Mid-Year Wrestling Awards

[FunKay the Inevitable]

Well, we're half way through the year already and quite a lot's happened. Here are categories for some mid-year awards. Feel free to add some more.

Wrestler: Christian
Match: The Royal Rumble
Feud: Christian vs. Randy Orton
Promo: CM Punk's "shoot"
Biggest Personal Mark Out Moment: Alberto Del Rio's victory at the Royal Rumble
Biggest Surprise: The Rock returning

 

[Coco]

Wrestler: Christian
Match: Christian vs. Randy Orton @ Over The Limit
Feud: Rey Mysterio vs. Cody Rhodes
Promo: CM Punk's shoot
Biggest Personal Mark Out Moment: Christian wins the World Heavyweight Championship
Biggest Surprise: Edge retires

 

[TSG]

Wrestler: C.M. Punk, Cody Rhodes, Christian

Match: Dolph Ziggler vs Edge - Royal Rumble, Triple H vs. Undertaker - Wrestlemania 27, Daniel Bryan vs. Sin Cara - 5/13 Smackdown

Feud: John Cena vs. C.M. Punk, Randy Orton vs. Christian

Promo: CM Punk - 6/27 RAW , John Cena/Vince McMahon - 7/4 RAW

Biggest Personal Mark Out Moment: Trent Baretta suplex spot - 6-30 Superstars, CM Punk promo - 6/27 RAW

Biggest Surprise: R-Truth heel turn being good, Rock returns to host Wrestlemania

 

[Johnny Scumm]

Wrestler: Christian
Match: Cody Rhodes vs Rey Mysterio (WM)
Feud: Christian vs Randy Orton
Promo: CM Punk's "shoot"
Biggest Personal Mark Out Moment: Alex Riley turning on The Miz (And I'm a HUGE Miz fan, but this was great.)
Biggest Surprise: Edge's retirement.

 

[The Brain]

Wrestler: Randy Orton
Match: Randy Orton vs. Christian, Over The Limit
Feud: John Cena vs. The Rock
Promo: I guess Punk's shoot is the obvious choice. Taker/HHH/HBK before mania was good too.
Personal Mark Out Moment: ADR wins Rumble
Biggest Surprise: Rock returns

 

[Daniel]

Wrestler
John Cena.

Match
Raw Elimination Chamber.

Feud
Cody Rhodes vs. Rey Mysterio.

Promo
CM Punk's "shoot".

Biggest Personal Mark Out Moment
CM Punk's "shoot".

Surprise
The Rock's return.

 

[TLC]

Wrestler: Christian
Match: Dolph Ziggler vs Edge Royal Rumble or Smackdown's Elimination Chamber
Feud: Christian vs. Randy Orton
Promo: CM Punk's "shoot"
Biggest Personal Mark Out Moment: Christian's first world title win
Biggest Surprise: The Rock returning

 

[ABMorales787]

Wrestler: Christian

Match: AJ Styles vs Bully Ray (Slammiversary IX)

Feud: Fortune vs Immortal

Promo: "I know you love sugar, but I ain't got none!"

Biggest Personal Mark Out Moment: Christian win's World title.

Biggest Surprise: Christian won the World title/How spectacular Bully Ray has been.

 

[Барбоса]

Wrestler: Christian
Match: Randy Orton vs Christian - Over the Limit; Triple H/Undertaker - Wrestlemania XXVII; Davey Richards/Eddie Edwards - Best in the World 2011
Feud: Christian vs Randy Orton
Promo: CM Punk's tells us why he is leaving
Biggest Personal Mark Out Moment: Christian wins WHC; Osirian Portal hypnotizes EVERYONE - CZW Twelve 12/2
Biggest Surprise: Edge's retirement; Bully Ray; Punk being given time to air his grievances

 

[¡Roján!]

Wrestler: Daniel Bryan
Match: Edge v Kane - Smackdown, Last man standing match
Feud: Mark Henry v Big Show & Kane
Promo: Punk's shoot and Riley? Randy! Randy? Riley! JIMMY, JIMMY, JIMMY, JIMMY.
Biggest mark-out moment: Rock returns
Biggest surprise: Edge's retirement

 

[Joe's Gonna Kill You]

Wrestler: Christian
Match: AJ Styles vs Bully Ray LMS Eddie Edwards vs Davey Richards BITW 2011
Feud: Angle/Jarrett Richards/Edwards
Promo: Punk's shoot
Biggest Personal Mark Out Moment: Christian win's World title.
Biggest Surprise: Bully Ray

 

[Shocky]

Wrestler: I'm going to die on this hill alone, but Dolph Fucking Ziggler

Match: Edge vs. Dolph Ziggler: Royal Rumble

Feud: Angle vs. Jarrett

Promo: It really should be named best promo not named CM Punk's Shoot.

Personal Mark Out Moment: Christian wins the World title.

Biggest Surprise: Edge's Retirement.

