Dropping from the poll this week: John Cena (10), Beer Money (8)

Wrestler	Rank	Last Week	Trending
Cody Rhodes	10	–

Rhodes gets the nod this week for a terrific promo that he cut on Smackdown this past Friday. I was not initially a fan of the “Dashing” gimmick he is currently using, but I have grown to accept it as a funny, annoying mid-card heel gimmick. Rhodes has sat in limbo with the gimmick for the past few months now, and he is deserving of a push due to his in-ring work. This past week’s promo had him put on a more serious act on, claiming that the impact of Rey Mysterio’s 619 from the previous week broke his nose and stole his Royal Rumble opportunity away. He really sold the importance of the Rumble and how it pertains to headlining Wrestlemania, and the “injury” appears to have brought a more dramatic and darker edge to Rhodes’s character. I personally am all for it; a feud with Mysterio could help elevate Rhodes from silly mid-card gimmick to main eventer, something that Smackdown could probably use.

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Dropping out of this week’s poll: Kazarian (10), Motor City Machine Guns (7), Kofi Kingston (4)

Wrestler	Rank	Last Week	Trending
John Cena	10	–

Cena only gets the nod here for having put on an excellent TV main event match against CM Punk on this past Monday’s edition of Raw. The match was exactly the sort of interesting spectacle fans could expect to see from a solid (if limited) worker in Cena and one of the best wrestlers in the business in Punk. It was good to see Cena putting over Punk’s offense in the match, particularly near the tail end of the match with Punk’s submission maneuver appearing to come close to taking the win. It was also good to see that neither Cena nor Punk delivered their respective finishers, which leaves just enough intrigue in the feud for fans to want to see another match between the two. Cena’s subsequent beating at the hands of the newest member of Nexus, FCW Champion Mason Ryan, was sold decently, and the DQ finish was appropriate in order to keep the feud alive. Despite the fact that the Cena/Nexus angle seems way overplayed, they have kept just enough interest in it for the next week.

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