Wrestling Awards - 2005
WELCOME TO 1973... I mean, welcome to 2006. This is technically the third year my blog has existed in, though just over a year that it has been around.
This year in wrestling has been fairly exciting, with an on fire NOAH and a solid ROH stealing the scene. WWE was consistent, but not over the top great. In fact, there was some real shit coming out of the E. NJPW was pretty off for the second half of the year and ended up living down the exceptional first part of the year. Still, those puppets will always love everything they do and the other puppets will hate everything they do. I'm the middle voice. Well I've chatted long enough, here are the awards for the year 2005!
WRESTLER OF THE YEAR
SAMOA JOE
Let's face it, Joe had a damn fine year. His 2004 was incredible, and I'm sure 2006 will be his career year. But this year he was everywhere, fighting everyone and he was consistently great. Whether comedy matches with Ebessan or crushing Ki and Cide, or going to the limit with Kobashi, he was perfect. He made his debut in TNA and has become a star there, a potential future ace of the company. Couldn't happen to anyone finer. I don't doubt he'll be back here next year.
Runners up - Kenta Kobashi, Satoshi Kojima, CM Punk
TAG TEAM OF THE YEAR
MINORU FUJITA and IKUTO HIDAKA
Great quality matches coupled with major success gives this team the award. They dominated the junior tag belts in Zero-One for most of the year, and then managed to win the heavyweight tag belts. They defended against the main event duo of Shinjiro Otani and Masato Tanaka, which is noteworthy. They are the top tag team in the world right now, with only AMW even close to challenging them.
Runners Up - AMW, Kenta Kobashi & Go Shiosaki, BJ Whitmer & Jimmy Jacobs
MATCH OF THE YEAR
Kenta Kobashi vs Kensuke Sasaki, NOAH 7/18/05
This match was epic in every sense of the word. It was long, brutal, high-profile and was damn near perfect. They showed their strength in a 5 minute chop battle, which made me cringe just watching. When it came down to it, this match simply had EVERYTHING that a quality match needs. While it's no technical classic, these two just go out there and murder each other. They make that work in this match that will go down in history as one of the greatest 5 star classics ever.
Runners up - Samoa Joe vs Kenta Kobashi (10/1/05), Kenta Kobashi & Go Shiosaki vs Kensuke Sasaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima (11/5/05), AJ Styles vs Samoa Joe (12/11/05)
CHAMPION OF THE YEAR
SATOSHI KOJIMA
The first Triple Crown reign of Satoshi Kojima started with a major victory over Kawada. This was quickly followed by a brief unification with the IWGP title. For a short period he was the Four Crown King, the first ever, in Japan. He defended the Triple Crown against ALL top contenders. Though his reign is looking like it might fumble in 2006, it was perfect in 2005.
Runners up - Austin Aries, CM Punk, Bryan Danielson
BEST PROMOTION
RING OF HONOR
It was a close call between ROH and NOAH, but Takeshi Rikio being the focus of most of the year for NOAH weakened them. ROH had many quality feuds and produced some very high quality shows. The focus of ROH was on many different stars, with everyone having their share of the spotlight at some point. A high quality main event and upper midcard scene made up for the weak undercards. Not the best year for Ring of Honor, but the Punk title run and the incredible feuds give ROH this award.
Runner up - Pro Wrestling NOAH
MOMENT OF THE YEAR
CM PUNK TURNS ON THE FANS
He had the haters cheering for him, tearing up at his title win. Everyone was on Punk's side, and he had us all hook, line and sinker. We followed him right off the edge. He stayed in ROH for a month after his title win, and used his "last night" to put us all over. Brilliant stuff.
Runners up - Eddie Guerrero tribute shows, CM Punk REAL farewell, Matt Hardy invades RAW
WORST WRESTLER OF THE YEAR
CHRIS MASTERS
Talentless big man gets undeserved push, nuff said.
WORST PROMOTION
WWE
Shifted the focus even further away from wrestling and more on crappy angles. On the upside, Wrestlecrap is getting new stuff to rip on every week.
WORST CHAMPION
JEFF JARRETT
With so many talented and popular wrestlers in TNA, the fact that this asshole holds the belt most of the time is a goddamn travesty.
WORST MOMENT
VINCE EXAMINES JR'S ASS
Yea... that shit killed the WWE in my mind, this was the lowest of the low. WHY THE FUCK DID THIS HAPPEN!?
GLASS CEILING AWARD
CHRISTIAN
To be fair, he saw that he was being held down and said, "Fuck it, I quit" and went to a company that actually appreciates the wrestlers that deserve to be appreciated. Christian went from his first main event to Velocity just that quick.
PLEASE DIE AWARD
VINCE MCMAHON
Just because, I'm sick of the fucking WWE being the leader of the world but being a total joke. Noone takes wrestling seriously because of this asshole.
FUNNIEST DEATH
CHRIS CANDIDO
Sorry Chris, I just have to give out this award. Your death was so unexpected as to be funny. You did a lot, but your death was funny. So random. You died from such a simple injury.
