Luke's Ballot And Other Stuff
Jun 24, 2023 23:43:58 GMT -5
Post by luke on Jun 24, 2023 23:43:58 GMT -5
Hi everyone,
Long-time GWE/PWO lurker, first time ballot submitter here. I made an account years ago with the intention of submitting a ballot for 2021, but never got around to finalising anything. I've been writing top 100 lists for fun since 2016 and I'm looking forward to contributing to the 2023 poll.
Below is my list for this year's ballot. I'm hoping to get around to reviewing some of these over time:
1) CM Punk vs John Cena (WWE - 7/17/2011)
2) Mitsuharu Misawa vs Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW - 6/3/1994)
3) Holy Demon Army vs Jun Akiyama and Mitsuharu Misawa (Tag League Finals - AJPW - 12/6/1996)
4) Katsuyori Shibata vs Kazuchika Okada (NJPW - 4/9/2017)
5) Bret Hart vs Steve Austin (Submission Match - WWF - 3/23/1997)
6) Kenta Kobashi vs Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW - 1/20/1997)
7) Holy Demon Army vs Kenta Kobashi and Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW - 6/9/1995)
8) Akira Hokuto vs Shinobu Kandori (AJW – 4/2/1993)
9) Shinya Hashimoto vs Nobuhiko Takada (NJPW - 4/29/1996)
10) CM Punk vs. Samoa Joe (ROH - 10/16/2004)
11) Atlantis vs Villano III (Mask vs Mask – CMLL – 3/17/2000)
12) Bryan Danielson vs Nigel McGuinness (ROH - 8/12/2006)
13) Shinsuke Nakamura vs Kota Ibushi (NJPW - 1/4/2015)
14) Brock Lesnar vs John Cena (Extreme Rules - WWE - 4/29/2012)
15) Akira Maeda vs Tatsumi Fujinami (NJPW - 6/12/1986)
16) Brock Lesnar vs Roman Reigns (WWE - 3/29/2015)
17) Kenta Kobashi vs Mitsuharu Misawa (NOAH - 3/1/2003)
18) Bryan Danielson vs KENTA (ROH - 9/16/2006)
19) Ric Flair vs Ricky Steamboat (2/3 Falls - WCW - 4/2/1989)
20) Kazuchika Okada vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi (NJPW - 4/7/2013)
21) Kenta Kobashi vs Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW - 10/31/1998)
22) Jumbo Tsuruta vs Genichiro Tenryu (AJPW - 6/5/1989)
23) Necro Butcher vs Samoa Joe (IWA Mid-South - 6/11/2005)
24) Jun Akiyama vs. Kenta Kobashi (AJPW - 7/24/1998)
25) Akira Taue vs Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW, 4/15/1995)
26) Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Kenta Kobashi (AJPW - 6/11/1999)
27) Brock Lesnar vs CM Punk (WWE - 8/18/2013)
28) AJ Styles vs. Minoru Suzuki (NJPW - 8/1/2014)
29) Jumbo Tsuruta vs Mitsuhara Misawa (AJPW - 9/1/1990)
30) Kiyoshi Tamura vs Yoshihisa Yamamoto (RINGS - 6/24/1999)
31) Daniel Bryan vs John Cena (WWE - 8/18/2013)
32) Sangre Chicana vs MS-1 (Hair vs Hair – EMLL – 9/23/1983)
33) Kazuchika Okada vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi (NJPW - 1/4/2016)
34) Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy vs Genichiro Tenryu & Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW - 12/16/1988)
35) Bryan Danielson vs Takeshi Morishima (ROH - 8/25/2007)
36) Eddie Guerrero vs John Bradshaw Layfield (WWE - 5/16/2004)
37) Brock Lesnar vs. Daniel Bryan (WWE - 11/18/2018)
