RIPPA Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Poll closes sometime on Friday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DylanWaco Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Of the matches in this round this is the only one I had to think about for more than two seconds. I took about ten and decided to vote for Harper. I get the arguments for Nak and won't be upset when he wins, but he's way, way, way too inconsistent for me to vote for him at this stage, especially over a guy who was probably one of the five most consistently good workers in the time period covered by the voting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Man Known as Dan Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 I feel like Harper is consistently better, but Nakamuras highs in the voting period were significantly better. Harpers great but wasn't put in a position to do something really amazing, which is a shame. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DylanWaco Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Nak's highs were better for sure, but if he doesn't have the 1/4 Dome match I'm not even sure I would have thought about this for ten seconds. That's not a knock on him either. Both guys will do well on my WKO100 ballot, there probably won't be more than ten spaces between them tops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCM Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Harper was the best guy in all the Shield/Wyatt matches, and had the Usos best career matches while dragging Rowan around. Harper is the best WWE guy left imo I've never seen him in anything close to a bad match. vote harper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwYzChZ_YZ4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirSmUgly Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Aw, fuck. I voted Nakamura, but I feel bad about having to vote against Harper. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 I am envisioning this as a truly international finals now. Japan/Mexico/Russia (okay, Bulgaria)/Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playa Shunna Ver 3.0 Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 This is like Sophie's Choice for me. I'm going with my man Luke Harper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SolidGoldBomb Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Man, this match would tear the friggin house down in the Tokyo Dome. Both phenomenal workers, both awesome personalities. But I think Nakamura edges Harper in the charisma department. I'd be happy with either winning here, though I think I might have to pick Nak over my man Luke just based on his funky dancing and posing. But then Harper has the best crazy eyes in the world...fuck I just don't know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DylanWaco Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 The best argument for Nak is that he's a star like few others in wrestling currently are, and that is something Harper will almost assuredly never be. The best argument for Harper is that he is a consistently great worker, regardless of setting, match type, style or opponent. And sadly that consistency is something I don't think we will ever get out of Nak. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoeCristyV.1.6 Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 But when Nakamura is ON, he is the best damn wrestler in the world! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just drew Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 I voted for Nakamura, because as someone who's never watched minute one of Japanese wrestling, I've spent the last hour enthralled by him on youtube. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRGoldman Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Nakamura is a band that you're better off buying a greatest hit album. Harper is a band where you really should just own every album and all the rare b-sides. I don't think this is all that close. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GOTNW Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 It's not like Nakamura doesn't have a huge volume of good to great stuff and his best stuff blows Harper's out of the water. Plus he got very good matches out of BAD LUCK FALE on multiple occasions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnyLaw Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 How bad is this Bad Luck Fale guy if he keeps having good matches with people? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 He's had 3. The Honma one was the best, the Okada one was the weakest. You have to see him when he's in there with anybody not great to really appreciate how bad he is. Like 90% of his G1 Climax matches were just out of this world bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GOTNW Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 How bad is this Bad Luck Fale guy if he keeps having good matches with people? He's competent. A super talent like Nakamura can work with that. He got a solid match out of Daniel Gracie FFS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevie Ray Von Erich Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 This is hard. But I watched a ton more Harper this year and he was never anything below very good. I hate that I'm voting on exposure, but both guys deserve to go on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goodear Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 So like I recognize that Nakamura has the charisma of three charismatic men, but does no one realize his offense is sloppy as hell? He looks really loose to me a lot of the time where he doesn't really connect as well as a pure striker should. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Your opinion credited, we aren't talking about someone as loose as Tanahashi here. And besides, Cena is laying in strikes when he needs to just as much as Nakamura and has gotten this far (speaking of which don't vote for Cena for fuck's sake). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 The best argument for Nak is that he's a star like few others in wrestling currently are, and that is something Harper will almost assuredly never be. The best argument for Harper is that he is a consistently great worker, regardless of setting, match type, style or opponent. And sadly that consistency is something I don't think we will ever get out of Nak. That's the way I feel. i like both. Consistency vs. some highs. Do you go quality over quantity or other way round? Went with Luke Harper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 The one WWE guy you should be voting for, you are voting against. You all disgust me. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Hey, if this had happened to be Nakamura/Cena and Harper/Zayn I would've went for Harper. But Shinsuke is Shinsuke and not having a Japanese guy in the final four (especially when the other choice is fucking Okada) would be criminal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikoBaltimore Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Nakamura is a band that you're better off buying a greatest hit album. Harper is a band where you really should just own every album and all the rare b-sides. I don't think this is all that close. This is the best argument I've seen for Harper so far. If I didn't vote already this would be sure to make me think a while before doing so. I still would have voted Nakamura, but I'm glad this is relatively close. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRGoldman Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Nakamura has had actively bad matches this year, which have been discussed at length in previous threads. This isn't like judging someone like Rush or Daniel Bryan who have a great matches but not very many of them. Nakamura is a performer who has had great matches in addition to shitty ones. Harper does not have that problem. He literally has not had a bad televised match during the voting period. It's incredible. In my view, and it appears I am in a slight minority, this is the more impressive feat. I think it's rarer for a wrestler to be so consistent than it is for a wrestler to have a great top 3 and less impressive performances behind that. I think Harper has had a year that is similar in scope but better than the year Cesaro had last year to win March Madness. I think that this is a lesser field than last year. I'm not saying that i think Harper should win outright (although he easily could), but I do think his year should be put in perspective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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