[Mr. Dashbee]

So with everything about 80% ready to go, the computer freezes on me. Here is the raw data, I'll make the necessary changes tomorrow. I lost what I had written for OSR for tonight (was about 50% done w/that) as well...that will also wait for tomorrow. Ugh.

1. Edge, SD! (9 votes / 6 fpv / 49.5 pts)
2. Chris Jericho, RAW (6 / 4 / 32.5)
3. Hernandez, TNA (10 / 1 / 28)
4. AJ Styles, TNA (6 / 0 / 26.5)
5. CM Punk, RAW (6 / 0 / 20)
6. Shawn Michaels & Rebecca Michaels, RAW (4 / 1 / 17.5)
7. Undertaker, SD! (4 / 0 / 12)
8. Beer Money, TNA (3 / 0 / 7)
9. Kurt Angle, TNA (2 / 0 / 6)
10. Jeff Jarrett, TNA (2 / 0 / 6)
11. Santino Marella & Beth Phoenix, RAW (3 / 0 / 5)
12. Scotty Goldman, SD! (2 / 0 / 4)

Others receiving votes: Matt Striker, The Beautiful People, Festus, Shelton Benjamin, Batista, Samoa Joe & Kevin Nash, Daizee Haze, MVP

We continued to show our TNA bias by voting Smackdown! as the brand of the week.

[Byrntrigan]

From what I've been sussing out, perhaps would people agree, that Smackdown! is the better WWF show for me to try and start watching again?

[Tommy]

Aug 21, 2008 9:58:43 GMT -5 Byrntrigan said:

From what I've been sussing out, perhaps would people agree, that Smackdown! is the better WWF show for me to try and start watching again?

If you were to pick one, that would be the one.

[National Champion Chris Cole]

Without a doubt Smackdown is better. You have better star power (or what WWE considers star power) on Raw but Smackdown is a better place for good storytelling and good in ring action.

[Byrntrigan]

Aug 21, 2008 10:48:00 GMT -5 Tommy said:

Aug 21, 2008 9:58:43 GMT -5 Byrntrigan said:

From what I've been sussing out, perhaps would people agree, that Smackdown! is the better WWF show for me to try and start watching again?

If you were to pick one, that would be the one.

WWF has turned me off so many times when I try to watch RAW I figured I'd ask others here as I'd like to watch them again, but I don;t want to wade through all they bullshit to get to the good stuff...

[National Champion Chris Cole]

DVR Smackdown and watch it for at least 3-4 weeks. If you still don't like that product then nothing in the WWE universe wil probably work for you.

[Tommy]

Aug 21, 2008 11:43:03 GMT -5 Byrntrigan said:

Aug 21, 2008 10:48:00 GMT -5 Tommy said:

If you were to pick one, that would be the one.

WWF has turned me off so many times when I try to watch RAW I figured I'd ask others here as I'd like to watch them again, but I don;t want to wade through all they bullshit to get to the good stuff...

SD! is pretty innovative. They have matches. They let storylines develop more than one week. They occasionally elevate "new" talent. They also have matches that aren't squashes and a decent Women's Division (even with the pretty pretty princess belt).

[Moreofabreadguyanyway]

Aug 21, 2008 15:24:32 GMT -5 Tommy said:

Aug 21, 2008 11:43:03 GMT -5 Byrntrigan said:

SD! is pretty innovative. They have matches. They let storylines develop more than one week. They occasionally elevate "new" talent. They also have matches that aren't squashes and a decent Women's Division (even with the pretty pretty princess belt).

I actually hate the Smackdown women's division, but at least it's so obviously sucky that I can DVR past it without thinking twice. I'd agree that Smackdown's been the best wrestling show on TV lately, even with Khali as #1 contender.

[Tommy]

Aug 21, 2008 15:31:12 GMT -5 Moreofabreadguyanyway said:

Aug 21, 2008 15:24:32 GMT -5 Tommy said:

Aug 21, 2008 11:43:03 GMT -5 Byrntrigan said:

SD! is pretty innovative. They have matches. They let storylines develop more than one week. They occasionally elevate "new" talent. They also have matches that aren't squashes and a decent Women's Division (even with the pretty pretty princess belt).

I actually hate the Smackdown women's division, but at least it's so obviously sucky that I can DVR past it without thinking twice. I'd agree that Smackdown's been the best wrestling show on TV lately, even with Khali as #1 contender.

McCool, Nattie and Victoria is on par with Mickie, Beth and Katie Lea, I think.

McCool's finisher is terrible though.

[Lucky]

I think you're on crack. McCool's plucky young thing was cool. She's pretty, she's full of energy, she works hard. She's not quite there yet but you can tell she's working hard and you can get behind that. But once she started making people tap out and became Trish Stratus queen of the division suddenly we got to realize how flawed she is.

