2013 Wrestling Awards Nominations Thread

[klunderbunker]

It's awards time again! 2013 has been a big year for wrestling and as always, we'll be giving out awards in a variety of areas. Use this thread to nominate people, moments etc for various awards. Here are the categories so far:


1. Worst Match
2. Worst Wrestler
3. Worst PPV
4. Non-Wrestler
5. Best Angle
6. Best PPV
7. Best Wrestler
8. Feud
9. Most Improved
10. Worst Angle
11. Rookie
12. Promo
13. Group/Tag Team
14. Match
15. News Story
16. Moment
17. Title Reign
18. Surprise

If there's a demand for another category I'll add it in later. Use the threads to debate various awards, but use this thread for nominations only. Feel free to name multiple nominees for a single award. I'll go through and count up the nominations and put in those with the most mentions plus any that should be on the list. The awards are spam friendly.

Voting opens next Monday, the day after TLC.

 

[ProWrestlingFan]

1. Worst Match

Big Show vs Randy Orton - Survivor Series 2013

3. Worst PPV

WWE Battleground, WWE Night of Champions

6. Best PPV

WWE: Summerslam
TNA: Bound for Glory

7. Best Wrestler

WWE: Randy Orton
TNA: Bobby Roode

8. Feud

WWE: Triple H/ Brock Lesnar
TNA: Bobby Roode/ Kurt Angle

9. Most Improved

WWE: Curtis Axel
TNA: Magnus

10. Worst Angle

Big Show "Fired"

11. Rookie

Ethan Carter III (EC3)

12. Promo

Triple H's promo on RAW before Hell in a Cell (Contract signing for Bryan vs Orton)

13. Group/Tag Team

WWE: The Shield
TNA: Gunner/ James Storm

14. Match

WWE: Brock Lesnar vs CM Punk
TNA: AJ Styles vs Austin Aries (TNA Impact August 1 2013)

16. Moment

WWE: Brock Lesnar returns/ F5s CM Punk
TNA: AJ Styles wins the TNA World title

17. Title Reign

Randy Orton
AJ Styles

18. Surprise

WWE: Triple H turns heel - Summerslam 2013

 

[The_Reptile_]

1. Worst Match - Ryback vs Henry at Wrestlemania. I don't watch any other promotions so I can't comment on them, but that match really stood out to me for being a massive stinker on almost all levels
2. Worst Wrestler - As per every year I give it to Khali
3. Worst PPV - Either Battleground or Survivor Series, if only because they're the only two shows I didn't get this year.
4. Non-Wrestler - Paul Heyman, as always
5. Best Angle - I dunno. None of the angles I've seen in WWE really lit me on fire, but I guess Daniel Bryan's rise to the main even that was the core theme of the summer?
6. Best PPV - Summerslam. Without a doubt
7. Best Wrestler - Daniel Bryan or John Cena
8. Feud - Daniel Bryan vs John Cena again
9. Most Improved - I guess Roman Reigns, if only because he went from 'Has Potential' to 'Actually kind of fucking awesome'?
10. Worst Angle - Cryback. I don't like the NuCorporation at all but Cryback actually legit pissed me off
11. Rookie - Either Big E Langston, Bray Wyatt or one of the Shield Boys
12. Promo - Any of the promos Heyman and Punk pulled on each other during the Brock/Punk feud
13. Group/Tag Team - Shield. There's really no contest with this one.
14. Match - Either Lesnar/Punk or Daniel Bryan/Cena. Either one of those matches alone would have made Summerslam worth the price of purchase, but both? Dude.
15. News Story - Paul Bearer's death. Legit came out of nowhere
16. Moment - Daniel Bryan pinning Cena clean as a whistle to win the championship
17. Title Reign - Either The Shield's Triple Midcard Title reign or Cena's WWE Championship reign
18. Surprise - Again, Daniel Bryan pinning Cena clean as a whistle to win the championship

Yes, it's all WWE. I only watch them, sue me.

 

[MCMG]

1. Worst Match - Big Show vs Ryback on Raw was fucking torture. The Shellshock was awesome but the rest of the match was unbearable.
2. Worst Wrestler - The Great Khali/Eva Marie
3. Worst PPV - Battleground was the worst. Night of Champions wasn't much better.
4. Non-Wrestler - Heyman
5. Best Angle - I quite liked the Rhodes Family trying to get their jobs back.
6. Best PPV- Summerslam by a mile but Lockdown and Money in the Bank were also enjoyable.
7. Best Wrestler - John Cena
8. Feud - Can't think of a great feud this year. Punk/Heyman was quite good.
9. Most Improved - Bully Ray
10. Worst Angle - Big Show is poor.
11. Rookie - Big E Langston. Luke Harper as well.
12. Promo - A.J speaking about Total Divas is the obvious one. Bryan/Cena segment on Miz TV was very good as well.

