Top 100 (Predictions, regrets, how many fallen soldiers do you have?, etc..)

[Grimmas]

We are down to the top 100, reveals start on Apirl 18th.

 

 

I have lost 28 great soldiers and I am sad to see them go.

 

 

Seeing Waltman not make the top 100 was pretty sad. I really wanted him to make it, to dispel that myth of X-Pac heat.

 

Carlos Colon was the other sad one to see go, but he did so well compared to 2006.

 

Any predictions? Any thoughts going into the top 100?

[El-P]

34 down. The fact Oz, Takada (although expected), Maeda, Yokota and Kyoko don't make the top 100 seems absurd to me considering some names who are left.

 

I regret voting for my #34.

 

I feel like, apart from a few huge favourites of the last decade (Lawler, both Fujis, Rose), the top 100 will seem pretty conservative compared to the 2006 one.

[Grimmas]

Come on, this list will have Dusty and LA Park. It's better than the 2006 one!

[Ricky Jackson]

58 left. I was sweating at 102 and 101 thinking Bob, Dusty or Roddy were going to fall before the top 100

[JRGoldman]

By my count, I have 41 dead soldiers, and five high votes thus far. My entire top 25 is intact, but I have three people gone from 26-30 and 8 people gone from my top 50.

[Cross Face Chicken Wing]

Who should we nominate as ring announcer to introduce the top 100? The Fink? Gary Michael Capetta?

[Grimmas]

Who will be #100?

[Superstar Sleeze]

My regret losing my smile in regards to wrestling with three months before the deadline of the project. I would have had Fujiwara, Fujinami and Andre on my list. I love wrestling again, but too little too late. C'est la vie.

[El-P]

Come on, this list will have Dusty and LA Park. It's better than the 2006 one!

 

Dusty in the top 100 isn't a good news at all. Neither are Kerry von Erich, Hulk Hogan, Undertaker...

[KB8]

I've lost 34, so roughly two thirds of my top 100 (and my entire top 35) making the overall 100 is..well, it's a thing, and I'm glad those guys/women have stuck around long enough to make it to the big dance.

 

Of those that have fallen off my list, Fuerza, Yoshida and Anjoh are probably the ones I wish had made the top 100 more than any others that have dropped. Fuchi as well, probably. I mean, I would've geeked like a fucking lunatic if Tama and Koko Ware and Hector Guerrero made the overall 100, but I was about 99.9% certain they wouldn't, thus I had no expectations. Part of me knew Yoshida and Anjoh wouldn't either, but I thought Fuchi was almost a lock and...well, Fuerza is one of my three favourite wrestlers ever so I guess I was holding out hope that he wouldn't go down along with the other lucha "fringe" candidates. I see now that I was a fool and the world is forever a glass half empty.

 

Honestly, I'm really happy with my list, at least in terms of ranking guys I felt comfortable enough TO rank. I wish I'd gotten my shit together and dived into WoS and Puerto Rico, because it's not like I never had enough time to, so in that sense it feels like I have glaring omissions that I'll need to rectify if we get around to this once more down the line. But other than that there's really only one guy I kind of regret leaving off, and that's Takada. I'm not a big Takada guy and I wouldn't have had him high, but thinking about the number of Takada matches I'd call great that he himself has been at least good in...yeah, I'll cop to that being an oversight on my part.

[Scarlet-Left]

I made my predictions in the March Madness thread, but I'll add that I think Jack Brisco will be #100.

 

I regret a lot of things; I regret the arbitrary nature of some of my orderings (and that I was unable to consolidate the few separate tracks of workers I was ranking more comfortably), I regret ranking Chris Jericho as high as I did, I regret not watching more footage (as in, not finding this place, and the GWE project, sooner), I regret not making sure all of my favourites were nominated, I regret not participating in the nominee discussions, I regret ranking Kurt Angle higher than Tommy Rich and Rick Martel, I regret ranking Jeff Jarrett higher than Del Wilkes and I regret not ranking Stan Hansen.

 

Here's a full list of my drops:

 

5. Pat Patterson

 

7. Kana

 

8. Lex Luger

 

9. Shinobu Kandori

 

16. Terry Taylor

 

18. Buddy Landell

 

22. Sasha Banks

 

24. Ron Simmons

 

25. Steve Keirn

 

27. Io Shirai

 

29. Alberto Del Rio

 

30. The Rock

 

33. Mariko Yoshida

 

40. Alex Shelley

 

41. Tommy Rich

 

42. Kazuchika Okada

 

44. Austin Aries

 

45. Sting

 

47. Dean Malenko

 

49. Michael Hayes

 

51. Megumi Kudo

 

52. Kenny Omega

 

54. Larry Zybszko

 

56. Doug Williams

 

58. Arisa Nakajima

 

59. Jeff Jarrett

 

61. The Patriot

 

62. Bruno Sammartino

 

63. Edge

 

