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Bock still lives.

Go with Haku instead: Casas is so awesome in that match.

I said exceptionally solid. I worded that more carefully than I did my defense of Bret. Man, I hoped Casas would make it to the top 20 but I'm glad that lots of people discovered him and enjoyed him so thoroughly. I just hope Bock doesn't drop next.

grggghhhghhhhhhh.

I'm not 100% sure I've heard an exceptionally solid defense of Bret yet, and that's including my own.

MAYBE, must maybe, my system has a few flaws too.

On mine at least, there's a link at the bottom left of the screen right above "time now" that says "Use Mobile Version"

That Blackjack Windham picture is awesome.

Will be very cool to see what the two of them could put together in 82.

I've liked all the Akiyama I've watched. I just thought that particular argument wasn't super strong. Other arguments are stronger.

If Akiyama was in those tags instead of Taue, would you think he was the weakest worker? (I know some people wouldn't, but you kind of get the point for why that argument is a little silly, right?)

I think Casas and Santo are wildly different wrestlers even though, at one point, they may have been very similar foils.

Bock and Casas survive another day.

As a kid I was so frustrated I got onto the game late and could only get the pink plastic shades things and not the silver ones.

Maybe if someone other than me voted for him? I even made a case for him too. (I know though. I hate that he went so low. At his best, he's just as charismatic as someone like Eddy).

He gets the indies at least. I am praying to the wrestling gods that Casas vs Hech from last night drops soon.

Oh wait, I found this. But you have to put up with the Patriots. Sorry.

Somewhat off-topic, but seeing this made me wonder if Morton ever worked Eaton in 1991 WCW while Morton was heel and Eaton was babyface. There was only about a 5 month or so overlap there to where this could have happened, but that would have been just so weird to watch, I really hope it happened. This is a fun novelty, though not quite what you're looking for: There's a Eaton/Big Josh vs York Foundation match, but it's Taylor/Rich.

I would be far more sympathetic to this argument if the top 25 wasn't shaping up to be filled with Japanese wrestlers who peaked before 2006. Heck, of all of the wrestlers yet to be listed, I thin there's only 5 (maybe 6) where you can argue their active work since 2006 helps their case. Everybody else has not been active or their work since has almost no bearing (IMO) of their case for GWE. The wrestling didn't change. We changed.

I'm excited to explain my bitchy reasons for ranking Cena at 51 right under Fuerza later this week.

I explained Eaton over Morton (just by a couple of spots) on the pod we did today but I don't think I did a great job at it. I think they're the mirror image of each other. A lot of it comes to the variety of partners creating a sort of compelling illusion of variety to me, the fact that I'm higher than most people on Eaton's babyface work (even if I also probably like Morton's heel work more than most), and the fact that frankly, I think Eaton's physical reactions to everything that happen in the match, good and bad, are almost as good as Morton's selling, with Eaton having the stronger offense. Some of it is footage too since Morton was in the wilderness more. I voted before seeing Morton vs Bock and the Lucas tag, but then Eaton's been helped by Houston footage as well. They're very close.

I had Eaton maybe 40 spots above Condrey and it was a footage issue mainly (and I even like Condrey in his singles run in Continental). I also had him 3 over Santo and I'm happy with that too. I trend lower than a lot of people on Santo. I wasn't at all high on the rudo run save for the first couple of weeks. i think there are lots of footage gaps and it's harder to get a sense of him as a week to week worker than Casas and even Satanico. I think he's more two dimensional than some of the other wrestlers in my top twenty (though those one-two dimensions are amazing). He still ranked high, but I had Eaton just a little higher and and Casas and Satanico significantly higher.

I want to hear Dylan compare/contrast AJPW being forced to push Funk and WWE being forced to push Bryan. Both "The Other."

Welcome aboard. Thanks for coming along and explaining your pick.

I kind of like Santo here, and I had him in my teens. He's one of those pesky "emotional" workers.