The Results!
In total, 45 ballots were received. Voters were asked to
rank matches from 1 to 175. Match #1 receives 175 points; match #2 would
receive 174 points, etc. Matches in the top 30 were also awarded bonus
points as follows: #1 (+7 pts), #2 (+5 pts), #3 (+4 pts), #4 through #7
(+3 pts), #8-#20 (+2 pts), #21-#30 (+1 pts).
Dec 2014 update -- I'm adding in links to the matches on
New Japan World where available. (Send updates to
@mookieghana). Thanks to
AlkalineKrogan and BenBoring for helping out !
| rank |
match |
points |
| 1 |
5-on-5 Gauntlet Challenge (4/19/84) [last part] |
7,807 |
| 2 |
Andre the Giant vs. Stan Hansen (9/23/81) |
7,726 |
| 3 |
Tatsumi Fujinami, Keiichi Yamada, Shiro Koshinaka, Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Kengo Kimura vs. Hiro Saito, Kuniaki Kobayashi, Super Strong Machine, Masa Saito & Riki Choshu (9/12/88) |
7,535 |
| 4 |
Antonio Inoki, Tatsumi Fujinami, Kengo Kimura, Umanosuke Ueda & Kantaro Hoshino vs. Akira Maeda, Yoshiaki Fujiwara, Osamu Kido, Nobuhiko Takada & Kazuo Yamazaki (3/26/86) |
7,531 |
| 5 |
Riki Choshu vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara (6/9/87) |
7,224 |
| 6 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Akira Maeda (6/12/86) |
6,914 |
| 7 |
Jushin Liger vs. Naoki Sano (8/10/89) |
6,867 |
| 8 |
5-on-5 Challenge (5/1/86) [Part One] [Part Two] [Part Three] [Part Four] [Part Five] [Part Six] [Part Seven] [Part Eight] [Part Nine] |
6,862 |
| 9 |
Andre the Giant vs. Killer Khan (4/1/82) |
6,824 |
| 10 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Riki Choshu (4/3/83) |
6,659 |
| 11 |
Inoki/Fujiwara/Sakaguchi/Hoshino/Mutoh vs. Fujinami/Choshu/Maeda/Kimura/Super Strong Machine (8/19/87) |
6,591 |
| 12 |
Riki Choshu & Masa Saito vs. George Takano & Super Strong Machine (3/16/89) |
6,516 |
| 13 |
Antonio Inoki vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara (2/6/86) |
6,510 |
| 14 |
Tatsumi Fujinami, Nobuhiko Takada, Riki Choshu, Akira Maeda & Super Strong Machine vs. Antonio Inoki, Dick Murdoch, Yoshiaki Fujiwara, Masa Saito & Seiji Sakaguchi (9/17/87) |
6,399 |
| 15 |
Shinya Hashimoto vs. Vader (4/24/89) |
6,370 |
| 16 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Riki Choshu (8/4/83) |
6,352 |
| 17 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Riki Choshu (4/21/83) |
6,316 |
| 18 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Kengo Kimura (1/2/87) |
6,283 |
| 19 |
Riki Choshu vs. Big Van Vader (6/27/89) |
6,154 |
| 20 |
Tatsumi Fujinami & Antonio Inoki vs. Dick Murdoch & Adrian Adonis (12/7/84) |
6,117 |
| 21 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Riki Choshu (7/7/83) |
6,083 |
| 22 |
Antonio Inoki vs. Masa Saito (4/27/87) |
6,025 |
| 23 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Dynamite Kid (2/5/80) |
5,991 |
| 24 |
Akira Maeda vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara (2/5/86) |
5,939 |
| 25 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Vader (4/24/89) |
5,839 |
| 26 |
Antonio Inoki vs. Dick Murdoch (6/19/86) |
5,734 |
| 27 |
Shinya Hashimoto vs. Victor Zangiev (4/24/89) |
5,732 |
| 28 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Kengo Kimura (9/25/80) |
5,729 |
| 29 |
Akira Maeda vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara (1/10/86) |
5,686 |
| 30 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Riki Choshu (6/24/88) |
5,537 |
| 31 |
Nobuhiko Takada & Akira Maeda vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Kazuo Yamazaki (5/25/87) |
5,421 |
| 32 |
Antonio Inoki vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara (6/12/86) |
5,388 |
| 33 |
Antonio Inoki, Riki Choshu & Kantaro Hoshino vs. Scott Hall, Bob Orton & Dick Murdoch (11/17/88) |
5,281 |
| 34 |
Riki Choshu & Takayuki Iizuka vs. Super Strong Machine & George Takano (7/13/89) |
5,211 |
| 35 |
Antonio Inoki vs. Vader (7/29/88) |
5,204 |
| 36 |
Riki Choshu vs. Shinya Hashimoto (12/7/89) |
5,188 |
| 37 |
Antonio Inoki vs. Stan Hansen (4/3/80) |
5,151 |
| 38 |
Nobuhiko Takada vs. Hiro Hase (3/11/88) |
5,125 |
| 39 |
Jushin Liger & Akira Nogami vs. Kantaro Hoshino & Naoki Sano (8/8/89) |
5,110 |
| 40 |
Antonio Inoki vs. Riki Choshu (2/22/89) |
5,091 |
| 41 |
Akira Maeda vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara (8/29/87) |
5,029 |
| 42 |
Antonio Inoki vs. Stan Hansen (9/11/80) |
4,940 |
| 43 |
Tatsumi Fujinami, Akira Maeda & Kengo Kimura vs. Riki Choshu, Yoshiaki Yatsu & Animal Hamaguchi (12/8/83) |
4,927 |
| 44 |
Jushin Liger vs. Naoki Sano (7/13/89) |
4,903 |
| 45 |
Tatsumi Fujinami & Kengo Kimura vs. Antonio Inoki & Seiji Sakaguchi (12/12/85) |
4,892 |
| 46 |
Akira Maeda & Nobuhiko Takada vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Kazuo Yamazaki (9/1/87) |
4,875 |
| 47 |
Kengo Kimura vs. Masa Saito (NJ TV 6/10/87) |
4,837 |
| 48 |
Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Antonio Inoki vs. Akira Maeda & Tatsumi Fujinami (9/7/87) |
4,822 |
| 49 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Riki Choshu (5/27/88) |
4,739 |
| 50 |
Akira Nogami, Tatsutoshi Goto, Keiichi Yamada, Kantaro Hoshino & Shiro Koshinaka vs. Kuniaki Kobayashi, Hiroshi Hase, Hiro Saito, Norio Honaga & Kensuke Sasaki (4/27/88) |
4,689 |
| 51 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Riki Choshu (9/21/83) |
4,673 |
| 52 |
Dick Murdoch & Antonio Inoki vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Masa Saito (12/4/87) |
4,671 |
| 53 |
Nobuhiko Takada & Akira Maeda vs. Keiji Mutoh & Shiro Koshinaka (3/20/87) |
4,623 |
| 54 |
Tatsumi Fujinami & Kengo Kimura vs. Antonio Inoki & Seiji Sakaguchi (12/6/85) |
4,601 |
| 55 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Isamu Teranishi (10/8/81) |
4,585 |
| 56 |
Kengo Kimura vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara (5/16/86) |
4,552 |
| 57 |
Riki Choshu, Jushin Liger & Kengo Kimura vs. Big Van Vader, Manny Fernandez & Buzz Sawyer (8/3/89) |
4,534 |
| 58 |
Tatsumi Fujinami & Akira Maeda vs. Riki Choshu & Higo Hamaguchi (12/2/83) |
4,527 |
| 59 |
Jushin Liger vs. Kantaro Hoshino (8/5/89) |
4,484 |
| 60 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Kengo Kimura (1/14/87) |
4,464 |
| 61 |
Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Don Nakaya Nielsen (7/29/88) |
4,446 |
| 62 |
Bob Backlund vs. Stan Hansen (9/30/80) |
4,438 |
| 63 |
Big Van Vader vs. Salman Hashimikov (7/13/89) |
4,422 |
| 64 |
Riki Choshu vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara (6/29/87) |
4,421 |
| 65 |
Tatsumi Fujinami, Kengo Kimura, Kantaro Hoshino, George Takano & Shiro Koshinaka vs. Akira Maeda, Yoshiaki Fujiwara, Osamu Kido, Nobuhiko Takada & Kazuo Yamazaki (9/16/86) |
4,371 |
| 66 |
Hulk Hogan vs. Antonio Inoki (IWGP League Final) (6/2/83) |
4,351 |
| 67 |
Antonio Inoki vs. Stan Hansen (2/8/80) |
4,238 |
| 68 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Dick Murdoch (7/6/82) |
4,236 |
| 69 |
Tiger Mask vs. Steven Wright (4/1/82) |
4,227 |
| 70 |
Keiichi Yamada vs. Shunji Kosugi (4/18/85) |
4,206 |
| 71 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Vader (6/26/88) |
4,157 |
| 72 |
Antonio Inoki, Akira Maeda & Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Riki Choshu, Yoshiaki Yatsu & Animal Hamaguchi, (2/9/84) |
4,096 |
| 73 |
Tiger Mask vs. Gran Hamada (11/6/81) |
4,057 |
| 74 |
Antonio Inoki vs. Riki Choshu (2/4/88) |
4,054 |
| 75 |
Akira Nogami vs. Naoki Sano (8/31/89) |
4,010 |
| 76 |
Tatsutoshi Goto, Masa Saito, Seiji Sakaguchi vs. Scott Hall, Bob Orton & Dick Murdoch (12/7/88) |
3,989 |
| 77 |
Antonio Inoki & Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Andre the Giant & Rene Goulet (12/10/81) |
3,976 |
| 78 |
Antonio Inoki vs. Stan Hansen (4/23/81) |
3,974 |
| 79 |
Antonio Inoki vs. Dick Murdoch (12/10/85) |
3,930 |
| 80 |
Kengo Kimura & Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Masa Saito (12/7/87) |
3,929 |
| 81 |
Keiichi Yamada vs. Hiro Hase (2/4/88) |
3,913 |
| 82 |
Tatsumi Fujinami, Kengo Kimura, & Shiro Koshinaka vs. Akira Maeda, Nobuhiko Takada, & Yoshiaki Fujiwara (3/7/86) |
3,894 |
| 83 |
Tatsumi Fujinami & Kengo Kimura vs. Dick Murdoch & Adrian Adonis (5/24/85) |
3,878 |
| 84 |
Antonio Inoki, Riki Choshu & Kantaro Hoshino vs. Tatsutoshi Goto, Masa Saito & Seiji Sakaguchi (12/5/88) |
3,871 |
| 85 |
The Cobra vs. Don Arakawa (8/1/85) |
3,869 |
| 86 |
