Post by OfLegend on Sept 10, 2006 22:45:33 GMT
Okay, before my computer wiped (causing me to lose everything, ever), I'd just astonishingly completed a top 100 workers list. It started as a top 20, and I'd just added to it over months whenever I'd been bored. Over the past couple of days, while I've had considerably more time on my hands than usual, I've been trying to recreate it, and so far I'm up to 50.
Realising that it my computer of course could rape my life once more at any moment, I've decided to upload what I've got here, so that I can add to it and edit it.
This is by no means the finished article, nor is it the authority, as I need to watch more puro, especially joshi, and lucha, but most of the wrestlers are in the areas I feel they deserve to be in. Except Flair should probably be higher, but then again, I really hate a lot of his work. A few less comedy spots repeated ad nauseum would have bumped him. I also think The Rock might be too high. Anyway, here's my updated top 70 thus far:
1. Jumbo Tsuruta
2. Kenta Kobashi
3. Jushin “Thunder” Liger
4. Chris Benoit
5. The Dynamite Kid
6. Toshiaki Kawada
7. Mitsuharu Misawa
8. Eddie Guerrero
9. Terry Funk
10. Shawn Michaels
11. Nobuhiko Takada
12. Harley Race
13. Ricky Steamboat
14. Bret Hart
15. Barry Windham
16. Stan Hansen
17. El Hijo del Santo
18. Ric Flair
19. Akira Hokuto
20. Shinya Hashimoto
21. Owen Hart
22. Manami Toyota
23. Vader
24. Aja Kong
25. Tatsumi Fujinami
26. Steve Austin
27. Arn Anderson
28. Terry Gordy
29. Curt Hennig
30. Jun Akiyama
31. Ultimo Dragon
32. Jaguar Yokota
33. Bull Nakano
34. Genichiro Tenryu
35. Satoru Satama
36. Devil Masami
37. Randy Savage
38. Yoshiaki Fujiwara
39. Jack Brisco
40. Tully Blanchard
41. Rick Rude
42. Nick Bockwinkle
43. The Great Muta
44. Mashiro Chono
45. Dynamite Kansai
46. Bam Bam Bigelow
47. Rick Martel
48. Shinjiro Ohtani
49. Jake Roberts
50. Ted Dibiase
51. William Regal
52. The Destroyer
53. Rey Misterio, Jr
54. Negro Casas
55. Jerry Lawler
56. Mick Foley
57. The Great Sasuke
58. Akira Taue
59. Riki Choshu
60. Akira Maeda
61. TAKA Michinoku
62. Hiroshi Hase
63. Juventud Guerrera
64. Billy Robinson
65. The Rock
66. Giant Baba
67. Masahiro Fuchi
68. Yuji Nagata
69. Kensuke Sasaki
70. Dave Finlay
71. Mark Rocco
72. Davey Boy Smith
73. Triple H
74. Johnny Smith
75. Chris Jericho
76. Kuniaki Koyabashi
77. Too Cold Scorpio
78. Kurt Angle
79. Marty Jannetty
80. Mil Mascaras
81. El Dandy
82. Bad News Brown
83. Ron Garvin
84. Brad Armstrong
85. Brian Pillman
86. The Cobra
87. Scott Steiner
88. Koji Kanemoto
89. Masato Tanaka
90. Satoshi Kojima
91. Hiroyoshi Tenzan
92. Jeff Jarrett
93. Sting
94. Tsuyoshi Kikuchi
95. Hayabusa
96. SUWA
97. Steve Corino
98. Samoa Joe
99. Bruiser Brody
100. Villano III
Comments are welcome, but not needed. Wanna talk about specific styles and get recommendations before compiling your own lists? Go ahead:
Puroresu Heavyweight discussion
awt.proboards83.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=other&thread=1157985126
North American Heavyweight discussion
awt.proboards83.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=other&thread=1157985465
Junior Heavyweight discussion
awt.proboards83.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=other&thread=1157986038
Joshi discussion
awt.proboards83.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=other&thread=1157986629
Worldwide discussion
awt.proboards83.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=other&thread=1157991833
More to come.
