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Wait, you can nominate mountain ranges, but I can't nominate Stokely Hathaway?  Only two of mine are in the Top 10 but I stand by all my selections. code:
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Jon Moxley is someone I have really come to appreciate in AEW, and I have a lot of respect for what he does, but I doubt he would even make my top 30 list. But I realize that just makes me odd. I have to start out paying more attention to Jamie Hayter since this thread is raving about her so much.
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Oasx posted:Jon Moxley is someone I have really come to appreciate in AEW, and I have a lot of respect for what he does, but I doubt he would even make my top 30 list. But I realize that just makes me odd. That's about where i'm at, I recognise he's an extremely good wrestler but he does nothing for me, even when he was IWGP US Champion I forgot he existed half the time
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Jan 29, 2023 07:26
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Jerusalem posted:A final ease of use ranking: I had five in the top 10. RUSH was the only real renegade pick for me. Glad to see my people get their flowers.
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Oasx posted:Jon Moxley is someone I have really come to appreciate in AEW, and I have a lot of respect for what he does, but I doubt he would even make my top 30 list. But I realize that just makes me odd. This is me but with MJF though that obviously doesn't seem to be quite as minority an opinion based on the rankings I think I might put all three of Moxley, Danielson, and Yutes (the only questionable one in this equation really) in the 11-20 range if we expanded our lists though.
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I realize that none of us watch the WWE (and the one person on the boards that does watch it doesn't like her) but wow it's kind of interesting to look at this and not see a single vote for Bianca Belair.
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Vandar posted:I realize that none of us watch the WWE (and the one person on the boards that does watch it doesn't like her) but wow it's kind of interesting to look at this and not see a single vote for Bianca Belair. or Rhea Ripley
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Lid posted:or Rhea Ripley What the actual gently caress how did that happen.
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j-ru thanks for all your hard work on this, this thread always owns and is my favorite of the year. i really appreciate the little things/choices in the graphic banners too here's to a great 2023 in pro wrestling !
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My picks this year had a mixed amount of success. Very happy with which of them did best and pumped that Jamie got the best ever result for a woman  My other main takeaways:- Zack was robbed of a top 10 finish - Push Maki Itoh - People are sleeping on David Finlay Jerusalem posted:
From one countdowner to another, thanks for all your hard work on this J-Ru. I really enjoyed the fun graphics choices and the use of pull quotes (hmm wonder where you got that idea from  ) Hopefully that'll inspire more people to write about their faves next year. My one suggestion for next year would be to announce when you're going to be doing the countdown as soon as the voting stops. Don't know how feasible that is for your workload but it seems to help get people hype in GOTY. Either way, thanks again. I had a blast 
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I think I was the only person to vote for 7 of my top 10. That number might actually have gone up from last year!
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Lid posted:Watching David Finlay does make most of us sleep. He's good now
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I have questionable taste in wrestling, and make no apologies for it. 10. Peter Avalon (I am 25% of his vote) 9. Brandon Cutler ( I am 12% of his vote) 8. Xavier Woods ( I am 100% of his vote) 7. Evil Uno ( I am 100% of his vote) 6. Chad Gable (I am 100% of his vote) 5. Ethan Page (I am 100% of his vote) 4. Dax Harwood (I am 11% of his vote) 3. Chuck Taylor (I am 38% of his vote) 2. Hangman Adam Page 1. Orange Cassidy Funny notes, (to me anyway) The Elite have a new pecking order: Omega: 263 pts Nick Jackson 18 points Brandon Cutler 12 points Matt Jackson 5 pts I'm not sure how that happened. Kyle O'Reilly 5 pts Adam Cole 4 pts Bobby Fish -1,412 pts This one makes a bit more sense. Danhausen 30 points Roman Reigns 30 points The heads of their respective tables. Great O-Khan 11 pts Serpentico 11 points Someone else's idea: But... tag team, when? Don't even address that it's not Luther using Serp as a living weapon anymore. Still call them Chaos Project. But with a K. Jungle Boy 2 points Holy gently caress balls! What happened here? Anyway, thanks for running this poll. Very high quality stuff.
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This is just what happens when we're spoiled with tons of awesome wrestlers to choose from and we only get ten slots
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Good lord this must have been so much work and effort, thank you for doing it, Jerusalem!