38) Tomohiro Ishii vs Katsuyori Shibata (NJPW - 8/4/2013)
39) Ric Flair vs Ricky Steamboat (WCW - 5/7/1989)
40) Eddy Guerrero vs Rey Misterio Jr (Title vs Mask - WCW - 10/26/1997)
41) Katsuyori Shibata vs. Jun Akiyama (WRESTLE-1 - 8/4/2005)
42) Shawn Michaels vs Undertaker (Hell in a Cell - WWF - 10/5/1997)
43) Kenta Kobashi & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs Dan Kroffat & Doug Furnas (AJPW - 5/25/1992)
44) Antonio Inoki, Tatsumi Fujinami, Nobuhiako Takada, Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Kengo Kimura vs Riki Coshu, Yoshiaki Yatsu, Animal Hamaguchi, Isamu Teranishi & Kuniaki Kobayashi (5x5 Gauntlet - NJPW - 4/19/1984)
45) Kenny Omega vs. Tetsuya Naito (NJPW - 8/13/2016)
46) Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Jun Akiyama (AJPW - 2/27/2000)
47) Jumbo Tsuruta vs Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW - 6/8/1990)
48) Bret Hart vs Owen Hart (WWF - 3/20/1994)
49) Jerry Lawler vs Terry Funk (No DQ - CWA - 3/23/1981)
50) Akira Hokuto and Shinobu Kandori vs Aja Kong and Bull Nakano (AJW – 3/27/1994)
51) Jushin Liger vs Naoki Sano (NJPW - 1/31/1990)
52) Nick Bockwinkel vs Curt Hennig (AWA - 11/21/1986)
53) El Hijo del Santo & Octagon vs Eddy Guerrero & Love Machine Art Barr (Masks vs Hairs - AAA - 11/6/1994)
54) Shawn Michaels vs Mankind (WWF - 9/22/1996)
55) Antonio Inoki vs Tatsumi Fujinami (NJPW - 8/8/1988)
56) Dump Matsumoto vs Chigusa Nagayo (Hair vs Hair - AJW - 11/7/1986)
57) Steve Austin vs The Rock (No DQ - WWF - 4/1/2001)
58) Volk Han vs Tsuyoshi Kohsaka (RINGS - 8/24/1996)
59) Mitsuharu Misawa v Toshiaki Kawada - (AJPW - 7/24/1995)
60) Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Minoru Suzuki (NJPW - 10/8/2012)
61) The Briscoes vs FTR (ROH - 12/10/2022)
62) Ric Flair vs Terry Funk (I Quit Match - WCW - 11/15/1989)
63) Shinya Hashimoto and Takashi Iizuka vs Naoya Ogawa and Kazunari Murakami (NJPW - 1/4/2000)
64) Samoa Joe vs AJ Styles (TNA - 12/11/2005)
65) Kazuchika Okada vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi (NJPW - 10/14/2013)
66) Bryan Danielson vs. Takeshi Morishima (ROH - 12/27/2008)
67) Kazuyuki Fujita vs Katsuyori Shibata (NJPW - 7/19/2004)
68) Kazuchika Okada vs Kenny Omega (NJPW - 8/12/2017)
69) Akira Hokuto vs Meiko Satomura (GAEA - 4/29/2001)
70) Yuki Ishikawa vs Daisuke Ikeda (Futen - 4/24/2005)
71) Mitsuharu Misawa vs Steve Williams (AJPW - 7/28/1994)
72) Kenta Kobashi vs Samoa Joe (ROH - 10/1/2005)
73) Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi vs Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue (AJPW - 12/3/1993)
74) Toshiaki Kawada vs Gary Albright (AJPW - 10/25/1995)
75) Sting's Squadron (Sting, Ricky Steamboat, Barry Windham, Dustin Rhodes & Nikita Koloff) vs The Dangerous Alliance (Rick Rude, Steve Austin, Arn Anderson, Larry Zbyszko & Bobby Eaton) (War Games - WCW - 5/17/1992)
76) Masakatsu Funaki vs. Tatsuo Nakano (UWF - 7/24/1989)
77) Roddy Piper vs Greg Valentine (Dog Collar Match - JCP - 11/24/1983)
