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 April 13 episode of Monday Night Raw, Tuesday’s Impact & AEW Dark, Dynamite & NXT from Weds., April 15, SmackDown on Friday, this week’s MLW Fusion & ROH TV, and any other televised or internet streaming wrestling that aired from April 10 - 18, 2020.
Make YOUR mark, smarks!
I still think y’all sold Candice short, though...
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- Weds., April 8 made up half the list, including both NXT’s winners in our top two spots.
- They were followed by the new #1 contender for the Universal title (and pre-season prediction to win our ninth year), and the new WWE champ.
- A bloody brawl in the AEW Women’s division followed, one leading lady from Raw & one from SmackDown fell in the back half of the weekly ten.
- Mixed in there was a guy who made the most of some rare television minutes on the ‘Mania fallout show, and Dynamite regular who won the first TNT Title Tournament match.
The S3: 2020 - 21, Week 1
1. Johnny Gargano
2. Io Shirai
3. Bray Wyatt
4. Drew McIntyre
5. (tie) Britt Baker
5. (tie) Hikaru Shida
7. Sasha Banks
8. Apollo Crews
9. (tie) Asuka
9. (tie) Cody Rhodes
Points in our weekly Standings determine our annual list - full details on rules and scoring HERE.
Being week one, the year-to-date S3 is identical to what you see above. But as we get farther away from WrestleMania 36, and closer to 37, the Year Nine Top Ten will be posted in this space every Sunday (and, roughly quarterly, a complete Standings featuring everyone who’s earned annual points).
We’re gonna give you the usual link rundown, even though several of these aren’t doing anything right now... Raw, SmackDown, NXT, AEW, New Japan, Impact, ROH, the world of lucha libre, MLW, the NWA, or the the indies. You consider what you watched from the companies who are still plugging away, and tell us whose work you dug the most by click or comment below.
The rest is up to us. We’ll do it and see you back here next Sunday.
Poll
Which performer had the best week, April 12 - 18?
This poll is closed
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5%
Drew McIntyre
(26 votes) -
0%
Andrade
(4 votes) -
3%
Zelina Vega
(16 votes) -
18%
Asuka
(83 votes) -
1%
Aleister Black
(5 votes) -
4%
Becky Lynch
(20 votes) -
0%
Shayna Baszler
(3 votes) -
0%
Austin Theory
(1 vote) -
0%
Angel Garza
(1 vote) -
0%
Nia Jax
(1 vote) -
0%
Charlotte Flair
(0 votes) -
0%
Bobby Lashley
(2 votes) -
2%
Seth Rollins
(12 votes) -
0%
Erik
(0 votes) -
0%
Ivar
(0 votes) -
2%
Finn Bálor
(11 votes) -
0%
Xia Li
(0 votes) -
0%
Akira Tozawa
(1 vote) -
0%
Tegan Nox
(3 votes) -
0%
Shotzi Blackheart
(3 votes) -
0%
Keith Lee
(0 votes) -
0%
Dexter Lumis
(3 votes) -
0%
Adam Cole
(0 votes) -
0%
Velveteen Dream
(3 votes) -
0%
Matt Riddle
(1 vote) -
2%
Timothy Thatcher
(10 votes) -
2%
Lance Archer
(9 votes) -
1%
Britt Baker
(5 votes) -
0%
Sammy Guevara
(2 votes) -
0%
Darby Allin
(0 votes) -
0%
Kip Sabian
(0 votes) -
0%
Orange Cassidy
(4 votes) -
0%
JimmY Havoc
(0 votes) -
0%
Shawn Spears
(0 votes) -
6%
Jon Moxley
(30 votes) -
0%
Nikki Cross
(2 votes) -
0%
Alexa Bliss
(4 votes) -
0%
Braun Strowman
(2 votes) -
5%
Bray Wyatt
(25 votes) -
1%
Sasha Banks
(5 votes) -
2%
Tamina
(13 votes) -
0%
Sheamus
(0 votes) -
0%
Jeff Hardy
(1 vote) -
0%
Dana Brooke
(4 votes) -
15%
Sonya Deville
(66 votes) -
0%
Mandy Rose
(2 votes) -
0%
Dolph Ziggler
(1 vote) -
2%
Otis
(11 votes) -
1%
Daniel Bryan
(5 votes) -
0%
Baron Corbin
(1 vote) -
8%
Big E
(37 votes)