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Cutting this list down to just ten wrestlers was incredibly hard and meant having to take out a bunch of people who really deserve credit so before I get into the main list I'm going to throw out a quite frankly ridiculous number of HMs because every time I think I'm done I think of three more people I want to talk about. I'm so sorry, everyone. Honourable Mentions Jon Moxley: He absolutely proved this year that he can be and is a company Ace. He delivered on the mic, he delivered in the ring and he did every single thing that could have been asked from him and more. He's winning this poll and it's completely deserved. If I was voting on the ten best wrestlers of 2020 he'd be right up at the top, it's just that I have emotional attachments that I cannot cast aside. Sorry Mox. Kenny Omega: One of the incredible things about AEW is they have three guys who can make legit claims to being the company Ace. Despite accusations of under delivering on expectations Kenny still had an incredible year in 2020. His tag team with Hangman Page was a consistent highlight in the ring and Kenny played his role in the messy interpersonal dynamics in the Elite to perfection. He was also the key lynchpin in maintaining Dynamite during the worst parts of the COVID lockdown and while those matches have faded from memory in the grand scheme of things they were vital at the time in keeping things going. With the AEW title in hand, a new heel persona and a presence spanning multiple companies I fully expect that by the end of 2021 he will have restablished himself as the best in the world today. Orange Cassidy: There were points during this year where OC would have been a contender for my top 5. At the heights of the PAC match and the Jericho feud I was in love with the guy and don't get me wrong, just because he's not in my top 10 this doesn't mean I've gone off him by any means. The thing is OC is an incredibly tricky character to get the balance right with and while I wouldn't say he's been overexposed exactly I do think AEW haven't quite been sure how to fit him into things following the end of the Jericho feud. Even so if we were going beyond top 10 lists he'd be a lock for one of my next spots and all it would take to push him back up there is the right story at the right time. Mr. Brodie Lee: Yeah, I feel guilty about this exclusion. I never saw any Brodie's work on the indies before signing with WWE. My first experience of him was his main roster debut with the Wyatt Family and while it was clear that he had potential to be more than WWE were making of him I didn't quite buy in to the idea that Brodie could be a legit top guy. Then he came to AEW and proved me completely wrong. The destruction of Cody Rhodes is going to be one of the most memorable moments in AEW history and in the weeks that followed Brodie proved that he was undeniably main event calibre. Also Jon Huber was by all accounts the kindest man behind the curtain as well. That we were only just starting to see him reach the limits of his potential makes it all the sadder that he was taken from us so soon. The reason he's not in my top 10 is because he was never “my guy” but I absolutely recognise what he achieved in 2020. Oh, and he also played a major role in establishing his stable as a major force. In fact... The Dark Order: I had already #JoinedDarkOrder following their adverts on Dynamite in 2019 but there's no denying that the entire faction picked up once Brodie joined them. Every single member has come on in leaps and bounds over the last 12 months with the exception of Stu but that's because he was always great. Uno's tweaked his look really well and is so good at that middle manager role, Silver and Reynolds have proven to be a great tandem both in the ring and in skits, Colt's connection to the group has given his character the bite it needed since joining AEW and then in Vance, Angels and Anna they've picked up a trio of top notch rookies with bags of potential. I love all of them, I love that they all come out together for any member's matches because they are good group of friends that support and love each other, they're great in any combination and they've been the highlight of BTE as well. Now if they could just help get 10 off the powdered sugar... Tay Conti: Like everyone I wrote Tay off when she was in NXT. She never looked comfortable in the ring, she never showed much character and she was never given a chance to be more than a jobber. But from the moment she stepped into AEW in the women's tag team cup she has felt like a star in the making. Yes, she is still incredibly raw and has a lot to work on but we're already seeing her improve and she brings a unique style to the women's division. Plus her friendship with Anna Jay feels so genuine and heartfelt that it is a joy to see them on screen together. I was delighted when AEW announced she was signed and I look forward to