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Annual Wrestling Awards
Just thought I'd post here Dave Melzer's (Observer) annual wrestling awards for 2005. There is a top ten in all categories, some of it makes interesting reading, though you do have to realise the guy probably doesn't think WWE is the coolest group to watch at the moment!! For those wanting a quicker look, I've put regular WWE guys in blue and regular TNA guys in red.
Lou Thesz/Ric Flair Award - Wrestler of the Year - based on in ring, interviews and box office.
1. Kenta Kobashi 2. Samoa Joe 3. Perro Aguayo Jr.
4. Mistico 5. Eddie Guerrero 6. Kid Yamamoto
7. Satoshi Kojima 8. Shawn Michaels 9. Chuck Liddell 10. AJ Styles
Most Outstanding Wrestler - based solely on in-ring. 1. Samoa Joe
2. Kenta Kobashi 3. AJ Styles
4. KENTA 5. Chris Benoit 6. Shawn Michaels 7. Perro Aguayo Jr. 8. Kurt Angle 9. Bryan Danielson 10. Eddie Guerrero
Best Box Office Draw 1. Kenta Kobashi
2. Mistico
3. Masato
4. Kid Yamamoto
5. Perro Aguayo Jr. 6. John Cena 7. Chuck Liddell 8. Batista 9. Dr. Wagner Jr. 10. HHH
Feud Of The Year 1. Batista v HHH
2. Eddie Guerrero v Rey Mysterio
3. Shawn Michaels v Kurt Angle 4. AJ Styles v Chris Daniels 5. Edge v Matt Hardy
6. Hulk Hogan v Shawn Michaels 7. AJ Styles v Chris Daniels v Samoa Joe 8. Kenta Kobashi v Kensuke Sasaki
9. Chris Leben v Josh Koscheck
10. Perros Del Mal v Los Capos
Tag Team Of The Year 1. Chris Harris & James Storm 2. KENTA & Naomichi Marufuji
3. Ultimo Guerrero & Rey Bucanero 4. Johnny Nitro & Joey Mecury 5. Naomichi Marufuji & Minoru Suzuki
6. Ikuto Hidaka & Minoru Fujita 7. Team 3-D 8. Kensuke Sasaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima
9. Jack Evans & Roderick Strong
10. Hiroshi Tanahashi & Shinsuke Nakamura
Most Improved 1. Roderick Strong 2. Batista 3. Katsuhiko Nakajima
4. Go Shiozaki
5. Jimmy Rave
6. Colt Cabana 7. James Gibson (Jamie Noble) 8. Alex Shelley
9. Austin Aries 10. Carlito
Best On Interviews 1. Eddie Guerrero 2. CM Punk 3. Christian Cage 4. JBL
5. Chris Jericho
6. Shawn Michaels
7. Ric Flair
8. Kurt Angle
9. John Cena 10. Perro Aguayo Jr.
Most Charismatic 1. Eddie Guerrero
2. John Cena 3. Kenta Kobashi
4. Perro Aguayo Jr. 5. Shawn Michaels 6. Christian Cage
7. Kid Yamamoto 8. Hulk Hogan 9. Dr. Wagner Jr. 10. Ric Flair
Best Technical Wrestler 1. Bryan Danielson 2. Chris Benoit
3. Kurt Angle
4. James Gibson (Jamie Noble) 5. Kenta Kobashi 6. Samoa Joe
7. Chris Daniels 8. KENTA 9. Eddie Guerrero 10. Doug Williams
Bruiser Bordy Memorial Award (Best Brawler) 1. Samoa Joe 2. Chris Benoit 3. Abyss
4. Homicide 5. Necro Butcher 6. HHH 7. Kensuke Sasaki 8. JBL 9. Perro Aguayo Jr.
10. Kenta Kobashi
Best Flying Wrestler 1. AJ Styles
2. Mistico
3. Jack Evans 4. Rey Mysterio 5. Ricky Marvin
6. KENTA 7. Sonjay Dutt 8. Chris Daniels
9. Chris Sabin 10. Naomichi Marufuji
Most Overrated 1. Jeff Jarrett 2. HHH
3. Chris Masters
4. John Cena
5. JBL
6. Undertaker
7. Randy Orton 8. Takeshi Rikio 9. John Heidenreich
10. Carilto
Most Underrated 1. Shelton Benjamin 2. Christian Cage 3. Paul London
4. Matt Hardy 5. Chris Sabin 6. William Regal 7. CM Punk 8. Chris Jericho 9. Eric Young 10. Brian Kendrick
Promotion Of The Year 1. Pro Wrestling NOAH
2. CMLL
3. UFC
4. ROF
5. Pride 6. TNA 7. Hero's 8. WWE
9. OVW
10. PWG
Best Weekly TV Show 1. UFC Ultimate Fighter
2. CMLL 3. TNA Impact 4. Pro Wrestling NOAH
5. OVW 6. WWE - RAW
7. WWE - Smackdown
8. WWE - Velocity 9. Memphis Championship Wrestling
10. New Japan Pro Wrestling
Best Shootfighter Of The Year 1. Fedor Emelianenko
2. Chuck Liddell
3. Shogun Roa
4. Takanori Gomi
5. Matt Hughes
6. Kid Yamamoto
7. Rich Franklin
8. Mirko Cro Cop
9. Wanderlei Silva
10. Andre Arlovsky
Worked Match Of The Year 1. Kenta Kobashi v Samoa Joe 10/1 (ROF) 2. Kurt Angle v Shawn Michaels 4/3 (WWE) 3. Kenta Kobashi v Kensuke Sasaki 7/18 (NOAH) 4. Samoa Joe v Chris Daniels v AJ Styles 9/11 (TNA) 5. Kenta Kobashi & Go Shiozaki v Kensuke Sasaki & Katushiko Nakajima 11/5 6. Chris Harris & James Storm v Chris Daniels & Elix Skipper 12/5/04 7. Satoshi Kojima v Toshiaki Kawada 2/16
8. Mistico v Ultimo Guerrero 2/15 9. AJ Styles v Chris Daniels 2/13
10. KENTA v SUWA 9/18
Shoot Match Of The Year 1. Forrest Griffin v Stephan Bonnar
2. Fedor Emelianenko v Mirko Cro Cop
3. Takanori Gomi v Tatsuya Kawajiri
4. Wanderlei Silva v Mark Hunt
Rookie Of The Year 1. Shingo Takagi
2. Kohei Suwama
3. Christy Hemme
4. Daniel Puder 5. Bobby Lashley
Best Non-Wrestler 1. Eric Bischoff 2. Jim Mitchell 3. Prince Nana
4. Jim Cornette 5. Paul Heyman 6. Scott D'Amore 7. Teddy Long
8. Melina 9. Julius Smokes 10. Vince McMahon
Best Television Announcer 1. Mike Tenay 2. Jim Ross
3. Joey Styles 4. Baz Ruten 5. Tazz
Worst Television Announcer 1. Jonathan Coachman
