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Post by club on Jul 22, 2022 13:59:43 GMT -5
My current Top 40 1 Genichiro Tenryu 2 Terry Funk 3 Akira Hokuto 4 Jim Breaks 5 Jaguar Yokota 6 Bret Hart 7 Chigusa Nagayo 8 Shinya Hashimoto 9 El Hijo del Santo 10 Ricky Steamboat 11 Kiyoshi Tamura 12 Yoshiaki Fujiwara 13 Randy Savage 14 Jushin Thunder Liger 15 Mitsuharu Misawa 16 Shinobu Kandori 17 Stan Hansen 18 Hiroshi Tanahashi 19 El Satanico 20 Marty Jones 21 Toshiaki Kawada 22 Riki Choshu 23 Nick Bockwinkel 24 Negro Casas 25 Tatsumi Fujinami 26 Steve Grey 27 Mayumi Ozaki 28 Antonio Inoki 29 Ric Flair 30 Bull Nakano 31 Dump Matsumoto 32 Keiji Muto 33 Johnny Saint 34 Kenta Kobashi 35 Yuji Nagata 36 William Regal 37 Tommy Rich 38 Eddie Guerrero 39 Billy Robinson 40 Akira Maeda Based this off people I've seen a lot of recently. Will have changed by next week
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Post by elliott on Jul 22, 2022 14:29:39 GMT -5
I reallly gotta watch more Marty Jones
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Post by club on Jul 22, 2022 14:45:02 GMT -5
Have you seen his title v title match with Rocco?
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Post by elliott on Jul 22, 2022 15:47:59 GMT -5
Yep! That one is awesome.
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Post by KB8 on Jul 22, 2022 16:35:58 GMT -5
Basically all of the World of Sport/Joint Promotions guys are on my Need to Watch list for 2026.
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Post by elliott on Jul 22, 2022 16:40:21 GMT -5
I'm saving them for 2046
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Post by kas on Jul 22, 2022 17:58:41 GMT -5
A very rough top 50, I still have a lot of people I need to dive into
1 Hiroshi Tanahashi 2 Manami Toyota 3 Akira Hokuto 4 Kenta Kobashi 5 Daniel Bryan/Bryan Danielson 6 Kazuchika Okada 7 Mitsuharu Misawa 8 Bret Hart 9 Toshiaki Kawada 10 Stan Hansen 11 AJ Styles 12 Terry Funk 13 Rey Mysterio 14 Bull Nakano 15 Shawn Michaels 16 Tomohiro Ishii 17 Devil Masami 18 Eddie Guerrero 19 Aja Kong 20 Akira Taue 21 Kota Ibushi 22 Kenny Omega 23 Genichiro Tenryu 24 Jushin Liger 25 Jumbo Tsuruta 26 Shinobu Kandori 27 Shingo Takagi 28 Mayumi Ozaki 29 Masaaki Mochizuki 30 Shinya Hashimoto 31 Jun Akiyama 32 Chigusa Nagayo 33 Katsuyori Shibata 34 Megumi Kudo 35 Kana/Asuka 36 Arisa Nakajima 37 Mick Foley 38 Meiko Satomura 39 Chris Hero 40 Vader 41 Io Shirai 42 Kiyoshi Tamura 43 Steve Austin 44 Randy Savage 45 Takumi Iroha 46 Kyoko Inoue 47 Tetsuya Naito 48 Mayu Iwatani 49 WALTER 50 Volk Han
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Post by makaiclub on Jul 23, 2022 17:47:36 GMT -5
- Toshiaki Kawada
- Kenta Kobashi
- Genichiro Tenryu
- Mitsuharu Misawa
- Tatsumi Fujinami
- Stan Hansen
- Shinya Hashimoto
- Kiyoshi Tamura
- Ric Flair
- Kazuchika Okada
- Riki Choshu
- Bret Hart
- Brock Lesnar
- Terry Funk
- Hiroshi Tanahashi
- Stone Cold Steve Austin
- Volk Han
- Akira Maeda
- Ricky Steamboat
- Yoshiaki Fujiwara
- Antonio Inoki
- Nick Bockwinkel
- Jun Akiyama
- Akira Taue
- Hiroshi Hase
- Kota Ibushi
- Rey Mysterio
- Chris Benoit
- Masaaki Mochizuki
- Jushin Thunder Liger
I'm comfortable with this top 30. Placements may change but the names will likely stay.