Realising that it my computer of course could rape my life once more at any moment, I've decided to upload what I've got here, so that I can add to it and edit it.
This is by no means the finished article, nor is it the authority, as I need to watch more puro, especially joshi, and lucha, but most of the wrestlers are in the areas I feel they deserve to be in. Except Flair should probably be higher, but then again, I really hate a lot of his work. A few less comedy spots repeated ad nauseum would have bumped him. I also think The Rock might be too high. Anyway, here's my updated top 70 thus far:
1. Jumbo Tsuruta
2. Kenta Kobashi
3. Jushin “Thunder” Liger
4. Chris Benoit
5. The Dynamite Kid
6. Toshiaki Kawada
7. Mitsuharu Misawa
8. Eddie Guerrero
9. Terry Funk
10. Shawn Michaels
11. Nobuhiko Takada
12. Harley Race
13. Ricky Steamboat
14. Bret Hart
15. Barry Windham
16. Stan Hansen
17. El Hijo del Santo
18. Ric Flair
19. Akira Hokuto
20. Shinya Hashimoto
21. Owen Hart
22. Manami Toyota
23. Vader
24. Aja Kong
25. Tatsumi Fujinami
26. Steve Austin
27. Arn Anderson
28. Terry Gordy
29. Curt Hennig
30. Jun Akiyama
31. Ultimo Dragon
32. Jaguar Yokota
33. Bull Nakano
34. Genichiro Tenryu
35. Satoru Satama
36. Devil Masami
37. Randy Savage
38. Yoshiaki Fujiwara
39. Jack Brisco
40. Tully Blanchard
41. Rick Rude
42. Nick Bockwinkle
43. The Great Muta
44. Mashiro Chono
45. Dynamite Kansai
46. Bam Bam Bigelow
47. Rick Martel
48. Shinjiro Ohtani
49. Jake Roberts
50. Ted Dibiase
51. William Regal
52. The Destroyer
53. Rey Misterio, Jr
54. Negro Casas
55. Jerry Lawler
56. Mick Foley
57. The Great Sasuke
58. Akira Taue
59. Riki Choshu
60. Akira Maeda
61. TAKA Michinoku
62. Hiroshi Hase
63. Juventud Guerrera
64. Billy Robinson
65. The Rock
66. Giant Baba
67. Masahiro Fuchi
68. Yuji Nagata
69. Kensuke Sasaki
70. Dave Finlay
71. Mark Rocco
72. Davey Boy Smith
73. Triple H
74. Johnny Smith
75. Chris Jericho
76. Kuniaki Koyabashi
77. Too Cold Scorpio
78. Kurt Angle
79. Marty Jannetty
80. Mil Mascaras
81. El Dandy
82. Bad News Brown
83. Ron Garvin
84. Brad Armstrong
85. Brian Pillman
86. The Cobra
87. Scott Steiner
88. Koji Kanemoto
89. Masato Tanaka
90. Satoshi Kojima
91. Hiroyoshi Tenzan
92. Jeff Jarrett
93. Sting
94. Tsuyoshi Kikuchi
95. Hayabusa
96. SUWA
97. Steve Corino
98. Samoa Joe
99. Bruiser Brody
100. Villano III
Comments are welcome, but not needed. Wanna talk about specific styles and get recommendations before compiling your own lists? Go ahead:
Puroresu Heavyweight discussion
awt.proboards83.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=other&thread=1157985126
North American Heavyweight discussion
awt.proboards83.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=other&thread=1157985465
Junior Heavyweight discussion
awt.proboards83.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=other&thread=1157986038
Joshi discussion
awt.proboards83.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=other&thread=1157986629
Worldwide discussion
awt.proboards83.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=other&thread=1157991833
More to come.