It's December, List Season is upon us again.

 

1. Kazuchika Okada

2. Hiroshi Tanahashi

3. Daniel Bryan

4. Shinsuke Nakamura

5. Tomohiro Ishii

6. Randy Orton

7. CM Punk

8. Prince Devitt

9. Katsuyori Shibata

10. Kota Ibushi

11. Austin Aries

12. Shingo Takagi

13. Hirooki Goto

14. Bully Ray

15. Ricochet

16. Kurt Angle

17. Akira Tozawa

18. Masato Yoshino

19. CIMA

20. Seth Rollins

21. Minoru Suzuki

22. Tetsuya Naito

23. Naruki Doi

24. Bobby Roode

25. Matt Jackson

26. Nick Jackson

27. Kevin Steen

28. Dean Ambrose

29. Masato Tanaka

30. Antonio Cesaro

31. AJ Styles

32. Roman Reigns

33. Yuji Nagata

34. BxB Hulk

35. KENTA

36. Karl Anderson

37. Dolph Ziggler

38. Jeff Hardy

39. Alberto Del Rio

40. Michael Elgin

41. Brock Lesnar

42. Adam Cole

43. Davey Richards

44. Kenny Omega

45. Kris Travis

46. Jay Briscoe

47. El Ligero

48. Christopher Daniels

49. Sami Zayn

50. Cody Rhodes

 

Let me first state the obvious.

 

Randy Orton and CM Punk above all of the Shield and Cesaro.

No Shield members in the top 19.

Cesaro at THIRTY.

Cody Rhodes scrapes in, but no Goldust.

 

F*ckin' LOL.

 

Kudos to them for throwing Brock on there though.

Ishii at five is because he has had three good matches, two in the G-1, against top drawer opponents. For PS to put him there is insane to me.

 

Okada has been all types of great and Tanahashi has been from a match quality standpoint as well but it seems the magazine has pretty much given up on US Wrestling. For some many DG wrestlers to be infesting the top 50 and for Takagi to be 12 just means they have looked at win/loss record in the promotion for the year and stuck who has the main title at the highest ranked of them all. For the record Tozawa has been better then Takagi this year in terms of performances.

 

Even though Okada has done well, I'd still say Bryan should be number 1, it has been an absolute breakthrough year for him in fan recognition and a stellar one in match quality. His Summerslam match with Cena was a big credit to both men and the fact that Cena, Cesaro and Ambrose are not ahead of the likes of Goto, CIMA and Angle after their years is just unthinkable to me.

 

The US part of the list is wrong and so is the Puro - no wonder you can't find this magazine anywhere anymore.

You can get it from Tesco I buy it every month. Looking forward to reading this apparently they stated in the last magazine that this months is entirely devoted to profiles etc. of the top 50. I get it tonight.

I have a standard Tesco and a Tesco Extra near me and neither stock it. Must be a regional sales thing, Tesco can be like that.

 

I still stand by my point thought that list is wrong as will no doubt be the PWI500 and trying to do lists like these in this sport are stupid. So much is down to personal opinion in this sport that there will never be agreement or a definitive list.

Oh I agree with the list being wrong, the amount of time i spent swearing at last years list was ridiculous until i tried to do my list and got stick wanting to put 60 names in a top 50 list then i gave up and realised not everyone will be happy but I do agree it could be better. I no longer watch Puro as no idea where to get it from so can't comment on the Japenese stars I now only know a few but why KENTA is so low i don't know. I guess when i read the mag I will see their reasons.

Randy at six surprises me the most. Is this list based just on the last two or three weeks?

It is meant to be the year but it does tend to place people higher depending on the last few months.

Yeah, although ironically enough, Randy had been quietly good for most of the year, and then kind of bombed when put on top these last few months. He has a decent sized list of good matches, but to put him above all of the WWE guys who are ranked below him, not to mention everyone else not even on the radar like, oh, I don't know, Gold God damn Dust and John Cena (though Cena actually making a PS list would be more surprising at this point)...ridiculous. Orton shouldn't be sniffing a Top 10 for WWE when so many dudes have been this good all year.

I am surprised that none of the Shield guys are in this. They haven't dissapointed when I have seen them. Even in singles action they look good, especially Ambrose.

They are in this. 32. 28. 20.

I think the list suffers from the people who read this mag and to some exent people on this site don't have that a wide range of wrestling viewing and are mainly WWE watchers, i think that is far to say therefore when lists appear with people on it that people haven't heard about it makes people think the lists are crap, the list is cleary with a wider range of viewing than most people watch

I think the list suffers from the people who read this mag and to some exent people on this site don't have that a wide range of wrestling viewing and are mainly WWE watchers, i think that is far to say therefore when lists appear with people on it that people haven't heard about it makes people think the lists are crap, the list is cleary with a wider range of viewing than most people watch

 

I don't think this is fair at all.

 

Firstly, not I nor anyone else in the thread besides Gringo commented on the Japanese or any non-WWE/TNA guys. The comparison is between the various WWE guys on the list, and those that didn't make it. My complaint isn't that there should be more WWE guys, but that the WWE guys that appear are in the wrong order.

 

Secondly, Gringo DID address the rest of the world and gave pretty well thought out reasons why the selections and ordering for those guys was pretty off base.

 

So I have no idea where you're coming from with that.

 

Not to mention the irony given the shallowness of Martin and the PS crew's wrestling watching and preferences, but that's another story.

Maybe I was thinking of reasons why these lists are aways hated, after all they pointless you could put 50 wrestlers down and it would be equally as valid

My boy Kota Ibushi at 10. I'm cool with that.

no wonder you can't find this magazine anywhere anymore.

There's loads of shops in Bangor that stock it. The three local newsagents as well as WH Smiths, Tesco, Asda and Morrisons all have it on sale.

 

I think the list is, as people have said, accurate enough with the guys mentioned, but not in the order they are in. Also, I'm not happy that they ditched the previous format of the PS50 and just have it as a straight article now.

Oh I agree with the list being wrong, the amount of time i spent swearing at last years list was ridiculous until i tried to do my list and got stick wanting to put 60 names in a top 50 list then i gave up and realised not everyone will be happy but I do agree it could be better. I no longer watch Puro as no idea where to get it from so can't comment on the Japenese stars I now only know a few but why KENTA is so low i don't know. I guess when i read the mag I will see their reasons.

 

Big NJPW shows like the final shows of tours that include their title matches are usually orderable as a streamable PPV from their website now. I tend to just wait around two days after a big show and hit up YouTube like a motherlicker. A lovely gentleman posted each show of the G-1 Climax on there which was awesome. Seriously you can find ANYTHING on YouTube.

 

I used to read Powerslam every month, but stopped when every month they would spend all their time hating on HHH but seemed to always have him on the cover. Then like I said, the only place I ended up being able to pick it up around here was the WH Smith in Rochdale, the one in the Victoria Train Station in Manchester or a little pokey newsagent near Manchester Town Hall.

 

You'd think distribution and readership would be higher in the Manchester area given the fact that loads of Raw's and Smackdown's get filmed at the M.E.N. - sorry, the Phones 4U Arena - these days.

Where's Cena? No really where's Cena?

Because Powerslam.

 

When it comes to Cena they're stuck in about 2005 and haven't moved. I didn't expect him to be on it, he never is.

People getting mad over a Top-whatever list in a wrestling magazine.

 

lol

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lolz

Hey, lists are made to make people mad.