They've got their two best workers on the same side of the fence and Natalya's not been in a good position to get over and look good. And quite frankly WWE's booked Victoria as such an afterthought and with her weird "falling all over herself" thing that I just can no longer see her as relevant. She's like Jackie Moore is in TNA. She's got talent, she can have good matches, but I just see no reason to care because TNA clearly doesn't care about her as anything more than an extra body and Storm's valet.

I think Mickie and Beth are easily the best of that bunch and while Katie hasn't shown a ton in WWE I think she might be 3rd best. McCool is definitely the worst of the bunch. But RAW also has Jillian Hall who is better than any 2 women on SD. Actually, are there 2 more women on SD? Maria sucks but so does Kelly. Kelly and Candice are going to get in a ring together some day and both cripple each other.

But Maryse is strangely hot to me. So I watch Divas matches just to look at her and McCool. Somehow SD has cornered the market on leggy blonds that I'm not usually attracted to but can't help myself here. But I would not in any way recommend the SD division as a reason to watch.

I'm also not sure SD is really the best consistent showing but obviously tastes vary. Some people clearly like Khali, Kozlov, Jesse/Festus, Kennedy, MVP, Vickie, and Kendrick more than me. So maybe I'm just on the bad end of opinion on SD. But SD is the WWE show that spends the most time on wrestling, lets stories be told, and uses new talent and allows them to do something on the show other than job to the main eventers. And even on a bad show there's a good chance of finding a good and lengthy match.

I think ECW is a perfectly harmless WWE show too that can do stuff that wows you (Bourne) and lots of guys who can give you good matches. Some weeks it may suck but the beauty of it is that its too short to ever really wear on you.

RAW remains, however, a complete and utter hit and miss that can either make you hope for better things one week or make you question why you watch wrestling the next.

[Batman]

Sorry 'bout the delay on this, here are your tables for last week:

This Week	Image	Rank	Last Week	FPVs	Votes	Points	Last Week	Cumulative Rank	6-Week Rank
Edge		1	3	6	9	49.5	30	3	1
Hernandez		2		1	10	28
A. J. Styles		3	1		6	26.5	74	1	5
Chris Jericho		3	16	3	5	26.5	3	2	2
Shawn and Rebecca Michaels		5		2	5	23.5
C. M. Punk		6	10		6	20	10	6	7
The Undertaker		7			4	12		22	28
Beer Money		8	4		3	7	28.5		11
Kurt Angle		9	2		2	6	56	5	3
Jeff Jarrett		9			2	6		80	41
Santino & Beth Phoenix		11			3	5
Scotty Goldman		12			2	4		95	49
Matt Striker		12	8		1	4	13	57	25

Some surprising first-time appearances on the rankings this week from Whysper, Jarrett, and Colt Cabana.

Cumulative	Image	Rank	Last Week	FPVs	Votes	Points	Last Week	This-Week Rank	6-Week Rank
A. J. Styles		1	1	45.5	129	566.5	540	3	5
Chris Jericho		2	2	34	108	410	383.5	3	2
Edge		3	3	36	93	402	352.5	1	1
Samoa Joe		4	4	28	85	347.5	346.5		18
Kurt Angle		5	5	14	95	346.5	340.5	9	3
C. M. Punk		6	6	21	74	287	267	6	7
LAX		7	7	17	84	279.5	251.5		11
Shawn Michaels		8	9	13	69	260	236.5		13
Motor City Machine Guns		9	8	13	63	239.25	239.25		10
Kong / Saeed (aka Melissa)		10	9	5	78	236.5	236.5		23
Christian Cage		11	11	5.5	61.75	194	194		32
The Beautiful People		12	12	1	63.5	188	185	14	4

No big changes here, as usual.

6-Week	Image	Rank	Last Week	FPVs	Votes	Points	Last Week	This-Week Rank	Cumulative Rank
Edge		1	1	16	38	171.5	181	1	3
Chris Jericho		2	3	16	36	151	126.5	3	2
Kurt Angle		3	4	7	26	110	111.5	9	5
The Beautiful People		4	5	1	33.5	105.5	102.5	14	12
A. J. Styles		5	6	9	21.5	104.5	86	3	1
Mick Foley		6	10	8	13	66	66		30
C. M. Punk		7	2	2	18	63.5	130.5	6	6
Shelton Benjamin		8	11	2	17	59	57	16	28
Taylor Wild		9	8	6	15.5	57.75	78.75		24
Motor City Machine Guns		10	9	4	13	56.25	76.75		9
LAX		11	22	2	19	51.5	23.5		7
Beer Money		11	7	1	18	51.5	84.5	8

Hernanadez shot LAX back into the 6-Week Rankings. Foley gained several rankings just by holding steady while those around him lost ground.