65. Butch Reed

 

66. Christopher Daniels

 

67. Devil Masami

 

69. Wahoo McDaniel

 

72. Joey Ryan

 

74. Raven

 

75. Mayumi Ozaki

 

76. Jake Roberts

 

79. Shane Douglas

 

80. Jaguar Yokota

 

82. El Mesias

 

83. Adrian Street

 

84. Tiger Mask

 

85. Stan Lane

 

86. Tarzan Goto

 

87. Davey Boy Smith

 

88. James Storm

 

89. Christian

 

90. Matt Sydal

 

91. Bobby Fulton

 

92. Dutch Mantell

 

93. Jay Youngblood

 

94. Jinsei Shinzaki

 

95. Jacques Rougeau

 

96. Lanny Poffo

 

97. Mike Rotunda

 

98. Kevin Sullivan

 

99. Dory Funk, Jr.

[Matt D]

Oh hey, Virus made it.

[El-P]

I just noticed that I voted for Takako Inoue. Who wasn't nominated. That sucks. She was my #60.

[soup23]

26 down for me which means I beat Steven and Parv in having more on my top 100 than them on the overall top 100 rankings. Mission Accomplished. I am also delighted that only three workers in my top 65 have hit so far and only one in my top 49 (Dynamite Kansai).

[GOTNW]

Exactly half of my ballot made the final list.

[bestintheworld3589]

Here is my final list of fallen soldiers who didn't make the Top 100.

Jinsei Shinzaki (100)

John Tenta (99)

Takeshi Morishima (98)

The Big Boss Man (97)

Booker T (96)

One Man Gang (95)

Bobby Heenan (94)

Scott Steiner (93)

The Big Show (92)

Batista (91)

Sean Waltman (90)

Wahoo McDaniel (89)

Randy Orton (87)

Haku (86)

Jerry Lynn (85)

Luke Harper (84)

DDP (83)

Davey Boy Smith (82)

Christian (81)

Jeff Hardy (80)

Homicide (79)

Lex Luger (78)

Raven (75)

KENTA (72)

Rob Van Dam (71)

Chris Hero (68)

Magnum TA (67)

Kevin Steen (66)

Larry Zbyszko (64)

Scott Hall (62)

Sabu (60)

Edge (58)

Low Ki (55)

Kazuchika Okada (54)

Jake Roberts (53)

The Rock (52)

Paul Orndorff (50)

Michael Hayes (46)

Bam Bam Bigelow (43)

Ultimo Dragon (42)

Triple H (39)

Sting (31)

Nigel McGuinness (30)

So that's 43 people knocked off which leaves me with 57 going into the Top 100.

 

[Coffey]

33 down. Excited for the Top 100!

[Jmare007]

25 down, I actually predicted that. Checking my ballot to see how many were still in play, I just realized I forgot to rank Dustin Rhodes, sorry Grimmas

 

I'm still shocked Taker is gonna be this high. Really curious where CM Punk is ranked now, same with AJ Styles and Nakamura.

 

100 is gonna be El Generico.

[Jetlag]

So whait, Brian Pillman has snuck into the Top 100? That sneaky fucker.

[El Dragon]

Personally, just thrilled Joe, Tajiri, and Zayn hot in.

[KrisZ]

I got 78 left on the board.....not bad

[Eegah]

31 down with my highest ranked guy out being Iron Sheik at 44. Still lots left in the list!

[JerryvonKramer]

26 down for me which means I beat Steven and Parv in having more on my top 100 than them on the overall top 100 rankings. Mission Accomplished. I am also delighted that only three workers in my top 65 have hit so far and only one in my top 49 (Dynamite Kansai).

Hold your horses! You still need to get the closest to actual ratings metric.

 

You won one battle but the war ain't over.

[Woof]

Fallen Soldiers:

~70 of my 100 remain, which feels pretty reasonable.

~Of the the other 30, 17 are people I simply couldn't evaluate fairly given my lack of exposure.

Predictions:
~2 Cold Scorpio, Keiji Mutoh, & Yoshihiro Tajiri all fall in the next 10.

~Undertaker falls just outside 75
~Terry Gordy finishes above Steve Williams
~CM Punk and Samoa Joe sneak into the top 50

Regrets:
~not watching enough shootstyle (particularly Tamura)
~not establishing what I wanted my ballot to be before submitting it; too much disconnection when I look at it now
~accidentally opening the "subjective vs objective" can of worms on the reaction thread. Oops.

Etc:

~I've enjoyed the debate, the humor, the ball-busting, the GIF's, the wild out-of-nowhere rankings, all of it really
~Looking forward to dipping my toe into joshi soon based mostly on Charles & Childs' epic podcast which really made me feel like I'm missing something by not getting into it

[Death From Above]

Nobuhiko Takada is the only worker in my top 30 that has fallen, which suggests I am a more boring person than I give myself credit for.