It's hard to believe it, but as 2007 comes to a close that means that the one-year birthday of wrestlingmarks is just a few weeks away. The site opened in mid/late January of last year. Since that time, hundreds of matches have been rated, hundreds of wrestlers have been voted for, and a lot of news and blogs have been posted. Here I'm going to take a look at wrestlingmarks 2007 - BY THE NUMBERS.

Of course, the big draw of wrestlingmarks has always been the Top 10. For the most part, you can find tons of Top 10 stats already in the Top 10 archives. However, there are some numbers that aren't spoken of there. Just who (besides me, of course) has voted the most?

DXSSI - 36 times
DaneBramage - 20 times
RoadblockPwnz - 16 times
bergdogg - 10 times
RyderSands - 9 times
willierko - 9 times

Hmm... well that's interesting, although unfortunately bergdogg and RyderSands both haven't voted in a long time. Hopefully they come back someday!

The match ratings section... I've promised an archive section for this area for a long time, and trust me, it's still coming.There are a lot of interesting things we could look at here. Keeping with the theme we looked at with the Top 10... who has rated the most matches? And what is the average match rating that they hand out?

willierko - 1387 ratings - average 2.4
RoadblockPwnz - 857 ratings - average 2.2
bpapa - 660 ratings - average 2.0
chan17man - 362 ratings - average 2.7
takemura - 336 ratings - average 2.0

Wow, some people use this site more than I do! Willie's a machine! Also cool to see that we all average around 2 stars, which means we are probably seeing our share of good and bad matches this year.

OK, so we see who's doing the rating, but which matches were the best? Well, five "classic" matches, that is, matches that were pre-2007, received an average five-star rating. And don't worry, the averages are only being counted for matches that have been rated 10 or more times. Here are those matches:

WrestleMania 22: Hardcore Match - Edge w/ Lita vs. Mick Foley
WrestleMania 21: Kurt Angle vs. Shawn Michaels AND Money in the Bank Ladder Match - Edge vs. Chris Jericho vs. Chris Benoit vs. Christian vs. Kane vs. Shelton Benjamin
WrestleMania XX: World Heavyweight Championship - Triple H(c) vs. Chris Benoit vs. Shawn Michaels
WrestleMania X-Seven: Tag Team Championship TLC Match - The Dudley Boyz(c) vs. Edge and Christian vs. The Hardy Boyz

This year, we've only got one five-star match -

Manhattan Mayhem II: ROH World Title - Takeshi Morishima(c) vs. Bryan Danielson

Hell of a match, I was there for it myself! A number of matches also managed to pull in a 4 star ratings.

Manhattan Mayhem II: ROH Tag Titles 2/3 Falls - The Briscoes(c) vs. Kevin Steen and El Generico AND Claudio Castagnoli vs. Chris Hero AND Jack Evans vs. Roderick Strong vs. Austin Aries AND Mike Quackenbush and Jigsaw vs. The Resilience
SummerSlam: WWE Championship - John Cena(c) vs. Randy Orton
No Mercy: Last Man Standing WWE Title - Triple H(c) vs. Randy Orton
RAW: Intercontinental Title Ladder Match - Jeff Hardy(c) vs. Carlito
Armageddon: Triple H vs. Jeff Hardy
ECW: The Miz and John Morrison vs. Jimmy Wang Yang and Shannon Moore
No Surrender: X-Division Title - Kurt Angle(c) vs. "Black Machismo" Jay Lethal AND #1 Contender Tag Team Gauntlet Match - Triple X vs. LAX vs. The Voodoo Kin Mafia vs. Eric Young and Shark Boy vs. The Motor City Machine Guns vs. Lane Hoyt and Jimmy Rave vs. AJ Styles and Tomko vs. Team 3D vs. Sonjay Dutt and Petey Williams vs. Raven and Havok
WrestleMania 23: WWE Championship - John Cena(c) vs. Shawn Michaels
Survivor Series: World Title Hell in a Cell - Batista(c) vs. The Undertaker AND WWE Title - Randy Orton(c) vs. Shawn Michaels
Cyber Sunday: World Title - Batista(c) vs. The Undertaker w/ Special Guest Referee "Stone Cold" Steve Austin AND Street Fight - Umaga vs. Triple H
RAW: Randy Orton vs. Ric Flair
RAW: Mr. Kennedy and Finlay vs. Rey Mysterio and Jeff Hardy

A lot of surprises there, I think. No HBK vs. Cena from RAW, for one. Also no Umaga vs. Cena Last Man Standing but there's a good reason for that - that match isn't available for rating on wrestlingmarks! On the way to the Royal Rumble, it'll be up there along with all of the other Rumble matches from years past.

Although I'm only highlighting users in here that have contributed a lot to the site, I'd like to thank anybody that's rated a match, voted for a wrestler, made a comment, posted a blog, or even just visited the site. Here's to hoping that wrestlingmarks will be even bigger in 2008!