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UltimoDragonQuest posted:The Royal Rumble is the worst match of the year. It was a willful failure rather than unathletic people or botches. You can mute the crowd and it's still terrible. An hour long match was sent to die. Don't forget about the IC title Elimination Chamber match. The whole match was a botch, they even botched the pod release order because someone kicked down Mark Henry's pod wall, so he just wandered around aimlessly, messing up spots that were probably planned.
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bradzilla posted:Don't forget about the IC title Elimination Chamber match. The whole match was a botch, they even botched the pod release order because someone kicked down Mark Henry's pod wall, so he just wandered around aimlessly, messing up spots that were probably planned. In fairness, that match was going alright until Henry's pod broke, at which point everything suddenly had to be thrown out the window.
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Since the Royal Rumble onward until this month I pretty much have a 1% of wrestling in the past year that I've seen, maybe, and outside of people making fun of WWE in podcasts and on Youtube I really have no way to telling who was the best or worst of anything, so... yeah. My ballot is going to be lovely. And I don't give a gently caress. Consider me chaos theory.
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Teddybear posted:In fairness, that match was going alright until Henry's pod broke, at which point everything suddenly had to be thrown out the window. I blame the referee for not thinking quickly. There was already one pod open. He easily could've directed Mark Henry to that one. R-Truth was down in it, but the visual of Mark angrily chucking Truth's corpse out of the pod and then getting pissed off when the ref locked him in it would've saved the match and been a great spot.
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if you didn't vote Cheeseburger for Most Improved, I just dont know what the gently caress is wrong with you.
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Beef Jerky Robot posted:My boy roddy has presided over a full year of sold out PWG shows as champ, I'm voting for him for everything Roddy stacked up a shitload of MOTYCs in 2015 between PWG, ROH, Evolve before he stopped working there and all the European indies he did dates for. Dude has a great case for Most Outstanding Wrestler at the very least. Having a tough time deciding between Thatcher and Sabre for Best Technical, I love O'Reilly but he had kind of a down year in 2015 compared to his completely ridiculous 2014.
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i think i went with thatcher w/ the reasoning i've seen tim do more with less than sabre has. I suppose it comes down to personal preference though. Do you like flashy crowdpleasing stuff or "realer" stuff. Both are valid and fun to watch.
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i've watched maybe 9 full wrestling cards in 2015 so i am abstaining. i think a combination of wwe being god awful and njpw getting stale has led me to this road, and i don't get el rey and roh comes on too late for me. i just vote Wrestling Is Bad for all categories
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abraham linksys posted:huh so as just watched WWE, NXT, some LU matches, and some NJPW matches this year I reckon I'm gonna abstain from this one Obviously Daniel Bryan was far and away the best guy in WWE at this before he got shelved, but Samoa Joe and Chad Gable are both pretty good examples of 'technical' style wrestlers in NXT. Joe obviously adds in a lot of brawling to his style though, but there are guys you can vote for if you really want to! oatgan posted:i think i went with thatcher w/ the reasoning i've seen tim do more with less than sabre has. I suppose it comes down to personal preference though. Do you like flashy crowdpleasing stuff or "realer" stuff. Both are valid and fun to watch. I think I'm with you, just because I've seen Thatcher win over so many smarky indie crowds without relying on big flashy spots. He's just so good at drawing you in, he's on a completely different level from even the other new-age grappler guys.
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super macho dude posted:if you didn't vote Cheeseburger for Most Improved, I just dont know what the gently caress is wrong with you. Kotoka 
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Goddamn it how could I forget to put Global Force Wrestling for worst promotion, what are other promotions that could be put in for that other than TNA and WWE? AAA?
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I'd personally put W-1 below AAA. Their lows weren't as bad but AAA did some fun stuff and something about W-1 just comes off as perpetually sad.
