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Category "A" Awards: You vote three times for these. Lou Thesz/Ric Flair "Wrestler of the Year" Award: Cody Rhodes, Jon Moxley, Will Ospreay Most Outstanding Wrestler: Dax Harwood, Kazuchika Okada, Will Ospreay Tag Team of the Year: FTR, Jurassic Express, Hobbs and Starks Best on Interviews: MJF, Matt Cardona, Powerhouse Hobbs Promotion of the Year: AEW, STARDOM, NJPW Best Weekly TV Show: Dynamite Pro Wrestling Match of the Year: Cody Rhodes vs. Seth Rollins Hell in a Cell, Ospreay vs. Orange Cassidy, Jurassic Express vs. Hobbs and Starks vs. Swerve in Our Glory Category "B" Awards: You vote once for these. US/Canada MVP: Cody Rhodes Japan MVP: Will Ospreay Mexico MVP: Hijo del Vikingo Europe MVP: Will Ospreay Non-Heavyweight MVP: Ishimori Women's Wrestling MVP: Jade Cargill Feud of the Year: Cody vs. Rollins Most Improved: Keith Lee Most Charismatic: Maki Itoh Bryan Danielson "Best Technical Wrestler" Award: Zack Sabre Jr. Bruiser Brody Memorial "Best Brawler" Award: Jon Moxley Best Flying Wrestler: Rey Fenix Most Overrated: CM Punk Most Underrated: Ricky Starks Rookie of the Year: Hook Best Non-Wrestler: Taz Best Television Announcer: Taz Worst Television Announcer: Kevin Gill Best Major Wrestling Show: Forbidden Door Worst Major Wrestling Show: Joey Janela's Spring Break Part 2 Best Wrestling Maneuver: Coffin Drop Most Disgusting Promotional Tactic: Vince being Vince Worst Television Show: NXT 2.0 Worst Match of the Year: Clusterfuck Battle Royal Worst Feud of the Year: Sammy Guevara vs. Scorpio Sky Worst Promotion of the Year: GCW Best Booker: Tony Khan Promoter of the Year: Tony Khan Best Gimmick: Danhausen Worst Gimmick: Joe Gacy
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Category "A" Awards: You vote three times for these. Lou Thesz/Ric Flair "Wrestler of the Year" Award: 1. CM Punk 2. Hangman Page 3. Jon Moxley This is a real toss-up between Punk and Page right now. I think Punk was just barely ahead of Hangman after Double or Nothing, then obviously Punk went down with injury, which'd make you think Hangman would've gotten the lead back since then but...Page hasn't really done anything since then? He had a decent TV match, he was in the Royal Rampage, the only thing he's really done since then is the four=way at Forbidden Door....and he and Okada were the best part of that match. And it was one of the main events, so you would have to credit it at least partially for the buyrate...alright whatever I talked myself into it. 1. Hangman Page 2. CM Punk 3. Jon Moxley So yeah, Hangman and Punk have both been loving incredible this year, they've both done tons of business, they've had incredible matches and promos. They've been neck and neck for me all year and the thing that's making it really hard for me to pick one or the other is Revolution. I dunno who deserves more credit for the buyrate on that one, cause Page was in the main event, but the most pushed match and what certainly felt like the hottest match going in was the dog collar match. So I dunno. That's a tough one and right now I'm just leaning Hangman a liiiiiittle bit over Punk. Moxley is the only person I think has a realistic chance to catch either of them. I haven't seen any of Mox's GCW work, I would have to take a look at the attendance of those shows to see what effect he's having (I would assume significant). So far I don't think he's particularly close to Punk or Hangman in match quality or business, but he's the main guy in AEW right now, so he could easily catch them in both, depending on how long Punk is out and what Hangman does the rest of the year. Most Outstanding Wrestler: 1. Dax Harwood 2. Hangman Page 3. Konosuke Takeshita UNCLE DAX, MOTHERFUCKER. Maybe I'm overrating him a bit. At the end of the year I'm probably gonna be putting Page down here but I don't give a gently caress, Dax is awesome, I love his big bald rear end so much, I love how he cuts the same stupid promo about pro wrestling and family and his daughters every time he gets the mic, I love him being an unabashed Bret Hart mark. You couldn't get me to care about this dude if you put a gun to my head last year but he's one of my favorite wrestlers in the world since he turned babyface. Hangman has had a bunch of incredible matches this year, Danielson, Archer, I thought both of the matches with Adam Cole were just great, the Takeshita match was incredible, the Punk match was great - he was the standard bearer for AEW in the first half of the year and in the ring he delivered every time. Since he dropped the belt, he's been in kind of a holding pattern, which is probably why he's 2nd and not 1st, but I've enjoyed all of his work this year more than almost anybody. I'm just gonna say it, Hangman Page had the best in-ring AEW World Championship reign. Takeshita has just been an example of absolutely maximizing every single second of TV