Starlin did very good work with Captain Marvel. The Death of Captain Marvel, which came out in '82 when I was a kid, was quite impactful on me as my father's cousin was suffering from leukemia at the time. The parallels were too obvious to ignore.
When you consider all of Dory's contributions to the business - the Funks as a tag team are criminally overlooked by some - he's one of the most important American wrestlers ever.
I have two casualties from my top five (Bock 4, Jumbo 2) and I expect only one to survive and land there in the final results.
I'm puzzled by some of the results for wrestlers I don't rate that highly - indeed there's a few who've landed in the top 50 I didn't vote for - but that's the beauty of this project. It gives food for thought.
It's also fair to say the found footage for Piper in the last ten years has made those of us who grew up watching him rate his body of work more highly than before in many cases. If only this grace had been granted to a couple of Piper's best opponents ... I'm thinking of you, Greg Valentine ...
Fujiwara didn't finish higher because he only garnered votes from 42% of the voting pool. Those who voted for him, including me, rated him very highly.
I wouldn't laugh his argument out of court ... I hadn't really considered Tully a #1 candidate although I ranked him pretty high. He absolutely was a phenomenal heel.