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Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 20:12:03 No.6588882 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>6588886 >>6588903 >>6588911 >>6588920 >>6588941 >>6589035 >>6589258 >>6589472 >>6589652 >>6589699 >>6590726 >>6590785 >>6595912 >>6597984

Stop shit-talking the PWI500, smarks.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 20:12:30 No.6588886 Report

Quoted By: >>6590680

>>6588882
no vince?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 20:13:42 No.6588899 Report

Quoted By: >>6589418

Worked magazine gets worked.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 20:14:43 No.6588903 Report

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>>6588882
Nobody cares

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 20:15:43 No.6588911 Report

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>>6588882
The marks are in the editors room

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 20:16:34 No.6588920 Report

Quoted By: >>6589094

>>6588882
Who would have thought that Gresham would be the domino that would end up delegitimizing the PWI 500 list

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 20:18:47 No.6588941 Report

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>>6588882
>Countless wrestlers put it on their list of career goals
Memeltzer stars tier delusion

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 20:18:48 No.6588943 Report

Quoted By: >>6589278 >>6589381 >>6589384 >>6589486 >>6590601 >>6593270 >>6593307 >>6594067 >>6594585 >>6595915 >>6598819

lmao @ this list

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 20:30:40 No.6589035 Report

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>>6588882
These faggots became irrelevant the moment the internet was invented.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 20:36:48 No.6589094 Report

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>>6588920
you don't understand
he was number 20 and claudio 32
he shouldn't have jobbed

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 20:51:27 No.6589258 Report

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>>6588882
>Gresham cares is the new Tupac cares.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 20:53:42 No.6589278 Report

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>>6588943
by my count, the number one wrestler was worse than the previous year's all but six times.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 21:03:30 No.6589381 Report

Quoted By: >>6589448 >>6590590 >>6597889

>>6588943
What the actual fuck happened in 97? Did the entire staff have a collective stroke? I love the Iceman but come the fuck on.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 21:04:08 No.6589384 Report

Quoted By: >>6589391 >>6589448

>>6588943
>Stinko #1 in 1997
I like the guy but he wasn't THAT good

Vince Russo

Vince Russo Fri 29 Jul 2022 21:05:23 No.6589391 Report

Quoted By:

>>6589384
Lets think...what do Meltzer and Malenko have in (((common)))?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 21:07:30 No.6589418 Report

Quoted By:

>>6588899
kek

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 21:11:13 No.6589448 Report

Quoted By: >>6589474 >>6589483 >>6599021

>>6589381
>>6589384
Oldfag here, I remember their reasoning for this at the time: there were numerous wrestlers that could have been deemed the #1 of the year, so they decided to go with the wrestler who was most dominant in his particular division.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 21:14:19 No.6589472 Report

Quoted By: >>6589492

>>6588882
>Countless wrestlers put it on their list of career goals
kek like who?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 21:14:22 No.6589474 Report

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>>6589448
aka It's 1997 and most of these marks have no idea what a Misawa is and he have to push magazines somehow.
Even then it should've been Austin.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 21:14:59 No.6589482 Report

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The only reason I ever look at the PWI 500 after it comes out and gets some chatter online is to see which guy I've actually heard of is ranked the lowest. I'm pretty sure the last time I did this it was Bad Luck Fake.

Vince Russo

Vince Russo Fri 29 Jul 2022 21:15:00 No.6589483 Report

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>>6589448
this was 1997. They could have gone with all kinds of other people like Steve Austin, Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, Sid, Hogan, Flair, and all kinds of other people who were way more over than malenko ever was. Its jew favoritism, end of.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 21:15:20 No.6589486 Report

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>>6588943
I like Dean Malenko but what the fuck?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 21:15:57 No.6589492 Report

Quoted By:

>>6589472
If you believe the rags, Cody was malding over Moxley being #1 in 2020 instead of him.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 21:32:13 No.6589652 Report

Quoted By:

>>6588882
based

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 21:37:36 No.6589699 Report

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>>6588882
Kek I still have the year magazine where Duke Droese was 500 I was 5 years old and remember this