time you get. This guy's physical charisma is off the charts and every time he goes out there, he has an incredible match, he loses and people are begging for him to get a win the next time out. I'm absolutely enthralled by this guy and he's done it purely in the ring. I can't wait to see where his story goes. Tag Team of the Year: 1. FTR 2. Young Bucks 3. Keith Lee and Swerve Strickland I already talked about how Dax has been incredible as a babyface, so just apply that to FTR as a whole. The Bucks have been the Bucks as per usual, having great matches the way the rest of us breathe, and Swerve in Our Glory had a fantastic little story this year where it was teased constantly that they would break up and then they just....didn't! They stayed together and won the championships! Love it. Best on Interviews: 1. MJF 2. CM Punk 3. Eddie Kingston Near misses include Ricky Starks, Chris Jericho, Jon Moxley and especially lately, Christian Cage. Putting this list together just makes me realize, goddamn, AEW lost Punk and MJF at basically the same time and those guys were absolutely on fire on the mic every single week until they left. MJF has just, to use a term from his own promo, not hit a home run every time he came out, but hit a grand slam every time he came out. The dude has been absolutely untouchable on the mic all year and he left on his best one yet a couple months ago, calling his boss a loving MARK before vanishing into the Long Island wilderness. Great stuff. Punk had been on fire too prior to his injury, although I thought his concern troll act against Hangman was a little bit of a miss. His best stuff of the year was definitely when he was feuding with MJF. And Eddie Kingston has been Eddie Kingston, pure, raw emotion at its best every time he touches a mic. His "I drown my demons, but they know how to swim" promo was incredible. Him calling Jericho on the phone during an episode of Rampage was incredible. Man, this feud was great until it went on for, checks watch, 718 years. Promotion of the Year: 1. AEW 2. NJPW 3. I don't know!!!!!! AEW and NJPW are as always the clear one and two. AEW is putting on great show after great show, NJPW has continued plunking along through the pandemic and doing what business they can and have done some cool stuff here and there that wasn't just Forbidden Door. As for third place, I genuinely don't know. RoH has only had one show (two by the time you're reading this, probably) so that's not really enough. I've heard varying good things about Stardom, Dragon Gate and Impact this year, but I don't watch any of those so I dunno which to pick! I am allowing you to choose whichever of Stardom, Dragon Gate, NOAH, Tokyo Joshi Pro or Impact you like the most and pretend I gave it my third place vote. Okay maybe not NOAH. Best Weekly TV Show: 1. AEW Dynamite 2. AEW Rampage I'm told New Japan Strong and Impact have been good this year. I do not watch either! Pro Wrestling Match of the Year: 1. Hangman Page vs. Bryan Danielson - AEW Dynamite 1/5/22 2. CM Punk vs. MJF - AEW Dynamite AEW Dynamite 2/2/22 3. Young Bucks vs. Ricky Starks and Powerhouse Hobbs vs. Keith Lee and Swerve Strickland - AEW Dynamite 7/13/22 Not that it's relevant cause the first match was in 2021, but I liked Page vs. Bryan 2 more than the Winter is Coming match, because man, the second match was just so much more brutal and mean than the first one, it was great. Favorite match all year, easy. I liked the Punk/MJF Dynamite match more than the Dog Collar match by just a little bit because I really loved the length and the selling in the TV match and also, Punk broke out the Pepsi Plunge! That was fun. And the Triple or Nothing match was just a really fun, extravagant tag team match which had a really good story culmination at the end. Category "B" Awards: You vote once for these. US/Canada MVP: Hangman Page Japan MVP: Kazuchika Okada Mexico MVP: Dunno Europe MVP: Dunno Non-Heavyweight MVP: PAC Women's Wrestling MVP: Best Box Office Draw: CM Punk Feud of the Year: CM Punk vs. MJF Most Improved: Wheeler Yuta Most Charismatic: MJF Bryan Danielson "Best Technical Wrestler" Award: Bryan Danielson Bruiser Brody Memorial "Best Brawler" Award: Dax Harwood Best Flying Wrestler: Rey Fenix Most Overrated: Roman Reigns Every year until people learn. Most Underrated: I dunno!! Athena? Seems weird to put PAC here while he has a belt, but I'm kinda leaning towards him anyway, lol. For now I'm just gonna steal Rarity's pick and say Athena, she's been really, really good since she signed with AEW, but I feel like people are starting to notice. Rookie of the Year: Konosuke Takeshita Catch the fever! #nastyism Best Non-Wrestler: William Regal I thought Stoke would be making a stronger run for this by this point in the year, tbh. Best Television Announcer: Taz I might change this to Ian Riccaboni after Death Before Dishonor, that guy's great. Also I haven't