Look Back in Anger: The Women's Wrestling Power Rankings (and a Cody Hot Take).

 *This blog post was started on February 22, 2022.

It is tough to come up with a good excuse for not having posted anything beyond "NinetyForChill: The #Podcast" in the past 20 days. I have had a Tuesday or Wednesday off the past three weeks from my soon to become full-time job, so I can claim that these were the ideal times to run errands. Still, these days off did not seem overly productive when it comes to the long term consequences. Until there was a job offer from my current employer, 2022 just felt like it was to be a rough year.

Things maybe changing. The deep hurting that I experienced watching "Foodfight!" came before I finally got to accept my job offer. My federal tax return has arrived, so I should be able to navigate my finances for the next few months. And it seems that I have the freedom to finally say that Marine Bank is responsible for the uncaring (and at least in one case, selfish) managers who came up with a bullshit reason to leave me panicking for nearly two months.

The bank can blame IDES for ignoring my appeal. If the state does not want to pursue the $604 the bank should have coughed up, I am hoping to bury its reputation. Of course, they may have the last laugh. It seems my retirement plan which was a lesser one than what Super Pantry provided me in 2009 needs a notary to be rolled over to my preferred bank. I only know one institution with free notary services, and they are the assholes who fucked me over for telling them to treat their staff better.

Too bad I cannot come up with a song title from the 1980's to state that feeling. I am too proud to be "Living on a Prayer" and I will not imply mastery of puppets for the Springfield-based profiteers I spoke of. "Janie Got a Gun" seems a little problematic. "Scary Monsters" could empower the awful salaried workers at their Champaign branches, but I think I have a Bowie title from that era to use.

And since I do not see these rankings below changing much from "For the Ladies: True Crime and Britt Baker", perhaps I should be upset.

The Disgruntled's Women's Wrestling Power Ranking (2/22/2022):

I guess this is just a testament to why there is only a sixth of women's wrestling content on televised professional wrestling. There have been four primary men's championship changes (Hangman > Omega; Lesnar > Big E; Lashley > Lesnar; Lesnar > Lashley) since these top three performers have won their championships. It is either there are too few women's wrestlers to make things interesting or the lack of depth is beyond apparent. You are going to get my best effort to make this appear interesting, but I think we have six more weeks of a static scene.

The Number One Women's Wrestler in the World:
Dr. Britt Baker D.M.D.

• She is the current Disgruntled's Women's Real World Champion.
• She is the current AEW Women's World Champion.
• She is the only current Western, televised wrestling women's champion with a secondary title holder beneath her further cementing her importance.
• I do not see AEW allowing her to be defeated at this point in her current feud with Thunder Rosa.

The Number Two Women's Wrestler in the World:
Becky Lynch

• She is the current Smackdown Women's Champion (A belt that has been recognized as the Real World Championship).
• She will be challenged by Bianca Belair, the only other woman to win a WrestleMania main event.
• She has actually defended her championship at the last two WWE premium live events.

The Number Three Women's Wrestler in the World:
Charlotte Flair

• She is the current Raw Women's Champion (A belt that has been recognized as the Real World Championship).
• She will be challenged at WrestleMania by the number one celebrity in women's wrestling, Rhonda Rousey.
• She will probably headline a night at WrestleMania despite not deserving to.

The Number Four Women's Wrestler in the World:
Kamille

• She his the current NWA Women's World Champion (A recognized world title by DRCW).

• The NWA Women's World Championship was being used as a secondary title briefly in AEW, hence it cannot outrank a primary championship.

• She is by far the most imposing of all Women's Champions at this time.

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The Number Five Women's Wrestler in the World:
Syuri (Debut)

• She defeated Utami Hayashishita to win the World of Stardom Championship (A belt recognized as the Real World Championship) in a Winner-Take-All Bout (Syuri defended and retained the SWA World Championship).
• She was one of the first women to compete at NJPW's Wrestle Kingdom (15).

The Number Six Women's Wrestler in the World:
Zoey Skye

• She is the current Shimmer Champion (A recognized world title by DRCW).
• Impact did their best to protect the previous champion, Kimber Lee, by putting her in tag team matches and as the second to their Women's Champion.
• She currently lacks a Wikipedia page. This may mean that she will be the next big thing, but it will be a while before we can prove that.

The Number Seven Women's Wrestler in the World:
Bianca Belair (Debut)

• She had won the Elimination Chamber to challenge Becky Lynch for the Raw omen's Championship.
• Her story can only be satisfying with a title win at WrestleMania after Lynch stole her Smackdown title at Summer Slam.

The Number Eight Women's Wrestler in the World:
Thunder Rosa (Debut)

• She had defeated AEW Women's World Champion in a lights out match.
• She seems lined up to defeat Baker for the the AEW Championship, but I do not see that happening until after Revolution 2022.

The Number Nine Women's Wrestler in the World:
Rhonda Rousey (Debut)

• She is a former Strikeforce and UFC Bantamweight Champion (which was created to avoid her facing Cyborg Santos).
• She won the Royal Rumble to earn a shot at WrestleMania.
• I could see her failing to defeat Flair at Mania and be a strictly part-time competitor.
• If Lynch retains at Mania, I can see Rousey winning to set up the unification at Summer Slam.

The Number 10 Women's Wrestler in the World:
Mickie James

• The current Impact Knockouts Champion.
• Multiple time WWE Women's and former Diva's Champion.
• Impact has the greater exposure, so it places their championship ahead of America's first secondary championship, the Heart of Shimmer.
• James brought the championship more exposure by participating in the Women's Royal Rumble.

I guess if there is any thing that may upset wrestling fans is the lack of Jade Cargill in the rankings. She maybe 27-0 and the first TBS Champion, but she is a manufactured sports entertainer, not a wrestler. This is the influence that Cody Rhodes had on the AEW Women's Division. It is kind of fitting to see that he was never an indie star, just Matt Cardona before the former Zack Ryder became the Deathmatch King.