Grimmas

Dory's ranking is fascinating Parv.

219 - Lioness Asuka 2006 Ranking: 73 Points: 510 # of Ballots: 14 Average Vote: 64.57 High Vote: 11 (Dean Rasmussen) Low Vote: 98

How many times have I used the phrase "well it was him, it wasn't someone else". That applies to anyone. The What If stuff means nothing to GWE. What If is Barry Windham NWA Champ 1987. What if is Kawada 6-year triple crown reign. What if is Steven Keirn WWF champion. What if is Curt "Red Rooster" Hennig. There's literally zero point in it. How much was Windham hurt by not being NWA Champion in 87? How much was Kawada hurt by not having a 6 year reign? How much was Keirn hurt by not being WWF champion? How much was Hennig helped by not being Rooster? How much was Bret hurt by being in 90's WWF? Those are all handicaps or helpcaps (in Curt's case). Now of those things change the input, just the output. I valued the input more than you and a lot of others it seems. Why keep harping on this, we all used during metrics to gain our lists. Looking at the final results, once everything is revealed, the amount of folks I have in the top 100 will be at the same level as you. Actually, fuck this Parv. When all is done I am going to make a thread breaking down our lists comparing them to the final 100 and see who made a better list.

220 - Ken Patera 2006 Ranking: honourable mention Points: 503 # of Ballots: 15 Average Vote: 67.47 High Vote: 16 (Scott Bernard) Low Vote: 98 "He was so great in 1980 and had one of my favorite Intercontinental title matches." Dave Musgrave Recommended Match: Ken Patera vs Tony Atlas (WWF, 8/9/1980)

Me being high on Eadie is the world's worst surprise. I guess I only had him at 83. I thought I had him higher...

Eadie drops another off my list. I'm sad I'm not the high voter though, damn you Matt D! I wanted an awesome Ax avatar.

221 - Bill Eadie 2006 Ranking: honourable mention Points: 502 # of Ballots: 15 Average Vote: 67.53 High Vote: 34 (Matt D) Low Vote: 94

222 - Diamond Dallas Page 2006 Ranking: honourable mention Points: 492 # of Ballots: 25 Average Vote: 81.72 High Vote: 27 (DMJ) Low Vote: 99

Another from the 2006 lists bites the dust.

223 - Masahiro Chono 2006 Ranking: 72 Points: 469 # of Ballots: 17 Average Vote: 73.41 High Vote: 29 (BackToBionic) Low Vote: 98

Since I based more on talent and skill and what they did with the opportunities they had more than the great matches they had I used that across the board.

I spend money on wrestling, but mostly streaming. I have Progress and WWE. Have tried CZW, SMASH, NWA and Stardom. About 10 dollars a month for the companies history makes way more sense than 10 dollar for a single show. Although I have ordered a bunch of EVOLVE shows this year to watch live. For some reason I justify spending more for something live.

224 - Sheamus 2006 Ranking: unranked Points: 469 # of Ballots: 21 Average Vote: 78.67 High Vote: 49 (NotJayTabb) Low Vote: 97

Yes, but I doubt if Bret was in a different situation he would have the same career.

Eventually, when I get to it.

225 - Buddy Landel 2006 Ranking: honourable mention Points: 467 # of Ballots: 17 Average Vote: 73.53 High Vote: 18 (Scarlet-Left) Low Vote: 100

226 - Rob Van Dam 2006 Ranking: honourable mention Points: 465 # of Ballots: 13 Average Vote: 65.23 High Vote: 19 Low Vote: 96

Wow does removing heel authorities solve a lot of problems.

But he did exactly the right things at exactly the right times for the context. He really did. He's the most efficient wrestler I've ever seen. So what gives? I really haven't watched much Strongbow at all. Hit me with some recs that are on youtube.

I guess my struggle time and time again with this is the very idea of Chief Jay Strongbow and why more people don't champion him. I'd be much more receptive to it if people could find a way to square "context" with also thinking he sucks. The arguments I made for him and Putski were not just facetious piss-takes of "The Matt D view", they put forward arguments that Johnny and others have tried to articulate before about the important of time and place, and doing the right thing for the context. I realise this is on the extreme end of things, but one way to test ideas is to push at the limits. Chief Jay is like a big action movie that stinks, but makes a lot of money. Nobody thinks it deserves an Oscar.

Last reveal of the evening takes another guy off my list. So far: 227 - Brazo de Plata (98) 279 - Mascarita Dorada (76) 283 - Killer Khan (96) 309 - John Tenta (100)

227 - Brazo de Plata 2006 Ranking: honourable mention Points: 458 # of Ballots: 14 Average Vote: 68.29 High Vote: 26 (JRGoldman) Low Vote: 99 "More fun than any wrestler ever." simen oem

228 - Super Dragon 2006 Ranking: unranked Points: 457 # of Ballots: 22 Average Vote: 80.23 High Vote: 32 (jackwebb) Low Vote: 98

229 - Gino Hernandez 2006 Ranking: honourable mention Points: 445 # of Ballots: 14 Average Vote: 69.21 High Vote: 16 (Derek C) Low Vote: 96

I don't really like any of Harley's career though. That piledriver is just an example of what I don't like about him. I have never watched a Harley match and thought Harley was awesome. Not once. It's not like I picked that one thing and it discounted everything else, it's just that everything else was nothing I thought was great either.