Winner, and NEW Cageside Seats Performer of the Year…

For 52 Sundays (plus one Saturday earlier than and one Monday after WrestleMania 37), Cageside Seats requested you to inform us about your favourite performances in professional wrestling. In document numbers, you Cagesiders answered the decision.

Girls and germs, smarks and casuals, here is the total, last, official S3 for 2020 – 2021:

Want I had time to do some fancy graphs like I used to again within the early days of this factor – if anybody needs to take a stab at evaluation, let me know and I can share the total spreadsheet I exploit to maintain observe of it week-to-week.

Even with out these, listed below are some fast ideas as we shut the e book on our ninth 12 months…

11 on down

• It was 12 months not like some other, as everyone knows. However I’m unsure that had an impression on the Standings. The businesses whose expertise will get most of our votes stored placing on reveals.
• 21 extra performers earned Performer of the Yr factors in Yr 9 than did in Yr Ten, so regardless of the pandemic, a full 12 months of Dynamite appeared to create extra alternatives.
• I don’t code the Standings by firm (however perhaps I ought to… I do love giving myself extra work!), so I can’t say what the chances of AEW vs. WWE or predominant roster vs. NXT are. However glancing excessive 50 or so, I believe the 2 Wednesday night time reveals break up our vote the way in which they might have been splitting scores. Spots that was once all NXT are actually a mixture of AEW and NXT as an alternative. Will that change this 12 months with their reveals on completely different nights? Or will tribalism persist?
• Yearly, there’s somebody who has an early run which retains them within the high ten a lot of the 12 months, however whose push fades they usually find yourself not getting lots of votes later. Name it the Damien Sandow Award. Sonya Deville and Drake Maverick most likely qualify this 12 months.
• Personally, considered one of my favourite issues about that is the bizarre, coincidental (?) ties which both make good or no sense. This 12 months, signal me the f up for a season of Blended Match Problem that includes the pair tied at 20, any mixture of the trio sitting in 68th, and the primary 4 identify within the logjam at 79.

10 – Cesaro
9 – Kevin Owens

Swiss was a staple of the early years of our little train whose fallen off recently. KO’s a former Performer of the Yr who’d been up and down ever since. Good to see them each get some significant work on Friday nights, and incomes you votes by benefiting from it.

8 – Kenny Omega

AEW will get two spots within the Prime Ten this time, which is a primary. Omega benefited from a couple of issues, together with his work with one other promotion. Being essentially the most distinguished man going via the Forbidden Door might be a giant motive why he’s right here, however it’s not the one one.

7 -Drew McIntyre

The person who began the 12 months as WWE champion was a daily presence within the weekly Standings, however solely often completed close to the highest of them. If I needed to guess, that was extra of an element of the standard of the present he was on, and the feuds it supplied him.

6 – Io Shirai
5 – Bayley
4 – Asuka

Three ladies who spent the majority of the final twelve months as their model’s champion, and completed inside 12 factors of one another within the Standings. There’s no disgrace in these spots – in any respect – however a couple of extra defenses for Io, slightly extra to do after her predominant occasion program wrapped up final fall for Bayley, and… the place to begin with Asuka? The very fact she’s within the Prime 5 contemplating the way in which she was forged as a supporting character for a lot of the 12 months is a testomony to her expertise, and the trouble she provides whatever the materials she’s given.

3 – Jon Moxley

Mox finishes third for the second 12 months in a row. Clearly, jetting throughout the Pacific wasn’t as large an element this 12 months, however he labored wherever he might at any time when he might. It’s a giant motive we love him.

2 – Roman Reigns

If Reigns was on our screens from April – August final 12 months he could be celebrating his second Performer of the Yr win. However his absence gave start to the Tribal Chief, and that gimmick is the rationale he got here as shut as he did to closing the hole on…

1 – Sasha Banks

That you must be on tv, however for those who have that spot, there are a number of methods to achieve the Standings, as a result of there are a number of kinds of wrestling followers You may have nice matches. You may have a dominant title reign, or be featured in an entertaining storyline. A devoted, passionate fanbase may also take you far. The Boss has at all times had the primary and final ones. This was the 12 months she obtained the opposite ones, too.

It made her our Performer of the Yr.

For enjoyable, use the ballot under to make a prediction as to the 2021-22 winner (I’ll additionally rating remark votes as standard if people need to submit these). Last year, you picked Bray Wyatt, and… YOWIE WOWIE!

Can The Fiend bounce again as a babyface (I believe that’s what he’s)? Might an AEW performer grow to be our first non-WWE winner? Will The Boss repeat, or is she off to reclaim Mandalore? Tell us what you assume!

Another questions, issues, screams or cries? Use the feedback for these, too!

See you on Sunday for Season Ten of The S3!