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Jan 10-16 2020:
5 - The Grizzled Young Veterans (Zack Gibson and James Drake)
Alex Shelley's debut in NXT was a pretty cool thing, when you read his Twitter posts about what it means to him. But his first match teaming back together with KUSHIDA was a loss to the Grizzled Young Vets, who got to cut a promo afterwards and show a worldwide audience one what we in the UK have known for a while, that Gibson is one of the best heels in wrestling

4 - Drew Mcintyre
This week's RAW started with a pretty fun segment, where both AJ Styles and Randy Orton felt like fresh and interesting characters. Then out came Drew, who continued to come off well in his babyface role and then won the triple threat with these two other guys who had been positioned as a big deal on the show. The babyface role is where Drew always should have been and it's a great sign if they're running with that in 2020

3 - Tyler Bate
Last year, Tyler Bate wrestled 40 matches, and less than 10 singles matches. He's already one of the best in the world at such a young age, but in 2020 I need to see him in more matches like the one he had this week at NXT UK Takeover against Jordan Devlin. He came out on top there, despite Devlin seemingly being on the rise, so I expect they have big things planned for Tyler. Plus, he set up a match alongside his Moustache Mountain teammate Trent Seven vs. two of NXT's top stars in DIY for Worlds Collide.

2 - Tessa Blanchard
It's possible that considering what she achieved this weekend, we could be viewing Tessa as a slam dunk number 1 this week. She's the first woman to hold the Impact Wrestling Championship, a title that has been a fairly big deal at some points in recent history, and that's a big achievement for her and a big step for Impact. Unfortunately her week hasn't been all good, and a cloud hangs over her title win due to her past behaviour - the same cloud that in many ways has hung over her career to this point.

1 - Marty Scurll
Marty might once again have proven to be the smartest man in wrestling. While his friends went off to live their dream, his name became one of the hottest in wrestling over the past year, with no end to the speculation about his next move. Marty managed to turn that, along with ROH's desperation to hold on to at least one star, into a lucrative deal for himself - with what is being reported as WWE main roster money for something like 40 dates a year - as well as taking over the head booking position in ROH, which seems to have had the knock on effect of helping to repair the ROH - NJPW relationship, as ROH went on to announce NJPW talent for Wrestlemania Weekend after not seeing any in months. This seems like a great move for both Marty and Ring of Honor

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