I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Josh is currently my favorite player, but it is WAY TOO early to add him to best of all time conversations and to put him ahead of Shane at this point, is prima facie ridiculous.
My suggestion is that you make a list of major titles that Shane has won. You'll see that it pales by comparison to the list compiled by Josh, and Shane has been at it for 20 years to Josh's 10.
At 29, Josh has won more majors than Shane did in his entire career. Shane is, notably, missing the China Open (every bit as hard to win as the US Open 9ball until recently, possibly harder) and is missing nearly all of the ten ball majors (most notably the Las Vegas Open, Bali Open, Qatar Open, World 10ball). Josh has won the gold medal at the World Games and Shane has not. Each has a World 9ball and a World 8ball, but Shane has just one WNT major outside of the World 9ball (Florida Open) while Josh has three (2 UK Opens and 1 European Open). Josh has won the WPA World Teams Championship 10ball and Shane has not. Whether you look at the 9ball majors or the 10ball majors, Josh has outshone Shane by quite a bit.
Shane's five US Open 9balls is awesome, legendary indeed, but so is Filler's 1 US Open, 3 China Opens and 1 World Games gold. To that point of the comparison, there's a discussion, but Josh has also won major championships all over the globe on a very regular basis and Shane has not. That's why Shane is missing so many of the majors on his resume and Josh is not.
Finally, in Shane's words [Josh has schooled him for most of Josh's career].
Do your homework and you'll see that it's Shane that is not even in the conversation.
Now, that said, I'm listening if you want to suggest that Sigel has a better resume than Josh. Mike is the only player that can be reckoned top five of all time in both straight pool and 9ball and that's an awfully high standard for anyone to match. There's only one Mike Sigel.
