Believe it or not this is indeed the current report on the last week, sorry it is so late, my laptop problems have persisted and it has taken me almost a week to complete the chart. Still we are within the week’s boundary but by now you’ll probably have seen this week’s episodes as well so you all know more than me as I still haven’t had a chance to watch anything from this week, including Victory Road, which has probably secured that next week’s report will be TNA heavy. Just be sure to remember that this report is backdated to last week so that is what is being commented on, anyway enough of this time-related commentary, let’s get on with the report…

Weekly Top Ten:

1st Place: The Miz (10/10)
The Awesome One keeps his spot at the top of the chart this week as he fully capitalises on the Rock vs. Cena situation and gives his Wrestlemania opponent a well deserved beat down before the event. No doubt Cena will get his own back but in the meantime the Miz reigns supreme on the main event scene, being one of the longest running WWE champions in recent memory, which isn’t too shabby for a reality show reject.

2nd Place: Alberto Del Rio (9/10)
The Excellence of Execution manages to keep his prsofile high despite losing his tag match against the reunited team of Edge & Christian. Del Rio had no real chance of winning while facing that momentum but luckily he had a rookie shield in the form of Brutus Clay to take the actual pinfall losses. While I appreciate the idea, I am slightly concerned that WWE creative can only seem to put over their top heels at the moment by having them win all the time and the rest of the time use an NXT rookie to take the fall; see C.M. Punk and The Miz to confirm this. It’s a good system, I just want variation.

3rd Place: C.M. Punk (8/10)
Luckily for Punk, the leader of the Nexus wasn’t restricted to running in and being chased off this week, although that did once again happen. Punk also managed to own R-Truth on Raw and show his dominance over the redundant and annoying crowd favourite.

Actually thinking about it R-Truth does have a purpose, he’s great at losing to the WWE’s top heels. So you could say that Wrestling Truth is a great way to keep top heels over (see what I did there).

4th Place: JBL (7/10)
For the first time John Bradshaw Layfield has appeared on the chart and I for one am glad. JBL was a questionable champion at the time but looking back on his run as both the US and WWE champion, JBL provided us with some great heel moments, like being chokeslammed though the roof of a limo, and winning a Barb-wire steel cage match by being chokeslammed though the ring. The promo he cut on Raw was no exception; with little effort he garnered a hugh amount of heat from the crowd, before satisfying their need for justice by taking two stunners. To me this proves that it was not just the Attitude era that was entertaining as I’ve always believed that it was until Cena became champion that there were times that the WWE was great. The end of Bradshaw’s title reign was perhaps the end of good main event heel performances in the WWE.

5th Place: Cody Rhodes (6/10)
The former Dashing One returned to action this week, using his ridiculous “protective face mask” to beat his opponent, JTG, into submission. The face mask is a silly gimmick in that it is clear and it is obvious that nothing is wrong with Cody’s face, at least make it white so we can’t see that the whole thing is fake. Still despite this Rhodes also managed to secure his match with Mysterio at Wrestlemania, so hopefully it’s worth it, although more likely Mysterio will bury Rhodes like he always does.

6th Place: Madison Rayne (5/10)
The first TNA wrestler to enter the chart this week is the Knockouts Champion and Killer Queen; Madison Rayne, who once again successfully defended her Knockouts title against one of the old guard of the Knockouts division. After a shaky start Madison Rayne is quickly becoming one of the most consistent champions in TNA, but then again at the moment that’s not too hard a thing to do.

7th Place: Michael Cole (4/10)
Once again in the build up to his first, and hopefully only match, at Wrestlemania, Michael Cole has wormed his way onto the report. I, like many others, am hoping that this match at Wrestlemania will spell the end of the King and Cole’s announcing careers. It would be a fitting end and there seems to be enough announcing talent to take over from them once they are gone. If so then their match at ‘Mania is worth the effort.

8th Place: Dolph Ziggler (3/10)
Finally we have seen the return of Dolph Ziggler, on Monday Night Raw, which could have been predicted but does go some way to balance out Smackdown’s heel to face ratio once again. I’m starting to think that there will be no MitB match at Wrestlemania this year due to the PPV that will be coming up. Looks like a few mid-carders will miss out on their Wrestlemania moment this year unless they can get into some kind of rushed storyline in the next few weeks.

