Saturday, February 26, 2011

Future Endeavors 2/26 Power Poll: Please Edge, Don't Sing to Celebrate

Miz earning my first place vote this week
Photo Credit: WWE.com
Welcome to yet another edition of the Future Endeavors Power Poll, a poll ranking wrestlers on a weekly basis based on how awesomely they performed or were portrayed on a Tuesday-to-Monday cycle. It is voted by a who's-who of wrestling bloggers, including my blogging Jim Broeheim, PizzaBodySlam. I will list the top ten, and then post and comment on my ballot. Here goes:

1. Edge (Last Week: 4)
2. The Miz (3)
3. John Cena (8)
4. Alberto Del Rio (5)
5. CM Punk (2)
6. John Morrison (NR)
7. Rey Mysterio (NR)
8. Drew McIntyre (NR)
9. Jeff Hardy (7)
10. Christian (NR)

And now, my ballot!

1. The Miz - The man was an evil genius, winning the Tag Titles and then deciding that outsmarting John Cena was better than being Champs with him, so he screwed attacked him while he had Heath Slater in the AA. Plus, his promo against the Rock was snazzy. He also defended his WWE Championship against Jerry Lawler successfully.

2. John Cena - Ranked this high mainly because of the battle rap. YES I LIKED IT THAT MUCH SHUT UP. Oh yeah, he won the RAW Elimination Chamber match.

3. Edge - Got his job back, beat on Dolph Ziggler twice and retained his title in the Smackdown Chamber. In retrospect, I should have docked him like two or three spots because of his awful singing (which he reprised this week too).

4. Alberto del Rio - He beat Kofi Kingston, foiled a Pearl Harbor by the aforementioned Kingston and was generally awesome last week... but you already knew that.

5. Christian - He made his big return, standing up to del Rio. Plus, it's Christian. WE LOVE YOU, CHRISTIAN.

6. Mike Quackenbush
7. Jigsaw - A successful defense of their Campeonatos de Parejas on Saturday lands them on the list this week. Quack's higher because he beat Green Ant while Jig lost to Tim Donst, although that loss was under dubious circumstances.

8. Drew McIntyre - He had his coming out party this week in the Elimination Chamber, bustin' skulls and showing that fire.

9. Mark Henry - For splitting Sheamus' wig.

10. Tim Donst - Yes, he lost to Max Boyer on Saturday in a record 4 seconds, but on Friday, he totally rocked the house in AIW, earning a future shot at the Absolute Champion by winning the big battle royale. Props to Donst, props.

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2 comments:

  1. Please don't take this as a slam, because I do not mean it as such, but I always find it funny how these lists tend to be a combination of kayfabe ('X won his match so he is up this high') and the performance aspect ('X has a great promo'). I guess I don't really have another point, I just find it interesting...how do you weigh such things, at least roughly, when you do your rankings?

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  2. Eh, it's a little on the arbitrary side, admittedly.

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