2015 Wrestling Awards Nominations

1. Wrestler of the Year- Seth Rollins

2. Match of the Year- Tanahashi vs. Nakamura- G1 Climax Finals

3. Moment of the Year- Bayley wins NXT women's title

4. Worst Angle of the Year- John Stewart screws John Cena

5. Surprise of the Year- Vampiro revealed as Pentagon Jr's master

6. Worst Match of the Year- Elimination Chamber Intercontinental title match

7. Best Angle of the Year- Too hard to choose on this one

8. Non-Wrestler of the Year- Dario Cueto

9. Feud of the Year- Adam Cole vs. Kyle O'Reilly

10. Rookie of the Year- Kevin Owens in WWE

11. Title Reign of the Year- Jay Lethal ROH World & TV champion

12. Best Major Show of the Year- WrestleMania 31

13. Most Improved Wrestler of the Year- Xavier Woods overall, Roman Reigns as a worker

14. Worst Wrestler of the Year- Eva Marie

15. Promo of the Year- Heyman on RAW after WM31

16. News Story of the Year- Hogan shunned from everything WWE

17. Worst Major Show of the Year- Anything TNA did

18. Group/Tag Team of the Year- Bullet Club

19. Best Entrance- Shinsuke Nakamura Wrestle Kingdom 9
 
1. Wrestler of the Year AJ Styles
2. Match of the Year Honma Vs Ishii from Power Struggle
3. Moment of the Year Seth Rollins swinging the world title over his head after winning at Wrestlemania 31
4. Worst Angle of the Year James Storm pushing Mickie James off a Train Platform
5. Surprise of the Year Bad Luck Fale beating Tanahashi during the G1
6. Worst Match of the Year Villano V, Villano IV and Villano III Vs Murder Clown, Monster Clown and Psycho Clown from Triplemania XXIII
7. Best Angle of the Year Time travelling Archibald Peck
8. Non-Wrestler of the Year Truth Martini
9. Feud of the Year Honma Vs Ishii
10. Rookie of the Year Jay White
11. Title Reign of the Year Seth Rollins
12. Best Major Show of the Year Wrestlekingdom 9
13. Most Improved Wrestler of the Year Roman Reigns
14. Worst Wrestler of the Year Eva Marie
15. Promo of the Year Kevin Owens Raw Debut
16. News Story of the Year Jimmy Snuka being charged with murder
17. Worst Major Show of the Year Royal rumble 2015
18. Group/Tag Team of the Year ReDragon
19. Best Entrance Grado at Fear and Loathing
 
The long-awaited list of nominees for the 2015 Sammies, for the world to see. Please take into account that KB opened polls last year before TakeOver R-Evolution and this is reflected in my nominees.

Wrestler of the Year
  • Bayley
  • Roman Reigns
  • Sasha Banks (henceforth referred to as The Boss)
  • Seth Rollins
  • Brock Lesnar
  • Kevin Owens
  • John Cena
  • Sami Zayn

Match of the Year
  • Adrian Neville vs. Sami Zayn, NXT TakeOver R-Evolution
  • John Cena vs. Seth Rollins vs. Brock Lesnar, Royal Rumble
  • Sami Zayn vs. Kevin Owens, NXT TakeOver Rival
  • Charlotte vs. The Boss vs. Bayley vs. Becky Lynch, NXT TakeOver Rival
  • Daniel Bryan vs. Roman Reigns, Fast Lane
  • Brock Lesnar vs. Roman Reigns (vs. Seth Rollins), WrestleMania 31
  • John Cena vs. Rusev, WrestleMania 31
  • Roman Reigns vs. The Big Show, Extreme Rules
  • The Boss vs. Bayley, NXT TakeOver Brooklyn
  • Bayley vs. The Boss, NXT TakeOver Respect
  • Roman Reigns vs. Bray Wyatt, WWE Battleground
  • Finn Balor vs. Samoa Joe, NXT TakeOver London

Moment of the Year
  • Sami Zayn finally wins the title
  • Sami Zayn is betrayed by his best friend
  • Rusev arrives in a tank at WrestleMania
  • Seth Rollins cashes in at WrestleMania
  • Bayley wins the NXT Womens Championship, the Four Horsewomen reuinite
  • Kevin Owens wins the NXT Championship and destroys his best friend
  • The Boss makes a little girl cry
  • The Shield "reunites", Payback
  • The Shield "reunites", Raw
  • Wembley Arena stands up because they love Bayley