watching her growth in a company that will actually nurture her talent. Britt Baker: What a difference a year makes. After AEW tried so hard to make her work as a face last year with zero success they then turned her heel and helped her unleash the Karen energies within. Britt is just a fantastic natural heel that gets to straddle the line between comedic laughs and vicious aggression to the point she's just as believable screaming at Reba (never Rebel, always Reba) to move the Roll Model as she is tearing out the tooth of a Japanese genie. While she's not the best in the ring she has improved this year and even if she never becomes a great worker she has the personality to be a star in the division. Even when she was out for months from injury she still remained a vital part of the show. Ricky Starks: Speaking of people with personality, Ricky Starks just oozes it out of every pore. When he came into AEW for that match with Cody I thought he was perfectly fine but I wasn't wowed and I didn't quite get him as a top prospect. However turning him heel and pairing him up with Taz has been the perfect fit for him. Ricky just carries himself like a star, he's got the looks and he's got the swagger that just makes him pop off the screen. Also the way Taz gives him lots of speaking time despite already being a great mouthpiece makes all of Ricky's words more important. I can't wait to see where this guy goes next. Tomohiro Ishii: Gonna switch gears now and head across the ocean to Japan. There is no denying Ishii's ability as a wrestler. He is the most reliable in-ring performer in all of New Japan and every time he steps between the ropes you know he's going to deliver. In 2020 once again he had a fantastic year delivering MOTYC after MOTYC with a wide variety of opponents. Unfortunately his whole gruff stoic warrior personality does nothing for me so while I love Ishii matches I find it very hard to love Ishii as a whole. That G1 match with Taichi slapped though. Shingo Takagi: Take everything I just said about Ishii and you can apply all of that to Shingo as well. The guy is just a phenomenal wrestler and in a year where New Japan's booking has at times felt listless his work in the NEVER division has been a rock providing guaranteed match quality all year long. After years of the belt being hotshot around from pillar to post he has had a defining championship reign and given the belt a level of prestige it has never had before. In a lot of ways he's turned into a midcard version of Okada where he's virtually unbeatable and a lot of wrestlers are defined by their ongoing quest to beat him. I will always look forward to his matches even if I'm not necessarily going to be cheering for him in them. Hiromu Takahashi: Man, I wish I loved Hiromu more than I do. Which isn't to say that I don't love him at all because the dude is just a bundle of joy to watch and also just happens to be one of the best wrestlers in the world. Whether it's five minute slap exchanges with Ryu Lee, running away from Toru Yano with scissors or screaming in time with EVIL's theme everything Hiromu does is just so watchable. I think the problem is much like with Moxley and Omega where I'm more drawn to wrestlers who are still fighting to reach the top rather than the ones who are already there. Hiroshi Tanahashi: The Ace is dead. Long live the Ace. 2020 has not been kind to Tanahashi who spent about 75% of it getting his knees ripped off. It's clear that after twenty years of giving his all for New Japan that his body is finally failing him both in and out of kayfabe but the story of his downfall has been so compelling and emotionally devastating that I have to acknowledge it. There was the repeated bouts of insecurity in his tag team with Kota Ibushi, the underwhelming run of G1 results culminating in the shocking elimination by Hirooki Goto and then his complete failure to leave a mark in World Tag League. Tanahashi is having to confront the fact he's only human and so are the rest of us. Jay White: This was the year where I felt like Jay really settled into his role as an established main eventer in New Japan. His absence during the first few months of COVID shows left a massive hole at the top of the card and EVIL's failed title run just made him look all the better in comparison. It helps that sometime around the end of 2019 Jay tightened up his ringwork and fleshed out his moveset to make him a match for anyone in the company but what really makes him stand out is the rampant douchebaggery which has just got all the worse under COVID conditions. Whether it's mocking the crowd's inability to chant for their heroes or laughing at them as he gets them to clap like performing seals he's just so watchable and so hateable and he's so great at showing rear end yet somehow coming out ahead in the long run. He's the perfect heel. Toa Henare: Don't sleep on Toa Henare. The dude was all set for a breakout year in 2020 until COVID hit