[Mr. Dashbee]

[glow=red,2,300]Week 25[/glow]

Welcome to the 12-Pack voting thread. If you want/need the full run down, check out any of the old voting threads, drop me a PM or ask your question in here and any of us will be glad to answer.

Eligibility Info
Ranking Period: September 15 - September 21
WWE: RAW, ECW, Smackdown!
TNA: Impact
ROH: Boston PPV Taping, Philadelphia "Glory By Honor VII"
Plus any indy or international shows and new online content

What To Do?
-Rate your Top 6 performers of the past week (Monday through Sunday)
-Indicate your #1 brand for the past week
-Please provide comments for your rankings, they are in fashion!

Basic Rules
-Tag teams can be together, even if they are short term/one time deal
-Opponents, although working together in reality, cannot be considered together
-2-way ties are okay at any ranking, just eliminate the next spot (ex: 2 way tie for first place means no second place person)
-3 way ties for 5th place are also kosher, as is a 2-way tie for 6th play (this is the only way to actually rank 7 talents instead of 6)
-Please limit “statement votes” to one per week (ex: WWE creative, the RickRoll caller, etc.)
-Voting is open until 12 midnight EST Wednesday, with results posted during that night.

[Batman]

Man, this week was lackluster all around.

I'm going to have to scrape for six worth acknowledging.


1) Foley - Foley vs Angle has been a dream feud of mine for a long time, so I'm pretty psyched for this.

2) MVP - Damn, but he looks comfortable in the main event.

3) HBK - Ladder match, hells yeah!

4) Angle - Foley vs Angle, hells yeah!

5) Jamie Noble - Jamie's really looking good--I like his new roll-up finisher.

6) Kozlov - This could be good. Which isn't enough reason to rank it, but... half my ballot is for guys announcing that they'll be in matches I'm excited to see. What can I say?... Lackluster week.

Show) They all kind of sucked, but Foley calling out Angle at BFG is pretty blockbuster, so I'll give Impact the nod.

[Ultimatejobber]

6. Shawn Michaels: He got me excited for a PPV that I shouldn't care about.

5. Adam Pearce: Regained the ROH Intercontinental, I mean, NWA World Title this weekend.

4. Jamie Noble: I love the Angry, yet Sad Panda redneck thing.

2. Chris Jericho and CM Punk: Really strong cage match to open Raw that did well for both competitors.

1. Kevin Steen and El Generico: Finally won the ROH world tag team champions. Fun match with with high action throughout and some great false finishes. The crowd reaction when they won was amazing and my wrestling highlight of the week.

Brand: ROH, simply because I went to a show and had way more fun there than I did watching any of the WWE and TNA.

[Lucky]

Oddly, Serg, this is the first time in weeks that I've had even 1 guy I felt really good about ranking. I did kind of struggle for 6 and I agree that it was lackluster, but wrestling's been that way for awhile for me and this week at least had something interesting happening that people are talking about.

6) The Beautiful People - I'm not even sure what they did. They're just awesome. I seem to recall Velvet looking amazing again.

Chris Jericho - I really don't care for Jericho here. I know I'm in the minority. I know everyone thinks I'm crazy. I just don't get what makes Jericho different from every other main event heel in WWE over the last X years. He's cold, he's calculating, he's opportunistic, arrogant, blah, blah, blah. HHH, (lame) Edge, JBL, Orton. By "retiring" "Y2J" they really took away what made Jericho different IMO. So I don't get why Jericho retelling Bobby Roode stories and behaving the same way Orton did during his "Era" is any kind of breath of fresh air. Sure, he's more talented than them but its still the same WWE stuff we've been watching forever. Still, he IS talented and a good cage match and pretty decent promo.

4) CM Punk - I miss the days of the "Punk Principle" when he'd wrestle 2-4 times a week in enjoyable if unspectacular matches. I didn't think the cage match was that spectacular either and I'm never very keen on the idea of an Escape Cage match and how it makes faces look to try and sneak out a door even while they're getting their asses kicked (why, its like retaining your title by CO when you're getting your ass kicked). But it was arguably the best match of the week and even though he lost Punk was the reason I cared.