Tiger Mask, Antonio Inoki & Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Baby Face, Dynamite Kid & Abdullah the Butcher (1/8/82) |
3,863 |
| 87 |
Gran Hamada vs. Babyface (4/3/80) |
3,849 |
| 88 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Killer Khan (11/3/83) |
3,834 |
| 89 |
Tiger Mask vs. Kuniaki Kobayashi (1/6/83) |
3,833 |
| 90 |
Antonio Inoki & Keiichi Yamada vs. Nobuhiko Takada & Osamu Kido (2/5/86) |
3,776 |
| 91 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Tony Rocco (9/11/80) |
3,742 |
| 92 |
Tiger Mask vs. Kuniaki Kobayashi (11/4/82) |
3,701 |
| 93 |
Antonio Inoki vs. Riki Choshu (5/18/84) |
3,696 |
| 94 |
Riki Choshu, Super Strong Machine & Kuniaki Kobayashi vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara, Osamu Kido & Nobuhiko Takada (6/12/87) |
3,689 |
| 95 |
Tiger Mask & Kantaro Hoshino vs. Kuniaki Kobayashi & Gran Hamada (2/10/83) |
3,686 |
| 96 |
Tatsumi Fujinami & Kantaro Hoshino vs. Dynamite Kid & Steve Keirn (1/18/80) |
3,655 |
| 97 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Vader (4/27/88) |
3,606 |
| 98 |
Nobuhiko Takada vs. Shiro Koshinaka (2/5/87) |
3,592 |
| 99 |
Keiichi Yamada vs. Shiro Koshinaka (12/9/88) |
3,573 |
| 100 |
Gran Hamada, Kantaro Hoshino & Tiger Mask vs. Missionaries De La Muerte (1/14/83) |
3,556 |
| 101 |
Akira Maeda & Osamu Kido vs. Nobuhiko Takada & Shiro Koshinaka (12/8/86) |
3,491 |
| 102 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Steve Keirn (2/3 Falls) (2/1/80) |
3,473 |
| 103 |
Keiichi Yamada & Shiro Koshinaka vs. Perro Aguayo & El Canek (10/10/88) |
3,472 |
| 104 |
George Takano vs. Stan Lane (7/24/81) |
3,471 |
| 105 |
Antonio Inoki, Riki Choshu & Kantaro Hoshino vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara, Kengo Kimura & Osamu Kido (11/11/88) |
3,466 |
| 106 |
Tatsumi Fujinami & Kengo Kimura vs. Dick Murdoch & Adrian Adonis (12/8/84) |
3,403 |
| 107 |
Nobuhiko Takada & Akira Maeda vs. Keiji Mutoh & Shiro Koshinaka (3/26/87) |
3,402 |
| 108 |
Jushin Liger, Kengo Kimura & Riki Choshu vs Pat Tanaka, Owen Hart & Bam Bam Bigelow (8/31/89) |
3,393 |
| 109 |
Antonio Inoki vs. Stan Hansen (5/9/80) |
3,311 |
| 110 |
Tatsumi Fujinami & Shiro Koshinaka vs. Nobuhiko Takada & Akira Maeda (2/2/87) |
3,269 |
| 111 |
Akira Maeda vs. Super Strong Machine (8/20/87) |
3,263 |
| 112 |
Nobuhiko Takada & Osamu Kido vs. Kazuo Yamazaki & Yoshiaki Fujiwara (12/27/87) |
3,246 |
| 113 |
Tatsumi Fujinami, Seiji Sakaguchi & Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Riki Choshu, Yoshiaki Yatsu & Higo Hamaguchi (3/22/84) |
3,195 |
| 114 |
Chavo Guerrero vs. Kengo Kimura (11/3/80) |
3,189 |
| 115 |
Shiro Koshinaka & Antonio Inoki vs. Hiroshi Hase & Riki Choshu (4/11/88) |
3,187 |
| 116 |
Nobuhiko Takada vs. Shiro Koshinaka (9/19/86) |
3,168 |
| 117 |
Hiro Hase vs. Kuniaki Kobayashi (12/27/87) |
3,162 |
| 118 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Johnny Londos (9/19/80) |
3,144 |
| 119 |
Tiger Mask/Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Pete Roberts/El Solitario (9/4/81) |
3,135 |
| 120 |
Nobuhiko Takada & Akira Maeda vs. Super Strong Machine & Kuniaki Kobayashi (8/2/87) |
3,105 |
| 121 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Dick Murdoch (7/23/82) |
3,102 |
| 122 |
Tatsumi Fujinami & Kengo Kimura vs. Masked Superstar & Dick Murdoch (11/29/85) |
3,083 |
| 123 |
Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Kengo Kimura vs. El Bello Greco & Sergio El Hermoso (2/3/89) |
3,065 |
| 124 |
Akira Maeda vs. Don Nakaya Nielsen (10/9/86) |
2,979 |
| 125 |
Hulk Hogan vs. Tatsumi Fujinami (2/5/85) |
2,973 |
| 126 |
Hulk Hogan vs. Abdullah the Butcher (5/26/82) |
2,970 |
| 127 |
Andre the Giant vs. Hulk Hogan (12/9/82) |
2,942 |
| 128 |
Akira Maeda vs. Nobuhiko Takada (1/3/86) |
2,902 |
| 129 |
Buzz Sawyer vs. Victor Zangiev (8/5/89) |
2,893 |
| 130 |
Dick Murdoch vs. Bruiser Brody (11/22/85) |
2,869 |
| 131 |
Antonio Inoki & Kengo Kimura vs. Adrian Adonis & Bob Orton Jr. (3/4/83) |
2,859 |
| 132 |
Riki Choshu vs. Salman Hashimikov (7/12/89) |
2,834 |
| 133 |
Dick Murdoch vs. Abdullah the Butcher (7/7/83) |
2,810 |
| 134 |
Andre the Giant & Tony St. Clair vs. Seiji Sakaguchi & Kantaro Hoshino (6/13/85) |
2,791 |
| 135 |
Tiger Mask vs. Dynamite Kid (1/28/82) |
2,775 |
| 136 |
Hiroshi Hase & Takayuki Iizuka vs. Naoki Sano & Akira Nogami (8/3/89) |
2,758 |
| 137 |
Keiji Mutoh & Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Akira Maeda (2/5/87) |
2,734 |
| 138 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Steve Keirn (11/6/80) |
2,712 |
| 139 |
Keiichi Yamada & Nobuhiko Takada vs. Mark Rocco & Owen Hart (9/7/87) |
2,688 |
| 140 |
Nobuhiko Takada vs. Shiro Koshinaka (8/5/86) |
2,682 |
| 141 |
Tatsumi Fujinami & Keiji Muto vs. Nobuhiko Takada & Shiro Koshinaka (11/24/86) |
2,660 |
| 142 |
Akira Maeda & Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Bad News Allen & Steve Williams (7/25/86) |
2,636 |
| 143 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Chavo Guerrero (5/9/80) |
2,614 |
| 144 |
Keiichi Yamada vs. Shiro Koshinaka (1/25/88) |
2,592 |
| 145 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Hiro Hamaguchi (9/24/82) |
2,534 |
| 146 |
Keiji Mutoh, Keiichi Yamada & Kengo Kimura vs. Shinya Hashimoto, Shunji Kosugi & Kantaro Hoshino (9/13/85) |
2,520 |
| 147 |
Shiro Koshinaka vs. Hiroshi Hase (3/16/89) |
2,497 |
| 148 |
Masaharu Funaki & Akira Nogami vs. Yoji Anjo & Tatsuo Nakano (7/18/87) |
2,482 |
| 149 |
Tiger Mask & Kengo Kimura vs. Negro Navarro & El Signo (10/30/81) |
2,472 |
| 150 |
Keiichi Yamada vs. Masakazu Funaki (12/27/87) |
2,446 |
| 151 |
Jushin Liger vs. Black Tiger (European Rounds) (7/12/89) |
2,427 |
| 152 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Jerry Lawler (3/16/89) |
2,394 |
| 153 |
Bob Backlund vs. Riki Choshu (8/24/84) |
2,385 |
| 154 |
Antonio Inoki vs. Andre the Giant (6/11/84) |
2,341 |
| 155 |
Tatsumi Fujinami, Shinya Hashimoto & Masa Chono vs. Tracy Smothers, Steve Armstrong & George Takano (11/11/88) |
2,307 |
| 156 |
Akira Maeda vs. Killer Khan (5/17/83) |
2,296 |
| 157 |
Tiger Mask vs. Dynamite Kid (8/5/82) |
2,265 |
| 158 |
Antonio Inoki & Seiji Sakaguchi vs. Adrian Adonis & Dick Murdoch (3/29/85) |
2,242 |
| 159 |
Riki Choshu vs. Greg Valentine (9/7/84) |
2,181 |
| 160 |
Naoki Sano & Osamu Matsuda vs. El Bello Greco & Sergio El Hermoso (1/6/89) |
2,103 |
| 161 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Ron Starr (9/30/80) |
2,070 |
| 162 |
Tiger Mask vs. El Canek (12/8/81) |
2,035 |
| 163 |
Tiger Mask & Kengo Kimura vs. Bret Hart & Dynamite Kid (7/16/82) |
2,014 |
| 164 |
Chavo Guerrero vs. Kengo Kimura (9/30/80) |
1,982 |
| 165 |
Tiger Mask vs. Dynamite Kid (4/21/83) |
1,914 |
| 166 |
Antonio Inoki vs. Bruiser Brody (10/31/85) |
1,911 |
| 167 |
Nobuhiko Takada vs. Kuniaki Kobayashi (8/20/87) |
1,852 |
| 168 |
The Cobra vs. Hiro Saito (11/9/84) |
1,842 |
| 169 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Grappler (12/5/88) |
1,591 |
| 170 |
Nobuhiko Takada vs. Kuniaki Kobayashi (3/9/84) |
1,537 |
| 171 |
Tiger Mask vs. Dynamite Kid (4/23/81) |
1,471 |
| 172 |
Tiger Mask vs. Bret Hart (2/5/82) |
1,378 |
| 173 |
Tiger Mask vs. Black Tiger (5/26/82) |
1,342 |
| 174 |
Antonio Inoki vs. Billy Crusher (9/17/84) |
1,184 |
| 175 |
Nobuhiko Takada vs. The Cobra (6/17/86) |
1,004 |
RANKING DETAILS ON TOP TWENTY-FIVE MATCHES
#1: 5-on-5 Gauntlet Challenge (4/19/84): 7807 points
#1 VOTES: 12 ballots = 27% of ballots
TOP 5 VOTES: 36 ballots = 80% of ballots
TOP 10 VOTES: 42 ballots = 93% of ballots
TOP 25 VOTES: 44 ballots = 98% of ballots
TOP 50 VOTES: 44 ballots = 98% of ballots
MOST COMMON VOTE: 1 (12 ballots = 27% of ballots)
AVERAGE VOTE: 7 / max: 147 / min: 1 / median: 2
#2: Andre the Giant vs. Stan Hansen (9/23/81): 7726 points
#1 VOTES: 11 ballots = 24% of ballots
TOP 5 VOTES: 27 ballots = 60% of ballots
TOP 10 VOTES: 36 ballots = 80% of ballots
TOP 25 VOTES: 43 ballots = 96% of ballots
TOP 50 VOTES: 44 ballots = 98% of ballots
MOST COMMON VOTE: 1 (11 ballots = 24% of ballots)
AVERAGE VOTE: 8.2 / max: 84 / min: 1 / median: 4
#3: Tatsumi Fujinami, Keiichi Yamada, Shiro Koshinaka, Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Kengo Kimura vs. Hiro Saito, Kuniaki Kobayashi, Super Strong Machine, Masa Saito & Riki Choshu (9/12/88) : 7535 points
#1 VOTES: 4 ballots = 9% of ballots
TOP 5 VOTES: 22 ballots = 49% of ballots
