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Personally I think the decade should be split in two. Like 90-94 and 95-99. I think the best workers of the U.S only worked 5 or 6 years because of injuries or the landscape has changed. Compare like 94 and 96. Even though it's only 2 years difference I feel 94 would have more in common with 89. All in all I think that would gauge who were the true best workers.
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Again, if they saw money in him I don't think they would have fired him.
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I don't see a problem. Hogan at his peak was great, no one was better. Few guys were equal. Most of these matches you mentioned when pointing out Arn's greatness doesn't apply since they took place in the 80's. The discussion is best U.S worker of the 90's. I'm a huge Arn fan and think he's an amazing worker for what it's worth. Plus if you ask me this Regal vs Arn match blows away the Superbrawl match. Steven Regal vs. Arn Anderson (WCWSN 10/9/93).
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Again what I said in the SMW thread. This is the 1st t.v bout between the teams and it is a heck of a bout. The Rock N Roll shine was really good with both guys looking good. The Bodies are just experts at timing and how to feed the face. Eventually the Bodies take control and work over Morton. Then he gets the hot tag to Gibson and they cut Gibson off to work him over. Pritchard has been real impressive in this setting so far. They tease a finish, but they go in another direction which is cool, and adds a little heat to the Rock N Roll vs. Studd Stable feud. This is a really good maiden voyage of the feud that drew SMW more money than any other feud in the company. This was a solid nomination.
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This is what I said about the match for the SMW project. Plus, Loss I'm shocked that you didn't give this a rating. Under 3* is kinda wow. I really like this match and I would classify it a strong nomination. This felt like a greatest hits. It's so fun to watch good wrestling when the crowd is super hot. Everything that both teams did looked great and got over. So many great touches throughout. The finish was great. We got comedy,great work, mixed in with some great heated work also. They just ran the guantlet of stuff in their arsenal.
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This is what I said about the match for the SMW set. I thought this was just a damn good match. I feel it falls more as a slam dunk than a solid nomination. It probably falls somewhere in between. Fulton's punches are like jack hammers. The opening segment with Lane and Bobby was great. Dutch putting over the Japan tricks that the Fulton's have picked up in Japan. Pushing the sleeper hold which was great in that it played a part in the finish. This was the best Jackie has looked. I love the old Bill Watts finish of the either soaked rag. The diving sunset flip from Jackie was scary as hell. The match had an edge to it where the fans are like these guys don't each other.
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We need more time, but what we got was pretty fun. The Rick Steiner/Vader stuff was just stiff, and some bad ass suplexes. I thought the pinfalls on Koloff and Super Invader was weak shit. Would have liked to see Jake DDT Koloff after Rudes knee to the back. Rude clipping Scotty on that Frankensteiner was sweet. Vader taking out Rude and Sting at once with Rude holding onto Sting was great and a great throwback to the Dangerous Alliance. Jake being a sneaky opportunist was gold. Fun match.
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To me it's Bret as #1 the rest is a tough call. You see people like Benoit, Guerrero, Jericho, and Misterio's name being brought up. All great wrestlers. Does their work count from Japan, Mexico,Europe etc? You have seen people mention the J-cup etc. I think you need to evaluate their work that just takes place in the states. For this reason I see Scorpio as a better candidate compared to based on his WCW,ECW and even WWF stuff in comparison to Jericho, and Misterio. Those guys really just started popping up in 95 for ECW. I'm a huge Steamboat fan. I can watch him work anytime. I still wouldn't rank him in my top 10 because he only worked for a little over 4 year in the decade. Though his best 4 years or so are probaly better than most of the top 10. Count me in the pro Smother's group. I see him in the top 5 or 6. He had a lot of good matches in WCW. Most of them were tags, but had some quality singles. His run in SMW was great. he was the ace in SMW. He had good to great matches with everyone he was programmed with. He was the Ultimate face for the promotion. He was really good in ECW, and had a run of really strong Indy matches. If you haven't the Smother's comp from Will you are missing out on some great wrestling.
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Dutch was on a podcast with Lagana and seemed to have an understanding of the Punk angle. Wasn't Dutch on the booking team in TNA when Punk was their? If that was the case he didn't get a major push there.
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