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Watched this a few days ago one of the best matches I have ever seen. Recently got into watching Rambo more (I only really knew him from an El Mathematico match), he's wrestles like and cartoonish bumping/selling has the e energy of one of the Home Alone robber villains. The way he bounces from an arm drag and him doing turn buckle teeter totter spots rule. I like how in trios matches, he gives off the vibes that he is hidding out a behind his partners and knowing when to pounce. Hoping to watch more but, he feels like he'll make my list.

One of my favorite things about GWE research so far is going to watch a match expecting to watch more of one and then unexpectedly, someone I was not considering shows out and inspires me to check out more of their work. The unexpected wrestlers are so fun to deep dive on I did not have many thoughts about Rambo and Mighty Inoue last week, but they gripped me so much with their perfomances that they feel will probably make my list too..

Really like Mighty Inoue vs. Pat O'Connor. Last night/this morning I watched a lot (10 matches) of Mighty Inoue. Mighty Inoue great wrestler. Very cool trunks! Very good matches. Interested in learning more about IWE and Mighty Inoue's career. Very good range, showed great spark. Very likely to make my 100. Alot of the matches are clipped and JIP 1/2/91 Jumbo Tsuruta & Mighty Inoue vs. Mitsuharu Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada 10/7/74 Billy Graham vs. Mighty Inoue 10/21/74 Mighty Inoue vs. Verne Gagne 4/11/78 Mighty Inoue vs. Gypsy Joe 9/26/73 Animal Hamaguchi vs. Mighty Inoue 1986 Mil Máscaras vs Mighty Inoue 9/12/84 Chavo Guerrero & Hector Guerrero vs. Gran Hamada & Mighty Inoue 2/26/84 Chavo Guerrero vs. Mighty Inoue 11/25/78 Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Mighty Inoue

Does anybody know if this match is on uploaded or any if the more color French Catch on water matches are available. I know that there is greyscale pool matches, theres more even going to this year. Its a really interesting tradition.

Might have KAROU on my list, the Aja Kong match is amazing!! The Hirota 2002 is great too, I might even like it more. Interested I'm going into her career more.

Abdullah The Butcher is an interesting case of wrestler. I really like his non-bloody match work. He plays a great overdog and has great presence and the type of wrestler who I want to him wrestle anybody. Alot of the bloody matches I have seen sometimes don't really connect with me even when he is facing wrestlers I enjoy/root for. He's really cool and great but, I'm not sure if he is top 100 level for me. Might the corner on him by the time I submit a ballot. Here's some of my Abdullah The Butcher stuff, I enjoy. Here's a promo I showed my mom, amazing promo.

Made an Aquiles playlist recently! Let me know if I missed any thing. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7K3Vop0Eb1Rvd5G6epz6mmSO48QY99GF

That makes alot more sense on why a Misawa and a more valid reason to have Misawa on your list would make your list. To me it reads Misawa is a great dance partner wrestler.

Thank you! Will check it out! I think my main disconnect it's in a selling and match structure style I'm not used too mixed with it being difficult to tell the wrestlers apart sometimes (the language and grayscale barrier)

Rene Ben Chemoul & Gilbert Cesca vs. Anton Tejero & Pancho Zapata is the best French Catch I have ever seen. Alot of French Catch doesnt click with me but, this one really did, interested in checking more from all involved. Tejero & Zapata feel like a French FTR, FrenchTR!

My take is 100 wrestlers is to small of an amount to have a list with wrestlers you don't like on a subjective level. I think there was a similar conversation in the Will Ospreay thread about someone not liking Hiroshi Hase. For example Atsushi Onita and Bret Hart are both objectively talented wrestlers and great in alot of areas but, they don't click with me (might change), so I won't vote for them. I already know pepole are going to vote for Atsushi Onita and Bret Hart too. If I vote for them that takes away a space from wrestlers I like alot more and might not recieve as many votes ex: Pat O’Conner and Sakura Hirota.

Luchadors currently on my list (in order) LA Park (my current #1 overall), Dr. Wagner Jr (#3 overall might go higher), Negro Casas, Rey Mysterio, and Rush Luchadors who very proabably make my list but, I am hoping to research more about before officially ranking them Blue Panther, Demus, El Hijo De Santo, Volador Jr, and Ultimo Guerrero Wrestlers I want to research and could maybe make my list Angel Azteca, Brazo De Plata/Super Porky, Black Terry, El Dandy, Marcela, Mascarita Dorada, Mascarita Sagrada, Psicosis, Ricky Marvin, and Super Muñeco.

DDP despite not being someone I'm considering but, it is very impressive that he proabably had Sting and Randy Savage's best post NWO match. Also having Goldberg's best traditional match (I have seen). Even the silly David Arqueette stuff wouldn't would be worse without Jeff Jarrett (whose making my list) and DDP. It also says alot about DDP that he connected to pepole so much that he was the first WCW Nitro homegrown they gave the ball even when Hogan was there (I don't count Goldberg really). It also says alot his charisma that my mom says the only shape I knew as a baby was the diamond. His has fun enough WWE work despite the company working almost entirely working against his strengths. If you count wrestling matches in movies as a case builder the Jimmy King in Ready to Rumble matches are fun. (maybe the best movie wrestling match, I have seen), He adapted to his opponents. To me his case feels like a better promo/character and worse bell to bell wrestler than The Rock.

