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Come on, that pic of Sandman ! Show a little respect for Hak. And I kinda regret not voting for him now. I didn't expect him to get any love at all.

Ok, who voted for Koki Kitahara ? And it's not even Dean ! Anyway, be thanked. I take credit for being the only one pimping the guy. Hell, the only one posting in his thread. Wait, and I didn't even vote for him.

She looks like a jolly cook. Which is what she became I guess.

I had no idea who Pat Roach was before today, and now I'm learning that Indiana Jones beat up a pro-wrestler, three times. That Combat Toyoda picture is the least intimidating picture we'll get I believe. I'm kinda amazed she got two votes actually. FMW represents.

Nobody wanted it. That's why I'm delivering it to you, as long as my mental health sustains it. The anguish began here BTW : http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/14057-nwa-tna-2002-revisited/?p=5670930 PPV 26 The Vince Russo show is back. Long boring awkward promo with shooty-shooty elements, bad gimmick matches and shit finish all over the card. The only salvageable part of this particular PPV was AMW vs Slash & Brian Lee in what was a decent little title match, although they clearly went overboard with nearfalls at the end, which would be a stamp of TNA and, I guess indy wrestling as a whole, then WWE style too eventually. When Brian Lee is part of the best match of the show, good luck. Slash is pretty good though and the AMW is at least a fresh established tag team, sot them getting the belt back made for a feel-good moment in that wretch of a PPV The main event was Jeff Jarrett running the XXX gauntlet, so he’s selling for a while then wins with his shitty finisher from nowhere, Randy Savage-circa 96-style. And Dusty Rhodes shows up at the end to save the day. Tradition and all. Because this isn't a shitty rehash of WCW vs nWo. Not at all. EZ Money & Kid Kash vs Tony Mamaluke & David Young wasn’t exactly a hot opener and I haven’t been quite impressed by EZ Money yet like I’ve been in ECW and WCW. Kid Kash just seems like a lost cause at this point. Mamaluke misses Little Guido and David Young looks like a junior version of Mike Enos, which is cool enough I guess. But they didn’t mix well although they tried to actually work a tag match with some dynamic instead of doing just spots. On the other hand, Sonny Siaki vs Jason Cross was just bad indy spotfest. Some other bad matches involving BJ James & Don Harris who can even manage to ruin Jerry Lynn, with the run-in of Mike Sanders of all people (I kinda liked him in WCW, so why not), and most of all the horror of a dying-on-his-feet Curt Hennig vs David Flair in an actual wrestling gear in an whatever-on-a-pole match. Brutal stuff. Flair looks like he hasn’t improved one bit and without the insane gimmick looks even more exposed. That would be Hennig's last TV match (last match ever too ?). What a sad way to go. Oh, and as far as horrible goes, Percy Pringle was grotesque at this point. Sad to see. Sad interview too, half shoot / half kayfabe, in a typical Russo WTF style. Why I am watching this shit again ? Oh yeah. Depression, that's right. Makes sense.

HTM voted 49th best wrestler ever is a sign we should have made this a PWO exclusive. Tommy Dreamer's pic is wonderful. Nice odd indie sleaze series with Kid Kash, Jun Kasai, Tommy Dreamer, Ian Rotten and Gedo back to back. When you think about it, Kid Kash and Ian Rotten as 64th best wrestlers ever is also quite the mindfuck. James Storm is sexy as hell in that picture. If I were a girl, I'd do him.

Takako not going for a WWE contract when she could have was the best thing ever for an old fan like me. These days, things would be different though (I'm not assuming Takako is still as good in the ring as she was, of course).

Moolah, by all account, was a piece of shit of a human being. The revisionist WWE history about her is nauseating. Remember Luna Vachon talking about those mistreatments with great emotion in her shoot interview. Then you get some horror stories in Japan too, from the dojo mentality (which is running rampant in other place than pro-wrestling of course) to the sexual abuse stories in FMW by some of the seniors. Since those are only rumours, I won't give out names, but these are out there for sure.

Cool pic of Nagashima. I voted for her in 2006 I believe. Not rewatching joshi made it tough to do it again but she certainly deserves a much higher spot.

Ditto. Don't know if I'll find the motivation though.

Jim Cornette #63. Those wacky Anonymous.

Still trying to troll me in 2016 really shows who is "stuck in the 90's", actually. Whatever.

Now that I think of it (well, I shouldn't auto-spoil actually).

And she's the only one off my list at this point, too. Ok, five votes for Little Spike Dudley. I would have voted him about #484 too. Anonymous high vote ? I understand. That Zenk pic disturbs me even more than the fact he actually got two votes.

Seconded. Although I must say the pictures are killing me. The Abdullah Kobayashi one is unbeatable !

Me too. Big fan at one point. Tons of fun stuff. He was booked everywhere in the mid 00's, and then he killed his career with the stupid sexual harassement stuff. He apparently is going to retire later this year.

Thanks. And thanks.

Yeah, seems like from another life though. Interesting career arc this guy had.

If I had seen lot more 00's puroresu, Kaz Hayashi is probably one guy I could have voted for.

One down. I probably was the only one voting for Yumi in 2006 too. What kills her is that she had to retire so early because of injury (which also coincides with the time I stopped really caring about joshi, then current puroresu as a whole and dove in the past) . She was a terrific little worker who would have become great if time allowed.

Nice feeling the love. BTW, I totally forgot to vote for Harley Race and Jun Akiyama. I also didn't vote for DiBiase, but I didn't forget to.

I may have voted for Faraon back then for this reason. This time around, I didn't vote for workers I haven't seen more substantial body of work. So I didn't vote for Destroyer either this time.

I will post a list of nominees not getting votes today. Then start with the lowest ranked wrestlers moving forward to number 1. Expect the final 3 to come out the last day of April. Perfect. Thanks for the hard work already.

WWE : The trolling era. Ladder clusterfuck. Jobber winning IC title. BTW, US title in pre-show between two JTTS. Last year, Cena vs Rusev. Big match. Lana now poor wrestler. Superstar potential gone. AJ Styles had better match with Raven in 2003. New Day sucks again. Turned everything cool heels into shitty babyfaces. League of Nation = who cares. Alberto Del Rio, true star in LU. Rusev, whatever happened to your Poutine basking glory ? Steve Austin doing really meaningful shit in Texas. Stars of today ain't worth shit. Why did I rate Lesnar so high in GWE poll ? When Suplex City became gimmick, match turned into nothing. Raven & Sandman had better garbage matches in 2003. Three women saved the show. Cool belt. Thriple threat = cluster of sorts, still they made it good. Heel should win. Babyface win later. Sasha + Eddie pants + Snoop = BOSSY mofa. Undie vs ShanO. Dumb as fuck. Boring as fuck. Rocky cuts promo about fake number. Raven's worst promo in 2003 = better than Bray Wyatt. Stars of today ain't shit, the return. Slutty Stephy hot and shit. Match cold as fuck. HHH pass the steroid test ok ? Boring as fuck. Great thread. Shit show. Bye bye.

Great matches galore Asuka, Nakamura and Samoa Puroresu luv will find you in the end