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 23:08:44 No.6590590 Report

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>>6589381
Malenko had one of the best storylines in wrestling and was mega over until after the Ciclope thing and he proceeded to fuck it up by having no charisma and everyone realized it was Jericho pulling the entire weight of that feud, working his ass off to get Dean over which Malenko squandered.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 23:09:48 No.6590601 Report

Quoted By:

>>6588943
>1997
>Dean Malenko
nigger WHAT

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 23:09:51 No.6590603 Report

Quoted By: >>6590632 >>6596059 >>6597933

They recognize the following titles as "World Championships":
>Pan-Afrikan World Diaspora Wrestling Championship
>IWTV Independent Wrestling Championship

No I'm not lying or fucking with you. They really recognize it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 23:13:20 No.6590632 Report

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>>6590603
Just a couple of years ago they wouldn't count the TNA title anymore because of how much the company downsized so either somebody took over and forced them to pander to the niche crowds with this or they're trying really hard to stay relevant via pandering

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 23:18:23 No.6590680 Report

Quoted By: >>6590687

>>6588886
No original memes?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 23:19:12 No.6590687 Report

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>>6590680
no original ceo?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 23:20:10 No.6590705 Report

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>>6588888

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 23:21:18 No.6590722 Report

Quoted By: >>6590748 >>6590809 >>6595919 >>6597687

>be Ojama
>no million lives rent free in your head
>go to bed at 5am after a hard day's work of defending Tiny Khunt’s honor on the internet and letting Vince live rent free in your head 24/7
>think of a retard rebuttal to no million
>think it's really funny and smart because you haven't interacted in person with anyone other than your mom and the 7/11 cashier for months
>wake up at 1PM armed with your new comeback and run over to your computer
>push the jizzrags, Taco Bell containers and piss bottles out of the way
>navigate to /pw/
>you've never been so excited to own the dronies
>browse the catalog
>you see your opportunity
>"no original ceo?"
mfw

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 23:21:55 No.6590726 Report

Quoted By:

>>6588882
the marks are in the staff

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 23:24:06 No.6590748 Report

Quoted By: >>6590802

>>6590722
no vince?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 23:27:25 No.6590785 Report

Quoted By:

>>6588882
PWI is still in print?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 23:28:36 No.6590802 Report

Quoted By:

>>6590748
No original memes?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 23:29:24 No.6590809 Report

Quoted By: >>6590827

>>6590722
>Ojama
sup bitchtits

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 23:30:44 No.6590827 Report

Quoted By:

>>6590809
>Bitchtits
Sup WOS

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Jul 2022 01:23:55 No.6592747 Report

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>trannies only care about pwi when trannies are #1
kek what a bunch of trannies

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Jul 2022 01:54:35 No.6593270 Report

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>>6588943
If this is determined by powerlevel shouldn't Brock be number 1 from 2014 to 2020?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Jul 2022 01:56:45 No.6593307 Report

Quoted By: >>6593587 >>6594526

>>6588943
Why was RVD #1 in 2002?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Jul 2022 02:13:49 No.6593587 Report

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>>6593307
I guess because it took all of Evolution to beat him. But Triple H needed all of Evolution to go over Maven so that's not saying much

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Jul 2022 02:15:31 No.6593613 Report

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kayfabe rankings are the only real rankings in the biz everything else is just made up smark headcanon

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Jul 2022 02:49:27 No.6594067 Report

Quoted By: >>6595163 >>6597957

>>6588943
>1991 Hogan
91 wrestling should be wiped from everyone's memory and deleted from the internet. Sgt Slaughter headlining WM weeks after the actual Gulf War was over
>1995 Diesel
Worst yr ever for wrestling, 2020 not counting? Fighting over Pam Anderson instead of the WWF belt? WCW sucked ass, too.
>2011 Miz
WTF. Hadn't PWI gotten past being a kayfabe magazine by then? Actually didn't watch in 2011 but if Miz was #1, I'm glad I missed it

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Jul 2022 03:22:10 No.6594526 Report

