CI Wrestling Thread #56

[K-mac18]

I understand WWE is hot as its ever been but $600??? WOW

In AEW news it's being reported the Forbidden Door show will be at Arthur Ashe Stadium in June.

 

[K-mac18]

Well maybe someone gave out some info a little too early.

 

[Booker Noe]

Hope no one falls off the ramp. It killed Adam Cole

 

[Strokin_Bandit]

AEW really did run through some awful luck back in the summer. That angle had the opportunity to really gain crossover popularity if people could have stayed healthy.

 

[AmericanDragon]

there are face value tickets for Smackdown at the Yum Center for $600. Not resale. Face. Of all the things in the world I could spend $600, a ringside seat at a random smackdown.

If I could, for example, go back and witness something historic like Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat in person I'd probably pay $600.

$600 seems light compared to what I thought it would be for ringside

 

[AmericanDragon]

AEW really did run through some awful luck back in the summer. That angle had the opportunity to really gain crossover popularity if people could have stayed healthy.

They've had some consistently really shitty luck with injuries ever since the run up to the original Forbidden Door PPV. Just been a steady stream of injury bad luck ever since, and almost all of them haven't even been from doing reckless stuff.

 

[Nightwish84]

All is good with Hangman, per Fightful

Following up on this with the tweet below. I get the frustration but locker rooms will always have loose lips. It's pretty dumb for Lynn to not only comment on the report publicly but in so many words confirm it's a work. Can you imagine SRS reporting the Rollins back injury during the Nakamura feud as a work only to have someone from WWE tweet out something about a ruined cliffhanger? It's not the biggest deal in the world but it's like AEW can't even handle an injury angle correctly.

 

[Wesley91581]

India does half hour time changes?

 

[krazykats]

5am. Wow. I was actually planning to watch it but I’ll just read the results.

 

[WildcatFan1982]

By the time I wake up it’ll be over. Or the main event will be going on

 

[Booker Noe]

Just 5 matches I think.

 

[WildcatFan1982]

observer awards for you all to get mad about

LOU THESZ/RIC FLAIR AWARD

(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

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

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

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

 

[WildcatFan1982]

MOST UNDERRATED

1. CHAD GABLE 84

2. Konosuke Takeshita 80

3. Daniel Garcia 50

4. Mike Bailey 49

5. Yota Tsuji 42

6. Ricochet 35

7. Rush 30

8. Komander 27

9. Britt Baker 24

10. Adam Page 20

BEST NON-WRESTLER

1. DON CALLIS 266

2. Paul Heyman 198

3. Prince Nana 175

4. Renee Paquette 31

5. RJ City 18

Nick Aldis 18

7. Nigel McGuinness 12

8. Samantha Irvin 7

BEST WRESTLING MANEUVER

1. WILL OSPREAY HIDDEN BLADE 139

2. Will Ospreay stormbreaker 76

3. Kenny Omega one winged angel 68

4. El Hijo del Vikingo second rope step up 630 58

5. Komander ropewalk shooting star 32

6. Adam Page buckshot lariat 30

7. Neon ramp run double springboard Fosbury 24

8. Ilja Dragunov H bomb 23

9. Leon Slater 450 swanton 17

10. Kazuchika Okada rainmaker 14

MOST DISGUSTING PROMOTIONAL TACTIC

1. WWE ENABLING VINCE MCMAHON AND HIM BEING BACK IN POWER/TKO KEEPING HIM IN POSITION OF POWER 197

2. WWE Continued relationship with Saudi Arabia 140

3. NWA cocaine spot on PPV 89

4. Powerslap and continuing on TV after Dana White slapped his wife

83

5. AEW signing Ric Flair 49

6. AEW Juice Robinson uses roll of quarters after the Hamas terrorists attack and doing an anti-semitic angle 45

7. TKO ignoring Vince McMahon and Dana White’s transgressions 26

8. Colby Covington using the death of Leon Edwards’ father to promote a fight 19

9. WWE hiring CM Punk 14

10. Sean Strickland openly homophobic comments with no repercussions from UFC or TKO 11

 

