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Locks: Hiroshi Hase Hiroshi Tanahashi Strongly Considering: HARASHIMA

This review illustrates two of the biggest problems I have with WALTER as a candidate: both the repetition of the chopping the ring post match structure he relied on, and his inconsistency in actually selling the hand after the fact. I would say he's more likely than not to make my list, but these flaws are really grating for a guy that brings a lot I like to the table otherwise.

outlawjamboree on Twitter said: David Taylor was a welcome addition to WCW in 95 when I was stuck with only Worldwide for my WCW fix. Plus his comeback in the fed was fun

outlawjamboree on Twitter said: No Class Bobby Bass was the main heel manager/wrestler in Atlantic Grand Prix when I started watching and he was endlessly entertaining.

Watching some Togo lately. Someone in 2016 said that "Dick Togo is Pro Wrestling", and I really find that to be true. In fact, he might be the greatest Swiss Army wrestling has ever seen; he can do anything. Togo can work sprints, can brawl, can work a scientific match, can do long, can work tags, can work title matches, can do lucharesu, can do big puro matches, can do maestro matches in Mexico, can punch with the best of them, can take it to the air, can base, can be an imposing bully or a sympathetic underdog...he can do anything, seriously. And what's more, he can do it anywhere! The more I write about him the more I feel compelled to rank him even higher than where I have him pencilled in at, just a generational talent and one of the coolest wrestlers ever on top of it.

Locks: Genichiro Tenryu Greg Valentine Strongly Considering: Giant Baba Gran Hamada

I fucking love Christian, for all the reasons mentioned in this thread. I do highly value input, and he's still in consideration for me, but I'm afraid he might be a late cut for me in the end because the output is just too sparse. I don't just mean in terms of number of great matches, too; he was retired for basically 7 years before returning for good in AEW in 2021, and even then he's yet to wrestle more than 20 matches in a calendar year for the company. Trust me, I LOVE the AEW run and what he's brought in those matches, but it's a little too sparse as a case-maker for me to consider him a lock for my list. I like most every version of Christian, and I need to watch more of his TNA run before making a decision on him to be fair, but it feels like his best runs are this AEW run and his 2009-14 WWE work in which he was individually very good and even great, but the matches don't resonate to that level. Compare him to a Punk, for instance, who also retired the same year and returned to wrestling in AEW the same year, and even if you wanted to debate who was better in WWE Punk's indie run stands out so much more in my mind than what Christian was doing at the same time.

I watched 1000 matches exactly from 2025 (god knows why). Jon Moxley was far and away my wrestler of the year

Strongly considering Fit Finlay and Fuerza Guerrera.

Locks: Eddie Guerrero El Dandy El Satanico El Hijo del Santo Strongly Considering: Eddie Kingston Emilio Charles Jr.

Locks: Daisuke Ikeda Devil Masami Dustin Rhodes Dick Togo Strongly Considering: Dynamite Kansai Darby Allin Dump Matsumoto Dick Murdoch

Locks: CM Punk Claudio Castagnoli Chigusa Nagayo Chris Benoit Strongly Considering: Carl Greco Christian Chris Hero Carlos Colon

Locks: Bret Hart Barry Windham Blue Panther Bobby Eaton Billy Robinson Bryan Danielson Buddy Rose Bull Nakano Brock Lesnar Strongly Considering: Bob Backlund Bruno Sammartino Bill Dundee

Locks: Aja Kong AJ Styles Akira Hokuto Akira Taue Arn Anderson Strongly Considering: Andre the Giant Atlantis Antonio Inoki Abdullah the Butcher Alexander Otsuka Arisa Nakajima Austin Idol Akira Maeda Angel Azteca

I haven't watched an extensive amount of early 90s Savage, but I can't say I agree with the notion that 1987 was the cutoff for Savage as a great worker. You can call them flashes, but I just don't see how a guy integral to matches as great as the Warrior and WWF Flair ones is anything less than great. I'm deep into 1990 viewing now, which is a weak year for Savage given so much of it is tied to a past-his-prime Dusty, but even in a down year like that he still has the SNME Hogan match and the Tenryu match in Japan that are impressive.