>>16830691Just to play Devil's Advocate - while I agree to some extent, I think her ranking there goes beyond simpdom/waifufagging.
It's important to keep in mind that her ranking on that list isn't something anyone decided but a function of an average of the scores people have given her. On her merits, it's tough to rate her below an 8 and her 9s and 10s aren't really far-fetched. She consistently puts on excellent matches to a degree most wrestlers don't. Part of that is due to the fact that she's a great wrestler. The other part is that she works with great talents. I think a lot of people underestimate the role that Japanese-style house show booking plays in this: wrestlers work multi-person tags often and get a good feeling for their chemistry with other workers on a regular basis. It's not like in the west where people work immediately with each other in singles competition -- by the time there's a tag or singles match, people have worked a lot together.
Meanwhile, in the west, great wrestlers have ended up working with big names who, let's face it, aren't always quite as good and the lack of chemistry can be glaring. This hurts match quality consistency to some degree.
Add in the fact that Mayu is a very non-polarizing wrestler and she's going to have a high average score.
Best in the world? That should be a matter not only of consistency but also of hitting highs. Mayu's highest rated matches on Cagematch are around the 9.4 range. Other workers with lower match consistencies have hit even higher and that should be factored as well.
Mayu is great and is one of the best in the world. All of the matches in her top 25 on that list are excellent matches. That's not to argue that she's the greatest wrestler to debut in the past 30 years but I think it's easy to overlook her sheer body of work -- she's put on excellent matches for over 10 years now. Maybe not on the level of some who are out there but there really aren't many black marks.