[WildcatFan1982]

WORST MATCH OF THE YEAR

1. BRAY WYATT VS. LA KNIGHT 1/28 SAN ANTONIO 105

2. Tyrus vs. EC 3 8/27 St. Louis 85

3. Shane McMahon/Snoop Dogg vs. The Miz 4/2 Los Angeles 58

4. Baron Corbin vs. Gable Steveson 7/30 Cedar Park, TX 47

5. Ronda Rousey vs. Shayna Baszler 8/5 Detroit 44

6. Roman Reigns vs. Jey Uso 8/5 Detroit 40

7. Adam Cole vs. Chris Jericho 5/28 Las Vegas 36

8. Jeff Jarrett vs. Jeff Hardy 8/16 Nashville 30

9. Julia Hart vs. Abadon 12/30 Uniondale, NY 12

10.Adam Cole vs. MJF 8/27 London 11


WORST FEUD OF THE YEAR

1. MJF VS. THE DEVIL 167

2. Outcasts vs. AEW Originals 114

3. Tyrus vs. EC 3 74

4. Ronda Rousey vs. Shayna Baszler 57

5. Adam Cole vs. Chris Jericho 48

6. Keith Lee vs. Swerve Strickland 19

7. Evil vs. Sanada 15

Bully Ray vs. Scott D’Amore 15

9. Seth Rollins vs. Shinsuke Nakamura 14

10. Miro vs. CJ Perry 12

BEST BOOKER

1. PAUL LEVESQUE 360

2. Tony Khan 146

3. Juan Manuel Mar 104

4. Shuji Ishikawa 74

5. Rossy Ogawa 68

6. Gedo 45

7. Shawn Michaels 28

8. Andy Quildan 19

9. Scott D’Amore 16

BEST GIMMICK

1. TONI STORM 239

2. Christian Cage 204

3. Orange Cassidy 48

4. Bloodline 38

5. Brochachos 36

6. LA Knight 30

7. Dominik Mysterio 28

8. Swerve Strickland 18

Cody Rhodes 18

10. Katsuhiko Nakajima 16

WORST GIMMICK

1. THE DEVIL 76

2. QTV 72

3. Toni Storm 49

4. House of Torture 40

5. Outcasts 39

6. Abadon 32

7. Roderick Strong 29

8. Seth Rollins 26

9. The Schism 21

10. MJF 18

 

[K-mac18]

Old Dave had to be hurt by WWE winning some of those awards AEW had won in the past.

I have no idea who Juan Manuel Mar is. Tried googling him and all that came up was Juan Manuel Marquez the boxer.

Interesting AEW had five of the best gimmicks but also seven of the worst.

 

[Nightwish84]

Won't quote all of it but does WWE signing Punk once he's been fired for two months really fit in with the rest of the Most Disgusting Promotional Tactic section? Enabling Vince, cocaine spots, rape, antisemitic angles, homophobic comments...and signing CM Punk? Those 14 AEW fan really hold a grudge lol.

 

[Wesley91581]

do they get medals or trophies like the Olympics - looks like it was the will osprey show.

 

[ryanbruner]

Again with a bloated roster you can’t make them all happy - mone and Okada will push most down a peg - funny you mentioned Jay white he was a top dog in njpw and now he’s doing 6 man tags.

All you did was sort the roster by age and paste it here - extraordinary.

You are such an aew mark it’s kind of embarrassing really.

I miss Jay White being relevant. One of my favorite wrestlers.

Wow I've missed a lot over the last couple of days.
Kingston faced Akiyama at Full Gear 2022, maybe AEW should show some video of that leading into Saturday.

Speaking of video, here's a Goldberg video I've never seen, guessing he wasn't too far into his career at this point since it looked like it was on WCW Saturday Night.

