Reel in Place

Matches I was the high voter on: Jushin “Thunder” Liger vs Barry Houston - Pro 11/18/1995 My Vote: 92 Finished: 404 Rick Rude vs Dustin Rhodes - Worldwide 5/30/1992 My Vote: 94 Finished: 413 Ricky Steamboat and Shane Douglas vs Jushin “Thunder” Liger and Kensuke Sasaki - House Show 12/27/1992 My Vote: 97 Finished: 429 Tully Blanchard vs Terry Funk - Slamboree 1994 My Vote: 88 Finished: 388 Greg Valentine vs Sweet Ebony Diamond - Mid-Atlantic 4/8/1981 My Vote: 87 Finished: 385 Freebirds & Midnight Express vs Dynamic Dudes & Rock ‘n’ Roll Express -  Saturday Night 11/27/1990 My Vote: 86 Finished: 379 2 Cold Scorpio & Buff Bagwell vs Hollywood Blondes - Worldwide 6/5/1993 My Vote: 83 Finished: 371 Elix Skipper & Kid Romeo vs Rey Mysterio Jr & Billy Kidman - Greed My Vote: 67 Finished: 303 Vader vs Cactus Jack - Saturday Night 4/24/1994 My Vote: 69 Finished: 283 Rey Mysterio vs Juventud Guerrera - Thunder 1/15/1998 My Vote: 42 Finished: 244 Dustin Rhodes vs Arn Anderson

My idea here is to watch 5 matches of a wrestler who I haven't seen a lot of, or want to see more of, and decided if they have a shot at making my 2026 GWE ballot. Bob Backlund vs The Narcissist - Wrestling Challenge May 2, 1993 This is right after Backlund's return at WrestleMania 9, so at this point he is just being plain-old Bob Backlund, wrestler from Minnesota. He'd been gone for almost a decade, and so much had changed in that time that I'm not sure all that many people remembered him and none of the kids in the crowd understood why he was there. So, he exists in this weird space of seemingly like a guy you should know and care about, but you probably don't know him and you almost certainly don't care about him.   This is great in the way a five-minute TV match can be great. It's a King of the Ring qualifier against the recently debuted Narcissist, Lex Luger, so it's not just a cold TV match, but it doesn't have any build either. Backlund start

My idea here is to watch 5 matches of a wrestler who I haven't seen a lot of, or want to see more of, and decided if they have a shot at making my 2026 GWE ballot. Fidel Sierra vs Ray Gonzalez - WWC 1998 Fidel and Ray are jawing at each other at the commentary position, Sierra hits the ring and attacks some randoms with the Cuban flag, Gonzalez follows him in and the two exchange punches. It's heated, but eventually, Sierra takes over wailing on Gonzalez with grounded chops that do a great job of making Sierra look like a bully. Gonzalez shows some life and gets to his feet, but Sierra gets him in the corner, and we've got some more chops, but Ray counters and starts to land some overhand chops. There are few things in wrestling that make like somebody more than overhand chops. Sierra eats a few but eventually gets back on offense, we get a flash of hope as Gonzalez hits a small package for two, and a few moments later sunset flip for two. Gonzalez is building momentum and

  Place to be Nation did a list of the 100 greatest matches in WCW history, going back to 1981. I like making lists, and I've got plenty of time to waste, so I watched hundreds of matches and then submitted a ballot. Here's some stuff from that ballot that I put together.  After last year's Greatest WWE Match, I was really excited to watch a ton of WCW and NWA matches for a project like this. Admittedly, I haven't seen a ton of WCW stuff. We were a WWF household my whole life, and as far as  I can remember, I only ever watched WCW live once in my entire life and maybe because of that, I don't have a ton of positive memories about this stuff. In fact, my sense on the WCW, and especially the JCP, fandom is that it has a very strong "please like my sport" vibe. I'm a big hockey fan, and there's a subset of hockey fans who always want to prove how tough hockey players are compared to other athletes, how exciting hockey is, how more people should be wa