watched enough NJPW this year, but I hear Kevin Kelly's been knocking it out of the park and he was absolutely great on Forbidden Door. Worst Television Announcer: Some WWE shmuck, I'm sure. If you're gonna ask me to say somebody from a show I actually watch, probably Jim Ross. Best Major Wrestling Show: AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door Worst Major Wrestling Show: WWE Royal Rumble 2022 Best Wrestling Maneuver: Some joshi, I think it's Yamashita? She does a kick that's like Malakai Black's spin kick on steroids. That one. That thing looks like loving murder. Most Disgusting Promotional Tactic: Everything related to Vince and his sex scandals, but particularly sending Titus out to cape for him about five minutes before he stepped down in shame. Worst Television Show: WWE SmackDown Maybe NXT is worse on a week-to-week basis, maybe Raw is longer, but SmackDown did that episode where they had like 13 minutes of wrestling in two hours and they bait-and-switched the main event for a 90 second squash and that alone wins it worst television show for the entire year for me. Worst Match of the Year: Eddie Kingston vs. Chris Jericho, Barbed Wire Everywhere Match - AEW Dynamite: Fyter Fest Night 2 7/20/22 ahahahaha gotcha, it's actually the Men's Royal Rumble. Worst Feud of the Year: Sammy Guevara vs. Scorpio Sky The only reason I'm putting this over Brock vs. Roman or "House of Torture vs. Me, the viewer" (very good pick, forkboy) is because for one glorious week, they had it. They had saved this one. They did the double turn, Sammy was a despicable little prick who couldn't keep his tongue out of his girl's mouth and Men of the Year were firey babyfaces. There was a great story about how Scorpio Sky's obsession with the TNT Title for over a year made him be a prick rear end in a top hat, but then when thought he'd gotten what he wanted, he immediately lost it again. Then he became the heroic, honorable Scorpio Sky again and it was enough to catapult him to victory and earn him the respect of the fans! Ethan Page was cuttin' firey babyface promos! Dynamite Dan Lambert was out there saying stuff like "my grandfather said that youth is wasted on the young because you can go wherever you want but you don't have the wisdom to appreciate it." and it WORKED. Everybody was cheering for Scorpio like he was a conqeuring hero! And then they threw it all away literally a week later. God. I was so, so, so frustrated when that happened. Probably the worst AEW has ever disappointed me. I get that it was because they wanted to put the belt on Wardlow but geeeeeeeeeez. Worst Promotion of the Year: WWE Best Booker: Tony Khan Promoter of the Year: Tony Khan Best Gimmick: Eddie Kingston, a loser and a failure. Worst Gimmick: Roman Reigns, "The Tribal Chief". Shad Gaspard/Jon Huber Memorial Award: Does Martha Hart count? Best Pro Wrestling Book: MOX, this only counts because the audiobook came out this year.  Best Pro Wrestling DVD/Streaming Documentary: Whatever the best "fall of Vince McMahon" documentary turns out to be.
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PAC's a heavyweight! He didn't bulk up to 206 lbs to be disrespected like this 
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Anybody lighter than or equal to Shingo is a Jr. Heavyweight, sorry, I don't make the rules.
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So uh. Jericho for Thesz/Flair?
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In the conversation but not having the AEW title run kinda of puts him behind Moxley plus Moxley has been in other companies as well. Now if he gets ROH a great TV spot and lifts the company up than maybe the conversation differs but right now I'd vote for Moxley (though I wouldn't begrudge someone voting for Jericho)
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Not sure about Thesz/Flair but definitely Most Improved
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Thesz/Flair is Moxley and then Okada and Syuri imhf
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Moving Kento #1 for Lou Thesz after dead indie All Japan did one of the best attendances at the Budokan in a couple of years
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Rarity posted:Not sure about Thesz/Flair but definitely Most Improved I can't really call him Most Improved when he won wrestler of the year only three years ago. Its Jericho, he's always going to be awesome.
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Lid posted:I can't really call him Most Improved when he won wrestler of the year only three years ago. Its Jericho, he's always going to be awesome. I was wondering earlier if it's fair to give someone "most improved" if they were great then had a really bad year and then were great again. Not for Jericho though, Taiji Ishimori has been really phoned in for two or three years and now he's suddenly great again.
