Cageside community ranks wrestlers after Week 5 of Season 15

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Everybody who comes to Cageside Seats has an opinion about what’s going on in pro wrestling — Wrestler Rankings are where YOU let us know YOURS. Cast a vote in the comments. Give us the five performers you think entertained or impressed the most in the last week, and feel free to talk about why. We also have the outcome of last week’s voting, the results of which make up our annual competition for the Cageside Cup, given to our Performer of the Year. This week, we’re voting on nationally televised and internet streaming pro wrestling shows that took place May 24-30, 2026 — AEW’s Double or Nothing PPV, Raw, NXT, Evolve, Dynamite, Impact, ROH on HonorClub, SmackDown, MLW Fusion, Collision, AAA Noche de los Grandes, New Japan’s BoSJ shows, and everything else I’m no doubt forgetting. But first, here’s the outcome of last week’s voting, and how those results changed our annual competition for the Cageside Cup. This is about how he rolled up on a certain skater as I was tabulating last week’s ballots … We loved the last couple victories of Dangerous Darbs’ AEW World title reign, but the WWE Men’s Intercontinental champ got top billing on Peacock and had a great dance partner in our Egotistical 6th place finisher. He doesn’t love them as much as human monies, but you love to give the Very Nice, Very Evil One votes*. Those allowed the bad ass beardos who fought an Anything Goes match on Dynamite to round out the Top Five. Already told you about 6th, so… now we’ll tell you the fighting NXT Women’s North American champ was after him, followed by an air guitar maestro who had Jon Moxley’s number until he earned his respect at DoN (but that’s next week’s vote). We round things out with the luchador who taught us all that a Mexican is born wherever the hell they please, and the former WWE Women’s champ who led her team to a Saturday Night’s Main Event win over a trio with 22 main roster singles titles between them. The CCWR: 2026-27, Week 5 1. Penta 2. Darby Allin 3. Danhausen 4. Mark Briscoe 5. Tommaso Ciampa 6. Ethan Page 7. Tatum Paxley 8. Kyle O’Reilly 9. (tie) El Grande Americano 9. (tie) Jade Cargill Points in our weekly Rankings determine the ongoing annual one — which will determine who wins the Cageside Cup next April. Full details on rules and scoring HERE. Where it’s a two-person race, and those people are two different kinds of crazy little dudes… The CCWR: 2026-27, Week 5 1. Darby Allin – 39 2. Danhausen – 35 3. Jacob Fatu – 25 4. Jacy Jayne – 19 5. IYO SKY – 16.5 6. Oba Femi – 15 .5 7. Asuka – 13 8. Penta – 11.5 9. Tommaso Ciampa – 10 10. Athena – 9 Ready to do it again? You can always check the “how to” here if you need to, or ask a question in the comments. The main things you need to know are you have five spots on your ballot, you can’t put the same person in two of them, but you can split a single or multiple spots between multiple wrestlers. Now… Let’s have those ballots! We’ll take it from there, and see you back here in a week for the results and another vote! * FYI to the folks trying to make him the only name on their ballot: that hasn’t been allowed for several years now. Here’s how yours are being tabbed when you do that.