Powerslam PS 50 for 2006

[Atticus Chaos]

from another board (PS is a wrestling magazine sold in europe for those that don't know. I think you can get it in some places in the US though. This is based purely on in ring performances for the year)

 

The 2006 PS50

 

1. Edge

2. Bryan Danielson

3. KENTA

4. Samoa Joe

5. Naomichi Marufuji

6. AJ Styles

7. Takeshi Morishima

8. Christopher Daniels

9. Yugi Nagata

10. Rey Mysterio

11. CIMA

12. Low Ki

13. Homicide

14. Shiji Kondo

15. Kurt Angle

16. Takarshi Sagiura

17. Satoshi Kojima

18. Hiroshi Tanahashi

19. Chris Benoit

20. Randy Orton

21. Austin Aries

22. Rob Van Dam

23. Shawn Michaels

24. Nigel McGuinness

25. Finlay

26. Katsuhiko Nakajima

27. Kenta Kobashi

28. Koji Kanemoto

29. Kensuke Sasaki

30. Roderick Strong

31. Jun Akiyama

32. Davey Richards

33. Jay Briscoe

34. Chris Sabin

35. Mark Briscoe

36. Triple H

37. King Bookah

38. Petey Williams

39. Abyss

40. Rhino

41. Brian Kendrick

42. Hiroyoshi Tenzan

43. Paul London

44. CM Punk

45. The Undertaker

46. Matt Sydal

47. Matt Hardy

48. Johnny Nitro

49. Gregory Helms

50. Pac

 

 

Cena is a glaring omission. And show should have made the list as well.

[PLAGIARISM!]

Rey's a tad high as well, that's the first thing that strikes me about it.

[Wyld Cannon]

This list is too smarky to have Cena on it.

 

An even more glaring omission I think would be Minoru Suzuki.

 

Haha TAKARSHI Saguira. Reminds me of Tie-jiri.

[razazteca]

The wrestling network doesn't get lucha libre where is Mistico, Dr. Wagner, Atlantis?

[billdynamite]

Powerslam is a good mag. These boys know their stuff.

[Atticus Chaos]

RVD's way too high. He had one memorable match (with Cena) all year.

[Guest Untitled]

Its a damn shame that Bryan Danielson has been working with good to great wrestlers this year. If he had to carry some of the crap Edge has had to carry, he'd be 1st without a shadow of a doubt.

[cabbageboy]

Actually I thought RVD was way too low. Hell, he flat out HAS to be higher than Rey given that he kicked his ass head to head and Rey also got beat down way too many times in non title matches. No offense to Austin Aries, but the dude is mainly known as being Kevin Nash's lackey. RVD held 2 world titles this year, won an IC title, won a Money in the Bank match, etc.

 

He also had a clean PPV win over the guy ranked #1.

[CanadianChick]

Cabbage, it's a workrate list, not a kayfabe ranking list. If it was, don't you think Cena would definately be on there?

[Atticus Chaos]

Actually I thought RVD was way too low. Hell, he flat out HAS to be higher than Rey given that he kicked his ass head to head and Rey also got beat down way too many times in non title matches. No offense to Austin Aries, but the dude is mainly known as being Kevin Nash's lackey. RVD held 2 world titles this year, won an IC title, won a Money in the Bank match, etc.

 

He also had a clean PPV win over the guy ranked #1.

 

 

It's not about how many titles you hold or matches you win. It's in ring performances that count. RVD's had one or two good matches but the rest has been fairly meh...

[Jericho2000Mark]

In what universe is Edge a better worker than Danielson, Morishima, KENTA, Benoit, Angle and Marufuji??

[cabbageboy]

Edge being #1 on the list indicates to me that this is NOT purely a workrate list, since there are certainly better actual technical wrestlers than him. It's just that he finally broke through and won the title this year.

 

Lists like this are really stupid as hell, frankly dumber than the PWI kayfabe lists. At least with those they go on what kind of year the guy actually had, mixed in with some note on the wrestler's actual ability.

 

And by the way, here are the good-very good matches I can think of from RVD this year:

 

vs. Carlito on Raw

vs. Big Show and HHH (#1 contender)

MITB from WM

vs. Shelton (Backlash, IC vs. MITB)

vs. Cena (ONS, WWE title)

vs. Edge (WWE, Vengeance)

vs. Cena (Raw, WWE title, DQ)

vs. Edge and Cena (lost WWE title)

 

From ECW TV:

 

RVD/Angle vs. Edge/Orton

RVD vs. Angle (WWE/ECW title)

RVD and Sabu vs. Test and Mike Knox, ECW rules

RVD vs. Hardcore Holly, ECW rules (Holly injury)

RVD vs. Test, ECW rules

 

Those are the ones I thought up off the top of my head, and it's certainly more than just a couple of good matches.

[The Niggardly King]

This list is bad even from a workrate perspective. PETEY WILLIAMS? SHAWN MICHAELS? RVD AT 22? KURT ANGLE AT 15? JOHN CENA NOT EVEN ON THE LIST?

[razazteca]

Sober/Oxycontin fiend Jeff Hardy > Johnny Nitro.