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Villano IV is also super underrated.

 

Agreed - as I was the other V4 vote. Danny is a better man than me.

 

Heck - I was actually surprised to see that I had him at 85. I didn't realize he had drifted up that high.

 

I have a huge pro-Villano bias so I admit to that but I love me some bloody lucha brawlers.

 

Plus he got bonus points for having to deal with Bischoff's nonsense and having that Nitro moment where he got Hogan to back away from him.

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Kevin Nash being anywhere near Mima Shimoda on a list like this, let alone tied, is just tragic. She was one of the last ones I unfortunately had to cut. One of the all time great tag workers.

Let's not forget that it's all subjective. ;)

 

 

Oh, I'm so gonna need that reasoning for one or two of my spots later on :D

 

Still, regarding Nash... I just don't focus on someone ranking him close to #50, but only look at his final placement at #405. I guess I could live with putting him there on my own list...

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Come on, we don't know who the mystery man is already ?

 

Fine pic of Norton. Why the hell anyone vote for him, that's another mystery.

 

Arisa Nakajima is one joshi worker I know nothing about. Blame my total lack of knowledge past 2002 or so. So, interesting to see her get some votes.

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Damn ! Jinzaki at 400. He was my #100 in 2006. He got bumped ahead to #97 this time around, mostly because I wanted to add some people on the lower spots and I got rid of a few ones I couldn't vote for anymore. Smooth as a cat. His FMW stint remains one of my favourite.

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That Hakushi pic is fuuuuucking great. I don't think I'm going to come out the other end of this project without an avatar for once.

 

Jerry Estrada was mine. And of course I was the high vote (only three names from my ballot have dropped so far and I've been the high vote on all three). I'm an unashamed mark for the guy who is OJ's least favourite wrestler of all time. A sleazy, coked up headcase of a pro-wrestler who will eat a tope by going six rows deep into the fixed seats, before crawling out from under the debris like Alice Cooper's zombie doppelgänger. Underrated title match worker and someone I always enjoy in apuestas because he constantly looks like he's on death's door because he probably is.

 

Side note: about five pictures in the countdown thread so far haven't shown up properly for me, and three of them are guys I voted for. Maybe someone's trying to tell me something.

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That Hakushi pic is fuuuuucking great. I don't think I'm going to come out the other end of this project without an avatar for once.

 

We should probably just make everybody change their avatar to the pic of the lowest ranked guy they were high voter on. Scarlet letter the shit out of this place and shame everyone. It would be glorious.

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This round's Smarkschoice '06 rankings:

102) Mima Shimoda - 498 Points (PWO: #405)
183) Jerry Estrada – 155 Points (PWO: #432)
199) El Canek – 123 Points (PWO: #426)
232) Jackie Sato – 79 Points (PWO: #414)
236) Pete Roberts – 75 Points (PWO: #449)
240) Chikayo Nagashima – 72 Points (PWO: #448)
260) Mike Rotundo – 56 Points (PWO: #414)
279) Tom Pritchard – 37 Points (PWO: #423)
308) Mistico – 70 Points (PWO: #433)
333) Bison Kimura – 39 Points (PWO: #420)
337) Combat Toyoda – 36 Points (PWO: #430)
339) Scott Norton – 34 Points (PWO: #404)
354) Dream Machine – 23 Points (PWO: #438)
358) Gedo – 21 Points (PWO: 438)
364) Robert Gibson – 19 Points (PWO: #457)
378) Ikuto Hidaka – 15 Points (PWO: #446)
382) Pat Roach – 14 Points (PWO: #431)
392) Dragon Kid – 11 Points (PWO: #458)
406) Chavo Guerrero Jr – 8 Points (PWO: #414)
407) Tatsuo Nakano – 8 Points (PWO: #408)
434) The Sandman – 3 Points (PWO: #427)
435) Villano IV - 2 points (PWO: #433)

Shimoda becomes the worker who’s fallen the furthest by far. (Prior to that it was Javier Cruz, down from his SC '06 ranking of #130.) Clearly 90s Joshi was a big deal on SC at the time, and probably less so here.

I was the #95 vote on Jackie Sato: first person from my list to appear. That white suit is on point. She’s been a revelation in the late 70s/early 80s Joshi that I’ve seen. Such a fun, badass, surprisingly stiff and fast-paced style, and even with a run of only five years she felt like the ace of that place. She was always on my list but varied b/w #90-100 throughout.

