GWE Non-Thread Worthy Comments

[NotJayTabb]

It'll be interesting to see how well the polarizing figures do in the reveal, especially as Grimmas is giving us the breakdown of top 3/top 10/top 25 votes. I suspect the likes of Omega/Ospreay/Moxley will appear on less ballots, but more high votes than the more traditional picks who'll place similarly by getting on more ballots, but less highly. Comparing the breakdown of an Omega vs a Liger for example.

[MoS]

Yes, I am also very interested in seeing where Mox, Omega and Ospreay land finally. 

[Boss Rock]

3 hours ago, MoS said:

I think even if we run that poll now here, Reigns will win handily. Mox is quite polarizing on the board while Roman is generally very well-liked. But yes, I do think that generally, Mox has seen an upsurge of appreciation while Roman has come for more criticism in the last few years, at least from what I have seen on Twitter and the GWE discord, even though Mox's last world title reign got a lot more criticism than the last couple of years of Roman's mega-run with the world title.

I think Mox regained a lot of goodwill near the tail-end of the Death Riders run in the build-up to and match with Page. Shortly after that he dropped a lot of the repeated interference and went back to his usual style, just in time for the Continental Classic which he had a great run in.

[TheBean]

Awesome Akira Hokuto pic - she is such a badass 😋

One of the few from my top 10-15 that did as well as thought they "deserved."

Hoping that more recent wrestling fans are finding all kinds of old school wrestlers to watch from the GWE list. I feel like 1980-90's wrestlers in the #26-100 range (at least) are due more attention by younger fans in the next 10 years.

[club]

There was talk on here before the results started to drop of Tenryu being a top 3 candidate. Based on how people voted for older Japanese stars I can't see Tenryu being on over 75% of ballots. So even with an average placing on those ballots of say #15, his ceiling would be around 30-31k (481 x 0.75 x 85 = 30663.75).

A wrestler on 90% of ballots would only need to be in the top 25 to comfortably beat this (481 x 0.9 x 75 = 32467.5). 

So I think you'll see Flair, Funk, Bryan, Kobashi, Misawa, Rey, Austin and maybe Tanahashi ahead of him.

[Boss Rock]

Starting to reckon with Tenryu dropping this round as well, which would pretty much put him where he was in 2016.

[TheBean]

On 5/18/2026 at 12:46 PM, Grimmas said:

That was my original idea... I'll see if I can make it work for areas and time started watching once the full list is revealed.

Thanks again for sorting the data by "started viewing" & thanks for your hard work in general 🙂

[conker8]

Thanks for your hard work !

[Ricky Jackson]

Thanks Grimmas! Great work

[ohtani's jacket]

Wow, I did not see that coming. Dylan won after all those years. 

i like that I can’t relate to anyone from any era. 

[Matt D]

7 minutes ago, ohtani's jacket said:

Wow, I did not see that coming. Dylan won after all those years. 

i like that I can’t relate to anyone from any era. 

Hey, we're all way better off for having you as part of the community. Keep doing what you're doing. 

[ohheylook]

36 minutes ago, ohtani's jacket said:

Wow, I did not see that coming. Dylan won after all those years. 

i like that I can’t relate to anyone from any era. 

I'll say over the 10+ years I've been viewing PWO and the GWE section and everything, you've probably had the biggest impact on my taste - especially as far as stuff I wouldn't likely have found without you sooooo, we can relate to you.

[Microstatistics]

Joshi of all eras did great this time but one wrestler that fell by the wayside was Giulia. I hope the booking hell doesn't make people forget about her prime and general ability.

[ohtani's jacket]

11 hours ago, ohheylook said:

I'll say over the 10+ years I've been viewing PWO and the GWE section and everything, you've probably had the biggest impact on my taste - especially as far as stuff I wouldn't likely have found without you sooooo, we can relate to you.

Thanks, fellas. 

[TRMD]

15 hours ago, ohtani's jacket said:

Wow, I did not see that coming. Dylan won after all those years. 

i like that I can’t relate to anyone from any era. 

Sorry to bother, but what’s the context here?

[ohtani's jacket]

6 hours ago, TRMD said:

Sorry to bother, but what’s the context here?

There was a podcast in 2016 where Charles, Will and Dylan (Hales/Waco) argued for Flair vs. Lawler vs. Funk.

[TRMD]

48 minutes ago, ohtani's jacket said:

There was a podcast in 2016 where Charles, Will and Dylan (Hales/Waco) argued for Flair vs. Lawler vs. Funk.

That’s exactly what I thought. What a throwback.

[Scarletlikesounds]

BTW, has anyone really considered Dick The Bruiser? He's become one of my favorite wrestlers ever since voting, he has probably the best Gagne match ive ever seen and everything else ive seen of him has been consistently great, not only is he one of the best brawlers of all time but he has such incredible crowd work and facial expressions, by the 70s hes a wrestler who feels like he's really wrestling so that everybody up in the rafters could be just as invested in what was going on, even in a tiny studio setting.

[Ricky Jackson]

I ranked Bruiser, his stuff with Baba in the 60s and 70s is particularly great

[EnviousStupid]

I didn't consider Bruiser and had seen only a handful of matches from him before submitting my ballot. Like with a couple other nominees now, I blew it not voting for him. Awesome example of the big tough brawling archetype, whether a dastardly villain or the hero kicking ass. 

[ohtani's jacket]

Dick the Bruiser is okay, but I can guarantee that Gagne gave you the best Bruiser match you've seen. 

[Tetsujin]

I was looking at the overall list, and it intrigues me that figures like Harley Race or Dynamite Kid, who did really well on 2006, still made the list on 2016 but far lower, and not even close to the top 100 in 2026. They both seem like very well regarded pro wrestlers in ring, but it looks like not so much as time passes. They're far less bullet proof than other contemporary guys like Fujinami, Robinson, Baba or whoever. Why would that be the case? Harley in particular interests me the most, as he's a big figure in late 70s-early 80s (the biggest, maybe?) and has a lot of material on tape.

[El McKell]

As an anti-Harley Race person I think there's a certain amount of people don't enjoying watching him get beat up for 90% of the match in most of his matches. And I think he doesn't have the matches that get recommended by taste makers like Baba, Robinson or Fujinami. His best opponent was probably Flair, but his most high profile Flair match fucking sucked. There's not a great 5 match sampler of Harley Race matches that'll get someone seeking more when they're starting to look into wrestling from that era.

[Matt D]

3 hours ago, El McKell said:

As an anti-Harley Race person I think there's a certain amount of people don't enjoying watching him get beat up for 90% of the match in most of his matches. And I think he doesn't have the matches that get recommended by taste makers like Baba, Robinson or Fujinami. His best opponent was probably Flair, but his most high profile Flair match fucking sucked. There's not a great 5 match sampler of Harley Race matches that'll get someone seeking more when they're starting to look into wrestling from that era.

I always suggest people watch the Jumbo test series from the 70s and how hard everything is worked vs Verne, Funk, and Robinson and then how everything is given away for free by Harley. 

[Ricky Jackson]

Harley really shines in 1982-83 WCCW, first as the mini boss to Flair's final boss for Kerry, then when he comes back in 83 as NWA champ. Some of my fave Harley matches