This year in wrestling has been fairly exciting, with an on fire NOAH and a solid ROH stealing the scene. WWE was consistent, but not over the top great. In fact, there was some real shit coming out of the E. NJPW was pretty off for the second half of the year and ended up living down the exceptional first part of the year. Still, those puppets will always love everything they do and the other puppets will hate everything they do. I'm the middle voice. Well I've chatted long enough, here are the awards for the year 2005!
WRESTLER OF THE YEAR
SAMOA JOE
Let's face it, Joe had a damn fine year. His 2004 was incredible, and I'm sure 2006 will be his career year. But this year he was everywhere, fighting everyone and he was consistently great. Whether comedy matches with Ebessan or crushing Ki and Cide, or going to the limit with Kobashi, he was perfect. He made his debut in TNA and has become a star there, a potential future ace of the company. Couldn't happen to anyone finer. I don't doubt he'll be back here next year.
Runners up - Kenta Kobashi, Satoshi Kojima, CM Punk
TAG TEAM OF THE YEAR
MINORU FUJITA and IKUTO HIDAKA
Great quality matches coupled with major success gives this team the award. They dominated the junior tag belts in Zero-One for most of the year, and then managed to win the heavyweight tag belts. They defended against the main event duo of Shinjiro Otani and Masato Tanaka, which is noteworthy. They are the top tag team in the world right now, with only AMW even close to challenging them.
Runners Up - AMW, Kenta Kobashi & Go Shiosaki, BJ Whitmer & Jimmy Jacobs
MATCH OF THE YEAR
Kenta Kobashi vs Kensuke Sasaki, NOAH 7/18/05
This match was epic in every sense of the word. It was long, brutal, high-profile and was damn near perfect. They showed their strength in a 5 minute chop battle, which made me cringe just watching. When it came down to it, this match simply had EVERYTHING that a quality match needs. While it's no technical classic, these two just go out there and murder each other. They make that work in this match that will go down in history as one of the greatest 5 star classics ever.
Runners up - Samoa Joe vs Kenta Kobashi (10/1/05), Kenta Kobashi & Go Shiosaki vs Kensuke Sasaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima (11/5/05), AJ Styles vs Samoa Joe (12/11/05)
CHAMPION OF THE YEAR
SATOSHI KOJIMA
The first Triple Crown reign of Satoshi Kojima started with a major victory over Kawada. This was quickly followed by a brief unification with the IWGP title. For a short period he was the Four Crown King, the first ever, in Japan. He defended the Triple Crown against ALL top contenders. Though his reign is looking like it might fumble in 2006, it was perfect in 2005.
Runners up - Austin Aries, CM Punk, Bryan Danielson
BEST PROMOTION
RING OF HONOR
It was a close call between ROH and NOAH, but Takeshi Rikio being the focus of most of the year for NOAH weakened them. ROH had many quality feuds and produced some very high quality shows. The focus of ROH was on many different stars, with everyone having their share of the spotlight at some point. A high quality main event and upper midcard scene made up for the weak undercards. Not the best year for Ring of Honor, but the Punk title run and the incredible feuds give ROH this award.
Runner up - Pro Wrestling NOAH
MOMENT OF THE YEAR
CM PUNK TURNS ON THE FANS
He had the haters cheering for him, tearing up at his title win. Everyone was on Punk's side, and he had us all hook, line and sinker. We followed him right off the edge. He stayed in ROH for a month after his title win, and used his "last night" to put us all over. Brilliant stuff.
Runners up - Eddie Guerrero tribute shows, CM Punk REAL farewell, Matt Hardy invades RAW
WORST WRESTLER OF THE YEAR
CHRIS MASTERS
Talentless big man gets undeserved push, nuff said.
WORST PROMOTION
WWE
Shifted the focus even further away from wrestling and more on crappy angles. On the upside, Wrestlecrap is getting new stuff to rip on every week.
WORST CHAMPION
JEFF JARRETT
With so many talented and popular wrestlers in TNA, the fact that this asshole holds the belt most of the time is a goddamn travesty.
WORST MOMENT
VINCE EXAMINES JR'S ASS
Yea... that shit killed the WWE in my mind, this was the lowest of the low. WHY THE FUCK DID THIS HAPPEN!?
GLASS CEILING AWARD
CHRISTIAN
To be fair, he saw that he was being held down and said, "Fuck it, I quit" and went to a company that actually appreciates the wrestlers that deserve to be appreciated. Christian went from his first main event to Velocity just that quick.
PLEASE DIE AWARD
VINCE MCMAHON
Just because, I'm sick of the fucking WWE being the leader of the world but being a total joke. Noone takes wrestling seriously because of this asshole.
FUNNIEST DEATH
CHRIS CANDIDO
Sorry Chris, I just have to give out this award. Your death was so unexpected as to be funny. You did a lot, but your death was funny. So random. You died from such a simple injury.
