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The Weekly Brainbuster: Matt’s Power Rankings 12/21/19
Matt Davis crunches the numbers to provide your Power Rankings for the week! Does Rhea Ripley take the top spot with her title win?

Matt Davis crunches the numbers to provide your Power Rankings for the week! Does Rhea Ripley take the top spot with her title win?
Welcome to the eleventh edition of the Weekly Brainbuster Power Rankings! We are discussing the week of 12/13-12/19! We will be comparing WWE (RAW and SDL), NXT (205 Live, NXT, NXT UK), and AEW! Not much has changed in NJPW, so, the next NJPW update will be after WrestleKingdom in January.
These rankings are very much based on momentum as well as strength of opponent, weighing out “power rankings” based on head to head results. Each week, I will discuss five difference makers in wrestling and, using science, prove why they had the best week in wrestling! Greg DeMarco and I will compare our lists, giving you all two different types of power rankings!
1) NXT Women’s Champion Rhea Ripley +26 [146 Overall Score]
No doubt The Nightmare deserved this spot after dethroning the most dominant women’s champion in WWE/NXT history this past Wednesday night. Not only did she win the championship after a 14 month long reign, but, she did so and had what many regard as perhaps the first or second best women’s singles match in the company this year! Undeniably our number one entry. I expect to see her in the Rumble.
2) WWE Smackdown Tag Team Champions The New Day +19 [61 Overall Tag Score]
Great win at a major show over one of the best tag teams in wrestling, Kofi and Big E earned their spot here in the show stealing Ladder match that everyone has come to expect from this team and their opponents. I am really enjoying Kofi’s run with the tag titles here. Daniel Bryan had a very similar quality run as his time with the WWE Championship. Shelton Benjamin better get ready! (Points for anyone who gets that subtle reference)
3) Baron Corbin +24 [109 Overall Score]
The King has arrived in the WWE whether you like it or not. Corbin has been a very credible main event player in 2019, and he string of quality wins continued at TLC last Sunday against the Big Dog! Okay, so it wasn’t the cleanest of wins. And Roman speared Corbin to hell to end the show, but you always want to send the crowd happy. Corbin retired Angle, had a feud for the Universal Championship, won KOTR, and now has pinned the top wrestler in ELO ratings on Smackdown on a PPV. He has a rocket strapped to his back. Get ready for 2020.
Unfortunately, this article is an abbreviated version this week due to prepping for the holidays and other plans that have resulted in this being a short article on top of a day late!
We will return in January, as next week will be a special edition of The Brainbuster: The 2019 Year In Review!
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King’s WrestleMania Rewind: Charlotte Flair vs. Asuka from WrestleMania 34
Chris king is back with one of the most underrated matches in WrestleMania history–Charlotte Flair vs. Asuka!

Chris king is back with one of the most underrated matches in WrestleMania history–Charlotte Flair vs. Asuka!
We look back at Charlotte Flair vs. Asuka at WWE WrestleMania 34. ‘The Empress of Tomorrow’ put her unprecedented and historic undefeated streak of 914 days on the line against ‘The Queen’s’ SmackDown Women’s Championship.
For years, this was considered a dream match while Asuka dominated the roster in NXT, while Flair won numerous championships on the main roster on both Raw and SmackDown. The Empress made her long-awaited debut on the September 11th episode of Raw and began to tear through the competition.
Asuka outlasted all twenty-nine other women in the historic first-ever Women’s Royal Rumble match to challenge for the title of her choosing. At Fastlane, she made her choice.
The WWE Universe was so excited for this match myself included. Both superstars delivered a fantastic performance on the Grandest Stage of Them All executing counter after counter. Asuka showed off some nasty-looking kicks to her opponent, and Flair hit a thunderous Spanish Fly off the top rope. Flair was seconds away from defeat at the hands of The Empress but she locked in Figure Eight and Asuka was forced to tap out.
I can’t even begin to explain how shocked I was at this outcome, as nearly everyone expected The Empress to continue her undefeated streak and walk away with the women’s title. This controversial decision was the downfall of Asuka’s momentum. She would ultimately win the SmackDown Women’s Championship at the 2018 TLC pay-per-view in the triple-threat ladder match.
Fast forward to this year when Asuka has recently returned with her Japanese-inspired persona Kana. Kana is dangerous and ruthless and is heading into a championship with Bianca Belair at WrestleMania 39. The Empress has regained all her momentum and is highly favored to walk away with the Raw Women’s Championship. Let’s hope that Asuka and Belair can tear the house down and deliver an A+ grade match both women are fully capable of.
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King: Dominik Mysterio Needs To Do This At WrestleMania
Chris King is here with what WWE should do with Dominik Mysterio at WrestleMania in his long-awaited match against his father Rey Mysterio Jr.

Chris King is here with what WWE should do with Dominik Mysterio at WrestleMania in his long-awaited match against his father Rey Mysterio Jr.
On this week’s episode of Friday Night SmackDown, Rey Mysterio finally snapped and beat some sense into his disrespectful punk-ass kid Dominik. The member of the Judgement Day came out to push his father again for a match on the Grandest Stage of Them All, this time with his mother and sister at ringside. The ungrateful punk told his mom to “Shut Up,” as a father even I wanted to jump through the screen and whoop his ass.
Back in October of last year, Mysterio made the emotional decision to possibly quit the company but, instead, Triple H persuaded the Lucha libre superstar to move over to SmackDown to avoid his son. This came after Dominik shockingly turned on his father at Clash at the Castle. Mysterio did everything he could to refuse his despicable son’s challenge for Mania but, a man can only be pushed so far. Mysterio will be inducted into the 2023 WWE Hall of Fame and I expect Dominik to embarrass his father during his speech to further this personal feud.
Yes, the WWE Universe hates Dominik and wants to see him get the ever-loving crap kicked out of him but, this feud is missing a special ingredient to capitalize on the biggest heat possible. Throughout this feud, Dominik has made mention of the legendary Eddie Guerrero on several occasions going back to the “iconic” 2005 feud.
I know WWE might not want to go this route but, Dominik MUST come out to Eddie Guerrero’s theme at Mania. The disrespectful punk needs to come out in a lowrider to garner nuclear heat. It doesn’t matter if The Judgement Day comes out and causes interference for Dominik to get the win, all that matters is that both superstars get the biggest payoff of this nearly year-long feud. Just imagine the Roman Reigns heat after he defeated The Undertaker and multiply that by ten. Dominik portrays the perfect heel and he truly is the missing ingredient that The Judgement Day needed to grow and evolve into a top faction.
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