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After reading the Kofi stuff, I have to ask Jimmy if she is explicitly FOR any of the things after the "nots" in that list. I feel like I want to ask Dylan too, given some of the guys he champions. Or anyone really. I'd love some reasoned counter arguments to those general principles.

Thanks for listening Jimmy! I guess the question is: do I want to be true to myself or true to the nature of a GWE list? If I'm true to myself, honestly, no one who wrestled after about 1997 would rank, period. My list would be pretty narrow and 100% in line with the 7-virtues list I wrote up. Although I will admit that when I listened back to this, the contrast between the guys I love and the guys I don't is pretty obvious. It is more energising to talk about stuff you love. But this list isn't about getting me energised or self-gratification or anything like that, it's about trying to establish who the GWE is, regardless of my personal tastes. For me the core of the project was about trying to see past personal biases and seeing what the kernel of each case was. In some areas (see lucha), I failed dismally, in others I made more headway.

Holy shit!

Came across this last night, thought it was pretty cool:

Here are some Dory Funk Jr trainees: Stan Hansen Genichiro Tenryu Jumbo Tsuruta Ted Dibiase Jun Akiyama Lord Steven Regal Dr. Death Steve Williams Rikishi Rhino Chris Sabin Steve Corino Edge Gangrel Christopher Daniels Earthquake John Tenta Christian Lita Test Val Venis Mark Henry Midian Matt Hardy Jeff Hardy Nicole Bass Dros Road Warrior Hawk Marc Mero Kurt Angle Ahmed Johnson Taka Michinoku Dan Severn Crash Holly

He's definitely better than Jose Luis Rivera.

For stats nerds, here are some analytics on the ratings with one show to go: Matches reviewed: 70 Parv higher: 24 Steven higher: 29 Same: 17 (first time in show #3) Parv 5-star: 10 Steven 5-star: 7 Parv 4.75: 9 Steven 4.75: 8 Parv 4.5: 13 Steven 4.5: 17 Parv 4.25: 0 Steven 4.25: 17 Parv 4-star: 16 Steven 4-star: 8 Parv: 3.75: 4 Steven: 3.75: 6 Parv 3.5: 10 Steven 3.5: 2 Parv Lowest rating: 2.5 (10/25/95 - Toshiaki Kawada vs Gary Albright) Steve Lowest rating: 2.5 (06/06/97 - Mitsuharu Misawa vs Toshiaki Kawada) Complete ratings:

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http://placetobenation.com/all-japan-excite-series-16/ To support this show, please re-tweet this: https://twitter.com/JerryvonK/status/709005810580504576 12/05/97 - Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama vs Toshiaki Kawada vs Akira Taue 05/01/98 - Hiroshi Hase vs. Jun Akiyama 05/01/98 - Mitsuharu Misawa vs Toshiaki Kawada 06/12/98 - Kenta Kobashi vs Toshiaki Kawada 07/24/98 - Kenta Kobashi vs. Jun Akiyama

If anyone wants to see what a * hatchet-job of a review looks like, this is it. What a terrible review (of a tremendous match). Also, fans of the insider terminology, that's called a payback spot.

This blog deserves way way more play than it is getting and I think if GWE wasn't happening I think it would. Strongly encourage people to check this out.

This is basically what I'm weighing as I decide 1 vs. 2 for Kobashi. Gut says 1, head says 2. I think it might be a cool exercise to list them out. If you don't want to, I might have a go later.

You excel in the soundbite department, Loss.

Also, on the quality scale, I'd put my neck out to say that his ten career best individual performances are better than any other guy's ten best. Not quantifiable as such but if you listed those out, I think Kobashi wins.

I've come to believe that, on his best day (and he had a lot of best days), Kobashi was the best wrestler ever to walk the planet. By which I mean he's not my number one overall, but if this was just a flat rating on the B metric, where Barry Windham is a 10, Kobashi is the 11 and would slam dunk be my #1 in a list done only on that metric. Arguably the #1 offensive worker and the #1 seller. And as much as we might criticise later excesses, you don't have the sheer number of ***** he did unless you have all-time great psychology, which he did. Transcendently great worker.

Looks like it didn't make the set but was considered.

Did we watch the Martel one before?

Makes me long to see a full list of OJ's Japanese tiers a la his European one.

I'd co-sign these consistency ratings, agree 100%

He's done pretty well on my list. I will say though that I find his WCW stuff broadly overrated, especially the Rey match.

I loved him as Black Tiger in this match: Great Sasuke and Black Tiger vs. Wild Pegasus and Shinjiro Ohtani (10/18/94) Probably a top 10 performance of the 90s for me.