and he was gone from our screens for the next nine months but as soon as he returned for World Tag League where he was the standout worker it was clear that he had not missed a beat in the time away. Henare is the definition of intensity and just electric to watch in the ring. He's young, he's hungry and night after night he's giving his all to prove that he can be more than just a multiman tag guy. Here's hoping COVID doesn't derail his career for the second year in a row because all being well everyone will be talking about Henare by the end of 2021. Go Shiozaki: The amount he's been talked up on the forum this year makes me wish I had the time to take on a third regular promotion and also the time to take on a fourth regular promotion because the third would be joshi. Maki Itoh: My favourite wrestler who I have never seen wrestle a match. Yuka Sakazaki: AYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY Hana Kimura: If losing Brodie Lee at the age of 41 to lung disease was unfair then losing Hana Kimura at the age of 22 to suicide because she was cyberbullied by a bunch of shitheads was downright cruel. As I just mentioned I don't really have the time to commit to another wrestling promotion but if I did it would be STARDOM and I have dabbled with a couple of shows. And on the shows I have watched there was one woman that stood out instantly as a star and that was Hana. Coming in as someone with no knowledge of the roster she instantly connected with me with an energy that just leapt off the screen. To lose so much potential from this world because reality TV producers wanted to create manufactured drama is a crime and just the cherry on the sundae of poo poo that has been 2020. Welp, that was way more writing than I intended to do. Oh well, now I can finally start talking about my top 10. It's ok, I'm sure I'll be able to keep it brief.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FElUJgMcaw 10. PAC (AEW, 34) It was Joni Mitchell who first sang 'you don't know what you got till it's gone'. That's a fair summary of where my head was at with PAC before COVID hit. He was very clearly one of the best on the AEW roster and a vital part of their shows but I didn't have him on a list of people that I absolutely needed to see on my television. Sure, the matches with Kenny Omega and Orange Cassidy were fantastic and the formation of TRIÁNGULO DE LA MUERTE was amazing but I didn't realise how much I needed him in my life. Then COVID hit and all of a sudden there was a Bastard-shaped hole in my favourite wrestling show that no one else could fill. Fast forward nine months and PAC's surprise return at the end of the post-PPV Dynamite was hands down my biggest single markout moment of the year and one that caught even me by surprise. So even though he's barely been around in 2020 I still have to include him in my top 10 because he's a bastard and deep in my heart so am I. Top Match: vs. Kenny Omega (AEW Dynamite, 26/02)  ---  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUSfSEb2hxs 9. EL DESPERADO (NJPW, 37) Suzuki-gun is Ichiban. I am naturally disposed to love all of these good dirtbags who enjoy beating the piss out of others together so I've always had a base level of affection for Despy but this is the year where he really won me over. Up till now he's always been a bit stifled by being stuck in the tag division with Kanemaru but this year thanks to COVID he had to step up as a singles guy and he showed up in a major way. The heavyweight matches with Ishii and Shingo were a great sign of things to come but it was the Best of Super Juniors tournament where he really got to shine culminating in one of the best matches of the year against Hiromu in the final including that loving spot. And seriously, Despy is just the coolest dude alive. Just look at him, just loving look at him. He's just so loving cool. Top Match: vs. Hiromu Takahashi (NJPW World Tag League/Best of Super Juniors Final, 11/12)  ---  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPw3SZjmdJw 8. RIHO (AEW/STARDOM, 22) Ok look, I've not actually seen a Riho match in like ten months now but like hell was I not including a woman in my top ten and she's still been working STARDOM all year so screw you, I do what I want. But there's a reason Riho gets this spot despite being off my screen for so long and that's because even with all the development of AEW's women's division since COVID hit there is still no woman on the roster that can measure up to the impact Riho made while she was there. Despite her age she was a general in the ring and despite not speaking a word of English she forged an instant connection with the fans. Riho can convey more emotion and language in one expression than most can in a five minute promo. She's also a natural underdog and a warm personality that makes the world feel like a better place. She's still the biggest female star AEW has and whenever it is she's able to make her return the