TOP 10 VOTES: 34 ballots = 76% of ballots
TOP 25 VOTES: 40 ballots = 89% of ballots
TOP 50 VOTES: 44 ballots = 98% of ballots
MOST COMMON VOTE: 3 (6 ballots = 13% of ballots)
AVERAGE VOTE: 11.6 / max: 100 / min: 1 / median: 6
#4: Antonio Inoki, Tatsumi Fujinami, Kengo Kimura, Umanosuke Ueda & Kantaro Hoshino vs. Akira Maeda, Yoshiaki Fujiwara, Osamu Kido, Nobuhiko Takada & Kazuo Yamazaki (3/26/86): 7531 points
#1 VOTES: 8 ballots = 18% of ballots
TOP 5 VOTES: 30 ballots = 67% of ballots
TOP 10 VOTES: 35 ballots = 78% of ballots
TOP 25 VOTES: 38 ballots = 84% of ballots
TOP 50 VOTES: 43 ballots = 96% of ballots
MOST COMMON VOTE: 1 (8 ballots = 18% of ballots)
AVERAGE VOTE: 12.2 / max: 132 / min: 1 / median: 4
#5: Riki Choshu vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara (6/9/87): 7224 points
#1 VOTES: 3 ballots = 7% of ballots
TOP 5 VOTES: 15 ballots = 33% of ballots
TOP 10 VOTES: 25 ballots = 56% of ballots
TOP 25 VOTES: 35 ballots = 78% of ballots
TOP 50 VOTES: 42 ballots = 93% of ballots
MOST COMMON VOTE: 3 (8 ballots = 18% of ballots)
AVERAGE VOTE: 17.9 / max: 154 / min: 1 / median: 9
#6: Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Akira Maeda (6/12/86): 6914 points
#1 VOTES: 1 ballots = 2% of ballots
TOP 5 VOTES: 9 ballots = 20% of ballots
TOP 10 VOTES: 21 ballots = 47% of ballots
TOP 25 VOTES: 29 ballots = 64% of ballots
TOP 50 VOTES: 38 ballots = 84% of ballots
MOST COMMON VOTE: 4 (5 ballots = 11% of ballots)
AVERAGE VOTE: 24.1 / max: 97 / min: 1 / median: 12
#7: Jushin Liger vs. Naoki Sano (8/10/89): 6867 points
#1 VOTES: 0 ballots = 0% of ballots
TOP 5 VOTES: 5 ballots = 11% of ballots
TOP 10 VOTES: 15 ballots = 33% of ballots
TOP 25 VOTES: 34 ballots = 76% of ballots
TOP 50 VOTES: 38 ballots = 84% of ballots
MOST COMMON VOTE: 11 (6 ballots = 13% of ballots)
AVERAGE VOTE: 25.1 / max: 111 / min: 2 / median: 12
#8: 5-on-5 Challenge (5/1/86): 6862 points
#1 VOTES: 1 ballots = 2% of ballots
TOP 5 VOTES: 4 ballots = 9% of ballots
TOP 10 VOTES: 12 ballots = 27% of ballots
TOP 25 VOTES: 29 ballots = 64% of ballots
TOP 50 VOTES: 41 ballots = 91% of ballots
MOST COMMON VOTE: 7 (3 ballots = 7% of ballots)
AVERAGE VOTE: 25.2 / max: 119 / min: 1 / median: 18
#9: Andre the Giant vs. Killer Khan (4/1/82): 6824 points
#1 VOTES: 1 ballots = 2% of ballots
TOP 5 VOTES: 10 ballots = 22% of ballots
TOP 10 VOTES: 23 ballots = 51% of ballots
TOP 25 VOTES: 33 ballots = 73% of ballots
TOP 50 VOTES: 40 ballots = 89% of ballots
MOST COMMON VOTE: 7 (4 ballots = 9% of ballots)
AVERAGE VOTE: 26.5 / max: 154 / min: 1 / median: 10
#10: Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Riki Choshu (4/3/83): 6659 points
#1 VOTES: 0 ballots = 0% of ballots
TOP 5 VOTES: 2 ballots = 4% of ballots
TOP 10 VOTES: 9 ballots = 20% of ballots
TOP 25 VOTES: 27 ballots = 60% of ballots
TOP 50 VOTES: 36 ballots = 80% of ballots
MOST COMMON VOTE: 12 (4 ballots = 9% of ballots)
AVERAGE VOTE: 29.4 / max: 122 / min: 3 / median: 19
#11: Inoki/Fujiwara/Sakaguchi/Hoshino/Mutoh vs. Fujinami/Choshu/Maeda/Kimura/Super Strong Machine (8/19/87) : 6591 points
TOP 5 VOTES: 4 ballots = 9% of ballots
TOP 10 VOTES: 12 ballots = 27% of ballots
TOP 25 VOTES: 25 ballots = 56% of ballots
TOP 50 VOTES: 39 ballots = 87% of ballots
MOST COMMON VOTE: 8 (3 ballots = 7% of ballots)
AVERAGE VOTE: 30.8 / max: 153 / min: 4 / median: 21
#12: Riki Choshu & Masa Saito vs. George Takano & Super Strong Machine (3/16/89): 6516 points
TOP 5 VOTES: 4 ballots = 9% of ballots
TOP 10 VOTES: 7 ballots = 16% of ballots
TOP 25 VOTES: 24 ballots = 53% of ballots
TOP 50 VOTES: 37 ballots = 82% of ballots
MOST COMMON VOTE: 15 (4 ballots = 9% of ballots)
AVERAGE VOTE: 32.4 / max: 140 / min: 1 / median: 22
#13: Antonio Inoki vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara (2/6/86): 6510 points
TOP 5 VOTES: 3 ballots = 7% of ballots
TOP 10 VOTES: 14 ballots = 31% of ballots
TOP 25 VOTES: 25 ballots = 56% of ballots
TOP 50 VOTES: 34 ballots = 76% of ballots
MOST COMMON VOTE: 13 (4 ballots = 9% of ballots)
AVERAGE VOTE: 32.6 / max: 159 / min: 4 / median: 15
#14: Tatsumi Fujinami, Nobuhiko Takada, Riki Choshu, Akira Maeda & Super Strong Machine vs. Antonio Inoki, Dick Murdoch, Yoshiaki Fujiwara, Masa Saito & Seiji Sakaguchi (9/17/87): 6399 points
TOP 5 VOTES: 4 ballots = 9% of ballots
TOP 10 VOTES: 5 ballots = 11% of ballots
TOP 25 VOTES: 20 ballots = 44% of ballots
TOP 50 VOTES: 34 ballots = 76% of ballots
MOST COMMON VOTE: 12 (4 ballots = 9% of ballots)
AVERAGE VOTE: 34.8 / max: 141 / min: 1 / median: 29
#15: Shinya Hashimoto vs. Vader (4/24/89): 6370 points
TOP 5 VOTES: 1 ballots = 2% of ballots
TOP 10 VOTES: 6 ballots = 13% of ballots
TOP 25 VOTES: 24 ballots = 53% of ballots
TOP 50 VOTES: 37 ballots = 82% of ballots
MOST COMMON VOTE: 16 (5 ballots = 11% of ballots)
AVERAGE VOTE: 35.6 / max: 143 / min: 5 / median: 23
#16: Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Riki Choshu (8/4/83): 6352 points
TOP 10 VOTES: 6 ballots = 13% of ballots
TOP 25 VOTES: 24 ballots = 53% of ballots
TOP 50 VOTES: 32 ballots = 71% of ballots
MOST COMMON VOTE: 13 (4 ballots = 9% of ballots)
AVERAGE VOTE: 35.9 / max: 127 / min: 3 / median: 23
#17: Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Riki Choshu (4/21/83): 6316 points
TOP 25 VOTES: 23 ballots = 51% of ballots
TOP 50 VOTES: 33 ballots = 73% of ballots
MOST COMMON VOTE: 9 (3 ballots = 7% of ballots)
AVERAGE VOTE: 36.7 / max: 139 / min: 6 / median: 23
#18: Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Kengo Kimura (1/2/87) : 6283 points
TOP 10 VOTES: 1 ballots = 2% of ballots
TOP 25 VOTES: 22 ballots = 49% of ballots
TOP 50 VOTES: 33 ballots = 73% of ballots
MOST COMMON VOTE: 38 (4 ballots = 9% of ballots)
AVERAGE VOTE: 37.2 / max: 105 / min: 7 / median: 26
#19: Riki Choshu vs. Big Van Vader (6/27/89): 6154 points
TOP 10 VOTES: 3 ballots = 7% of ballots
TOP 25 VOTES: 16 ballots = 36% of ballots
TOP 50 VOTES: 35 ballots = 78% of ballots
MOST COMMON VOTE: 22 (4 ballots = 9% of ballots)
AVERAGE VOTE: 39.9 / max: 132 / min: 6 / median: 34
#20: Tatsumi Fujinami & Antonio Inoki vs. Dick Murdoch & Adrian Adonis (12/7/84): 6117 points
TOP 10 VOTES: 12 ballots = 27% of ballots
TOP 25 VOTES: 26 ballots = 58% of ballots
TOP 50 VOTES: 33 ballots = 73% of ballots
MOST COMMON VOTE: 11 (5 ballots = 11% of ballots)
AVERAGE VOTE: 41.5 / max: 170 / min: 2 / median: 18
#21: Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Riki Choshu (7/7/83): 6083 points
TOP 10 VOTES: 2 ballots = 4% of ballots
TOP 25 VOTES: 17 ballots = 38% of ballots
TOP 50 VOTES: 33 ballots = 73% of ballots
MOST COMMON VOTE: 37 (3 ballots = 7% of ballots)
AVERAGE VOTE: 41.5 / max: 120 / min: 8 / median: 34
#22: Antonio Inoki vs. Masa Saito (4/27/87) : 6025 points
TOP 10 VOTES: 10 ballots = 22% of ballots
TOP 25 VOTES: 18 ballots = 40% of ballots
TOP 50 VOTES: 32 ballots = 71% of ballots
MOST COMMON VOTE: 2 (3 ballots = 7% of ballots)
AVERAGE VOTE: 43.4 / max: 155 / min: 1 / median: 30
#23: Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Dynamite Kid (2/5/80): 5991 points
TOP 10 VOTES: 6 ballots = 13% of ballots
TOP 25 VOTES: 18 ballots = 40% of ballots
TOP 50 VOTES: 32 ballots = 71% of ballots
MOST COMMON VOTE: 22 (3 ballots = 7% of ballots)
AVERAGE VOTE: 43.7 / max: 157 / min: 3 / median: 33
#24: Akira Maeda vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara (2/5/86): 5939 points
TOP 10 VOTES: 5 ballots = 11% of ballots
TOP 25 VOTES: 18 ballots = 40% of ballots
TOP 50 VOTES: 30 ballots = 67% of ballots
MOST COMMON VOTE: 9 (3 ballots = 7% of ballots)
AVERAGE VOTE: 44.8 / max: 156 / min: 3 / median: 36
#25: Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Vader (4/24/89) : 5839 points
TOP 10 VOTES: 4 ballots = 9% of ballots
TOP 25 VOTES: 13 ballots = 29% of ballots
TOP 50 VOTES: 29 ballots = 64% of ballots
MOST COMMON VOTE: 21 (3 ballots = 7% of ballots)
AVERAGE VOTE: 46.8 / max: 138 / min: 7 / median: 42
MATCHES BY WRESTLERS / TOP WRESTLERS
90 different
wrestlers appeared on the set. There was 29 one-shot stars, 20 wrestlers with a pair of matches, 14 wrestlers with three to five matches, 14 wrestlers with six to ten matches, 6 wrestlers with eleven to twenty matches, 3 wrestlers with twentysomething matches and four very prolific wrestlers: Fujiwara (30 matches), Choshu (34 matches), Inoki (37 matches) and Fujinami (56 matches).
