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  • Warner2BruceTD
    2011 Poster Of The Year
    • Mar 2009
    • 26142

    FSM Top 100 2006-2013

    This is the U.K. mag that Alan4L writes for. Their taste falls in line with most of the guys who post around here, so here is the list:

    Interested to see what the debated points will be for our list!

    Criteria was bell to bell performance and that can be anything from athletic ability to charisma to selling to quantity of great matches. The issue is still available at bookstores in Europe and online at http://www.fightingspiritmagazine.co.uk ... /subscribe - so if you want to read write-ups on all 100 wrestlers (plus an awesome Big Van Vader article by Dave Ditch, then check that out!)

    1. Daniel Bryan
    2. Hiroshi Tanahashi
    3. John Cena
    4. Sami Zayn
    5. CM Punk
    6. Shawn Michaels
    7. Rey Mysterio
    8. Chris Jericho
    9. KENTA
    10. Prince Devitt
    11. Shingo Takagi
    12. The Undertaker
    13. AJ Styles
    14. Austin Aries
    15. Nigel McGuinness
    16. Daisuke Sekimoto
    17. Kota Ibushi
    18. CIMA
    19. The Young Buck$
    20. Yuji Nagata
    21. Sin Cara
    22. Seth Rollins
    23. Antonio Cesaro
    24. The Briscoes
    25. L.A Park
    26. Akira Tozawa
    27. Triple-H
    28. Chris Hero
    29. Kurt Angle
    30. Edge
    31. Masaaki Mochizuki
    32. Jeff Hardy
    33. Davey Richards
    34. Adrian Neville
    35. Randy Orton
    36. Kevin Steen
    37. Shinsuke Nakamura
    38. Kazuchika Okada
    39. Naomichi Marufuji
    40. Masato Yoshino
    41. Minoru Tanaka
    42. Negro Casas
    43. Minoru Suzuki
    44. Hirooki Goto
    45. YAMATO
    46. Bobby Roode
    47. Dick Togo
    48. Alex Shelley
    49. Eddie Edwards
    50. Katsuhiko Nakajima
    51. Volador Jr.
    52. Ricochet
    53. Zack Sabre Jr.
    54. Averno
    55. Takeshi Morishima
    56. Naruki Doi
    57. Tetsuya Naito
    58. Kenny Omega
    59. Dr. Wagner Jr.
    60. Roderick Strong
    61. Takashi Sugiura
    62. La Sombra
    63. Masato Tanaka
    64. Christopher Daniels
    65. Samoa Joe
    66. El Torito
    67. Dolph Ziggler
    68. Go Shiozaki
    69. Jun Akiyama
    70. Sheamus
    71. Shuji Kondo
    72. Jimmy Susumu
    73. Jimmy Jacobs
    74. Chris Sabin
    75. Evan Bourne
    76. Fit Finlay
    77. Christian
    78. Adam Cole
    79. Michael Elgin
    80. Mascara Dorada
    81. Johnny Gargano
    82. Kyle O’Reilly
    83. Kotaro Suzuki
    84. Taiji Ishimori
    85. Ayako Hamada
    86. Dragon Kid
    87. Tensai
    88. Low Ki
    89. Sara Del Rey
    90. Dean Ambrose
    91. Batista
    92. Fujita “Jr.” Hayato
    93. Kaz Hayashi
    94. Koji Kanemoto
    95. James Storm
    96. Colt Cabana
    97. El Ligero
    98. Yuji Okabayashi
    99. Tomohiro Ishii
    100. Togi Makabe
    I don't have a ton of issues with this.

    I'd have KENTA #2, and Zayn #3. I'm not a Cena hater by any means, and he would make my list for sure, but #3 is way too high.

    No way Tensai makes my list, i've always thought he was overrated and was glad to see him leave New Japan because I couldn't stand Bad Intentions dominating the tag scene. Karl Anderson has flourished without him.

