Weekly Rankings Recap - 10/23/2016

History was made at Supercard 85: Tower of Power XVII, but the one year reign of "Team Xtreme" Marz & Violent`J wasn't the only story coming out of Sunday. Every Tower produces a stand-out team, and at XVII there were two! "The Alliance" AlbertBeefcake & The_Hurricane tied the record for Challenger 7 wins, fighting all the way to #4! Matching that six fight win streak over the course of the entire event was #10 team: Unknown265 & mwgrant0!

Both of those teams have interesting angles toward the year-long Duo Division Champions: Violent`J's high ranking connection to The Invasion makes him a natural foe for The Alliance. More interesting still, Unknown265 & mwgrant0 are coming back from a title match loss at Supercard 76 that left mwgrant0 on the incapacitated list!

Established veteran teams like "The United" Shoe & Artanix still look like the best chance to topple the unbeatable champs, but there are always those bolt-of-blue challengers with potential to upset the top teams! "The British Exit" Liam & nif could be one of those, finally entering the Top 10 with a surprising two-match win at Tower of Power. Don't count out Politics & Menas just yet, either! The elation of Menas' surprise return via the Challenger 7 vacancy may've been cut short, but it's still a potential game changer for the Duo Division!

The Great Arena League Top Ten:
#1 (--) Banging
#2 (--) United: Shoe
#3 (--) The Great Genku
#4 (+4) AlbertBeefcake
#5 (-1) Benjamin
#6 (-1) ElJobber
#7 (-1) Scott-Howell
#8 (RE) The_Huricane
#9 (-2) United: Hokey [Royal Roulette]
#10 (--) Jammer2Omega

The Great Arena Duo Division Top Ten:
#1 (--) Jammer2Omega & Porygonix
#2 (--) CCShadow & Scott-Howell
#3 (+2) "The Alliance" AlbertBeefcake & The_Hurricane
#4 (-1) DaemonX & Banging
#5 (-1) "The United" Shoe & Artanix
#6 (+1) "The New Generation" Baraka_MK & Onryo
#7 (-1) "The Greek Crisis" maxilos & proXade
#8 (--) Sekktor & legoslayer10
#9 (--) McDaniel & fraysol
#10 (new) "The British Exit" Liam & nif

The Division 2 Under 5k Top Ten:
#1 (--) Banging
#2 (+2) AlbertBeefcake
#3 (-1) Benjamin
#4 (-1) Scott-Howell
#5 (+3) The_Hurricane
#6 (--) Jammer2Omega
#7 (--) Porygonix
#8 (-3) DaemonX
#9 (--) Politics
#10 (new) ShawnMichaels

The Invasion/Alliance/Brexit Independent Top Ten:
#1 (RE) Banging (Brexit)
#2 (-1) The Great Genku (Invasion)
#3 (-1) AlbertBeefcake (Alliance)
#4 (--) The_Hurricane (Alliance)
#5 (-2) DaemonX (Invasion)
#6 (RE) ShawnMichaels (Brexit)
#7 (-2) Statix (Alliance) [KFL Champion]
#8 (-2) Chromatose (Invasion)
#9 (-1) Jason_Voorhees (Invasion)
#10 (RE) Corrupt hydraslash (Invasion)

The Incapacitated List:
- rxvt [vs AlbertBeefcake & The_Hurricane - October 16, 2016]
- marianokombat [vs CaTigeReptile - August 24, 2016]
- xtactics [vs Leroy - August 22, 2016]
- jaytea [vs Artanix, Ken & Baraka_MK - August 13, 2016]
- Celeste [vs Damo - August 11, 2016]
- TheMetinPorta [vs Violent`J - June 22, 2016]
- Menas [vs Genku - June 20, 2016]
- Knickxasawrrrr [vs Mime - May 22, 2016]
- Crow [vs Ratt - April 3, 2016]