Hollinger.

It may be a bigger factor with a guy like Austin re: his ring work because so much of his charisma was physical. I know a guy like Foley resonates with me more than some more technically proficient wrestlers because he doesn’t move the way everyone else does. Austin has a lot of that in him.

As I said on Twitter, I fully believe Negro Casas is capable of teleportation. This morning’s results are disgraceful.

He's been having good/great matches on weekly american tv for 16 years now. I think if you haven't heard much about him, that's more on you. People talk up Roddy all the time online.

Yeah, I would categorize more of the fights as guys playing with their food long enough to look competitive, and to me that's still looking to build an entertaining match in a similar vein to pro wrestling. I don't think we know enough about the inner workings to differentiate from RINGS in any meaningful way as both transitioned further into a more fully shoot style after developing enough fighters to be able to do so.

I also don't know that it had any kind of actual impact on my ballot. I voted for Funaki, Suzuki and Sakuraba but it's not like their MMA work had much of a positive impact. Maybe slightly more with Sakuraba.

By that I just mean I'll consider stuff like PRIDE fights for Takada or Otsuka or whatever pro wrestler as part of their cases. Definitely not considering the whole of MMA in something like this. If a guy has a case as a wrestler already, basically.

I tend to count Pancrase (and MMA in general) where it adds to a pro wrestlers case, but it’s not something that I count against them. There’s really not all that many places where it’s all that applicable… Suzuki, Funaki, Sakuraba, Shamrock, Severn if you really want to try to make a case for him. I see MMA as a point in favor for a Yuji Nagata, even if he got his shit rocked, just because he wore it like a champ and fought a couple killers. But something like the inverse, trying to make a case for a Mark Coleman or Kevin Randleman based on their MMA careers and some cameos in wrestling, I wouldn’t do.

I think it’s less them adding to their cases and more the voter base changing drastically and those being two japanese guys who are known to more casual fans.

I also think it's going to lead to a huge jump for Sting, who was a mid range guy already that will get a huge propaganda/nostalgia push.

Everyone was worried about how guys like HHH, Taker and Rollins were going to do with all the outsider ballots coming in, but I don't think there was ever any chance of them breaking through in a big way. None of the most extreme cases of WWE propaganda are picking up any votes with most of the PWO base, so it's just leaving them in the middle of the pack. The actual push is going to be Bryan, Punk, Joe and Styles. The guys that already had support from the existing base that are also super popular among the normies. I'm sure there are guys that fit into that mold that I'm forgetting. Everyone is expecting Low Ki to drop soon, but he may have just enough cross over appeal.

I like it as a bit of a safeguard against the poll getting shared in the WWECWTNA Super Mega Storytelling With Boobs Federation Fans facebook group and getting an influx of 1000 votes for Bray Wyatt as one of the 20 greatest wrestlers of all time. Is there a chance of that happening? Probably very little, but a less extreme version of that kind of happened with twitter.

Yeah, all of the old head huge collectors starting to sell digital files changed the game. Still lots of random shit out there that no one has bothered to upload anywhere.

It's also now something that costs $3 and will get to you in a day or two instead of $30 and a week or two.

Also have to take into account that in 2006 everyone's ballots were still largely defined by individual tape collections. By 2016 there was so much more footage easily available. In 2026 you can now literally access anything that exists on tape either instantly for free or at most in a day or two with a cheap ISO from Lynch or Lorefice.

Guilty. Those matches are among my all time favorites and I have not seen them anytime recently. Liger is a guy that has underwhelmed me more often than wowed me over the years, but seeing the stuff I do love again would have bumped him up my list considerably. Sano is a guy that probably would have made the back end of my list if I had spent some time hemming and hawing over the last 25 spots rather than hitting submit the moment I had a list with only 100 names on it.