13. Group/Tag Team - The Shield are the stand-outs. Bad Influence, The Real Americans and The Uso's have also been fantastic.
14. Match - Lesnar/Punk
15. News Story - I suppose Bruno Sammartino being inducted into the Hall of Fame.
16. Moment - Ziggler cashing in. Or the Rhodes celebrating at Battleground.
17. Title Reign - Rollins/Reigns as tag-champs. Bully Ray as World Champion was also fantastic.
18. Surprise - Bryan beating Cena clean :L

 

[Whap Me Jungles]

1. Worst Match - Lei'D Tapa vs Velvet Sky (as a Velvet mark, I hate to say this, but this match was torture to watch. It made Big Show vs Orton look like Lesnar vs Punk)
2. Worst Wrestler - Eva Marie
3. Worst PPV - Battleground
4. Non-Wrestler - Paul Heyman
5. Best Angle - Daniel Bryan between Payback and Summerslam
6. Best PPV - Lockdown
7. Best Wrestler - Daniel Bryan
8. Feud - Kurt Angle vs Bobby Roode
9. Most Improved - Magnus
10. Worst Angle - Big Show getting fired and then not
11. Rookie - EC3
12. Promo - Hogan lets loose on Aces and Eights, simply because of how awesome it was to see them finally called out for being useless
13. Group/Tag Team - E.G.O.
14. Match - Brock Lesnar vs CM Punk
15. News Story - Hogan finally leaving TNA
16. Moment - Randy Orton cashes in on Daniel Bryan
17. Title Reign - Bully Ray as TNA WHC
18. Surprise - Daniel Bryan defeats John Cena

 

[Galvatron]

1. Worst Match: Kane vs Bray Wyatt at Summerslam
2. Worst Wrestler: Khali and Miz
3. Worst PPV: Wrestlemania 29
4. Non Wrestler: Paul Heyman and Zeb Colter
5. Best Angle: ROH World Title Situation going into Final Battle

6. Best PPV: Summerslam
7. Best Wrestler: Daniel Bryan, John Cena, CM Punk, Austin Aries and Kevin Steen
8. Feud: Bryan/Cena
9. Most Improved: I got nothing for this one
10. Worst Angle: Big Show crying

11. Rookie: Dean Ambrose
12. Promo: AJ Lee pipebomb on Total Divas
13. Group/Tag Team: The Shield
14. Match: Daniel Bryan vs John Cena at Summerslam
15. News Story: Bret Hart saying HHH is not in top 1000 wrestlers of all time

16. Moment: Undertaker tribute to Paul Bearer at Wrestlemania
17. Title Reign: Punk 434
18. Surprise: Return of Rob Van Dam to WWE

 

[MCMG]

Ric Flair at the WWE 2K14 panel deserves an award. That was hilarious. Either News story of the year or a different one but that deserves recognition.

 

[SpoodBeest]

Worst Match: Total Divas vs. Real Divas at Survivor Series, Sheamus vs. Randy Orton on RAW post Mania, Randy Orton vs. Big Show at Survivor Series

Worst Wrestler: Curtis Axel

Worst PPV: Battleground

Non wrestler: Paul Heyman and Zeb Colter

Best Angle: Daniel Bryan is not the weak link, Mark Henry's brief WWE title pursuits, CM Punk takes the urn of Paul Bearer

Best PPV: SummerSlam

Best Wrestler: John Cena and Daniel Bryan

Feud: CM Punk vs. Paul Heyman, Cody Rhodes and Goldust vs. The Authority, Team Hell No vs. The Shield, CM Punk vs. The Undertaker

Most Improved: Big E. Langston

Worst Angle: The Authority chooses the face of WWE

Rookie: Roman Reigns

Promo: AJ owns the Total Divas, Punk and Heyman's many war of words, Mark Henry's "Retirement"

Group/Tag Team: The Shield

Match: John Cena vs. CM Punk - RAW, John Cena vs. Daniel Bryan - SummerSlam. CM Punk vs. Brock Lesnar - SummerSlam, The Undertaker vs. CM Punk - WrestleMania 29, Randy Orton vs. Jack Swagger vs, Mark Henry vs. Chris Jericho vs. Kane vs. Daniel Bryan - Elimination Chamber

News Story: Ric Flair the WWE 2K14 Symposium and Jim Ross' following "retirement"

Title Reign: Team Hell No and The Shield's reigns as WWE Tag Team Champions, even Cody and Goldust's reign now the entire division is on fire.

