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Wrestlezone readers, welcome back to the Depth Chart! For all you who are familiar, thanks for casting your vote and helping to make this the most interactive, comprehensive ranking system in pro wrestling today! And for all the new readers tuning in, this is the place where the Wrestlezone staff and our beloved readers come together to vote on who the best in WWE and TNA is every single month. This time we take a look at the events following Survivor Series, ending with this month's TLC pay-per-view. Who moved up? Who moved down? Who isn't on the list at all, and who made their Depth Chart debut? Let's get to it…?

10. John Cena – WWE (#8)
? ? ? ? ? ??Fan Vote: Jeff Hardy

Cena drops a few spots after a rather lackluster month and a sacrificing his spot at TLC. I did really like some of his promo work, but with other guys on the rise, the drop had to be done. Sorry “champ”.?

9. Wade Barrett – WWE (n/a)
? ? ? ? ? ? Fan Vote: Wade Barrett

The Barrett Barrage has been on fire, and regardless of his loss to Orton at TLC, he's still going strong! It seems as though the fans agree with us as well! Wrestlezone's own Chris Cash had the following to say:

Chris Cash- Wade Barrett has had a good finish to his 2011 year and I can see why he's made this list. Great look, moves well in the ring and?holds his own on the mic?- Wade Barrett has all the right tools to be a major player. I strongly expect his current push to continue into the new year. In fact, it won't surprise me at all?if Wade Barrett holds heavyweight gold at some point in 2012.

8. Daniel Bryan – WWE (n/a)
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Fan Vote: Kane

I was a little surprised to see Kane on this list, after only one small appearance in comparison to the rest of the industry's month of work. But apparently to the Wrestlezone viewers, Kane's return was enough to catapult him onto this list! Our choice, however, is the new Heavyweight champion Daniel Bryan. Welcome to the list, D-Bry!?

Ken Napzok- All it took was a change of clothes and an alleged legitimate injury to the steamrolling Mark Henry to make Daniel Bryan a World Champion. Well…that and years upon years of back breaking, soul challenging dedication to a dying craft: professional wrestling. Daniel Bryan (who is Still. Gonna. Kiiiiiiillll you.) was supposed to be the first Money int the Bank winner to FAIL to win championship gold. I mean, that had to be the case. There was just no way an ugly beard sporting, veggie eating, Indy darling south of the 200 pound mark was going to be booked to win a world title. U.S. Title? Sure- that's a secondary belt- they even give that to YouTube sensations these days. Yet over the last month Bryan started to look more the part thanks to improved ring attire, then he started to feel the part with a solid cage match against Henry and a false Money in the Bank cash in win, and now, against all odds, he is the part. Daniel Bryan is the World Heavyweight Champion.?

?7. Zack Ryder – WWE (#10)
? ? ? ? ? Fan Vote: Daniel Bryan?

The Woo Woo Kid finally captured gold at TLC, after a very emotional week prior on Raw. I still think his popularity can only go down-hill from here, but in the spirit of fairness, and because you the readers think so highly of him, Ryder moves up several spots! But can he keep it up with solid defences, proving that he wasn't just carried by his opponents? Only time will tell…?

6. Randy Orton – WWE (#5)
? ? ? ? ?Fan Vote: Robert Roode?

Sorry Orton, you just didn't do it for us this month… A win at TLC was impressive (more shocking than anything, considering the Barrett Barrage is in full force), but he really hasn't shown us anything worthy of moving up the list recently!?

5. Robert Roode – TNA (#6)
? ? ? ? ? ? Fan Vote: Zack Ryder

According to you readers, the Ryder Revolution is in our Fav' Five (dawg!). According to us, not so much… But the current TNA World Heavyweight Champion Bobby Roode certainly has impressed, and continues to be one of the best heels in the business right now. I was skeptical at first of all the shotgunning and orientation changes going on in the Impact main event scene, but I can't say a single thing against Roode's recent performance.?

4. Mark Henry – WWE (#2)
? ? ? ? ? Fan Vote: Mark Henry

Mark Henry had a dominating month, but he falls from the #2 spot due to losing the title at TLC because he pulled his dinky… Hopefully Henry can rebound once he's healthy enough to compete, because the Hall of Pain has been one of the highlights of 2011!?

3. Cody Rhodes – WWE (#4)
? ? ? ? ? Fan Vote: Cody Rhodes

Welcome to the Top 3 Mr. Rhodes. A strong victory over a legend in Booker T is exactly what you needed right now! Unlike Ziggler's time with the US title, Cody has brought a lot of focus to the Intercontinental belt. The redesign was brilliant, but simply defending it and reminding people that your champion every once in awhile helps a lot… What's next for Cody as we head into the Rhode to WrestleMania? (see what I did there?)?

