Ray

Steve Austin

Bret Hart No question about it, Bret's work kills Foley's. Huh? How did Foley have "variety" in the ring?

Chris Benoit I like Hogan. I think he's incredibly underrated. But it'll be a cold, cold, cold day in hell before I vote him over by Benoit. ;-)

Please explain. Because The Rockers were great. In my opinion they were the WWF's best tag team. But mostly because no one else voted for him. ;-)

In Davey's era the IC title was actually important and meaningful. And Brock Lesnar didn't exactly drive the ratings through the roof or anything. For example Wrestlemania 19, which he headlined, did a very disappointing buyrate. Davey main-evented a show that drew 80,000 people.

I'm glad you reviewed this, because I loved it but I couldn't remember why. This makes me want to rewatch it. Good job there.

Tito Santana

Undertaker

Ted Dibiase

Jake Roberts

Marty Jannetty

Davey Boy Smith

Owen Hart

Mr. Perfect

Seeing as how most of my tape collection is compilations of the work of individual wrestlers, I wondered... How many tapes do you have, devoted to a single wrestler? Last I counted, I had 18 Steve Austin tapes/DVDs and 14 Chris Benoit tapes/DVDs. And I still don't have everything available.

There are just far, far too many great moments to list, but here's a few: - Roddy Piper holding the ring bell over a bloody Bret Hart at Wrestlemania 8. Would he or wouldn't he? Just an amazingly dramatic moment, built to brilliantly by the story they told of Bret wanting to prove something and Piper becoming more and more frustrated and edging closer and closer to a heel turn. - Misawa rising out of the corner in 6/3/94. - Misawa realizing he's alone at the end 12/6/96. Two perfect examples of how great Misawa was in his role. Just insanely POWERFUL moments. - Kawada finally beating Misawa in 6/9/95. That one's obvious. ;-) - Steve Austin in the sharpshooter at Wrestlemania 13. The defining, career-making moment of one of my favorite wrestlers. Might be the most dramatic finish ever done in a WWF ring, for me, at least. - Austin's heel turn at Wrestlemania X7. Austin's heel turn might've failed in terms of ratings, but man was the actual turn a thing of beauty. Austin is driven to madness by Rock surviving everything Austin can throw at him. In the end he just SNAPS an murders The Rock with the chair. - Chris Benoit making Triple H submit at Wrestlemania XX. My favorite wrestler getting a clean win over my least favorite wrestler in a World Title match in the main-event of the biggest show in years...and having the crowd behind him 100%. What more do you need? Great as that moment was, managed to take it to an even higher level by bringing Eddy out. - Kawada handing the Triple Crown to Kojima after losing on 2/16/05. I don't even like Kojima all that much, but I honestly got a bit choked up during this. That Kawada left his beloved All-Japan shortly after makes it all the more poignant.

Almost everyone at that board thinks it is a ****3/4+ classic MOTY. I am entirely serious. They've called it one of the greatest blowoffs to one of the greatest feuds of all time.

Rey Misterio - There have been times where he's absolutely been over enough to hold the World Title. I don't know if now is one of them. Christian - No. He's been booked as a cowardly mid-card heel who jobs all the time for far too long. Edge - Yes. He's been protected in the booking and has the size/look. I think he could be a good sneaky/dickish heel champ. Shelton Benjamin - If they really get behind him with a push, yes. He can do the "athletic underdog babyface who pulls off the shocking upset" thing pretty well. Chris Benoit - Yes. He's BENOIT~! Crowd would absolutely buy him as the fightin' champ again. Chris Jericho - Maybe, but it would take a lot to repair the damage done to him. Eddy Guerrero - Yes. Way better than Cena. ;-) Kane - No. His time has passed. They keep trying to re-push him over and over and it won't work. At best he's a decent opponent for a face champ to run through. Big Show - No, he doesn't need it anyway.

"I'd love to see you guys break that match down nicely, resulting in dumbfounded reactions by them. " There's a ton of that going on right now. The Oratory board is just depressing, to me, because they massively overrated the matches that are "supposed" to be great and ingore everything else. Something like Eddy-JBL isn't given even the slightest chance whereas HHH-Shawn HIAC is given automatic classic status.

Mick Foley I'm less and less of a fan of his work as time goes on, but he was important and drew money.

Eddy Guerrero In a landslide. His body of work destroys HHH's in my humble opinion. I find almost all of HHH's "great" matches to be incredibly overrated. Matches like the 2000 Rumble, which is held up as his best, do absolutely nothing for me. Eddy had a better bloody brawl with JBL. HHH drew...when he had mega-drawing babyfaces like Austin/Rock/Foley around. He's not drawn anything since they left.

The Rock Rock's drawing power is staggering and he's pretty good in the ring, too (incredibly underrated by many). I was thinking about Shawn's work in The Rockers, which I loved, and I asked myself this - is it harder to have lots of ***1/2+ tag matches or harder to make millions and millions (no pun intended) pay millions of dollars to see you wrestle?

Hulk Hogan

Chris Benoit

Randy Savage