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January 2025


February 2025

NEW YEAR NEW LIST

JANUARY 2025

I've gotten this up a little late this month due to life being life. Please note, the latest results from Warfare and Anarchy have NOT been factored into this. This is fresh off Snow Job, and February and March bring an exciting period for ELO as every match for the annual tournament carries a small multiplier. In addition, the final match gets an extra multiplier akin to winning the Universal Championship. That's how prestigious this tournament is! Fun fact: 'King of the XWF' was actually the top prize once upon a time, in a period of Universal Title inactivity. Anyway, here are the highlights for this month!

Biggest ranking rise:

• 'Cavortin' Jake Borden - I'm not sure anybody saw this coming. Rising a whopping 5 ranking places, it might be time for the world to stop looking at Cavortin Borden as an underdog!
  

Highest debut/return:

• Game Girl - Former number one on the rankings, albeit in a bit of a weird time when there were some missing show records and therefore smaller eligible names for the rankings list, Game Girl has returned to the list with a higher rating than she ever did when ranked number one! One must wonder if this mean's she's about to level up?
  

Eyes on:

• Madison Dyson and Dolly Waters - Even though Madison's ranking hasn't changed, and Dolly's only went up by once (creeping into the top 10 again for what has to be the record for number of times coming in and out of the top 10), winning the tag team championships has seen both of these women have made significant rating point climbs - about 40 points each.
  
• Prince Adeyemi - How could I not mention him? Climbing only two spots almost does a disservice to the 60 rating point increase Isaiah King has earned this month. Breaking the 1800 mark, he's officially in the upper echelon - as if his second Universal Title reign wasn't enough to make that point already.
  

UPDATED FOR FEBRUARY 2025:

Ten names added to the list this month! So if you've been around for a few months now and waiting to see your name pop up - for a lot of you, this is that month! With such a big number being added, and only 3 being removed, this becomes a bit of a 'net negative' month, seeing some large drops down the bottom of the list, as most new names were added spread around the 1600 mark.

Fully OOC Reminder: These are for fun, and only for fun. Treat them more like the PWI 500 or something like that. They don't affect your trajectory at all within XWF, and there are some inherent biases that a v2.0 is going to try and work through later in the year. Don't dismay at a low ranking (and don't get self-important over a high one). The staff see your hard work regardless of what my silly calculations say.

Biggest ranking rise:

• Prince Adeyemi - A month of inactivity sees the Universal Champion actually rise in rankings by 2 places. Wait... WTF? I guess now should be as good a time as any to give a quick refresher how this works. Rankings are based on ratings. Ratings change based on activity. If characters with a higher rating take some losses, that rating is going to fall. If that rating fall drops below another character's rating, then the rankings change too. Adeyemi's rating did not change. But others above him did. So this rise isn't because of work on Adeyemi's behalf, but a general evening of the field as the highest high and lowest low all moved slightly towards the centre this month. He's a beneficiary of luck this month, but come March? He's going to have to defend that title and prove any doubters wrong! He's certainly capable of doing just that.
  

Highest debut/return:

• Enigma - This might surprise some, but Enigma's return to the rankings list at Number 11 still carries with it the weight of some of the quick and notable success he found back on the old Madness brand. Warfare requires a different skillset, however, so the challenge for Enigma is going to be proving the rating applies here too. Is he up to the task? Only one way to find out.
  

Eyes on:

• James Shark - Before inputting the calculations, I would have bet on Shark taking the nod for highest debut/return. Coming off a massive win against Sebastian Everett-Bryce (who still sits atop the rankings - barely holding on above the magic 2000 mark), and before that having one of the most successful debut months in XWF history, Shark is right behind Enigma on the list and it's reasonable to believe the top 10 is within his reach in the very near future.
  
• Lucy Wylde - An astonishing drop leads to a unique opportunity for the former tag team champion. Is Lucy really only the 25th top star in the XWF? No. With no disrespect to anybody higher than her, but on the right day, Lucy can beat all of you. Granted, the same can be said about most of the roster right now, but specific to Lucy - her work back at War Games showed just how dangerous she is. If anything, this month Lucy is not just the recipient of a big upset loss, but happened to fall in the wrong place at the wrong time as a bunch of new names slid into the rankings. I expect her name to climb this list in the future.
  
• Everybody still in the King/Queen of the XWF Tournament - There are 3 more rounds to go - all of which will happen in March. Which means the winner has 3 more matches with a special modifier to the points gain. 2 of those matches will be at a PPV which adds another multiplier. The final? Gets a 'World title' level modifier added as well. The winner of this thing has the potential to gain some big points. Of note, however, is that both Tropical Punch and the reigning king, Kieran King, would need to go through the whole tournament AND feature in one more match in the next 3 months before they would feature on the list at all.