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Wrestler of the Week, Week 4 - Jan 24-30
5. Bianca Belair
I really enjoyed the woman's Rumble this year, and I think Belair was a big part of why. She looked like a real star in this match, and she's someone I've never been that high on before. Shayna was impressive too but I think Belair's stock rose the most from that match.

4. Nick Aldis
In two segments on Powerrr this week, Aldis solidified himself as one of the best talkers in modern wrestling. Plenty has been said about how refreshing he is in the champion in studio role, but the sit down backstage interview with Marty is as much of a money promo as you'll ever see.

3. Daisuke Harada
One of this week's biggest stories was NOAH being bought by CyberAgent and one direct consequence of that was NOAH's Global Junior League Finals popping up for free on DDT Universe. Harada would win the League on this show that should have more than the usual amount of eyes on it, but more importantly he did it in two great matches where his performance really stood out, with his selling especially fantastic in the final with Dick Togo, but it's the Semi-Final with Hajime Ohara that you should seek out if you only have time for one

2. Brock Lesnar
For the first half hour of the Men's Royal Rumble, Brock did everything that Brock always does well. Looked like a beast, was wildly entertaining, and then when the time came to sell, he sold as well as anybody in wrestling. Brock had a performance this week that will go down as one of the all time single performances, and then it was used perfectly to get over our obvious winner this week.

1. Drew McIntyre
People who don't pay attention to WWE were saying this Rumble win came from nowhere - and I don't completely disagree, but keen readers of this feature will remember me featuring Drew just a few weeks ago, as someone who was clearly coming across as one of the bigger deals on Raw, and the fans had started taking to without a face turn necessarily being executed yet. That all manifested on Sunday when Drew not only won the Royal Rumble, but eliminated Brock Lesnar on the way there to make a direct path to a Wrestlemania main event. Drew is the recipient of a mega badass push the likes we've not seen in WWE since Roman's initial push, and if he can connect with the WWE audience the way he did on the indies and in Impact a few years ago, he could potentially make much better use of that push and be a top babyface WWE fans may accept, for a while at least.


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