As another year ends
for the world of Pro Wrestling its time to look back. Which Wrestlers
stood above the rest? What events became classics? Some of the awards
from last year will return others won't and new awards might be done.
Wrestler Of The
Year Ethan Carter The Third- Ok
this was an easy pick. For this award I'm not just looking at who the
best in ring performer is. Because being a pro wrestler means you
need to be good in the ring. Able to connect with the fans make them
love you or make them hate you. Able to cut good promos that make
your match more interesting. No one does that better than EC3. The
man is amazingly underrated in the ring. He works a perfect heel
style willing to sell enough to make any opponent look good rather it
be Drew Galloway and Matt Hardy or someone like DJ Z or Spud. But
never so much he looks bad. The man gets how to get people hate him a
tough test in the modern wrestling world. He
worked with a wide variety of foes during the year and had amazing
matches with Spud, Kurt Angle, Matt Hardy, and Lashley. He cuts great
promos that make you hate him. But he's also able to read a crowd and
adapt. If the fans do something he picks up on it and uses it to make
you hate him all the more.
Tag Team Of the
Year The Wolves Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards- Yep
for the second straight year I'm giving these guys the award. I
can't name a team out there that works as well together as the Wolves
do. They started the year
feuding with the Revolution over the Tag Title and working with Matt
Hardy in some good six mans. While Eddie was out for a while he came
back strong. We got give amazing MOTYC with the
Dirty Heels. They also had
some awesome matches with Brian Meyers and Trevor Lee along with
being involved in the GFW feud. Davey and Eddie would fit right in
with any era and they work together as well as any great team. They
read each other minds like the Midnight Express or Rockers used to.
If want to learn the art of
team team wrestling check out the Wolves.
Female Wrestler
of the Year Taryn Terrell- When
the year started Taryn was playing the underdog baby face champion.
During the year she morphed
into the insane head of the doll house. And
I think she played both roles perfect. I would actually say her heel
promos gave her a shot at best talker. She was played crazy perfect
like someone living in there own warped world would really be. With
just that right hint of danger. That
danger that in the real world would make you real nervious about
pissing her off. Taryn is one of the most underrated wrestlers in the
world she loves to take big risks but has shown the ability to not
screw up dangerous spots while always improving in the basics.
Match of the Year
EC3 vs. Rockstar Spud Hair vs. Hair- This
was my early favorite for match of the year and it held up all year.
The story of this match was classic. EC3
a bully through and through. Spud the smaller man who was easy to
pick on that finally snapped. This match was about as perfectly
wrestled as you can get. The use of blood was well done with Spud
letting out buckets but refusing to stay down. Even as you know there
was no way going into match that Spud would win you found yourself
falling for the false finishes. Plus remember this was before EC3 was
a world champion and Spud remains a mid carder but it had more
emotion than many world title matches had this year.
Gimmick of the
Year The Demon Finn Balor- When
the than Prince Devitt signed with WWE NXT some wondered if that
would end the costumes and
paint he would often wear on the indy scene. Instead WWE embraced it.
I really enjoying this gimmick because Balor only breaks it out for
big matches. And that makes
it have more impact when we do see Balor come out in the paint. The
gimmick is clearly influenced by Japan's legendary Great Muta. And
like Balor Muta didn't always wear the paint. It's a great gimmick
gets you excited to see the match happen. And to be honest it's the
kind of thing I would have liked to have done as wrestler. Be a
normal guy most of the time but than for the big events come out with
something like this.
Event of the Year
TNA Bound For Glory- With
several MOTYC alone on this card such as Gail Kim vs. Awesome Kong
and Lashley vs. Roode I
could award this event on that alone. But the whole show was awesome
and really there wasn't even average match much less bad match. The
Ultimate X was thrilling and gave the smaller guys a chance to shine
with Tigre Uno retaining his title. The Bound For Gold match was a
fun rumble style match. And again fun moments with Dreamer playing
tribute to Dusty Rhodes and Pope entering only for “Josh” to cost
him. Plus getting see Tyrus
and Abyss go one on one as excellent. The Wolves torn down the house
again with Lee and Myers. Kurt Angle gave a great final performance
stateside and the 3 way was a perfect mix of 3 wrestlers working
together and not just having guys circle in and out.
