PWO Greatest Wrestler of All Time Project

[Tainted Eclipse]

Some of you might remember the big Smarkschoice best of all time poll from 2006. A re-do is starting up at prowrestlingonly. Ballots are due the day of Wrestlemania 32 in 2016, so it's essentially a ten-years-later re-do of the original 2006 poll. Should be fun and interesting. I'm definitely submitting a ballot, and anyone who wants to can. Here's the forum:

http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/forum/777-greatest-wrestler-ever/

[thesamuelcooke]

Tanahashi
Flair
Angle
Misawa
Kobashi
Cena
Austin
Triple H
The Rock
Benoit
Foley
Eddie
Savage
Michaels
Hart
Lawler

Probably be my top picks in no particular order. We ever had something like this on this board?

[Ringo]

Here's a 18 off top of my head. Beyond that it gets harder...

Kobashi
Kawada
Misawa
Jumbo
Tenryu

Flair
Hansen
Lawler
Funk
Vader

Eddie Guerrero
Steamboat
Rey
Daniel Bryan
Benoit

Negro Casas
EHDS
Hash


Since it's such a long time I may get around to watching some stuff and working on/reshaping this list.

[Mills]

I've been kicking around the idea of top 25 wrestlers of all time again, it has been a while

[Gibby]

It's Kenta Kobashi. Everyone else is a footnote.

[thesamuelcooke]

But there'd be no Kobashi without Misawa man! #BoldStatementYesOrNo

[Gibby]

Fully agree.

[Tainted Eclipse]

I've been watching a lot of 2000s Japan lately and the thought has went through my head of ranking Akiyama over Kobashi. I need to watch more 90s Akiyama singles.

[Tainted Eclipse]

Been thinking about this and watching some stuff for it. Gonna try to flesh out a current top 40:



Negro Casas
Yoshiaki Fujiwara
El Satanico
Toshiaki Kawada
Mitsuharu Misawa
El Hijo del Santo
Jerry Lawler
Genichiro Tenryu
Stan Hansen
Yuki Ishikawa
Blue Panther
Daniel Bryan
Rey Mysterio
El Dandy
Shinya Hashimoto
Jushin Liger
Ric Flair
Daisuke Ikeda
William Regal
Finlay
Kenta Kobashi
Jun Akiyama
Terry Funk
Virus
Sangre Chicana
Dick Togo
Negro Navarro
Black Terry
Dustin Rhodes
Bill Dundee
Akira Taue
Alexander Otsuka
Eddie Guerrero
Jumbo Tsuruta
Kiyoshi Tamura
John Cena
Vader
Pirata Morgan
Shinjiro Otani
Barry Windham



This will probably fill out into the top 50 when I plug some holes: catching up on Bockwinkel, Buddy Rose, Fujinami, Choshu, re-evaluating Joshi (Hokuta and Kong will almost surely still end up somewhere in here), watching more of his work to see how highly I'll rank Kanemoto (possibly above Otani), deciding if I want to consider Benoit. Tamura might go much higher and I want to see how much good Kohsaka there really is.

[Tainted Eclipse]

Alright I think this is my top 100. I can't totally stand by the ordering of my last 30 or so, I've switched everyone around multiple times and could continue to do so toward the end of the list. I didn't rewatch as much as I wanted and didn't try to catch up on as many people I wanted so there are some guys off and some guys too low who might be a good bit higher if I watched all the stuff I'd have liked to. But, for the last 10 years of my wrestling watching, I think this represents who I like the most well enough.


1. Negro Casas
2. Bryan Danielson
3. El Satanico
4. Toshiaki Kawada
5. Mitsuharu Misawa
6. El Hijo del Santo
7. Yoshiaki Fujiwara
8. Jushin Liger
9. Genichiro Tenryu
10. Stan Hansen
11. Yuki Ishikawa
12. Blue Panther
13. Rey Mysterio
14. Jerry Lawler
15. El Dandy
16. Shinya Hashimoto
17. Ric Flair
18. Daisuke Ikeda
19. William Regal
20. Finlay
21. Kenta Kobashi
22. Jun Akiyama
23. Terry Funk
24. Dick Togo
25. Aja Kong
26. Akira Taue
27. Kiyoshi Tamura
28. Negro Navarro
29. Black Terry
30. Shinjiro Otani
31. Koji Kenemoto
32. Chris Benoit
33. Bobby Eaton
34. Eddie Guerrero
35. Virus
36. Ricky Morton
37. Dustin Rhodes
38. Alexander Otsuka
39. Sangre Chicana
40. John Cena
41. Jumbo Tsuruta
42. Akira Hokuto
43. Vader
44. Pirata Morgan
45. Ricky Steamboat
46. Bill Dundee
47. Barry Windham
48. Arn Anderson
49. AJ Styles
50. Cesaro
51. Volk Han
52. Riki Choshu
53. Shinsuke Nakamura
54. CM Punk
55. Samoa Joe
56. Bret Hart
57. Nick Bockwinkel
58. Atlantis
59. Steve Austin
60. Tatsumi Fujinami
61. Dynamite Kansai
62. Randy Savage
63. Dick Murdoch
64. Meiko Satomura
65. La Fiera
66. MS-1
67. El Samurai
68. Tommy Rogers
69. Psicosis
70. Jay Briscoe
71. Mark Briscoe
72. Brock Lesnar
73. Solar I
74. Minoru Suzuki
75. Hiroshi Hase
76. The Great Sasuke
77. Chris Hero
78. Masa Fuchi
79. Naoki Sano
80. Yoshihiro Tajiri
81. Tomoaki Honma
82. Tomohiro Ishii
83. Sheamus
84. Necro Butcher
85. La Parka
86. Christian
87. Mark Henry
88. Shawn Michaels
89. Osamu Nishimura
90. Rush
91. Billy Robinson
92. Yoshinari Ogawa
93. Atsushi Onita
94. Tsuyoshi Kikuchi
95. Tamon Honda
96. Super Astro
97. Steve Williams
98. Ted DiBiase
99. Emilio Charles Jr
100. Mocho Cota