Surprise: Mark Henry feigns retirement, Triple H turns heel at SummerSlam, The return of Rob Van Dam, Punk/Cena is better than the WrestleMania main event.

 

[Mr. Book This Section]

1. Worst Match

Kane v. Bray Wyatt at Summerslam in an Inferno Match.

2. Worst Wrestler

Jesse Godderz. Sitting through one of his matches is like stabbing myself with a knife. Also Rampage Jackson and Robbie E.

3. Worst PPV

WWE Battleground

4. Non-Wrestler

Is this best Non-Wrestler or Worst Nonwrestler? I'll persume it's Nonwrestler in which I'll go for Paul Heyman.

5. Best Angle

I'm really enjoying this whole Wyatt's/Shield/Rhodes Dynasity/Mysterio/Punk/Bryan story that they have got going.

6. Best PPV

Money in the Bank 2013.

7. Best Wrestler

John Cena.

8. Feud

I'm gonna give some love to The Shield v. Team Hell No.

9. Most Improved

Magnus

10. Worst Angle

August 1st Warning when Tito Ortiz rocks up in TNA.

11. Rookie

Roman Reigns

12. Promo

Mark Henry's retirement.

13. Group/Tag Team

The Shield

14. Match

AJ Styles v. Austin Aries

15. News Story

Paul Bearer has died.

16. Moment

Chris Sabin wins TNA World Title.

17. Title Reign

AJ Lee's Divas Title Reign - She has been #Dominant

18. Surprise

Not sure.


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Other ideas would be

- Strongest Wrestler (Antonio Cesaro)

 

[Uncle Sam]

I try not to focus on the negative aspects, jovial sort as I am, so I'm afraid I'm going to have to skip past the worst of section. Maybe I'll be struck by inspiration and remember some parts of the year which I thought were really shit. We can but hope.

Just as TNA wrestlers re-entered my world last year, they've (mostly) exited it this. Sunrise, sunset.

Best Angle
Daniel Bryan's inferiority complex
Bo Dallas' delusion

Best Wrestler
Daniel Bryan
AJ Lee
John Cena
CM Punk
Ryback
Randy Orton
Bo Dallas
Antonio Cesaro
Sami Zayn
AJ Styles

Best Pay-Per-View
Money in the Bank
SummerSlam

Best Feud
John Cena/Daniel Bryan
Daniel Bryan/Ryback
Daniel Bryan/Randy Orton
CM Punk/Paul Heyman
Antonio Cesaro/Sami Zayn
Sami Zayn/Bo Dallas

Most Improved
Daniel Bryan
Bray Wyatt
Bo Dallas
Ryback

Best Non-Wrestler
Paul Heyman
Triple H
William Regal

Best Rookie
Sami Zayn
Big E Langston
Bray Wyatt
Luke Harper

Best Promo
Pink Jacket: Mark Henry Fools Us All
Bring It Down: Bray Wyatt Says Goodbye To NXT
The Kiss Heard Around The World: Heyman <3's Ryback
Why Didn't She Slap: John Cena Ethers Daniel Bryan
Say Something Stupid: The Brock Lesnar Story
We Hardly Knew Ye: The Aces & Eights Funeral
Total Divas Suck: AJ Lee Lets Loose

Best Match
CM Punk versus The Undertaker, WrestleMania
John Cena versus Daniel Bryan, SummerSlam
CM Punk versus Brock Lesnar, SummerSlam
Christian versus Alberto Del Rio, SummerSlam
Christian versus Rob Van Dam versus Randy Orton, SmackDown
Daniel Bryan versus Ryback, Raw
Bo Dallas versus Antonio Cesaro, NXT
Sami Zayn versus Antonio Cesaro III, NXT
AJ Lee versus Kaitlyn, Money in the Bank
The Shield versus The Usos, Money in the Bank

Best Tag Team
The Shield
The Usos
The Rhodes Brothers
Bad Influence
Team Hell No
The Wyatt Family
The Ascension

Best Moment
The Rock wins the WWE Championship
Daniel Bryan wins the WWE Championship
The Shield and The Wyatts square up
The Undertaker sits up in Punk's Anaconda Vice
Antonio Cesaro reverses Sami Zayn's top rope DDT into Swiss Death
"Let's go this guy!" - an unlikely hero emerges on NXT
A masked Sami Zayn beats Bo Dallas
John Cena chooses Daniel Bryan as his opponent

Best Title Reign
The Rock as WWE Champion
Daniel Bryan as WWE Champion
AJ Lee as Diva's Champion
Bo Dallas as NXT Champion
Alberto Del Rio as World Heavyweight Champion

Surprise
Daniel Bryan beats John Cena
Mark Henry's fake out
Randy Orton's cash-in
Rob Van Dam returns to WWE
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That's all that comes to me right now.

