2020 Wrestling Observer Newsletter Awards Winners & Losers

[Doom]

Here are the winners and losers of the 2020 WON Awards.

Lou Thesz/Ric Flair Award (Wrestler of the Year)
Jon Moxley


Most Outstanding Wrestler
Kenny Omega


Tag Team of the Year
The Young Bucks


Best on Interviews
Eddie Kingston


Promotion of the Year
AEW


Best Weekly TV Show
AEW Dynamite


Pro Wrestling Match of the Year
The Young Bucks vs. Adam Page and Kenny Omega
at AEW Revolution 2020


United States/Canada MVP
Jon Moxley


Japanese MVP
Tetsuya Naito


Mexico MVP
Rey Fenix


Europe MVP
WALTER


Hodge Award/Non-Heavyweight MVP
Hiromu Takahashi


Women’s Wrestling MVP
Bayley


Feud Of the Year
Jon Moxley vs. Eddie Kingston


Most Improved
Britt Baker


Most Charismatic
MJF


Bryan Danielson Award (Best Technical Wrestler)
Zack Sabre Jr.


Bruiser Brody Memorial Award (Best Brawler)
Jon Moxley


Best Flying Wrestler
Rey Fenix


Most Overrated
Bray Wyatt


Most Underrated
Ricochet


Rookie of the Year
Pat McAfee


Best Non-Wrestler
Taz


Best TV Announcer
Excalibur


Worst TV Announcer
Michael Cole


Best Major Wrestling Show
AEW Revolution PPV on February 29 from Chicago


Worst Major Wrestling Show
WWE Super Showdown on February 27 from Saudi Arabia


Best Wrestling Maneuver
Kenny Omega’s One Winged Angel


Most Disgusting Promotional Tactic
WWE firing people during a pandemic during a year
where they were setting profit records


Worst TV Show
WWE RAW


Worst Match of the Year
Braun Strowman vs. “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt –
Swamp Fight from the Horror Show at Extreme Rules


Worst Feud of the Year
Bray Wyatt vs. Braun Strowman


Worst Promotion of the Year
WWE


Best Booker
Tony Khan


Promoter of the Year
Tony Khan


Best Gimmick
Orange Cassidy


Worst Gimmick
“The Fiend” Bray Wyatt


Best Pro Wrestling Book
The Young Bucks: Killing the Business
from the Backyards to the Big Leagues


Best Pro Wrestling Documentary
Dark Side of the Ring – Owen Hart​

 

[Chris]

Best gimmick 2019: The Fiend Bray Wyatt
Worst Gimmick 2020: The Fiend Bray Wyatt



Very AEW heavy as expected and I'm sure there's some HEATED debates about how those things weren't the absolute best but I dont care too much bc I'm not shocked by any of these and I agree to an extent with all of them even if it wasn't my preferred choice.

Eddie Kingston and Pat McAfee getting theirs tho

Also 100% agree with Bayley as women's MVP, Fenix as best flyer, and Britt as most improved. No contest there for me

 

[Doom]

The two awards for Bray Wyatt showed how far The Fiend gimmick has fallen, thanks to WWE's questionable decision-making. That's one of the reasons that I haven't watched much of their programming lately, because WWE has been so bland most of the time.

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

How AEW-centric.

 

[Chris]

How AEW-centric.

Was looking forward to this grinding some gears

 

[Dale]

Orange Cassidy - Best Gimmick

 

[Chris]

Orange Cassidy - Best Gimmick

Shoulda been conspiracy Sami IMO, this is probably one I disagree with the most. Especially bc he didn't do shit after the Jericho feud

 

[Dale]

Wouldn't be mad at Sami, wouldn't be mad at Lumis or even MVP being the leader of The Hurt Business if that would count

 

[Chris]

Would probably just go Hurt Business in general for that one but yeah, NXT itself had a lot of colorful folk that I thought did well with weird gimmicks

 

[Deezy]

layoffs and furloughing isn't a promotional tactic, that's a business decision.

 

[Chris]

layoffs and furloughing isn't a promotional tactic, that's a business decision.

That award always made more sense to me as just "Scumbag move of the year" lmao sometimes it's business decisions, other times it's booking which I guess would be promotional.

Also Most Underrated and Most Overrated has always been "Most Overused" and "Most Underused" going by who actually wins

 

[Deezy]

Being vague.....how apropos for the Observer

 

[Adapting]

What is this biased garbage. This means nothing.

 

[Chris]

What is this biased garbage. This means nothing.

It was never meant to but some people always seem to think it does

 

[Hidden Blaze]

Orange Cassidy - Best Gimmick

Just means next year he’ll win worst


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