[Mr. Dashbee]

[glow=red,2,300]Week 16[/glow]

I apologize for the delay. Caught up in draft/PWA stuff was I. In the next few weeks, I'll be changing the format. I plan to simplify the voting thread a little, as well as bring the comments back and put some structure around the brand rankings. Voting for your Top 6 and your #1 brand will stay the same, though.

The object is simple. You rank your top 6 performers of the week. Inverted points are awarded for 1-6 (6 points for your #1, 5 points for your #2, etc.). The top 12 point getters will comprise the Pun's House 12-Pack! Some fun will also happen with historical rankings and brand rankings, so keep an eye out for Serge, Lucky & Demko's contributions as we start to develop some history.

A few ground rules:
-Posting is preferred (with some comments if you can, they are very important to the rankings!), but you can also PM me your votes if you like.
-Feel free disagree and discuss your opinions. Try not to trash others' opinions, this whole thing is subjective. If you do disagree, present some great counter arguments and get the discussion going.
-Ties are okay. But you must skip the next spot if there is a tie. You can't have more than 2 per ranking (no 6-way ties for first place), either. And know that your points will be divided up amongst those who are tied. For example: if you have two tied for 2nd place, they share the 2nd & 3rd points (5 pts + 4 pts = 9 pts, or 4.5 per ranked competitor in that tie). The most you can rank is 7, if you have a tie for 6th place. A three way tie for 5th place (with no 6th place) is acceptable as well. You can also have a 6-way tie for first, or even a 7-way tie for first. As long as the numbers work out to an even point or half point, I will use it. I like math...
-Only vote for a specific performer once. If they competed in different ways, or even for different promotions, consider their body of work as a whole. If this is done and not changed, only the higher vote will count for the current week.
-Feel free to link to or post video evidence or campaign for someone if you feel moved to do so. Lucky also has a great online wrestling content thread going here.
-It’s okay to change your rankings. But please PM me to let me know. I tabulate the points as we go along, so I might not realize you changed something if you don't let me know.
-If you're unsure about something, check-out prior voting & result threads found nearby. As always, feel free to ask in this thread or via PM.

Week 16 Specifics
-Eligibility period: Monday 07/14 - Sunday 7/20
-Voting closes at 11:59 PM Wednesday 7/23, Eastern time (9 PM, Arizona time for me, or when I formally close it). The results will be posted before you wake up Thursday (East Coast, at least).

Eligible shows from the "Big 3":
-WWE RAW
-ECW
-TNA Impact
-WWE Smackdown
-WWE Great American Bash

Plus:
-Any online content involving recent events that started airing this week, including an ROH VideoWire, WWE Heat, and TNA Today videos. Many indies put out online content as well.
-Any indy or international shows that took place during the eligibility period.

VOTE!

[bdbdbd]

5 (tie) - Santino Marella & Jamie Noble
4 - Shelton Benjamin
3 - Edge & Vickie Guerrero-Edge
2 - Booker T
1 - Chris Jericho

[Tommy]

This week sucked over all brands, IMO.

1) Jericho
2) BOOK-ah
3) HBK - Died Good; although that ref pissed me off the whole match
4 (tie) - Matt Hardy/Shelton Benjamin - Best match of the PPV
6) Jim Cornette

[Eric O'Mac]

This week did suck.

6- Velvet Sky- For winning the battle royal, but also because her backstage antics.
5- Consequences Creed - For making it on my TV set.
4- Santino- "Did you check the Pepsi machine?" Even in fear, Santino is gold.
3- Shelton Benjamin- For winning the US title...hopefully he'll do something with it.
2- Chris Jericho - For kicking the absolute shit out of HBK and using the Lion Tamer on Paul London
1-CM Punk - Questionable booking is hurting him, but he's on top for keeping his title on a very weak week.

[Batman]

1) Chris Jericho
2) Beth Phoenix
3) Shawn Michaels
4) Spanky
5) Shelton
6) Umaga

6) Santino

[Lucky]

This week did blow. And thus I am catching up on 2 months of AAA starting from Triplemania XVI on 6/13 in a hope that I can rank 6 AAA performers.

[Mr. Dashbee]

1. Chris Jericho
2. CM Punk
3. Shelton Banjamin
4. Matt Hardy
5. Santino
6. Velvet Sky

I assume I'll return to my TNA loving ways next week (although there are 2 ROH shows this weekend).

