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Post by problematic on Sept 26, 2017 15:43:14 GMT -5
I'll probably be the high voter on him and that's fine, but the guy has had a fucking great year. If you want to call him a Shibata tribute act fine, lord knows he won't mind it, but I actually think I enjoy him more than Shibata because he's got a wider range of freakshow offense he can pull out of his ass, and the idea of a guy who looks like Kendall Windham and hits like Stan Hansen appeals to me. There is not any wrestler I'd rather watch live. None. He just has a radiating energy and authenticity to him that is impossible to deny in a live setting. It's kind of amazing to see him at Glory Pro especially, but he seems to resonate across the board. I'll never love the german no sell, but I admit that I tend to mind it less with him because he is so constantly hurting and fighting through it that it feels oddly in character for him. More than that I think his selling is actually excellent, probably better than all but a handful of people in wrestling. Extra points for working just as hard on smaller shows as he does for bigger ones. No nights off. Ever
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Post by armsofsleep on Sept 26, 2017 17:57:08 GMT -5
Type of guy who I'd like to see in more places. I love 95% of what he does, and I think he's extremely underbooked. That being said, I feel like he needs a change of scenery. He's at a crossroads, and I would love him to go to Japan and pull out more of that hard hitting motherfucker side.
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Post by problematic on Jan 9, 2018 5:04:40 GMT -5
I've been catching up on all of his AAW stuff over the last few days and man he is definitely going to be way high on my list. Watch him in AAW and tell me the guy is not an absolute sprint working machine. He delivers in every weird setting he was thrown into in that promotion that year, and ends up as a kind of standout of the "other guys" getting his way into the Lynam tourney and having an extremely fun match with the often boring ACH. There are some multi-mans this year he was a part of that were some of the most fun matches in the entire year. I think it's kind of difficult to argue against him as the MVP of Glory Pro this year as his matches with Irie, Callihan, Yehi, Stone, and O'Reilly were all legitimately very good to great, with a great deal of stylistic range being shown between the Irie match and the KOR match. He's proven to be a great and totally believable ace at SUP, where he's the most over guy on every show, and has delivered against a wide range of opponents. He delivered at Scenic City, his series with Myron Reed this year spanned multiple promotions and felt like the beginning of a career long, sure to be high quality, rivalry. He kicked ass on random shows like PGP where he'd often mix in comedy with different things. He works just as hard against a Frank Wyatt as he does a Sonjay Dutt. Maybe you could argue he doesn't have that one blowaway match and I'd probably be inclined to agree, but I'd rate him really high on average performance, and he has a remarkable amount of diversity in settings, roles played, opponents, match types, et. I'll likely have him no lower than my upper third, and he has an outside shot of making my top 15.
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Post by xoanafacetico on Jan 9, 2018 10:51:37 GMT -5
I really liked both of his first two SCI matches but he left me wanting in the final. Whatever, that was Henry's match.
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Post by anotherspammer on Jan 9, 2018 10:59:24 GMT -5
Glory Pro put up the Stallion vs. Yehi match, which was probably my favorite match of that show.
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