March 12, 20187 yr comment_5835389 Actually surprised Cena made it to the top 5. I was sort of second-guessing myself after submitting my ballot and might have gone Austin as #1 instead, but happy he finished that high.
March 12, 20187 yr Author comment_5835390 The Top Ten of the PTBN GWWE Project has arrived! http://placetobenation.com/ptbn-greatest-wwe-wrestler-ever-results-the-top-100-10-1/
March 12, 20187 yr comment_5835391 I do think this top ten would have been fairly different ten years ago too, for the worse.
March 12, 20187 yr comment_5835394 The Top Ten of the PTBN GWWE Project has arrived! http://placetobenation.com/ptbn-greatest-wwe-wrestler-ever-results-the-top-100-10-1/ don’t understand how three people left hogan off their ballots and six people left Bruno off their ballots. Savage at number one was shocking to me. I was all but sure that number one would’ve been hogan or Austin. Wow. Thx for the chance to participate in the voting. Hope PTBN does a greatest wrestler ever for Crockett
March 12, 20187 yr comment_5835400 I do think this top ten would have been fairly different ten years ago too, for the worse. Absolutely.
March 12, 20187 yr comment_5835403 The Top Ten of the PTBN GWWE Project has arrived! http://placetobenation.com/ptbn-greatest-wwe-wrestler-ever-results-the-top-100-10-1/ dont understand how three people left hogan off their ballots and six people left Bruno off their ballots. Savage at number one was shocking to me. I was all but sure that number one wouldve been hogan or Austin. Wow. Thx for the chance to participate in the voting. Hope PTBN does a greatest wrestler ever for Crockett Yeah, I'm sort of baffled that guys like Hogan, Austin and Cena aren't unanimous votes. Bruno and Rock as well (though maybe in Brunos case I could see a lack of footage possibly being an issue, or not being big on the in-ring work from the era...I guess?). I'm surprised Michaels made it onto every ballot and those guys didn't. I thought for sure some folk would've left him off. Flair being a unanimous vote and those guys missing ballots is weird. Even if you want to ding Austin for longevity, or Hogan if you're not big on him in the Workrate category, or Cena for being stale for a while and cutting corny promos, those three still feel like absolute no-brainers to me. Hulk Hogan, fer chrissakes!
March 12, 20187 yr comment_5835412 Think Hogan and Austin were left off for human being reasons. As far as Cena goes, old habits die hard.
March 12, 20187 yr Author comment_5835413 On tonight's Place to Be Podcast, we will be announcing the next reader participation stretch project... stay tuned!
March 12, 20187 yr comment_5835422 Think Hogan and Austin were left off for human being reasons. I actually did not think of that. Fair enough.
March 12, 20187 yr comment_5835440 Macho being number 1 was a shock, but I have no problems with the top ten. My top ten: 1. Stone Cold 2. Hulk Hogan 3. Macho Man 4. John Cena 5. Eddie Guerrero 6. Bret Hart 7. Daniel Bryan 8. CM Punk 9. Shawn Michaels 10. Rey Mysterio Jericho I had at 11, Rock at 12, Bruno at 14 (More of a footage thing. I didn't see enough, but I loved enough to have him this high), Taker at 17 Austin at 1 over Hogan probably because I was around 10/11 during the height of Austin 3:16 and was too young for Hulkamania.