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forkboy84 posted:Category "A" Awards: You vote three times for these. We're ¾ of the way through the year & thought I'd see what I I'd change Category "A" Awards: You vote three times for these. Lou Thesz/Ric Flair "Wrestler of the Year" Award: 1. Kento Miyahara 2. Kazuchika Okada 3. Jon Moxley Tag Team of the Year: 1. Astronauts 2. Kung Fu Masters 3. Soul Meat Promotion of the Year: 1. All Japan 2. GLEAT 3. Prominence Pro Wrestling Match of the Year: 1. MUSASHI vs Fujita "Jr" Hayato, 1/7 Michinoku Pro 2. Go Shiozaki vs Katsuhiko Nakajima, 1/1 NOAH 3. El Desperado vs Jun Kasai, 12/9 JTO Category "B" Awards: You vote once for these. Mexico MVP: Soberano Jr? Most Improved: Rising HAYATO Best Wrestling Maneuver: Kenoh's PFS Not much tbh. CM Punk out, NJPW out. Otherwise, Despy vs Jun is now #3 MOTY. Kind of like that my top 3 wrestlers has stayed the same, if there was a comeback of the year it'd be Mike Bailey, I know he technically didn't go away but he's taken his return to US wrestling with both hands
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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:I was wondering earlier if it's fair to give someone "most improved" if they were great then had a really bad year and then were great again. i think this happened when Great Muta became Keiji Mutoh in 2000 but i can't be sure?
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Is it just me or is MOTY incredibly hard to pick this year? There's a good dozen or so that I can think of where you could make an argument and I'd say fair enough
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Rarity posted:Is it just me or is MOTY incredibly hard to pick this year? There's a good dozen or so that I can think of where you could make an argument and I'd say fair enough For me it's Desperado/Kasai and it's possibly my favourite match ever so it's easy for me.
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Rarity posted:Is it just me or is MOTY incredibly hard to pick this year? There's a good dozen or so that I can think of where you could make an argument and I'd say fair enough I have to think about Acclaimed vs SIOG and Mox vs. Punk from All Out but besides that, nothing has really shook my top three.
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its going to be FTR v Briscoes 1 regardless of what we vote
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FTR/Briscoes 1 FTR/Briscoes 2 Okada/Zack Okada/Jay Okada/Ospreay Eddie/Jericho 1 Anarchy in the Arena Punk/MJF Dog Collar SIOG/Acclaimed 1 Hangman/Bryan And that's just off the top of my head and only really knowing about New Japan and the Khanverse
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MJeff posted:So uh. I don't know, Thesz/Flair/Jericho sounds like a mouthful for an award name, but I can't really argue with it.
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Wrestler of the year is Kento Miyahara for getting watchable matches out of Abdullah Kobayashi and Suwama in 2022, and I will entertain no discussion to the contrary
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Giving this a little bump since we're close to the end of the year. I haven't looked at my ballot in a while, on the discussion of Thesz/Flair, I'm pretty sure it's just Moxley but I'm wondering if MJF or Jericho have any kind of case.
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MJeff posted:Giving this a little bump since we're close to the end of the year. I haven't looked at my ballot in a while, on the discussion of Thesz/Flair, I'm pretty sure it's just Moxley but I'm wondering if MJF or Jericho have any kind of case. Jericho had a better year, that is my case.
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The best US candidates are Mox, Jericho and as much as I hate to say it Roman Reigns. MJF hasn't worked enough for this year to enter the conversation I'm still debating wrestler of the year but Outstanding is clearly Will Ospreay
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MJeff posted:Giving this a little bump since we're close to the end of the year. I haven't looked at my ballot in a while, on the discussion of Thesz/Flair, I'm pretty sure it's just Moxley but I'm wondering if MJF or Jericho have any kind of case. Any other year I think Jericho would walk it, but Moxley has really been the guy keeping AEW together and stepped up more than once, and is a candidate for most outstanding too. Okada deserves consideration for NJPW going from an absolute mess to pretty much doubling attendance for most shows YoY but I think the booking actually making sense this year helped a lot.
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I fully expect Roman Reigns to get a lot of votes and because there might be a vote split due to no clear #1 choice (Moxley was the clear favourite in the first half but it was all mixed up in the CM Punk nonsense who was also a first third nominee, then was second to Jericho later on, whereas Roman's been consistent in his role). Okada's possible as a default "we don't know" choice either though it would be funny that it would be Okada's second ever wrestler of the year only, because despite Okada being well loving Okada he's only won wrestler of the year once and that was the 2017 literal best single year a wrestler has had ever.