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Goldberg sucks lol how do you manage to drop 2 people on their heads back to back like that?

Do I have to start watching or Googling UFC to understand why UFC stuff is in WWE now?

Was there a video package explaining who these two people are?

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They said "please welcome special guest Lightweight UFC fighter Michael Chandler."

Meaning he's just there watching the show. No reason to pay attention to him moving forward.

 

[billCgmx]

Won't quote all of it but does WWE signing Punk once he's been fired for two months really fit in with the rest of the Most Disgusting Promotional Tactic section? Enabling Vince, cocaine spots, rape, antisemitic angles, homophobic comments...and signing CM Punk? Those 14 AEW fan really hold a grudge lol.

Pissed off AEW fans.

 

[ryanbruner]

Dear god. What an absolutely horrible idea. If that’s true, everyone that suggested that should’ve been fired.

The only two ways he should lose the title

1) some good guy gets unbelievable hot
2) they’re ready for him to win the world title and after he wins, he vacated the IC title

I can’t even wrap my head around why the scenario of Uso beating him was brought up

Having a dude vacate a title because he won the world championship is about as bad as anything you have fantasy booked here Travvy Patty. I'm guessing Mid-South used to do that a lot back in the day? Also Jey Uso falls under the "some good guy gets unbelievably hot" scenario.

AEW just hired the recently departed WWE writer who was tight with Mercedes. Believe this makes the first writer they’ve hired.

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Tony Yayo is cooking with this one. Been wanting more dedication to story lines. Now he just needs to get a tag team partner to help him book half of their stuff so that he can focus on the bigger storylines. AEW was at their best prior to Tony having to book 15 shows a week.

I understand WWE is hot as its ever been but $600??? WOW

In AEW news it's being reported the Forbidden Door show will be at Arthur Ashe Stadium in June.

$600 for floor seats is really nothing

 

[K-mac18]

At today's New Japan show Nick Nemeth beat David Finlay for the IWGP Global Title
Also Matt Riddle beat Hiroshi Tanahashi for the NJPW World TV Title

 

[WildcatFan1982]

$600 for floor seats is really nothing

for smackdown though?

 

[WildcatFan1982]

Season 5 will kick-off with @earthquakewwe’s story.

A larger-than-life heel in the ring and a die hard family man at home, Tenta’s passing at just 42 years old was an especially cruel ending for a man so universally beloved.

Tuesday, March 5 at 10pm ET on @vicetv.

 

[Creed Bratton]

How in the heck can Toni Storm get the best gimmick and finish 3rd in the worst gimmick.? 🤣🤣🤣

Also, kind of a shame to see Danielson near the top in so many categories knowing his career is ending very soon. He just seems to be so good still and it's a shame he is ending early due to injury.

 

[Wesley91581]

Michael Cole said pirates tried to steal the elimination chamber - can’t link it but crazy for sure.

 

[Wesley91581]

I’m not going to sit and lose sleep over some phony awards thing but it’s in poor taste to nominate a dead wrestler for worst match of the year - seriously don’t even put that person on the ballot - just extremely poor taste.

 

[WildcatFan1982]

There’s not really a ballot. Any subscriber can vote for whoever they want

 

[MegaBlue05]

Wow that match between Madison Rayne and Deonna was not good at all.

Odds of Flair turning on Sting for the 1,235 time?

The AEW women’s division is a walking botch. They badly need house shows so these girls can work every single night. Repetition breeds improvement.

 

[Wesley91581]

There’s not really a ballot. Any subscriber can vote for whoever they want

Still it’s completely distasteful

 

[AmericanDragon]

observer awards for you all to get mad about

LOU THESZ/RIC FLAIR AWARD

(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

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

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

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

Where did you get the top 10 for these from? All I've seen posted on Twitter was the top 5. I've been wanting to see full results for all the awards.