| person |
matches |
ttl points |
best rank |
| Abdullah the Butcher |
3 |
9643 |
86 |
| Adrian Adonis |
5 |
18499 |
20 |
| Akira Maeda |
27 |
122584 |
4 |
| Akira Nogami |
5 |
19049 |
39 |
| Andre the Giant |
6 |
26600 |
2 |
| Animal Hamaguchi |
6 |
27086 |
1 |
| Antonio Inoki |
37 |
167081 |
1 |
| Babyface |
2 |
7712 |
86 |
| Bad News Allen |
1 |
2636 |
142 |
| Bam Bam Bigelow |
1 |
3393 |
108 |
| Bob Backlund |
2 |
6823 |
62 |
| Bob Orton Jr. |
3 |
12129 |
33 |
| Bret Hart |
2 |
3392 |
163 |
| Bruiser Brody |
2 |
4780 |
130 |
| Buzz Sawyer |
2 |
7427 |
57 |
| Chavo Guerrero |
3 |
7785 |
114 |
| Dick Murdoch |
15 |
61744 |
14 |
| Don Arakawa |
1 |
3869 |
85 |
| Don Nakaya Nielsen |
2 |
7425 |
61 |
| Dynamite Kid |
8 |
23948 |
23 |
| El Bello Greco |
2 |
5168 |
123 |
| El Canek |
2 |
5507 |
103 |
| El Signo |
2 |
6028 |
100 |
| El Solitario |
1 |
3135 |
119 |
| El Texano |
1 |
3556 |
100 |
| George Takano/The Cobra |
8 |
28591 |
12 |
| Gran Hamada |
4 |
15148 |
73 |
| Grappler |
1 |
1591 |
169 |
| Greg Valentine |
1 |
2181 |
159 |
| Hiro Saito |
3 |
14066 |
3 |
| Hiroshi Hase |
7 |
25331 |
38 |
| Hulk Hogan |
4 |
13236 |
66 |
| Isamu Teranishi |
2 |
12392 |
1 |
| Jerry Lawler |
1 |
2394 |
152 |
| Johnny Londos |
1 |
3144 |
118 |
| Kantaro Hoshino |
14 |
61602 |
4 |
| Kazuo Yamazaki |
6 |
32306 |
4 |
| Keiichi Yamada/Jushin Liger |
19 |
79990 |
3 |
| Keiji Mutoh |
6 |
22530 |
11 |
| Kengo Kimura |
29 |
128663 |
1 |
| Kensuke Sasaki |
1 |
4689 |
50 |
| Killer Khan |
3 |
12954 |
9 |
| Kuniaki Kobayashi |
11 |
44596 |
1 |
| Manny Fernandez |
1 |
4534 |
57 |
| Mark Rocco/Black Tiger |
3 |
6457 |
139 |
| Masa Chono |
1 |
2307 |
155 |
| Masa Saito |
9 |
47772 |
3 |
| Masaharu Funaki |
2 |
4928 |
148 |
| Masked Superstar/Billy Crusher |
2 |
4267 |
122 |
| Naoki Sano |
6 |
25751 |
7 |
| Negro Navarro |
2 |
6028 |
100 |
| Nobuhiko Takada |
26 |
102971 |
1 |
| Norio Honaga |
1 |
4689 |
50 |
| Osamu Kido |
8 |
36432 |
4 |
| Osamu Matsuda |
1 |
2103 |
160 |
| Owen Hart |
2 |
6081 |
108 |
| Pat Tanaka |
1 |
3393 |
108 |
| Perro Aguayo |
1 |
3472 |
103 |
| Pete Roberts |
1 |
3135 |
119 |
| Rene Goulet |
1 |
3976 |
77 |
| Riki Choshu |
34 |
167812 |
1 |
| Ron Starr |
1 |
2070 |
161 |
| Salman Hashimikov |
2 |
7256 |
63 |
| Scott Hall |
2 |
9270 |
33 |
| Seiji Sakaguchi |
10 |
45433 |
8 |
| Sergio El Hermoso |
2 |
5168 |
123 |
| Shinya Hashimoto |
5 |
22117 |
15 |
| Shiro Koshinaka |
18 |
69559 |
3 |
| Shunji Kosugi |
2 |
6726 |
70 |
| Stan Hansen |
7 |
33778 |
2 |
| Stan Lane |
1 |
3471 |
104 |
| Steve Armstrong |
1 |
2307 |
155 |
| Steve Keirn |
3 |
9840 |
96 |
| Steve Williams |
1 |
2636 |
142 |
| Steven Wright |
1 |
4227 |
69 |
| Super Strong Machine |
8 |
42309 |
3 |
| Takayuki Iizuka |
2 |
7969 |
34 |
| Tatsumi Fujinami |
56 |
250309 |
1 |
| Tatsuo Nakano |
1 |
2482 |
148 |
| Tatsutoshi Goto |
3 |
12549 |
50 |
| Tiger Mask |
17 |
47724 |
69 |
| Tony Rocco |
1 |
3742 |
91 |
| Tony St. Clair |
1 |
2791 |
134 |
| Tracy Smothers |
1 |
2307 |
155 |
| Umanosuke Ueda |
1 |
7531 |
4 |
| Vader |
8 |
40286 |
15 |
| Victor Zangiev |
2 |
8625 |
27 |
| Yoji Anjo |
1 |
2482 |
148 |
| Yoshiaki Fujiwara |
30 |
150030 |
1 |
| Yoshiaki Yatsu |
4 |
20025 |
1 |
If you look at the best 3 matches from every wrestler on the set and add the points from those matches, here is the rankings of the 41 wrestlers with three or more matches on this set.
BEST OF THREE MATCHES
1. Tatsumi Fujinami: 22873 points
1. Yoshiaki Fujiwara: 22873 points
1. Kengo Kimura: 22873 points
4. Riki Choshu: 22566 points
5. Nobuhiko Takada: 22200 points
6. Antonio Inoki: 21929 points
7. Akira Maeda: 21307 points
8. Keiichi Yamada/Jushin Liger: 21264 points
9. Super Strong Machine: 20642 points
10. Masa Saito: 20450 points
11. Kuniaki Kobayashi: 20031 points
12. Seiji Sakaguchi: 19852 points
13. Kazuo Yamazaki: 19814 points
14. Kantaro Hoshino: 19403 points
15. Shiro Koshinaka: 19086 points
16. Osamu Kido: 18764 points
17. Andre the Giant: 18526 points
18. Vader: 18363 points
19. Dick Murdoch: 18250 points
20. Stan Hansen: 17817 points
21. Shinya Hashimoto: 17290 points
22. Animal Hamaguchi: 17261 points
23. Naoki Sano: 16880 points
24. Yoshiaki Yatsu: 16830 points
25. George Takano/The Cobra: 16098 points
26. Keiji Mutoh: 14616 points
27. Hiro Saito: 14066 points
28. Akira Nogami: 13809 points
29. Hiroshi Hase: 13727 points
30. Dynamite Kid: 13509 points
31. Adrian Adonis: 13398 points
32. Killer Khan: 12954 points
33. Tatsutoshi Goto: 12549 points
34. Tiger Mask: 12147 points
35. Bob Orton Jr.: 12129 points
36. Gran Hamada: 11592 points
37. Hulk Hogan: 10294 points
38. Steve Keirn: 9840 points
39. Abdullah the Butcher: 9643 points
40. Chavo Guerrero: 7785 points
41. Mark Rocco/Black Tiger: 6457 points
BEST OF FIVE MATCHES
1. Yoshiaki Fujiwara: 36959 points
2. Tatsumi Fujinami: 36649 points
3. Kengo Kimura: 36326 points
4. Riki Choshu: 35816 points
5. Antonio Inoki: 34838 points
6. Akira Maeda: 34297 points
7. Nobuhiko Takada: 34020 points
8. Super Strong Machine: 32252 points
9. Masa Saito: 31312 points
10. Keiichi Yamada/Jushin Liger: 31277 points
11. Seiji Sakaguchi: 29345 points
12. Kantaro Hoshino: 29202 points
13. Kazuo Yamazaki: 29060 points
14. Dick Murdoch: 28202 points
15. Vader: 28101 points
16. Shiro Koshinaka: 28080 points
17. Kuniaki Kobayashi: 27565 points
18. Stan Hansen: 26493 points
19. Osamu Kido: 26229 points
20. Animal Hamaguchi: 24552 points
21. Andre the Giant: 24259 points
22. Naoki Sano: 23648 points
23. George Takano/The Cobra: 23438 points
24. Shinya Hashimoto: 22117 points
25. Hiroshi Hase: 20076 points
26. Keiji Mutoh: 20010 points
27. Tiger Mask: 19681 points
28. Akira Nogami: 19049 points
29. Dynamite Kid: 18549 points
30. Adrian Adonis: 18499 points
BEST OF TEN MATCHES
1. Tatsumi Fujinami: 68966 points
2. Yoshiaki Fujiwara: 68084 points
3. Riki Choshu: 67553 points
4. Antonio Inoki: 63383 points
5. Kengo Kimura: 62994 points
6. Akira Maeda: 61299 points
7. Nobuhiko Takada: 56908 points
8. Keiichi Yamada/Jushin Liger: 53103 points
9. Kantaro Hoshino: 49269 points
10. Dick Murdoch: 47638 points
11. Shiro Koshinaka: 46102 points
12. Seiji Sakaguchi: 45433 points
13. Kuniaki Kobayashi: 43059 points
14. Tiger Mask: 35305 points
BEST OF FIFTEEN MATCHES
1. Tatsumi Fujinami: 99279 points
2. Riki Choshu: 94853 points
3. Yoshiaki Fujiwara: 93619 points
4. Antonio Inoki: 88661 points
5. Kengo Kimura: 85516 points
6. Akira Maeda: 84517 points
7. Nobuhiko Takada: 74858 points
8. Keiichi Yamada/Jushin Liger: 70005 points
9. Shiro Koshinaka: 61810 points
10. Dick Murdoch: 61744 points
11. Tiger Mask: 45004 points
STANDARD DEVIATIONS
Here is the Best of the 1980s New Japan list in order of standard deviation from lowest to highest. Matches with low standard deviations had the most consensus and uniformity among the voters. Matches with high standard deviations had the least consensus among the voters.
