Juniors of the 90s

[Guest ultimo the great]

this is my order 1.jushin liger 2.ultimo dragon 3.the great sasuke 4.chris benoit 5.rey misteriojr 6.eddy guerrero 7.koji kanemoto 8.juventud guerrera 9.shinjiro ohtani 10.dean malenko this is imho how would you rank these 10 and who would you add

[Guest Misawa Da Man]

1. Lyger (like you'd expect anything else)

2. Benoit (1990 - 1995/6)

3. The Great Sasuke

4. Shinjiro Ohtani

5. Koji Kanemoto

6. Ultimo Dragon

7. Eddy Guerrero

8. El Samurai

9. Dean Malenko

10. Rey Mysterio Jr

[Guest CB2M]

1. Liger

2. Benoit

3. Kanemoto

4. Ohtani

5. Dragon

6. Guerrero

7. Sasuke

8. Misterio Jr.

9. Samurai

10. Malenko

[Guest goodhelmet]

1. liger

2. eddy

3. ohtani

4. mysterio jr.

5. great sasuke

6. ultimo dragon

7. malenko

8. benoit (only because he wrestled heavy for half of the decade)

9. samurai

10. kanemoto

[Guest Treeber]

1. Lyger

2. Sasuke

3. Ohtani

4. Dragon

5. Benoit (he wasn't always a junior)

6. Kanemoto

7. Misterio Jr

8. Eddy G

9. Samurai

10. TAKA - I like him better than Malenko

[Guest Hoyakillah]

Damn these restrictive time periods!  Damn them all to hell!

 

1.  Ultimo Dragon

2.  Jushin Lyger

3.  Great Sasuke

4.  Shinjiro Ohtani

5.  El Samurai

6.  Chris Benoit

7.  Dean Malenko

8.  Rey Misterio, Jr.

9.  Koji Kanemoto

10. Dick Togo

[Guest Misawa Da Man]

Misawa wasn't classed as a junior.

[Guest MRFTW]

Did he even wrestle as Tiger Mask in the 90's?

[Guest ElLocoTas]

Misawa stopped doing the Tiger Mask II gimmick in 1990.

[Guest Frank Zappa Mask]

Top 10 that I have seen...

 

1. Jushin Liger

2. Chris Benoit

3. Rey Mysterio Jr

4. Shinjiro Ohtani

5. The Great Sasuke

6. Eddy Guerrero

7. TAKA Michinoku

8. Ultimo Dragon

 

Ummmmmm.......I need to watch some more Junior wrestling...

[Guest Misawa Da Man]

Was he actually ever classed as a Junior though? I mean, he was 6", 220 and wrestled for lots of hevayweight titles around the world (when the champions came to Japan, see Ricky Steamboat)

[Guest J*ingus]

I remember Dynamite Kid said in his book that Misawa never should've done the Tiger Mask gimmick, because he was just too big & couldn't come close to Sayama in the high-fyling stuff.

[Guest Misawa Da Man]

But, a guy Misawa's size doing full 360 flips onto his feet, ESPECIALLY in the 1980s was incredible.

[Guest Tim Cooke]

Misawa was considered a Junior during the Mid 80's in his feud with Kobayashi during Choshu's Invasion of AJPW.

 

Top 10 Juniors of the 1990's

 

1- Jushin Liger

2- Juventud Guerrera

3- Shinjiro Otani

4- El Samurai

5- Rey Misterio Jr.

6- Eddy Guerrero

7- Ultimo Dragon

8- Chris Benoit

9- Great Sasuke

10- Taka Michinoku

 

Eh, that's not a great list.  I am set on the top 3.  4-9 all belong there, probably in a different order.

 

Tim

[Guest thefrenchargel]

1.Liger

2.Benoit

3.Eddy Guerrero

4.Shinjiro Ohtani

5.Great Sasuke

6.Rey Jr.

7.Dean Malenko

8.Ultimo Dragon

9.Gran Hamada

10.Dick Togo

 

...Hamada rules it, Dick Togo kicks ass, too.