 

[Uncle Sam]

Oh, and the Ziggler/Del Rio face/heel switchertoo for surprise of the year, and Ziggler's entourage probably deserves a crack at best group.

 

[Coco]

Non-Wrestler

Renee Young

Best Angle

Bo Dallas: People's Champion

Best PPV

SummerSlam

Best Wrestler

Seth Rollins
Daniel Bryan
John Cena
Sami Zayn
Bo Dallas

Feud

Rhodes Family vs Authority
Kassius Ohno vs William Regal
Antonio Cesaro vs Sami Zayn
Bo Dallas vs Sami Zayn
Sting vs Magnus

Most Improved

Bo Dallas
Seth Rollins
Cody Rhodes

Rookie

Roman Reigns
Sami Zayn
Luke Harper

Promo

Mark Henry's retirement
The Aces & Eights funeral

Group/Tag Team

The Shield
The Rhodes Boys
The Usos
Bad Influence
Team Hell No
The Real Americans

Match

CM Punk vs Brock Lesnar - SummerSlam
CM Punk vs John Cena - Raw
Daniel Bryan vs Jack Swagger, Antonio Cesaro, and Ryback - Raw
The Shield vs Rhodes Boys - Battleground
The Shield vs Rhodes Boys vs Usos - Hell in a Cell
The Shield vs the Usos - Money in the Bank
Daniel Bryan vs John Cena - SummerSlam
The Shield vs Kane, Daniel Bryan, and Randy Orton - SmackDown
The Shield vs RVD/PTPs/Usos/Ziggler/Kofi/Bryan/Ryder/Gabriel/R-Truth - Raw
RVD vs Orton vs Christian - SmackDown
Christian vs Del Rio - SummerSlam
Del Rio vs Big Show - First SmackDown of the Year
Punk vs Undertaker - WrestleMania
The Shield vs Team Hell No - Raw (May 27)
Kassius Ohno vs William Regal - NXT
Antonio Cesaro vs Sami Zayn - 2/3 Falls - NXT
The Shield vs Team Hell No and Undertaker - Raw

I'm probably forgetting a slew of great stuff involving the Shield and/or Daniel Bryan. As Frank famously said, it was a very good year.

News Story

RVD returns to WWE

Moment

RVD returns to WWE

Title Reign

Shield as WWE Tag Team Champions
Rhodes Boys as WWE Tag Team Champions
John Cena as WWE Champion

Surprise

Hype package for RVD's return airs during Payback

 

[Richard Blonoff]

1. Worst Match-I think the Divas SS match has to take it
2. Worst Wrestler-Axel
3. Worst PPV- Night of Champions or TNA Presents "Insert match type" One Night Only
4. Non-Wrestler-Coulter, Cena(He isn't a wrestler he is an entertainer)
5. Best Angle- Cena/Bryan or Cody Rhodes "firing"
6. Best PPV- I want to be different but SummerSlam is so far and away the best its unreal
7. Best Wrestler- Bryan
8. Feud- D-Bry vs. Being a draw
9. Most Improved- Michael Cole, because he doesn't make me mute my TV anymore
10. Worst Angle- Aces & Eights
11. Rookie- Xaiver Woods, because in his short time he has managed to make Brodus Clay sort of relevant
12. Promo- Mark Henry's retirement
13. Group/Tag Team- A lot of rightly deserved love for The Shield, Wyatts, and Bad Influence. I'll throw out Goldy and Rhody since I'm a Gold mark
14. Match- Punk/Cena from RAW
15. News Story- Paul Bearer's death, JR's "retirement"
16. Moment- Bryan's 100% clean win over Cena, Kofi at the Rumble(because I nominate him each year
17. Title Reign- Cena's WHC reign for bringing a shred of relevance to it
18. Surprise-Fandango actually being over

 

[Mitch Henessey]

Worst Match

Team Total Divas VS AJ, Tamina, Kaitlyn, Alicia Fox, Rosa Mendes, Aksana, and Summer Rae-Survivor Series