| rank |
match |
points |
stdev |
| 2 |
Andre the Giant vs. Stan Hansen (9/23/81) |
7726 |
14.0 |
| 3 |
Tatsumi Fujinami, Keiichi Yamada, Shiro Koshinaka, Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Kengo Kimura vs. Hiro Saito, Kuniaki Kobayashi, Super Strong Machine, Masa Saito & Riki Choshu (9/12/88) |
7535 |
17.1 |
| 174 |
Antonio Inoki vs. Billy Crusher (9/17/84) |
1184 |
20.1 |
| 1 |
5-on-5 Gauntlet Challenge (4/19/84) |
7807 |
21.7 |
| 4 |
Antonio Inoki, Tatsumi Fujinami, Kengo Kimura, Umanosuke Ueda & Kantaro Hoshino vs. Akira Maeda, Yoshiaki Fujiwara, Osamu Kido, Nobuhiko Takada & Kazuo Yamazaki (3/26/86) |
7531 |
23.0 |
| 8 |
5-on-5 Challenge (5/1/86) |
6862 |
24.1 |
| 6 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Akira Maeda (6/12/86) |
6914 |
24.2 |
| 18 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Kengo Kimura (1/2/87) |
6283 |
25.1 |
| 155 |
Tatsumi Fujinami, Shinya Hashimoto & Masa Chono vs. Tracy Smothers, Steve Armstrong & George Takano (11/11/88) |
2307 |
25.7 |
| 5 |
Riki Choshu vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara (6/9/87) |
7224 |
25.7 |
| 14 |
Tatsumi Fujinami, Nobuhiko Takada, Riki Choshu, Akira Maeda & Super Strong Machine vs. Antonio Inoki, Dick Murdoch, Yoshiaki Fujiwara, Masa Saito & Seiji Sakaguchi (9/17/87) |
6399 |
26.2 |
| 51 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Riki Choshu (9/21/83) |
4673 |
26.4 |
| 10 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Riki Choshu (4/3/83) |
6659 |
26.6 |
| 19 |
Riki Choshu vs. Big Van Vader (6/27/89) |
6154 |
27.3 |
| 12 |
Riki Choshu & Masa Saito vs. George Takano & Super Strong Machine (3/16/89) |
6516 |
27.6 |
| 7 |
Jushin Liger vs. Naoki Sano (8/10/89) |
6867 |
28.7 |
| 16 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Riki Choshu (8/4/83) |
6352 |
28.9 |
| 115 |
Shiro Koshinaka & Antonio Inoki vs. Hiroshi Hase & Riki Choshu (4/11/88) |
3187 |
29.2 |
| 21 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Riki Choshu (7/7/83) |
6083 |
29.2 |
| 30 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Riki Choshu (6/24/88) |
5537 |
29.5 |
| 11 |
Inoki/Fujiwara/Sakaguchi/Hoshino/Mutoh vs. Fujinami/Choshu/Maeda/Kimura/Super Strong Machine (8/19/87) |
6591 |
29.9 |
| 169 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Grappler (12/5/88) |
1591 |
30.2 |
| 25 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Vader (4/24/89) |
5839 |
30.5 |
| 84 |
Antonio Inoki, Riki Choshu & Kantaro Hoshino vs. Tatsutoshi Goto, Masa Saito & Seiji Sakaguchi (12/5/88) |
3871 |
31.7 |
| 36 |
Riki Choshu vs. Shinya Hashimoto (12/7/89) |
5188 |
32.2 |
| 32 |
Antonio Inoki vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara (6/12/86) |
5388 |
32.5 |
| 105 |
Antonio Inoki, Riki Choshu & Kantaro Hoshino vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara, Kengo Kimura & Osamu Kido (11/11/88) |
3466 |
32.7 |
| 136 |
Hiroshi Hase & Takayuki Iizuka vs. Naoki Sano & Akira Nogami (8/3/89) |
2758 |
32.7 |
| 17 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Riki Choshu (4/21/83) |
6316 |
32.7 |
| 122 |
Tatsumi Fujinami & Kengo Kimura vs. Masked Superstar & Dick Murdoch (11/29/85) |
3083 |
33.1 |
| 15 |
Shinya Hashimoto vs. Vader (4/24/89) |
6370 |
33.2 |
| 172 |
Tiger Mask vs. Bret Hart (2/5/82) |
1378 |
33.4 |
| 113 |
Tatsumi Fujinami, Seiji Sakaguchi & Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Riki Choshu, Yoshiaki Yatsu & Higo Hamaguchi (3/22/84) |
3195 |
33.5 |
| 170 |
Nobuhiko Takada vs. Kuniaki Kobayashi (3/9/84) |
1537 |
33.6 |
| 13 |
Antonio Inoki vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara (2/6/86) |
6510 |
33.7 |
| 120 |
Nobuhiko Takada & Akira Maeda vs. Super Strong Machine & Kuniaki Kobayashi (8/2/87) |
3105 |
33.7 |
| 146 |
Keiji Mutoh, Keiichi Yamada & Kengo Kimura vs. Shinya Hashimoto, Shunji Kosugi & Kantaro Hoshino (9/13/85) |
2520 |
33.7 |
| 90 |
Antonio Inoki & Keiichi Yamada vs. Nobuhiko Takada & Osamu Kido (2/5/86) |
3776 |
34.1 |
| 137 |
Keiji Mutoh & Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Akira Maeda (2/5/87) |
2734 |
34.2 |
| 175 |
Nobuhiko Takada vs. The Cobra (6/17/86) |
1004 |
34.6 |
| 168 |
The Cobra vs. Hiro Saito (11/9/84) |
1842 |
34.7 |
| 164 |
Chavo Guerrero vs. Kengo Kimura (9/30/80) |
1982 |
35.0 |
| 158 |
Antonio Inoki & Seiji Sakaguchi vs. Adrian Adonis & Dick Murdoch (3/29/85) |
2242 |
35.1 |
| 156 |
Akira Maeda vs. Killer Khan (5/17/83) |
2296 |
35.2 |
| 95 |
Tiger Mask & Kantaro Hoshino vs. Kuniaki Kobayashi & Gran Hamada (2/10/83) |
3686 |
35.4 |
| 82 |
Tatsumi Fujinami, Kengo Kimura, & Shiro Koshinaka vs. Akira Maeda, Nobuhiko Takada, & Yoshiaki Fujiwara (3/7/86) |
3894 |
35.6 |
| 117 |
Hiro Hase vs. Kuniaki Kobayashi (12/27/87) |
3162 |
35.7 |
| 29 |
Akira Maeda vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara (1/10/86) |
5686 |
35.7 |
| 81 |
Keiichi Yamada vs. Hiro Hase (2/4/88) |
3913 |
35.7 |
| 72 |
Antonio Inoki, Akira Maeda & Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Riki Choshu, Yoshiaki Yatsu & Animal Hamaguchi, (2/9/84) |
4096 |
35.7 |
| 48 |
Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Antonio Inoki vs. Akira Maeda & Tatsumi Fujinami (9/7/87) |
4822 |
35.8 |
| 121 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Dick Murdoch (7/23/82) |
3102 |
35.9 |
| 93 |
Antonio Inoki vs. Riki Choshu (5/18/84) |
3696 |
36.0 |
| 103 |
Keiichi Yamada & Shiro Koshinaka vs. Perro Aguayo & El Canek (10/10/88) |
3472 |
36.0 |
| 74 |
Antonio Inoki vs. Riki Choshu (2/4/88) |
4054 |
36.1 |
| 171 |
Tiger Mask vs. Dynamite Kid (4/23/81) |
1471 |
36.2 |
| 70 |
Keiichi Yamada vs. Shunji Kosugi (4/18/85) |
4206 |
36.2 |
| 167 |
Nobuhiko Takada vs. Kuniaki Kobayashi (8/20/87) |
1852 |
36.2 |
| 129 |
Buzz Sawyer vs. Victor Zangiev (8/5/89) |
2893 |
36.4 |
| 163 |
Tiger Mask & Kengo Kimura vs. Bret Hart & Dynamite Kid (7/16/82) |
2014 |
36.4 |
| 59 |
Jushin Liger vs. Kantaro Hoshino (8/5/89) |
4484 |
36.4 |
| 150 |
Keiichi Yamada vs. Masakazu Funaki (12/27/87) |
2446 |
36.5 |
| 71 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Vader (6/26/88) |
4157 |
36.5 |
| 138 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Steve Keirn (11/6/80) |
2712 |
36.5 |
| 94 |
Riki Choshu, Super Strong Machine & Kuniaki Kobayashi vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara, Osamu Kido & Nobuhiko Takada (6/12/87) |
3689 |
36.7 |
| 80 |
Kengo Kimura & Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Masa Saito (12/7/87) |
3929 |
36.7 |
| 46 |
Akira Maeda & Nobuhiko Takada vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Kazuo Yamazaki (9/1/87) |
4875 |
36.7 |
| 23 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Dynamite Kid (2/5/80) |
5991 |
36.7 |
| 149 |
Tiger Mask & Kengo Kimura vs. Negro Navarro & El Signo (10/30/81) |
2472 |
36.8 |
| 99 |
Keiichi Yamada vs. Shiro Koshinaka (12/9/88) |
3573 |
36.8 |
| 159 |
Riki Choshu vs. Greg Valentine (9/7/84) |
2181 |
36.9 |
| 33 |
Antonio Inoki, Riki Choshu & Kantaro Hoshino vs. Scott Hall, Bob Orton & Dick Murdoch (11/17/88) |
5281 |
37.0 |
| 73 |
Tiger Mask vs. Gran Hamada (11/6/81) |
4057 |
37.1 |
| 141 |
Tatsumi Fujinami & Keiji Muto vs. Nobuhiko Takada & Shiro Koshinaka (11/24/86) |
2660 |
37.2 |
| 96 |
Tatsumi Fujinami & Kantaro Hoshino vs. Dynamite Kid & Steve Keirn (1/18/80) |
3655 |
37.2 |
| 162 |
Tiger Mask vs. El Canek (12/8/81) |
2035 |
37.2 |
| 31 |
Nobuhiko Takada & Akira Maeda vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Kazuo Yamazaki (5/25/87) |
5421 |
37.4 |
| 26 |
Antonio Inoki vs. Dick Murdoch (6/19/86) |
5734 |
37.4 |
| 76 |
Tatsutoshi Goto, Masa Saito, Seiji Sakaguchi vs. Scott Hall, Bob Orton & Dick Murdoch (12/7/88) |
3989 |
37.5 |
| 39 |
Jushin Liger & Akira Nogami vs. Kantaro Hoshino & Naoki Sano (8/8/89) |
5110 |
37.6 |
| 57 |
Riki Choshu, Jushin Liger & Kengo Kimura vs. Big Van Vader, Manny Fernandez & Buzz Sawyer (8/3/89) |
4534 |
37.6 |
| 49 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Riki Choshu (5/27/88) |
4739 |
37.8 |
| 131 |
Antonio Inoki & Kengo Kimura vs. Adrian Adonis & Bob Orton Jr. (3/4/83) |
2859 |
37.9 |
| 52 |
