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In case of Yoshida, she basically left Zenjo where she was doing the traditional go-go-go house style and when she debuted in ARSION she already had created her own style in which she trained the girls like Fukawa into. Didn't took her long at all.

Damn, even your Iphone fell asleep at the mere mention of Dory. Wow, the quality has been great overall, but this is the post of the project for me. At your service.

Damn, even your Iphone fell asleep at the mere mention of Dory.

Not all of us. Well, Chiggy has been great at one point, if you can stomach the 80's schoolgirl era. She was still pretty damn good when she came back to work some shows in the early 90's. Chiggy in GAEA... not so much. Not great by any stretch of the imagination anyway.

I voted for 5 of them, and I don't even disagree. Well, I think Foley deserves the top 100 though. Hey, Chiggy ! We barely knew you.

Masa Fuchi was my #95. He really held on well, which is what he did his entire career. Always there, always solid, with a terrific peak as a complete asshole punking Kikuchi in Jumbo's trios.

Sting above Jaguar Yokota. I don't remember any huge Sting pimping during the process either, how did he got so fucking high anyway ?

Toyota is one of the best woman if Shawn Michaels is one of the best man. Basically anything outside classic era Zenjo big names got shortchanged. Joshi fell out of fashion so it shouldn't be surprising. Still, with all this talk of footage explosion, it seems to me the Top 100 will be very conservative, US guy oriented + the usual suspects.

Insane that Jaguar doesn't make the top 100. Just insane. She was my #51. So what's gonna be left for the women ? Toyota I guess with Hokuto and hopefully Aja & Bull.

Sasuke is another one from my 2006 list that didn't make it this time around, I was never as high on him as others, although if I had rewatched his peak years maybe I would have included him. Lots of juniors/lucharesu guys didn't make my list.

The KENTA pic is a wonderful troll. Well done again ! Jerry Blackwell could have made my list. I love him as a heel. I'm not that fond of his babyface work sadly, which is probably why he didn't made the cut.

PPV 36 Greatest PPV opener ever ! Hacksaw Jim Duggan is proud of going to war against Irak and tells France and Germany to « stay out of our way ! » I always hated Duggan’s dumbfuck jingoist gimmick. Realy worked out well, that war in Irak deal to find Ben Laden and mass destruction weapons, uh ? Ah, pro-wrestling and geopolitics. This was a pretty bad show anyway except for the main event and the X-div match (against all odds). Well, XXX vs The Church was pretty decent actually and Malice came back so we can get a six-men feud, which could be fun for a while. Babyface Brian Lee does an awful looking tope. Crowd chanting « Evil ! » still is funny. Week 5 of Jerry Lynn not getting his X-division title match he gained by winning the gauntlet match, and tagging with Jason Cross vs Juvy & Konnan didn’t do him any favors. The stuff with Juvy was sloppy and contrived Eddielenko sequences. Tease of Juvy and Konnan not really getting along, and Konnan is just as bad as ever. I'm not feeling where this is going now. The debut of D-Lo wasn’t exactly thrilling although he looked good against the three Second Generationers, tagging with Jarrett & Dusty. Really, we don’t need Dusty in the ring regularly. They try to paint Watts as this great mastermind, but no one’s buying it at all. He looks like an overgrown Don Callis without the wit. D-Lo’s deal is that, since he’s a WWE guy, he gets a World Title shot from scratch. Yeah, that mentality was there from the beginning. His outfit, complete with black T-shirt, screams « I'm not a star » too. Jeff looked bad coming in as a house of tedious fire. When Brian Lawler is the second best in a match in 2003… Stupid angle with hanging threat and shit after Ron Killings turned from nowhere. So now we have AJ Styles, Raven, Erik Watts, Ron Killings & D-Lo Brown more or less feuding with Jarrett. Overkill anyone ? Then what ? Duggan & Moondog Spot (don’t ask) vs Disco & Sanders. DON'T ASK. Sonny Siaki dropping Athena on her head because she wouldn’t show her boobs. This show gets classier by the weeks. Card was saved by the heelish attitude of Kid Kash, who’s going to turn because he’s jealous of Trinity. So, Triple Threat match with Trinity & Amazing Red and it was actually well put together with Trinity being bumped hard twice outside so we get a regular match until she could come back for some short action that wouldn’t expose her too much. Plus Kash working heel is a thousand times better than him just hitting spots sloppily. Trinity got screwed just before she could do a moonsault. And mostly, card was saved by AJ Styles vs Raven in a garbage/ladder match for the N°1 contender. Seriously, AJ Styles is so good already, cool maneurisms, smart use of plunders, good sense of pacing. And Raven I think as never been as good of a worker either. I love the way he sells the shots and bumps around, whith some great facials rendered even better by the blood all over his face and crazy hair. I can even deal with the run-in since it actually led to a logical finish. So Raven won. If we apply the Jerry Lynn rule, he’ll never get his title shot. 2003/03/19 Kid Kash vs Amazing Red vs Trinity 2003/03/19 AJ Styles vs Raven

Some "right" names have dropped off already.

Yeah, me too. Especially when you see most of the so-called "niche" worker taking a dive compared to 2006, when Hogan and The Rock haven't showed up yet. Makes you wonder a bit.

Like at Mania, Trip gets the best entrance.

He's the real robot-wrestling-in-a-vacuum. Plus, I blame him & Guerrero for the infamous Eddielenko sequence that has been exhausted to death with people kicking out of their own "pin attempt" to get into the next spot.

Well, gotta make some room for Hulk Hogan and HHH. Those great workers.

Yeah. Kansai was my #71. All the girls are dropping from the Top 100. I voted for Malenko last time. As you can guess if you know me, he had no chance this time around.

125 is too high for either of these guys.

Had Sano at #30, which is probably way too high but considering where he landed, I'm glad I did it. There's only one vote I really feel stupid about. Seriously, the final list looks like it's gonna have some serious crappy candidates. Hogan ? HHH ? Really people ?

I kinda regret voting for Toyota actually. Especially since I didn't vote for Devil and a bunch of others. Way too many great matches, but I was never a Toyotalite. Denying her was too hard though.

A bunch of boring choice from 2006, some overrated fuckers from Memphis and Portland and some WWE guys who shouldn't approach the Top 200 (mind you, I probably voted for most of them too minus the WWE guys).

I'm glad someone agrees with me on the Takada/Onita comparison. That has been one of my point since I rewatched his stuff.

Never was a Satomura fan, way overrated in the late 90's early 00's. Ah, that famous debate about the ridiculous Hokuto match with the late/not-dead-after-all Vanes Naldi... Maybe she got better later on, so... But she sure was the poster girl for the way overrated GAEA promotion. Well, at least KAORU didn't make the list.

Maybe you're right. I still think the backlash sucks and is ridiculous. And it's not like Takada not being great at pure shoot-style is anything new. I was having discussion with Mike (Lorefice) more than fifteen years ago about this. If I thought Takada kinda sucked when I went through UWF and UWF-I (past 2010 btw, so I absolutely did not go on memories for Takada, he was basically the last guy I checked *for the GWE* as late as fall of 2015), I would have no problem to admit it. Tons of guys' stocks have dropped since 2006 in my book. More on those later.