3) Ron Killings - I can't say how sad I am to see him take the entire act that was annoying in TNA the last few years to WWE. I hoped to never hear "WHAZZUP!" again. Still, I like the guy and Killings/Benjamin is a match I've wanted to see for a long time. And hopefully Killings' win means we can get it better than that short one. So that match wasn't great but I'm hoping it was an enjoyable appetizer to a greater meal.

2) Kurt Angle - The other half of the great promo and really, he and Sting were important parts of that as the foils to Jarrett. All 3 guys are vets (4 with Foley), none of them seem to have a stake in that other side of the argument. But you needed Angle and Sting to have Jarrett work. Sting's the guy who just doesn't get why these new kids need the ball and Angle's the very problem that Sting can't seem to see. Angle hit the right points with that by disrespecting the kids and then disrespecting Jarrett, basically doing the very thing that Sting has condemned AJ and Joe for.

1) Jeff Jarrett - He delivered the promo of his career. I'm not sure its something he can necessarily replicate so I'm not on the "Jarrett should have been a face for the last 15 years!" wagon that has developed. He's been gone for 2 years, this is his company that has grown in large part due to his hard work, and we all feel for what he's been through lately. He just looked so much older than he was when left. But it delivered and really helped give form to this story that Sting, Angle, Booker, Joe, AJ, and Christian have been walking around but not making clear to us. So he did his job establishing the big story for his company.


Brand - Impact. Pretty easy for me this week. The Jarrett/Angle promo wasn't just the best thing this week but it was built to the entire show. Joe's promo, Sting's promo, the MCMG/Cage/AJ match, the Cage/AJ promo. They all played off the same idea which JJ and Angle tied together in the main event. The show wasn't a blow away or anything but it flowed real well and felt like a scripted story, which wrestling somehow fails to do very often.

[DevSop]

1) Jeff Jarrett - The Promo of the Year without question in my mind. He basically sold everything that had been happening in TNA the last few months and he sold it like it was the biggest deal in the world. There was true emotion and it felt like such a big deal. It was just awesome.

2) Kurt Angle - And it wouldn't have been as awesome if he didn't have the right foil. Angle's always been a total performer and he was the perfect symmetry to Jarrett in this case. It was just a great segment and one of the first times I really didn't feel let down by a main event interview.

3) Samoa Joe - I know a lot of people believe he's been whining, but I've never seen that side of the personality. I just think he's been playing his spot in this upcoming story really well. He brings passion and emotion to every segment he does and I think he shows everyone just how much he cares about the business and putting the best possible show on.

4) Steenerico - Normally any ROH title win is higher in my book, but TNA really fucking brought the awesome in one little story. So Kevin Steen and El Generico get pushed down some. If either had been able to pull of a title win on Saturday, they'd be higher. But they both lost in impressive matches, but since I didn't see the win and only heard about it; this is as high as I can go.

5) AJ Styles - The fact that he can stand next to Christian and not be a hinderance in the promo department and truthfully hold his own is something I never expected, but he did it on Impact and with Joe, AJ, and the Guns carrying the ball for the New Blood or whatever they wind up being called, I think it could go down as a great point for TNA. I'm not sure how much a drop it would be for him, but I want AJ to get the X-Division belt back soon.

6) Delirious - He SPIKED Daizee Haze. I will never say another bad thing about Delirious.

HM: The Brian Kendrick - He did the ROH dance.

[Moreofabreadguyanyway]

1. Jeff Jarrett- I always liked good ol' Double J even when everyone else didn't and his promo this week certainly reminded me why.

2. Jeff Hardy- I thought he cut the best promo of his entire career on Smackdown (it wasn't that great but it didn't completely suck, and that's a miracle for Jeff). Plus, I thought he had a really good if too short match with the Brian Kendrick.

3. Kurt Angle- Really awesome in the main event segment.

4. (t) Ron Killings and Shelton Benjamin- My favorite match of the week; I wouldn't be surprised if they were paired up at the next PPV. Between that match and the ladder match, No Mercy may be the first WWE PPV I've bought since the Rumble.

