Pro Wrestling Illustrated's Top 25 Wrestlers From '79-'99 & Top 10 Tag Teams

[Wacky D]

courtesy of the PWI 500 from their 20th anniversary issue back in '99

came across this and decided to post it. list goes up to 500. tag team list goes up to 100. i'll post some more of it if requested.

interesting to see how differently some wrestlers' standings changed. some for no apparent reason.

top 25 singles wrestlers:
25. the great muta
24. kerry von erich
23. jerry lawler
22. terry funk
21. the undertaker
20. lex luger
19. steve austin
18. nick bockwinkel
17. roddy piper
16. stan hansen
15. sting
14. bruiser brody
13. rick steamboat
12. jushin liger
11. dusty rhodes
10. shawn michaels
9. randy savage
8. harley race
7. bob backlund
6. mitsuhara misawa
5. antonio inoki
4. bret hart
3. andre the giant
2. ric flair
1. hulk hogan

 

[Wacky D]

top 10 tag teams

10. shohei baba & jumbu tsuruta
9. terry funk & dory funk jr
8. toshiaka kawada & akira taue
7. stan hansen & bruiser brody
6. mitsuharu misawa & kenta kobashi
5. the british bulldogs
4. the rock-n-roll express
3. the freebirds
2. the steiner brothers
1. the road warriors

 

[Wacky D]

so wheres all the people that downplay the likes of sting & luger?

 

[Big Jo]

Is PWI still around? I would imagine wrestling magazines took a huge hit since the internet took off

 

[Wacky D]

Is PWI still around? I would imagine wrestling magazines took a huge hit since the internet took off

yea i think so.

im sure it took a hit, but the IWC was always huge since like the mid-90s. so im sure PWI is still doing alright.

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

5. antonio inoki
4. bret hart
3. andre the giant
2. ric flair
1. hulk hogan

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[Nintendough]

List is awful

 

[R=G]

Macho is bigger than that...a little twisted....no way they can act like Flair was head and shoulders ahead of him.

 

[Wacky D]

List is awful

care to elaborate?

 

[Wacky D]

it should be noted that PWI is a combination of both smark & mark journalism.

imo, the mark side of things is how undertaker got on the list, while the smark side is prolly why steamboat was able to rank so high.

 

[Wacky D]

Macho is bigger than that...a little twisted....no way they can act like Flair was head and shoulders ahead of him.

problem with savage is he played 2nd & 3rd fiddle in the wwf & wcw. even when he was wwf champ, he was kinda played off as hogan's lil buddy, imo.

meanwhile, flair was the man. and he has a better catalog too.

im trying to figure out how savage ranks below bret hart.

 

[SteelCitySoldier]

care to elaborate?

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[R=G]

problem with savage is he played 2nd & 3rd fiddle in the wwf & wcw. even when he was wwf champ, he was kinda played off as hogan's lil buddy, imo.

meanwhile, flair was the man. and he has a better catalog too.

im trying to figure out how savage ranks below bret hart.

He wasn't the man in WCW...he was underneath the nwo, Sting, Goldberg, and Hogan for the boom period.

 

[Wacky D]

He wasn't the man in WCW...he was underneath the nwo, Sting, Goldberg, and Hogan for the boom period.

he was past his prime by then tho. plus savage was right along with him under those guys.

flair was the man in wcw when he returned there in '93-94 tho.

 

[Big Jo]

He wasn't the man in WCW...he was underneath the nwo, Sting, Goldberg, and Hogan for the boom period.

this was a retrospective list that came out in 99 though