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My picks in July, changes in italics Category "A" Awards: You vote three times for these. Lou Thesz/Ric Flair "Wrestler of the Year" Award: 1. Jon Moxley, 2. Eddie Kingston, 3. Hangman Page[/b] Mox obviously still holds the top spot. Jericho's going in second and yeah Okada can have third Most Outstanding Wrestler: 1. Zack Sabre Jr., 2. Eddie Kingston, 3. Dax Harwood[/b] I'm not voting for Ospreay because of The Reasons so Zack can keep his top spot. Dax is going up to second for being on fire all year long and I love Eddie but he tailed off so third is going to be Hangman Tag Team of the Year: 1. FTR, 2. The Young Bucks, 3. Swerve in Our Glory[/b] I literally cannot vote against The Acclaimed so they move into #1, FTR go down to #2 and SIOG stay at #3. Best on Interviews: 1. Eddie Kingston, 2. Zack Sabre Jr., 3. Jay White[/b] Jay's promos this year have been phenomenal so he's up to first, Zack's still second and Eddie's down to third Promotion of the Year: 1. AEW, 2. NJPW, 3. TJPW[/b] Same Best Weekly TV Show: 1. AEW Dynamite, 2. AEW Rampage, 3. Hey EW[/b] Same Pro Wrestling Match of the Year: 1. FTR vs. The Briscoes - ROH Supercard of Honor, 2. Kazuchika Okada vs. Jay White, NJPW Dominion, 3. Kazuchika Okada vs. Zack Sabre Jr. - NJPW Hyper Battle FTR vs. Aussie Open from Royal Quest II is my MOTY because I was there. After that it's so hard because there were so many great matches this year. FTR/Briscoes can have the second spot, I'll pick the Final Battle one and then the G1 final can be third. Category "B" Awards: You vote once for these. US/Canada MVP: Jon Moxley Same Japan MVP: Jay White Same Mexico MVP: No idea El Hijo del Vikingo Europe MVP: Will Ospreay Same Non-Heavyweight MVP: Swerve Strickland gently caress YOU SWERVE Women's Wrestling MVP: Miyu Yamashita  Best Box Office Draw: CM Punk Oof. Erm, Okada I guess Feud of the Year: Eddie Kingston vs. Chris Jericho This would still be my pick if it hadn't kept going and going and going. It's gotta be FTR/Briscoes now Most Improved: Jade Cargill I'm giving it to Chris Jericho because it's true Most Charismatic: Eddie Kingston Forever Bryan Danielson "Best Technical Wrestler" Award: Zack Sabre Jr. It's close but he's had the better year Bruiser Brody Memorial "Best Brawler" Award: Jon Moxley Easy pick Best Flying Wrestler: Rey Fenix Same Most Overrated: Roman Reigns Ok yeah Roman's actually become ok I guess fiiiiiiiiiiiiine. Oh well gently caress CM Punk Most Underrated: Athena She just won the ROH belt so I guess that'll do. In that case I'm gonna give it to ZSJ, dude should be in the IWGP title picture Rookie of the Year: HOOK Not sure who else is a contender really Best Non-Wrestler: William Regal Yep Best Television Announcer: Excalibur Yep Worst Television Announcer: Corey Graves Nope Best Major Wrestling Show: AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door It was so good Worst Major Wrestling Show: WWE Royal Rumble Ugh Best Wrestling Maneuver: Athena's Diving Stunner Yeah it rules Most Disgusting Promotional Tactic: Vince McMahon promoting himself on TV after sexual assault pay-offs come out Nothing was gonna top this although CM Punk tried Worst Television Show: NXT 2.0 Oh god it sucks Worst Match of the Year: Lash Legend vs. Nikita Lyons, NXT 2.0 Yes Worst Feud of the Year: Sammy Guevara vs. Scorpio Sky What a mess Worst Promotion of the Year: WWE Of course Best Booker: Tony Khan I'm actually gonna switch this. Gedo's done a great job reviving New Japan this year Promoter of the Year: Tony Khan I can't give this to the guy who allowed CM Punk to fall apart on a live mic so Bushiroad can have it Best Gimmick: The Acclaimed I told you about scissors bro! I loving told you! Worst Gimmick: Lash Legend, Pro-Wrestler I said this cause I couldn't think of it but obviously it's Schism Shad Gaspard/Jon Huber Memorial Award: Best Pro Wrestling Book: No idea Best Pro Wrestling DVD/Streaming Documentary: No idea Still skipping all these Good year of pro-graps imo
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Naito lost again so I refuse to accept any votes for Gedo as valid. 
