Ric Flair vs. Road Dogg
Roddy Piper vs. John Laurinaitis
Jim Cornette vs. Sting
CM Punk vs. William Regal
Freddie Blassie vs. Sgt. Slaughter
JBL vs. Daniel Bryan
Harley Race vs. Ultimate Warrior
Bret Hart vs. Curt Hennig

Flair over Road Dogg
Piper over Laurinaitis
Cornette over Sting
Punk under Regal
Slaughter under Blassie
Bryan under JBL
Race over Warrior
Bret under Hennig

We appear to have zero close finishes forthcoming for the first set of matches. I'll post the next batch a little early (it's about 90 minutes to the end of the first batch), but I'm at work and can't take the time to go digging around for YouTube clips on this one. Others are obviously encouraged to pick up the slack for me when it comes to favorite clips of the candidates.

All right, I'll help and see what I can find, there should be some pretty good clips out there that is good entertainment.

Second batch of matchups...

#1 seed Bobby Heenan

vs.

#16 seed Diamond Dallas Page
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#2 seed Vince McMahon

vs.

#15 seed Bob Backlund
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#3 seed Randy Savage

vs.

#14 seed Shane McMahon
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#4 seed John Cena

vs.

#13 seed Eddie Guerrero
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#5 seed Paul Heyman

vs.

#12 seed The Undertaker
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#6 seed Jim Ross

vs.

#11 seed Rick Rude
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#7 seed Superstar Billy Graham

vs.

#10 seed Raven
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#8 seed Kurt Angle

vs.

#9 seed Scott Hall

Voting on this batch of matchups is now OPEN for 24 hours.

Heenan over Page
Vince over Backlund
Savage over Shane
Cena over Eddie
Heyman over Undertaker
Ross over Rude
Graham/Raven (abstaining for now; haven't seen enough of Graham's work)
Angle over Hall

Angle/Hall is extremely close for me. The rest of these weren't.

Heenan over Page
Vince over Backlund Its not fair (Life sucks, and then you die)
Savage over Shane
Eddie over Cena Lesnar and Guerrero before No Way Out, you can skip the dancing Brock segments.
Heyman over Undertaker
Ross over Rude Some of JR's calls in the Mankind/Undertaker HITC
Angle over Hall

Heenan
Vince
Savage
Cena
Heyman
Ross
Raven
Angle

Raven deserves to be way higher than a 10 seed IMO. I'm probably a bigger Raven mark then most, but man he was absolutely amazing on the mic.

Superstar Billy Graham promos:

On Sammartino, the fans, and of course, himself

On being the champion of the universe, not just the world

Make him say Superstar "You are my master"!

"How you gonna deal, with the man of steel?"

Flair Road Dogg
Piper Laurinaitis
Cornette Sting
Punk Regal
Slaughter Blassie
Bryan JBL
Race Warrior
Bret Hennig


AND


Heenan Page
Vince Backlund
Savage Shane
Cena Eddie
Heyman Undertaker
Ross Rude
Graham Raven
Angle Hall

Rick Rude getting perhaps the GOAT heel heat

"What I'd like to have right now" collection of Rude taunting the fans

Rude returns to WCW and shoots on the Montreal Screwjob

Heenan over Page
Vince over Backlund
Savage over Shane
Cena over Eddie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv_fO_9ilEg
Heyman over Taker http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XnzZXpVHMs
Ross over Rude
Raven over Graham
Angle over Hall

Advancing to the second round:
Ric Flair
Roddy Piper
Jim Cornette
Freddie Blassie
Harley Race
Curt Hennig
Harley Race
JBL

Daniel Bryan and Ultimate Warrior made a run at survival but came up short. The rest of the victims from this batch were purely fodder.

Scott Hall

Ric Flair, put on your tackiest robe, que up the disco music, and bring your wrinkled old rear end down

Survey Says: One More For the Good Guys!

Best of Razor Ramon, Mang

"You people, you know who I am, but you don't know why I'm here" One of the GOAT starts at about 4:40

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5l...ott-hall_sport

Heenan over Page
Vince over Backlund
Savage over Shane
Cena over Eddie
Heyman over Undertaker
Ross over Rude
Graham over Raven
Hall over Angle

Rick Rude was great, even in the broadcasting booth when he would get put there for a match, but he's going against one of the GOAT.

Raven is enjoyable, but Graham is one of the GOAT on promos. I grew up watching Raven, and Graham peaked before I was born, but Graham's promos are just better on average, and way more influential, and were way more effective.

Kurt Angle, again, is generally enjoyable, but Hall's mic work was, week in and week out, one of the most enjoyable things in wrestling during an amazing golden era when wrestling was on fire. Perfect at getting the job done at the time, and still fun to watch today. Hall has done his best to spoil his legend; if his post NWO life had gone better, his work would be regarded much more highly.