roof is going to explode. Top Match: vs. Nyla Rose (AEW Dynamite, 12/02)  ---  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9nuECbekx4 7. SAMMY GUEVARA (AEW, 27) Ugh, ok this one's a complicated one. If you'd asked me during the first six months of the year I would have said Sammy is my #1 fave in all of wrestling. He is so very talented both as a wrestler in the ring and as an entertainer outside of it and he's got that reckless tendency to take all the dumb bumps that he can find. Then out came the comments on Sasha Banks and the #SpeakingOut allegation and obviously he dropped in my estimation like a stone. To his credit his handling of the Sasha Banks comments set an example to the industry at a time when lots of lovely people were giving really lovely responses and it felt like there was a legitimate desire to change and grow as a person. Then he came back from his suspension a bit sooner than I would have liked (not his fault) all so he could have long feud with Matt Hardy that was pretty much cursed (also not his fault) and it almost felt like he was stalling out. Luckily for him things have turned around in the last couple of months with the slow-burning MJF storyline that has allowed him to spark up as babyface and looks like it's going to properly establish him as a big deal which has done enough to bring him back into my favour. Even so I'm still really conflicted about Sammy, I so want to love the guy but I still fear things are going to turn sour. He has the potential to my fave for years and years but right now I can't put him any higher than this. Top Match: vs. Darby Allin (AEW Revolution, 29/02)  ---  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRtv1efE2Gs 6. EDDIE KINGSTON (AEW, 39) I've been aware of Eddie Kingston since pretty much when I first started posting in PSP back in 2011 but this year was the first time I ever actually saw him on my screen and after just a few months he already feels like such an essential part of the wrestling universe. Eddie is just so great and I can't believe that this guy was left to hustle it in the indies for sixteen years but then that's such a vital facet of his character that I can't imagine things going any other way. This is someone who has given his all to this business and wears those scars on his sleeve for all to see. He is the greatest talker in this industry bar none, definitely in 2020 and perhaps maybe ever. That one promo segment with Mox (you know the one) was good enough to be cut from a prestige TV show like the Wire or the Shield. Every word he speaks carries a level of authenticity that I've never seen before and his ability to instantly switch from face to heel is exceptional. There is nothing I want from wrestling more than to see Eddie get a gold watch run with the AEW title belt, I already know I would cry buckets. Top Match: vs. Jon Moxley (AEW Full Gear, 07/11)  ---  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHmAv3FVHbU 5. MINORU SUZUKI (NJPW, 52) Suzuki-gun Is Ichiban. I cherish my first 32 years on this earth because those are the years that I lived in ignorance of the fact that one day my life would end when Minoru Suzuki tracked me down and murdered me. Ever since learning this fact I have been a hollow shell of my former self but I have also been able to enjoy Minoru Suzuki murder a whole bunch of other people and for that I am blessed. After looking like he was ready to wind down in 2019 MiSu came back in a major way this year with one of the best match resumés of anyone. It is goddam ridiculous how this man is able to still be so good in his 50s while men ten years younger than him are already winding down. The only explanation is that Minoru Suzuki is a murder golem powered by hate and I doubt that he would argue with this premise. I still think about how he managed to make taking off a tracksuit look like the coolest thing in the world at Wrestle Kingdom. Did I mention that Suzuki-gun are just really loving cool? The only thing that could have made Suzuki's 2020 better is if crowds had been able to sing KAZE NI NARE. Top Match: vs. Jon Moxley (NJPW The New Beginning in Osaka, 09/02)  ---  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WHx_ZRK5xQ 4. HANGMAN PAGE (AEW, 29) Jesus, I don't know if I even have the words to sum up Adam Page's journey over the last year. Pro wrestling has always existed as a spectacle, a larger than life form of entertainment filled with muscly action heroes and gravity-defying aerialists and supernatural zombies. What Hangman has done over the course of Dynamite's short run is taken wrestling somewhere never seen before, he has made it real. Depressingly, heartbreakingly real. Hangman's long-running struggles with anxiety, alcoholism and his own insecurities have hit home hard in ways that make my heart hurt. There are things he has said and conversations he has had which have echoed word for word things I've said to my friends or my friends have said