78) John Cena vs. Seth Rollins vs. Brock Lesnar (WWE - 1/25/2015)
79) Bryan Danielson vs Low-Ki (ROH - 3/30/2002)
80) Vader vs Sting (Strap Match - WCW - 2/21/1993)
81) Anarchy in The Arena (AEW - 5/29/2022)
82) Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Shinsuke Nakamura (NJPW - 8/16/2015)
83) Mitsuharu Misawa, Toshiaki Kawada, & Kenta Kobashi vs. Jumbo Tsuruta, Masa Fuchi, & Akira Taue (AJPW - 4/20/1991)
84) Yuji Nagata vs. Kensuke Sasaki (NJPW - 1/4/2004)
85) Shinsuke Nakamura vs Sami Zayn (NXT - 4/1/2016)
86) Kenta Kobashi vs Yoshihiro Takayama (NOAH - 4/25/2004)
87) Aja Kong vs Yumika Hotta (WWWA World Championship - AJW - 1/24/1994)
88) CM Punk vs. Eddie Kingston (AEW - 11/13/2021)
89) El Satanico vs El Dandy (Hair vs Hair – EMLL – 12/14/1990)
90) Kenny Omega vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi (NJPW - 1/4/2019)
91) The Shield vs The Wyatt Family (WWE - 2/23/2014)
92) Terry Funk vs Atsushi Onita (Exploding Barbed Wire - FMW - 5/5/1993)
93) Bryan Danielson vs. Nigel McGuinness (ROH - 2/23/2008)
94) Ric Flair vs Ricky Steamboat (WCW - 2/20/1989)
95) Mayumi Ozaki & Dynamite Kansai vs Manami Toyota & Toshiyo Yamada (2/3 Falls - AJW - 11/26/1992)
96) Naomichi Marufuji vs KENTA (NOAH - 10/29/2006)
97) Negro Casas vs El Dandy (EMLL - 7/3/1992)
98) Mitsuharu Misawa and Jun Akiyama vs. Akira Taue and Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW - 5/23/1996)
99) Shinya Hashimoto vs Genichiro Tenryu (NJPW - 8/1/1998)
100) Stan Hansen vs Andre the Giant (NJPW – 9/23/1981)
Long-time GWE/PWO lurker, first time ballot submitter here. I made an account years ago with the intention of submitting a ballot for 2021, but never got around to finalising anything. I've been writing top 100 lists for fun since 2016 and I'm looking forward to contributing to the 2023 poll.
Below is my list for this year's ballot. I'm hoping to get around to reviewing some of these over time:
1) CM Punk vs John Cena (WWE - 7/17/2011)
2) Mitsuharu Misawa vs Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW - 6/3/1994)
3) Holy Demon Army vs Jun Akiyama and Mitsuharu Misawa (Tag League Finals - AJPW - 12/6/1996)
4) Katsuyori Shibata vs Kazuchika Okada (NJPW - 4/9/2017)
5) Bret Hart vs Steve Austin (Submission Match - WWF - 3/23/1997)
6) Kenta Kobashi vs Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW - 1/20/1997)
7) Holy Demon Army vs Kenta Kobashi and Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW - 6/9/1995)
8) Akira Hokuto vs Shinobu Kandori (AJW – 4/2/1993)
9) Shinya Hashimoto vs Nobuhiko Takada (NJPW - 4/29/1996)
10) CM Punk vs. Samoa Joe (ROH - 10/16/2004)
11) Atlantis vs Villano III (Mask vs Mask – CMLL – 3/17/2000)
12) Bryan Danielson vs Nigel McGuinness (ROH - 8/12/2006)
13) Shinsuke Nakamura vs Kota Ibushi (NJPW - 1/4/2015)
14) Brock Lesnar vs John Cena (Extreme Rules - WWE - 4/29/2012)
15) Akira Maeda vs Tatsumi Fujinami (NJPW - 6/12/1986)
16) Brock Lesnar vs Roman Reigns (WWE - 3/29/2015)