Worst Angle of the Year
  • Stephanie McMahon's Diva's revolution
  • Ziggler loves Lana
  • Bray Wyatt steals Undertaker's thunder (and lightning)
  • Paige mocks Charlotte's dead brother

Surprise of the Year
  • Kevin Owens betrays Sami Zayn
  • The Dudley Boys return on Raw
  • Alberto Del Rio returns at Hell in a Cell
  • Seth Rollins cashes in at WrestleMania
  • Roman Reigns wins the WWE Championship - on Raw
  • Samoa Joe debuts on NXT
  • Kalisto defeats Ryback
  • Roman Reigns and The Big Show have a match of the year candidate
  • Bayley and The Boss main event a WWE event

Worst Match of the Year
  • The Royal Rumble match, Royal Rumble
  • Sting vs. Triple H, WrestleMania
  • John Cena vs. Alberto Del Rio, Hell in a Cell
  • Charlotte vs. Paige, Survivor Series

Best Angle of the Year
  • Bayley's road to glory
  • Kevin Owens' destruction of Sami Zayn
  • Eva Marie's redebut in NXT

Non-Wrestler of the Year
  • Paul Heyman
  • Triple H
  • William Regal

Feud of the Year
  • The Boss vs. Bayley
  • Kevin Owens vs. Sami Zayn
  • Eva Marie vs. the NXT fans
  • Brock Lesnar vs. The Undertaker
  • Rusev vs. John Cena
  • Kevin Owens vs. John Cena

Rookie of the Year
  • Eva Marie
  • Chad Gable
  • Nia Jax

Title Reign of the Year
  • John Cena, US Championship
  • The New Day, Tag Team Championships
  • Brock Lesnar, WWE Championship
  • Seth Rollins, WWE Championship
  • Kevin Owens, NXT Championship
  • Sami Zayn, NXT Championship (yes, I can justify this)
  • The Boss, NXT Womens Championship
  • Bayley, NXT Womens Championship

Best Major Show of the Year
  • WrestleMania 31
  • NXT TakeOver Brooklyn
  • NXT TakeOver R-Evolution

Most Improved Wrestler of the Year
  • Bayley
  • Jason Jordan
  • Tye Dillinger
  • Eva Marie
  • Baron Corbin

Worst Wrestler of the Year
  • Apollo Crews
  • John Cena (I can also justify this)

Promo of the Year
  • Pardon! John Cena's French?
  • Dean Ambrose chastises Wade Barrett's championship tactics
  • Samoa Joe puts actions behind his words
  • Sami Zayn accepts Kevin Owens' terms
  • The Boss puts Becky Lynch in her place
  • Enzo & Cass will not have their livelihoods endangered by Dawson and Dash

News Story of the Year
  • TNA & ROH compete back-to-back on Destination America
  • Record low ratings for Raw
*I excluded deaths from this because, frankly, somebody's death is much more than a "news story."

Worst Major Show of the Year
  • Survivor Series

Group of the Year
  • The New Day
  • The Vaudevillains
  • Enzo Amore, Big Cass and Carmella

Entrance of the Year
  • Tyler Breeze's catwalk, NXT TakeOver Unstoppable
  • Tyler Breeze's New York landmarks, NXT TakeOver Brooklyn
  • Rusev arrives in a fucking tank, WrestleMania
  • The Boss' entourage, NXT TakeOver Brooklyn
  • Immortan Bray, Hell in a Cell
  • Finn the Ripper, NXT TakeOver London

The Uncle Sam award for Best Dressed
  • Immortan Bray, Hell in a Cell
  • Finn the Ripper, NXT TakeOver London
  • Enzo Amore's Union Flag, NXT TakeOver London
  • Bayley's Dusty tribute, NXT TakeOver Brooklyn
  • Seth Rollins' white pallet swap, assorted pay-per-views
  • The Boss' true colours, NXT TakeOver Respect
  • Blake, Alexa & Murphy's Freddie Krueger attire, assorted shows
  • Blake, Alexa & Murphy's Iron Man attire, assorted shows
  • Tyler Breeze
 
Stew N' Brew said:
Why not just call it the WWE Awards Nominations? That's pretty much all anyone is nominating.
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It's almost like it's by far the most popular English language wrestling promotion and what the majority of people watch. Feel free to nominate anything else.