And really, I fully plan to bring comments back into style next week. The draft is done.

[National Champion Chris Cole]

1. Chris Jericho - has been the best part of wrestling for a few months now. Each and every week he brings an intelligent, intense promo. This week he added a brutal beating of HBK on top of that.

2. The Hardys - As a team and against each other Matt & Jeff have proven to be consistently good.

3. Shelton Benjamin - Congrats on winning the US Title.

4. Miz & Morrison - for their great match with the Hardys on ECW. It was my Free TV Match of the Week.

5. The Beautiful People - The most consistently entertaining part of TNA.

6. Edge - Normally weddings on wrestling are terrible. I found the reception to be wonderfully unique. I'm also happy to see that my theory that Edge would bang the Wedding Planner come to pass.

Honorable Mentions

Rhodes & Dibiase - I'm digging this new tag team.

Kofi Kingston - I like watching him wrestle.

Evan Bourne - ECW had better matches this week then Raw.

Tommy Dreamer - I might not like Mark Henry as ECW Champ but Dreamer at least made the last few weeks watchable.

Brian Kendrick - New look, new thug, and hopefully a new push.

Brand of the Week: Smackdown. ECW was actually really close this week. I picked Smackdown in part for winning back the tag titles and US Titles at Great American Bash. The other part of what made Smackdown the winner was an over arching story of the wedding reception which was fun and unique.

[Moreofabreadguyanyway]

1. Chris Jericho- I loved his promo work on RAW and supposedly his match and post match promo at the PPV were good too.

2. Kaz- I thought he was the best part of the best match of the week.

3. (t) Shawn Michaels and Petey Williams- they were both the weaker men compared to the wrestlers they were interacting with this week, but it takes two to tango, and Jericho and Kaz wouldn't have been as great with lesser opponents.

5. Edge- I enjoyed his work on Smackdown, and while I haven't heard anyone rave about his PPV match with HHH, I'm sure it was entertaining as well.

6. HHH- I didn't find him to be quite as good as Edge on Smackdown, but he helped what could've been a crappy show ending sequence be pretty entertaining.

[iamdoug]

6.Hardy Boys- They make my six pack votes for ONE NIGHT ONLY!

5.Brian Kendrick- Congradulations, you made a heel turn, now do something interesting

4.Petey Williams - I mark for the Canadian Destroyer.

3.Evan Bourne- Damn that SSP is a pretty pretty move.

2.Booker T- Has really been on top of his game lately, and I love his pimp coats

1.Shelton Benjamin- You won the US title, here's hoping you actually defend it on occasion.

HM- Beer Money- For whipping the shit out of anything that moved.

DM- Wrestling in general- It was just kind of an unmemorable week overall.

[Tommy]

Jul 22, 2008 17:45:07 GMT -5 Moreofabreadguyanyway said:

5. Edge- I enjoyed his work on Smackdown, and while I haven't heard anyone rave about his PPV match with HHH, I'm sure it was entertaining as well.

It really wasn't. That's why no one's raved about it. They're both capable of a lot better. Plus, the ending was pretty bad.

[Moreofabreadguyanyway]

I'd actually consider taking Edge and HHH of my list then, since I didn't feel too strongly about their work on Smackdown either, but I really wasn't impressed with anyone else this week.

[DevSop]

Horrible Week:

1) Jericho
2) Rhodes & Dibiase - I can't believe I just did that
3) Beautiful People
4) Evan Bourne
5) Brian Kendrick
6) Michelle McCool

[National Champion Chris Cole]

I find it funny that last week I struggled to come up with six and everybody else had plenty. This week I came up with plenty and everybody thinks it was horrible. I think the TNA bias is showing. TNA had a poor week.

[Lucky]

We've been pretty pro-WWE of late and I'm once again pro them this week. I just think WWE had a shitty week last week too. SD was a silly wedding episode with pretty random matches that weren't terribly good. RAW had some moments but none of their matches were terribly good and the ending really cast a shadow over the show. And the PPV sucked ass.