to me. Hangman has done what no one has done since Steve Austin which is speak to an entire generation but where Austin tapped into Gen X's 'gently caress everything and gently caress you' nihilism Hangman has captured the feeling of failure and abandonment that is so common to us Millenials. I don't even care about whether he wins matches or becomes AEW champion even though I trust that these things will happen in time. I just want Hangman to be happy and to have friends that love him. I really hope that in the Dark Order he has found that. Please give Adam a hug. Top Match: w/ Kenny Omega vs. The Young Bucks (AEW Revolution, 29/12)  ---  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfqULGgp_Ds 3. ZACK SABRE JR. (NJPW, 33) Suzuki-gun IS Ichiban. I've been in love with Zack Sabre Jr. aka. Submission Master aka. ZSJ aka. The Windy Man aka. The Long Mover from the moment I first heard him take the piss out of Boris Johnson in a backstage interview and my love has not wavered ever since. 2020 has been a quiet year for ZSJ which is weird to say when he's been a champion for over six months, played a major role in revitalising New Japan's tag scene and still found time to score 10 points in the G1 but that's just the level he's playing at. Even though he's taken the backseat role to his partner in Dangerous Tekkers he's still delivered a bunch of really good matches and continues to be a must-watch promo. Backstage highlights this year include calling Jon Moxley 'darling' and marvelling at YOSHI-HASHI pulling his finger out thanks to a global pandemic. He's also had a chance to veer a bit more tweener this year which has been great because I just can't root against my socialist octopus boy. The direction Tekkers are going in has me so excited to see what 2021 has in store for him. Top Match: vs. Will Ospreay (RevPro High Stakes, 14/02)  ---  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sztoAtX3pjs 2. TAICHI (NJPW, 40) SUZUKI-GUN IS ICHIBAN. As one of the early Taichi adopters I've always been a believer in the Holy Emperor as a good worker but holy poo poo in 2020 Taichi stepped things up a gear to a level even I didn't see coming. It seems like for every bit of trust New Japan puts in him he works a little more harder earning even more trust so he works even more harder and just creating this positive feedback loop which resulted in him being the standout worker in the company this year. You can stick your Shingos and your Ishiis, no one had a better run in 2020 than Taichi. He had a banger of a feud with Okada pre-COVID, he destroyed Tanahashi and Ibushi back to back in the New Japan Cup, he turned the tag division into appointment viewing over the summer and then he put in the best G1 out of anyone with nothing but MOTYCs (ok except Yujiro but he doesn't count). At the age of 40 Taichi has established himself as a credible force in New Japan and one of the company's most important upper-midcarders. With huge potential circling around his faction's direction in 2021 it seems like things are just getting better and better for Taichi and that's for one reason and one reason only. Because... SUZUKI-GUN IS ICHIBAN  Top Match: vs. Tomohiro Ishii (NJPW G1 Climax Night 13, 10/10)  ---  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEFL_IrCLhM 1. SANADA (NJPW, 32) Ok look, I know that the forum has flipped hard on SANADA in the last year and honestly? For a lot of 2020 I thought I'd soured on him too but as soon as the G1 cards were announced and it was clear that SANADA was having a big tournament I was hooked right back in. Is the Skull End kinda lovely? Yes. Is he a vacuous himbo who spends way too much time on his hair? Also yes. But at the end of the day I don't care about the criticisms. SANADA was my guy from almost the moment I started watching New Japan and he's still my guy today. I love his fluidity in the ring, I love his ability to do the most amazingly athletic things while looking like he's on afternoon stroll, it, I love how he no-sells the backstage interviews, I love that for all his attempts to be aloof and mysterious that he's a big doofy babyface on the inside and he can't really hide it, I love that his show-closing firefly thing is now a gift that he's giving to the fans, I love that he showed up to support his LIJ bro at Power Struggle when he wasn't even booked, I love that he's finally had enough of his ex-friend's bullshit and snapped, I love everything about this man and I have every faith that he will succeed. For all that we joke about him being a choke artist SANADA's career trajectory is way closer to a Tanahashi than a Goto and with the Ace rapidly falling down the card there's going to be a big babyface hole that SANADA has been primed to step into. And if you doubt then you don't realise how over this dude is in Japan cause er, dude is really loving over. Top Match: vs. Kota Ibushi (NJPW G1 Climax Final, 18/10) 
