El McKell

I put together a list of around 100 possible top 100 contenders in no perticular order about 2 weeks ago before i started actually watching anything for this project. Figured I may as well post this here, in large part for myself so i can easily look on here and see who drops off this by the time I've watched stuff from all the nominees Kenta Kobashi Misawa Kawada Dr. Death Vader Jumbo Hansen Jun Akiyama Taue CM Punk Edge Cena Jeff Hardy Daniel Bryan HHH Jericho Benoit Christian Eddie Guerrero Angle AJ Styles Samoa Joe KENTA Hero Kyle O'Reilly Michael Elgin Davey Richards Sami Zayn Ricochet Tozawa Shingo Masaaki Mohcuzuki Chris Daniels Dynamite Kid William Regal Tanahashi Nakamura Shibata Nagata Minoru Suzuki Okada Ibushi Devitt Low-Ki Steen Austin Aries Claudio Castignoli Flair Steamboat Ted DiBiase Terry Funk Dory Funk Curt Hennig Arn Anderson Tully Blanchard Brian Pillman Austin Foley Mysterio jr Psichosis Johnny Saint Tiger Mask 1 La Parka Jerry Estrada Negro Casas El Hijo Del Santo Jushin Liger Great Sasuke Koji Kanemoto TAKA El Samurai Jinsei Shinsaki Randy Savage Scott Steiner Bret Hart Owen Hart Bobby Eaton Stan Lane HBK Seth Rollins Hulk Hogan The Rock Brock Lesnar Lioness Asuka Chigusa Nagayo Dynamite Kansai Toshiyo Yamada AJA Kong Manami Toyota Mayumi Osaki Akira Hokuto Kyoko Inoue Juventud Natsuki*Taiyo Mutoh Hashimoto Riki Chosu Kensuke Fujinami Ultimo Dragon

Im calling it a positive but it's not like the match is great by any stretch of the imagination

Watching that match is like doing a line of cocaine

This guy is clearly a master technician, reversals, holds and escapes that are unlike anything I've seen from anyone else. Watching those three matches Jetlag recommended all in a row may have been a bad idea becuase they're so similar to eachother that I became less excited about Sarjeant after each one, not that they aren't great performances but they are sorta like the mat wrestling equivalent of spotfest. I subsequently watched a match he had with Mick McManus which while not as techincally impressive was a different sort of thing and still really good, Sarjeant showed something a little different in it getting super aggressive looking for the submission after he lost the first fall.

Watched the trilogy against the Funks, the Hogan match, and the two Billy Robinson matches mentioned in this thread. The Funk matches got better from first one to last, with the 78 one being very enjoyable but Abby was the worst performer to me in those. The Billy Robinson wild brawl sucked and the more technical match was fun in the first fall but lost steam as it went and by the finish I basically didn't give a shit about it, which is the opposite of what should happen. The Hogan match was the worst of the bunch, just chops, fork stabbings and a hulk up and also Hogan doing a big splash right onto Abby's knees and then selling? Was Abby just incapable of getting his knees up for the spot? If so why do the spot at all? Abdullah the Butcher is not making my list

If you don't mind illegally downloading stuff I'd recommend his match with Chris Hero from Battle of Los Angeles 2010 and if you wanna watch something already on YouTube: Akira Tozawa and BxB Hulk vs Naruki Doi and Ricochet from Kobe Festival 2013

Don't get too excited, by March 2016 I could end up having a similar perspective to the rest of this board. I'm mainly doing this to give me a good reason to discover and explore stuff I haven't seen; Memphis, Mid-South, Lucha before '91 yknow so who knows if these people I nominated will by in my 100 by the time I watch all this stuff