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There's three AJPW Kings Road era wrestlers I am currently voting for Kobashi, Taue, and Kikuchi (hope to watch and maybe learn more). I'm once again thinking about how based it is that two most Tsuyoshi Kikuchi matches. are him teaming are him with Kenta Kobashi vs. The Cam-Am Express and the bread match with Ken Ohka. Both great matches! The 6/1/91 and 5/25/92 CanAms vs. Kobashi/Kikuchu ade my GME list too (1991 ranked at 76. 1992 ranked at 6). I value spark alot in ranking a wrestler and Kikuchi brought alot of spark.

I think going favorites based is important. I think going favorites with that can be justified with critical lense (range, longevity, how well they made their opponents look, spark they brought to their matches, how they made the voter feel, etc) is the way to go. Completely abandoning favorites in favor of wrestlers that "objectively great" can lead to pepole doing votes "I don't enjoy watching this wrestler wrestle but, I am voting for them because they are objectively great" which I feel is bad and against to spirit of this list.

If Eugene Schnitzel is that great of a wrestler and emotional resenates with you it shouldn't matter that much. This is the greatest wrestler ever project not the greatest wrestler to wrestle in front of (insert level promotion of promotion) or higher project. One of the coolest thing about this project is hyping up and celebrating Eugene Schnitzel's of the world. I hope someone submits a GWE list with a wrestler I don't know so I can research them, I hope if somebody sees a wrestler they don't know off my list they research them. I proabably not rank Eugene Schnitzel as high of other wrestlers that wrestled for more promotions because he only wrestled in one place/his comfort zone because I factor range alot. Someome like John Cena have the same problem because he only wrestled for WWE.

Interested in going into more of Jumbo Tsuruta's career, he feels like a guy (based on what I have seen) gave consistent effort and spark, it didn't always corelate to great matches and always click with his opponents but, it was fun. I like early Jumbo Tsuruta. The Jack Brisco 1976 is amazing! I think another thing that says about Jumbo's connection to wrestling that even after Hepatitis C and how limited he was, he is still giving out happy and engaged fun, performances that engaged crowd within those limits. A top 25 wrestler maybe, still hoping to watch more though.

I am not considering him but, he is a fun wrestler. His match with Goldberg at WCW Spring Break 1999 is super cool, the One Night Stand 2005 entrance is one of the best entrances ever.

I haven't watched much Dragon Gate to really know. In the limited amount I've seen him, he can be in very good matches does not feel like a great wrestler and doesn't emotionally click with me the times I have watched him. If someone has a case for him, I'm willing to lo watch more is someone can sway me. The Dragon Gate/Toryumon wrestlers making my list proabably Akira Tozawa, Masaaki Mochizuki, Ricochet, and maybe Stalker Ichikawa. In terms of other Dragon system wrestlers he's below Shingo Takagi, Masato Yoshino, and Susumu Yokosuka. He feels like a case on a similar level to BxB Hulk. In terms of contemporaries I would say he's better than Naito but, all the other ones you listed and Yuji Okabayashi connect with me more. I might pick Kento Miyahara or Katsuhiko Nakajima might be over him too. Even though I am low on him, I hope pepole more informed on Dragon Gate submit ballots with him om it because he feels like a important wrestler to them and represention for that promotion feels important for a list like this.

I think Shibata had preety good AEW/ROH considering. He has been a fun TV wrestler and ppv wrestler which can proabably be difficult to adjust too. Has had alot of really great matches. The Orange Cassidy, Rampage match was one of my favorite matches the year it happend and so was the Bryan Danielson match. Daniel Garcia vs. Katsuyori Shibata vs. Orange Cassidy vs. Zack Sabre Jr from Forbidden Door 2023 is proabably my pick for maybe the best 4 way match ever, third favorite AEW ppv match ever, and the best match on the best ppv I have ever seen. The Power Opps vs. Mox, Claudio, and Yuta from AEW Spring Break In rules. The Pure Champion reign was fun. Watching him live twice has been cool too. He's been even great in plunder brawls. I am not overly familiar with his pre-2013 work but, interested in watching it. He's going on my list

I think with stuff list like this with entertainment. It's okay to lean to favorites as long the person voting is critical, open to more than one vision of wrestling (ex: making a list from one or two promotions), and not lean too much into generalities. Its impossible to proabably make a one person complete greatest wrestler list or greatest bands list because it's impossible to watch every wrestler or listen to every band.

I think despite not clicking with me his work not clicking with all the time is worthy of consideration of a top 100 level spot. He is really great at the details and quirksin his match especially compared to alot modern wrestlers. Especially if you count backyard wrestling as part of a case helper Daniel Makabe has that. I think he really fit in with the more well known technical wrestling stars in the world. More Recommend Matches

Fun wrestler and has likable charisma about it, I am not sure if he makes a top 100 list though. Hoping to check out more

Kurt Angle is someone I feel is great and will probably make my list. I think he is consistently fun, I think something that hurts him a lot of is being touted as the best wrestler ever or the why this guy doesn't have five star match poster boy in some circles. I feel like I got convinced that Kurt Angle is the best ever wrestler at time when I watched mostly US television wrestling too. My take on Kurt Angle is he more of consistently fun match match wrestler more than a great match guy. when watching him back specifically from 2000-2002 is how loose his selling is and how enthusiastic he is. The Viscera match is so fun! Overall Kurt Angle as is wrestler is probably a worse Alexander Otsuka but, Alexander Otsuka rules and will make my list probably. Angle will probably be the 80-100 range and Otsuka will probably be ahead of that.