9th Place: Matt Hardy (2/10)
Getting one over this week on A.J. Styles, Hardy makes his way onto the chart with a Twist of Hate on the steel chair. Why is everything about the Hardies so cheap these days? The change to ‘Twist of Hate’ the call name of ‘Cold Blood’, not to mention ‘The Charismatic Enigma’ all of these sound so cliché and stupid, like idiots who are trying to be creative. I know the final one of those was also in the WWE but it was terrible then, so why carry it over when you get to make a fresh start? I’m guessing it was Jeff’s idea in the first place so I’m including it in my assessment that the two are just idiots.

10th Place: The Pope (1/10)
Beating his opponent Samoa Joe after a pointless rivalry gets the Pope into the chart this week. It annoys me that a guy with so much talent has been relegated after nearly making it to the main event. He seriously must hate Bischoff and Hogan for bypassing him after he was being pushed so hard before they came along; instead they put Hardy over, tut tut.

Overall Top Ten:
1st Place: C.M. Punk (82/100)

2nd Place: The Miz (71/100)

3rd Place: Alberto Del Rio (66/100)

4th Place: Jeff Jarrett (34/100)

5th Place: Dolph Ziggler (33/100)

6th Place: Wade Barrett (29/100)

7th Place: Jeff Hardy (16/100)

8th Place: Justin Gabriel (15/100)

9th Place: Heath Slater (15/100)

10th Place: Madison Rayne (14/100)

Weekly Filler:

The Face-Off: Triple H vs. Unndertaker

While there is some interest in this match up it is annoying, as has been said already on this site, as they haven’t even acknowledged that Triple H has had a shot at the Undertaker at Wrestlemania already, and it might have even been a No Holds Barred match, or Falls Count Anywhere as I remember them battling around the arena. The lack of acknowledging the match ten years ago is just a little annoying that’s all. Also I have to say that this is the first time since the streak became a selling point that I am certain the Undertaker will win, there would be no point in Triple H winning, unless he is that narcissistic that he wants to end Undertaker’s streak before taking over the company full time from his senile father-in-law. I would have loved to see Sting vs. the Undertaker, or Cena vs. the Undertaker as with either of those I could believe that the other guy has a chance to win, which in the end is nice to have, a lack of certainty even in a fixed outcome.

Face the Facts: Mr. Anderson playing Up to Asshole Character

This praise comes as long as TNA have not fully turned Anderson into a heel, as that would suck due to the terrible swerve nature of TNA simply to fit into their match bookings. So if Anderson is still a face next week then I’m glad they are showing that he will do anything to get what he wants because he’s never claimed to be a nice guy, so to start playing fair when he’s been robbed wouldn’t really make any sense.

Flat-Footed: Michael Cole Interrupting Divas Title Match

Now I know a lot of the divas in the WWE at the moment are not too convincing in the ring, but to actually play up to it and do nothing about it is just a slap in the face to all female wrestlers as now you have the top promotion denouncing a whole division and setting a terrible example for any upcoming female wrestlers who all ultimately want to reach the pinnacle of their career by winning the Women’s championship…oh wait it doesn’t exist anymore, Jesus Christ.

Flat-Footed 2: Sheamus Challenging For Title

Since there were no real good heel moments this week that I haven’t already commented on in the chart I’m just going to complain again. This time it’s about the Celtic Warrior just being handed a US title match after being on a massive losing streak. It makes little sense and once again reinforces just how pointless the title is. I actually like there being lots of titles in a promotion, but when they are obviously just props I am starting to think that it is better to just get rid of the US and IC titles until the WWE can get better bookers.

That’s all for this week, hopefully nothing too jarring has occurred in the week to make these observations completely redundant, then again it would be interesting if the WWE has actually corrected it’s mistakes and kept up it’s successes, or if TNA has somehow done a 180 and has gone back to being a match driven program with some sort of consistency. I doubt it though, this is James Wright signing off.

Source: wrestlingtruth.com