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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: Chris Jericho

I can honestly say that I am blown away by Jericho’s efforts this week. He might have lost one title but he replaced it with two, that’s the mark of a true wrestling genius. After an amazing match and a great new direction with his tag team partner Y2J is set to storm the top of the chart again. (10/10 points)

2nd Place: C.M. Punk

Punk is playing a clever game, giving the Hardy fans enough to boo but his own fans enough to cheer he is delivering the most convincing heel turn I have ever seen. Punk is stringing things out and now we are just waiting for the reveal, I personally hope that Hardy starts believing him and gets a GTS for it. Now if only they would bring back the Anaconda Vice. (9/10 points)

3rd Place: Dolph Ziggler

Knocked down a place but still victorious this week is Dolph Ziggler. The former cheerleader seems to have tapped into the system for wrestling heel success and looks to have a bright future if he can continue to deliver on the level he has been working recently. In another personal note it’s been fun watching Khali as a jobber. (8/10 points)

4th Place: Edge

A great way to get a new lease of life for the Rated-R superstar and it speaks volumes about Smackdown’s main event scene that they were able to get away with not booking Edge in a main event match and making everything still compelling and watchable. It’s good to see Edge with a tag team partner again. (7/10 points)

5th Place: Kane

The Big Red Machine comes back in style delivering several devastating, if somewhat unexplained, chair shots to the Punjabi Playboy. He also managed to exercise some demons by defeating the annoying underdog, Rey Mysterio, on Smackdown. (6/10 points)

6th Place: The Miz

A sacrificial lamb to the Cena slaughter was the Miz’s role this week. I still take pride in the fact that someone was finally allowed to speak out against the Cena machine, but did anyone really expect the Chick Magnet to win out against this advertising shill. Yeah right, in our heel dreams. (5/10 points)

7th Place: Zack Ryder

The man that calls Superstars his home impresses again and earns four points in the process. He also robbed this surfer guy Tyler of any momentum in his first match, but who really cares about that. (4/10 points)

8th Place: Shelton Benjamin

Ignorance and racism keeps Benjamin in the chart this week. A swift kick stopped this shocking display but we learnt that Shelton will hit any social foe par to get noticed in the heel world. First class, now race, expect him to be challenging Goldust next. (3/10 points)

9th Place: Jack Swagger

An interesting first impression on Raw for the All-American American. I still cannot decide whether this was an amazing heel move or a terrible mistake. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. (2/10 points)

10th Place: Maryse

Down the chart but still the most dominant heel diva in the company, the Diva’s champion stays strong with her bitchy heel presence. Maryse proves that she barely has to even wrestle to be an amazing heel champion. Sometimes looks are everything. (1/10 points)

Overall top ten:

* 1st Place – Chris Jericho: 82/90

*2nd Place – The Miz: 64/90

*3rd Place – Edge: 64/90

*4th Place – Randy Orton: 48/90

*5th Place – Jack Swagger: 46/90

*6th Place – Dolph Ziggler: 46/90

*7th Place – Matt Hardy: 17/90

*8th Place – The Big Show: 17/90

*9th Place – Maryse: 16/90

*10th Place – Ted DiBiase: 13/90

Weekly Filler:

The Face-Off: The interview section on ECW with Abraham Washington

This was just plain boring. There are things that infuriate or seem offensive in the WWE, but I thought McMahon’s whole argument for taking the wrestling out of wrestling was for entertainment purposes. Why then would you take up so much of a show with this no-talent bore? My only question now is can this guy wrestle? I know he was the GM in FCW but really, why is WWE wasting it’s time on this tripe. On a side note; how rubbish are the Bella twins? They’ve been bounced about the shows and still can’t seem to find a useful role in the company; the twin novelty has to run out some time.

Face the Facts: Rey Mysterio

Now personally I’ve always hated Mysterio. It is my opinion that if you can’t play both a face and a heel in the wrestling business then you shouldn’t be there, but I have to say that Rey was impressive this week. It has been echoed round this site that the Mysterio win wasn’t a letdown and I have to agree, we all knew Mysterio wouldn’t lose his mask, but much like the Michaels-Undertaker match at WM25, the match at the Bash was so spectacular that it didn’t matter. It was also nice to see Mysterio lose to Kane on Smackdown to keep the Big Red Machine’s momentum going.

On the Rise: Shamus

As is often the case, Matt Striker hit the nail right on the head this week by saying that the giant ginger Celt has ring presence. With massive size, distinct look and painful finisher this newcomer could go far in a short time if he is managed correctly. A former FCW champion, I can see a small letter change in his near future. Clearly the shining star of the new crop rising from ECW this week.

Flat-Footed: Randy Orton

A terrible week for the Legend Killer. Owned by Triple H and then jobbed out to Mark Henry on Raw. I know Orton is a heel champ who has people to support him but he is no JBL, he should be able to win a match by himself once in awhile. Orton has the skill, body and presence to pull off convincing wins and for some reason the WWE creative don’t seem to realise this. I know he is one of the most popular heels of recent memory, myself being included in his fan base, but seriously if you have him owned every week and then only win by cheating then he is going to start haemorrhaging fans. The constant predictable feuds are warring thin and pretty soon we will all lose interest in whether he is the champ or not. I think it might be time for a face turn before it’s too late.

Uncharacteristically I am quite happy with WWE *and actually on time* this week. The Bash was amazing, sure Cena won, but Miz got so much of a push in such a short time I’m happy to accept it. He isn’t ready to be a main eventer yet so seeing him get his chance early was a nice treat. C.M. Punk remains champ and still subtly being a heel. ECW made the superstar switch all make sense with its talent initiative.

Overall it seems like the WWE aren’t trying to breed main event talent, only mid-card. They have grown one crop on ECW, harvested them and now are sowing the new batch.

Yes I agree that we need more main event players to vary rivalries and matches but if the current main eventers aren’t ready to step out of the spotlight then the best you can do is have a huge amount of mid-carders waiting in the wings in case one of them gets an injury, and the WWE certainly have that.