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Category "A" Awards: Lou Thesz/Ric Flair "Wrestler of the Year" Award: 1. Jon Moxley 2. Syuri 3. Kento Miyahara Most Outstanding Wrestler: 1. Syuri 2. Zack Sabre Jr. 3. Konosuke Takeshita Tag Team of the Year: 1. Bishamon 2. FWC 3. Reiwa AA Cannon Best on Interviews: 1. Eddie Kingston 2. Zack Sabre Jr. 3. Syuri Promotion of the Year: 1. STARDOM 2. GLEAT 3. NJPW Best Weekly TV Show: 1. AEW Dynamite 2. Chocopro 3. AEW Rampage Pro Wrestling Match of the Year: 1. El Desperado vs. Jun Kasai, JTO TAKA Michinoku Debut 30th Anniversary ~ TAKATaichiDespeMania, JUST TAP OUT 2. Giulia v. Syuri, STARDOM Dream Queendom 2022, STARDOM 3. Tomoka Inaba vs. Suzu Suzuki, JTO 50th Anniversary for TAKATaichi Together ~ Last TAKATaichi, JUST TAP OUT Category "B" Awards: US/Canada MVP: Jon Moxley Japan MVP: Kazuchika Okada Mexico MVP: Hijo del Vikingo Non-Heavyweight MVP: El Lindaman Women's Wrestling MVP: Syuri Feud of the Year: Swerve in Our Glory vs. The Acclaimed Most Improved: Mina Shirakawa Most Charismatic: ASUKA (VENY) Bryan Danielson "Best Technical Wrestler" Award: Zack Sabre Jr. Bruiser Brody Memorial "Best Brawler" Award: Eddie Kingston Best Flying Wrestler: Komander Most Overrated: Will Ospreay Most Underrated: Check Shimatani Rookie of the Year: HOOK Best Non-Wrestler: William Regal Best Television Announcer: Milano Collection A.T. Worst Television Announcer: Corey Graves Best Major Wrestling Show: AEW/NJPW Forbidden Door Worst Major Wrestling Show: WWE Royal Rumble Best Wrestling Maneuver: Tequila Shot (Suzu Suzuki) Most Disgusting Promotional Tactic: Vince McMahon appearing on WWE television in response to sexual assault payoffs being reported Worst Television Show: WWE RAW Worst Match of the Year: Ric Flair & Andrade El Idolo vs. Jay Lethal & Jeff Jarrett, Ric Flair's Last Match, Jim Crockett Promotions Worst Feud of the Year: Sammy Guevara vs. Scorpio Sky Worst Promotion of the Year: WWE Best Booker: CIMA (or whoever books GLEAT) Promoter of the Year: Rossy Ogawa Best Gimmick: The Acclaimed and Billy Gunn's SCISSOR ME DADDY rear end Worst Gimmick: Pheromones Shad Gaspard/Jon Huber Memorial Award: Kyoko Kimura Power Windows fucked around with this message at 04:10 on Jan 1, 2023 |
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MJeff posted:Original Ballot Category "A" Awards: You vote three times for these. Lou Thesz/Ric Flair "Wrestler of the Year" Award: 1. Jon Moxley 2. Chris Jericho 3. MJF Remember when this award was a toss-up between CM Punk and Hangman Page? If Punk had just gotten injured, I think you could still make an argument for him as AEW MVP, just because he did so much for the company's business in the first half of the year and the business drop-off since All Out is frankly kind of stark, but given the incredibly toxic way he left the company, there's no reasonable argument for him being the most positive contributor to AEW this year and Page just kinda didn't do anything at all after he dropped the title (although I think you gotta give him a little credit for the Forbidden Door buyrate). I wondered if MJF had any case, but he missed a significant chunk of the year selling his storyline and while he was probably the most compelling thing in the company after he returned at All Out, the ratings kinda dropped while the show was focused on him and I dunno about anybody else, but I was the slightest bit disappointed that he just went full heel at Full Gear instead of continuing the inner conflict storyline. Either way, it's hard to put him ahead of Mox or Jericho until we know Full Gear's buys, whiiiiich we don't, so he's in 3rd. Jericho vs. Mox was a tough one. I actually think on matches, Jericho came out ahead and if you did some quarter-hour analysis, I think Jericho would come out ahead on ratings too, but Moxley basically stepping in and saving the world title multiple times, main eventing multiple pay per views that he wasn't supposed to main event just meant a ton for the promotion and the championship in terms of giving them stability. Also I'm a Punk mark and I'm annoyed at Jericho right now. Whatever, it's my ballot. Most Outstanding Wrestler: 1. Claudio Castagnoli 2. Dax Harwood 3. Swerve Strickland I had to drop Hangman out of here cause the guy just didn't do anything in the second half of the year, which isn't entirely his fault, but still. Takeshita came back and had a loving amazing match with Moxley, but I didn't watch any of his DDT stuff this year so again, not much of a case from the second half of the year. With those two out, I moved Swerve into third because that guy has just been great in 2022 all year and his match with Wheeler Yuta in the last Rampage of the year might've pushed him just ahead of someone like Ricky Starks, who was also absolutely money in 2022. Dax just kept churning out the hits and it's honestly tempting to leave him at number 1, but dude, Claudio has just been so loving great. There's a bit of recency bias here, because it was definitely the Three Kings Battle Royale and the Claudio and Mox vs. Top Flight match that gave him a push but I just love everything about Claudio's work right now. He's finally in a place that understands that you can just put him out there and trust his overwhelming skill and physical charisma to tell whatever story