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Do we know when this was from?

Styles is very high on the list of wrestlers I don't want to actually give a fair shake but that I will anyway for the sake of this.

Check out his stuff vs Abdullah if you haven't already. I really need to watch this tag: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9RxPjoOj3I I'll be honest in that I haven't watched the long Inoki match either. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1oT-YtmHdI He's someone where we have enough footage to know he is really, really good, but I'm not sure we have enough footage to see him in enough situations. I see matches as learning opportunities, not necessarily notches on the belt. With Robinson, we can learn a ton, but I'm not sure if we can learn all that we have to.

Before this is all said and done, I'm going to break down a lot of Bryan matches. I enjoy him a lot but I think people are giving him passes on things in certain areas that they would never give to other people.

Johnny Sorrow is the Doc Brown of pro wrestling.

I would have absolutely no problem with Robinson ending up on people's top tens. His 1980 match with Bockwinkel is one of my favorite of all time and he has a ton of other good stuff. Of course one thing that came out of the Melzter bio of him recently was the sheer, painful realization of how much of his most classic runs we'll never see.

i still think he has flaws in what I've seen (even in the match below where it's downright crazy that he'd keep using knee-based offense even if his selling is amazing) but he'll definitely make my list. Just watch the performance here.

Yeah, I was going to watch Angle vs Henry but ended up watching this insanely fun Santo trios match from 94 instead. I'll get to it.

I've got something I need to write about him soon but it'll only be tangentially related to this project. I think it will highlight a couple of pros and cons though.

One thing I will say is that I haven't seen the match for a year and a half so i can't say definitively on this one. From what I remember and my write up it definitely bugged me at the time.

Will,you of all people would be the one I'd think would get frustrated when they went to comedy right following the awesome super heated punching that they'd been building to all match began. I wanted another couple of minutes of that instead.

I thought The Mongolian Stomper was some sort of Stampede super draw, no?

Not a lot of time right now, but here's one. http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/18155-dick-murdoch/?view=findpost&p=5530450 It's a match worth watching but it is frustrating

Isn't Angle in because he made a bunch of self-conscious carnies feel more legitimate?

He was in my #s: 8, 10, 15, 19, 25, and 29 AWA matches. For what that's worth.

I have to revisit a lot of Austin from that era. I haven't seen a ton of 98-01 since it first happened and I really wasn't hotwired to appreciate brawls as a teenager.

Has anyone watched the RR Benoit match lately? That's something I was at live. It was universally loved at the time. Some of the 2001 Austin series were universally loved as well. This stuff probably needs to be revisited. The Cena debut match. Some of the Lesnar series for both guys. Smackdown six stuff. There's a decent amount that needs to be looked at, I guess. I'm not going to be doing it though, not unless people who aren't already praising him come back with pretty universal praise. I think people need to look at the Henry match from 2006 and see if it's bad as Meltzer thinks (and he fully blames Henry of course). Actually, I've never seen it. I need to look at that match and I will.

Hey, I'm having fun at least. I can't speak for Parv, but this is probably what he lives for. I'm not going to push for Sting. Why? Because everytime I see his name the orchestral Crow Sting music comes into my head for an hour and I can't deal with that right now.

Is there a dumber wrestler out there when it comes to the art of pro wrestling? RVD was just high and apathetic. Sid had the general sense of what he was supposed to do. He just couldn't do it. Someone list me some names.

Doink and Hennig had two inconclusive matches on Syndi shows to lead to the Raw match, if I'm not mistaken. It was for KOTR entry. The Yoko match late in the year is fun too. None of these are groundbreaking or anything but I do think they help his case more than hurt it.

The Doink match was part of a 3 part series. This is probably more fun though. We can post matches here right? http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdk720_bret-hart-mr-perfect-vs-lex-luger-r_sport

What do you think about his 93? To me, that's easily the most interesting year of his post-AWA career.

My only concern in this is that it might make us downplay individual wrestlers who were consistently great in tag teams.

See, wasn't that fun, Parv?

For many years, he did what he was supposed to, did it well, and had effective results in achieving what he was trying to do. There's something to that certainly. I think he also did it soundly for the most part. His matches are internally consistent. Some of them (vs Hogan, vs Berzerker, vs Yoko) can be pretty good, but maybe someone else could have found a far more interesting way to achieve the same results.