NL's 2020 Ballot
Aug 20, 2020 16:39:02 GMT -5
Post by nintendologic on Aug 20, 2020 16:39:02 GMT -5
So I decided to participate after all. I used the rankings from my recent rewatching project as my starting point. I then reviewed the matches whose rankings struck me as incongruously high or low and adjusted accordingly. I haven't officially submitted it yet, but I'm 99.999% sure this is what it will look like. I'll edit this post if I make any changes.
1. Mitsuharu Misawa/Kenta Kobashi vs. Toshiaki Kawada/Akira Taue (AJPW, 6/9/95)
2. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW, 6/3/94)
3. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Kenta Kobashi (AJPW, 1/20/97)
4. Akira Hokuto vs. Shinobu Kandori (AJW, 4/2/93)
5. Stan Hansen vs. Kenta Kobashi (AJPW, 7/29/93)
6. Bret Hart vs. Steve Austin (WWF, 3/23/97)
7. Mitsuharu Misawa/Kenta Kobashi vs. Toshiaki Kawada/Akira Taue (AJPW, 12/3/93)
8. Mitsuharu Misawa/Toshiaki Kawada/Kenta Kobashi vs. Jumbo Tsuruta/Akira Taue/Masanobu Fuchi (AJPW, 10/19/90)
9. Jumbo Tsuruta/Genichiro Tenryu vs. Riki Choshu/Yoshiaki Yatsu (AJPW, 1/28/86)
10. Bret Hart vs. Steve Austin (WWF, 11/17/96)
11. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Akira Taue (AJPW, 4/15/95)
12. Kenta Kobashi vs. Yoshihiro Takayama (NOAH, 4/25/04)
13. Eddie Guerrero vs. Rey Mysterio Jr. (WCW, 10/26/97)
14. Ric Flair vs. Terry Funk (WCW, 7/23/89)
15. Vader vs. Sting (WCW, 12/28/92)
16. Stan Hansen/Terry Gordy vs. Genichiro Tenryu/Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW, 12/16/88)
17. Shawn Michaels vs. Mankind (WWF, 9/22/96)
18. Vader vs. Sting (WCW, 7/12/92)
19. Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat (WCW, 4/2/89)
20. Jerry Lawler vs. Bill Dundee (Memphis, 6/6/83)
21. MS-1 vs. Sangre Chicana (EMLL, 9/23/83)
22. Midnight Rockers vs. Buddy Rose/Doug Somers (AWA, 8/30/86)
23. Rick Rude vs. Ricky Steamboat (WCW, 6/20/92)
24. Mitsuharu Misawa/Jun Akiyama vs. Toshiaki Kawada/Akira Taue (AJPW, 5/23/96)
25. Steve Austin vs. Kurt Angle (WWF, 8/19/01)
26. Kenta Kobashi/Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs. Doug Furnas/Dan Kroffat (AJPW, 5/25/92)
27. El Hijo del Santo vs. Brazo de Oro (UWA, 1/13/91)
28. Mitsuharu Misawa/Jun Akiyama vs. Toshiaki Kawada/Akira Taue (AJPW, 12/6/96)
29. Stan Hansen vs. Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW, 2/28/93)
30. Sgt. Slaughter vs. Iron Sheik (WWF, 6/16/84)
31. Jushin Liger vs. Naoki Sano (NJPW, 8/10/89)
32. Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat (WCW, 2/20/89)
33. Eddie Guerrero vs. Brock Lesnar (WWE, 2/15/04)
34. Mitsuharu Misawa/Toshiaki Kawada/Kenta Kobashi vs. Jumbo Tsuruta/Akira Taue/Masanobu Fuchi (AJPW, 4/20/91)
35. Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Genichiro Tenryu (AJPW, 6/5/89)
