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yea ok
Jul 27, 2006

Category A Awards
Wrestler of the year - Ospreay
Most Outstanding - Ospreay
Tag Team of the year - FTR
Best on interviews - Eddie Kingston
Promotion of the year - WWE
Best weekly TV show - Dynamite
Match of the year - Omega/Ospreay tokyo dome

Category B Awards
US MVP - Cody
Japan MVP - Ospreay
Mexico MVP - Mistico
Europe MVP - Ospreay
Non Heavyweight MVP - Vikingo
Women MVP - Rhea
Feud of the year - Sami/KO vs Bloodline
Most Improved - Julia Hart
Most Charismatic - MJF
Bryan Danielson Award - Bryan Danielson
Best brawler - Moxley
Best flyer - Vikingo
Most overrated - Sanada
Most underrated - Chad Gable
Rookie of the year - Yuma Anzai
Best non wrestler - Don Callis
Best TV announcer - Excalibur
Worst TV announcer - Booker T
Best Major wrestling show - AEW Revolution
Worst major wrestling show - WWE Crown Jewel
Best wrestling maneuver - Hidden blade
Most disgusting promotional tactic - WWE enabling vince mcmahon and him being back in power/TKO keeping him in position of power
Worst TV show - NWA POWERR
Worst match of the year - Bray wyatt vs LA Knight
Worst feud of the year - MJF vs The devil
Worst promotion of the year - NWA
Best booker - Paul Levesque
Promotor of the year - Nick Khan
Best Gimmick - Toni Storm
Worst Gimmick - The devil

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yea ok
Jul 27, 2006

more detailed spam

(WRESTLER OF THE YEAR)
1. WILL OSPREAY (302) 1,814
2. Cody Rhodes (119) 1,330
3. MJF (80) 927
4. Roman Reigns (106) 904
5. Bryan Danielson (49) 590
6. Mistico (34) 458
7. Seth Rollins (8) 227
8. Kazuchika Okada (15) 218
9. Kento Miyahara (9) 141
10. Tam Nakano (0) 123
Jon Moxley 123
HONORABLE MENTION: Orange Cassidy 116, Kenny Omega 68, CM Punk 67

MOST OUTSTANDING WRESTLER
1. WILL OSPREAY (548) 3,086
2. Bryan Danielson (122) 1,773
3. Kenny Omega (19) 590
4. Zack Sabre Jr. (15) 282
5. Kento Miyahara (11) 185
6. Gunther (15) 177
7. Kazuchika Okada 152
8. Shingo Takagi 122
9. Orange Cassidy 115
10. Mike Bailey 114
HONORABLE MENTION: Jon Moxley 104, MJF 73, Seth Rollins 64, Eddie Kingston 62

TAG TEAM OF THE YEAR
1. FTR (344) 2,341
2. Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn (106) 1,128
3. Hirooki Goto & Yoshi-Hashi (71) 712
4. Takuya Nomura & Fuminori Abe (82) 473
5. Young Bucks (42) 435
6. Mark Davis & Kyle Fletcher (7) 398
7. Francesco Akira & TJP (25) 379
8. Usos (6) 233
9. Jun & Rei Saito (8) 201
10. The Acclaimed (11) 188
HONORABLE MENTION: Kento Miyahara & Yuma Aoyagi (1) 193, Natsupoi & Saori Anou 97, Jay White & Juice Robinson 91, Kazuchika Okada & Hiroshi Tanahashi & Tomohiro Ishii 81, Damien Priest & Finn Balor 79, Adam Cole & MJF 62

BEST ON INTERVIEWS
1. EDDIE KINGSTON (199) 1,483
2. MJF (140) 1,441
3. Christian Cage (148) 921
4. Jon Moxley (50) 705
5. Cody Rhodes (51) 626
6. Bryan Danielson (24) 362
7. Will Ospreay (32) 258
8. CM Punk (22) 233
9. LA Knight (16) 170
10. Don Callis (14) 129
HONORABLE MENTION: Samoa Joe 121, Sami Zayn 94, Zack Sabre Jr. 90, Jay White 77, Paul Heyman 65, Ricky Starks 63