The lucha slide continues with Estrada and Canek. My hope/suspicion is that it’s not that lucha overall will do poorly on PWO’s list, just that different guys are being valued now/then and that Youtube exposure has changed the game. Estrada, no stranger to big bumps of all varieties, was hit hardest. Him and Canek were about 100-200 spots higher than the rest of this pack back then, so they two more big drops this round.

Pete Roberts also fell: I like that him and Nagashima remained coincidentally really close together on both lists.

Tatsuo Nakano wins “Closest Ranking B/W Both Lists” so far, which feels right for his persona. Awesome, awesome shoot style JTTS who was in my #101-110 range.

I believe America’s favorite surfer The Sandman becomes the first worker whose ranking straight up improved in the last decade - up five spots from the bottom of both lists. Villano IV also falls under the list of guys whose status improved (much higher rankings over 2 ballots rather than 1).

There was of course only a singles list at SC, so you may see more tag workers or tag work enhancing someone’s case back then (see Gibson, but likely also eventually see guys like Taue or Eaton).

No votes in ’06 for Aoyagi, Jim Brunzell, Ian Rotten, Hector Guerrero, Jimmy Golden, or Little Guido is bad. Even back then they should have known better. (Keeping in mind that I didn’t vote for them either.) I feel like Ron Starr wasn’t that well known back then, but he applies too.

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I would do that already if the Tama pic worked......

 

(EDIT: in response to Woof, obviously. EDIT 2: actually there is no Tama pic because the folk who finished lower than 500 don't even get one)

 

May I suggest...

 

tongaKid.jpg

 

The original Funkasaurus.

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That Hakushi pic is fuuuuucking great. I don't think I'm going to come out the other end of this project without an avatar for once.

 

We should probably just make everybody change their avatar to the pic of the lowest ranked guy they were high voter on. Scarlet letter the shit out of this place and shame everyone. It would be glorious.

 

 

This is absolutely brilliant. Would happily put Teranishi as my avatar. So far him and Reigns are the only 2 on my list to pop up. As much as I don't love ranking Reigns at this stage, he was half of 2 classics and that's not something I could simply dismiss.

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We should probably just make everybody change their avatar to the pic of the lowest ranked guy they were high voter on. Scarlet letter the shit out of this place and shame everyone. It would be glorious.

By ranked, do you mean only those who get into the top one hundred?

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We should probably just make everybody change their avatar to the pic of the lowest ranked guy they were high voter on. Scarlet letter the shit out of this place and shame everyone. It would be glorious.

By ranked, do you mean only those who get into the top one hundred?

 

 

No, I mean the lowest guy overall. So get to preppin' that Lanny Poffo avatar, Scarlet-Left. ;-)

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I would do that already if the Tama pic worked......

(EDIT: in response to Woof, obviously. EDIT 2: actually there is no Tama pic because the folk who finished lower than 500 don't even get one)

 

May I suggest...tongaKid.jpg

The original Funkasaurus.

Done!

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We should probably just make everybody change their avatar to the pic of the lowest ranked guy they were high voter on. Scarlet letter the shit out of this place and shame everyone. It would be glorious.

By ranked, do you mean only those who get into the top one hundred?

 

No, I mean the lowest guy overall. So get to preppin' that Lanny Poffo avatar, Scarlet-Left. ;-)

 

Done!
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That Hakushi pic is fuuuuucking great. I don't think I'm going to come out the other end of this project without an avatar for once.

 

We should probably just make everybody change their avatar to the pic of the lowest ranked guy they were high voter on. Scarlet letter the shit out of this place and shame everyone. It would be glorious.

 

 

That's a great idea......unless you're me.....the guy who's the high voter on someone who played a pro-apartheid gimmick.

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That Hakushi pic is fuuuuucking great. I don't think I'm going to come out the other end of this project without an avatar for once.

 

We should probably just make everybody change their avatar to the pic of the lowest ranked guy they were high voter on. Scarlet letter the shit out of this place and shame everyone. It would be glorious.

 

 

That's a great idea......unless you're me.....the guy who's the high voter on someone who played a pro-apartheid gimmick.

 

 

You're right. Then its the best idea ever. Let's make PWO great again.

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Really surprised that Roman Reigns was on 6 ballots, i know it's not actually very many really; but it feels like a lot. 4% of the ballots, is that a lot?

Most of the pictures are like ridiculous, but Jackie Sato is just her looking suave as hell.

I'm not changing my avatar to Mistico, I just switched to Knives Chau like a week ago

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