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20 Years Ago PWTorch Wrestler Ratings: Reader Rated Top Singles and Tag Wrestlers, and Most Obnoxious Dec 20, 2008 - 4:16:40 PM
In the 20 Years Ago Back Issue of the Pro Wrestling Torch Newsletter just published in its entirety for VIP members, the back page features the weekly PWTorch Reader Ratings. In this issue, a panel of 20 people rated the top 25 singles wrestlers, the top 25 tag teams, the top ten retired wrestlers, and the top ten most obnoxious personalities. The panel included Torch editor Wade Keller and current prowrestling.net editor Jason Powell.
We present the top 10 wrestlers, top 10 tag teams, and top 5 most obnoxious here. If you wish to see the complete expanded lists, become a VIP member today. You can read a number of 20 years ago back issues, with new back issues posted on roughly their 20th anniversary date going forward in PDF format, so you can see how these newsletters looked in the days before desktop publishing programs. Also read hundreds of other back issues from the 1990s and early 2000s in either text or now PDF format, with new ones published from five years ago and ten years ago every Friday!
TOP 20 NOVEMBER 1988 SINGLES WRESTLERS
(1) THE BLUE BLAZER (OWEN HART)
(2) RIC FLAIR
(3) BARRY WINDHAM
(4) CURT HENNIG
(5) STING
(6) TED DIBIASE
(7) RANDY SAVAGE
(8) JERRY LAWLER
(9) THE RED ROOSTER (TERRY TAYLOR)
(10) TERRY GORDY
(The Top 25 List is available to VIP members in the PDF version of the entire back issue.)
TOP 10 NOVEMBER 1988 TAG TEAMS
(1) THE MIDNIGHT EXPRESS
(2) THE ROAD WARRIORS
(3) THE FANTASTICS
(4) THE BRAIN BUSTERS
(5) BADD COMPANY
(6) THE FABULOUS ROUGEAUS
(7) THE HART FOUNDATION
(8) THE MIDNIGHT EXPRESS
(9) THE GUERREROS
(10) THE SAMOAN SWAT TEAM
(The Top 25 List is available to VIP members in the PDF version of the entire back issue.)
TOP 5 NOVEMBER LIST OF MOST OBNOXIOUS PERSONALITIES
(1) DUSTY RHODES
(2) DAVID CROCKETT
(3) SUPERSTAR GRAHAM
(4) VERNE GAGNE
(5) GREG GAGNE
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