Reel in Place

  vs Eddie Guerrero & Rey Mysterio (WWE 4/21/2005) This is MNM's main roster debut, and it's for the tag titles. We start with Eddie taking it to Nitro before he tags in Rey. Quick tags from Eddy and Rey early, butting off the ring and working over Nitro. Mercury eventually tags in; he can't quite keep up with Eddie, but he is able to get Eddie into the MNM corner, and the numbers game takes its toll. MNM takes over, and much the same way the earlier parts of the match played out, it is quick tags and cutting off the ring. Mercury slows things down with an abdominal stretch. Eddie fights out, hits a backbreaker, and tags in Rey. We've seen it before, but the Rey hot tag is always great; his offense is purpose-built for this kind of thing. Rey goes for the cover and Nitro has to come in and break up the fall, which allows for MNM to get some double-team offense in on Rey before Eddie can intervene. Eddie gets back in there, and Eddie and Rey work together to get the ...

vs Raven & Saturn (WCW 4/5/1999)  This is all action early, big moves, mostly with Rey on the receiving end. Kidman gets a tag and attempts to turn the tide, they have some limited success, but eventually Kidman takes a belly-to-belly from the ring to the outside. From that point, Saturn and Raven really take it to Kidman, drop toe hold on a chair, bug top rope splash, but somehow Kidman reverses a Raven powerbomb and tags in Rey. Mysterio comes in with fire, but Raven kicks him in the junk when Rey attempts a broncobuster. Things quickly become lawless, and to add to the chaos, the ref gets bumped, and Malenko and Benoit hit the ring, attack Saturn, and Kidman gets the pin. This is pretty good. A lot of the big moves don't really seem to register, but it is short, and I guess over the course of five minutes, you can't expect much attrition.  vs ICP (WCW 8/23/1999) I didn't expect this to be good. It isn't. ICP will bump, not in a way that's always convincing or...

This is 3 years overdue, but I saw it in my drafts and figured I'd finish putting this together. It has been a while since I filled out this ballot, and my thoughts on the results are mostly based on going back and looking at what I tweeted at the time, but I think there are two things that my ballot reflects that the list doesn't. The first is the sort of modern C and D shows like Main Event and 205 Live, which no one else really factored in. The second is pre-Hogan WWF, chiefly including Ernie Ladd, the 3 Wisemen, and Tony Garea. I would love to watch more of that stuff, because I really liked the All-Star Wrestling I watched, and generally feel that era is incredibly underrepresented.  Wrestlers I was the high voter on: Mustafa Ali My Vote: 81 Finished: 249 Buddy Murphy My Vote: 80 Finished: 245 Ilja Dragunov My Vote: 79 Finished: 218 Nikki Bella My Vote: 72 Finished: 170 Lou Albano My Vote: 64 Finished: 169 John Cena My Vote: 1 Finished: 4 Wrestlers I was the low voter on: ...