Indy Power Rankings for the Week of September 16th, 2013: 1. ‘Money’ Matt Cage-The SCW Heavyweight Champion grabs his first #1 in the Indy Power Rankings by virtue of his win over Austin Roberts at DREAMWAVE and then the follow up win in the “Good as Gold” Royal Rumble style battle royal. He polished off the weekend with a tag team victory over the Beautiful Bodies at Wrestling is Intense on 9/15. His 3-0 week impressed voters to the point that they validated his “Money” moniker with a very deserving #1 ranking. 2. Uhaa Nation-The One Man Nation returns to the #2 spot after a very long hiatus. A STAGGERING 5-0-1 gets the big man to mere inches (and just one vote) away from the #1 spot. This is the one elusive accomplishment in the Indy Power Rankings that he has yet to achieve. This week’s results are best laid out as follows: 9/11 Win vs. YAMATO,BxB Hulk, & Cyber Kong in 6 Man tag action 9/12 Win vs. Ryotsu Shimizu in singles 9/13 Win vs. Masaaki Mochizuki, Don Fujii,& Ken’ichiro Arai in 6 Man tag action 9/14 Win vs. YAMATO,Naruki Doi,BxB Hulk & Mondai Ryu in 8 man tag action 9/15 Win vs. Genki Horiguchi, Ryo Saito,& Jimmy Susumu 9/16 Time Limit Draw vs. Tomahawk TT & Eita 3. Benjamin Kimera-The Rockstar Pro Champion (and former #1 in the Indy Power Rankings) holds steady at #3 after two big wins this week. First on 9/11 at Rockstar Pro “Amped” he defeated Ganger. He capped off the week with another victory at The Kenny Gasaway Memorial Show vs. Malachai. 4. Michael Elgin-Elgin was still “Unbreakable” over the weekend with a win vs. JT Dunn at Beyond Wrestling,but his one big win wasn’t quite enough to keep him in the IPR Top 3 despite some strong support. The former #1 in the Indy Power Rankings has his biggest weekend to date. Can he become the ROH World Champion on 9/20 and possibly guarantee himself a #1 in next week’s Indy Power Rankings? 5. Isys Ephex-The 2CW Heavyweight Champion is absolutely unstoppable in his home promotion right now. When it comes to “quality wins”,he had one of the strongest weekends that anyone has had since possibly the Battle of Los Angeles. On 9/13 he retained his title in a hard fought battle vs. Johnny Gargano. He then defeated a mega star in Matt Hardy on 9/14 to once again retain the gold. Strong competition kept him from an even higher ranking this week, but his success is inarguable right now. 6. Drew Gulak-A very solid 2-0 weekend jumps the CZW Heavyweight Champion two spots to #6 this week. On any other week he may have been even higher with the strength of his victories,but for now,he gets the #6 after defeating Chris Dickinson to retain the CZW Title on 9/14. Perhaps an even bigger win this weekend was his victory while teaming with Biff Busick vs. Eddie Edwards & Roderick Strong at Beyond Wrestling on 9/15. 7. Biff Busick-After some recent struggles and a bit of inactivity, Busick comes back with a vengeance this week. A 3-0 weekend gets him into the Indy Power Rankings with wins over Steve Ricard on 9/13 at TRP,Dave & Jake Crist in tag team action on 9/14 at CZW,and Eddie Edwards & Roderick Strong in tag team competition on 9/15 at Beyond Wrestling. The former TRP Heavyweight Champion has come back searching for the elusive #1 spot that he has yet to attain. 8. Ricochet-This was just another solid week for the 2013 King of Gate in Dragon Gate in Japan. His week looked like this: 9/11 Win vs. Masaaki Mochizuki/Jimmy Kagetora in a 3 Way 9/12 Win vs. Yosuke Watanabe 9/13 No Contest vs. Tomahawk TT & Eita in tag team competition 9/14 DQ Win vs. Naruki Doi 9/14 Win vs. YAMATO,Naruki Doi,BxB Hulk,& Mondai Ryu in an 8 Man Tag 9/15 Loss vs. Tomahawk TT & Eita in tag team competition 9/16 Win vs. Don Fujii & Yosuke Watanabe in tag team competition Overall it was a 5-1-1 week for the former #1 in the Indy Power Rankings. 9. Eddie Kingston-After a recent loss to DH Smith at Wrestlejam,“The War King” bounced back this weekend with 2 wins at Wrestling is Heart and Wrestling is Intense. He defeated Mat Fitchett at WIH on 9/14 and Jeff O’Shea at WII on 9/15 before completely ditching the company. The first,only,and last(?) CHIKARA Grand Champion is on a tear in the Wrestling is promotions. 10. Team CK (Sean Carr & Kage)-The 2CW Tag Team Champions make another appearance in the Indy Power Rankings after a very successful 2-0 weekend where they retained vs. Electric Dream Machine on 9/13 and then followed that up with another victory vs. Electric Dream Machine and Eric M Timmins & Peter D. Order on 9/14 to once again retain the titles. This tag team has been absolutely unbeatable in 2CW since they claimed the gold. Major Names Ineligible this week due to inactivity: Jay Briscoe, Pieces of Hate (as a team), Flex Armstrong, BJ Whitmer. 3.0, Kyle O’Reilly, reDRagon (as a team), The Young Bucks, American Wolves (as a team) Just missing out: Matt Knicks-One half of the DREAMWAVE Wrestling Tag Team Champions moves one step closer to getting back into the Indy Power Rankings with another tag team title defense on 9/14 vs. The Beck Family. He has won 8 of 11 matches overall to bring his recent win percentage to over 72%. Not easy to do when you’re as active as he is in the Midwest right now. Kevin Steen-The former ROH World Champion and 5 time #1 in the Indy Power Rankings once again just misses out due to a loss to Matt Hardy at 2CW on 9/13. He rebounded with a victory vs. Eddie Edwards on 9/14 at 2CW,and then another win vs. Chris Dickinson at Beyond Wrestling on 9/15. If Steen can somehow become a 2 time ROH World Champion on 9/20,he will MAKE SURE he’s in the Indy Power Rankings once again next week. Ricky Reyes-The EPWE Underground Champion got back on the winning track after a narrow loss to the ECWA Heavyweight Champion in a 4 Way last week. THIS WEEK he closes back in on the Indy Power Rankings with a big victory vs. Tommaso Ciampa at ICW on 9/14. He also ran in on Bandido Jr. at Jersey Championship Wrestling on 9/13 stating he was representing a group called “The Black Hand”,but had no official match that night.
Posted on: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 10:28:13 +0000
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