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Ronda Rousey Tops PWI Women’s 100 List, Top Ten Revealed
Back in August, PWI released its annual ‘PWI 500’ list, naming the top 500 professional wrestlers of the past year which was topped by reigning IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kenny Omega for the first time.
Now, Pro Wrestling Illusatrated’s annual ‘Female 50’ has been rebranded the ‘Women’s 100’ and revealed today with current RAW Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey topping the list.
Following Asuka taking the top spot last year, Rousey slides in at number one this year after debuting at WrestleMania alongside Kurt Angle against Stephanie McMahon and Triple H. Of course, Ronda is undefeated thus far in her WWE tenure and became the RAW Women’s Champion back at SummerSlam. The top ten has also been revealed and has created some issues for a lot of members of the WWE Universe, as the current SmackDown Women’s Champion and Rousey’s Survivor Series opponent, Becky Lynch, did not crack the top ten:
- Ronda Rousey
- Alexa Bliss
- Charlotte Flair
- Io Shirai
- Asuka
- Shayna Baszler
- Carmella
- Nia Jax
- Mayu Iwatani
- Kairi Sane
It should also be noted that the evaluation period for the PWI Women’s 100 is from October 1st, 2017 to September 30th, 2018.
EA’s Take: People can be as mad as they want, but Becky doesn’t deserve to be in the top ten given the evaluation period. Someone please tell me what exactly she has done before SummerSlam? Absolutely nothing and fans can blame it on booking or whatever they want to, but the fact is that Becky was bland before she turned on Charlotte. Sorry, not sorry. Therefore, just wait until next year’s list before going off on some tangent about Becky “getting screwed over”. Eleven of the twelve months used for evaluation for the list saw her doing nil.
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Did your picks win points?
The AEW Continental Classic is underway, with almost everyone competing. Check in here if you haven’t seen the winners and losers of week 1!
Here are your Gold League standings!
- Jon Moxley: 1-0, 3 points
- Swerve Strickland: 1-0, 3 points
- Jay White: 1-0, 3 points
- Rush: 0-1, 0 points
- Mark Briscoe: 0-1, 0 points.
- Jay Lethal: 0-1, 0 points
Here are your Blue League standings!
- Brody King: 1-0, 3 points
- Claudio Castagnoli: 1-0, 3 points
- Daniel Garcia: 0-1, 0 points
- Eddie Kingston: 0-1, 0 points
- Bryan Danielson: Yet to Compete
- Andrade El Idolo: Yet to Compete
My Thoughts:
Nothing too crazy, nothing too wild, this tournament only just got started. The only disappointing point is that they could not get Bryan “cleared to compete” Saturday night. Not sure how much of that is shoot given the bad eye, but this was kinda the problem of wanting him in the tournament over tons of other choices. Bryan wants to face Okada for WrestleKingdom 18, how is Bryan supposed to do that at his best if he’s also gonna be in a round robin, doing five top level matches in about as many weeks? And it takes away from Andrade being able to do something. Also a little surprised we didn’t even hear from Andrade on Saturday.
Now as we heard on Saturday, round two’s matches are set. Gold League will see Mark Briscoe VS Rush, White VS Swerve, and of course, Moxley VS Lethal. Nice variety there, a couple 0-1 guys facing off, as well as two 1-0 guys, and then 1-0 VS 0-1. No offense to Lethal, but he feels like an 0-2 going up against Moxley. Hard to call the other ones but that’s the fun of it. Meanwhile, Blue League sees Brody VS Claudio in a showdown to be 2-0, then Bryan and Andrade finally jump in, Bryan against Eddie and Andrade against Garcia. Sadly, feels like Eddie and Garcia are going 0-2, no way Tony Khan is booking Bryan and Andrade to lose their first shots.
In fact, that could be half the reason they did wait on those two, that’s almost too good for just a first round opener. But I still would’ve done it, same as NJPW does stuff like that for round robins, which this is all modeled after anyway.
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Tony Khan Reveals the Blue and Gold “Leagues!”
Originally livestreamed, Tony Khan and Tony Schiavone officially announced the twelve total entrants and divided them into the two round robin blocks known as the “Blue League” and “Gold League.” If you don’t feel like sifting through the almost 30 minute video, the groups are:
Blue League
- Bryan Danielson
- Andrade El Idolo
- Brody King
- Claudio Castagnoli
- Daniel Garcia
- Eddie Kingston
Gold League
- Jon Moxley
- Swerve Strickland
- Rush
- Mark Briscoe
- Jay Lethal
- Jay White
Tony Khan also explains the rules for the Continental Classic:
- Every match has a 20 minute time limit
- The winner of each match earns 3 points, losers earn 0, 1 point for a draw
- EVERYONE ELSE is banned from ringside for true 1v1 action
Eddie Kingston also joined the selection special as his “life’s work” is on the line in this tournament, both the ROH World Championship and NJPW Strong Openweight Championship on the line as part of the modern day North American Triple Crown Eddie, Tony Khan, AEW, ROH and NJPW are looking to create together. Gold League competes tonight on Dynamite while Blue League will have their start this Saturday on Collision. Look for more articles like this one to keep up with the Continental Classic standings over the next six weeks of tournament action!
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