Johnny Sorrow

1. Daniel Bryan: He went from "the guy I'd see at ROH shows who bored me to tears", to "the guy I'd see at ROH shows who's finally interesting now that's he's a bad guy, to "The guy in WWE who I'm digging, but is never gonna make it", to now...where he's always awesome in the ring, just as awesome with his character and how that character effects how he wrestles, AND over as fuck. I love the guy. He's put together all the aspects needed to be a fucking star, and he made it. I always enjoy his stuff. He was so awesome in the TLC match. Seeing him run roughshod on the Shield as the toughest little motherfucker in wrestling was jump off the couch and cheer shit. 2. Tony Anthony: I'm digging back into the Smokey Mountain Set and finally getting to see his stuff there. I fucking love it. The feud with Smothers and the stuff with Ron Wright is just killer. Funny story, I also just watched his shoot interview and when he was talking about his WWF stint as TL Hopper, Russo would go up to him with horrible scripts for his promos telling him, "This is how a plumber talks." Anthony was like, "My Dad was a master plumber for 60 years. I think I know how plumbers actually talk." 3. Antonio Cesaro: His matches since winning the US Belt have all been good to great, and even the so so ones against Brodus have him doing feats of strength like lifting Clay. He's avoided the "Indy star" stigma, as he's embraced his WWE name and character to the point where I think of goofy Claudio in ROH and it seems like a different guy, and for the better. They're pushing him really well, I love his dialed down anti-USA gimmick,as well as his "not silly European stereotype" gimmick, (think Rene' Dupree wearing a beret, carrying a loaf of French Bread, and walking a poodle.), and he's been great in the ring, where his "tough guy" deal is what's important. And his finisher is super-protected, as well as the fact that his flying, falling, mega bionic, European uppercut of doom looks so awesome that he should shout "There can be only ONE!" right before he hits it. 4. Dusty Rhodes: I'm also diving back into Will's Dusty set. That immediately puts Dusty in my "current top 5". No explanation needed. 5. The Big Show: Ever since his last heel turn, Show has just been great. The whole, "I've got an iron clad contract now, so I can finally be who I really am..and that's a fucking Giant who can knock you out with one shot who's angry about all the bullshit he's had to go through his whole career" character is good soup. And he's never been better in the ring, working a Giant style that gets across that character, while still being able to sell guys offense; and vocals that the cameras pick up that add a hell of a lot. The Shaemus series has been the fucking tits. I'll give a lot of credit to Shaemus as well, and would have possibly included him on this list, as he's been fucking awesome all year long. But every time he does shit like "Back in me village, we had an' ol' goat that me Uncle Finnigan used ta fuck...", I just get the douche chills.

How dare you, sir. 42 is middle aged. Anyhoo, on subject...as far as DiBiase's rep as a "technical" wrestler, (whatever the fuck that actually means), I'll go back to a common source I cite for a lot of things from back then, the Magazines. The Apter mags always went on and on about Dibiase's "technical skills" and how disappointing it was that a guy with his "scientific" skills would resort to cheating.

I'm angry that my absolutely hilarious one liner earlier is getting no-sold.

I could have included him or Michaels. Both are flawed wrestlers, but I think better brawlers at their best (and even on average) than Brody. Having said that I was trying to stick with relatively non-controversial picks. I was making a joke, bro. As in you not wanting to cross contaminate both of your giant lists of everyone. You didn't think my "non-controversial pick" line was a joke? Hard to tell with you at times. You're as dry as a fucking good martini.

I got the Clash set from the same guy, I'd imagine, and one one show he left in all the early 90's commercials. It was a hoot.

Technically, that's true.

I could have included him or Michaels. Both are flawed wrestlers, but I think better brawlers at their best (and even on average) than Brody. Having said that I was trying to stick with relatively non-controversial picks. I was making a joke, bro. As in you not wanting to cross contaminate both of your giant lists of everyone.

Ya gotta love Dylan making sure he didn't include HHH on his giant list of everyone.

I'd just go ahead and say that he was an an awesome babyface/ enforcer guy who gets brought in ala Roughhouse Fargo...and a shitty heel. Both because of his no selling and overall schtick.

I always thought Ole Anderson stunk. He bored me to fucking tears. I remember hating Andersons matches even though I thought Arn was awesome. I always liked his promos, but in ring he always left me cold.

HAHA! That's the best!

It's his look. He looks awesome and has one of the best wrestler names ever. I'd imagine for a lot of people, myself included, Brody was over with them before ever even seeing a match thanks to the magazines. When I was a teenager I loved the guy for years before ever seeing him in a match. By the time I did, all those negatives either didn't matter or went unnoticed, at least that's how it was for me. And since I finally first saw him in some World Class matches where he was a no selling monster/ enforcer brought in to kick heel ass, I wanted him to be a no selling guy. So I'd guess that for a lot of people the aura was always enough.

