Yes folks, the Power Poll has returned to BoredWrestlingFan.com for the sheer fact that I actually bother checking my BWF e-mail accounts on a regular basis. Who took the top spot? Who’s off the list? I DON’T KNOW! Let’s find out together, shall we?
Well what’s up folks, good to see you all here alive and well again and welcome back to another edition of your favorite Sunday article by yours truly. While things keep going and the world keeps turning, I sit back and say to myself, “I can’t believe I just wrote this”. So lets get this show on the road: (more…)
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This is the first of a three-part series of articles focusing on womens’ wrestling in general and the TNA Knockouts division in particular. A new interactive (sort of) roundtable feature titled “Say What???” will also begin here, where you, dear reader, e-mail me your comments on a short list of questions posted at the end of the article, and I post them here on BWF. Anyone and everyone reading is invited to participate. Don’t skip to the end, stay with it! (more…)
Oops! I forgot about the poll this week – so here’s the poll complete with commentary from Jason Mann of Wrestlespective!
Power Poll No. 21 10/27/10
1. Kane (Last week: 6)
The champion of the world rises again to the top of the Power Poll after burying his brother alive. (See what I did there?)
2. Wade Barrett (1)
It may have been a technicality, but he beat the WWE champion in a pay-per-view main event. That’s something.
3. Daniel Bryan (10)
Give him 15 minutes with someone competent and you’ll probably get the match of the night.
4. Randy Orton (3)
The WWE champion is losing some steam after a string of so-so matches. But he’s still the champ.
5. John Cena (7)
He was half of the WWE tag champions for a day, but that’s probably not something that’s going to help your ranking in 2010.
6. Edge (4)
Pretty much the star of the Bragging Rights match, winning several falls including the deciding one.
7. The Miz (5)
Bounced back from his Bragging Rights disappointment with a Raw win over R-Truth.
8. Jeff Hardy (8)
His brother has been making more news than he has, but the TNA champion’s stock is still pretty high.
9. Dolph Ziggler (NR)
Someone competent.
10. Big Show (2)
Led his Bragging Rights team to victory, even if he wasn’t there to enjoy the spoils the end.
Dropped out: Undertaker
The Power Poll is a weekly top 10 ranking of wrestlers as voted by members of these wonderful sites: BoredWrestlingFan.com, Future Endeavors, Hit the Ropes, NoVaWPodcast, Oh My WrestleBlog, Online World of Wrestling, PIZZABODYSLAM, Pro Wrestling Ponderings, Project Wonderboy, Ringside Rants, Smark Out Moment, Smarks Anonymous, The Superplex, The Wrestling Blog, WrestlingAdikt.com, WrestleRage.com, Wrestling Nuggets and Wrestlespective. Follow the Power Poll voters on Twitter. If you have a wrestling site and are interested in becoming a voter, e-mail wrestlespective(at)gmail.com.
NOTE: I didn’t vote this week, and our friend Jason who compiles and sends out the Power Poll was unable to provide comments this week. So, here’s the poll!
Power Poll 9/8/10
The ever popular Randy Orton took the top spot by a wide margin this week in the poll, while WWE champion Sheamus fell out of the poll thanks to becoming more of an afterthought. Life just isn’t fair sometimes.
1. Randy Orton
2. Kane
3. Alberto Del Rio
4. John Cena
5. Kurt Angle
6. Daniel Bryan
7. Kaval
8. Jeff Hardy
9. The Miz
10. Chris Jericho
The Power Poll is a weekly top 10 ranking of wrestlers as voted by members of these sites: BoredWrestlingFan.com, Hit the Ropes,NoVaWPodcast, Oh My WrestleBlog. Online World of Wrestling, PIZZABODYSLAM, Pro Wrestling Ponderings, Project Wonderboy,Ringside Rants, The Superplex, The Wrestling Blog, WrestlingAdikt.com, WrestleRage.com and Wrestlespective. If you have a wrestling site and are interested in becoming a voter, e-mail wrestlespective (at) gmail.com.
ThinkSoJoE note: I didn’t vote on this week’s poll – I haven’t really watched much wrestling over the past week and therefore haven’t really felt qualified to do so. Nonetheless, here’s this week’s Power Poll results!
Power Poll 8/25/10: The song remains the same
Last week’s ascension of Internet darlings Daniel Bryan and the Motor City Machine Guns didn’t last long, but this week’s Power Poll features one new face and a bunch of familiar ones. And somehow a guy who the Internet supposedly hates remains at the top of a poll voted on by Internet wrestling writers.
