Friday, February 24, 2012

Future Endeavors 2/22 Power Poll: Santino Rules a Your Face, No?

Too good not to post again, Angel Blue notwithstanding
Photo Credit: Rachel Summerlyn's Facebook Page, h/t Brandon Stroud
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 Mirko Bro Cop PizzaBodySlam. I will list the top ten, and then post and comment on my ballot. Here goes:

1. CM Punk (Last week: 1)
2. Daniel Bryan (8)
3. John Cena (7)
4. Santino Marella (Not rated)
5. Chris Jericho (9)
6. Triple H (4)
7. Undertaker (5)
8. Sheamus (NR)
9. David Otunga (NR)
10. Beth Phoenix (NR)

And now, my ballot:

1. Santino Marella - So what if he didn't win his Elimination Chamber match? He made Jim Cornette wheeze and have heart palpitations... no, wait, it wasn't Santino who did that, but the 5 Triple Baconators Cornette had for high tea? Makes sense.

2. Daniel Bryan - #RoleModel

3. CM Punk - Like I said on the podcast with Brandon Stroud, CM Punk has become a lot better/more tolerable/like his old, charismatic self from 9 months ago because Triple H has come back to take back his "take your balls out of your purse" material. Like Brandon compared, it was like daddy coming home and telling his kids to cut out doing a bad mockery of his behavior.

4. Harry Smith - I wonder how many people in attendance at the Resistance Pro show Friday asked themselves "When did Rhino beat Ezekiel Jackson for the ECW Championship?" when he whipped it out after losing to Smith in the main event.

5. ACH - Forget WWE. What does ACH have to do to get noticed by ROH? Triple rotation moonsaults? 1170 Degree Splash off the second rope? Hold up a sign that says "Hey Cary Silkin, I give great head"... on second thought, maybe that last one is a little inappropriate.

6. Chris Jericho - I for one would love to see Jericho eschew his title shot against CM Punk at WrestleMania for a chance to grapple a live bear. Why? Well, wouldn't YOU want to see Jericho put his foot on the chest of a brown bear, flex and go "C'MAWN BABY"? Thought so.

7. David Otunga - One could look at his continued beating of Ezekiel Jackson in one of two ways. One, it's WWE needing to have one African-American opponent beat on another one to get their jollies off vis-a-vis black-on-black crime. The other is they're huge fans of Carlton Banks, and are living vicariously through Otunga to give that character its proper due... yeah, I know, I couldn't type that with a straight face either.

8. Bully Ray - His calves are keeping him on my ballot. So impressive. Oh yeah, he's an effective villain in a promotion where everyone is varying shades of ruthless. But yeah, mostly the calves.

9. Beth Phoenix - Who in WWE figured out that when they put two competent female wrestlers in the ring for more than 3 minutes, they'd produce a good match? And did that person get demoted and then replaced by the person who came up with that terrible RAW open?

10. Mia Yim - Had I known about the yoga pants match before I sent in my ballot, this would've been a 4-way tie along with Rachel Summerlyn, Athena and Machiko.