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loving wild considering where he was 6 months ago that not a single person has voted for Keith Lee
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I went back to my last list to see how things have changed HM: Chris Jericho - developed crazy boomer brain HM: EVIL - left LIJ for BC, match quality tanked 10: Andrade - stuck in catering 9: Asuka - held the Raw Women's title for almost a year, has had one proper feud 8: Finn Balor - current NXT champ so good for him I guess 7: Will Ospreay -  6: Cody - vital part of AEW but has been surpassed now I know the roster 5: Ember Moon - still alive in NXT apparently? 4: Daniel Bryan - has somehow become Just A Guy 3: Zack Sabre Jr. - still my #3 2: Taichi - still my #2 1: SANADA - still my #1 My loyalties are strong
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JOHN CENA posted:okada has no votes because he is not a wrestler, he is a god. Sorry that's Kota Ibushi now
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Artelier posted:looking forward to taichi making the top 10
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Jerusalem posted:I'm sorry this is taking so long and we're only into the Top 20 now, I had intended to start this a couple hours earlier and be done by this point, but I got unavoidably delayed. I'll continue on and if people aren't up, I guess at least they can read it all in one go tomorrow! Oh hurray I just woke up and I'm here for the good stuff 
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Writing up Cody's 2020 without even mentioning the MJF feud (especially the lashes) smh
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Jerusalem posted:I honestly 100% thought that the Cody/MJF lashes stuff was in 2019, it feels so long ago. 2020 is a gently caress Anyway, wrestlers from my list I'm still waiting on: PAC, Eddie, MiSu, Hangman, ZSJ, Taichi 
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Man I don't even watch NOAH and even I still think that's way too low for Go (yes I'm part of the problem)
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Fenix makes me feel like I felt watching Rey Mysterio in WCW
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You misgendered Asuka at the end there
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Please refer to Charles Taylor by his proper name
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Considering he only worked for 25% of the year that's a really good finish for PAC
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MJF and Ricky Starks are gonna have such a great feud over the AEW title one day 
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I feel like I'm alone in not thinking Thunder Rosa is really that great. Like, she's fine but I think she gets overhyped cause of how light AEW's women's roster was when she came in
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xbilkis posted:she's also one of the best all-around English-speaking wrestlers in America right now imo Eh, she's on the same kinda level as Shida and Nyla to me. Which doesn't mean she's bad by any means, it's just that she doesn't stand out to me the way she seems to for others. I wish I got it but I don't 
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Just a reminder that COVID cost us a ZSJ/Moxley feud  I feel like Zack kinda got lost in the shuffle in 2020. Obviously I love Dangerous Tekkers but they've mostly been a vehicle to push Taichi while Zack's taken more of a backseat. I really hope he gets a decent stretch of singles time in 2021 so he can remind everyone just how good he is. Anyway, here's my favourite ZSJ promo of the year in which he is as impressed as the rest of us at YOSHI-HASHI's improvement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbgeAvNWs4o&t=31s
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Rarity posted:Just a reminder that COVID cost us a ZSJ/Moxley feud Just think how many of these promos that were stolen from us  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDES8MkZtaA&t=212s
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Taichi just made the top 10 
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Taichi now confirmed a higher finish than maybe the best NEVER champ ever and God himself
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Taichi and Suzuki finishing on the exact same points is 
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Just some Orange Cassidy 2020 highlights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c1VQAAgyVQ&t=32s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmBz04zFyRg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ-L7knAC2Q I'm really excited to see where OC goes with this Miro feud now that he has a reason to care about something again
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Not surprised that Ishii dropped a few spots, he never got any focus in New Japan in 2020. That Taichi match was banger though.
