TAKA was one of my final cuts. Great longevity.
I did vote for Rat Boy, shame he didn't finish higher. Great tag worker but a really strong singles guy as well. His GHC match with Kobashi is tremendous comedy.
Kikuchi is my third to fall. I almost forgot about him in the latter months of developing my ballot and I'm so glad I didn't. Dude ruled as a fiery face in peril.
Jimmy Rave improving by 1. Gary Albright slowly inching his way upwards. And no way it happens, but imagine Taue finishing 26th for another decade.
I was a fan of Gargano years ago and think he can still be really good, but am also glad he's already dropped. That era of NXT has not held up great. Gives me hope Rollins will not finish top 100 (top 200 very likely though).
I didn't really come around on Taichi until 2020 but there's one spot that he did that I never forgot: during a multi-man tag before he could do his pants removal spot, Yano ripped them off. Because he didn't have the opportunity to do the spot, Taichi covered himself in embarrassment and Yano rolled him up for the pin. Kind of a brilliant bit of comedy.
I always thought they were a good tag team, but when they got the chance to work as singles wrestlers in BOSJ, Sho was always a standout I thought. Great offense and fire.
Mark Davis beat Jack for the National Title. As much as I think AEW has way too many titles, it's nice to see Mark get some time to shine. It seemed like his injuries caused Fletcher to leave him in the dust. But it's cool he's gotten to prove he's still really good.
Count me as one of those folks. The 2016 results getting posted to Cageside Seats is what brought me here and what got me to do deeper dives of wrestling.