I'd put Progress matches and wrestlers on my list but I can practically feel the blank stares already.
 
Can there be a category for most awful or cringy moment? I feel that moments (but not fully angles) like Jon Stewart screwing John Cena and Paige mentioning Charlotte's brother, should come under that. Also, Sheamus making Reigns throw out the weapons from the ring, one at a time.
 
1. Wrestler of the Year

Cena
Reigns
Rollins
Owens

2. Match of the Year

Rollins v Brock v Cena
Cena v Owens (any of them)
Cena v Cesaro
Reigns v Wyatt - HIAC
Bayley v Sasha (Brooklyn)
Neville v Balor
Reigns v Lesnar
Lucha Dragons v Uso's v New Day
Nakumura v Ibushi

3. Moment of the Year

Reigns winning the title
Rollins winning the title
Owens debut
SDS of the ladder
Michaels Sweet Chin on Sting

4. Worst Angle of the Year

Rusev/Zigggler/Lana

5. Surprise of the Year

Dudleys
Del Rio

6. Worst Match of the Year

RR

7. Best Angle of the Year

The 24 hours from end of TLC to the next Raw
Rollins trying to prove himself as "the man"


8. Non-Wrestler of the Year

Heyman

9. Feud of the Year

Bayley v Sasha
Cena v Owens
Owens v Zayn
Lesnar v Rollins

10. Rookie of the Year

Gable
Nia Jax

11. Title Reign of the Year

Cena as US champ

12. Best Major Show of the Year

Mania

13. Most Improved Wrestler of the Year

The four horsewoman
Xavier Woods
Jordan
Nikki Bella

14. Worst Wrestler of the Year

Eva Marie
Strowman
Rowan
The Ascension don't do much but their booking hasn't helped

15. Promo of the Year

A bunch from Cena and Heyman.
A few from Sami but there is one in particular. Maybe I imagined this or I have it wrong but I can recall something along the lines off:

Sami and Kevin Owens (maybe the contract signing) which is phenomenal. I can't remeber the exact line but it's something about both him and Owens arriving in NXT on the same night. Fucking awesome promo that reaffirmed Sami isn't just a guy who can put on great matches.

16. News Story of the Year

Hogan
Tna/ROH

17. Worst Major Show of the Year

Does Slammaversiry count as major?

18. Group/Tag Team of the Year

New Day
Cesaro and Kidd

19. Best Entrance

Balor
Owens
New Day
Reigns
Lesnar
 
Wrestler of the Year: John Cena
Match of the Year: Roman Reigns vs Brock Lesnar Wrestlemania 31
Moment of the Year: Seth Rollins "Thank you so much" to Roman Reigns
Worst Angle of the Year: Wyatt vs Undertaker. Bray did all the heavy lifting and Taker just showed up and beat him.
Surprise of the Year: NWO vs DX at Wrestlemania 31
Worst Match of the Year: Los Villanos vs Los Psycho Circus
Best Angle of the Year: John Cena US Open Challenge
Non-Wrestler of the Year: Renee Young
Feud of the Year: John Cena vs Everybody for the US Championship
Rookie of the Year: Finn Balor
Title Reign of the Year: John Cena US Champion
Best Major Show of the Year: Wrestlemania 31
Most Improved Wrestler of the Year: Baron Corbin or Nikki Bella
Worst Wrestler of the Year: Rosa Mendes
Promo of the Year: Paul Heyman night after Wrestlemania 31
News Story of the Year: The death of Hijo del Perro Aguayo; Hulk Hogan racist remarks
Worst Major Show of the Year: Triplemania XXIII
Group/Tag Team of the Year: The New Day
Best Entrance: Finn Balor

You lied to us, Court Bauer. You lied to us bad.
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Isn't that the norm for good ol' Court?
 
Since everything has already been nominated. Here's something I'd add.

Best Moment: Randy Orton reversing Curb Stomp into an RKO.
 
I second that one.

Hey KB, what about something for best move/finisher? That salida del sol on the ladder from TLC deserves a nomination. Or even that spear Roman hit coming down the ramp that looked like he hit Show with a truck. That was a good one also.
 
