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| Oh, they're heroes? PAY THEM AS SUCH. Photo Credit: Nicholas Tucat/AFP |
1. Healthcare Workers, Supermarket Employees, and Takeout/Delivery Food Workers (Last Poll: Not Ranked) - I both agree that these people are intrepid workers who are on the front lines of a pandemic with little respect and even less pay. They deserve respect and applause. But the thing is, they also deserve PPE, equipment, and better pay. If you think about the pools of cash that pharma execs and insurance bigwigs swim in, even doctors are underpaid considering, but it's the nurses and the minimum wage workers that the current establishment smeared and ridiculed as "low-skill" before this virus ravaged the world that need money. I've been saying and saying that fast food workers provide a premium service. That the people who keep our food or expose themselves to disease in aid of the doctors get paid like shit is even worse. I salute these people, but man, get them their masks. Get them their hand sanitizer. GET THEM THEIR MONEY.
2. Maki Itoh (Last Poll: 2) - LISTEN TO MAKI ITOH, JERKS.
3. Jon Moxley (Last Poll: 1) - There are about 30 wrestlers in All Elite Wrestling I wanna see for Mox's first title defense than Jake Hager, but man, it's not for the Champ's lack of trying. Mox is such a dynamic wrestler that I'm looking forward to a fucking Jack Swagger match in 2020. God bless.
4. Orange Cassidy (Last Poll: 3) - Is he a narc? Pfft, who cares.
5. Chicken Fried Steak Sandwich (Last Poll: Not Ranked) OFFICIAL HOLZERMAN HUNGERS SPONSORED ENTRY - Right when this thing set off, the barbecue place near me had this chicken fried steak sandwich on their Facebook page as a special. Being the impulsive eater that I am, I cajoled the family to agree to order takeout from here that day. Folks, the sandwich, which contained the steak, fried onions, American cheese, andouille sausage grave, and bacon on a burger bun, was HEAVENLY. God bless these places doing takeout during this time.
6. OTIS (Last Poll: Not Ranked) - He got the girl, guys. He got the girl.
7. Daniel Levy (Last Poll: Not Ranked) - Schitt's Creek had its series finale last week, and it was as touching and irreverently funny as the entire run of the show. Levy, son of Eugene, was the driving force behind it as well as being the best character on the show. For a guy whose prior TV experience was MTV Canada hosting, I think this show was really a superlative effort.
8. Hangman Page (Last Poll: 9) - Page hasn't appeared on Dynamite in weeks because he's social distancing, which makes him perhaps the smartest person in wrestling. I mean, you can't be over as hell if you're dead, right?
9. New Jack (Last Poll: Not Ranked) - The Dark Side of the Ring documentary on him shone light on some of his, well, lowest moments in the ring. The Mass Transit and Eric Kulas incidents were, in a word, black marks on the industry, but a lot of New Jack's mythos stems from the fact that his indiscretions were public in nature. JBL can claim plausible deniability with the things whispered about what he's done because they were done in locker rooms and showers, allegedly. New Jack's incidents happened in the ring. So does that make him innocent? Hardly. However, it feels like the fact that it was a Black guy doing violent things under the guise of an unapologetically Black character in full view makes him a bigger target than White people who've been alleged of worse behind the scenes. Wrestlers, by and large, are still a socially maladjusted class of people, and that was even truer 30 years ago. I'm not saying forgive New Jack. I'm saying maybe utilize a little perspective.
10. Tony Schiavone (Last Poll: 10 - Well wrestling fans, even though Dynamite has been going on during the quarantine, this virus has knocked the hell out of the world at-large. How can it be fixed? Well, I could tell you, but it would require me using ill... and that's all the time we have this week! Tune in next week for The Wrestling Blog's Best in the World Rankings!
