Monday, June 24, 2019

The Wrestling Blog's OFFICIAL Best in the World Rankings for June 24, 2019

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Welcome to a feature I like to call "Best in the World" rankings. They're not traditional power rankings per se, but they're rankings to see who is really the best in the world, a term bandied about like it's bottled water or something else really common. They're rankings decided by me, and don't you dare call them arbitrary lest I smack the taste out of your mouth. Without further ado, here's this week's list:

1. Nick Gage (Last Week: Not Ranked) - AAA announced that they will be booking The King in a hardcore match against Pagano, Psicosis, and Joe Lider. If you're going to do a deathmatch, you best bring in the best to do it, or at least one of the best. Maybe AAA will book Gage vs. Masashi Takeda. Or maybe Gage will just find his way to just stab everyone on the roster and claim his rightful place as the Extreme King of Mexico. I guess it's just wait and see on that one.

2. Sasha Banks (Last Week: 7) - The newest Corgi Mom of Wrestling showed she can do the memes too. Whatever WWE pays her to come back won't be enough.

3. Fried Chicken and Bacon Grilled Cheese Sandwich (Last Week: Not Ranked) OFFICIAL HOLZERMAN HUNGERS SPONSORED ENTRY - Everything at the Jersey Shore is about 20 percent more expensive than it should be. Still, you want to look for the best stuff regardless. You don't want to pay $10 for a shitty fast food cheeseburger, you wanna spend it on a perfectly browned grilled cheese sandwich with solid melted American cheese AND cheddar cheese sauce, perfectly fried fresh chicken, and crispy bacon. Bonus points if you can get it delivered to the actual beach.

4. Orange Cassidy (Last Week: 2) - Lost in the debate on who the best wrestler in the world is, did anyone stop to consider it's really Orange Cassidy? No? Well, then.

5. Megan Rapinoe (Last Week: Not Ranked) - The United States Women's National soccer team faced a hard challenge in Spain today in the playoff round of the World Cup, but Rapinoe put the game away with a goal late. She's perhaps the most important soccer player, regardless of gender in history, or at least since Brandi Chastain. Honestly, she should be the President. She'd do a shit-ton better than what we got now.

6. Jack White (Last Week: Not Ranked) - Look, he may look like a Kawaii drawing of Brian Johnson right now who is unnecessarily a Luddite who wishes that it was the '90s... the 1890s, but the man can still helm a tremendous rock record. The new Raconteurs LP, Help Me, Stranger, fuckin' rips, and you should all listen to it now.

7. Rep. Ilhan Omar (Last Week: Not Ranked) - Along with Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Pramila Jayapal, Omar will author a bill that will eliminate all student loan debt in the United States. The combined number is now at $1.6 TRILLION, which is staggering, but not nearly as staggering as the amount of money spent on the country's constant wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, not to mention the operation of military bases in countries it hasn't been at war with in 75 years. If you want to know which expenditure would benefit this country, the PEOPLE of this country more, it would be the one spearheaded by Omar.

8. Drew Gulak (Last Week: Not Ranked) - Gulak brought home another Championship to Philadelphia by winning the Cruiserweight Championship on the Stomping Grounds pre-show. Sure, it might be a minor title, but the last two times a Philadelphia area team won a title outside of the Big Four pro sports, Big Four teams won their titles. The Phillies' 2008 World Series was foretold by the Philadelphia Soul winning the Arena Football League title. The Eagles 2017/'18 Super Bowl had the first Villanova National Championship in men's basketball as a precursor. Does this mean the 76ers will in the NBA Championship within the next two-or-three seasons? I think it's a certainty.

9. Dana Brooke (Last Week: Not Ranked) - She got busted open last week during Main Event against Sarah Logan. A lesser wrestler would've run, hid, and possibly whined on Twitter. Instead, Brooke took a picture of her Muta Scale'd face. METAL AS HELL.

10. Otis Dozovic (Last Week: 10) -