Dick Murdoch & Antonio Inoki vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Masa Saito (12/4/87) |
4671 |
38.0 |
| 60 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Kengo Kimura (1/14/87) |
4464 |
38.2 |
| 9 |
Andre the Giant vs. Killer Khan (4/1/82) |
6824 |
38.5 |
| 75 |
Akira Nogami vs. Naoki Sano (8/31/89) |
4010 |
38.6 |
| 85 |
The Cobra vs. Don Arakawa (8/1/85) |
3869 |
38.6 |
| 134 |
Andre the Giant & Tony St. Clair vs. Seiji Sakaguchi & Kantaro Hoshino (6/13/85) |
2791 |
38.7 |
| 77 |
Antonio Inoki & Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Andre the Giant & Rene Goulet (12/10/81) |
3976 |
38.8 |
| 66 |
Hulk Hogan vs. Antonio Inoki (IWGP League Final) (6/2/83) |
4351 |
38.8 |
| 142 |
Akira Maeda & Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Bad News Allen & Steve Williams (7/25/86) |
2636 |
38.8 |
| 47 |
Kengo Kimura vs. Masa Saito (NJ TV 6/10/87) |
4837 |
39.0 |
| 160 |
Naoki Sano & Osamu Matsuda vs. El Bello Greco & Sergio El Hermoso (1/6/89) |
2103 |
39.0 |
| 148 |
Masaharu Funaki & Akira Nogami vs. Yoji Anjo & Tatsuo Nakano (7/18/87) |
2482 |
39.1 |
| 102 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Steve Keirn (2/3 Falls) (2/1/80) |
3473 |
39.1 |
| 24 |
Akira Maeda vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara (2/5/86) |
5939 |
39.2 |
| 125 |
Hulk Hogan vs. Tatsumi Fujinami (2/5/85) |
2973 |
39.2 |
| 44 |
Jushin Liger vs. Naoki Sano (7/13/89) |
4903 |
39.6 |
| 83 |
Tatsumi Fujinami & Kengo Kimura vs. Dick Murdoch & Adrian Adonis (5/24/85) |
3878 |
40.0 |
| 86 |
Tiger Mask, Antonio Inoki & Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Baby Face, Dynamite Kid & Abdullah the Butcher (1/8/82) |
3863 |
40.0 |
| 139 |
Keiichi Yamada & Nobuhiko Takada vs. Mark Rocco & Owen Hart (9/7/87) |
2688 |
40.0 |
| 88 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Killer Khan (11/3/83) |
3834 |
40.1 |
| 43 |
Tatsumi Fujinami, Akira Maeda & Kengo Kimura vs. Riki Choshu, Yoshiaki Yatsu & Animal Hamaguchi (12/8/83) |
4927 |
40.2 |
| 53 |
Nobuhiko Takada & Akira Maeda vs. Keiji Mutoh & Shiro Koshinaka (3/20/87) |
4623 |
40.3 |
| 112 |
Nobuhiko Takada & Osamu Kido vs. Kazuo Yamazaki & Yoshiaki Fujiwara (12/27/87) |
3246 |
40.5 |
| 28 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Kengo Kimura (9/25/80) |
5729 |
40.5 |
| 79 |
Antonio Inoki vs. Dick Murdoch (12/10/85) |
3930 |
40.5 |
| 144 |
Keiichi Yamada vs. Shiro Koshinaka (1/25/88) |
2592 |
40.6 |
| 123 |
Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Kengo Kimura vs. El Bello Greco & Sergio El Hermoso (2/3/89) |
3065 |
40.6 |
| 97 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Vader (4/27/88) |
3606 |
40.7 |
| 42 |
Antonio Inoki vs. Stan Hansen (9/11/80) |
4940 |
40.7 |
| 111 |
Akira Maeda vs. Super Strong Machine (8/20/87) |
3263 |
40.9 |
| 108 |
Jushin Liger, Kengo Kimura & Riki Choshu vs Pat Tanaka, Owen Hart & Bam Bam Bigelow (8/31/89) |
3393 |
40.9 |
| 54 |
Tatsumi Fujinami & Kengo Kimura vs. Antonio Inoki & Seiji Sakaguchi (12/6/85) |
4601 |
41.0 |
| 161 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Ron Starr (9/30/80) |
2070 |
41.0 |
| 40 |
Antonio Inoki vs. Riki Choshu (2/22/89) |
5091 |
41.0 |
| 132 |
Riki Choshu vs. Salman Hashimikov (7/12/89) |
2834 |
41.0 |
| 104 |
George Takano vs. Stan Lane (7/24/81) |
3471 |
41.1 |
| 127 |
Andre the Giant vs. Hulk Hogan (12/9/82) |
2942 |
41.3 |
| 107 |
Nobuhiko Takada & Akira Maeda vs. Keiji Mutoh & Shiro Koshinaka (3/26/87) |
3402 |
41.3 |
| 67 |
Antonio Inoki vs. Stan Hansen (2/8/80) |
4238 |
41.4 |
| 22 |
Antonio Inoki vs. Masa Saito (4/27/87) |
6025 |
41.4 |
| 153 |
Bob Backlund vs. Riki Choshu (8/24/84) |
2385 |
41.6 |
| 69 |
Tiger Mask vs. Steven Wright (4/1/82) |
4227 |
41.7 |
| 56 |
Kengo Kimura vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara (5/16/86) |
4552 |
41.8 |
| 143 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Chavo Guerrero (5/9/80) |
2614 |
41.8 |
| 55 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Isamu Teranishi (10/8/81) |
4585 |
41.9 |
| 166 |
Antonio Inoki vs. Bruiser Brody (10/31/85) |
1911 |
42.0 |
| 114 |
Chavo Guerrero vs. Kengo Kimura (11/3/80) |
3189 |
42.0 |
| 64 |
Riki Choshu vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara (6/29/87) |
4421 |
42.1 |
| 145 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Hiro Hamaguchi (9/24/82) |
2534 |
42.3 |
| 38 |
Nobuhiko Takada vs. Hiro Hase (3/11/88) |
5125 |
42.3 |
| 152 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Jerry Lawler (3/16/89) |
2394 |
42.5 |
| 173 |
Tiger Mask vs. Black Tiger (5/26/82) |
1342 |
42.5 |
| 34 |
Riki Choshu & Takayuki Iizuka vs. Super Strong Machine & George Takano (7/13/89) |
5211 |
42.5 |
| 128 |
Akira Maeda vs. Nobuhiko Takada (1/3/86) |
2902 |
42.6 |
| 65 |
Tatsumi Fujinami, Kengo Kimura, Kantaro Hoshino, George Takano & Shiro Koshinaka vs. Akira Maeda, Yoshiaki Fujiwara, Osamu Kido, Nobuhiko Takada & Kazuo Yamazaki (9/16/86) |
4371 |
42.8 |
| 35 |
Antonio Inoki vs. Vader (7/29/88) |
5204 |
42.8 |
| 68 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Dick Murdoch (7/6/82) |
4236 |
43.0 |
| 110 |
Tatsumi Fujinami & Shiro Koshinaka vs. Nobuhiko Takada & Akira Maeda (2/2/87) |
3269 |
43.1 |
| 133 |
Dick Murdoch vs. Abdullah the Butcher (7/7/83) |
2810 |
43.2 |
| 118 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Johnny Londos (9/19/80) |
3144 |
43.3 |
| 100 |
Gran Hamada, Kantaro Hoshino & Tiger Mask vs. Missionaries De La Muerte (1/14/83) |
3556 |
43.5 |
| 151 |
Jushin Liger vs. Black Tiger (European Rounds) (7/12/89) |
2427 |
44.1 |
| 106 |
Tatsumi Fujinami & Kengo Kimura vs. Dick Murdoch & Adrian Adonis (12/8/84) |
3403 |
44.1 |
| 119 |
Tiger Mask/Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Pete Roberts/El Solitario (9/4/81) |
3135 |
44.1 |
| 126 |
Hulk Hogan vs. Abdullah the Butcher (5/26/82) |
2970 |
44.3 |
| 37 |
Antonio Inoki vs. Stan Hansen (4/3/80) |
5151 |
44.3 |
| 101 |
Akira Maeda & Osamu Kido vs. Nobuhiko Takada & Shiro Koshinaka (12/8/86) |
3491 |
44.4 |
| 58 |
Tatsumi Fujinami & Akira Maeda vs. Riki Choshu & Higo Hamaguchi (12/2/83) |
4527 |
45.1 |
| 45 |
Tatsumi Fujinami & Kengo Kimura vs. Antonio Inoki & Seiji Sakaguchi (12/12/85) |
4892 |
45.3 |
| 62 |
Bob Backlund vs. Stan Hansen (9/30/80) |
4438 |
45.4 |
| 147 |
Shiro Koshinaka vs. Hiroshi Hase (3/16/89) |
2497 |
45.6 |
| 154 |
Antonio Inoki vs. Andre the Giant (6/11/84) |
2341 |
46.2 |
| 78 |
Antonio Inoki vs. Stan Hansen (4/23/81) |
3974 |
46.4 |
| 20 |
Tatsumi Fujinami & Antonio Inoki vs. Dick Murdoch & Adrian Adonis (12/7/84) |
6117 |
46.5 |
| 130 |
Dick Murdoch vs. Bruiser Brody (11/22/85) |
2869 |
47.1 |
| 135 |
Tiger Mask vs. Dynamite Kid (1/28/82) |
2775 |
47.3 |
| 50 |
Akira Nogami, Tatsutoshi Goto, Keiichi Yamada, Kantaro Hoshino & Shiro Koshinaka vs. Kuniaki Kobayashi, Hiroshi Hase, Hiro Saito, Norio Honaga & Kensuke Sasaki (4/27/88) |
4689 |
47.5 |
| 124 |
Akira Maeda vs. Don Nakaya Nielsen (10/9/86) |
2979 |
48.0 |
| 92 |
Tiger Mask vs. Kuniaki Kobayashi (11/4/82) |
3701 |
48.1 |
| 91 |
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Tony Rocco (9/11/80) |
3742 |
48.3 |
| 87 |
Gran Hamada vs. Babyface (4/3/80) |
3849 |
49.4 |
| 89 |
Tiger Mask vs. Kuniaki Kobayashi (1/6/83) |
3833 |
49.8 |
| 27 |
Shinya Hashimoto vs. Victor Zangiev (4/24/89) |
5732 |
50.2 |
| 63 |
Big Van Vader vs. Salman Hashimikov (7/13/89) |
4422 |
50.4 |
| 41 |
Akira Maeda vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara (8/29/87) |
5029 |
50.7 |
| 109 |
Antonio Inoki vs. Stan Hansen (5/9/80) |
3311 |
51.0 |
| 140 |
Nobuhiko Takada vs. Shiro Koshinaka (8/5/86) |
2682 |
51.2 |
| 157 |
Tiger Mask vs. Dynamite Kid (8/5/82) |
2265 |
51.4 |
| 165 |
Tiger Mask vs. Dynamite Kid (4/21/83) |
1914 |
52.7 |
| 116 |
Nobuhiko Takada vs. Shiro Koshinaka (9/19/86) |
3168 |
53.2 |
| 61 |
Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Don Nakaya Nielsen (7/29/88) |
4446 |
54.7 |
| 98 |
Nobuhiko Takada vs. Shiro Koshinaka (2/5/87) |
3592 |
55.0 |
By looking at the top matches with highest standard deviations by each wrestler, here are the wrestlers that had the least amount of consensus among the voters.