 

[WildcatFan1982]

i copy and pasted them from the observer site

I'll post all of them if you want. a lot of it is MMA and stuff like "best wrestling book" and "Worst major show"

 

[AmericanDragon]

The AEW women’s division is a walking botch. They badly need house shows so these girls can work every single night. Repetition breeds improvement.

Some of them are just lazy and don't want to put in the work or too snobby and think they are too good to do any wrestling that's not on TV. There's a reason why the ones improving the most are the ones going out doing indie shows as much as possible while the ones who aren't are the ones being stagnant.

Sure, should AEW be running house shows? Ideally, yes, but with their attendance problems that's not a justifiable expense.

So the individual talents need to start putting in the work on their own instead of waiting for AEW to do it for them.

 

[AmericanDragon]

i copy and pasted them from the observer site

I'll post all of them if you want. a lot of it is MMA and stuff like "best wrestling book" and "Worst major show"

Sure please do that, put it in a spoiler so you won't long cat the thread though lol. Much appreciated!

 

[AmericanDragon]

WON voters: AEW weekly TV is better than the WWE weekly shows, AEW PPVs are much better than WWE PLEs, Raw was the second worst TV show, NXT was the third worst TV show, and they did some of the msot disgusting things in the business.

Also WON voters: BUTTTTTT, WWE was the best promotion and also featured the best promoter and booker of the year

lol not that I disagree with their decision for promotion, promoter, and booker of the year because WWE killed it last year, I just think it's funny that they picked those three when their voting for the TV shows and PLE/PPVs says AEW > WWE

But seems like WWE winning promotion, booker, and promoter of the year may have been a protest vote of Tony Khan's booking given how well they did for all the other categories.

Like say restaurant A has the best main courses, the best sides, the best deserts, the best service, the best presentation, the highest quality ingredients, etc. Now compare it to restaurant B, which is worse at all that stuff

But then I tell you restaurant B is the better restaurant with the better manager, that's an indictment on the leadership and direction of the restaurant. Because no way on earth should I be telling someone I like B better than A if I like virtually everything more about A other than the manager.

 

[WildcatFan1982]

Tag Team of the Year

Spoiler

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

Best on Interviews

Spoiler

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

Best Weekly Show

Spoiler

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) 303

7. AEW Rampage 229

8. New Japan on AXS (8) 103

9. Impact Wrestling 91

10. We are Stardom (9) 82

USA/Canada MVP

Spoiler

1. CODY RHODES 268

2. Bryan Danielson 139

3. MJF 135

4. Roman Reigns 109

5. Jon Moxley 36

6. Orange Cassidy 30

7. Kenny Omega 15

8. CM Punk 14

9. Seth Rollins 13

10. Sami Zayn 8

 

[WildcatFan1982]

Japan MVP

Spoiler

1. WILL OSPREAY 434

2. Kazuchika Okada 243

3. Tetsuya Naito 80

4. Kento Miyahara 67

5. Yuma Aoyagi 30

6. Tam Nakano 27

7. Giulia 20

8. Sanada 17

9. Kenoh 10

10. Maika 8

Mexico MVP

Spoiler

1. MISTICO 416

2. El Hijo del Vikingo 314

3. Rocky Romero 68

4. Volador Jr. 30

5. Pentagon Jr. 7

I'll get to the rest of them when I can. I'm at work

 

[Nightwish84]

I just think it's funny that they picked those three when their voting for the TV shows and PLE/PPVs says AEW > WWE

Was going to post something similar. There's a lot of ill-timed commercial breaks and dead time on Raw. For Raw to get any internet love, it's gonna need to go back to two hours, and even then most in the IWC will continue to bash it. It's stuck with that negative stigma. Dynamite probably flows better occasionally and I've heard Collision has been better lately as well, but I'd still put Smackdown #1. I would've put Collison first if Punk were still "running" it. I won't debate the talent issue. If it's AEW = more talent but WWE = more star power, I can buy that. I think with AEW finally getting Ospreay, he's going to run away with all the wrestler categories for the following decade, esp. with the careers of Danielson and Omega winding down. Will be interesting to see if Mone beats out Ripley next year too.