1. John Cena (1)
2. Randy Orton (3)
3. Sheamus (6)
4. Kane (2)
5. The Miz (4)
6. Chris Jericho (NR)
7. Alberto Del Rio (NR)
8. Edge (NR)
9. Kurt Angle (NR)
10. Wade Barrett (8)
The Power Poll is a weekly top 10 ranking of wrestlers as voted by members of these sites: BoredWrestlingFan.com, Hit the Ropes,NoVaWPodcast, Oh My WrestleBlog. Online World of Wrestling, PIZZABODYSLAM, Pro Wrestling Ponderings, Project Wonderboy,Ringside Rants, The Superplex, The Wrestling Blog, WrestlingAdikt.com, WrestleRage.com and Wrestlespective. If you have a wrestling site and are interested in becoming a voter, e-mail wrestlespective (at) gmail.com.
As we all go on with our lives, we take a look back and reflect on the past and contemplate the future. For some of us, it’s all about the here and now or something. So right here is the time, right now is the time and this is my article for the week:
So, the burning question on the minds of the WWE Universe has to be, “Who is the new anonymous RAW General Manager?” I think I’ve got the answer. That answer, my friends, is Bryan Danielson.
If you think about it, that makes perfect sense. It subtly answers questions I’ve had about the whole NXT invasion angle and ties up a few loose ends nicely.
“But, Bryan Danielson is working the indies again” you say. Remember when Matt Hardy was fired from WWE over the whole Edge and Lita thing? Matt came back to WWE and they let him promote the ROH show he was still booked for. During NXT, they promoted the hell out of the fact that Danielson had been an indy wrestling star before coming to WWE. He gets “fired,” he’s back on the indy scene, and most people take that to mean that he’s really been fired by WWE.
A few people may have put as much thought into the Bryan Danielson theory as I have and realized that it makes perfect sense. The biggest clue became obvious to me earlier tonight: Michael Cole. A lot of you know that I spend most Monday and Tuesday nights running our twitter account, @BrdWrstlngFn. Earlier I got to thinking how odd it was that there was a storyline brewing with Michael Cole hating the internet, but now he’s in charge of reading the e-mails from the RAW General Manager. That’s when it hit me.
Much was made of the fact that Danielson was an indy star who reached fame on the internet. Michael Cole used to blast him every week on NXT for it. Suddenly, Danielson is gone from the company with conflicting reports about why he was fired, Bret Hart conveniently has issues with his insurance company after an angle the following week, then suddenly, there’s an anonymous General Manager who will only communicate with Michael Cole, who supposedly hates the internet, via e-mail. Running with that idea, don’t you think that if the Nexus wanted to get to Michael Cole, they would have by now?
Two weeks after Danielson gets “fired,” Mr. McMahon is on RAW, proclaiming that there is a new General Manager, who promptly books Mr. McMahon as an outside official for the main event between John Cena and Sheamus. The NXT guys run off the participants, and Mr. McMahon announces that he was the one behind the NXT attacks. The Nexus turn their attention to the Chairman, leading one to believe that there was somebody else behind the attack on Mr. McMahon. Perhaps as a sign of good faith, Mr. McMahon gave the GM job to Danielson, who used that position to put McMahon in a situation where his associates could attack him, payback for “firing” him from the WWE.
This is just a hypothesis, an educated guess as to who it could be. I could be completely wrong, and it’s highly likely that I am, but thinking about it this way gives it a certain air of plausibility, does it not?
The Power Poll is a weekly top 10 list ranking men’s singles wrestlers in WWE and TNA. Please take some time to check out the websites of our participants. If you write for a wrestling website and are interested in participating, e-mail wrestlespective(at)gmail.com and include a link to your site.
1. John Cena (Previous Rank: 1)
2. Rob Van Dam (2)
3. Kurt Angle (NR)
4. Rey Mysterio (5)
5. Randy Orton (NR)
6. Big Show (6)
7. Jack Swagger (3)
8. Bryan Danielson (NR)
9. C.M. Punk (NR)
10. Kane (9)
Dropped out: Wade Barrett (4), Edge (7), Kofi Kingston (8), Jeff Hardy (9)
Also receiving votes: Wade Barrett, The Miz, Evan Bourne, Frankie Kazarian, Jay Lethal, Hernandez, Mr. Anderson, Kofi Kingston, Sheamus, Edge, Doug Williams
Participating sites: BoredWrestlingFan.com, Online World of Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Ponderings, Project Wonderboy, Ringside Rants, WrestleRage.com, Wrestlespective