you want and he's been flourishing. I can't wait to see what he does in 2023. Tag Team of the Year: 1. FTR 2. Keith Lee and Swerve Strickland 3. The Acclaimed FTR blows this award away, obviously. Swerve in Our Glory had a great storyline that spanned nearly the entire year and the Acclaimed got stupidly insanely over and forced Khan to put the belt on them. I think you could make cases for the Bucks and Lucha Bros here, but it's weird, because they've spent most of the last chunk of the year doing trios stuff, not tag team stuff. Best on Interviews: 1. MJF 2. Ricky Starks 3. CM Punk Even going out in a blaze of muffins and hate, Punk is still one of the best promos in the business, so I can't take him off. MJF had his absolutely incredible inner conflict storyline in the second half of the year and Ricky Starks cut the promo of his life like five or six times this year, from the promo after he lost the title to Hook, to the promo after Hobbs turned on him, to the promo against MJF, to the promo against Jericho. Just incredible stuff that everybody who paid attention knew he was capable of. Promotion of the Year: 1. AEW 2. NJPW 3. I don't know!!!!!! Third place....I dunno, Ring of Honor? I didn't watch Stardom.  Best Weekly TV Show: 1. AEW Dynamite 2. AEW Rampage I'm told New Japan Strong and Impact have been good this year. I do not watch either! Pro Wrestling Match of the Year: 1. CM Punk vs. Jon Moxley - AEW All Out 9/4/22 2. Hangman Page vs. Bryan Danielson - AEW Dynamite 1/5/22 3. Keith Lee and Swerve Strickland vs. The Acclaimed - AEW All Out 9/4/22 Honestly the only reason that Punk vs. Moxley is ahead of Page vs. Bryan is because I had more of a personal emotional investment in the former. I was completely enthralled by the Punk vs. Moxley storyline and thought the work and the psychology in the match was absolutely incredible with a totally satisfying finish where Punk had fully come back from his injury and defeated the most violent, deadly wrestler in the world to take his place back at the top of the company for about......7 minutes or so. Page vs. Bryan was an absolutely incredible match, I liked it more than the first one because it was just so much more violent and hateful and brutal. And Swerve in Our Glory vs. the Acclaimed is my favorite tag team match of the year and an absolute masterclass in getting someone from "over" to "OVER", and everybody who says they should've called an audible is an idiot because the reaction they got during the match was the reaction THEY WERE TRYING TO GET. The story about Bowens' body not holding up was told excellently over multiple matches and it was at its best here. The tension between Swerve and Keith Lee. The stories of these teams were so great this year and they intersected beautifully in this match. Category "B" Awards: You vote once for these. US/Canada MVP: Jon Moxley Japan MVP: Syuri Look, I didn't watch NJPW or Stardom so I'm just gonna say Syuri 'cause she looks like she could put my lights out with one finger and I like that. Mexico MVP: Dunno Europe MVP: Dunno Non-Heavyweight MVP: PAC Women's Wrestling MVP: Toni Storm Best Box Office Draw: CM Punk Feud of the Year: CM Punk vs. MJF Most Improved: Wheeler Yuta Most Charismatic: MJF Bryan Danielson "Best Technical Wrestler" Award and Bruiser Brody Memorial "Best Brawler" Award: Bryan Danielson and Claudio Castagnoli Look, just combine the awards and rename them the Blackpool Combat Club award. Best Flying Wrestler: Rey Fenix Most Overrated: Roman Reigns People are saying this tool should be wrestler of the year, gimme a fuckin' break. Honorable mention to Miro, who's never done a thing in the wrestling business but is out here turning down creative because he doesn't wanna lose. Most Underrated: Hikaru Shida I dunno who the heck to pick for this. Claudio is finally properly pushed. PAC is finally properly pushed. Athena is finally properly pushed. I don't know who to pick! So I went with Shida because she's the best and I want her to be on TV all the time and win a belt in 2023. Rookie of the Year: HOOK But for real, it's Hook. Best Non-Wrestler: William Regal Even with the absolutely bizarre way he was written out of the company, Regal still wins this pretty handily. Stoke is a contender, he did some really good work with the Firm in the second half of the year, Smart Mark is always incredibly entertaining, but they weren't really close to Regal. Best Television Announcer: Taz Taz has become a great staple of the Dynamite booth since Taz moved to Rampage, he rides a great line between a heel-leaning commentator and the experienced wrestler who can break down the moves and just a funny guy who has excellent banter with Excalibur and Schiavone. The Dynamite booth is the best its ever been right now and Taz is a huge part of that. Worst Television Announcer: Some WWE shmuck, I'm sure. I had Jim Ross on here but y'know what, since he moved to Rampage and is only doing half-duty on PPVs, JR has been pretty drat solid. Best Major Wrestling Show: AEW All Out It's very close between All Out and Forbidden Door (and Revolution isn't far behind), I thought All Out was a booking masterclass, every single result hit home incredibly well with me and the best matches peaked higher, so I give the nod to that one, although I understand most people are