TOP 3 MATCHES WITH HIGHEST STANDARD DEVIATIONS BY WRESTLER
1. Nobuhiko Takada: 532 stdev points
1. Shiro Koshinaka: 532 stdev points
3. Tiger Mask: 516 stdev points
4. Dynamite Kid: 510 stdev points
5. Kuniaki Kobayashi: 493 stdev points
6. Antonio Inoki: 489 stdev points
7. Yoshiaki Fujiwara: 487 stdev points
8. Akira Maeda: 485 stdev points
9. Stan Hansen: 484 stdev points
10. Tatsumi Fujinami: 477 stdev points
11. Dick Murdoch: 466 stdev points
12. Hiroshi Hase: 450 stdev points
13. Kantaro Hoshino: 444 stdev points
14. Kengo Kimura: 438 stdev points
15. Keiichi Yamada/Jushin Liger: 421 stdev points
16. Riki Choshu: 419 stdev points
16. Vader: 419 stdev points
18. Adrian Adonis: 406 stdev points
19. Osamu Kido: 395 stdev points
20. George Takano/The Cobra: 393 stdev points
....
37. Steve Keirn: 235 stdev points
38. Bob Orton Jr.: 234 stdev points
39. Killer Khan: 233 stdev points
40. Hiro Saito: 205 stdev points
41. Yoshiaki Yatsu: 187 stdev points
TOP 5 MATCHES WITH HIGHEST STANDARD DEVIATIONS BY WRESTLER
1. Shiro Koshinaka: 849 stdev points
2. Tiger Mask: 841 stdev points
3. Nobuhiko Takada: 824 stdev points
4. Antonio Inoki: 798 stdev points
5. Akira Maeda: 777 stdev points
5. Tatsumi Fujinami: 777 stdev points
7. Stan Hansen: 756 stdev points
8. Dick Murdoch: 748 stdev points
9. Yoshiaki Fujiwara: 744 stdev points
10. Kengo Kimura: 694 stdev points
11. Dynamite Kid: 686 stdev points
12. Riki Choshu: 661 stdev points
13. Keiichi Yamada/Jushin Liger: 632 stdev points
14. Kuniaki Kobayashi: 616 stdev points
15. Kantaro Hoshino: 613 stdev points
...
26. Kazuo Yamazaki: 394 stdev points
27. Naoki Sano: 388 stdev points
28. Keiji Mutoh: 376 stdev points
29. Super Strong Machine: 371 stdev points
30. Shinya Hashimoto: 270 stdev points
TOP 10 MATCHES WITH HIGHEST STANDARD DEVIATIONS BY WRESTLER
1. Shiro Koshinaka: 1509 stdev points
2. Tiger Mask: 1494 stdev points
3. Tatsumi Fujinami: 1486 stdev points
4. Antonio Inoki: 1461 stdev points
5. Nobuhiko Takada: 1459 stdev points
6. Akira Maeda: 1391 stdev points
7. Kengo Kimura: 1244 stdev points
8. Yoshiaki Fujiwara: 1233 stdev points
9. Dick Murdoch: 1197 stdev points
10. Riki Choshu: 1159 stdev points
11. Keiichi Yamada/Jushin Liger: 1024 stdev points
12. Kantaro Hoshino: 903 stdev points
13. Kuniaki Kobayashi: 782 stdev points
14. Seiji Sakaguchi: 574 stdev points
TEN MATCHES WITH HIGHEST STANDARD DEVIATIONS
| MATCH |
1-25 |
26-50 |
51-75 |
76-100 |
100-125 |
126-150 |
151-175 |
| 98. Nobuhiko Takada vs. Shiro Koshinaka (2/5/87) |
13% |
16% |
11% |
9% |
11% |
16% |
24% |
| 61. Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Don Nakaya Nielsen (7/29/88) |
22% |
18% |
18% |
9% |
4% |
13% |
16% |
| 116. Nobuhiko Takada vs. Shiro Koshinaka (9/19/86) |
11% |
9% |
18% |
7% |
7% |
18% |
31% |
| 165. Tiger Mask vs. Dynamite Kid (4/21/83) |
4% |
11% |
2% |
4% |
9% |
13% |
56% |
| 157. Tiger Mask vs. Dynamite Kid (8/5/82) |
7% |
9% |
7% |
4% |
9% |
18% |
47% |
| 140. Nobuhiko Takada vs. Shiro Koshinaka (8/5/86) |
2% |
16% |
7% |
9% |
16% |
18% |
33% |
| 109. Antonio Inoki vs. Stan Hansen (5/9/80) |
16% |
4% |
13% |
11% |
13% |
24% |
18% |
| 41. Akira Maeda vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara (8/29/87) |
27% |
29% |
9% |
13% |
4% |
9% |
9% |
| 63. Big Van Vader vs. Salman Hashimikov (7/13/89) |
16% |
22% |
16% |
11% |
11% |
11% |
13% |
| 27. Shinya Hashimoto vs. Victor Zangiev (4/24/89) |
44% |
22% |
9% |
4% |
4% |
9% |
7% |
RANKING THE TAG TEAMS OF NEW
JAPAN
(I included the gauntlet & challenges as tag teams -
that might be a poor choice.)
I used the team's 3 highest ranking
tag matches, their highest ranking tag match, and (when available)
their five highest ranking tag matches (in that order).
1. Kengo
Kimura & Tatsumi Fujinami: 14 matches together = 22873 (best3) /
36326 (best5)
2. Nobuhiko Takada & Yoshiaki Fujiwara: 6 matches
together = 22200 (best3) / 30465 (best5)
3. Antonio Inoki &
Tatsumi Fujinami: 5 matches together = 21455 (best3) / 29294 (best5)
4.
Antonio Inoki & Yoshiaki Fujiwara: 5 matches together = 20797
(best3) / 29715 (best5)
5. Akira Maeda & Nobuhiko Takada: 11
matches together = 20792 (best3) / 31088 (best5)
6. Riki Choshu &
Super Strong Machine: 4 matches together = 20525 (best3)
7. Kazuo
Yamazaki & Yoshiaki Fujiwara: 6 matches together = 19814 (best3) /
29060 (best5)
8. Antonio Inoki & Kantaro Hoshino: 5 matches
together = 19403 (best3) / 26740 (best5)
9. Keiichi Yamada/Jushin
Liger & Shiro Koshinaka: 4 matches together = 19086 (best3)
10.
Kuniaki Kobayashi & Riki Choshu: 3 matches together = 19031 (best3)
11.
Keiichi Yamada/Jushin Liger & Kengo Kimura: 5 matches together =
18931 (best3) / 24844 (best5)
12. Kengo Kimura & Yoshiaki
Fujiwara: 4 matches together = 18808 (best3)
13. Kengo Kimura &
Shiro Koshinaka: 4 matches together = 18768 (best3)
14. Shiro
Koshinaka & Tatsumi Fujinami: 5 matches together = 18768 (best3) /
25931 (best5)
15. Akira Maeda & Kazuo Yamazaki: 3 matches
together = 18764 (best3)
16. Kazuo Yamazaki & Osamu Kido: 3
matches together = 18764 (best3)
17. Kazuo Yamazaki & Nobuhiko
Takada: 3 matches together = 18764 (best3)
18. Akira Maeda &
Osamu Kido: 4 matches together = 18764 (best3)
19. Osamu Kido &
Yoshiaki Fujiwara: 5 matches together = 18764 (best3) / 25919 (best5)
20.
Nobuhiko Takada & Osamu Kido: 6 matches together = 18764 (best3) /
26229 (best5)
21. Akira Maeda & Yoshiaki Fujiwara: 7 matches
together = 18764 (best3) / 26754 (best5)
22. Tatsumi Fujinami &
Yoshiaki Fujiwara: 3 matches together = 18537 (best3)
23. Antonio
Inoki & Kengo Kimura: 3 matches together = 18197 (best3)
24.
Akira Maeda & Tatsumi Fujinami: 5 matches together = 17917 (best3) /
27266 (best5)
25. Antonio Inoki & Seiji Sakaguchi: 5 matches
together = 17882 (best3) / 24725 (best5)
26. Animal Hamaguchi &
Riki Choshu: 5 matches together = 17261 (best3) / 24552 (best5)
27.
Animal Hamaguchi & Yoshiaki Yatsu: 4 matches together = 16830
(best3)
28. Riki Choshu & Yoshiaki Yatsu: 4 matches together =
16830 (best3)
29. Seiji Sakaguchi & Yoshiaki Fujiwara: 3 matches
together = 16185 (best3)
30. Kantaro Hoshino & Tatsumi Fujinami: 3
matches together = 15557 (best3)
31. Masa Saito & Yoshiaki
Fujiwara: 3 matches together = 14999 (best3)
32. Kengo Kimura &
Riki Choshu: 3 matches together = 14518 (best3)
33. Kuniaki Kobayashi
& Super Strong Machine: 3 matches together = 14329 (best3)
34.
Masa Saito & Seiji Sakaguchi: 3 matches together = 14259 (best3)
35.
Adrian Adonis & Dick Murdoch: 4 matches together = 13398 (best3)
36.
Antonio Inoki & Riki Choshu: 3 matches together = 12618 (best3)
37.
Kantaro Hoshino & Riki Choshu: 3 matches together = 12618 (best3)
THE
FEUDS OF NEW JAPAN
(I included the gauntlet & challenges as
tag teams - that might be a poor choice.)
I used the team's 3
highest ranking matches, their highest ranking match, and (when
available) their five highest ranking matches (in that order).
1.