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Post by mvz on Jul 24, 2022 10:00:22 GMT -5
Great lists! Here's where I am with my top 50 at the moment. There are a couple of Japanese and Lucha names that are notable by their absence, in those cases I probably just haven't seen enough to feel comfortable ranking or am just not sure where they belong even after watching a fair bit. So this is fluid, but here goes:
1. Akira Hokuto 2. Terry Funk 3. Stan Hansen 4. Bull Nakano 5. Jerry Lawler 6. Tatsumi Fujinami 7. El Hijo Del Santo 8. Kiyoshi Tamura 9. Ric Flair 10. Nick Bockwinkel 11. Randy Savage 12. Jim Breaks 13. Chigusa Nagayo 14. Genichiro Tenryu 15. Devil Masami 16. Roddy Piper 17. Kenta Kobashi 18. Vader 19. Volk Han 20. Ricky Steamboat 21. Bret Hart 22. Jaguar Yokota 23. Buddy Rose 24. Buddy Rogers 25. Ricky Morton 26. Kana/Asuka 27. Shinya Hashimoto 28. Greg Valentine 29. Tully Blanchard 30. Meiko Satomura 31. Bobby Eaton 32. Eddie Guerrero 33. Fritz Von Erich 34. Mayumi Ozaki 35. William Regal 36. Dick Murdoch 37. Rey Mysterio Jr. 38. Carlos Colon 39. Manami Toyota 40. Shinobu Kandori 41. Wahoo McDaniel 42. Sasha Banks 43. Steve Grey 44. Dump Matsumoto 45. Jushin Liger 46. Antonio Inoki 47. Jumbo Tsuruta 48. Sgt Slaughter 49. Bob Backlund 50. Sangre Chicana
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Post by silverwidow on Jul 24, 2022 12:44:15 GMT -5
There are a couple of Japanese and Lucha names that are notable by their absence I was really surprised to see Negro Casas missing from your list. He's a #1 contender for me.
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Post by mvz on Jul 24, 2022 14:07:41 GMT -5
Yeah, I am sure he will be on my final list, I just haven't seen enough to assess him vs these names; I am sure he will be on it at the end.
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Post by KB8 on Aug 18, 2022 13:36:17 GMT -5
I plugged 150 names into that Preference Revealer thing elliot posted on the previous page and sat for like an hour picking between every pairing it threw at me. I mostly went with my gut and didn't spend too long thinking about anything, but on the whole it came out not too different from what I'd have as a top 100 if I were to submit a ballot today.
1. Negro Casas 2. Genichiro Tenryu 3. Kiyoshi Tamura 4. Yoshiaki Fujiwara 5. Terry Funk 6. Satanico 7. Stan Hansen 8. Shinya Hashimoto 9. El Dandy 10. Eddie Guerrero 11. Yuki Ishikawa 12. Jerry Lawler 13. Buddy Rose 14. Nick Bockwinkel 15. Daisuke Ikeda 16. Mitsuharu Misawa 17. Rey Mysterio 18. El Hijo del Santo 19. Volk Han 20. Bryan Danielson 21. Randy Savage 22. Shinobu Kandori 23. Tatsumi Fujinami 24. Sangre Chicana 25. Tully Blanchard 26. Dick Murdoch 27. Mariko Yoshida 28. Ricky Morton 29. Fuerza Guerrera 30. Riki Choshu 31. Pirata Morgan 32. Toshiaki Kawada 33. Takeshi Ono 34. Ricky Steamboat 35. Virus 36. Blue Panther 37. Steve Austin 38. Arn Anderson 39. Ric Flair 40. Kenta Kobashi 41. Barry Windham 42. Rick Martel 43. Bobby Eaton 44. Naoki Sano 45. Yoji Anjoh 46. Roddy Piper 47. Aja Kong 