The IWC, esp. whoever votes in this, usually has a disdain for most things WWE so it's telling they were willing to give them a lot of the major awards but I think if they had their choice, they'd still rather watch AEW. At the end of the day, even the marks can't deny WWE being hot this past year.

 

[WildcatFan1982]

Europe MVP

Spoiler

1. WILL OSPREAY 754

2. Michael Oku ` ` 45

3. Zack Sabre Jr. 26

4. Spike Trivet 8

HODGE AWARD/NON-HEAVYWEIGHT MVP

Spoiler

1. EL HIJO DEL VIKINGO 189

Spoiler

2. Hiromu Takahashi 144

3. Darby Allin 139

4. Orange Cassidy 83

5. Mistico 34

6. Titan 25

El Desperado 25

8. Mike Bailey 24

9. Bryan Danielson 20

10. Rocky Romero 18

Women’s mvp

Spoiler

1. RHEA RIPLEY 359

2. Giulia 162

3. Athena 114

4. Tam Nakano 65

5. Becky Lynch 63

6. Toni Storm 55

7. Suzu Suzuki 9

Miyu Yamashita 9

9. Mayu Iwatani 8

10. Syuri 7

Feud of the year

Spoiler

1. SAMI ZAYN & KEVIN OWENS VS. BLOODLINE 268

2. Adam Page vs. Swerve Strickland 119

3. Kento Miyahara vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima 98

4. Kenny Omega vs. Will Ospreay 91

5. Adam Page vs. Jon Moxley 44

6. Elite vs. BCC 35

7. Rocky Romero vs. Volador Jr. 29

8. Roman Reigns vs. Jey Uso 23

9. Cody Rhodes vs. Brock Lesnar 17

10. MJF vs. The Devil 14

Most improved

Spoiler

1. JULIA HART 117

2. Dominik Mysterio 86

3. Mariah May 49

Shota Umino 49

5. Swerve Strickland 47

6. Yota Tsuji 42

7. Trick Williams 29

8. Big Bill 26

Hikuleo 26

10. The Gunn Brothers ` 25

Most charismatic

Spoiler

1. MJF 162

2. Roman Reigns 88

3. Kento Miyahara 81

4. Giulia 57

5. Cody Rhodes 49

6. Eddie Kingston 48

7. Orange Cassidy 44

CM Punk 44

8. Swerve Strickland 43

9. LA Knight 36

10. Dominik Mysterio 35

 

[WildcatFan1982]

BRYAN DANIELSON AWARD

(BEST TECHNICAL WRESTLER)

