Torch Today TORCH RAW MVP POLL ANALYSIS: Twitter War turns to MVP War - Who was the MVP of Raw from the Draft to Summerslam - The Miz or Chris Jericho?
Aug 24, 2009 - 5:30:16 PM
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By James Caldwell, Torch assistant editor
After WWE "reset" storylines during the April Draft, we tracked the MVP of each weekly episode of WWE Raw until this past Monday's episode of Raw leading to the Summerslam PPV.
Over the course of 16 episodes of Raw that we ran MVP polls, Torch readers picked The Miz as the MVP of Draft-to-Summerslam, edging out Chris Jericho, who returned to the Raw brand in the middle of June to help save the show.
Miz's weekly average in the MVP poll was 12.4 percent after scoring some very high numbers during his stretch of anti-John Cena promos. Miz was voted the MVP of Raw three out of the first five weeks of the season, with his highest total coming on May 4 when he scored 32 percent of the vote.
Jericho racked up plenty of votes in the second-half of the season, with an MVP victory on the August 10 Raw, scoring 24 percent of the vote that week. Overall, Jericho's weekly poll average was 11.9 percent.
Jericho also finished second place in our first "season" of tracking the weekly Raw MVP poll numbers. From the Rumble to the Draft, Jericho came in second place behind Randy Orton, who won Season One and finished third in the recently-completed Season Two with 6.9 percent of the vote.
Following is the total board from Season Two stretching from the Draft to Summerslam.
MVP Winners: Apr. 27 - Aug. 17
4/27 - Chris Jericho - 37%
5/4 - The Miz - 32%
5/11 - The Miz - 30%
5/18 - Ric Flair - 21%
5/25 - The Miz - 20%
6/1 - Ric Flair - 24%
6/8 - Maryse - 24%
6/22 - Bucket of KFC Chicken - 47%
6/29 - Mark Henry - 33%
7/6 - Ted DiBiase, Sr. - 43%
7/13 - Seth Green - 39%
7/20 - Chris Jericho - 29%
7/27 - Shaquille O'Neal - 50%
8/3 - Dr. Ken - 18%
8/10 - Chris Jericho - 24%
8/17 - Macaulay Culkin - 21%
Top 10 MVP Weekly Averages: Apr. 27 - Aug. 17
(1) The Miz - 12.4%
(2) Chris Jericho - 11.9%
(3) Randy Orton - 6.9%
(4) Mark Henry - 6.8%
(5) MVP - 6.5%
(6) Batista - 5.3%
(7) Triple H - 4.2%
(8) Kofi Kingston - 4.2%
(9) Santino Marella - 4.1%
(10) Ted DiBiase, Jr. - 3.3%
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