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forkboy84 posted:So 3 of my picks made the top 50 (& all 3 are joshi for some reason), & I think 3 of them only got votes from me (Higuchi, Aoyagi & Miyahara). My #1 & #3 failing to make the top 50 or get a single non-me vote is very funny. Once Kento and Yuma have their big match next week then the rest of the world will start showing respect
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IcePhoenix posted:This is just what happens when we're spoiled with tons of awesome wrestlers to choose from and we only get ten slots and everyone posting here is well into at least their 30s
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Jan 29, 2023 10:22
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How very dare you, i'm not turning thirty for at least another month
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SG Bamboo posted:Now to think about my favourite tag teams for GWB's contest, surely that one won't be full of guys from places I don't watch 
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jungle jack's position in the company in 2022 was weird and unsatisfying. i'm not a fan but if i was i don't think i would have voted for him unless he was the reason i liked wrestling or something. i guess we don't have any of those here. will probably be back up into the mix after this year
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THANK YOU, J-RU *clap* *clap* *clapclapclap* The top three don't surprise me in the slightest, though the gulf in points between Omega and Mox does. Kenny would need 55% more points to climb one spot. We're only a month in and who knows what insanity the world of professional wrestling will provide us this year, but with a lead like that it's hard to imagine Mox and BD won't be #1&2 in the 2023 list as well. Big up my local girl Jaime for cracking the top five. I wasn't keeping score, but just eyeballing the votes I had guessed she had a decent shot at the top ten. Fourth place is much better than I'd hoped, let alone expected. Now please let's have Kris come back and her and Jaime can batter unprecedented shades of poo poo out of each other. I don't care about the TBS title anymore, just gimmie the beefy ladies throwing haymakers. Last year I said I'd taken note of several names from the 2021 list and would watch more outside of AEW. That did not happen. 2022 was an extremely depressing and poor year for me, and I had neither the time, money, or energy to start watching any other promotions other than literally three TJPW matches. The last couple of months have been significantly better, however, and this time I have not only written down many more names, but I'm now signed up and ready to watch NJPW, TJPW and Stardom to start with. I can't promise my 2023 list will be any more varied, but it has a shot. Vandar posted:not see a single vote for Bianca Belair. Lid posted:or Rhea Ripley But I don't and will not watch WWE. If they ever get out of that void (and if Rhea behaves), I'll gladly watch them and probably be their biggest cheerleaders.
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Jungle Boy struggles in these lists because his character is pretty much just white meat babyface which is bit of a shame, as I honestly think he's the best worker of the four pillars. Problem is he's in a promotion full of people who are good both in ring and character wise
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IcePhoenix posted:This is just what happens when we're spoiled with tons of awesome wrestlers to choose from and we only get ten slots Puro on the other hand is currently very accessible, very popular, doesn't have ad reads every 30 seconds, and there's an embarrassment of riches for current talent who are consistently going at 100%. So you see a lot of big American TV stars get edged out in popularity as more and more people are buying subscriptions to international streaming services - it's much easier to pick up a Stardom World or W-U sub for a month and say "holy poo poo like 90% of these are incredible and they have a ton of content" than it is to say "OK well Jungle Boy had a great 8-man tag match about 3 weeks ago and then this week he cut a promo..."
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I will post the thread for best tag teams tomorrow to allow people to digest and give their thoughts on the list.
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I was blown away by how many wrestlers just didn't get mentioned at all, and while I do agree that the structure of big televised promotions in America does have an effect, I do think the larger thing is that in addition to the ease of access to so many different forms of wrestling - international, indies, Joshi etc - the bigger thing is that the overall quality of wrestling has just been continually skyrocketing for years now. It's great for us as viewers, but does make breaking down to ONLY ten people so, so loving hard!Rarity posted:From one countdowner to another, thanks for all your hard work on this J-Ru. I really enjoyed the fun graphics choices and the use of pull quotes (hmm wonder where you got that idea from Yeah, definitely need to rethink how to handle the results to ensure there's more engagement with the thread. Thanks for all the inspiration that your Games Thread has provided, it's absolutely the kind of thread I would like this one to be for PSP 
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That was a fun read to wake up to, thanks for putting it all together. Glad I wasn't the only one to vote for Alec Price
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My Top Ten list was: 1) Ruby Soho 2) Keith Lee 3) Leva Bates 4) Thekla 5) Yuka Sakazaki 6) Dr. Britt Baker DMD 7) Swerve 8) Malakai Black 9) Christian Cage 10) Tony Nese And it ended up playing out as: code:Davros1 fucked around with this message at 15:43 on Jan 29, 2023 |
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Jerusalem posted:I was blown away by how many wrestlers just didn't get mentioned at all, and while I do agree that the structure of big televised promotions in America does have an effect, I do think the larger thing is that in addition to the ease of access to so many different forms of wrestling - international, indies, Joshi etc - the bigger thing is that the overall quality of wrestling has just been continually skyrocketing for years now. It's great for us as viewers, but does make breaking down to ONLY ten people so, so loving hard! ...Which is why I cheated & did a top 25. And even that left me unable to credit wrestlers I love
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forkboy84 posted:...Which is why I cheated & did a top 25. And even that left me unable to credit wrestlers I love Listing more than the required minimum is the way to go 
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I originally wrote thirty-two honourable mentions, then took longer to cut those down to eleven than it took to write my actual top ten. And I only watched one promotion!
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I could have easily done a top 40 if I had the time to write it all
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pressedbunny posted:I originally wrote thirty-two honourable mentions, then took longer to cut those down to eleven than it took to write my actual top ten. And I only watched one promotion! My spreadsheet keeps track of every wrestler I gave at least 1 ****¼ match rating to, so I could have had a list 349 wrestlers long. Last place was a 15 way tie with a wide variety of wrestlers from Simon Gotch to William Regal's kid to Millie McKenzie to ACH. This year's spreadsheet I'm adding everyone with at least a ***¾ rating. Which does mean January isn't even done yet and it's at 210 wrestlers. Joint number 1? It's Kento Miyahara, Takuya Nomura & Kenoh of course!
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