Mike Awesome

[Grimmas]

Discuss here.

[InYourCase]

Finding room on my list for him. Towards the bottom, but he'll be on there. One of the few ECW workers that I really enjoy and I dig his FMW run enough to find a spot for him.

[Exposer]

I remember a guy who worked in the dying days of WCW working Ambulance matches then jobbing on Velocity two years later only to show up one other time in an awesome nostalgia match with Masato Tanaka at ECW One Night Stand. To be fair, I've seen a couple of his FMW matches which were entertaining to good, but he's not going to make my list. I suppose I could track down the Tanaka classics from 99 for shits and giggles, but otherwise I can't find a place for him. He was a pretty one dimensional worker who wasn't even the best at his style.

[El McKell]

On 1/15/2016 at 11:14 PM, Exposer said:

 an awesome nostalgia match with Masato Tanaka at ECW One Night Stand.

I think it's interesting that this nostalgia match is actually better than any of the matches they had in the original ECW.

[TheBean]

Probably a bigger Awesome/Gladiator fan than most (see profile pic) but wouldn't make my top 100. He was the best of the B-level gaijin in Japan during the 90's and genuinely had the aura of champion in ECW. It's been awhile since I saw the ONS match but it's not better than stuff he did with Tanaka in 98-99. There's probably touring tag matches w/ Justin Credible vs Tanaka & Jerry Lynn that are fundamentally better than the ONS match. His stuff when he was in AJPW in the early 2000's was good and his Kobashi GHC match was pretty good-great iirc. But yeah, he might be a top 150 but there's others ahead of him.

[Boss Rock]

Not making my ballot but definitely a guy I've always found very cool and fun to watch.