I really don't like watching James storm wrestle so I'm a little bummed people ranked him BUT it might be worth it for that picture. I know some ladies back in Kentucky that would have that framed on the wall.

I've been wondering if I'd ever find a picture that felt right for my PWO avatar. Then the day came when Tommy Dreamer was nominated for Greatest Wrestler Ever.

 

2006 Ranking: unranked

Points: 45

# of Ballots: 2

Average Vote: 78.5

High Vote: 68 (ChuckScumm)

Low Vote: 89

"probably should have been 69" Timothy Buechner

So happy this stupid joke made it on to the list thread.

 

It made it in because the other vote was number 68. Almost a perfect prediction,

James Storm and Ikuto Hidaka were the first two guys I really seriously considered for my list to appear on here, and then they are tied.

​Ryuji Ito not finishing ahead of Tommy Dreamer is kinda tragic.

Wow, that's a monster rating for Dream Machine from Tim Cooke.

 

Also, "Ian Rotten is a better wrestler than Dusty Rhodes" - Chad Campbell.

I actually like Honky but man 49 on him seems insane.

Honky Tonk Man? the 49th greatest wrestler ever? I'm gonna assume that the same person who put Bob Sapp at 66 did this. From now on I'm assuming all insane anon high votes are the same person.

I thought Ian would do a little better than that, though I never really considered him.

Honky Tonk Man? the 49th greatest wrestler ever? I'm gonna assume that the same person who put Bob Sapp at 66 did this. From now on I'm assuming all insane anon high votes are the same person.

 

Some poster should join the board as "Insane Anon."

I just want to know who are the 48 other people that this person thinks are the ONLY people better than The Honky Tonk Man.

Honky Tonk Man? the 49th greatest wrestler ever? I'm gonna assume that the same person who put Bob Sapp at 66 did this.

Not the case. The Bob Sapp ballot is fucking amazing.

HTM voted 49th best wrestler ever is a sign we should have made this a PWO exclusive.

 

Tommy Dreamer's pic is wonderful.

Nice odd indie sleaze series with Kid Kash, Jun Kasai, Tommy Dreamer, Ian Rotten and Gedo back to back. When you think about it, Kid Kash and Ian Rotten as 64th best wrestlers ever is also quite the mindfuck.

 

James Storm is sexy as hell in that picture. If I were a girl, I'd do him.

HTM voted 49th best wrestler ever is a sign we should have made this a PWO exclusive.

 

Booo. I like the weirdos. Makes everything way more interesting.

You can give it this, it's possibly the most outrageouly controversial vote so far. (https://twitter.com/JerryvonK/status/718173004094697472)

HTM was a possible 100 vote for a while.

I'm now convinced that one or two trolls made joke ballots to make fun of us "stupid wrestling fans that don't know it's fake!" HTM is not the 49th best at anything.

I'm not sure a few joke ballots demean the process. Granted you would rather there be none but still.

Dream Machine was the last guy left off my list. Glad to see him get some votes

You can give it this, it's possibly the most outrageouly controversial vote so far. (https://twitter.com/JerryvonK/status/718173004094697472)

What I'm taking away from that tweet is that Honky Tonk Man is a communist.

Dream Machine was the last guy left off my list. Glad to see him get some votes

 

I love Troy Graham but too much time in between gigs forced me to leave him off.

I wouldn't worry about some "weird" votes (weird being a relative term to be honest), with a sample size of 151 ballots we're in the safe zone where a few outiers aren't really going to skew the rankings of this list notably. It'll be more noticeable in this portion of the honorable mentions, but the further we go, the less they will weigh on the rankings.

I'm still waiting for one of my 100 to come up and I'm thinking about who it will be and where.

 

My money is on Dory, maybe around 200?

The diversity of opinion in this process is what I'm really enjoying. Only one of my votes have come up so far (Dave Taylor) but I can see how someone who values different things about wrestling would vote for most of those who have come up. For the life of me though, I cannot see what someone would be looking for in a wrestler that would make Honky Tonk Man the 49th best wrestler they have ever seen.

 

I do want to say that I love that Tommy Dreamer picture.

I feel like PG-13 as a team was so good that it almost makes up for their lackluster singles outings. It's hard to penalize them for that because they clearly got a facet of wrestling the others struggle with. That being said I'd maybe include Brian Christopher ahead of both and he wasn't even nominated.

Holy shit. Pat Roach was in Temple of Doom?! I had no idea that was him. That's awesome.