PROMOTION OF THE YEAR
1. WORLD WRESTLING ENTERTAINMENT (406) 2,359
2. All Elite Wrestling (194) 1,965
3. New Japan Pro Wrestling (17) 1,011
4. CMLL (90) 965
5. UFC (52) 580
6. All Japan Pro Wrestling (66) 571
7. Stardom (42) 569
8. Impact Wrestling 142
9. Dragon Gate (6) 57

BEST WEEKLY TV SHOW
1. AEW DYNAMITE (430) 2,707
2. AEW Collision (74) 1,483
3. WWE Smackdown (128) 1,434
4. CMLL Super Viernes (67) 518
5. WWE NXT (3) 309
6. WWE Raw (4) 30
7. AEW Rampage 229
8. New Japan on AXS (8) 103
9. Impact Wrestling 91
10. We are Stardom (9) 82

PRO WRESTLING MATCH OF THE YEAR
1. KENNY OMEGA VS. WILL OSPREAY 1/4 TOKYO (474) 3,018
2. Kenny Omega vs. Will Ospreay 6/25 Toronto (116) 1,227
3. MJF vs. Bryan Danielson 3/5 San Francisco (115) 1,065
4. Swerve Strickland vs. Adam Page 11/18 Los Angeles (33) 464
5. FTR vs. White & Robinson (5) 266
6. Bryan Danielson vs. Zack Sabre Jr. (13) 265
7. Katsuhiko Nakajima vs. Kento Miyahara 7/15 (26) 244
8. Will Ospreay vs. Tetsuya Naito (8) 234
9. Queen’s Quest vs. Oedo Tai 6/25 Tokyo (19) 189
10. Gunther vs. Sheamus vs. Drew McIntyre (14) 177
HONORABLE MENTION: Adam Page vs. Jon Moxley 3/5 San Francisco 153, Katsuhiko Nakajima vs. Kento Miyahara 12/31 Tokyo 124, Will Ospreay vs. Shota Umino 11/4 Osaka 101

Tato
Jun 19, 2001

DIRECTIVE 236: Promote pro-social values
Bray got one last award and The Devil got its due

Erin M. Fiasco
Mar 21, 2013

Nothing's better than postin' in the morning!



Depressing, thank you!

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

gently caress yeah Yuma Anzai

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

Very funny and depressing awards this year in equal measure.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Can't believe Roman Reigns was deprived of Best Non-Wrestler

I can however believe that Kento Miyahara was robbed in multiple categories. Dumbass marks paying for a newsletter.

Suplex Liberace
Jan 18, 2012



Most overrated - Sanada you mfin observer readers have no taste

yea ok
Jul 27, 2006

lol Dave

quote:

AEW Dynamite captured the award for the fifth straight year, every year of its existence, and by a sizable margin.

While Dynamite didn’t grow in audience reach this year, while NXT and Smackdown in particular showed great growth, Dynamite usually has more great matches than any of the other shows and in a balloting here that’s going to make a lot of difference.

It was notable because Smackdown had the most major league feel, NXT had the best character development, and Raw was the platform where Cody Rhodes and Seth Rollins got much stronger. But when it comes to wrestling matches, traditionally that’s what’s going to come out on top here.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Suplex Liberace posted:

Most overrated - Sanada you mfin observer readers have no taste

Who rates Sanada anymore?

TBH I never know what most overrated even means. Are you meant to vote for the mid guy who most people think rules? Or the most overpushed guy?

Because either way it's Roman Reigns.

TheKingslayer
Sep 3, 2008

WWE as promotion of the year while winning almost nothing else is... a choice.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!

yea ok posted:

lol Dave

He's just not capable of crying that his friend Triple H didn't win.

