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While it's not particularly fair, recency and rawness play a factor for me. I used to be a big cheerleader of Will Ospreay, but ever since Speaking Out and a spotlight went back on the Pollyanna stuff, I don't enjoy his matches as much as I used to and I have less enthusiasm to talk up his case as a great wrestler because it's still too raw and in the moment. The emotional investment I had in him has gone, and it sits uneasy that he's getting the biggest push of his career months after this stuff resurfaced again. That'll obviously hurt his next 4 years probably in this project for me. However, I have a much easier time separating art from artist with the older generation and I can easily watch and enjoy Steve Austin without any negative feelings on him being a domestic abuser. Benoit is a very specific case, I can watch him, but it's a cold experience and he'll be lower on my list than his output deserves but I'm not making a black and white rule to not include him. Like others have said, it's a business with a high % of scumbags and it's a slippery slope to be looking out for good role models and perfect human beings for a project such as this, especially when Speaking Out proved that even the wrestlers you think are 'good guys' might have some skeletons in the closest.

I'm a high man on Reigns, and would of considered him on the bottom half of the list by virtue of The Shield run and him being one of the better workers in the company around 2016-18, but this current run with the title is really pushing him up my rankings. The guy looks like a star and carries himself off as one, we're finally getting him in a title reign where he feels like he belongs and he's the top dog, and the matches have all delivered from the Jey Uso feud, to the Owens feud to his recent interactions with Bryan and Edge. When you look at how shitty the former champions have been for the Universal title, Roman's run has put the belt back on track and it feels like the top prize in the company. Roman's next 5 years excite me for how strong a GWE case he can make, certainly for rising up my list at least. I put very little stock in his mania bombs against Triple H and Undertaker, because realistically who's making those matches work other than Bryan, but there are low moments in his career which I do think he has to take his fair share of criticisms on, but I'll touch on that another time.

He could be someone that sneaks in at like 99-100 for me because of that lightning in a bottle month in 2019 putting the cherry on a nice midcard career and being part of one of the companies best tag teams. However, Kofi's unlikely to add anything extra to his case now he's back down to being a tag guy so come 2024 it might be a harder sell. Big E might have the opportunities as a singles guy going forward to really compliment the New Day tag track record and stake a claim at the top 100.

I think the Omega dome show match does add something to his case, and perhaps the NJPW run in general because it's him succeeding in a new environment and I was blown away by how good he was in the Omega match. I'm not so sure the AEW run does because the stuff he's excelled at are things we know he was good at from his peak (great talker, tweaking his character to stay relevant, working with younger guys and help establish them on a national TV level, getting the silliest things over with crowds). I think it would be kind to say he's been inconsistent in the ring for AEW, and especially his title run he was over-reaching what he was capable of in his late 40s in trying to have a 25-30 minute main events with Hangman Page and Cody. Once Moxley takes the belt off him there's a jump in quality in how good title matches became in AEW.

A lock because of how great he's been in the last 5 or so years, but I really would like to take a look again at the EVOLVE title run because I really didn't appreciate it at the time. It took until wXw Tag League in 2017 for the penny to drop with me how great he is.

I would of said Sheamus hasn't really added a lot in recent years that would change my outlook on him for GWE, but then in 2021 he's been on a hot streak of matches and would challenge Bryan hard for the title of best wrestler in the company. Two super PPV performances this year Vs Drew and Riddle and with a title in his possession he'll have opportunities to keep impression. He'll absolutely make my list, but probably bottom half.

Austin/HHH VS Benoit/Jericho arguably opens the door for few people there. --- Tanahashi will be my highest guy from the NJPW 2010 years, but I would still like to watch more of his stuff from before 2012 to get a better feel for where exactly he should fall on my list. I watched his April 2007 title match with Nagata the other day and thought it was tremendous.

I don't remember that match, but I don't doubt Sasha got something out of her that others couldn't . I might try and find it later. On a similar note, I think Sasha Vs Bliss at Great Balls of Fire is the best match of Alexa's career.

Big fan and he'll finish high for me, potentially top 10. I think he was one of the best wrestlers of the 2010s and certainly around 2016-2018 he was definitely BITW level for me. Two worries I have for him is firstly that there's a ceiling to how well he can do in WWE because I don't see him working out well on the main roster if he ever gets called up, so NXT might be his level in this company and eventually no matter how good you are, acts get stale in NXT especially when he's 2 years into his title run. So big question marks for me about what the next 5 years might look like for him. And then secondly, I have no desire to watch the David Starr stuff back again as much as I loved it at the time and could see others having the same stumbling block if you wanted to look back at his past. Walter has enough quality matches if you take the Starr stuff off his CV, but I do think it was a real jewel in his crown that he had this rivalry for years with match by match psychology and drama that hit on another level compared to his other matches. I love his matches against Ilja for example, but I can't say there's a tonne of variety in them or they hit me on the same emotional level. I have some pre-2013 blindspots with him, but I doubt I'd discover something that would significantly change my feelings on him or his ranking. I think it's the next 5 years that can change that arrow up or down.

I can't see it. The biggest thing holding back Dunne for me is I doubt he'll be able to add sufficiently to his case in the next 5 years because I hate WWE's current portrayal of him as the finger/hand work guy. I've already seen my fill of matches where Dunne's opponents fall to their knees but leave their hands outstretched to be stomped onto or spending all match bending fingers but then he just wins with the Bitter End anyway. He's like Pentagon Jr now in how outplayed the 'break/snap' spots are in his closing stretches. I really didn't like the Kushida match last week and it feels like he's slipped into a formula for his matches in NXT. If I could take early UK title run Dunne and extrapolate him out across the next 10 years, he could of made my list but he's already starting with some negatives (like the last years of his indie run as Brandon pointed out) and I don't see a future where he doesn't frustrate me.

I have no idea where I'll put her, but she's a lock to make my list and starts out at least as the top of her class of North American womens wrestlers. I'm stoked she was able to have A. a main event match at Mania regardless of it's quality and B. a show stealing performance in it as a veteran putting over a new star. It would of been a shame for Sasha's career if in 5 years time, we were still talking about Takeover Brooklyn and her 2015 in general as her peak and she never got the opportunity to have something like that again. The Bianca match has every chance to eclipse the Brooklyn match now as the match I think about when I think about how great Sasha is. Something that comes to mind when I think about how great she is would be something like the match against Carmella from TLC 2020. I don't think anyone else is getting that good of a match out of Carmella on that roster.