17) Kenta Kobashi vs Mitsuharu Misawa (NOAH - 3/1/2003)
18) Bryan Danielson vs KENTA (ROH - 9/16/2006)
19) Ric Flair vs Ricky Steamboat (2/3 Falls - WCW - 4/2/1989)
20) Kazuchika Okada vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi (NJPW - 4/7/2013)
21) Kenta Kobashi vs Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW - 10/31/1998)
22) Jumbo Tsuruta vs Genichiro Tenryu (AJPW - 6/5/1989)
23) Necro Butcher vs Samoa Joe (IWA Mid-South - 6/11/2005)
24) Jun Akiyama vs. Kenta Kobashi (AJPW - 7/24/1998)
25) Akira Taue vs Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW, 4/15/1995)
26) Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Kenta Kobashi (AJPW - 6/11/1999)
27) Brock Lesnar vs CM Punk (WWE - 8/18/2013)
28) AJ Styles vs. Minoru Suzuki (NJPW - 8/1/2014)
29) Jumbo Tsuruta vs Mitsuhara Misawa (AJPW - 9/1/1990)
30) Kiyoshi Tamura vs Yoshihisa Yamamoto (RINGS - 6/24/1999)
31) Daniel Bryan vs John Cena (WWE - 8/18/2013)
32) Sangre Chicana vs MS-1 (Hair vs Hair – EMLL – 9/23/1983)
33) Kazuchika Okada vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi (NJPW - 1/4/2016)
34) Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy vs Genichiro Tenryu & Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW - 12/16/1988)
35) Bryan Danielson vs Takeshi Morishima (ROH - 8/25/2007)
36) Eddie Guerrero vs John Bradshaw Layfield (WWE - 5/16/2004)
37) Brock Lesnar vs. Daniel Bryan (WWE - 11/18/2018)
38) Tomohiro Ishii vs Katsuyori Shibata (NJPW - 8/4/2013)
39) Ric Flair vs Ricky Steamboat (WCW - 5/7/1989)
40) Eddy Guerrero vs Rey Misterio Jr (Title vs Mask - WCW - 10/26/1997)
41) Katsuyori Shibata vs. Jun Akiyama (WRESTLE-1 - 8/4/2005)
42) Shawn Michaels vs Undertaker (Hell in a Cell - WWF - 10/5/1997)
43) Kenta Kobashi & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs Dan Kroffat & Doug Furnas (AJPW - 5/25/1992)
44) Antonio Inoki, Tatsumi Fujinami, Nobuhiako Takada, Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Kengo Kimura vs Riki Coshu, Yoshiaki Yatsu, Animal Hamaguchi, Isamu Teranishi & Kuniaki Kobayashi (5x5 Gauntlet - NJPW - 4/19/1984)
45) Kenny Omega vs. Tetsuya Naito (NJPW - 8/13/2016)
46) Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Jun Akiyama (AJPW - 2/27/2000)
47) Jumbo Tsuruta vs Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW - 6/8/1990)
48) Bret Hart vs Owen Hart (WWF - 3/20/1994)
49) Jerry Lawler vs Terry Funk (No DQ - CWA - 3/23/1981)
50) Akira Hokuto and Shinobu Kandori vs Aja Kong and Bull Nakano (AJW – 3/27/1994)
51) Jushin Liger vs Naoki Sano (NJPW - 1/31/1990)
52) Nick Bockwinkel vs Curt Hennig (AWA - 11/21/1986)
53) El Hijo del Santo & Octagon vs Eddy Guerrero & Love Machine Art Barr (Masks vs Hairs - AAA - 11/6/1994)
54) Shawn Michaels vs Mankind (WWF - 9/22/1996)
55) Antonio Inoki vs Tatsumi Fujinami (NJPW - 8/8/1988)
56) Dump Matsumoto vs Chigusa Nagayo (Hair vs Hair - AJW - 11/7/1986)
57) Steve Austin vs The Rock (No DQ - WWF - 4/1/2001)
