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Don’t look now, but AJ Styles is back

Everybody who comes to Cageside Seats has an opinion about what's going on in pro wrestling - The Smark's Shoot Standings (S3) are where YOU let us know YOURS.

Cast a vote in the comments. Give us the four performers you think entertained or impressed the most in the last week, and feel free to talk about why. And/or vote for your top performer in our poll.

We also have the outcome of last week's voting, the results of which make up our annual competition for Performer of the Year.

Remember, the Standings are for the previous week's nationally televised and internet streaming pro wrestling shows - the Nov. 13 episode of Monday Night Raw, Tuesday's SmackDown and 205 Live, NXT from Wednesday, Thursday's Impact Wrestling, ROH TV #321, and any other internet streaming wrestling that aired from Nov. 12 - 18, 2017.

Make YOUR mark, smarks!

Hey, we remember this guy from running away with The S3 last year...

  • A Phenomenal new WWE champ led the way from the UK.
  • Coming in right behind him from the night before, The Bruiserweight shut up The Certifed G is and The Boss found her way onto the Survivor Series team by tapping out the captain.
  • He might have been denied a spot on Team Blue, but The Handsome One elated you with his reaction to the setback. Meanwhile, the Lasskicker finally dealt with something that’s been bothering her all year.
  • Couple of hosses stole the show for RevPro, and a Golden Lover took the former Ace to the limit in one of those big men’s home promotion.
  • Neither of them picked up pinfall or submission wins, but The Monster and The Demon earned your votes in Manchester.

The S3: 2017 - 18, Week 32

1. AJ Styles
2. Pete Dunne
3. Sasha Banks
4. Rusev
5. Becky Lynch
6. Keith Lee
7. Tomohiro Ishii
8. Finn Bálor
9. Kota Ibushi
10. Braun Strowman

Points in our weekly Standings determine our annual list - full details on rules and scoring HERE.

If anyone can mess around and win a bunch of weeks to come from nowhere to make this thing interesting, it would be AJ wearing a major title. This is also where I confess to somehow fudging up sorting my spreadsheet again and missing Miz’s re-entry into the yearly top ten with his sixth place finish a week ago.

The S3 Performer of the Year - through the Week Ending Nov. 11

1. Roman Reigns - 130.5
2. Braun Strowman - 97.5
3. Sasha Banks - 90.5
4. (tie) Fandango - 60
4. (tie) Kevin Owens - 60
6. (tie) Tyler Breeze - 50.5
6. (tie) Samoa Joe - 50.5
8. AJ Styles - 50
9. Dean Ambrose - 44
10. Miz - 43.5


It’s already been a crazy weekend, and there’s still six-plus hours of wrestling tonight. Think back on what you loved from Raw, Smackdown, 205 Live, NXT, Impact, TakeOver: WarGames and the rest of what the internet and streaming world had to offer - then tell us all about via any of the means below.

We’ll do the rest and see you back here next Sunday.

Poll

Which performer had the best week, Nov. 12 - 18?

This poll is closed

  • 0%
    Stephanie McMahon
    (3 votes)
  • 1%
    Dean Ambrose
    (5 votes)
  • 2%
    Seth Rollins
    (9 votes)
  • 6%
    Roman Reigns
    (27 votes)
  • 0%
    Bayley
    (3 votes)
  • 1%
    Drew Gulak
    (5 votes)
  • 0%
    Enzo Amore
    (2 votes)
  • 0%
    Kurt Angle
    (3 votes)
  • 6%
    Braun Strowman
    (25 votes)
  • 0%
    Jason Jordan
    (1 vote)
  • 0%
    Bray Wyatt
    (1 vote)
  • 0%
    Brock Lesnar
    (3 votes)
  • 0%
    Paul Heyman
    (2 votes)
  • 0%
    The Miz
    (3 votes)
  • 0%
    Cesaro
    (0 votes)
  • 0%
    Sheamus
    (0 votes)
  • 1%
    Kurt Angle
    (4 votes)
  • 2%
    Triple H
    (8 votes)
  • 0%
    Finn Bálor
    (3 votes)
  • 1%
    Samoa Joe
    (4 votes)
  • 0%
    Shane McMahon
    (1 vote)
  • 0%
    Big E
    (1 vote)
  • 0%
    Kofi Kingston
    (1 vote)
  • 0%
    Xavier Woods
    (0 votes)
  • 0%
    Daniel Bryan
    (1 vote)
  • 35%
    AJ Styles
    (138 votes)
  • 0%
    Baron Corbin
    (3 votes)
  • 9%
    Charlotte Flair
    (35 votes)
  • 0%
    Natalya
    (0 votes)
  • 0%
    Jimmy Uso
    (0 votes)
  • 0%
    Jey Uso
    (0 votes)
  • 0%
    Kevin Owens
    (2 votes)
  • 0%
    Sami Zayn
    (0 votes)
  • 0%
    Dezmond Xavier
    (0 votes)
  • 0%
    Garza Jr.
    (0 votes)
  • 0%
    Sonjay Dutt
    (0 votes)
  • 0%
    EC3
    (0 votes)
  • 0%
    Ortiz
    (0 votes)
  • 0%
    Santana
    (0 votes)
  • 0%
    Homicide
    (0 votes)
  • 0%
    James Storm
    (2 votes)
  • 1%
    Gail Kim
    (4 votes)
  • 0%
    Petey Williams
    (1 vote)
  • 0%
    Eli Drake
    (0 votes)
  • 0%
    Lars Sullivan
    (0 votes)
  • 2%
    Aleister Black
    (10 votes)
  • 7%
    Velveteen Dream
    (28 votes)
  • 0%
    Ember Moon
    (3 votes)
  • 0%
    Kairi Sane
    (1 vote)
  • 0%
    Peyton Royce
    (1 vote)
  • 0%
    Nikki Cross
    (0 votes)
  • 3%
    Andrade "Cien" Almas
    (15 votes)
  • 0%
    Zelina Vega
    (1 vote)
  • 0%
    Drew McIntyre
    (0 votes)
  • 3%
    Adam Cole
    (12 votes)
  • 0%
    Bobby Fish
    (1 vote)
  • 0%
    Kyle O’Reilly
    (0 votes)
  • 0%
    Akam
    (1 vote)
  • 0%
    Rezar
    (1 vote)
  • 0%
    Roderick Strong
    (0 votes)
  • 0%
    Eric Young
    (0 votes)
  • 1%
    Killian Dain
    (5 votes)
  • 1%
    Alexander Wolfe
    (7 votes)
386 votes total Vote Now

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