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I haven't watched Santo Gold commercials in 30 years and they are still amazing. THe WWE needs to buy the Santo Gold collection to ad to their library.

Man I think I was pimping this match way back in the day as I'm huge CWUSA fan. Billy Two-Eagles made one of the last DVDVR 500's based on his stiffness and batshit oldman in garbage matches bumping...and was on one of Meltzers top 100's of 83/84(back when he was working for Joe Blanchard's fed), tiny Meixcan working a Native American gimmick. He was Relampago Leon and El Santo Negro in South West and may have showed up in AWA for a bit under one of those gimmicks. Buddy Wayne I think maybe trained Kozina and was trained by Colonel Debeers. I may be making that up, but he was a tiny guy who was part of Debeers stable. I'm pretty sure that rookie Kozina is floating around at same time (to add to the bizarrely tine Portland wrestler squad: Wayne, Two Eagles, Smart Bart Sawyer). I'm knot sure when lil Nasty Boy (who worked as the midgit Batista in WWE) shows up in Pacific Northwest...but I don's think it's for another 3-5 years.

I think he may have been in Inoki's UFO fed for a minute. My clearest ridiculous Reiss memory was when Dusty opened a wrestling school and decided to name it in memory of Dick Murdock ( Dick Murdoch school of hard knocks) he set up Reiss as head trainer.

vs. tag partner Mighty Jon Quinn http://youtu.be/4eUJyWR5OtA

I back Akebono and (really liked his title run and the tag tourney from last year) and Kraneo for current fat men. Intrigued to watch recent Cannonball Grizzly. I would add Golden Moose Cholak to the all timers. Him v Larry Chene is amazing: You are a fat man when you work a handicap match against a tag team known as the Hoggs

For whatever it's worth, in Regal's autobiography Regal spends some time putting over Haystacks as a good wrestler past his prime, a guy who Regal liked to work with, Regal credits HAystacks for getting Regal his U.S. job. Unfortunately we don't really have much in the way of footage of him before his 40s. I thought he might be the big Irish guy who was in that Iraqi broadway match with Adnan, but I think that's more likely Ian Campbell. Never understood why the people who try to pimp Big Daddy as a WON HOF candidate, don't pimp Haystacks instead. Unlike Daddy, Haystacks seems to be well liked by other wrestlers and had success outside of England. I tend to like his German stuff as he works a more toe to toe style, sells more and throws nastier stuff. vs Jerry Novak ( I think of the Alaskans). Highflying Steven Wright match is also fun and I dug the way past prime Haystacks v I think Portland's Rambo last time I watched it, too.

Eh, by 1997 there wasn't really WWE/WCW fans. Both feds had comprehensive international TV coverage. It wasn't like the 80s where certain fans could only watch certain feds (I know I couldn't see WCW, save for PPV or a couple shows here and there or TBS free preview weekends, on a weekly basis until some time in the mid-nineties), I think by the late nineties you had less "I'm a WCW fan!" or "I'm a WWE fan!" and more "I'm a wrestling fan". I mean, people had their preference of shows, but I don't think there was really any "I don't like so-and-so because he's a WCW guy/WWF guy" anymore.We know this to be untrue. When WCW died people assumed that those fans who weren't already wwf fans would just go watch wwf. It didn't happen, those wcw fans just moved on with their lives. The feds had different and often vocally different fanbases.The idea of bringing a guy in and trying to babyface him based on the finish of a WWF payperview is TNA level dumb. If he came in after Owen's death, that would be event you could babyface him from.

Goldberg, Savage, DDP, Luger, Booker-most of top faces were guys who at that point had WCW history.

Didn't get over huge or draw much of value till Hogan turned.

He was sympathetic face to Wwf fans who were Bret Hart fans. Not sure why that would mean shit to a WCW fan for whom he was just an outsider associated with long career in Wwf. Fuck, Hogan is one of the greatest babyfaces of all time and faced alot of rejection when he came in as outsider and eventually was turned heel.

The WWF looked at the NJ3 +1 and thought the guy that had the mist real value was Too Cold.mThe Wwf didn't do much at all with Too Cold.WCW runs are what convinced people that Benoit, Malenko and Guerrero might have value to the WWF. Even after those runs the WWF weren't sure if guys really knew how to "work" or if all wcw smoke and mirrors that wouldn't work for "smarter" wwf crowd.

Flair drew well. Georgeous George had female fans. But deliberately trying to construct tweeners does ring as false as having heat machine drowning out when fans cheered Vader's moonsault.

The failure of Ring Ka King would probably be one reason. Did Ring Ka King fail or did the money men just fkit off to a different project.

You can't just replace Bulk and Skull.

Jey is the larger of the two, I'm guessing that there is a general internet bias toward smaller tag partner, guy who sets up bigger partners spots. May also be just that they are always referred to be announcers as "Jimmy and Jey" and so were voted for in that order.

Seeing as how Lucha is usually horribly underrepresented in all realms of the IWC, I welcome the Lucha love. I wasn't involved with the WKO list but it is always something I look forward to. But again I'm not sure how much lucha love these guys really demonstrate. I mean there were about 11 guys who worked for NJPW in 2013 on this list, 26 who worked for WWE, and 26 who worked for EMLL. That's 11 out of a NJPW roster of about 40, 26 out of a WWE roster of about 90 and 26 out of a EMLL roster of about 240. Lucha may be better represented on the wko 100 then it is on most other internet wrestling discussions. But 1/9th of a roster compared to approximately 1/4 of NJPW and WWE's rosters still suggests that it's still pretty underrepresented.

I'm not sure why Tanahashi was rated so highly this year. The guy who rated him highest hasn't written anything yet but the guy who rated him poorest wrote: Too Cold

Like I said: I've only seen the Super shisa match which is essentially worked ROH Pure Title rules. Haven't followed Dragon's gate in ages, when did the US based dragongate fans turned on CIMA? I thought you folks used to love CIMA, where did the love go? I also don't get the whole not enough Japanese workers complaint. Looking through it looks like there are 11 NJPW workers and an other additional 12 Japanese indy or Noah workers. That's almost a quarter of the list.

I am assuming that King Vikingo isn't the guy who once was Leon Vikingo (in Guapos U and I think he showed up in GDL)? Also assuming that mini worker Rey Celestial is not mini worker Celestial? They used to have very different looking masks but pictures of Rey Celestial that I've seen lately look like he's wearing a more Celestial-ish mask.

No-one put the wko 100 here. SLL always does a great job of putting this together and worth looking at the lists of reccomended matches and explanations of strengths of performers on the countdown. Dissapointed that Akebono and Atlantis didn't make the 100 and surprised by how high Lesnar placed as he feels like a guy still living off the positive vibes people had from his Cena match. Still wko is always one of the better annual lists and good place to explore things you may have missed in 2013:

He was neither as tall nor had as many cool spots as Conan Chris Walker.

WWE.com's latest list of the 50 Greatest Talkers in Is Austin Idol on the outs with fed? And Bullet is in their HOF

Liked Bravo v Abby. I think the Canadian Bravo tends to be fun.

So suckered in by the bloody photos has the recent Marabunta v mr condor hair match shown up anywhere?

I know there was a story about him alienating a bunch of folks at the Dave Taylor training school, when he was supposedly big timing the trainers.