Riki Choshu vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara: 10 matches (2 singles matches and 8
tag matches) = 22566 (best3) / 35556 (best5)
2. Riki Choshu vs.
Tatsumi Fujinami: 12 matches (7 singles matches and 5 tag matches) =
22001 (best3) / 34669 (best5)
3. Akira Maeda vs. Tatsumi Fujinami: 7
matches (1 singles match and 6 tag matches) = 21307 (best3) / 29572
(best5)
4. Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara: 9 matches (9 tag
matches) = 20984 (best3) / 32205 (best5)
5. Kengo Kimura vs. Yoshiaki
Fujiwara: 7 matches (1 singles match and 6 tag matches) = 20984 (best3)
/ 29907 (best5)
6. Antonio Inoki vs. Riki Choshu: 8 matches (3
singles matches and 5 tag matches) = 20797 (best3) / 29984 (best5)
7.
Super Strong Machine vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara: 4 matches (4 tag matches) =
20525 (best3) / 24214 (best5)
8. Akira Maeda vs. Antonio Inoki: 4
matches (4 tag matches) = 20521 (best3) / 25343 (best5)
9. Kengo
Kimura vs. Riki Choshu: 4 matches (4 tag matches) = 20269 (best3) /
23735 (best5)
10. Akira Maeda vs. Seiji Sakaguchi: 3 matches (3 tag
matches) = 19852 (best3) / 19852 (best5)
11. Antonio Inoki vs.
Yoshiaki Fujiwara: 5 matches (2 singles matches and 3 tag matches) =
19429 (best3) / 27566 (best5)
12. Kuniaki Kobayashi vs. Yoshiaki
Fujiwara: 3 matches (3 tag matches) = 19031 (best3) / 19031 (best5)
13.
Akira Maeda vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara: 8 matches (3 singles matches and 5
tag matches) = 18929 (best3) / 30036 (best5)
14. Nobuhiko Takada vs.
Tatsumi Fujinami: 6 matches (6 tag matches) = 18764 (best3) / 25927
(best5)
15. Kengo Kimura vs. Nobuhiko Takada: 4 matches (4 tag
matches) = 18764 (best3) / 22658 (best5)
16. Akira Maeda vs. Kengo
Kimura: 4 matches (4 tag matches) = 18764 (best3) / 22658 (best5)
17.
Kengo Kimura vs. Osamu Kido: 3 matches (3 tag matches) = 18764 (best3) /
18764 (best5)
18. Kazuo Yamazaki vs. Tatsumi Fujinami: 3 matches (3
tag matches) = 18764 (best3) / 18764 (best5)
19. Osamu Kido vs.
Tatsumi Fujinami: 3 matches (3 tag matches) = 18764 (best3) / 18764
(best5)
20. Kazuo Yamazaki vs. Kengo Kimura: 3 matches (3 tag
matches) = 18764 (best3) / 18764 (best5)
21. Akira Maeda vs. Kantaro
Hoshino: 3 matches (3 tag matches) = 18493 (best3) / 18493 (best5)
22.
Antonio Inoki vs. Tatsumi Fujinami: 5 matches (5 tag matches) = 17882
(best3) / 27305 (best5)
23. Seiji Sakaguchi vs. Tatsumi Fujinami: 4
matches (4 tag matches) = 17882 (best3) / 22483 (best5)
24. Masa
Saito vs. Tatsumi Fujinami: 3 matches (3 tag matches) = 17863 (best3) /
17863 (best5)
25. Antonio Inoki vs. Nobuhiko Takada: 3 matches (3 tag
matches) = 17706 (best3) / 17706 (best5)
26. Animal Hamaguchi vs.
Tatsumi Fujinami: 5 matches (1 singles match and 4 tag matches) = 17261
(best3) / 22990 (best5)
27. Antonio Inoki vs. Dick Murdoch: 5 matches
(2 singles matches and 3 tag matches) = 17132 (best3) / 23304 (best5)
28.
Keiichi Yamada/Jushin Liger vs. Naoki Sano: 3 matches (2 singles
matches and 1 tag match) = 16880 (best3) / 16880 (best5)
29. Riki
Choshu vs. Seiji Sakaguchi: 4 matches (4 tag matches) = 16861 (best3) /
20056 (best5)
30. Dick Murdoch vs. Tatsumi Fujinami: 7 matches (2
singles matches and 5 tag matches) = 16752 (best3) / 24033 (best5)
31.
Nobuhiko Takada vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara: 4 matches (4 tag matches) =
16695 (best3) / 19941 (best5)
32. Kengo Kimura vs. Tatsumi Fujinami: 3
matches (3 singles matches) = 16476 (best3) / 16476 (best5)
33.
Kengo Kimura vs. Masa Saito: 3 matches (1 singles match and 2 tag
matches) = 16301 (best3) / 16301 (best5)
34. Antonio Inoki vs. Kengo
Kimura: 4 matches (4 tag matches) = 16084 (best3) / 19550 (best5)
35.
Kengo Kimura vs. Seiji Sakaguchi: 3 matches (3 tag matches) = 16084
(best3) / 16084 (best5)
36. Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Yoshiaki Yatsu: 3
matches (3 tag matches) = 15929 (best3) / 15929 (best5)
37. Nobuhiko
Takada vs. Shiro Koshinaka: 9 matches (3 singles matches and 6 tag
matches) = 15856 (best3) / 23342 (best5)
38. Akira Maeda vs. Shiro
Koshinaka: 7 matches (7 tag matches) = 15856 (best3) / 23241 (best5)
39.
Kantaro Hoshino vs. Osamu Kido: 3 matches (3 tag matches) = 15368
(best3) / 15368 (best5)
40. Kantaro Hoshino vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara: 3
matches (3 tag matches) = 15368 (best3) / 15368 (best5)
41. Shiro
Koshinaka vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara: 3 matches (3 tag matches) = 15127
(best3) / 15127 (best5)
42. Animal Hamaguchi vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara: 3
matches (3 tag matches) = 15098 (best3) / 15098 (best5)
43. Yoshiaki
Fujiwara vs. Yoshiaki Yatsu: 3 matches (3 tag matches) = 15098 (best3) /
15098 (best5)
44. Antonio Inoki vs. Osamu Kido: 3 matches (3 tag
matches) = 14773 (best3) / 14773 (best5)
45. Osamu Kido vs. Shiro
Koshinaka: 3 matches (3 tag matches) = 14724 (best3) / 14724 (best5)
46.
Akira Maeda vs. Keiji Mutoh: 4 matches (4 tag matches) = 14616 (best3) /
17350 (best5)
47. Kuniaki Kobayashi vs. Nobuhiko Takada: 5 matches
(2 singles matches and 3 tag matches) = 14601 (best3) / 17990 (best5)
48.
Antonio Inoki vs. Masa Saito: 3 matches (1 singles match and 2 tag
matches) = 14567 (best3) / 14567 (best5)
49. Antonio Inoki vs. Stan
Hansen: 5 matches (5 singles matches) = 14329 (best3) / 21614 (best5)
50.
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Vader: 3 matches (3 singles matches) = 13602
(best3) / 13602 (best5)
51. Akira Maeda vs. Riki Choshu: 3 matches (3
tag matches) = 13550 (best3) / 13550 (best5)
52. Akira Maeda vs.
Animal Hamaguchi: 3 matches (3 tag matches) = 13550 (best3) / 13550
(best5)
53. Kazuo Yamazaki vs. Nobuhiko Takada: 3 matches (3 tag
matches) = 13542 (best3) / 13542 (best5)
54. Dynamite Kid vs. Tatsumi
Fujinami: 3 matches (1 singles match and 2 tag matches) = 13509 (best3)
/ 13509 (best5)
55. Adrian Adonis vs. Tatsumi Fujinami: 3 matches (3
tag matches) = 13398 (best3) / 13398 (best5)
56. Kantaro Hoshino vs.
Kengo Kimura: 3 matches (3 tag matches) = 12577 (best3) / 12577 (best5)
57.
Kantaro Hoshino vs. Keiichi Yamada/Jushin Liger: 3 matches (1 singles
match and 2 tag matches) = 12114 (best3) / 12114 (best5)
58. Kuniaki
Kobayashi vs. Tiger Mask: 3 matches (2 singles matches and 1 tag match) =
11220 (best3) / 11220 (best5)
59. Adrian Adonis vs. Antonio Inoki: 3
matches (3 tag matches) = 11218 (best3) / 11218 (best5)
60. Keiji
Mutoh vs. Nobuhiko Takada: 3 matches (3 tag matches) = 10685 (best3) /
10685 (best5)
61. Hiroshi Hase vs. Shiro Koshinaka: 3 matches (1
singles match and 2 tag matches) = 10373 (best3) / 10373 (best5)
62.
Dick Murdoch vs. Kengo Kimura: 3 matches (3 tag matches) = 10364 (best3)
/ 10364 (best5)
63. Adrian Adonis vs. Kengo Kimura: 3 matches (3 tag
matches) = 10140 (best3) / 10140 (best5)
64. Steve Keirn vs. Tatsumi
Fujinami: 3 matches (2 singles matches and 1 tag match) = 9840 (best3) /
9840 (best5)
65. Dynamite Kid vs. Tiger Mask: 6 matches (4 singles
matches and 2 tag matches) = 8903 (best3) / 12831 (best5)
The
SINGLES Feuds of NEW JAPAN
1. Riki Choshu vs. Tatsumi
Fujinami: 7 singles matches = 13011 (best2) / 19327 (best3)
2. Kengo
Kimura vs. Tatsumi Fujinami: 3 singles matches = 12012 (best2) / 16476
(best3)
3. Antonio Inoki vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara: 2 singles matches =
11898 (best2)
4. Keiichi Yamada/Jushin Liger vs. Naoki Sano: 2
singles matches = 11770 (best2)
5. Riki Choshu vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara:
2 singles matches = 11645 (best2)
6. Akira Maeda vs. Yoshiaki
Fujiwara: 3 singles matches = 11625 (best2) / 16654 (best3)
7.
Antonio Inoki vs. Stan Hansen: 5 singles matches = 10091 (best2) / 14329
(best3)
8. Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Vader: 3 singles matches = 9996
(best2) / 13602 (best3)
9. Antonio Inoki vs. Dick Murdoch: 2 singles
matches = 9664 (best2)
10. Antonio Inoki vs. Riki Choshu: 3 singles
matches = 9145 (best2) / 12841 (best3)
11. Kuniaki Kobayashi vs.
Tiger Mask: 2 singles matches = 7534 (best2)
12. Dick Murdoch vs.
Tatsumi Fujinami: 2 singles matches = 7338 (best2)
13. Nobuhiko
Takada vs. Shiro Koshinaka: 3 singles matches = 6760 (best2) / 9442
(best3)
14. Steve Keirn vs. Tatsumi Fujinami: 2 singles matches =
6185 (best2)
15. Keiichi Yamada/Jushin Liger vs. Shiro Koshinaka: 2
singles matches = 6165 (best2)
16. Chavo Guerrero vs. Kengo Kimura: 2
singles matches = 5171 (best2)
17. Dynamite Kid vs. Tiger Mask: 4
singles matches = 5040 (best2) / 6954 (best3)
18. Kuniaki Kobayashi
vs. Nobuhiko Takada: 2 singles matches = 3389 (best2)
