Violent People

2023 Violent People 100 #70-61

70. Masashi Takeda (21 ballots, 878 points)Last Year’s Rank: 498High Vote: CFOS (3)Average Rank: 43.1430.43% of Ballots Made Recommended Matches– vs. Jun Kasai (FREEDOMS, 1/3)– w/ Takumi Tsukamoto vs. Fuminori Abe & Takuya Nomura (BJW, 2/8)– w/ Takumi Tsukamoto vs. Abdullah Kobayashi & Daiju Wakamatsu (BJW, 2/13)– vs. Suzu Suzuki (Prominence, 3/18)– w/ Jun Kasai […]

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2023 Violent People 100 #80-71

80. Komander (18 ballots, 766 points)Last Year’s Rank: 153High Vote: Stardy (10)Average Rank: 47.3326.09% of Ballots Made Recommended Matches– vs. Bandido (PWG, 1/8)– vs. Konosuke Takeshita (PWG, 1/8)– vs. Lio Rush (GCW, 2/18)– vs. Arez (wXw, 3/10)– vs. Black Taurus vs. El Hijo del Vikingo (WrestleCon, 3/30)– vs. Jay White (AEW, 4/19)– vs. Claudio Castagnoli […]

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2023 Violent People 100: #90-81

90. Hiromu Takahashi (15 ballots, 642 points) – HIGHEST RANKED 15 BALLOT WRESTLERLast Year’s Rank: 81High Vote: Jacob Shearin (5)Average Rank: 41.9321.74% of Ballots Made Recommended Matches– vs. YOH (NJPW, 2/5)– vs. AMAKUSA (NOAH, 2/21)– vs. DOUKI (NJPW, 5/13)– vs. Lio Rush (NJPW, 5/14)– vs. KUSHIDA (NJPW, 5/15)– vs. Titan (NJPW, 5/23)– w/ Soberano Jr. […]

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2023 Violent People 100: #100-91

100. Kevin Owens (17 ballots, 571 Points) – LOWEST RANKED 17 BALLOT WRESTLERLast Year’s Rank: 94High Vote: Andy (10)Average Rank: 55.6524.64% of Ballots Made Recommended Matches– vs. Sami Zayn (WWE, 1/13)– vs. Roman Reigns (WWE, 1/28)– w/ Sami Zayn vs. Jey Uso & Jimmy Uso (WWE, 4/1)– w/ Sami Zayn vs. Roman Reigns & Solo […]

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2023 Violent People 100 Honorable Mentions Part 9 (#150-101)

150. Blue Panther (10 ballots, 359 points)Last Year’s Rank: 590High Vote: Dan Rice, Hayden Dockerty (26) 149. Nicole Matthews (9 ballots, 363 points)Last Year’s Rank: NRHigh Vote: Corwo (29) 148. Rina Yamashita (9 ballots, 363 points)Last Year’s Rank: 314High Vote: roach/brennan (28) 147. Becky Lynch (7 ballots, 366 points)Last Year’s Rank: 114High Vote: Steven Graham […]

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A Year in Forever-9th Anniversary of Chris Hero vs Timothy Thatcher

Image Credit: Michael Watson/@brainbuster_ “Paper Champ” Baltimore’s historically been a city that major companies have run in. Plenty of WWF/WWE and JCP history is here. AEW even would add Baltimore to their list of towns. But Maryland’s indie wrestling history isn’t the richest. When EVOLVE announced adding Joppa, Maryland as one of their new towns […]

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