Matt D

I kept falling asleep during the Chavo vs Fujinami match. I gave up on that idea back in August. I have a loose plan to get the NJPW DVDVR 80s set AFTER the deadline though. I can only get so much familiarity between now and the deadline and I'm focusing on the last set of lucha guys I really need to work out (Solar, Villano III, Perro, Sr. Navarro, Black Terry, etc) and the WoS guys (Breaks, Grey, Cortez, Collins, etc), plus the few US guys I have a problem ranking (Vader, for instance).

I may have Mr. Saito for Japan.

Honestly? I have no idea. Almost all of them look interesting but I don't have the time to delve deep. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Th5H5_S4zGyHhRjNBzAcBN0SxJ-WiRkc2VHGWySArGA/edit?usp=sharing There. 60+ matches. It took me 15 mins to put together. Have at it.

There are a ton of Eaton singles matches from 90-99 on youtube, but a lot of them are

It's an opportunity for added narrative richness. It's just that some people can make their own opportunities.

And how many PR people will make your list, do you think? Roughly? I'm trying to decide where best to focus my last couple of months. PR was a place I was considering.

Outside of Hansen, Invader #1 is your top PR guy, Dylan?

Bock on all the metrics too.

I will consider influence, but only when it comes to my general level of frustration on 2015 internet message boards.

Isn't there a major tag team on that scene that is named after him?

No idea. But it's both feasible and interesting.

You can vote on whatever you want but keep in mind the rest of us are voting in ring, pretty much to a person, making your ballot a different language and not entirely translatable.

Really, the Davey Richards conundrum is the way to go.

The word "handicap" tends to be a very tricky thing in this process.

My SC review of Cota vs Casas:

Why can't I find the Lord Alfred Hayes teaches Sensational Sherri manners skit from one of the Coliseum videos online?

By fall 1991, when they'd worked it for 6 months, I'd give the Davey Boy Smith matches a solid 2.5 stars.

Funks vs Zenk/Martel is one of my favorite matches of all time. He might be my 17th favorite TV champ?

This is what I posted in the nomination thread: I feel like we need to nominate Ultimo Guerrero even if just to dismiss him. He's been a part of too many great matches over decades, someone who's highs are higher than a huge chunk of people nominated, but whose lows can be extremely low as well. SC review by Phil/Eric on his hair match vs Rey Escorpion (2015): http://segundacaida....ear-list_3.html GdI vs Casas/Santo by me (2001) http://segundacaida....rno-12-rey.html SC review by me on Wagner, Guerrero, Euforia vs Casas, Mistico, Sombra (2007). http://segundacaida....-wagner-jr.html Singles from 2015. Trios from 2007. Tag from 2001. All really good matches and performances by UG. There's something to that. If only he wasn't so crummy in his singles title matches over the years.

Are you sure it wasn't just Baron Corbin?

It is funny since the Stampede stuff was the only footage that was new to us at least in part.

I have a lot of VIII watching to do still.

Yeah, Stampede isn't coming back anytime soon. Dave talked about it today. Bret contacted Vince and apparently said he might have to sue and Vince said he'd take care of things and did.

I shouldn't post this until I think about it more. There is Hansen who can build up that capital over years and pay it off at key moments, maybe even years down the line. There are other wrestlers who can keep their capital and cash it in each and every match that they are in. Maybe it's not quite as meaningful but it's still extremely meaningful and it doesn't take a decade of steamrolling guys to make it work. So even if it is intentional (and I will entertain the idea that at this point of his career, as opposed to ten years earlier, it was), there's a potential "Yes, but.." involved.

I echo everyone's else sentiments. Fight. We're thinking of you and yours. We'll toss wrestling your way if you need or want it.