Best Talker Ethan
Carter The Third- Everything
that comes out of this guys mouth is gold. He never gets in over his
head with a promo. He understands how to play with the crowd and even
knows to acknowledge them but never turn himself face in the process.
He makes you want to see him destroyed before the bell ever rings.
But of course he reminds you he's never been pinned. Most guys can do
one kind of promo and that's it. But Carter can mix it up. He can
intense he can be goofy, he can change make it seem like nothing
matter more and he can make you think this all just a pit stop for
him.
Best in Ring
Worker Kurt Angle- Ok part of
me is doing thing knowing Kurt
might be at the end of the road. But Angle had a very strong year as
always in the ring and wrestling different styles. Good
series of brawls with guys like Eric Young and MVP. But still as
always getting onto the mat and wrestling with people such as
Lashley. Kurt always trying to steal the show and I think 2015 he
pulled off quite a few. With the end of his career coming up he's
leaving us strong.
Comeback Wrestler
of The Year Awesome Kong- With
her departure from TNA involving attacking another employee and WWE
not interested in bringing her back after a short run it looked as
thought Kong was done. She
would still pop up from time to time but not on a major level. That
all changed in January during TNA first tapings of the year. She
was back in TNA and had awesome matches with Havoc, Terrell, and Gail
Kim along with Brooke and Madison Rayne during the World Title
Series.
Most Misused The
Wyatt Family- It amazes and
saddens me how much WWE blows it with these guys. Bray, Harper, and
Rowan are all very talented and Strowman has shown good potential.
The fans are clearly behind
them and still pop when ever they show up. Yet for some reason WWE
never gets behind them. They always wind up losing the feuds they are
in. And than look at that feud with they had with Kane and
Undertaker. It was all about “rebuilding” the old
monsters. They stable has never had a championship while together.
(Luke Harper's IC title run was during his being free period)
Hopefully 2016 we finally start pushing these guys to the top and not
just go “Oh the fans react we don't need to make them look good.”
Worse Event of
the Year WWE SummerSlam- The
build up to the main event was awful and time and again Taker and
Brock sent the message they don't care since they missed weeks on
end. The match is self was a fucking disaster. Brock his usual lazy
suplex heavy style with Taker not able to even move at times. The
finish was a complicated mess with Taker pulling a heel move to win
it. Rest of the card wasn't any better. Sheamus vs. Orton same paint
by numbers match they always have, a mess of a tag team four way with
the worse team ever winning. Ruseve who can't work vs. Ziggler who
stopped trying fight to a count out, Stephen Amell had the usual
celeb match problems. Ryback Big Show and Miz have the usual WWE
three way. We did get an ok tag match with The Wyatts vs. Reigns and
Ambrose but it wasn't enough. Than we move onto Cena vs. Rollins
where Rollins the world champion looks like a weakling who needs
fucking Jon Stewart to retain his title. That's
all I have to say Rollins can only beat the golden boy because a 50
something comic saved him.
Worst Wrestler of
The Year Jay Lethal- As
Alan Shore used to say “I know I'll get letters.” I
know people are going to tell me how great Lethal is... And Lethal is
great but this year he was awful! This
year Lethal turned into a paint by numbers wrestler.
Everyone of his matches plays out the same way. He hits the same
moves in the same sequence and has the rest of the House of Truth get
involved. What's sad is we know how good Lethal can be but this year
he sucked.
Worst Tag Team of
the Year Tie War Machine- I
hate this team. They are big
sloppy and dangerous. They don't do anything well. And I don't want
to hear anyone bring up there “flying” as a reason to praise
them. Because there flying
is awful and sloppy as well. They
are the classic example of big men who think they can just do sloppy
power moves and get away it to look “powerful.” The
promos are awful as well. Over the years we have seen a lot attempts
to be the Road Warriors and War Machine Hanson and Rowe are the all
time worse.
Worst Gimmick New
Day Lets Just Be Annoying- You
guys remember that South Park about Bikers and when people ignored
them they started adding a bunch of extra crap to make more noise.
Well that is what New Day reminds me of. They
just do all they can to be annoying clapping, dancing, unicorn stuff,
playing the trombone. Yeah people boo them but it's not wanting to
see them get beat up heel heat it's turn the channel heat.
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