gonna prefer just how wall-to-wall amazing Forbidden Door was. Worst Major Wrestling Show: WWE Royal Rumble 2022 Best Wrestling Maneuver: Swerve Strickland - House Call Y'know that move where Swerve leaps over an opponent and then kicks his foot backwards as he passes them? Absolutely nuts. Most Disgusting Promotional Tactic: Everything related to Vince and his sex scandals, but particularly sending Titus out to cape for him about five minutes before he stepped down in shame. Worst Television Show: WWE SmackDown Maybe NXT is worse on a week-to-week basis, maybe Raw is longer, but SmackDown did that episode where they had like 13 minutes of wrestling in two hours and they bait-and-switched the main event for a 90 second squash and that alone wins it worst television show for the entire year for me. Worst Match of the Year: Eddie Kingston vs. Chris Jericho, Barbed Wire Everywhere Match - AEW Dynamite: Fyter Fest Night 2 7/20/22 ahahahaha gotcha, it's actually the Men's Royal Rumble. Worst Feud of the Year: Sammy Guevara vs. Scorpio Sky The only reason I'm putting this over Brock vs. Roman or "House of Torture vs. Me, the viewer" (very good pick, forkboy) is because for one glorious week, they had it. They had saved this one. They did the double turn, Sammy was a despicable little prick who couldn't keep his tongue out of his girl's mouth and Men of the Year were firey babyfaces. There was a great story about how Scorpio Sky's obsession with the TNT Title for over a year made him be a prick rear end in a top hat, but then when thought he'd gotten what he wanted, he immediately lost it again. Then he became the heroic, honorable Scorpio Sky again and it was enough to catapult him to victory and earn him the respect of the fans! Ethan Page was cuttin' firey babyface promos! Dynamite Dan Lambert was out there saying stuff like "my grandfather said that youth is wasted on the young because you can go wherever you want but you don't have the wisdom to appreciate it." and it WORKED. Everybody was cheering for Scorpio like he was a conquering hero! And then they threw it all away literally a week later. God. I was so, so, so frustrated when that happened. Probably the worst AEW has ever disappointed me. I get that it was because they wanted to put the belt on Wardlow but geeeeeeeeeez. Worst Promotion of the Year: WWE Best Booker: Tony Khan Promoter of the Year: Tony Khan Tony Khan had the best year of PPV in wrestling history while his roster spent 75% of the year constantly exploding in his face. It is very, very, very obviously him and he just keeps making the gap between himself and the rest of the industry bigger every year. Best Gimmick: Orange Cassidy Orange Cassidy had some big character development moments this year. He was the most locked in you've ever seen him in AEW for his feud against PAC. I really love how he won his first title and you would expect Orange to be lazy and just never want to defend the thing, but instead he just says "yeah sure let's do it" to literally every single person who wants to fight him. It's a perfectly Orange Cassidy way of embodying the babyface fighting champion character and OC was low-key a pretty important piece for AEW after he got back from his own injury. While a lot of other people were missing, he was just there, being steady and delivering every week. My favorite thing about OC is how he knows exactly what his character needs to be for the story he's in. He knows when to be the jokey pockets man and he knows how to use that to contrast the moments where he's actually serious. Unironically, Orange Cassidy has one of the best understandings of wrestling psychology in the business today. Worst Gimmick: Roman Reigns, "The Tribal Chief". Shad Gaspard/Jon Huber Memorial Award: Dr. Martha Hart Best Pro Wrestling Book: MOX, this only counts because the audiobook came out this year. Best Pro Wrestling DVD/Streaming Documentary: No good "Fall of Vince McMahon" docs came out this year so I dunno. MJeff fucked around with this message at 06:53 on Jan 1, 2023 |
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Dec 31, 2022 21:43
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MJeff I disagree with a lot of your post including Best Gimmick but OC has absolutely vital in providing stability over the back half of the year
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Jan 1, 2023 05:09
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The Most Important Awards of the Year are up, the So-Called Voices of Wrestling MOTY list! https://twitter.com/voiceswrestling/status/1619101534930731008 Briscoes vs FTR took 3 of the top 10, 1st, 2nd and 10th.
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Jan 27, 2023 23:38
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I got a couple write ups in there this year. 
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Jan 30, 2023 15:31
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VoW continue to deem my contributions to scooping as unworthy of a submission entry 
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Jan 30, 2023 15:50
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They automatically send all contributors a ballot, pitch them an article about how Taichi was the pandemic MVP or something.
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