Tetsujin

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.

Yeah Naito's case should be considered. He brought a great match against Jericho at the Dome, had an spectacular MOTYC with Taichi, the New Japan Cup with Ibushi is really good (although then their MSG and Dominion matches are not good at all), his G1 is very very strong (Juice, Shingo, Moxley, Yano, White...), a banger with White again, another great match with Taichi, completely different from their first one earlier on the year... You just couldn't get wrong with him.

Oh I"ve never Heard about Rose in New Japan before. Needless to say I'm interested. Any match recs about his run there?

These two have done literally everything: being babyfaces, being heels, cheating, dominating, selling as underdogs, long matches, short matches, technical stuff, brawls, comedy stuff, gimmick matches, tags, carryjobs, they have worked everywhere and went over, they have longevity, they both cut great promos, they both have tons of charisma, they are very good at blading... You name it, they're good at It. Great, I would say. And more often than not their best matches share a lot of those things, too. I believe Bryan is better because, except for mastery of overselling and creativity with weapons, I like him more in every category than Terry (earlier I would have said that Funk had better long matches, but then this very year Bryan had the all time classic Ironman with MJF). Maybe Terry's floor is higher and I trust him more for a random match against whoever, but Bryan's ceiling is higher as well and at the end of the day I think his catalogue of great matches and performances might be bigger.

Every Big match I see or her on STARDOM, she looks like one of the very best wrestlers ever. Amazing final boss aura, perfectly portrayed throughout every aspect of her ringwork: you can't outsmart her, you can't outbrawl her, she's always the strongest, the fastest, hell even the most athletic. Gaining momentum over her feels like a true accomplishment, specially paired with cool underdogs like Mayu. I can't wait to watch even more of that part of her career. Fucking WWE.

His 2018 is one of those years you just have to try and watch everything he was a part of, just like Kobashi's 1998 or Aja's 1994 for example. Just for that, everybody should consider him. Then you add everything he has achieved berore and (specially) after that, and you get one of the absolute best wrestlers of our generation and one I can't see outside my 2036 list, once most of his career has probably already happen.

Roman has a celebration segment. Cody is supposed to come out, but we cut to him being unconscious at backstage after some misterious attack. In the middle of the confusion, Jay White debuts and challenges Roman. Then he beats him clean.