In the same vein as the Lucha 1,000, I decided to take a stab at the "Power Rankings" for Japan.
Again, I know next-to-nothing about what's going on in Japan. So these rankings are meant to be taken with a huge tongue-in-cheek grain of salt.
I pulled in results from CageMatch for thirty Japanese companies (including New Japan, Dragon Gate, Big Japan, NOAH, All Japan, DDT, Wrestle-1, Osaka Pro, K-Dojo, Zero1, Ice Ribbon, WAVE, JWP, Michinoku Pro, Stardom, Union Pro and Oz). In the end we had about 4,750 matches spread across 810 events. I separated each match's results into individual people and looked at the same factors as before:
Approximate Singles Win Percentage / Singles Wins
Approximate Tag Win Percentage / Tag Wins
Average place on five-match card (female), six-match card (male)
Total number of Matches
I assigned "gender" of wrestlers based on which company they worked in and who their opponents were in the matches that I reviewed. It certainly was not a foolproof method and I easily could have screwed up some people! (And if it's you that I screwed up, my sincere apologies!)
First up, the female wrestlers in Japan! I present Mookieghana's Joshi 100:
"Mookieghana's Japanese Men 400 and Joshi 100 (2014 YTD)"
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