WWE Friday Night SmackDown: Power Slam Best Wrestlers of the year (Dec.1 2010- Nov. 30 2011)

telvisnostic
[1]Dec 23, 2011
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Why did I put this here, welp. Mr, Randy Orton is numero 2. It's a UK mag by the way.

-I put all the WWE wrestlers in bold.

1. Hiroshi Tanahashi

2. Randy Orton

3. Davey Richards

4. Prince Devitt

5. Shingo Takagi

6. Christian

7. Kurt Angle

8. C.M. Punk

9. Kota Ibush

10. Takashi Sugiura

11. KENTA

12. Go Shiozaki

13. PAC

14. Akira Tozawa

15. Hirooki Goto

16. Eddie Edwards

17. BxB Hulk

18. Tetsuya Naito

19. AJ Styles

20. Shinsuke Nakamura

21. Masaaki Mochizuki

22. Bobby Roode

23. Rey Mysterio

24. Kenny Omega

25. Sheamus

26. Antonio Cesaro

27. CIMA

28. Katsuhiko Nakajima

29. Masato Yoshino

30. Chris Hero

31. Dragon Kid

32. Jay Briscoe

33. Ricochet

34. Mark Briscoe

35. Kevin Steen

36. Yuji Nagata

37. James Storm

38. Dolph Ziggler

39. Daniel Bryan

40. El Generico

41. Alberto Del Rio

42. Ryusuke Taguchi

43. Austin Aries

44. Jeff Jarrett

45. Kofi Kingston

46. Bully Ray

47. Christopher Daniels

48. The Miz

49. John Morrison

50. Kenny King

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Crulex1369
[2]Dec 23, 2011
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Interesting. I wonder what their criteria was.
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telvisnostic

[3]Dec 23, 2011

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This is what I found:

Wiki wrote:

Every year the magazine presents the PS 50 (akin to the PWI 500) listing the 50 wrestlers whom the writers believe to have had the most successful year, in terms of workrate and performance.

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JLe1223
[4]Dec 24, 2011
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John Cena is not in the top 50?
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telvisnostic
[5]Dec 24, 2011
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I was wondering about that too. It's not like he had an awful year either.
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JandSman

[6]Dec 25, 2011

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telvisnostic wrote:

This is what I found:

Wiki wrote:

Every year the magazine presents the PS 50 (akin to the PWI 500) listing the 50 wrestlers whom the writers believe to have had the most successful year, in terms of workrate and performance.

How does John Cena not fit into this list, everyone says he has a great work rate and his performances have been improving he has had great matches with Del Rio, Punk, Mysterio, and some good matches (not great) with Miz and R-Truth. It definently wasn't his best year, but he definently deserves to be on that list, especially when a guy like Jeff Jarrett is on that list.

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TVRULEZ222
[7]Dec 26, 2011
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why is the miz that low? like i understand hes not the best but hes really improved his ring work this year and why is bully ray and jeff jarrett on this list they are both really bad they dont deserve to be on this list at all
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telvisnostic

[8]Dec 26, 2011

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JandSman wrote:

telvisnostic wrote:

This is what I found:

Wiki wrote:

Every year the magazine presents the PS 50 (akin to the PWI 500) listing the 50 wrestlers whom the writers believe to have had the most successful year, in terms of workrate and performance.

I'm actually not sure. I'd love to know explanations. Plus Bully Ray should be much higher.

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Raccoon1459
[9]Dec 28, 2011
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CM Punk is in the top 10, and rightfully so.
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Crulex1369

[10]Dec 29, 2011

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TVRULEZ222 wrote:

why is the miz that low? like i understand hes not the best but hes really improved his ring work this year and why is bully ray and jeff jarrett on this list they are both really bad they dont deserve to be on this list at all

Bully Ray has improved severely since going singles. He's great on the mic, he can do a bit of heel comedy (mostly with Steiner), and he's not that bad in the ring with underhanded stuff.

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TVRULEZ222
[11]Dec 29, 2011
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I think that Bully Ray did improve on the mic but his in ring skills just werent really good i didnt really enjoy any of the matches i saw him in
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Deadnight-Majin
[12]Dec 30, 2011
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I haven't got round to buying the magazine yet (I do every month). I'm surprised Cena wasn't in it, I'd put him above Del Rio and Miz.

It's cool that Shingo is number 5. He put a lot of people over this year (most notably Tozawa at Kobe, he basically made him since he was previously only over in the USA).
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ALLPR0
[13]Jan 4, 2012
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Anyone else surprised Christian is number six? I mean I know he had a great Summer but he didn't do much before Wrestlemania or after Summer Slam so he was only around for about half the year. I'm a big fan of his but I don't think I'd put him in the top ten for this year even.
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JLe1223
[14]Jan 4, 2012
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But the "one more match" quote was legendary, that alone should propel him into the top ten.
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Deadnight-Majin

[15]Jan 9, 2012

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ALLPR0 wrote:

Anyone else surprised Christian is number six? I mean I know he had a great Summer but he didn't do much before Wrestlemania or after Summer Slam so he was only around for about half the year. I'm a big fan of his but I don't think I'd put him in the top ten for this year even.

Agreed. Not sure where I would put him, but certainly not that high.

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ALLPR0

[16]Jan 10, 2012

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Deadnight-Majin wrote:

ALLPR0 wrote:

Agreed. Not sure where I would put him, but certainly not that high.

I looked at the list again and I think somewhere between 15 and 20 would be appropriate, he did have two World title reigns even in that short time frame and the matches against Orton were all instant classics so I would say that would be a fair ranking. But once he comes back in 2012 I'm sure he will get, "one more match!" to JLe's and my delight

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lightning_kf
[17]Jan 21, 2012
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Cena NOT in the top 50? Something must be wrong.
And if anything, Christian should've been higher.
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Randyspeeps
[18]Jan 22, 2012
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Is there any surprise that Randall is listed as the number 2 wrestler, and the highest ranked WWE wrestler? Nope. Going by the criteria that Telvis posted, I can easily see why Randy was rated so high (as I pointed out in Randy Orton's injury thread) he has really worked hard this year. He wrestled on Raw and Smackdown for a majority of the year, and had really compelling storylines. He managed to help elevate young and up coming superstars, while still keeping his dominance in the industry. Kudos to Randy Orton, as he continues to get better.
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