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>>6593307
RVD was the most over guy in the company at the time, shame they didn't put the strap on him sooner and when they finally did he fucked it up

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 30 Jul 2022 03:27:09 No.6594585 Report

Quoted By:

>>6588943
>Malenko No.1 in ‘97

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Jul 2022 04:25:16 No.6595163 Report

Quoted By:

>>6594067
The Miz was always based even though he worked me into a seething shoot when he debuted

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Jul 2022 06:11:05 No.6595907 Report

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Nobody cares

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Jul 2022 06:12:03 No.6595912 Report

Quoted By:

>>6588882
lmao nobody cares

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Jul 2022 06:12:30 No.6595915 Report

Quoted By:

>>6588943
better than WON

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Jul 2022 06:13:03 No.6595919 Report

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>>6590722
ojama fuming at this kek

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Jul 2022 06:20:22 No.6595979 Report

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I doubt they sell 10k copies anymore, worldwide.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Jul 2022 06:32:08 No.6596059 Report

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>>6590603
I had to look up these championships. I had NEVER EVER heard of them, and I have heard of shit like Terminus.

Just to know, did any wrestler from F1ght Club Pro Wrestling (the company that first championship is from) EVER made it into the list, even after recognizing their titles? It's such a small indie promotion I would be genuinely surprised if it happened.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Jul 2022 10:27:35 No.6597687 Report

Quoted By:

>>6590722
>>be Ojama
>>no million lives rent free in your head
>>go to bed at 5am after a hard day's work of defending Tiny Khunt’s honor on the internet and letting Vince live rent free in your head 24/7
>>think of a retard rebuttal to no million
>>think it's really funny and smart because you haven't interacted in person with anyone other than your mom and the 7/11 cashier for months
>>wake up at 1PM armed with your new comeback and run over to your computer
>>push the jizzrags, Taco Bell containers and piss bottles out of the way
>>navigate to /pw/
>>you've never been so excited to own the dronies
>>browse the catalog
>>you see your opportunity
>>"no original ceo?"
>mfw
all these words, when you could've just said "I'm mad"

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Jul 2022 10:50:01 No.6597889 Report

Quoted By: >>6597947

>>6589381
How is Bret Hart not in the top 10 in 1997!? It's a worked list, and he clearly had the upper hand against Steve Austin during their feud. Austin's rated #3, but Bret clearly got the best of him. I don't think Bret lost cleanly the entire year, and all of his losses were screwjobs (the Royal Rumble, his cage match with Sid before Wrestlemania, Montreal, etc.) By Summer Slam, Austin was chasing the IC title while Bret was in the main event. There is no legitimate reason to rank Austin higher than Hart on a kayfabe list.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Jul 2022 10:57:02 No.6597933 Report

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>>6590603
They come from nothing and are just pandering. Their excuse is that it's a "territory world title" like the old days of WWA or USWA. MLW matters more and MLW is a fucking joke.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Jul 2022 10:58:49 No.6597947 Report

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>>6597889
It's kayfabe and in kayfabe a World Cruiserweight title is just as important as the Heavyweight. Same with boxing is the logic.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Jul 2022 11:00:45 No.6597957 Report

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>>6594067
The Miz is literally a wrestling god you obese smelly smark

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 30 Jul 2022 11:07:17 No.6597984 Report

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>>6588882
The PWI 500 is based but wrestlers should stop being a mark

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Jul 2022 11:11:43 No.6598014 Report

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after the top 10 they just pull names from a name generator, that shit is hilariously bad

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Jul 2022 11:44:41 No.6598231 Report

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Wish they would apologize for putting Malenko #1 in 97

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Jul 2022 11:57:20 No.6598276 Report

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Has any indie meme fed ever tried booking a mini-tournament of people who were ranked 500? Imagine, before he died, we could have had Zeus vs Lulu Pencil.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Jul 2022 13:55:01 No.6598819 Report

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>>6588943
this shits all retarded

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Jul 2022 14:25:56 No.6599021 Report

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>>6589448
So it went from who is the best to who is the best in a particular division, then back to who is the best.

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