The full awards can be found on rec.sport.pro-wrestling.info if you're so inclined, or just hit up rspw.org. I encourage you to check out the whole shebang, as several awards were within one vote here or there of going someplace else.
Best Wrestler: Samoa Joe
Best Tag Team: A.J. Styles & Christopher Daniels
Best Heel: Edge
Best Babyface: Rob van Dam / Rey Mysterio (tie)
Best Worker: Samoa Joe
Best Flyer: A.J. Styles
Best Technical Wrestler: Kurt Angle
Best Brawler: Samoa Joe
Most Favourite Wrestler: Kurt Angle
Most Improved Wrestler: Johnny Nitro
Most Overrated Wrestler: Jeff Jarrett / Randy Orton (tie)
Best Wrestling Gimmick: Booker T, after winning King of the Ring, becomes King of the World
Best Wrestling Move: Petey Williams' Canadian Destroyer flip piledriver
Best Match: 03/30/06: Dragon Kid & Genki Horiguchi & Ryo Saito vs. CIMA & Nauki Doi & Masato Yoshino (ROH Supercard of Honor)
Best Feud: Edge vs. John Cena
Worst Wrestler: The Great Khali
Worst Tag Team: Dicks: Chad & James
Worst Heel: Vickie Guerrero
Worst Babyface: John Cena
Worst Worker: The Great Khali
Least Favourite Wrestler: Jeff Jarrett
Most Deteriorated Wrestler: Raven
Most Underrated Wrestler: Shelton Benjamin
Worst Wrestling Gimmick: The Impostor Kane
Worst Wrestling Move: The Great Khali's skull chop
Worst Match: 06/25/06: Kane vs. Impostor Kane (Vengeance)
Worst Feud: Mr. McMahon (& Shane McMahon) vs. D-generation X
Most Disappointing News item: Death of Eddie Guerrero
Most Obnoxious Personality: Don West
Best Second: Armando Alejandro Estrada (Osama Rodriguez Alejandro)
Best Announcer: Joey Styles
Best Colour Commentator: John Bradshaw Layfield
Best Interviewee: Mick Foley
Best Angle: Joey Styles quits RAW during live broadcast
Best Organization: WWE
Best TV Show: WWE Smackdown
Best Major Show: 04/02/06: WWE WrestleMania 22
Best Promotional Move: TNA signs Kurt Angle soon after WWE releases him
Worst Second: Vickie Guerrero
Worst Announcer: Todd Grisham
Worst Colour Commentator: Don West
Worst Interviewee: The Great Khali
Worst Angle: Vickie Guerrero turns on Rey Mysterio
Worst Organization: WWE
Worst TV Show: WWE RAW
Worst Major Show: 07/23/06: WWE Great American Bash
Worst Promotional Move: WWE repeatedly uses Eddie Guerrero's death as storyline material
I love all of the TNA guys winning awards (when was the last time someone from outside WWE won wrestler of the year?), and then WWE wins both best and worst promotion.
Uhhhhh... Somebody has to make sense of this for me. I can understand historical sentiment. But, really, seriously, come on. I FFWD this tub o' pudge faster than I do Jeff Jarrett! He promos adequately. He shows up with an adequate "grr-grr, bff-bff" face on cue. He bleeds satisfactorily for a Kurt Angle headbutt. I'm clearly missing *all* the stellar qualities that put him anywhere above "satisfactory".
I'm just not seeing it. Can anybody wrap some words around the apparent love, please?
Best gimmick should have gone to Jimmy "Emo for Lacey" Jacobs. In fact, several other creations of ROH should have won, or are they exempt? They certainly should have won ROH.
And who pray tell underrates Shelton Benjamin as a wrestler? Nobody on the Internet for sure.
The Imposter Kane Vs. Kane Classic match was nowhere near the worst match of the year. Kane/Big Show at Backlash, Shelton/Viscera at NYR, Boogeyman/Booker T at 'Mania, Angle/Henry at the Rumble and many others were a lot worse. And if the Bash was the worst show of the year then it can't have been too bad a twelve months, as it had a very good tag title match, a god main event, and decent matches between Finlay/Regal and Hardy/Helms.
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I thought TNA was more interesting this year, but it's pretty much flipping a coin these days when it comes to Best Promotion, being that there are only two North American ones that are high-profile.
I remember looking at WM22 on paper and thinking it would be a disaster, but it turned out really well and I'm glad it won PPV of the year.
Angle/Henry at the Rumble was pretty bad, but I think that was mainly because of its placement on the card and the stupid ending. No way it should have followed the Rumble and Cena/Edge, but they positioned it because of the silly theatrics at the end.
I can't really argue any of these winners. I have heard good things about the MOTY, but have yet to see it. Good for ROH for nabbing such a major award.
And Samoa Joe was quite deserving, even if he is pudgy as described above. Vader wasn't cut out of stone either, but nobody really argued that he was a supreme bad ass.
Dean! Have you been shooting dope into your scrotum? You can tell me! I'm hip!
This is one of my favorite times of the internet year, I was really broken up that I missed them last year. I think it's great that CRZ has kept these going for as long as he has.
Originally posted by TorchslasherAnd who pray tell underrates Shelton Benjamin as a wrestler? Nobody on the Internet for sure.
Here's the official description "To be given to the person whose ability merits a far greater push than the person receives. There may be many such people, but the winner of this award should have the most ability with least push."
So basically the people are saying he belongs in the Main Event or up in that area. This really could be the Matt Hardy Award.
Originally posted by QuezzyAlso nice to see Finaly finish 6th in Best and Favorite wrestler and nearly beat out Samoa Joe for best brawler
I actually thought Finlay would take some of these awards, especially brawler. The man had a great year, but the power of Samoa Joe was just too much this time.
I was happy to see others thought CM Punk was as overrated as I did.
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For those of you who live in the St. Louis area and want to check out some indy wrestling, GCW has a show tomorrow night at the Wild Acres Gym in Overland, MO, as well as a show Saturday night at the Vetta Sports Club in Cottleville/St. Peters.
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