You simply seem to have enjoyed SD and ECW a lot more than most of us. But you've had different tastes then us for quite awhile so I don't see why we always have to tie it back to "TNA Bias." After a month where a lot of us have had a lot of good to say about WWE they just produced a week of TV that we didn't like. It happens, just like we can hate an episode of TNA. Just so happened it happened in the same week.

I mean, correct me if I'm wrong but your top 6 are based on 2 match, a PPV result, 3 promos, and a wedding. Its actually a pretty shallow pool of stuff if we just happen to prefer wrestling or aren't big fans of 1 or 2 guys or whatever.

[National Champion Chris Cole]

I'm not saying any of my comments with malice. If you look back at my voting patterns the last couple of months I've also had a better TNA turnout. I'm just pointing out that when TNA had its first really bad week in a while that we all felt the entire week was terrible. I understand why. I had a lot of names on my list from WWE but none of them really blew me away. I think the WWE had some depth this week but not a lot of substance. I did like ECW more then anybody else but I was meh about Raw and only liked Smackdown because it was unique and not the same retread of former wedding angles. Usually I vote more on wrestling matches so in that regard the week was really bad. I only have Hardys & Miz/Morrison solely on the matches.

[Demko]

Unfortunately, I didn't get enough of a chance to watch anything last week. I wouldn't be able to vote in good conscience.

[Lucky]

Yeah, I didn't think you meant anything by it. And we DO have a TNA bias. I just thought striking up our dislike of this week to a "TNA sucked so the week sucked" thinking was unfair. SD entertained you but it was something very unconventional that doesn't work for all and there was noone who stood out for WWE this week. I really just think that after WWE has had a nice run that was a bad week.

I mean I'm gonna end up listing a lot of the same guys you did, I just don't really like listing any of them because I don't really think Dibiase/Rhodes deserve as high a ranking as they'll get for telling Duggan he's a loser or Jericho for a promo I actually don't even remember.

[wld]

1.) Shelton Benjamin
2.) Chris Jericho
3.) Velvet Sky
4.) Kaz
5.) The Hardys
6.) Santino

[Byrntrigan]

6. Lacey

5. Velvet Sky

4. Petey Williams

3. Beer Money, INC.

2. Evan "Air" Bourne

and This Week's Number 1 with (not really) a bullet...

[glow=red,2,300]Booker T[/glow]

I'm gonna break with tradition (at least 16 weeks) of having comments. It was a weak week, and god damn you Vince McMahon. I give RAW a chance about every 4 months and the last 2 times, Vince is "killed" by a slow falling hydraulic sign, and then John Cena is murdered by a car.

Uggg. It's like you fuckers don't want me to watch your shows...

Best Brand of the Week: ROH

I didn't see anything, but it couldn't have been worse then RAW and TNA was uncharacteristically crappy.

And yes Greg, you turned me into a fledgling ROHbot. I was watching Bloodstained Honor at the airport last week, and made a lady sitting next to me throw up from sneaking a peek of the Joe / Jay Briscoe match. ;D

[Carlitos Coconut]

1.Chris Jericho
2.Shelton Benjamin
3.CM Punk
4.Booker T
5.Santino Marella
6.Edge

[Batman]

Carlito's Coconut! Where ya been?



I can't speak for anyone else, but my ballot's been practically all Raw for the past two weeks.

I had trouble coming up with six because Raw was relatively weak. (Compared to other shows since "Martial Law" began. Compared to the shows before that? Still cooking with gas as far as I'm concerned, even WITH the lame parking lot attack. I LOVE martial law. Martial law is good.)

[Carlitos Coconut]

Just kinda gave up when OO was lost, but Ive got nothing else to do in the summer, and I started to miss the boards. So I came back here.

[Lucky]

I'm already kinda wiped from a big catch up day after a couple of "sick" days so I'm going to quick and dirty with this crappy week. No AAA alas.

6) Chris Jericho
5) Miz & Morrison
4) Beautiful People
3) Shelton Benjamin
2) Dibiase & Rhodes
1) Hardy Boyz

Really, I couldn't write up anything beyond that if I wanted to. I barely remember what half of those guys did.

Best Brand: Uhhhh... Smackdown, I guess. It was more entertaining than Impact, less forgettable than ECW, and the ending wasn't as soul sucking as RAW. And the US title was like the one good thing on GAB.

[National Champion Chris Cole]

Almost the same 6 as me just in a different order.