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  1. Microstatistics
    Yes the 10/2009 Misawa tribute tag is a great choice. Tons of emotion and the HDA teaching KENTA a lesson for being such a prick was really fun. Kawada, especially, gave an exceptional performance.
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    Some matches I would recommend for Taue in the 2000s Akira Taue vs. Yuji Nagata (6/6/2003) Akira Taue vs. Mitsuharu Misawa (8/1/2004) Akira Taue vs. Kenta Kobashi (9/10/2004) Akira Taue/Kenta Kobashi vs. Genichiro Tenryu/Jun Akiyama (9/18/2005) --> Taue's performance is the best one in the match, IMO Akira Taue vs. Takeshi Morishima (12/5/2005) Akira Taue vs. Jun Akiyama (1/22/2006) Akira Taue vs. Naomichi Marufuji (3/5/2006) Akira Taue/Go Shiosaki vs. KENTA/Katsuyori Shibata (9/9/2006)
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    "Easily surpass" is probably the wrong choice of words by me (it refers more to match quality than individual performances anyways, which might not be the right criteria). Still, I would have ranked Misawa and Kobashi above him anyways regardless of everyone's post-prime work. The 2000s boost mostly applied to Taue, who I always thought was only a little bit below the other three in their 90s matches.
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    I don't know I thought this had practically no down time at all and the submission stuff worked because of Miyato's selling. Watching the 5/88 match just added to the story of this for me, because it showed Miyato's growth. In that match he got almost no (non-kick based) offence at all but in this he is going toe to toe with Takada at various points and has the crowd more invested.
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    Very fun match with stiff strikes, cool matwork and great selling from Miyato but this was essentially a squash. The 7/89 match is much better and way more "competitive" (even though realistically Miyato had no chance of winning in either one).
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    This was much more one sided (a borderline squash) than the Takada match but was still really good. It was nice how the crowd went completely nuts when Miyato finally managed a flurry of offense near the end.
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    Fantastic match to the point I thought it was almost as good as Funaki vs. Nakano. Really good selling from Miyato and I liked how his strikes lost their power at the end because of how drained he was. Takada was vicious throughout but I thought he was really selfless and gave Miyato a lot of the offence.
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    Watched the 1989 Maeda and Takada matches and I thought he is really good as the tough underdog trying to survive the more skilled and experienced fighters. Good selling too.
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    Tenryu, Liger, Satanico, Casas and Kobashi would be certainties. Other contenders include Fujiwara, Terry Funk, Fujinami, Jumbo, Misawa, Akiyama, Shawn Michaels, El Dandy, Santo, Aja Kong, Chigusa, Kiyoshi Tamura, Vader, Eddie Guerrero, Akira Hokuto, Steve Austin, Ikeda
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    That's a fair point, watching a larger sample of matches would probably better indicate if he really was individually worse than the other three during the 2000s. And the regular overlap of Misawa, Kobashi and Taue is a good point, especially in tags that included Akiyama, Tenryu etc., and definitely would have been a factor for the higher match quality.
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    Superb match with Terry Funk giving one of the best performances in wrestling history. Brillant selling, doing little things to put Hansen over as a monster (for example nearly falling backwards after slamming Hansen to emphasize how difficult it was) and generally making himself look like the most sympathetic babyface ever. Hansen's intensity is great too but him no selling Funk's work on his knee everytime he went on the offensive is one thing that has always bothered me about this match. Still a must-see classic.
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    I'm starting to feel that way as well. You can make a case for Negro Casas as top ten in the world for at least 25 years. Does anybody else have that kind of longevity? I have never watched Negro Casas and thought nothing but good thoughts. The man is insanely charismatic, is a great rudo, a great technico, can brawl, can mat wrestle, can bring the emotion, has great offense and amazing selling. Even as a super old dude in 2015, he can still do great matches when given the chance in a long singles. I think after my last week of watching it is down to a Casas-Hansen battle for number one. Maybe Jun Akiyama but his case would be closer to 20 years compared to Casas's 25+ years.
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    Anyone know where I can find this match? It doesn't seem to be anywhere online. Also, I found a total of around 11 out of the 16 minutes of the Maeda vs. Funaki match but was looking for the complete version of that too.
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    For me, she is up there with Kobashi and Steamboat as contender for best babyface ever. One of the best wrestlers of the 1980s from what I have seen so far.
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    Not to be redundant, but his consistency and longevity are insane. Watched his Maximo match from earlier this year and he is just as good as he was in the 1987 Santo match (if not better).
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    I mean I didn't think Kawada was bad or anything like that, just slightly disappointing post-2000. I would rank Kobashi and Misawa above him anyways even when excluding everyone's 2000's stuff but Taue's 2003-2006 bolstered his case enough for him to be #3, IMO.
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    This might be an unusual order but 1) Kobashi 2) Misawa 3) Taue 4) Kawada For me what hurts Kawada is that his 2000s run is lacking and the other three easily surpass him in that area. Taue's 2003-2006 run is really terrific and is what made me put him over Kawada.
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