Wrestling Observer Awards 2011

[Postman Dave]

Winners are....

Lou Thesz/Ric Flair Award (Wrestler of the Year): Winner – Hiroshi Tanahashi

MMA Most Valuable Fighter: Winner – Georges St-Pierre

Most Outstanding Wrestler: Winner – Davey Richards

Best Box Office Draw: Winner – The Rock

Feud of the Year: Winner – John Cena vs. CM Punk

Tag Team of the Year: Winner – Bad Intentions (Giant Bernard & Karl Anderson)

Most Improved: Winner – Dolph Ziggler

Best on Interviews: Winner – CM Punk

Most Charismatic: Winner – The Rock

Best Technical Wrestler: Winner – Daniel Bryan

Bruiser Brody Memorial Award (Best Brawler): Winner – Kevin Steen

Best Flying Wrestler: Winner – Ricochet

Most Overrated: Winner – Crimson

Most Underrated: Winner – Dolph Ziggler

Promotion of the Year: Winner – UFC

Best Weekly Television Show: Winner – WWE Friday Night SmackDown!

Most Outstanding Fighter (formerly Shootfighter of the Year): Winner – Jon Jones

Worked Match of the Year: Winner – John Cena vs. CM Punk @ MITB 2011

Fight of the Year: Winner – Dan Henderson vs. Shogun Rua

Rookie of the Year: Winner – Daichi Hashimoto

Best Non-Wrestler: Winner – Ricardo Rodriguez

Best Television Announcer: Winner – Joe Rogan

Worst Television Announcer : Winner – Michael Cole

Best Major Show: Winner – Money in the Bank 2011

Worst Major Wrestling Show: Winner – TNA Victory Road 2011

Best Wrestling Maneuver: Winner – Ricochet for the Double Rotation Moonsault

Most Disgusting Promotional Tactic: Winner – WWE anti-bullying campaign & treatment of Jim Ross

Worst Television Show: Winner – TNA Impact/Impact Wrestling

Worst Worked Match of the Year: Winner – Sting vs. Jeff Hardy @ Victory Road 2011

Worst Feud of the Year: Winner – Triple H vs. Kevin Nash

Worst Promotion of the Year: Winner – TNA

Best Booker: Winner – Jado & Gedo

Promoter of the Year: Winner – Dana White

Best Gimmick: Winner – CM Punk as the anti-corporate rebel

Worst Gimmick: Winner – Michael Cole as a heel announcer

Best Pro Wrestling Book: Winner – Chris Jericho: Undisputed

Best Pro Wrestling DVD: Winner – Greatest Rivarlies: Shawn Michaels vs. Bret Hart

Bad Intentions as best tag is a surprise, never seen them before though so I can't judge. Don't believe Dolph Ziggler has ever been underrated in the last 12 months so that's a weird one.

Not sure about Hardy/Sting getting worse match, it was shambolic but they weren't trying for a good reason. It's better than say RVD/Anderson where it's a shit match despite the fact they're actually trying.

I reckon they've been overly harsh on TNA this year. Impact has improved significantly, and I'm EVOLVE has been a joke until this year.

 

[Fuji Vice]

I didn't think anyone would give a crap about Bad Intentions, I'm shocked Observer got at least one of their shammy awards right. They were IWGP champs for nearly two years, which is insane for any titleholder in this day and age.

 

[Catfish Billy]

They couldn't have picked anyone better for Worst Gimmick.

 

[W-olf]

Best Promoter not even in Wrestling
and Best Tag not in the states .

I'm sensing a trend here I 'm starting to miss the old days more and more .

 

[Smart Marx]

Worst show and worst promotion TNA/iMPACT! Wrestling? Fail list is fail.

 

[Catfish Billy]

Worst show and worst promotion TNA/iMPACT! Wrestling? Fail list is fail.

For the year? It probably would be. WWE had an awesome summer and iMPACT only got out of the gutter when Russo got demoted.

 

[Smart Marx]

For the year? It probably would be. WWE had an awesome summer and iMPACT only got out of the gutter when Russo got demoted.

iMPACT! Wrestling got as good as it is now in June, same time WWE was doing the Summer of Punk. Then WWE got bad real quick. And TNA was awesome 1st three months of the year. The Immortal angle was hot and Jeff Hardy was cutting incredible heel promos on ReAction & iMPACT. Also Russo had nothing to do with how bad TNA got at certain points. That had more to do with an increased presence of Hogan inserting his own creative thoughts on the product. The hall of ring powers, Val Venis, Nasty Boyz, taking Styles out of the heavyweight picture, etc... and for the record Russo is still a large part of the creaitve team. He just works under Bruce Pritchard.

So by my count WWE only had the advantage over TNA for about four months, March to June.

 

[Fuji Vice]

The only problem is that its The Observer, you know how biased they are, and Dave is right, EVOLVE was way worse as a whole this year.

 

[Catfish Billy]

iMPACT! Wrestling got as good as it is now in June, same time WWE was doing the Summer of Punk. Then WWE got bad real quick. And TNA was awesome 1st three months of the year. The Immortal angle was hot and Jeff Hardy was cutting incredible heel promos on ReAction & iMPACT. Also Russo had nothing to do with how bad TNA got at certain points. That had more to do with an increased presence of Hogan inserting his own creative thoughts on the product. The hall of ring powers, Val Venis, Nasty Boyz, taking Styles out of the heavyweight picture, etc... and for the record Russo is still a large part of the creaitve team. He just works under Bruce Pritchard.

So by my count WWE only had the advantage over TNA for about four months, March to June.

To me Immortal and Hardy as a heel sucked a big sweaty balls so, I'd call it even. TNA had put out some pure shit, worse than WWE did. Just my opinion.

iMPACT certainly looks awesome at the moment. With a stronger X Division/ Tag Team Division they could shoot up to contention for top promotion in 2012.

 

[Smart Marx]

To me Immortal and Hardy as a heel sucked a big sweaty balls so, I'd call it even. TNA had put out some pure shit, worse than WWE did. Just my opinion.

iMPACT certainly looks awesome at the moment. With a stronger X Division/ Tag Team Division they could shoot up to contention for top promotion in 2012.

Jeff Hardy was the greatest thing about wrestling in late 2011/early 2012 and that's all I got to say about that.

 

[Fuji Vice]

To me Immortal and Hardy as a heel sucked a big sweaty balls so, I'd call it even. TNA had put out some pure shit, worse than WWE did. Just my opinion.

iMPACT certainly looks awesome at the moment. With a stronger X Division/ Tag Team Division they could shoot up to contention for top promotion in 2012.

However you are missing my point that EVOLVE was clearly a worse promotion throughout the year.

 

[Catfish Billy]

However you are missing my point that EVOLVE was clearly a worse promotion throughout the year.

I didn't miss it, I chose to ignore it. That's right, I'm that much of a cunt! :

 

[Fuji Vice]

I didn't miss it, I chose to ignore it. That's right, I'm that much of a cunt! :

Trust me, it was way worse, that's all I'm saying. Again, the Observer is so fucking biased I don't take a single thing they say seriously.

 

[Catfish Billy]

Trust me, it was way worse, that's all I'm saying. Again, the Observer is so fucking biased I don't take a single thing they say seriously.

They were spot on for worst gimmick.

 

[Fuji Vice]

They were spot on for worst gimmick.

Just because they get a couple right doesn't mean they know what they're talking about.