I just found the best twitter feed ever. "Ricky Morton Says" https://twitter.com/RickyMortonSays "What's your finish kid? Piledriver? Tonight your over with a fucking backslide. " "Bubba hit me with your shoot punches because your work ones are killing me...shit "

I remember in the Mid Eighties, PWI and the Apter mags were totally pushing Taylor hard as a possible new NWA Champion. They even did one of their phony articles where Magnum and Taylor had a friendly wager as to who'd win the belt first.

Memphis is head and shoulders above all the sets I got. I didn't get any of the Japan ones, but I'd rank what I did get as 1. Memphis. This was the most fun of all the sets and that's my number one concern when watching wrestling. 2. Mid South. I have such great memories of watching Mid South/ UWF when I was 16-17 that this set was both a walk down memory lane and a chance to see shit I had only read about. 3. Texas. Thanks to the "Classics of World Class" I had seen most of the stuff that occurred before we got WC, so most of this was a true walk down that memory lane. I loved it but the repetitiveness of the wrestlers on my screen DID get a little tiresome, no matter how awseome the matches were. The Embry era stuff was a hoot cause I had never seen it. 4. AWA. Still getting through it. I love a lot of what I've seen so far and haven't gotten to the point where we got AWA TV. Blackwell is the coolest, and Greg Gagne still stinks. The reason I didn't get any of the Japan sets is a mixture of finances and the fact that I like to know what's going on when I watch wrestling. I want to know WHY these people are fighting, and I don't understand Japanese. It's not a deal breaker or anything, I got that amazing Misawa/ Kawada set some years back and I love it. But when I have to decide on how I spend my cash, the "intangibles, let's say, come into it. I'll probably get them someday, to have a complete collection.

Haha, my boss at the club's name is Mohammad Hussein. He goes by "Marty", though.

Then you were finding things that weren't there, dude. It's clearly just JBL not knowing who Tanaka is and the fact that he probably actually had a doorman who looked like Tanaka. He didn't say anything else disparaging about him, just "MY DOORMAN IS TOUGH! LOOK AT THAT!" while completely shitting on Mike Awesome the whole match. Oh, totally. I love JBL but that was a drunk and douchey thing to do. Apparently, Foley complained about it to Vince.

Gino was fucking awesome in the ring. He was just as much a dickhead as a wrestler as he was a promo. He'd actually go as far as to bite Kevin's foot to get out of a hold. And Muraco was the man. He was a lazy, beach bum, bully slob who wrestled like a lazy, beach bum, bully slob. I've pretty much disliked Piper since he came back after the Mania 3 match. It's crazy, cause I loved him for years. But from that time on he went from crazy and cool guy who really isn't that great in the ring but I don't care, to nails on a chalkboard guy who I don't want to watch wrestle, listen to on commentary, etc..

Yeah, except for the racism where he keeps insisting that Tanaka is his doorman. But yeah, him making fun of 2.99999999999999!!!! is pretty fun. There was nothing racist there. He was saying that Tanaka looked liked the guy who was his doorman. It's not as if there's some stereotype of Asian Doormen in New York City.

I was gonna say the same thing. His whole Foley feud was fucking great with some fun matches, and that match against Big Show in WWECW was the tits.

Well, who's to say that any of these talented guys would be good at training developmental guys in the WWE style?

If you get a chance, watch the first WWE/ ECW One Night Stand show with the special "JBL commentary" on. It's a drunk JBL ragging on the matches and his stuff during Tanaka/ Awesome is hilarious.

I'd imagine that Billy Gunn is perfectly qualified as a developmental trainer. The best trainers tend to be guys who were never top guys. Just teaching guys the basics and the style WWE wants sounds like something he's capable of doing. I saw him a few years ago on a TNA house show and he was clearly the guy with the best skills at connecting with the crowd and he was on like the second match. And he's probably better qualified than fucking Hugh Morrus, who I've heard is really disliked for his attitude towards trainees and his tendency to get too rough on them.

I seriously doubt a "significant portion" of the WWE audience are the types of people who agree with the idea that Americans are all fat, lazy, and entitled. "There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. There are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent on government, who believe that that they are victims, who believe that government has the responsibility to care for them. Who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing...I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives." Ok, umm. 1.Are you trying to say that the rich and powerful of this country are WWE Fans and look down on the rest of the country? 2.Or are you implying that the audience will think Cesaro is talking about "the 47%" that they as a bunch of hillbillies and republicans consider the poor and non white are, so they'll agree? 3. Can I have what you're smoking? 4. Have you been to a WWE show? They're not exactly filled with either a bunch of Bill Mahers who agree that Americans are fat and entitled, nor are they filled with people who would think Cesaro is talking about the 53%, but not them.

I'm kinda loving Del Rio's face turn just happening out of nowhere and now he's a good guy who slapped hands with a fan on the way to the ring on RAW.