ohtani's jacket

He wasn't the best at any of the other dimensions the dude mentioned either.

This was very good. I especially liked the early part where Lashley busted out the matwork. I got a chuckle out of Lawler claiming that Cena had never wrestled anyone with Lashley's amateur credentials. Mind you, I could also see folks claiming Lashley's matwork was better than anything Angle did with Cena. I thought they did a great job of laying out the match so that both babyfaces got heat instead of having one of them play a tweener role. Didn't love the finish. I didn't realize it was a super Attitude Adjustment. It looked like Cena body slammed him to the mat and pinned him. Even if it was a new move, it didn't feel like the right beat to end it on. The match seemed to end too quickly, but I guess that's a sign of how much I was enjoying it.

This was fun. It was wrestled on Danielson's terms until Necro was bloodied from some nasty headbutts Then it turned into a brawl, which seemed to piss Danielson off. I liked how annoyed he got at Butcher during the bout. I thought they were gonna do Necro dirty, but he survived cattle mutilation and put up a fight before getting beaten into submission. Too short to be a classic but worth watching.

Dunno about that Jay Briscoe ranking. Time will tell whether this indie guys stay in the top 100 or not. Jaguar has a strong case for being top 50. Eaton did extremely well. Lesnar is overrated as fuck.

Suzuki is better on paper than in the ring. Great highs, though. Sabu and Kevin Owens are hard to care about . I've been watching Owens and Generico vs. the Briscoes the past few days, and all I can think about when I see Owens is James Corden.

I don't understand why we haven't heard more about this guy if he's such a great worker. I'm out of touch with anything that happened in the past 20 years, but you still hear the buzz around guys. Again, I really liked him when watching his early ROH stuff. Just didn't expect to see him in the top 100. Maybe he really is that good. I dunno.

Did Low Ki fall out of the top 100 or did I miss him somehow?

I thought you needed to be cool to have aura.

I'm not sure if Dustin's output matches the respect and admiration people have for him, but I wouldn't call him underserving. All I'll say about Benoit is that a lot of people voted for him. I guess they had their reasons.

People keep on making the case for Strong that he was a good worker. He's right there next to a great worker in Dandy. So either it's a case of Who are you to doubt, Roddy Strong? or he's not top 100. Not sure how Morton survived being culled. People watching Rock 'n' Roll Express matches in 2025 vs. territories guys dropping like flies doesn't compute. I thought Naito would finish higher. I guess he needs to go to AEW.

This did nothing to subdue my hatred for ladder matches. Their street fight was superior in every single way.

Dandy feels a tad lucky to make the top 100 despite appearing on a large number of ballots. I dunno if we'll ever be as high on him as we were in '06. He could do with a footage drop. I've only see Strong's work from the mid-00s, so I can't really comment. I've liked what I've seen, but honestly, I didn't know he was still around. Is Bruno one of the success stories from this year's list? Definitely sensing an upswing in his rep.

Actually, LA Park is a good comp for Ozaki. The only difference is that Park had high end brawls post-prime whereas Ozaki fell off sharply in terms of match quality.

I wanted to watch the match these teams had at Driven, but I couldn't find it anywhere. I appreciate the fact that these guys didn't just put on a t-shirt and denim shorts, tape their fists, and pretend they were at a street fight. This thing is a proper fight. It's a bit long, and less interesting once they get in the ring, which is par for the course with these types of matches, but the ringside brawling was great. I got sick of the Ooohs after a while. It made the rhythm of the match feel like it was spot-spot-spot-spot. More selling and character work wouldn't have gone astray. Steen was interesting but I spent a lot of time thinking about how he looked like James Corden becomes the character work wasn't quite there.

Ozaki is one of the best actors that I've seen in professional wrestling. I was gonna say that she was the least physically gifted wrestler in the top 100, but we've already seen a few wrestlers drop who aren't that great. I know she couldn't keep being 90s Ozaki forever, but I can't say I loved the choices she made in the 00s and beyond. They kind of leaned into the hardcore side of her work, which was never a big selling point for me, but I get it.

I voted for Ikeda. I actually like his late 90s BattlARTS work more than his Futen stuff, and I don't think he's particularly good at pro-style, but he was a great BattlARTS worker. Windham may seem like a massive drop, but it's interesting to me that he still made the top 100. I'm wondering if he still has matches that resonate with folks or if he simply made it on rep. Presuming he received votes from the Young Turks that is. Kandori... so underrated she's become overrated? She's almost like the Joshi version of Taue. If this is based on people deep diving her JWP/LLPW work, then great, but I suspect not. I've barely seen any Kingston but I can see how he has his fans. Claudio seems far too high, but he probably has a bunch of great stuff I haven't seen. I liked the few Necro matches I've seen, but not sure he's as good as great apuestas guys like Pirata Mogan. At least not in my mind.

That reminds me of how much I love the Regal/Sting matchup. I love how Sting always tries to work the mat in those contests. GAB is the famous one, but all of their TV matches are great.

Regal worked a Euro style so there's no reason you can't compare him to other European wrestlers, though to be fair, he was a heavyweight so it's not fair to compare him to the lighter weight guys. I could see folks thinking he was better than most of the British heavyweights, though we're lacking footage of a lot of the heavy hitters.

I think you'd enjoy WoS and French Catch. If you like lucha then it's an easy transition. The list only scratched the surface of what each style has to offer.

I like Regal, but when push comes to shove, I don't think he's as good as Grey, Breaks, Cortez, Finlay or Marty Jones. I also think Lord James Blears was a better Lord. Regal's good, though, so I'm not gonna complain too much. A lot of his best stuff is against Benoit, which may be problematic for some. Personally, I think FInlay was better in the WWE than Regal, and I'm not a huge fan of Regal's latter matches where his face would turn different shades of purple. I'm all for selling, but I can do without wrestlers feigning a medical event.

Whoever Kraters is, you're a fucking legend.

Someone sell me on Chris Hero being better than the territories guys.

The reasons why women’s wrestling took a dip in ‘16 are fairly obvious. It’s nice to see it making a resurgence this tome round. It can only bee viewed as a positive , imo.

The list is just trolling now with those fan favorites falling outside the 100.

I don't get the Nagata placing. I guess he has his fans from the 2010s. I also don't get the Abby placing after the territory guys came tumbling down. I guess the young people have an emotional connection with Abdullah the Butcher. I just started watching Briscoes matches the other day. I have watched a grand total of two. They're nice.