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NOTE: I didn’t vote this week, and our friend Jason who compiles and sends out the Power Poll was unable to provide comments this week.  So, here’s the poll!

Power Poll 9/8/10

The ever popular Randy Orton took the top spot by a wide margin this week in the poll, while WWE champion Sheamus fell out of the poll thanks to becoming more of an afterthought. Life just isn’t fair sometimes.

1. Randy Orton

2. Kane

3. Alberto Del Rio

4. John Cena

5. Kurt Angle

6. Daniel Bryan

7. Kaval

8. Jeff Hardy

9. The Miz

10. Chris Jericho

The Power Poll is a weekly top 10 ranking of wrestlers as voted by members of these sites: BoredWrestlingFan.com, Hit the Ropes,NoVaWPodcast, Oh My WrestleBlog. Online World of Wrestling, PIZZABODYSLAM, Pro Wrestling Ponderings, Project Wonderboy,Ringside Rants, The Superplex, The Wrestling Blog, WrestlingAdikt.com, WrestleRage.com and Wrestlespective. If you have a wrestling site and are interested in becoming a voter, e-mail wrestlespective (at) gmail.com.

ThinkSoJoE note: I didn’t vote on this week’s poll – I haven’t really watched much wrestling over the past week and therefore haven’t really felt qualified to do so.  Nonetheless, here’s this week’s Power Poll results!

Power Poll 8/25/10: The song remains the same

1. John Cena (1)

2. Randy Orton (3)

3. Sheamus (6)

4. Kane (2)

5. The Miz (4)

6. Chris Jericho (NR)

7. Alberto Del Rio (NR)

8. Edge (NR)

9. Kurt Angle (NR)

10. Wade Barrett (8)

The Power Poll is a weekly top 10 ranking of wrestlers as voted by members of these sites: BoredWrestlingFan.com, Hit the Ropes,NoVaWPodcast, Oh My WrestleBlog. Online World of Wrestling, PIZZABODYSLAM, Pro Wrestling Ponderings, Project Wonderboy,Ringside Rants, The Superplex, The Wrestling Blog, WrestlingAdikt.com, WrestleRage.com and Wrestlespective. If you have a wrestling site and are interested in becoming a voter, e-mail wrestlespective (at) gmail.com.

As we all go on with our lives, we take a look back and reflect on the past and contemplate the future.  For some of us, it’s all about the here and now or something.  So right here is the time, right now is the time and this is my article for the week:

So, the burning question on the minds of the WWE Universe has to be, “Who is the new anonymous RAW General Manager?”  I think I’ve got the answer.  That answer, my friends, is Bryan Danielson.

If you think about it, that makes perfect sense.  It subtly answers questions I’ve had about the whole NXT invasion angle and ties up a few loose ends nicely.

“But, Bryan Danielson is working the indies again” you say.  Remember when Matt Hardy was fired from WWE over the whole Edge and Lita thing?  Matt came back to WWE and they let him promote the ROH show he was still booked for.  During NXT, they promoted the hell out of the fact that Danielson had been an indy wrestling star before coming to WWE.  He gets “fired,” he’s back on the indy scene, and most people take that to mean that he’s really been fired by WWE.

A few people may have put as much thought into the Bryan Danielson theory as I have and realized that it makes perfect sense.  The biggest clue became obvious to me earlier tonight:  Michael Cole.  A lot of you know that I spend most Monday and Tuesday nights running our twitter account, @BrdWrstlngFn.  Earlier I got to thinking how odd it was that there was a storyline brewing with Michael Cole hating the internet, but now he’s in charge of reading the e-mails from the RAW General Manager.  That’s when it hit me.

Much was made of the fact that Danielson was an indy star who reached fame on the internet.  Michael Cole used to blast him every week on NXT for it.  Suddenly, Danielson is gone from the company with conflicting reports about why he was fired, Bret Hart conveniently has issues with his insurance company after an angle the following week, then suddenly, there’s an anonymous General Manager who will only communicate with Michael Cole, who supposedly hates the internet, via e-mail.  Running with that idea, don’t you think that if the Nexus wanted to get to Michael Cole, they would have by now?

Two weeks after Danielson gets “fired,” Mr. McMahon is on RAW, proclaiming that there is a new General Manager, who promptly books Mr. McMahon as an outside official for the main event between John Cena and Sheamus.  The NXT guys run off the participants, and Mr. McMahon announces that he was the one behind the NXT attacks.  The Nexus turn their attention to the Chairman, leading one to believe that there was somebody else behind the attack on Mr. McMahon.  Perhaps as a sign of good faith, Mr. McMahon gave the GM job to Danielson, who used that position to put McMahon in a situation where his associates could attack him, payback for “firing” him from the WWE.

This is just a hypothesis, an educated guess as to who it could be.  I could be completely wrong, and it’s highly likely that I am, but thinking about it this way gives it a certain air of plausibility, does it not?

The Power Poll is a weekly top 10 list ranking men’s singles wrestlers in WWE and TNA. Please take some time to check out the websites of our participants. If you write for a wrestling website and are interested in participating, e-mail wrestlespective(at)gmail.com and include a link to your site.

1. John Cena (Previous Rank: 1)
2. Rob Van Dam (2)
3. Kurt Angle (NR)
4. Rey Mysterio (5)
5. Randy Orton (NR)
6. Big Show (6)
7. Jack Swagger (3)
8. Bryan Danielson (NR)
9. C.M. Punk (NR)
10. Kane (9)

Dropped out: Wade Barrett (4), Edge (7), Kofi Kingston (8), Jeff Hardy (9)

Also receiving votes: Wade Barrett, The Miz, Evan Bourne, Frankie Kazarian, Jay Lethal, Hernandez, Mr. Anderson, Kofi Kingston, Sheamus, Edge, Doug Williams

Participating sites: BoredWrestlingFan.com, Online World of Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Ponderings, Project Wonderboy, Ringside Rants, WrestleRage.com, Wrestlespective

BoredWrestlingFan.com has joined with other wrestling websites to form the Power Poll, a weekly top 10 list ranking men’s singles wrestlers in WWE and TNA. There are more wrestling writers expected to join the poll, and take some time to check out the websites of our participants. If you write for a wrestling website and are interested in participating, e-mail wrestlespective(at)gmail.com and include a link to your site.

1. John Cena
2. Rob Van Dam
3. Jack Swagger
4. Wade Barrett
5. Rey Mysterio
6. Big Show
7. Edge
8. Kofi Kingston
9. Kane
10. Jeff Hardy
Also receiving votes: C.M. Punk, Sheamus, Jay Lethal, Mr. Anderson, Sting, Kurt Angle, Randy Orton, The Miz, R-Truth, Ric Flair

Voters: Jerome Cusson (Pro Wrestling Ponderings), ThinkSoJoE (BoredWrestlingFan.com), Seth Roy (Wrestlespective), Jason Mann (Wrestlespective), Josh Hachat (Wrestlespective)