I have not been keeping up on The Rasslin’ all that much, though I gotta say I’ve seen some NXT PPVs and I have been super impressed. I was more into it around the turn of the century, from late ECW (late night cable! whooo) through the early 2000s.

Faves? Oh jeez, so many. Eddie Guerrero, Rey Misterio Jr., CIMA, Masato Yoshino, Genki Horiguchi, TAKA Michinoku, Chris Daniels, Bryan Danielson, Chris Jericho, Mistico, Los Guerreros del Infierno, Ric Flair, Ricky Steamboat, Randy Savage…

I loved the Smackdown Six era. I lovingly recreated my favorite wrestlers in Fire Pro Wrestling D on the Dreamcast and the best wrestling game ever, Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 on the N64. I loved it when Edge & Christian teamed up with Kurt Angle to form the best American comedy heel stable ever. I was crushed and angered when the man who had arguably been the greatest wrestler of all time killed his family and committed suicide. I got to see Hotstuff Hernandez casually sailing over the top rope to the outside at an indie show and it was one of the most impressive things I’ve ever seen a guy that big do. And when I went to Japan last year, about four hours after I touched down, I was at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo for a Dragon Gate show, where a friend of a friend who was working for the promotion got me a front row seat, and I got to see stuff like this up close:

As for current wrestlers, I dig Sasha Banks, Apollo Crews, The Vaudevillains, and whoever El Generico, Kevin Steen, PAC, KENTA, and Prince Devitt are calling themselves these days.