The only Observer Award result I care about is NWA Samhain getting 89 votes for Worst Major Event after the PPV itself only had 212 buys. To me that's beautiful.

MJeff
Jun 2, 2011

THE LIAR
Sanada was such a poo poo IWGP champion that we were robbed of muh muh muh muh muh tribal chief winning most overrated. I hate him.

Anyway,

yea ok posted:

Promotion of the year - WWE
Best booker - Paul Levesque
Promotor of the year - Nick Khan
Best Gimmick - Toni Storm

loving kill me.

God, American wrestling in 2023 was so loving abysmal.

TheKingslayer
Sep 3, 2008

Holy poo poo I didn't even register that was Nick Khan there. gently caress me. What a bleak lineup.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


At least Booker T won his award. Hard earned & with plenty of competition from the little WWE I've seen from the likes of Corey Graves.

shiksa
Nov 9, 2009

i went to one of these wrestling shows and it was... honestly? frickin boring. i wanna see ricky! i want to see his gold chains and respect for the ftw lifestyle

TheKingslayer posted:

WWE as promotion of the year while winning almost nothing else is... a choice.

yea lol I was gonna say

promotion of the year, sure the shows aren't very good, the matches suck, the wrestlers are kinda meh, they actually have some of the worst stuff going rn, oh also the rapist forced his way back in so he could make a big payday before being exposed (again) as a deranged rapist.

great promotion though

Edge & Christian
May 20, 2001

Earth-1145 is truly the best!
A world of singing, magic frogs,
high adventure, no shitposters

forkboy84 posted:

TBH I never know what most overrated even means. Are you meant to vote for the mid guy who most people think rules? Or the most overpushed guy?
On the ballot is it described as "The wrestler who gets the biggest push, despite lacking ring ability or charisma." So the latter.

A Fancy Hat
Nov 18, 2016

Always remember that the former President was dumber than the dumbest person you've ever met by a wide margin

These all seem pretty reasonable except for WWE winning promotion, booker, and promoter of the year. Feels more like that's voters who were frustrated with MJF's title reign voting against AEW than anything else.

Lead Pipe Cinch
Mar 10, 2003

Heavy Metal Bakesale


TK with a bigger chip on his shoulder should make for a fun 2024 at least.

Erin M. Fiasco
Mar 21, 2013

Nothing's better than postin' in the morning!



shiksa posted:

yea lol I was gonna say

promotion of the year, sure the shows aren't very good, the matches suck, the wrestlers are kinda meh, they actually have some of the worst stuff going rn, oh also the rapist forced his way back in so he could make a big payday before being exposed (again) as a deranged rapist.

great promotion though

There's something so specific about this that, for a group of awards that don't mean much in the grand scheme of things, I'm getting weirdly mad about. It's so transparently some kind of Gotcha win. Frustratingly stupid hobby.

TheKingslayer
Sep 3, 2008

"I find Vince McMahon and his forcing back in to be extremely gross and terrible... but man the two guys that enabled him are promoter and booker of the year dawg!"

TinTower
Apr 21, 2010

You don't have to 8e a good person to 8e a hero.

A Fancy Hat posted:

These all seem pretty reasonable except for WWE winning promotion, booker, and promoter of the year. Feels more like that's voters who were frustrated with MJF's title reign voting against AEW than anything else.

Nah, it's because people have convinced themselves that the last twelve months of the Bloodline have been "cinema".

When really, it's got all the twists of Shyamalan, all the padding of Dragon Ball, and none of the charm of either.

Lead Pipe Cinch
Mar 10, 2003

Heavy Metal Bakesale


lol didn’t realize Dave offered fan vote explainers for these.

yea ok
Jul 27, 2006

Lead Pipe Cinch posted:

lol didn’t realize Dave offered fan vote explainers for these.

yeah, last year was when he had a tantrum in the newsletter that Paul didn't win booker of the year

Spermgod
Jan 8, 2012

pink wasn't even a thing why is t#RXT REVOLUTION~!
and i'm so fucking excited for #SCOOPS#SCOOPS#SCOOPS #SCOOPS#SCOOPS #SCOOPS#SCOOPS
:sludgepal:
he knows..