1. BRYAN DANIELSON 549

2. Zack Sabre Jr. 427

3. Josh Alexander 17

Best brawler

Spoiler

1. JON MOXLEY 383

2. Tomohiro Ishii 91

3. Adam Page 78

4. Eddie Kingston 74

5. Gunther 46

6. Rush 32

Shingo Takagi 32

8. Giulia 9

9. Samoa Joe 7

Sheamus 7

Best flyer

Spoiler

1. EL HIJO DEL VIKINGO 595

2. Will Ospreay 52

3. Rey Fenix 37

4. Mascara Dorada 36

5. Komander 28

6. Neon 20

7. Ninja Mack 10

8. Mistico 8

El Phantasmo 8

Starlight Kid 8

Titan 8

Most overrated

Spoiler

1. SANADA 114

2. Roman Reigns 109

3. CM Punk 63

4. Tyrus 62

5. MJF 55

6. Austin Theory 50

7. Nia Jax 43

8. Chris Jericho 42

9. LA Knight 21

10. Jake Lee 20

Rookie of the year

Spoiler

205

2. Action Andretti 140

3. Megan Bayne 65

4. Oleg Boltin 49

5. Kelani Jordan 38

6. Oba Femi 35

7. Billie Starkz 31

8. Santana Jackson 17

Futuro 17

10. Wakana Uehara 16

Best commentator

Spoiler

1. EXCALIBUR 183

2. Ian Riccaboni 139

3. Kevin Kelly 137

4. Nigel McGuinness 133

5. Chris Charlton 89

6. Michael Cole 37

7. Tony Schiavone 36

8. Taz 19

9. Jim Ross 11

10. Jae Church 10

Worst commentator

Spoiler

1. BOOKER T 198

2. Kevin Patrick 162

3. Jim Ross 90

4. Michael Cole 48

5. Corey Graves 42

6. Kevin Kelly 36

7. Chris Jericho 35

8. Matt Striker 27

9. Vic Joseph 23

10. Tony Schiavone 22

Best major show

Spoiler

1. AEW REVOLUTION 3/5 SAN FRANCISCO 188

2. AEW/NJPW Forbidden Door 6/25 Toronto 128

3. AEW All In 8-27 London 111

4. WWE WrestleMania night one 4/1 Los Angeles 101

5. AEW All Out 9/3 Chicago 72

6. Stardom All-Star Queendom 4/23 Yokohama 59

7. NJPW WrestleKingdom 1/4 Tokyo Dome 43

8. ROH Keiji Muto’s Last Love 2/21 Tokyo Dome 41

9. AEW WrestleDream 10/1 Seattle 19

10. ROH Supercard of Honor 3/31 Los Angeles 15

 

[WildcatFan1982]

Worst major show

Spoiler

1. WWE CROWN JEWEL 11/4 RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA 141

2. NWA Samhain 10/28 Cleveland 89

3. AEW Worlds End 12/30 Uniondale, NY 79

4. WWE Fastlane 10/7 Indianapolis 51

5. AAA TripleMania 8/12 Mexico City 50

6, NWA 75th Anniversary show 8/27 St. Louis 45

7. WWE WrestleMania night two 4/2 Los Angels 43

8. WWE SummerSlam 8/5 Detroit 35

9. WWE Payback 9/3 Pittsburgh 29

10. NWA Nuff Said 2/11 Tampa 18

Worst tv show

Spoiler

NWA POWERR 194

2. WWE Raw 176

3. WWE NXT 112

4. Powerslap: Road to the Title 109

5. AEW Rampage 80

6. WWE Smackdown 21

7. AEW Dynamite 12

8. ROH 7

Worst promotion

Spoiler

1. NWA 456

2. AAA 88

3.WWE 61

4. Control Your Narrative 17

5. MLW 16

GCW 16

7. ROH 15

Pro Wrestling NOAH 15

9. AEW 12

Best book

Spoiler

1. THE LAST REAL WORLD CHAMPION BY TIM HORNBAKER

77

2. Tod is God by Tod Gordon 50

3. Ringmaster by Abraham Josephine Riesman 49

4. Keirn Chronicles by Steve Keirn and Ian Douglass` 39

5.Wrestling Observer Complete Collection 1989 by Dave Meltzer 22

6. Kayfabe: A Mostly True History of Professional Wrestling by Patrick Reed

14

7. There’s Just One Problem by Brian Gewirtz 13

8. Populism and Professional Wrestling in the Sunbelt South by Christopher Stacey 8

Best documentary

Spoiler

1. DARK SIDE OF THE RING: CHRIS AND TAMMY 97

2. VOW: The Life, career and death of Eddie Gilbert 80

3. American Nightmare: Becoming Cody Rhodes 69

4. Dark Side of the Ring: Marty Jannetty 65

5. Dark Side of the Ring: Magnum T.A. 34

6. Dark Side of the Ring: Bash at the Beach 2000 25

7. Superfan: The Story of Vladimir 24

8. Dark Side of the Ring: Abdullah the Butcher 15

9. Dark Side of the Ring: Bam Bam Bigelow 10

10. Dark Side of the Ring: Adrian Adonis 9

A&E Biography: Dusty Rhodes 9