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98. Jimmy Rave
Jimmy Rave! I’m going to be honest this choice of Jimmy Rave at number 98 is more or less a proxy slot for Prince Nana. As Prince Nana isn’t really a wrestler (thought I have seen him wrestle including Jimmy Rave’s favorite match) I had to pick someone that was a wrestler that was closely associated with Prince Nana. Their was no other person I could have possibly picked other than the Crown Jewel of the Embassy.
Now, let me talk about why I actually like Jimmy Rave. Jimmy Rave is an absolute heat magnet. If the only exposure to Jimmy Rave you’ve ever gotten was his god awful stint with The Rock ‘n’ Rave Infection then you really don’t know what I’m talking about. If you are so inclined you should look up some of his stuff when he was in The Embassy, and you’ll see a totally different guy.
Lets be honest, Ring of Honor has a bunch of smarks for fans. These are the type of people that will cheer for heels just because they theink they are cool. As fans they don’t care, they just cheer who they like and who cares if the guy they’re cheering is supposed to be a super heel. The exception to this rule is Jimmy Rave. Rave was a super heel in ROH for years and would always get “Die Jimmy Die” chants as well as getting toilet paper flung at him but the ravenous ROH masses. He was a truly excellent heel.
As a character he is mostly in the position he’s in because of Prince Nana’s power as a heel himself, but don’t let that fool you into thinking he isn’t a good wrestler. He’s a serviceable wrestler that has many shining moments of very good wrestling. His matches against AJ Styles and CM Punk were some of the best feuds in ROH history.
Favorite Moment:
At The Fifth Year Festival: New York Jimmy Rave pulled off the Rave Clash (Styles Clash) on Homicide from the second rope. Why was this such a great moment? Back in 2005 Rave and AJ Styles had a match to determine who would get usage of the Styles Clash. Rave lost that match and had the Rave Clash banned. Two years later he wrestles Homicide for the ROH Championship and in the ultimate heel move tries to win the title with a move he’s banned from doing.
Favorite Match:
The Embassy v. Generation Next (Steel Cage Warfare, ROH Steel Cage Warfare)
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