2. Todd Grisham
3. Michael Cole
4. Jerry Lawler 5. Jimmy Bower
Best Major Wrestling Show 1. Pro Wrestling NOAH - Destiny 7/18 2. ECW One Night Stand - 6/12
3. WWE Wrestlemania XXI - 4/3 4. Pride Bushido: The Tournament - 9/25
5. UFC: Ultimate Fighter 2 Finals 11/5 6. WWE Vengeance 6/26 7. ROH - Manhattan 5/7 8. TNA Unbreakable 9/11
9. TNA Turning Point 10. Pride Final Elimination 8/28
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I always think the contradictions in these kind of awards are quite amusing. Carlito is the 10th most over rated performer and yet he is also the 10th most improved. Quite strange.
I like these kind of lists, but they shouldn't be taken too seriously!!
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Actually, this list shouldn't be taken seriously at all. I was interested until he named HHH as the 2nd most overrated wrestler in the world..
Umm.. I'd like to see him give me a few reasons on what that's based off of.
You see.. A wrestler from the U.S. will sellout arenas across Japan, but would the same happen here vice versa? Fuck no.. Nobody would give a shit, so I'm just going to rip the whole box office draw away from him right now.. It's laughable.
Oh, and not to be a dick because I like the guy, but it must have ben awful hard for Samoa Joe to sellout those bingo halls this year huh? He must have stayed up all night in the pooring rain the get what?.. A hundred people in the stands. Jesus Christ.
Again, he had me until he started bashing Triple H. Now he just sounds like a regualr jackass fan that don't know what he's talking about!:cool12:
Actually, this list shouldn't be taken seriously at all. I was interested until he named HHH as the 2nd most overrated wrestler in the world..
Umm.. I'd like to see him give me a few reasons on what that's based off of.
You see.. A wrestler from the U.S. will sellout arenas across Japan, but would the same happen here vice versa? Fuck no.. Nobody would give a shit, so I'm just going to rip the whole box office draw away from him right now.. It's laughable.
Oh, and not to be a dick because I like the guy, but it must have ben awful hard for Samoa Joe to sellout those bingo halls this year huh? He must have stayed up all night in the pooring rain the get what?.. A hundred people in the stands. Jesus Christ.
Again, he had me until he started bashing Triple H. Now he just sounds like a regualr jackass fan that don't know what he's talking about!:cool12:
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Oh, and not to be a dick because I like the guy, but it must have ben awful hard for Samoa Joe to sellout those bingo halls this year huh? He must have stayed up all night in the pooring rain the get what?.. A hundred people in the stands. Jesus Christ.
Joe didn't get put up for any awards based on his "Box Office" draw, just awards for his wrestling ability which I, for one, am perfectly happy to see him up for.
For me, it's always been about performance and never about how many bums you could put on seats. If this were the criteria for how wrestling awards were dished out then Hogan would win them all every year. Even now. And I don't think even you would want that!!
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Well, Joe doesn't do much in the interviews section either, so I guess the in-ring part counts triple of the other two? I dunno..
I can't hate on WWE though for how they run things. It's a business and they try to appeal to the masses. Sure they have good-great matches here and there but the box office appeal, storylines creative, and interviews will proabably always come first.
Obviously I haven't seen all the Japanese wrestlers so they may very well be awesome in the ring and/or on the mic. I'm just sick of people trying to bring Triple H down. They try to trat him like he's no more talented or valuble than JBL or somebody, which to me, is laughable.
The guy is a draw plain and simple. He's awesome on the mic. And he's still decent in the ring. What is there to hate? This guy is picking the wrong year to be hating on Triple H. The guy put over Batista Huge, Huge.. basically created a star in that feud, because lets be honest, Batista wouldn't be half as big as he is now without the help of Triple H. Then he takes some time off, people think he's gonna come back at SS and win the title again, which never happend..
He's stayed out of the main event picture like everyone wanted to see him do for a while. Hell, there's even a new heel champion.
What more does HHH need to do to be appreciated? I said this a 1000 times and I'll say it again.. His value WILL be noticed when he's gone.. and then these haters will miss the guy.
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