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With 6 months gone, I thought I'd put together a breakdown of the year's voting so far and any fun little trends that might have emerged. Obviously COVID-19 makes it hard to truly grasp any patterns here, but this will also serve as a nice test of the format for a much bigger post/thread about stats and trends in our voting/tastes over the last 15 years.
Let's start with individual champions and the votes they've gotten:
code:CHAMPION VOTES
Jon Moxley 93
Tetsuya Naito 48
Chris Jericho 44
Hikaru Shida 40
Go Shiozaki 37
Nyla Rose 27
Masato Tanaka 21
Arisa Nakajima 20
Asuka 17
Drew McIntyre 16
Yuji Okabayashi 16
Bayley 11
Bill Goldberg 10
Tetsuya Endo 8
Yuka Sakazaki 8
Naruki Doi 6
Kazuchika Okada 5
Mayu Iwatani 5
Riho 5
Kento Miyahara 3
Bray Wyatt 2
Becky Lynch 1
Brock Lesnar 1
Suwama 1
Braun Strowman 0
HARASHIMA 0
PCO 0
Rush 0
OTHER 54
TOTAL 499
- Jon Moxley dominates with the most individual votes, which is made all the more impressive by the fact he's only been eligible for voting in 3 of the 6 months so far.
- Naito's second place ranking is actually quite remarkable, because he's only been eligible for 2 months of the year for voting, in one of those months he only got 4 votes. So his second place ranking at the halfway point of the year is based almost entirely off the strength of his performance/storyline culmination at Wrestle Kingdom right in the first week of the year.
- Chris Jericho had a strong run of votes all through his entire championship reign, his second place finishes in the two months he was champion this year enough to keep him in the third spot.
- Hikaru Shida is the highest ranked woman in the polls so far. She has also only been up for voting ONE month this year, and still ranked up that highly. That's REALLY impressive.
- Almost as impressive is Arisa Nakajima, the winner of the poll for June. This was her only appearance all year, and the only appearance of her promotion, but winning puts her into the Top 10 for the year so far.
- The gender breakdown of the top 10 is 6 men and 4 women, which also roughly equates to the gender breakdown for the winners so far this year being 4 men and 2 women.
- 4 of the champs who made it onto the poll failed to garner a single vote. Of these, only one (Braun Strowman) has made multiple appearances on polls throughout the year, the others only appeared in a single month.
- No single champion has managed to be on the poll every single month this year.
That's individual champions, but what about promotions?
code:PROMOTION VOTES
AEW 137
AEW Women 72
NJPW 53
NOAH 37
DDT 29
SEAdLINNNG 20
Raw Women 18
WWE 17
2AW 16
WWE Universal 12
Smackdown Women 11
TJPW 8
Dragon Gate 6
STARDOM 5
AJPW 4
ROH 0
NWA 0
NXT 0
IMPACT 0
NXT Women 0
PWG 0
None 54
Total 499
- This has been AEW's year. Their two top belts dominate the poll with almost 28% of all votes cast so far this year.
- The AEW Women's Title achieves its second place finish thanks to an enormous amount of votes in May, with Champion Hikaru Shida and Ex-Champion Nyla Rose getting 64% of the total vote that month.
- Despite not running for most of the year and only having a champion eligible for 2 months so far, New Japan has managed to hold onto the next spot below AEW.
- NOAH and DDT have been the biggest beneficiaries of New Japan's absence, lifting them into the top 5 of all promotions in terms of voting so far this year.
- SEAdLINNG ranks so highly based off of a single month's worth of voting, with AEW being absent in that same month.
- The Raw Women's Title has been a joke all year with TERRIBLE results each month... until last month, when Asuka was aided by a smaller than usual field and a renewed focus on her on Raw that lifted her up into the top ten.
- WWE Champion Drew McIntyre benefited from a strong showing in April when he won the belt, but has only managed a scant few votes since then.
- The Universal Champion managed to eke out okay numbers all year until April, and has gotten no votes since then.
- Ironically, Bayley's rise to MVP of WWE where she has salvaged or outright saved multiple shows with her character, antics, and the quality of her in-ring performances... coincided with spaced out title defenses that have been her absent from the polls at a time when she might have been able to shine. It's pure bad luck that the Smackdown Women's Champion has outperformed the Raw Women's Champion in the polls all year when going head-to-head, but ends up lower on the rankings due to bad timing.
- Multiple promotions have suffered badly from the COVID-19 era causing shutdowns, and some buzz for empty arena shows not being reflected in champ poll voting: Dragon Gate, STARDOM, and All Japan have either not made the polls or received no votes, while other promotions like ROH, PWG or even IMPACT (?) haven't run any shows at all.
As mentioned, I'll do something similar for each of the previous years of Champ Poll voting in a big effort thread when I get a chance. If you have any ideas of things you'd like to see included in that please let me know. Perhaps the most interesting thing I've noticed is how our actual Champ of the Year voting stacks up against who the literal most popular wrestler across all 12 months of voting for that year was.
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Arisa Nakajima (Beyond the SEA Single Championship)
Asuka (Raw Women's Champion)
Tetsuya Endo (KO-D Openweight Champion)
Go Shiozaki (GHC Heavyweight Champion)
Masato Tanaka (FORMER KO-D Openweight Champion) 
Drew McIntyre (WWE Champion)
Braun Strowman (WWE Universal Champion)
Suwama (Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion)
None of the Above 
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