6. (t) Christian Cage & A.J. Styles and MCMG- I just thought they had a really good, fast paced tag match. I thought it just edged out Punk-Jericho on RAW so these guys get the last spot.

Brand of the Week: TNA- RAW had a decent cage match and I'm sure Santino did something funny that I've already forgotten, but otherwise it was boring. ECW was boring. Smackdown had some good matches but of all the WWE brands they're the most obvious victim of WWE's cartoonish, kid friendly direction. I've blocked out most of it, but I just remember there being some really campy shit on that show that really made me want to watch something, anything else that I Tivo'd. So that leaves TNA. The Jarrett-Angle-Foley stuff was fantastic and mostly everything else was pretty solid.

[bdbdbd]

6. Shelton Benjamin - Woo! Shelton! Woooooooo!

5. Charlie Haas -

4. Montel Vontavious Porter - Looks like creative finally sees what I saw in him when he was still saying "no contract, no contact".

3. Sting - I get the mocking of "Joe, Joe, Joe" but it seemed to be on purpose. I actually rewound and watched part of that promo again. Plus I'm actually really excited for Sting/JOE now.

2. Kurt Angle - His yelling at Jarrett about carrying TNA was terrific, there's no other way to describe it.

1. Jeff Jarrett - I don't want him back in the ring, but he talked pretty.

Brand: ECW. That's right, ECW again. I think there was all of one backstage segment on the whole show and it was world title/next PPV related. More of this, please.

[Lucky]

The "Joe, Joe, Joe" Sting HAD to be intentional. I have no idea what the purpose of it was on Sting's part but he couldn't have not known he was doing it. Its not like Sting is some kid cutting one of his first promos. He wasn't up there hyper ventilating and stuttering the name. My best guess is it was intended to aggravate the fans and set up them booing him for the Jarrett segment.

[wld]

1.) Jeff Jarrett – The promo was well done, logical, and tied the storyline together. Can't ask for more than that.
2.) Jeff Hardy – When did he learn to promo?
3.) MVP – He was in the main event with the World Champion and looked like he belonged there.
4.) (tie) Kurt Angle / Sting – Both were spot on with their promos and played their roles well in building the story with Jarrett / Foley.
6.) AJ Styles – Like Dev said, he held his own in a promo with Christian – the advances he's made are just unbelievable.

Brand: TNA – One of TNA's strengths is fitting a bunch of smaller stories together and building to a bigger whole. This week was a perfect example of that.

[Byrntrigan]

6. Shane Sewell : I'm sure this'll get disapproving clucks from the high society muckety-mucks, but I marked when he went all "crazy wrestler" on Rock & Rave. He's got a certain weird charisma that makes me figure he's a wrestler who ref'd for a setup to a story. If he's not, he's a damn awesome study. he's the new face Danny Davis 2008.

5. AJ Styles & Christian Cage : The winning side of the tag match. They work quite well together as they showed.

4. Murder City Machine Guns : They are still 4 types of awesome.

3. Samoa Joe : His promo was really good as a setup to the evening, but boo on TNA running it so early. The promo would have worked better 10 - 15 minutes before the Jarret hootenany.

2. Kurt Angle : Irony, they name is Angle. But his yang was needed to Jarretts yang promo.

and this week's Number 1 with a guitar shot...

[glow=red,2,300]Double J Jeff Jarrett[/glow]

The promo was awesome. Certainly best this year, and it so explains the TNA vs. Outsiders feud. TNA, please please PLEASE don't fuck this up like the iNvasion angle. You could milk this totally for 6 months without problems.

Brand 'O' the Week: TNA

Comments forthcoming

[Mr. Dashbee]

VOTING CLOSED...

Here is mine:
1. Chris Jericho
2. Kevin Steen & El Generico
3. Shawn Michaels
4. Jeff Jarrett
5. Samoa Joe
6. CM Punk

Brand: RAW, even if just for the ending.