48. Jumbo Tsuruta 49. Bill Dundee 50. Vader 51. MS-1 52. Dick Togo 53. Dustin Rhodes 54. LA Park 55. Bret Hart 56. Alexander Otsuka 57. Mocho Cota 58. Akira Hokuto 59. Rick Rude 60. Greg Valentine 61. Tito Santana 62. Shawn Michaels 63. Yoshihiro Takayama 64. Jun Akiyama 65. Hector Guerrero 66. La Fiera 67. Invader I 68. Jim Duggan 69. Low-Ki 70. Akira Maeda 71. Necro Butcher 72. Jushin Liger 73. Butch Reed 74. Michael Hayes 75. Atlantis 76. Sgt. Slaughter 77. Emilio Charles Jr. 78. John Cena 79. Finlay 80. Chavo Guerrero Sr. 81. Black Terry 82. Buzz Sawyer 83. Austin Aries 84. William Regal 85. Akira Taue 86. Tarzan Goto 87. Yoshihisa Yamamoto 88. Koko Ware 89. Negro Navarro 90. Jerry Estrada 91. Samoa Joe 92. Bob Backlund 93. Chris Benoit 94. Jose Lothario 95. Andre the Giant 96. Kazuo Yamazaki 97. CM Punk 98. Billy Robinson 99. Yoshihiro Tajiri 100. Tsuyoshi Kohsaka
Some are too high, some are too low, some are missing because I somehow forgot to include them in the list of one hundred and fifty fucking names (Kazunari Murakami, Masa Kurisu, Tama, Pierroth Jr., Yumi Ikeshita to name but a few). That top 5 feels like it'll be my top 5 for real, if potentially not in that exact order.
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Post by elliott on Aug 18, 2022 17:38:52 GMT -5
Swap Kawada out for Austin Idol and that's a great list
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Post by mattsdmf on Feb 14, 2023 13:54:08 GMT -5
Using that preference revealer (which is amazing), here is my Top 100: Bryan Danielson Terry Funk Kenta Kobashi Negro Casas Randy Savage Mitsuharu Misawa Toshiaki Kawada Jushin Liger Akira Hokuto Bret Hart El Satanico Blue Panther Nick Bockwinkel Shinobu Kandori Kiyoshi Tamura Stan Hansen Aja Kong El Hijo del Santo El Dandy Eddie Guerrero Manami Toyota Jun Akiyama Samoa Joe Akira Taue Steve Austin Jon Moxley Kenny Omega Jumbo Tsuruta Rey Mysterio Jr. Shinsuke Nakamura Brock Lesnar Sangre Chicana Minoru Suzuki William Regal Yuki Ishikawa Vader The Undertaker CM Punk Atlantis Kazuchika Okada Ric Flair Volk Han Greg Valentine Chris Hero Marty Jones Yumiko Hotta Arn Anderson Naoki Sano Jim Breaks Dustin Rhodes KENTA Buddy Rose Steve Williams Dump Matsumoto Hiroshi Tanahashi Low Ki Terry Gordy Bobby Eaton Bull Nakano Giant Baba Roddy Piper Jay Briscoe Ricky Morton Daisuke Ikeda Sasha Banks Yoshiaki Fujiwara WALTER Billy Robinson AJ Styles Barry Windham Chigusa Nagayo Tsuyoshi Kohsaka Gilbert Cesca Lioness Asuka Ron Garvin Owen Hart Chris Jericho Andre the Giant LA Park MS-1 Naomichi Marufuji Sting Ricky Steamboat Johnny Saint Eddie Kingston Nobuhiko Takada Kerry Von Erich Genichiro Tenryu Virus Shinya Hashimoto Tully Blanchard Steve Grey Mayumi Ozaki Espanto Jr. John Cena Ted DiBiase Jake Roberts Negro Navarro Mick Foley Dynamite Kansai
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Post by silverwidow on Feb 14, 2023 15:19:30 GMT -5
Awesome top 20. The only worker who I don't really dig is Panther. Everyone else is fantastic.
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