58) Volk Han vs Tsuyoshi Kohsaka (RINGS - 8/24/1996)
59) Mitsuharu Misawa v Toshiaki Kawada - (AJPW - 7/24/1995)
60) Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Minoru Suzuki (NJPW - 10/8/2012)
61) The Briscoes vs FTR (ROH - 12/10/2022)
62) Ric Flair vs Terry Funk (I Quit Match - WCW - 11/15/1989)
63) Shinya Hashimoto and Takashi Iizuka vs Naoya Ogawa and Kazunari Murakami (NJPW - 1/4/2000)
64) Samoa Joe vs AJ Styles (TNA - 12/11/2005)
65) Kazuchika Okada vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi (NJPW - 10/14/2013)
66) Bryan Danielson vs. Takeshi Morishima (ROH - 12/27/2008)
67) Kazuyuki Fujita vs Katsuyori Shibata (NJPW - 7/19/2004)
68) Kazuchika Okada vs Kenny Omega (NJPW - 8/12/2017)
69) Akira Hokuto vs Meiko Satomura (GAEA - 4/29/2001)
70) Yuki Ishikawa vs Daisuke Ikeda (Futen - 4/24/2005)
71) Mitsuharu Misawa vs Steve Williams (AJPW - 7/28/1994)
72) Kenta Kobashi vs Samoa Joe (ROH - 10/1/2005)
73) Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi vs Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue (AJPW - 12/3/1993)
74) Toshiaki Kawada vs Gary Albright (AJPW - 10/25/1995)
75) Sting's Squadron (Sting, Ricky Steamboat, Barry Windham, Dustin Rhodes & Nikita Koloff) vs The Dangerous Alliance (Rick Rude, Steve Austin, Arn Anderson, Larry Zbyszko & Bobby Eaton) (War Games - WCW - 5/17/1992)
76) Masakatsu Funaki vs. Tatsuo Nakano (UWF - 7/24/1989)
77) Roddy Piper vs Greg Valentine (Dog Collar Match - JCP - 11/24/1983)
78) John Cena vs. Seth Rollins vs. Brock Lesnar (WWE - 1/25/2015)
79) Bryan Danielson vs Low-Ki (ROH - 3/30/2002)
80) Vader vs Sting (Strap Match - WCW - 2/21/1993)
81) Anarchy in The Arena (AEW - 5/29/2022)
82) Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Shinsuke Nakamura (NJPW - 8/16/2015)
83) Mitsuharu Misawa, Toshiaki Kawada, & Kenta Kobashi vs. Jumbo Tsuruta, Masa Fuchi, & Akira Taue (AJPW - 4/20/1991)
84) Yuji Nagata vs. Kensuke Sasaki (NJPW - 1/4/2004)
85) Shinsuke Nakamura vs Sami Zayn (NXT - 4/1/2016)
86) Kenta Kobashi vs Yoshihiro Takayama (NOAH - 4/25/2004)
87) Aja Kong vs Yumika Hotta (WWWA World Championship - AJW - 1/24/1994)
88) CM Punk vs. Eddie Kingston (AEW - 11/13/2021)
89) El Satanico vs El Dandy (Hair vs Hair – EMLL – 12/14/1990)
90) Kenny Omega vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi (NJPW - 1/4/2019)
91) The Shield vs The Wyatt Family (WWE - 2/23/2014)
92) Terry Funk vs Atsushi Onita (Exploding Barbed Wire - FMW - 5/5/1993)
93) Bryan Danielson vs. Nigel McGuinness (ROH - 2/23/2008)
94) Ric Flair vs Ricky Steamboat (WCW - 2/20/1989)
95) Mayumi Ozaki & Dynamite Kansai vs Manami Toyota & Toshiyo Yamada (2/3 Falls - AJW - 11/26/1992)
96) Naomichi Marufuji vs KENTA (NOAH - 10/29/2006)
97) Negro Casas vs El Dandy (EMLL - 7/3/1992)
98) Mitsuharu Misawa and Jun Akiyama vs. Akira Taue and Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW - 5/23/1996)
99) Shinya Hashimoto vs Genichiro Tenryu (NJPW - 8/1/1998)
100) Stan Hansen vs Andre the Giant (NJPW – 9/23/1981)