TheKingslayer posted:

"I find Vince McMahon and his forcing back in to be extremely gross and terrible... but man the two guys that enabled him are promoter and booker of the year dawg!"

vince mcmahon is the slam dunk greatest wrestling promoter of all time so idk what your point is here

KungFu Grip
Jun 18, 2008
I guess if your top champion and fued is complete poo poo people are willing to turn a blind eye. Excited for some insane Tony posting and booking

KungFu Grip
Jun 18, 2008

Spermgod posted:

vince mcmahon is the slam dunk greatest wrestling promoter of all time so idk what your point is here

Easy when you're the only one in town for most the years

UnleashedDad
Jan 14, 2022

hi im tony. did you know that a koala's appendix is about two meters long.

shiksa posted:

yea lol I was gonna say

promotion of the year, sure the shows aren't very good, the matches suck, the wrestlers are kinda meh, they actually have some of the worst stuff going rn, oh also the rapist forced his way back in so he could make a big payday before being exposed (again) as a deranged rapist.

great promotion though

They are selling out tons of shows and ratings are better than they've been in a long time. I don't know how you can deny it, even the Cody Crybabies can see this is the truth. I don't watch WWE but by the metrics alone it makes sense.

Lead Pipe Cinch
Mar 10, 2003

Heavy Metal Bakesale


Edit: double posted like a fool.

Shard
Jul 30, 2005

Erin M. Fiasco posted:

There's something so specific about this that, for a group of awards that don't mean much in the grand scheme of things, I'm getting weirdly mad about. It's so transparently some kind of Gotcha win. Frustratingly stupid hobby.

I know why I'm angry. I'm angry because people voted the rape factory as promotion of the year. And it wasn't just rape accusations it was accusations that go back years and outright state that a ton of people at the top and therefore who run the promotion have created a system to keep the human trafficking going. And not only that, the more we look at past stuff that was just on WWE tv we can pretty much tell this company has been abusing it's employees and performers for decades. I'm pissed off about it

UnleashedDad
Jan 14, 2022

hi im tony. did you know that a koala's appendix is about two meters long.
Cody is going to finish his story though

Gumball Gumption
Jan 7, 2012

Popularity contests, especially for media where those voting are also self selecting what they watch, are dumb as gently caress

Gumball Gumption
Jan 7, 2012

Also their champ doesn't even wrestle! What the gently caress!

Edward Mass
Sep 14, 2011

𝅘𝅥𝅮 I wanna go home with the armadillo
Good country music from Amarillo and Abilene
Friendliest people and the prettiest women you've ever seen
𝅘𝅥𝅮
Awards are subjective. Just because the Boston terrier wins Best in Show at Westminster doesn’t make your dog any less good.

post hole digger
Mar 21, 2011

congrats to Bryan Danielson on winning the Bryan Danielson Award for Outstanding Excellent in the Field of Being Bryan Danielson.... nobody was more Bryan Danielson than you in 2023 baby

post hole digger fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Feb 23, 2024

DLC Inc
Jun 1, 2011

Rhea winning women's wrestler mvp might be the most egregious poo poo, how many matches did she even have last year? might as well just rename it the Gooner Award

Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010

yea ok posted:

lol Dave

The character development on nxt

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Bray's fifth and final time winning worst match

Name it in his honor

HulkaMatt
Feb 14, 2006

BIG BICEPS SHOHEI


yea ok posted:

lol Dave

Two years in a row aew won an award handily and he is clearly annoyed about it lol

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HulkaMatt
Feb 14, 2006

BIG BICEPS SHOHEI


Chris James 2 posted:

Bray's fifth and final time winning worst match

Name it in his honor

He was a true contender for the new WORST FEUD king. RIP

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