36. Stan Hansen/Genichiro Tenryu vs. Jumbo Tsuruta/Yoshiaki Yatsu (AJPW, 12/6/89)
37. Jerry Lawler vs. Terry Funk (Memphis, 3/23/81)
38. Riki Choshu vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara (NJPW, 6/9/87)
39. Genichiro Tenryu/Koki Kitahara vs. Shiro Koshinaka/Kengo Kimura (WAR, 10/23/92)
40. Tatsumi Fujinami/Riki Choshu/Akira Maeda/Kengo Kimura/Super Strong Machine vs. Antonio Inoki/Yoshiaki Fujiwara/Seiji Sakaguchi/Kantaro Hoshino/Keiji Mutoh (NJPW, 8/19/87)
41. Jerry Lawler vs. Bill Dundee (Memphis, 12/30/85)
42. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Jun Akiyama (AJPW, 2/27/00)
43. Brock Lesnar vs. CM Punk (WWE, 8/18/13)
44. Shinya Hashimoto vs. Kazuo Yamazaki (NJPW, 8/2/98)
45. Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kazuchika Okada (NJPW, 4/7/13)
46. Bret Hart vs. Mr. Perfect (WWF, 6/13/93)
47. Aja Kong vs. Manami Toyota (AJW, 11/20/94)
48. Kenta Kobashi vs. Jun Akiyama (AJPW, 7/24/98)
49. Kenta Kobashi vs. Yoshinari Ogawa (NOAH, 11/1/03)
50. Samoa Joe vs. AJ Styles (TNA, 12/11/05)
51. AJ Styles vs. Minoru Suzuki (NJPW, 8/1/14)
52. Yoshihiro Takayama/Minoru Suzuki vs. Yuji Nagata/Naofumi Yamamoto (NJPW, 10/9/06)
53. John Cena vs. Brock Lesnar (WWE, 4/29/12)
54. Bret Hart vs. Owen Hart (WWF, 3/20/94)
55. John Cena vs. Umaga (WWE, 1/28/07)
56. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW, 7/24/95)
57. El Hijo del Santo/Scorpio Jr./Bestia Salvaje vs. Negro Casas/El Dandy/Hector Garza (CMLL, 11/29/96)
58. Keiji Mutoh vs. Masahiro Chono (NJPW, 8/11/91)
59. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Jumbo Tsuruta (AJPW, 6/8/90)
60. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Jumbo Tsuruta (AJPW, 9/1/90)
61. Giant Baba vs. Billy Robinson (AJPW, 7/24/76)
62. Katsuyori Shibata vs. Tomoaki Honma (NJPW, 8/3/14)
63. Terry Gordy vs. Killer Khan (WCCW, 11/22/84)
64. Jim Duggan vs. Ted DiBiase (Mid-South, 3/22/85)
65. Kenta Kobashi/Go Shiozaki vs. Genichiro Tenryu/Jun Akiyama (NOAH, 4/24/05)
66. Vader/Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Keiji Mutoh/Hiroshi Hase (NJPW, 5/1/92)
67. Aja Kong vs. Dynamite Kansai (AJW, 8/30/95)
68. Vader vs. Keiji Mutoh (NJPW, 8/10/91)
69. Bryan Danielson vs. Takeshi Morishima (ROH, 8/25/07)
70. Mitsuharu Misawa/Yoshinari Ogawa vs. KENTA/Naomichi Marufuji (NOAH, 4/25/04)
71. Steve Austin vs. The Rock (WWF, 4/1/01)
72. Bret Hart vs. Diesel (WWF, 11/19/95)
73. Lex Luger vs. Ricky Steamboat (WCW, 7/23/89)
74. Randy Savage vs. Ricky Steamboat (WWF, 3/29/87)
75. Mitsuharu Misawa/Toshiaki Kawada/Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs. Jumbo Tsuruta/Akira Taue/Masanobu Fuchi (AJPW, 10/15/91)
76. Kenta Kobashi/Jun Akiyama vs. Stan Hansen/Akira Taue (AJPW, 12/3/99)
