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Scott Steiner as the GOAT, holy shit. I've surprised myself that I've only been the low ranking ballot on a couple guys so far (Chris Adams and Big Show, I believe) but some of the top votes are wild.

Yeah, I noticed the same thing re: crowd interaction and thought it contributed to a hotter crowd than usual, especially during the Women's match where Charlotte was a great heel. Can't have many complaints about that Raw and even the Dr Phil stuff was used in a way that furthered Charlotte as the arrogant, cheating champion which is pretty unusual for WWE's current use of celebrities. I will complain about JBL though, who has managed to strip the heel commentator role of any and all subtlety, wit or charm and has slid completely into obnoxious unlistenability. When you combine it with Saxton's inability to say anything interesting, it becomes readily apparent how good a job Michael Cole does carrying the pair of them.

Has Mando submitted his ballot the wrong way around?

Sleeper candidate from another recent Mania is Sting and HHH's fiasco

I THINK that's all my bottom 10 dropped now but I'm struggling to remember who I placed there. I kind of wish I'd placed Sydal with all this talk about his awesome ECW run but I'm sure that won't be the only regret I have.

When I think of Pat Roach I always think of Bomber spending all his money gambling and in the brothels of Dusseldorf in Auf Wiedersehen Pet! "Bomber likes the ladies does Bomber." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIog8pQ4up0 I swear he was trying to imitate Burt Lancaster. Not going to lie, my deep love for Auf Wiedersehen Pet got Pat Roach on the list, never mind his work.

I cracked up at Honky being 49 on someone's list. Man, I need to see that one. DEAN's list appears to be fucking incredible and needs to be posted after the fact. I believe I had Pat Roach at 97 which means I, also, accidentally clicked the prompt to make myself anonymous so that's on me.

It took Kid Kash to get signed to WWE and work Smackdown a ton before he became a really consistent worker but yeah, watching these X-Division matches is rough. It didn't get consistently decent until Joe, Daniels and Styles were heading it up.

This would be a pretty good podcast topic actually. Just running through old midcard WWE brand split era acts. Seems like enough time has passed for those to be vaguely nostalgic at this point.

I feel like they'd have a woman singing a couple of tunes, in which case, Black Velvet is on there.

Spike was the first of mine to come up. I like little guys that bump around like lunatics and he's the first of my bottom 5 personal picks. I think he might have even been my 99, I can't remember.

I believe the Katie Vick episode of Raw has just been added. Tremendous

Aww, I totally took the "She must have been watching 36 discs of Eddie recently" seriously

I popped for the reveal that Will is selling comps to Sasha Banks

Wish I'd had space for Chris Masters but also pleasantly surprised that nobody in my bottom 5 has popped up yet.

That's an awesome number of ballots, props to everyone involved. Super excited for the run-down and am planning to watch all the recommended matches as I go to give myself some wrestling to watch/rewatch over the next month.

I'm with you. Comes across as a dude trying to unsettle his opponent by looking like a fidgety lunatic

Man, thank God Cena is back. Huge pop too from a crowd that forgot they're supposed to hate him.

Oh, get to the bastard point, Rocky.

Well, that was a grossly unecessary waste of 5 minutes. "Just go out there with a flamethrower, fuck, I don't know"

Well fuck me, that was frightening

Also, why didn't Shane just hit Taker in the head with the bolt cutters?

I am terrified of what Shane is going to do here.

Sasha Banks is totally their next big draw.

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