2. Dolph Ziggler – WWE (#3)
? ? ? ? ?Fan Vote: Dolph Ziggler

This was an incredibly difficult decision to make, but it seems like the readers agree. Dolph Ziggler had a fantastic month, but falls just short of the #1 spot. It seems like every match he was in was a possible Match of the Year candidate this month! Ziggler may have lost the US title, and ultimate that's what keeping him from the top spot, but his future is brighter than perhaps any current star in the industry.?

In the Zone: CM Punk – WWE (#1)
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Fan Vote: CM Punk

For the second month in a row, CM Punk is “In the Zone”! Retaining the WWE Championship in an impressive TLC match, as well as a fantastic bout with Dolph Ziggler and an intriguing sell that made del Rio and Miz look golden was enough to allow the Straight Edge Savior his spot atop Wrestlezone's Depth Chart. Who can dethrone him? A Royal Rumble win for Ziggler or Rhodes would certainly do the trick, but if Punk continues to deliver at the level he has been…we may have Zone full of Punk for a very long time.?

Thanks again guys for making this month's issue of the Depth Chart a success! Remember to check back leading into the Royal Rumble to vote for January's edition as well! As always you can follow me on Twitter @MikeKillam, and remember to click on the links within their name to follow other Wrestlezone writers and contributers that have appeared in this article! Until next time…?

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Sometimes data does lie.

The chart below has been incredibly viral in recent days, making its way across the internet in one form or another, reaching Facebook walls across the country. The problem is, it’s incredibly misleading.

According to the MoveOn.org, where it originally gained notice, the chart originated from the office of Nancy Pelosi back in May. The original chart listed the public debt under President Barack Obama to be a meager 16 percent, but was corrected to 35 percent following some investigation by PolitiFact.com (Obama’s numbers had been evaluated a year too early).

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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A pro-business Hindu leader who some think could be India’s next prime minister began a “harmony” fast on Saturday to soften his image that was hurt by religious riots that claimed hundreds of mostly Muslim victims nearly a decade ago.

Seizing the moment after the Supreme Court referred to a lower court a case in which he was accused of complicity in the 2002 violence, Narendra Modi, chief minister of Gujarat state, is using a three-day fast to depict himself as a moderate.

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ACCRA (Reuters) – The father of a trader accused of losing Swiss banking giant UBS about $2 billion in unauthorized deals said on Thursday he was heartbroken when he heard the news.

Police arrested 31-year-old Kewku Adoboli overnight at UBS’s London office on suspicion of fraud after the bank discovered a problem on Wednesday.

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Baltimore County Police said that former Orioles pitcher Mike Flanagan died on Wednesday from a self-inflicted gun shot, Chick Hernandez of CSN Washington reports.

Flanagan, 59, was found dead outside his home in Monkton, Md.

“I am so sorry to hear about Mike’s passing. He was a good friend and teammate,” Flanagan’s former teammate Cal Ripken Jr. said.

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In the 2012 presidential race, New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary is make-or-break for Mitt Romney, and to win it, Romney’s campaign will need the savviest operatives it can find. But Team Romney will have to go without one key player: Bruce Keough. The New Hampshire Republican who oversaw Romney’s 2008 campaign in the Granite State says he’s no longer sure what Romney stands for.

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Annapolis, Md.- The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has served John Hunter Haddaway, 23 of Tilghman, Md., with an Order for Summary Suspension, suspending his entitlement to harvest, buy, sell or cull oysters for the remainder of the 2010-2011 season. Haddaway was most recently apprehended for harvesting oysters from an oyster sanctuary, his eighth natural resource violation since 2005.

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World No. 1 Rafael Nadal will need approximately 10 days to recover from the leg injury he suffered during his quarterfinal loss to compatriot David Ferrer at the Australian Open.

Nadal’s website reported that his MRI and ultrasound discovered an “adductor longus rupture of the right leg.”

His website also noted that he will be treated with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, along with physical therapy. Doctors reportedly believe he should be recovered around Feb. 10.

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SAN JOSE – Herschel Walker made two things very clear at Thursday afternoon’s pre-fight press conference at the HP Pavilion: 1) he is totally, fully invested in his MMA training, no matter what skeptics might think, and 2) he owns a “chicken company” that somehow doesn’t get any press even with all the media attention on his second pro fight this Saturday night at Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Cyborg.

“I have a food company. I don’t know if you all know that but you need to write that up,” said Walker. “I have a chicken company that sells to Sysco. It’s the largest minority-owned chicken company in the United States. I have over 600 employees. I’m serious, you need to write that down.”

The point is, the reason the 48-year-old waited so long to get involved in MMA wasn’t because he wasn’t interested, Walker said. It’s just that he was busy with his company, Renaissance Man Food Services, and he doesn’t believe in doing anything just a little bit. That’s why he told his employees that if they called him while he was training at AKA that they would be summarily fired, and also why he’s spent the better part of the last year living in a hotel just to be near the gym.

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