 

[Da Prophet]

Wrestler: John Cena
Match: Orton vs Christian @ OTL
Feud: Orton vs Christian
Promo: CM Punk Shoot
Personal Mark Out Moment: Del Rio wins the Royal Rumble
Biggest Surprise: Edge's retirement

 

[The Black Death]

Wrestler: CM Punk

Match: Randy Orton vs Christian @ Over the Limit

Feud: The Rock vs John Cena

Promo: CM Punk "shoot promo"

Personal mark out moment: The Rock Returns

Biggest Suprise: Edge's Retirement

 

[JGlass]

Wrestler: Cody Rhodes, Randy Orton
Match: Dolph Ziggler vs. Edge @ Royal Rumble, Orton vs. Sheamus on Smackdown, Cena vs. Miz on Raw
Feud: Cena vs. Rock
Promo: CM Punk's "shoot"
Biggest Personal Mark Out Moment: Cena AA'ing The Rock
Biggest Surprise: Cena AA'ing The Rock, Edge retiring

 

[TSG]

Wrestler: Cody Rhodes, Randy Orton

Good, I thought I was the only one who saw it.

Match: Dolph Ziggler vs. Edge @ Royal Rumble, Orton vs. Sheamus on Smackdown, Cena vs. Miz on Raw

Forgot about those two, I don't know how. Either one would have been put over Cara/Bryan had I remembered.

 

[Big Nick Dudley]

Wrestler: Randy Orton
Match: Christian vs. Randy Orton/Over The Limit '11
Feud: Christian vs. Randy Orton
Promo: CM Punk's "shoot" on Raw
Biggest Personal Mark Out Moment: Return of The Rock
Biggest Surprise: The Rock returning to WWE

 

[Uncle Sam]

I've not really paid attention to other people's picks before posting this. I'd love to come up with some really original, left-field picks - seriously, I'd probably get hard - but I'm not going to. I will have, like, three or four picks for each though:

Best Wrestler
The Macho King Award
Christian | Randy Orton | CM Punk | Cody Rhodes | Rey Mysterio

Best Match
The Cream of the Crop Award
Rhodes/Mysterio, WrestleMania | Rhodes/Mysterio, Extreme Rules |
Punk/Orton, WrestleMania | Punk/Orton, Raw | Punk/Orton, Extreme Rules |
Sheamus/Orton, SmackDown | Christian/Orton, SmackDown | Christian/Orton, Over The Limit |
Christian/Del Rio, Extreme Rules | Punk/Del Rio/Mysterio, Raw | Bourne/Sin Cara, Raw
*I'm yet to see Capitol Punishment

Best Feud
The IrishCanadian's 'Best Feud Participants™' Award
Punk/Orton | Christian/Orton | Mysterio/Rhodes | Edge/Del Rio

Best Promo
The I'M NOT TALKING! Award
CM Punk's "Hey Colt Cabana" | R-Truth's "Technical Difficulties" | Edge's Goodbye

Biggest Personal Mark Out Moment
The Oh, My Ovaries! Award
Christian wins | Edge's retirement speech | Punk's promo | Punk/Austin face-off |
Christian spears Orton, Over The Limit | Punk wears Macho's gear

Biggest Surprise
The Dig It! Award
Edge's retirment | Punk's promo | Orton beats Christian​

 

[DAFC_Punk_Can_Save_Us]

Wrestler: Zack Ryder
Match: Zack Ryder v Primo, Superstars, Long Island.
Feud: Cody Rhodes v Rey Mysterio
Promo: Zack Ryder addresses his home crowd in Long Island
Biggest mark-out moment: Zack Ryder fisting pumping with John Cena on Raw.
Biggest surprise: Zack Ryder gets a match on raw with Kofi Kingston.

 

[fortune4life]

Wrestler: Randy Orton
Match: Undertaker vs Triple H (Wrestlemania XXVII)
Feud: Cena v.s Punk
Promo: Punk "shoot"
Biggest mark-out moment: R-Truth turning heel
Biggest surprise: Del Rio winning Rumble

 

[Uncle Sam]

Surprise: Santino being the runner-up in the Rumble.

 

[ABMorales787]

Wrestler: Zack Ryder
Match: Zack Ryder v Primo, Superstars, Long Island.
Feud: Cody Rhodes v Rey Mysterio
Promo: Zack Ryder addresses his home crowd in Long Island
Biggest mark-out moment: Zack Ryder fisting pumping with John Cena on Raw.
Biggest surprise: Zack Ryder gets a match on raw with Kofi Kingston.

I'd like to make one last Mark Out Moment vote:

Zack Ryder being bumped off the 3 hour Raw.

 

[Uncle Sam]

Mark Out Moments: Booker T, Diesel return

 

[Ming]

Wrestler: CM Punk.
Match: Christian vs. Randy Orton/Over The Limit
Feud: Christian vs. Randy Orton/CM Punk vs Randy Orton
Promo: CM Punk's "shoot"
Biggest Personal Mark Out Moment:The Rock's return
Biggest Surprise: CM Punk's "shoot"