Reel in Place

There's this narrative, and it's not without merit, that WWE is some rudderless ship with no foresight or interest in the long-term. Certainly, there are times when things are dropped and forgotten, but watch any TV show, things like that happen there all the time too, but people choose to watch and enjoy TV shows, unlike wrestling where they watch it at gunpoint and rate it on some faux-objective scale and also follow the business metrics for 'fun'. It doesn't seem to be an enjoyable way to consume things, but that's just where we are. So when Becky Lynch beats Bianca Belair, the masses are up in arms, but when it comes time for Bianca to get revenge, the most obvious conclusion, there is this sense that somehow this wasn't always the intended direction, that somehow this match on this night was a matter of mostly coincidence. It wasn't. The bad guy showed up and beat the good guy. It took the good guy a while to another shot at the bad guy, but when th...

I should have voted for Gary Hart. I was under the impression that he didn't wrestle any matches in Crockett, one of the criteria I had for my list was for everyone to have at least one match, no matter how farcical it may have been, so I never really considered him, but he did work some tags as a manager in 1983. So, I blew it with Gary Hart, he should have made my list somewhere below Jim Cornette.  Two things stand out to me from the final list. The first is that the Nitro-era is, in my mind, over-represented, guys who had maybe a two-year run on the undercard in the 90s placed a lot higher than a guy like Don Kernodle who was a major pushed player for JCP. It's not surprising, but I don't think it's right. The same goes for Piper and Jimmy Valiant.  The other thing that stands out is there are a lot of guys I was the low voter on who I think are really great, but from a WCW perspective, they just didn't do a ton. Jushin Liger and Steve Austin are great wrestlers...