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As a fan I have always been naturally drawn to cheering for heels and booing faces, now maybe I have the WWE backwards but it just seems to me that heels are far more entertaining to watch, so I have decided to showcase the heels of the WWE in all their cheating and underhanded glory with this weekly heel report.

This week’s top ten:

1st Place: C.M. Punk

A close call for Punk’s title this week as he had to go up against the might of the menopausal woman that is the Undertaker. But this close call is part of what earns him the top spot in the chart as he was involved in another great Canadian screw job. Personal favourite Punk moment for this week was when he was just repeatedly shouting that the Smackdown crowd were nothing. (10/10 points)

2nd Place: Randy Orton

Losing his title does little to affect the Viper’s overall heel appeal and he still manages to claim second place on the chart. A great performance at Breaking Point despite the disappointing end to the match, it was his sacrificial lamb-like role on Raw that truly robs him of the full ten points. (9/10 points)

3rd Place: Dolph Ziggler

Number three is a great place to be for a guy who didn’t even get to wrestle at Breaking Point. The Pat Paterson stunt seemed to rile up the crowd nicely and only left me wondering why Ziggler and Morrison didn’t get to have a match in the end, how long will this build up last. (8/10 points)

4th Place: Chris Jericho

Another sacrificial lamb for the Animal, resoundingly beating two of the top heels in the company, now that’s what I call a return push, shame he will probably be injured again in another couple of weeks. Problem is I can’t remember the last time Jericho got a win on his own, perhaps that’s why he finds himself at fourth place on the chart this week. (7/10 points)

5th Place: Big Show

Another sneaky Knock Out Punch and nothing to really stop the giant’s momentum for the week means that he comes just a little behind his tag team partner. I’m still shaky on the whole Jericho-Big Show thing and I wonder how long their alliance will last after they lose the titles. (6/10 points)

6th Place: Zack Ryder

A Major push for the Long Island pretty boy as he becomes the number one contender for the ECW title. I’m starting to like the ECW title more and more in its downplayed status since it means that lots of guys who would probably never get a serious title shot get to be in the main event spot, if only for a month or so. It also means that a guy who left the company and became a bigger star without Vince McMahon, who would never realistically be allowed to hold a major title again, can be champion. Now can Ryder actually wrestle the title away from the persistent champ? (5/10 point

7th Place: Cody Rhodes

A decent week for Legacy as they manage to make the Heart Break Kid tap out in a big time way at Breaking Point. I can’t see this DX-Legacy thing going far beyond their Hell in a Cell match so expect them to be paired off against some other goodie-two-shoes team some time soon. (4/10 points)

8th Place: Teddie Long

Going out with a heel-bang is the GM of Smackdown. Kind of a weak excuse for why he turned heel and it just seemed like they wanted to get the Undertaker back in the main event without giving him the title so he can come and go as he pleases but as long as Punk remains the champ I am happy. The first and probably last appearance for this former referee, manager and GM. (3/10 points)

9th Place: William Regal

A nice main event run comes to a close for the distinguished English gent, but now what part will he and his two behemoths play on Tuesday nights? Perhaps another transfer now that the WWE seem to be making up any excuse to send superstars to another show. (2/10 points)

10th Place: Ted DiBiase

The final place on the chart goes to the son of the Million Dollar Man, a good performance at Breaking Point, but this third generation superstar still has a long way to go in defining himself before people give him anything more than the aforementioned title. (1/10 points)

Overall top ten:

* 1st Place – Chris Jericho: 166/200

*2nd Place – Randy Orton: 135/200

*3rd Place – C.M. Punk: 110/200

*4th Place – Dolph Ziggler: 100/200

*5th Place – The Miz: 79/200

*6th Place – Edge: 69/200

*7th Place – Jack Swagger: 64/200

*8th Place – The Big Show: 44/200

*9th Place – William Regal: 37/200

*10th Place – Cody Rhodes: 30/200

Weekly Filler:

The Face-Off: Teddie Long’s Limo Ride

Of all the things that the WWE have done in recent years to make the show more “movie-like” this has to be the most ridiculous. The camera shots alone were just laughable. Whether it be a wrestling show or a movie what makes it entertaining is how much it can engross you in the story and doing something like that, which stylistically clashes with their main product hugely, can only ruin the experience for the audience. Well done WWE for taking another step to gradually destroying your own product and company.

Oh and Ask the Tramps…I mean divas was back again, it really doesn’t do anything for their image.

Face the Facts: Teddie Long restarting the match at Breaking Point

I mention this simply because I was just about ready to top myself before he came out since both main events would have ended with the heels tapping out straight away to the first submission hold they found themselves in. To me that would completely cheapen the idea of a submission match, this is why the PG era is a bad thing no matter what spin the WWE try to put on it, because you have to define faces as never giving up and heels as people who would crumble in a second if they were truly pushed, and that doesn’t usually make for good television because the results become stale and predictable. So while I was disappointed with how the heels were presented at Breaking Point at least one of them managed to hold on to his title, even if it was in a very contrived way.

On the Rise: Drew McIntyre

Now I’m still not sure about this guy, he had a run before and he didn’t do much with it. But the WWE seem to have faith in him by giving him these high profile spots so we’ll just have to see if he can actually hold up his end of the bargain and become another one of the emerging stars on Smackdown.

Flat-Footed: Rosa Mendez accompanying Chavo and Carlito to the ring

When did this happen? Since when is Rosa linked with either of these two superstars? There wasn’t even a muttering of an explanation made by Raw’s incompetent announce team. The WWE really need to learn not to do things like this. If the show wasn’t completely scripted then fine, have seemingly random events occurring, it’s live, it happens. But everyone knows that most everything outside and a good portion of things inside the ring are planned out and therefore have to have an explanation, otherwise it just looks like lazy writing. It really does seem like the WWE creative team are just phoning it in for the most part these days.

Crossing the Line: Kevin Nash Promo on TNA

Women constantly pouring in, talks of swords and wetness, more confused signals from the backstage announcer as to whether she is a tramp or disgusted by the numerous passes she gets every week. If there is one thing you can say for the promos in TNA, it’s not that they are boring.

If I had to pick between freaky and nonsensical or flat and boring, I know which one I would pick. Now if only they could make their promos actually correspond with each other.

The last week of late reports due to lack of internet and people’s birthdays (seriously too many parents getting frisky on New Years Eve). The report has reached its twentieth edition and I was wondering what everyone thinks so far, any suggestions for changes in format or content are welcome, less heels more faces possibly? Not going to happen. This is James Wright signing off.