March 12, 20187 yr comment_5835452 I'm surprised people are shocked by Savage at 1 because I think it was fairly obvious he was the likely winner if you closely followed Facebook conversations and the podcasts that have come out. To be totally blunt you'd be hard pressed to construct a criteria that was more favorable to Savage as the lack of emphasis/rejection of drawing power/stardom really gave people an out to rate Savage - a guy who was never really the true promotion number one - over guys like Cena, Hogan, Bruno and Austin. I disagree with Savage finishing first for that reason (i.e if he was never really the top guy in the company, I can't buy him as the top guy in promotion history), but I recognized it as the likely outcome so early on that I would have been stunned to see him defeated. Austin coming so close was a surprise
March 12, 20187 yr comment_5835454 Interesting the only match #1 and #2 had against each other was in WCW, not WWF/E
March 12, 20187 yr comment_5835456 I'm surprised people are shocked by Savage at 1 because I think it was fairly obvious he was the likely winner if you closely followed Facebook conversations and the podcasts that have come out. To be totally blunt you'd be hard pressed to construct a criteria that was more favorable to Savage as the lack of emphasis/rejection of drawing power/stardom really gave people an out to rate Savage - a guy who was never really the true promotion number one - over guys like Cena, Hogan, Bruno and Austin. I disagree with Savage finishing first for that reason (i.e if he was never really the top guy in the company, I can't buy him as the top guy in promotion history), but I recognized it as the likely outcome so early on that I would have been stunned to see him defeated. Austin coming so close was a surprise Having only tangentially followed along with this through a couple of podcasts and the Facebook group, Id love to hear you and a couple of others expand your thoughts on the results/talk through your own ballots
March 13, 20187 yr comment_5835639 I predicted Savage at #1 long ago, I thought Shawn would get #3, but was happy that Bret was higher I guess I was the only person who didn't put Austin on their ballot lol
March 18, 20187 yr comment_5836289 Hogan was robbed. Embarrassed to see HBK in top ten. Hogan's racism hurt him.
March 18, 20187 yr comment_5836328 Hogan was robbed. Embarrassed to see HBK in top ten. can you believe HBK was on every ballot while Hogan, Austin and Bruno werent? You shouldve voted Parv. Every vote counted.
March 18, 20187 yr comment_5836348 It baffles me that anyone on earth would think that Hogan, Austin and Bruno aren't among the top 100 WWE performers
March 23, 20187 yr comment_5837230 At least in the case of the first two, I believe it was mentioned they were left off for issues outside of the ring.
April 1, 20187 yr Author comment_5838482 In this episode of PTBN GWWE: Made the Cut, JT and Aaron are continuing to break down their personal lists. Who made the cut? And why? JT & Aaron break it all down, so check it out! http://placetobenation.com/ptbn-gwwe-made-the-cut-6/
April 10, 20187 yr comment_5841660 I'm down to the bottom twenty in Dylan and Devon's GWWE podcast. I did want to mention now that while the podcast is very much the Dylan show (through no fault of Devon's as Dylan just has a more complete list), the most must-listen thing on there is Devon's awesome defense of the Miz. Excellent stuff and well worth seeking out. Someone should isolate that two minutes and toss it on youtube or something.
April 12, 20187 yr comment_5842193 Sorry, Dylan. If you divorce yourself from the criteria, I can see his rankings, objectively. But anytime I venture towards subjectivity with the categories, I just struggle with John Cena as the top ranking. (Some of that might be subjective because I hate the promos, the character, the no-selling of losses (which was acknowledged) as well as how Cena would just transparently leach onto guys to stay positioned strong and positioned as a nice (which isn't all vince if you evaluate things, or at least can't be claimed as uniquely vince.( And the more I struggle with credibly separating Bruno with Cena, or ranking Pedro as low as he did. It felt like picking and choosing with drawing to me as a hidden category. And if you don't include drawing and damage, I also don't see the damage argument as being that fatal vs. HHH, but not potentially dinging Hogan too (even if not quite as much). For instance,, undercutting Warrior, not prolonging the hot Savage feud even longer, wm8 needing to eclipse the world title, the WM9 bs, etc.
May 9, 20187 yr comment_5848392 The fact that the divisive Shawn and Bret (my #1 and #2) made every ballot and Hogan, Austin and Bruno didn't is sort of hilarious. I was hoping Austin would win but a close #2 is respectable. I completely forgot to vote for Hogan (who I dislike strongly so probably subconsciously dismissed). Luckily, it didn't influence his placement.
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