    Yuji Nagata way too high. I wouldn't even rank him at all.

    Sin Cara way too high, another guy I always thought was overrated and ended up exposed in WWE.

    Okada probably too high, only has two great years. '06-'11 he's a complete non entity. '12-'13 is great enough to get on, but probably should be much lower. Somebody like Jun Akiyama for example was consistently very good the entire period and is in the 60's. So it's peak vs consistency.

    Batista? James Storm. Eh. I guess. I can pick 100 guys I liked better than both, but they are both ranked pretty low and I get why they are there, so fine.

    Sara Del Rey I always thought was overrated and a botch machine.

    Christian criminally low. How is Ziggler ahead of Christian for those seven years?

    If this included 2004-2005, Samoa Joe would be Top 20 easy. Maybe still should be. He's been so bad lately, he's fallen off the map. He was really, really good.

    LOL Orton #35. Maybe the worst ranking.

    Overall solid. Mostly nit picking.
  • LiquidLarry2GhostWF
    Highwayman
    • Feb 2009
    • 15429

    #2
    I love Danielson as a worker. But, what distinguishes him from Tanahashi and Punk (for example) is those two, while, perhaps not as consistent as Bryan strictly in-ring...Bryan doesn't have the extreme high end those two guys have.

    I'd go Tanahashi, Punk, Danielson in that order at the top.

    Cena is going to be the most discussed.

    I don't think another WWE Super Drawz #TopGuy has ever been better in the ring during their #TopGuy run then Cena. But at the same time, Cena has so many stinkers to go with it, he is going to generate a debate on a ranking like that. With that said...Cena v. Punk, v. Danielson, v. Rock, v. Umaga, etc...it is tough to argue that his high end is anything short of "great"...he has done Hour-Long Iron Man Matches, an array of gimmick matches, straight 1v1 matches with strong matches at all levels...but damnit, ol boy has a ton of stinkers, too.

    Davey Richards @ 33 is very low, to me. As is Steen @ 36. Two of the Top 3 Indy workers over the past what...4-5 years? I'd probably put them ahead of Hero, Pac, Hardy, Nagata, Mistico, LA Park, Rollins, HHH, Edge...

    Gail Kim is a better in-ring chick wrestler to me then SDR
    Last edited by LiquidLarry2GhostWF; 12-21-2013, 11:39 PM.

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    • Warner2BruceTD
      2011 Poster Of The Year
      • Mar 2009
      • 26142

      #3
      Does HBK belong this high based on the time period? I'm blanking a bit on some of those years.

      Austin Aries would be in my top ten. Can't tell you how many ROH shows I went to where I came in looking forward to something else, and he ended up having the best match. He was every bit as good as any of those guys during that era.

      Danielson's 2006 makes him #1 for me. KENTA's 2009 makes him #2. Both were consistently awesome the entire period. Tanahashi is the best since '11 and was pretty good from '06-'10 but not as good as those two for the whole period. Punk is up there for sure. I think his best stuff is from WWE by far. Zayn is my #3 because he probably had top level matches in more places than anybody - ROH, DDT, WWE, PWG, DGUSA, EVOLVE, Chikara...how the fuck did TNA drop the ball when he worked dark matches for them?

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      • s@ppisgod
        No longer a noob
        • Apr 2011
        • 1032

        #4
        I like that Shelley and Rollins got some love. I'm a big fan of their work. I can't see Generico over Punk, especially if time on top counts for anything which it HAS to to have Batista on the list....

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        • EmpireWF
          Giants in the Super Bowl
          • Mar 2009
          • 24082

          #5
          Originally posted by Warner2BruceTD
          Does HBK belong this high based on the time period? I'm blanking a bit on some of those years.
          Top 10 is fair.

          The Cena matches from 2007, the Undertaker series, his classic feud with Jericho, the end of Flair's run.

          Mysterio top 10 is a big head scratcher tho.


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