77. Bret Hart vs. British Bulldog (WWF, 12/17/95)
78. Genichiro Tenryu/Takashi Ishikawa vs. Shinya Hashimoto/Michiyoshi Ohara (NJPW, 6/14/93)
79. Eddie Guerrero vs. Rey Mysterio (WWE, 6/23/05)
80. Dick Togo vs. Antonio Honda (DDT, 1/30/11)
81. Masa Saito/Riki Choshu/Super Strong Machine/Kuniaki Kobayashi/Hiro Saito vs. Tatsumi Fujinami/Yoshiaki Fujiwara/Kengo Kimura/Shiro Koshinaka/Keiichi Yamada (NJPW, 9/12/88)
82. Shawn Michaels/Diesel vs. Razor Ramon/123 Kid (WWF, 10/30/94)
83. Ultimate Warrior vs. Rick Rude (WWF, 8/28/89)
84. Aja Kong vs. Yumiko Hotta (AJW, 1/24/94)
85. Barry Windham vs 2 Cold Scorpio (WCW, 6/16/93)
86. Mitsuharu Misawa/Toshiaki Kawada vs. Jumbo Tsuruta/Akira Taue (AJPW, 11/29/91)
87. Toshiaki Kawada/Masanobu Fuchi vs. Yuji Nagata/Takashi Iizuka (NJPW, 12/14/00)
88. British Bulldogs vs. Hart Foundation (WWF, 9/23/85)
89. Randy Savage vs. Ricky Steamboat (WWF, 2/15/87)
90. Kenta Kobashi/Jun Akiyama vs. Stan Hansen/Vader (AJPW, 12/5/98)
91. Kenta Kobashi/Jun Akiyama vs. Yoshihiro Takayama/Takao Omori (AJPW, 10/30/99)
92. Bret Hart vs. British Bulldog (WWF, 8/29/92)
93. Rick Rude vs. Masahiro Chono (NJPW, 8/12/92)
94. Hiroshi Tanahashi/Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Minoru Suzuki/Kensuke Sasaki (NJPW, 12/11/04)
95. Hirooki Goto/Katsuyori Shibata vs. Yuji Nagata/Tomoaki Honma (NJPW, 6/21/14)
96. Kazuchika Okada vs. Togi Makabe (NJPW, 6/22/13)
97. Kensuke Sasaki vs. KENTA (NOAH, 7/18/08)
98. Ricky Steamboat/Tito Santana vs. Greg Valentine/Brutus Beefcake (WWF, 4/21/85)
99. Dustin Rhodes vs. Bunkhouse Buck (WCW, 4/17/94)
100. Barry Windham/Dustin Rhodes vs. Steve Austin/Larry Zbyszko (WCW, 2/29/92)
2. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW, 6/3/94)
3. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Kenta Kobashi (AJPW, 1/20/97)
4. Akira Hokuto vs. Shinobu Kandori (AJW, 4/2/93)
5. Stan Hansen vs. Kenta Kobashi (AJPW, 7/29/93)
6. Bret Hart vs. Steve Austin (WWF, 3/23/97)
7. Mitsuharu Misawa/Kenta Kobashi vs. Toshiaki Kawada/Akira Taue (AJPW, 12/3/93)
8. Mitsuharu Misawa/Toshiaki Kawada/Kenta Kobashi vs. Jumbo Tsuruta/Akira Taue/Masanobu Fuchi (AJPW, 10/19/90)
9. Jumbo Tsuruta/Genichiro Tenryu vs. Riki Choshu/Yoshiaki Yatsu (AJPW, 1/28/86)
10. Bret Hart vs. Steve Austin (WWF, 11/17/96)
11. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Akira Taue (AJPW, 4/15/95)
12. Kenta Kobashi vs. Yoshihiro Takayama (NOAH, 4/25/04)
13. Eddie Guerrero vs. Rey Mysterio Jr. (WCW, 10/26/97)
14. Ric Flair vs. Terry Funk (WCW, 7/23/89)
15. Vader vs. Sting (WCW, 12/28/92)
16. Stan Hansen/Terry Gordy vs. Genichiro Tenryu/Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW, 12/16/88)
17. Shawn Michaels vs. Mankind (WWF, 9/22/96)
18. Vader vs. Sting (WCW, 7/12/92)
19. Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat (WCW, 4/2/89)
20. Jerry Lawler vs. Bill Dundee (Memphis, 6/6/83)
21. MS-1 vs. Sangre Chicana (EMLL, 9/23/83)
22. Midnight Rockers vs. Buddy Rose/Doug Somers (AWA, 8/30/86)
23. Rick Rude vs. Ricky Steamboat (WCW, 6/20/92)
24. Mitsuharu Misawa/Jun Akiyama vs. Toshiaki Kawada/Akira Taue (AJPW, 5/23/96)
25. Steve Austin vs. Kurt Angle (WWF, 8/19/01)
26. Kenta Kobashi/Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs. Doug Furnas/Dan Kroffat (AJPW, 5/25/92)
27. El Hijo del Santo vs. Brazo de Oro (UWA, 1/13/91)
28. Mitsuharu Misawa/Jun Akiyama vs. Toshiaki Kawada/Akira Taue (AJPW, 12/6/96)
29. Stan Hansen vs. Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW, 2/28/93)
30. Sgt. Slaughter vs. Iron Sheik (WWF, 6/16/84)
31. Jushin Liger vs. Naoki Sano (NJPW, 8/10/89)
32. Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat (WCW, 2/20/89)
33. Eddie Guerrero vs. Brock Lesnar (WWE, 2/15/04)
34. Mitsuharu Misawa/Toshiaki Kawada/Kenta Kobashi vs. Jumbo Tsuruta/Akira Taue/Masanobu Fuchi (AJPW, 4/20/91)
35. Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Genichiro Tenryu (AJPW, 6/5/89)
36. Stan Hansen/Genichiro Tenryu vs. Jumbo Tsuruta/Yoshiaki Yatsu (AJPW, 12/6/89)
37. Jerry Lawler vs. Terry Funk (Memphis, 3/23/81)
38. Riki Choshu vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara (NJPW, 6/9/87)
39. Genichiro Tenryu/Koki Kitahara vs. Shiro Koshinaka/Kengo Kimura (WAR, 10/23/92)
40. Tatsumi Fujinami/Riki Choshu/Akira Maeda/Kengo Kimura/Super Strong Machine vs. Antonio Inoki/Yoshiaki Fujiwara/Seiji Sakaguchi/Kantaro Hoshino/Keiji Mutoh (NJPW, 8/19/87)
41. Jerry Lawler vs. Bill Dundee (Memphis, 12/30/85)
42. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Jun Akiyama (AJPW, 2/27/00)
43. Brock Lesnar vs. CM Punk (WWE, 8/18/13)
44. Shinya Hashimoto vs. Kazuo Yamazaki (NJPW, 8/2/98)
45. Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kazuchika Okada (NJPW, 4/7/13)
46. Bret Hart vs. Mr. Perfect (WWF, 6/13/93)
47. Aja Kong vs. Manami Toyota (AJW, 11/20/94)
48. Kenta Kobashi vs. Jun Akiyama (AJPW, 7/24/98)
49. Kenta Kobashi vs. Yoshinari Ogawa (NOAH, 11/1/03)
50. Samoa Joe vs. AJ Styles (TNA, 12/11/05)
51. AJ Styles vs. Minoru Suzuki (NJPW, 8/1/14)
52. Yoshihiro Takayama/Minoru Suzuki vs. Yuji Nagata/Naofumi Yamamoto (NJPW, 10/9/06)
53. John Cena vs. Brock Lesnar (WWE, 4/29/12)
54. Bret Hart vs. Owen Hart (WWF, 3/20/94)
55. John Cena vs. Umaga (WWE, 1/28/07)
56. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW, 7/24/95)
57. El Hijo del Santo/Scorpio Jr./Bestia Salvaje vs. Negro Casas/El Dandy/Hector Garza (CMLL, 11/29/96)
58. Keiji Mutoh vs. Masahiro Chono (NJPW, 8/11/91)
59. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Jumbo Tsuruta (AJPW, 6/8/90)
60. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Jumbo Tsuruta (AJPW, 9/1/90)
61. Giant Baba vs. Billy Robinson (AJPW, 7/24/76)
62. Katsuyori Shibata vs. Tomoaki Honma (NJPW, 8/3/14)
63. Terry Gordy vs. Killer Khan (WCCW, 11/22/84)
64. Jim Duggan vs. Ted DiBiase (Mid-South, 3/22/85)
65. Kenta Kobashi/Go Shiozaki vs. Genichiro Tenryu/Jun Akiyama (NOAH, 4/24/05)
66. Vader/Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Keiji Mutoh/Hiroshi Hase (NJPW, 5/1/92)
67. Aja Kong vs. Dynamite Kansai (AJW, 8/30/95)
68. Vader vs. Keiji Mutoh (NJPW, 8/10/91)
69. Bryan Danielson vs. Takeshi Morishima (ROH, 8/25/07)
70. Mitsuharu Misawa/Yoshinari Ogawa vs. KENTA/Naomichi Marufuji (NOAH, 4/25/04)
71. Steve Austin vs. The Rock (WWF, 4/1/01)
72. Bret Hart vs. Diesel (WWF, 11/19/95)
73. Lex Luger vs. Ricky Steamboat (WCW, 7/23/89)
74. Randy Savage vs. Ricky Steamboat (WWF, 3/29/87)
75. Mitsuharu Misawa/Toshiaki Kawada/Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs. Jumbo Tsuruta/Akira Taue/Masanobu Fuchi (AJPW, 10/15/91)
76. Kenta Kobashi/Jun Akiyama vs. Stan Hansen/Akira Taue (AJPW, 12/3/99)
77. Bret Hart vs. British Bulldog (WWF, 12/17/95)
78. Genichiro Tenryu/Takashi Ishikawa vs. Shinya Hashimoto/Michiyoshi Ohara (NJPW, 6/14/93)
79. Eddie Guerrero vs. Rey Mysterio (WWE, 6/23/05)
80. Dick Togo vs. Antonio Honda (DDT, 1/30/11)
81. Masa Saito/Riki Choshu/Super Strong Machine/Kuniaki Kobayashi/Hiro Saito vs. Tatsumi Fujinami/Yoshiaki Fujiwara/Kengo Kimura/Shiro Koshinaka/Keiichi Yamada (NJPW, 9/12/88)
82. Shawn Michaels/Diesel vs. Razor Ramon/123 Kid (WWF, 10/30/94)
83. Ultimate Warrior vs. Rick Rude (WWF, 8/28/89)
84. Aja Kong vs. Yumiko Hotta (AJW, 1/24/94)
85. Barry Windham vs 2 Cold Scorpio (WCW, 6/16/93)
86. Mitsuharu Misawa/Toshiaki Kawada vs. Jumbo Tsuruta/Akira Taue (AJPW, 11/29/91)
87. Toshiaki Kawada/Masanobu Fuchi vs. Yuji Nagata/Takashi Iizuka (NJPW, 12/14/00)
88. British Bulldogs vs. Hart Foundation (WWF, 9/23/85)
89. Randy Savage vs. Ricky Steamboat (WWF, 2/15/87)
90. Kenta Kobashi/Jun Akiyama vs. Stan Hansen/Vader (AJPW, 12/5/98)
91. Kenta Kobashi/Jun Akiyama vs. Yoshihiro Takayama/Takao Omori (AJPW, 10/30/99)
92. Bret Hart vs. British Bulldog (WWF, 8/29/92)
93. Rick Rude vs. Masahiro Chono (NJPW, 8/12/92)
94. Hiroshi Tanahashi/Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Minoru Suzuki/Kensuke Sasaki (NJPW, 12/11/04)
95. Hirooki Goto/Katsuyori Shibata vs. Yuji Nagata/Tomoaki Honma (NJPW, 6/21/14)
96. Kazuchika Okada vs. Togi Makabe (NJPW, 6/22/13)
97. Kensuke Sasaki vs. KENTA (NOAH, 7/18/08)
98. Ricky Steamboat/Tito Santana vs. Greg Valentine/Brutus Beefcake (WWF, 4/21/85)
99. Dustin Rhodes vs. Bunkhouse Buck (WCW, 4/17/94)
100. Barry Windham/Dustin Rhodes vs. Steve Austin/Larry Zbyszko (WCW, 2/29/92)