Worst Wrestler

Eva Marie

Worst PPV

Battleground

Non-Wrestler

Paul Heyman
Stephanie McMahon

Best Angle

CM Punk steals the urn

Best PPV

Summerslam
Payback

Best Wrestler

John Cena
CM Punk
Daniel Bryan
Roman Reigns

Feud

CM Punk/Paul Heyman
John Cena/Daniel Bryan

Most Improved

Bray Wyatt
Daniel Bryan

Worst Angle

Anything involving Aces & Eights

Rookie

Big E Langston
Bray Wyatt

Promo

Mark Henry's retirement speech

AJ's pipebomb for the Total Divas

CM Punk/Paul Heyman- Raw- 7/15/13

Spoiler

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Spoiler

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Best Match

CM Punk VS Brock Lesnar-Summerslam
John Cena VS Ryback- Extreme Rules
John Cena VS Ryback- Payback
John Cena VS Damien Sandow- Raw- MITB Cash-in match
John Cena VS CM Punk-Raw- John Cena risks his Royal Rumble win to prove a point to CM Punk
Randy Orton VS Cody Rhodes-Raw- Cody is forced to put his career on the line
CM Punk VS The Undertaker- Wrestlemania 29
Christian VS Alberto Del Rio- Summerslam

Group/Tag Team

The Shield
The Usos
Bad Influence
Cody Rhodes & Goldust

News Story

RVD's return

Moment

Mark Henry hits John Cena with the World's Strongest Slam after the retirement speech

The first face off with The Shield and The Wyatt Family face on Raw

John Cena chooses Daniel Bryan as his opponent for Summerslam.

Ryback drives Cena through the Extreme Rules stage.

Cena sends Ryback through the roof of the ambulance with the AA

The Wyatt Family debuts on Raw

Title Reign

AJ as Divas Champion

John Cena as WWE Champion

Surprise

Daniel Bryan defeats John Cena at Summerslam

Mark Henry lies about retirement

Triple H's heel turn

 

[alfonzo13]

1. Worst Match
Ryback vs Mark Henry- Wrestlemania 29
Randy Orton vs Big Show- Survivor Series
Chris Jericho vs Fandango- Wrestlemania 29

2. Worst Wrestler
The Great Khali
Heath Slater
Santino Marella

3. Worst PPV
Night of Champions
Battleground
Survivor Series

4. Non-Wrestler
Paul Heyman
JBL
Zeb Colter

5. Best Angle
The Rise of Daniel Bryan
The Rhodes Family

6. Best PPV
Summerslam
Payback
Hell in a Cell

7. Best Wrestler
Randy Orton
Daniel Bryan
CM Punk

8. Feud
Randy Orton vs Daniel Bryan
CM Punk vs Paul Heyman
The Shield vs The Rhodes Family

9. Most Improved
Daniel Bryan
Roman Reigns
Big E Langston

10. Worst Angle
Big Show loses everything

11. Rookie
Big E Langston
Roman Reigns

12. Promo
Mark Henry's retirement
Paul Heyman "proposes" to Ryback
AJ Lee's promo on the Total Divas

13. Group/Tag Team
The Shield
Team Hell No
Rhodes Brothers

14. Match
CM Punk vs John Cena- Raw 2/25/13
CM Punk vs Brock Lesnar- Summerslam
Randy Orton vs Daniel Bryan- Night of Champions
CM Punk vs Undertaker- Wrestlemania
Daniel Bryan vs John Cena- Summerslam
CM Punk vs Chris Jericho- Payback

15. News Story
Paul Bearer's death
Jim Ross is fired from WWE
Ric Flair at WWE 2K14 symposium

16. Moment
Daniel Bryan wins WWE title
The Shield and Wyatt Family face off
Triple H announces Orton vs Cena to determine the Undisputed Champion at TLC

17. Title Reign
AJ Lee- Divas title
Randy Orton- WWE title
Alberto Del Rio- World Heavyweight title
Dean Ambrose- US title
Seth Rollins & Roman Reigns- Tag titles

18. Surprise
Brock Lesnar returns and attacks CM Punk
Randy Orton cashes in Money in the Bank
Chris Jericho returns at the Royal Rumble


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[Coco]

Best Non-Wrestler
Triple H

 

[Uncle Sam]

I'm not crazy, I'm just ahead of the curve.

 

[Uncle Sam]

Zeb Colter for best non-wrestler, The Rock for best wrestler and Sami Zayn versus Jack Swagger for match of the year. Oh yes, that last one pressed all the right buttons.

 

[Coco]

Worst wrestler: R-Truth