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Good lord what a show. Collision is on fucking fire man. I just loved everything.

I believe he can definitely be in a conversation, although his case must be stronger (or at least more defined) for the 2036 project, as he still is quite young. He has the great matches and is one of the best at working the "fast-paced crazy spotfest" style, which isn't my cup of tea but he makes it work for me most of the times. He even managed to excite me during some pandemic-era crowds matches, something extremely difficult in my case. He has such strong charisma and impressive, exciting ringwork. The 2017 KUSHIDA trilogy belongs among the all time great in ring wrestling sagas, specially the Dominion match is an all timer, and some of his Dragon Lee, Desperado and Will Ospreay matches are really good as well (but others not so much). There was a time when I believed he could be the next ace of the promotion, but instead Gedo wants him forever at the Jr division (which shouldn't be bad in itself, but with Gedo's booking it kinda is).

Yeah he's been pretty good in New Japan when given something to do, which sadly isn't quite most of the times. I need to dive deep into his pre-NJPW career, so more recs would be appreciated.

The guy had a lot of potential and basically every single one of his phases in his first WWE run was a hit, except Stardust. Then he left, and became of the absolute worst wrestlers in the world. His ceiling was, idk, maybe a ***1/2 match with a good opponent like Juice Robinson or something. His AEW run is super hit or miss, more misses than hits to me. Now that he's back in WWE he seems to have found his place once again, although I still don't enjoy his current presentation, ringwork style nor his overall attitude. So, no chance.

Definitely deserves consideration just because he and Ishii managed to have a super exciting match in an empty crowd arena at the 2020 New Japan Cup.

So are they gonna start building stuff for Wembley or what the fuck?

Randy Orton is a guy I can (almost) definitely see making my list, and that's something some years ago I wouldn't have dare to say. Early prodigy vibes with all time great selling and some really early top tier performances (with the Foley masterpiece as the peak of his first run). Up until 2010 he's extremely consistent, and later on he becomes one of the most solid tv workers on WWE. We all know his 2011 IS great, and it was in a top babyface position that is not his cup of tea, but managed to shine anyway. His 2012 isn't as good, but he carries fucking KANE to some or his best matches ever. His Authority run, although booking wise sucks, is wonderful in ring and not only with Bryan, you can add guys like old RVD, Cesaro, Cena, Rollins, the first great singles match of Reigns of course... But then he continues. The Wyatt Family stuff was great until the infamous WM match, but you have thing like vs AJ and vs Harper. One of the best guys to watch on the no crowds era. Add RKBro to the mix. Guy is amazing and has as impressive longevity and consistency as anyone, a perfect input candidate with great to excellent matches here and there as well.

That Lights Out match between Mox and Omega is such a classic, a very important match for the promotion early on and it totally delivered. My favourite part was Mox going through the broken glasses or thumbtacks or whatever in order to reach the ropes while in a cloverleaf.

That's not on Moxley tho. Everyone should have bled here (it's called Blood & Guts ffs) and obviously the Bucks are never gonna sell a shit. It reminded me a lot of the second Anarchy in the Arena, where everyone was more focused on putting their personal big spots on the match over rather than actually working throughout a violent fight, except Mox.

Moxley saved that match as much as he could.

All timer G1 press conference. This new generation is working their characters with such passion, you can feel the desire of putting the company back to the top after the pandemic. Hopefully the tournament delivers both in ring and (specially) booking-wise, because these last few years have been awful in terms of booking most of the time. But now I'n hyped and want to give them another chance because of the cool young roster.

He has become one of the best I've seen at working the crowd, at least in a WWE environment. Always had a superb selling and great offense. I'm not a fan of the guy and before turning heel I couldn't stand it because of the booking, but damn does he has a case for a top 100.

Yeah that's fair, I was mostly thinking about him as a babyface because that's what he was most of the time. That heel run is bad as everything Gedo touched in the pandemic, although that Finlay match was surprisingly great.

Yeah that tag rocked, as I expected. All four of them are amazing workers (even Juice, it saddens me a lot to see how web have forgotten his great NJPW run). The main event was very good and I'm kinda shocked they saved some stuff for a rematch later, but I'm all in (hehe) for it. That rivalry is money, for sure. I don't think they'll let Ricky beat Punk as of now, specially now that Punk has still business with Joe. But he should get as close to defeat him as anybody before him in AEW.

I think this is a pretty interesting argument against Bryan's case, and something I can slightly agree with when considering his 00s work. Like, I'm revisiting some of his classic matches in ROH sometimes and they don't seem as good as I remembered them, they feel kinda... Souless instead, idk. Maybe it's because of this. I still see enough personality in him though, it's just that maybe he didn't put everything together as soon as I remembered and as soon as other GOAT contenders. Still number #2 for me at this point haha.

My favourite one for sure. Such a cool performance against Breeze, as well.

While I hate Brock's lazyness when he simply doesn't wanna work, I'm gonna give this one to him because of his good stuff being as perfect as pro wrestling can be. Cena has a great (although short) peak and when it comes to big matches with better wrestlers throughout his whole career he has always delivered big, but is one of the worst week to week guys to follow in my opinion. Bad punches, bad selling, hilariously and infamous bad calls, most of his formulaic tv matches worked as house shows... His 2006-09 stuff is really good and all of his most famous matches after that are awesome, but that's like such a small part of his career if you think about it...

Oh definitely. I just can't stand him, he's worse than the worst versions of Mauro, JR or Lawler. Most overrated announcer ever.

Fuck.

What a superstar Yota Tsuji is going to be, my god. In a show with the Mox/Claudio/Shota vs Okada/Tanahashi/Ishii multitag, and the Bryan and G1 announcements, his performance was my favourite thing.

If they do the (otherwise stupid) multi-block G1 format like last year, I believe it wont be as exhausting.

Has someone considered the odd possibility that he just cares more about his friend than money/coming back?

He was hot as hell with the Moxley feud at the beginning of the year, as well. And tbh I've never felt that he got cold during his title reign, people were still loudly behind him, it's just that at the same time there was another much better storyline going on that overshadowed everything that happened in the company at the moment.

Every time I come back to Devil Masami I find new stuff of hers that I fall absolutely in love with and is very different from everything else I've seen of her, while still keeping her essence as a larger than life wrestling character. She was a top 100 lock, then a top 50, and now I even think she might end veeery close to my top 10. Still not a #1 contender, but that's only because her truly all time level match I've seen is the 85 Chigusa title match (which is fucking revolutionary so there's that). Her other more acclaimed matches (Jaguar, Nakano, Kandori) aren't near that level... But if I find a couple more excellent matches that can compete with anyone's best, as is the Chiggy match, I would have to consider her for my top spot because she is just so awesome at everything she does in a wrestling ring. And for a good amount of years, as well.

The main event was cool as hell but I couldn't care less about Don Callis at this point.