1. Wrestler of the Year

Seth Rollins
Roman Reigns

2. Match of the Year

Brock Lesnar vs. Roman Reigns - Wrestlemania XXXI
Bayley vs. Sasha Banks - NXT TakeOver: Respect
Brock Lesnar vs. John Cena vs. Seth Rollins - Royal Rumble 2015
John Cena vs. Kevin Owens - Elimination Chamber
Sting vs. Seth Rollins - Night of Champions

3. Moment of the Year

Bayley wins NXT Women's Championship


4. Worst Angle of the Year

Rusev & Ziggler's debacle

5. Surprise of the Year

Kevin Owens answers John Cena's US Open Challenge
New Day doesn't suck
Kevin Owens beats John Cena clean

6. Worst Match of the Year

IC Title Elimination Chamber Match - Elimination Chamber

7. Best Angle of the Year

Owens vs. Zayn and all that came with it

8. Non-Wrestler of the Year

Paul Heyman

9. Feud of the Year

Seth Rollins vs. Dean Ambrose
John Cena vs. Kevin Owens

10. Rookie of the Year

Bayley

11. Title Reign of the Year

Seth Rollins WWE Champion
John Cena US Champion
New Day Tag Team Champions

12. Best Major Show of the Year

Wrestlemania 31

13. Most Improved Wrestler of the Year

Roman Reigns
Ryback

14. Worst Wrestler of the Year

Dolph Ziggler

15. Promo of the Year

Daniel Bryan will be in the Royal Rumble
Bray Wyatt... this one:

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He made a crowd of obnoxious ***** shut the fuck up and pay attention pretty quickly. What a great promo.


16. News Story of the Year

I don't care.

17. Worst Major Show of the Year

Survivor Series

18. Group/Tag Team of the Year

New Day

19. Best Entrance

Rusev WM30
 
Chad Gable and Nia Jax were both trained from scratch in the Performance Center and both debuted this year. Neither of them have really outperformed Kurt Angle but I think they're viable candidates, and certainly moreso than someone who's been a show for coming up three years.
 
Uncle Sam said:
Chad Gable and Nia Jax were both trained from scratch in the Performance Center and both debuted this year. Neither of them have really outperformed Kurt Angle but I think they're viable candidates, and certainly moreso than someone who's been a show for coming up three years.
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I don't really know who Gable is and I really didn't see anything special about Jax during the one match of hers I've seen. I'm also not trying to argue whether or not she's a rookie, just that with the way the voting is going it makes just as much since to pick her as it does Owens.

My basic ass thought process: Nobody on the main roster stood out so I picked my favorite from NXT. That said, Xavier Woods would probably be a better option now that I've put about 30 more seconds of thought into it. I'm probably wrong there too.

The Butcher said:
Sweet. I would've added "inb4" if I'd known this debate was coming.

Ichiro wasn't kept off of the Rookie of the Year ballot. Just sayin'.
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I think I get what you're saying but I need more info. I'm assuming he played baseball before he went to MLB, right?
 
Nate DaMac said:
I think I get what you're saying but I need more info. I'm assuming he played baseball before he went to MLB, right?
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Oh yeah, he was a superstar in Japan. If Dave Meltzer was a baseball writer, Ichiro would have started getting votes for MLB season-end awards in 1995.
 
The Butcher said:
Oh yeah, he was a superstar in Japan. If Dave Meltzer was a baseball writer, Ichiro would have started getting votes for MLB season-end awards in 1995.
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I thought so. As it relates to Kevin Owens, if this were WWE ROTY, he's winning by a huge margin. It's not though. Neither should Bayley, to be fair. I should have just left my ballot blank. I'm a low information voter.
 
A look through the nominations pretty much make these 'The WWE Awards: Presented by WrestleZone Forums.' Sting vs. Owens would be a good match-up, but with this crowd KO probably wins by a neck.
 
You know I read through the whole thread and I'm quite shocked there is no mention of one certain possible nominee for a certain category. So I guess I'll just do it myself:

Best Major Show of the Year: WWE:THE BEAST IN THE EAST

And you know that just brought up another nominee into mind as I wrote this. So once again I'll put this out there.

Match of the Year: NXT Championship Match in Japan: Kevin Owens vs Finn Balor
 
I'll throw TNA a bone with what I think is a genuine contender for match of the year:
  • EC3 vs. Rockstar Spud, Hair vs. Hair
 
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