So what I did was produce a list of just over 100 people who I would consider as potential top 100 candidates without thinking much about it and 16 of those were not nominated already so I figured I should make a whole bunch of nominations. Sorry about the super long post -Jeff Hardy: his microscope thread has more than enough in it: http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/19656-jeff-hardy/ -Kyle O'Reilly: he has matches with threads on here but there seems to be nothing in those threads. Anyway most of his best work has been in PWG in the past 18 months or so, particularly vs Davey Richards at Is Your Body Ready and vs ACH at Battle of Los Angeles 2013, also his tag team work with Bobby Fish is fun, worth checking out is their match against Alex Shelley and KUSHIDA from the G-1 finals show this year. -Michael Elgin: again he has a bunch of matches with threads but no posts in them, don't see much point in providing links to those. -Lo Ki: microscope thread with plenty of reviews: http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/29461-low-ki/ -Davey Richards: seen some hate for this guy on this board already, and I understand that he has matches that build up and up then finish on a total down note but he's a athlete and knows how to make himself stand out unlike guys like rodrick strong or eddie edwards Anyway can't find reviews on here, hoping these nominations will actually count without having to review loads of matches. -Akira Tozawa: Again loss has made a bunch of threads for his matches but no posts except for in this one: http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/22183-dingo-vs-akira-tozawa-acw-guilty-by-association-011611/ -Takagi Shingo: http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/25909-cima-naruki-doi-shingo-takagi-vs-dragon-kid-genki-horiguchi-ryo-saito-dragon-gate-030605/ http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/25953-bxb-hulk-cyber-kong-shingo-takagi-vs-cima-ryo-saito-susumu-yokosuka-dragon-gate-051007/ http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/25980-masato-yoshino-naruki-doi-vs-dragon-kid-shingo-takagi-dragon-gate-082808/ -Masaaki Mochizuki: http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/25005-masato-yoshino-vs-maasaki-mochizuki-dragon-gate-011614/ http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/25817-darkness-dragon-genki-horiguchi-magnum-tokyo-vs-dragon-kid-ryo-saito-masaaki-mochizuki-vs-cima-taru-don-fuji-toryumon-071402/ http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/27085-minoru-tanaka-vs-masaaki-mochizuki-battlarts-052798/ -Christopher Daniels: http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/21806-lax-vs-christopher-daniels-aj-styles-tna-no-surrender-092406/ -Katzuhori Shibata: http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/25902-toshiaki-kawada-vs-katsuyori-shibata-njpw-chrono-stream-110304/ http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/25922-takeshi-morishima-mohammed-yone-vs-kenta-katsuyori-shibata-noah-3rd-great-voyage-110505/ http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/25938-kenta-katsuyori-shibata-vs-akira-taue-go-shiozaki-noah-shiny-navigation-090906/ -Yuji Nagata: http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/25863-kenta-kobashi-vs-yuji-nagata-noah-navigation-over-the-date-line-091203/ http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/25962-hiroshi-tanahashi-vs-yuji-nagata-njpw-explosion-100807/ http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/25946-yuji-nagata-vs-minoru-suzuki-njpw-wrestle-kingdom-010407/ -Kazuchika Okada: http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/25372-hiroshi-tanahashi-vs-kazuchika-okada-njpw-wrestle-kingdom-vii-010413/ http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/25305-kazuchika-okada-vs-hirooki-goto-njpw-021114/ http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/25972-kazuchika-okada-vs-kota-ibushi-njpw-strong-style-42nd-anniversary-show-030614 -Kota Ibushi: http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/25972-kazuchika-okada-vs-kota-ibushi-njpw-strong-style-42nd-anniversary-show-030614/ http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/21848-kenta-taiji-ishimori-vs-kota-ibushi-naomichi-marufuji-noah-summer-navigation-071507/ http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/25963-taka-michinoku-dick-togo-vs-kota-ibushi-madoka-k-dojo-overthrow-120107/ -Prince Devitt: http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/24984-kota-ibushi-vs-prince-devitt-njpw-wrestle-kingdom-viii-010414/ http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/25995-alex-shelley-chris-sabin-vs-prince-devitt-ryusuke-taguchi-njpw-circuit-070509/ http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/25370-prince-devitt-vs-low-ki-vs-ryusuke-taguchi-njpw-wrestle-kingdom-vii-010413/ this match doesn't have Ryusuke Taguchi in it but Kota Ibushi, just saying -Seth Rollins: http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/25356-the-shield-vs-wyatt-family-wwe-monday-night-raw-030314/ http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/25550-john-cena-vs-seth-rollins-wwe-smackdown-122713/ http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/25548-roman-reigns-seth-rollins-vs-daniel-bryan-kane-wwe-monday-night-raw-052713/ Natsuki*Taiyo: There's no real full match reviews for her on here, which I expected because who watches joshi from after the early 00's. Did find this in a joshi for people who don't watch joshi thread

His selling is great and I disagree with exposer that the Sandow match last year was a 'super cena' situation, I personally thought that was a great match and it's one of the rare times I've actively rooted for someone to win a match simply based the bell to bell action. To me the only really egregious matches with Cena overcoming out of nowhere after taking all the offence are the I Quit match with Miz in 2011 and the otherwise awesome Lesnar match in 2012. Anyway John Cena is a great worker despite being sometimes sloppy and delivering punches to the gut that look like crap. He'll probably be in my top 50