru Suzuki 34 Chigusa Nagayo 35 Toshiaki Kawada 36 Aja Kong 37 Shawn Michaels 38 Rey Mysterio Jr. 39 Villano III 40 Yoshihiro Takayama 41 Yuki Ishikawa 42 Riki Choshu 43 Ric Flair 44 William Regal 45 Negro Navarro 46 Naoki Sano 47 Blue Panther 48 Atlantis 49 Lioness Asuka 50 Black Terry 51 Shinobu Kandori 52 Yoji Anjoh 53 Arn Anderson 54 MS-1 55 Masakatsu Funaki 56 Megumi Kudo 57 Jerry Lawler 58 John Cena 59 Fit Finlay 60 Nobuhiko Takada 61 Brock Lesnar 62 Hiroshi Hase 63 Mick Foley 64 Akira Maeda 65 Dynamite Kansai 66 Manami Toyota 67 Osamu Nishimura 68 Billy Robinson 69 Barry Windham 70 Mocho Cota 71 Jaguar Yokota 72 Shigeo Miyato 73 Kazuo Yamazaki 74 Sangre Chicana 75 Randy Savage 76 Meiko Satomura 77 Larry Zbyskyo 78 Masa Fuchi 79 Yoshinari Ogawa 80 Hiroshi Tanahashi 81 Samoa Joe 82 Shiro Koshinaka 83 Atsushi Onita 84 Shinjiro Ohtani 85 Dustin Rhodes 86 Perro Aguayo 87 Giant Baba 88 Yoshihisa Yamamoto 89 Koji Kanemoto 90 Ted DiBiase 91 Tsuyoshi Kohsaka 92 El Faraon 93 Tully Blanchard 94 LA Park 95 Owen Hart 96 Dick Murdoch 97 Kantaro Hoshino 98 Gran Hamada 99 Naomichi Marifuji 100 Antonio Inoki Looking back People I seriously underrated - Negro Navarro, Black Terry, Jerry Lawler, Billy Robinson
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    Kind of an anti-climax but it was pretty much what most were expecting. I don't necessarily agree with #1 but can't really argue against it because the arguments people put forth for him in that spot make perfect sense.
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