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Personally for me the only thing disappointing about the list is the demise of Joshi and maybe some shoot-style/battlarts people not doing as well as I would have liked. Otherwise the list is pretty much what you would expect with the top mainstream US and Japanese names dominating because they are universally considered great and are on most of the ballots. Only the absolute top tier, most well known lucha guys are still in the mix.

Really glad El Dandy made the top 50. Also, never ever expected Mick Foley to make the Top 50. Had him in my 60s somewhere.

That's true only one female in the top 50, that's nuts.

Even though he didn't make many ballots, Tamura's final rank is still insanely disappointing for me. Was hoping he would make atleast the top half. The first of my top 10 to fall.

Interesting. The No. 1 is a clear No. 1. Data that strongly supports my Flair as the easy #1 prediction. Could be wrong though. Could be Daniel Bryan for all we know.

Glad Hase and Atlantis made it comfortably. I underrated Hase on my list, had him at around 60 when it should have been closer to 45. Great skill + great character work and charisma. Jvk is not wrong in raving about him. Atlantis is one of the all time great technicos with ridiculous longevity.

I mean I think Flair is a great wrestler and one of the best ones from the US in the the 1980s. His volume of decent to good stuff is pretty crazy. Just don't agree his best years blow someone like Fujinami's best years out of the water.

Also, based on what I have seen, I would say Fujinami was a strong contender for worker of the year for atleast 1983, 1986, 1988. For Flair his 1985 was extremely impressive for sheer volume alone. No ***** matches, but nearly all matches I would say were **** or better but more importantly an insane amount of variety and range.

If you hold everyone to the standards of Flair's best ever years then only a handful of guys ever came close to being on that level. I wouldn't give Fujinami a single year at that level, and I think Fujinami has some outstanding years. I would say Fujinami's 1980 is better than any Flair year except maybe 1989.

Phantom punches was one thing that always bothered me about US wrestling. Lawler was the guy who turned me around on them so have to go with him for that.

Regardless of order, would agree Kobashi, Tenryu and Flair are the top 3 choppers.

This.

Again, it was more about the votes solidifying him as #1 rather than necessarily getting him there.

39 fell. Shoot-style, joshi and lucha the biggest victims. Biggest regret is not watching enough Euro/WOS before the deadline.

I think Flair would have ended up at #1 even if it was only PWO voters. I think he is going to run away with it because of the additional votes. So not because of it, only reinforced by it.

With these additional non-PWO/anonymous votes I am more convinced Flair is gonna win the whole thing easily.

Awesome match. Loved Fujinami's look of disdain, him trying to use different strategies to overcome the bigger guy/better brawler and his exceptional selling. Khan had awesome offense and ruled at being the heel. A lot of intensity, hate, violence and aggression. Had everything that makes pro wrestling great. **** 1/4

Surprised (and disappointed) no Chigusa Nagayo in the top 100. Assuming no drops between 109-101, looks like only 4 women will make the top 100 (Hokuto, Toyota, Aja, Bull).

This ruled. Great grappling and great hold-counter-hold wrestling. Impressive how they kept it lighthearted but retained that gritty competitive edge that goes along with great matwork. Finish also worked because of how clean the rest of the bout was.

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Lol he literally gets listed just as a wrote this. You have awesome timing :-) Thanks for ending this part of the "debate". Who the hell are we gonna focus on being overrated now? :-) And kudos for the reveal, Steven! Kurt Angle probably

With Kansai, that is 14 off my list today itself.

5 from my ballot back to back (Meiko, Koji, Suzuki, Otsuka, Sano)

I think Ishikawa and Ikeda will make the 100. Fujiwara, Tamura and Han are the only other shootstyle guys who will I think.

Speaking of stunned, I feel betrayed even reading this shit. Who are you? I know. Stupid stupid me. I used to love Devil. Wait. Oz. MAYUMI OZAKI doesn't make the top 100 ? Who are you PEOPLE ? These results suck. She was my #16. Seconded. Oz was my #17. Also the decline of Takada is pretty remarkable.