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Also J-Ru neglected to mention that Taichi racked up 10 MOTYCs in 2020 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O7nC60mHas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEfGXD2VrvY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syOW2eS7Bcc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCOTSPSDCyc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upzFY5RT4b0 Deserved so much more than he got, absolutely proved he was a main event level talent, amazing father, wonderful husband, to lose him was so unfair Rarity fucked around with this message at 11:40 on Jan 25, 2021 |
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Some say that Hiromu and Ryu Lee are still stood in a ring slapping the poo poo out of each other to this very day
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Eddie Kingston making the top 4 fills my heart with joy 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc9zLtDRvzk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23RXmcDK4Bs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_x3TNEN51s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcUvFf1LfaM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BKUOJGyTc0&t=220s I think I would follow this man into Hell if he asked me to Rarity fucked around with this message at 13:18 on Jan 25, 2021 |
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#3 wrestler in PSP but #1 in NORTH CAROLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINA drat, I really thought Mox/Kenny were gonna be 1 and 2
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HE DID IT HE FUCKIN DID IT
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I LOVE YOU ADAM PLEASE DON'T BE SAD
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Jerusalem posted:Okay next year I'm writing this all up beforehand and then spacing it out over 2-3 hours, I had no idea it would take this long. Appreciate those of you who were along for the ride, and in a couple of days or three I'll do a stats dump of sorts. Any ideas for improvements of how to run this next time would be appreciated, I'd like it to be a yearly thing if possible, and it's just a shame we couldn't get the numbers we got for last year's thread to put in entries for this year. As an experienced countdowner doing all the work in advance is the most important thing. For the TV/Game of the Year threads it would normally take 1-2 full days of work over the New Year break for me to get everything together. If you can't devote a full day to it then still take the time to do the work spread out over a bunch of evenings. There's nothing wrong with making people wait for the results. Also doing it in a less pressured environment gives you the space to be more inventive with the format (including entrance themes would have been awesome, for example). Also, schedule the countdown in advance and do it at a time that suits US and EU timezones so that people are around and amped up for each reveal
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To be fair when your promotion has Jon Moxley, Eddie Kingston, Britt Baker, Taz, Ricky Starks, Chuck and Trent, MJF and PAC I want you to let them talk a whole bunch
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Jerusalem posted:last year I only did the Top 20 and everything else above that just got a single banner Yeah cutting out the dead weight is definitely a good idea. No one cares about some dude who only got 1 point (sorry WALTER)
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Jan 25, 2021 14:09
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RealFoxy posted:For real, and not "My Favorite Wrestler I've Never Seen a Match From" I've now seen a Maki Itoh match and I can confirm she rules
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BodyMassageMachine posted:some wrestlers dropped SIGNIFICANTLY (Ospreay, Jericho) It's almost like they did something to make the fanbase switch on them 
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New Japan's been on a slump this year so my 2021 is probably going to heavily skew towards AEW. And I'm pretty certain that someone's going to knock SANADA off my #1 spot
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