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achillesforever6 posted:Goddamn it how could I forget to put Global Force Wrestling for worst promotion, what are other promotions that could be put in for that other than TNA and WWE? AAA? Can it really be considered a promotion if their only matches took place on TNA shows
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super macho dude posted:if you didn't vote Cheeseburger for Most Improved, I just dont know what the gently caress is wrong with you. Somewhere in the desolate wasteland outside of your reality is someone on this very forum who didn't see a Cheeseburger match this year. So now you know what the gently caress is wrong with them.
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global force wrestling put on the best show of 2015
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oatgan posted:global force wrestling put on the best show of 2015 Cool, I didnt know they helped put on Gate Of Destiny.
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Anyone got a short list for "Worst Promotional Tactic?" I wanna say "WWE misusing half their roster" and "TNA is STILL on TV"
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Beef Jerky Robot posted:probably the charlotte/paige/reid thing As much as I like to rag on current WWE the Act Yasukawa/Yoshiko poo poo is worse: RealFoxy posted:YOSHIKO apparently shoot hates ACT (The super-popular bondage pirate) so STARDOMS decided what better thing to do than put them in a match together By the way, I think we need a " Most Delightful Promotional Tactic of the Year" to recognize the Tana in DDT stuff culminating in a babyface turn via PowerPoint. Thauros fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Jan 14, 2016 |
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I don't know if you'd call that a "promotional tactic" though, unless you're saying the company planned it. Another good choice would be WWE exploiting a dead kid to glorify Warrior. I also put in a vote for WWE pushing Eva Marie. She's still terrible at everything and is put over others just because she's a reality star.
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sticklefifer posted:I don't know if you'd call that a "promotional tactic" though, unless you're saying the company planned it. I'm not a joshi expert but according to the thread at the time of the incident there was a major amount of heat between the two of them and the company defitely was trying to capitalize on that when they booked the match. So while they didn't plan it, they apparently should've known better as well.
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Awwwww poo poo, I forgot about the ACT ordeal.
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BigRed0427 posted:Anyone got a short list for "Worst Promotional Tactic?" Divas Revolution (or more specifically the co-opting of Rousey, Serena, and the USWNT to sell "catty divas" stories), Reid Flair exploitation, TNA emailing itself out of a TV deal, TNA releasing a Sting DVD close to his first WWE match, WWE beating the dead Connor horse, "philanthropy is the future of marketing," Michael Cole "injured" the same way Perro Aguayo Jr died, James Storm pushes Mickie James in front of a loving train
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Here's an alphabetized list of everything that's been submitted for that award: Similar lists available on request.
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The Goog posted:Here's an alphabetized list of everything that's been submitted for that award: Someone has to be blamed for his injury.
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The Goog posted:Here's an alphabetized list of everything that's been submitted for that award: yeah but Shattered Dreams was hilarious
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Lowkey thing that should probably be recognized more in this category: WWE letting Tommy Dreamer back in the ring while pretending to care about concussion safety.
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The Goog posted:Here's an alphabetized list of everything that's been submitted for that award: man I had that TNA "Storm Coming" tweet on my planned 3 but that kinda pales in comparison to most of these
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If anyone wants to know what the worst wwe show this year was, I checked and it's Survivor Series
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The Goog posted:Similar lists available on request. Can you do that for every category? The problem for me this year is there are gaps for me where I stopped watching wrestling and I have trouble remembering what happened this year.
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Blasmeister posted:If anyone wants to know what the worst wwe show this year was, I checked and it's Survivor Series I'd say its a tie between Survivor Series which was completely underwhelming on a whole or Elimination Chamber, Money in the Bank was pretty bland as well.
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KungFu Grip posted:I'd say its a tie between Survivor Series which was completely underwhelming on a whole or Elimination Chamber, Money in the Bank was pretty bland as well. I considered both of those but I find it hard to declare a show with a great match on the card like Cena/Owens 1 or a pair of good ladder matches as terrible as an anonymous show that ends with Sheamus standing tall hours after being shat on by the new day for being lame and jobbing, Wyatts buried again and a potential headline feud and match in Roman/Dean turned into a sub-10 minute formality set up and forgotten in minutes.
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The Goog posted:Here's an alphabetized list of everything that's been submitted for that award: Lmfao dammit Niel
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I forgot to put the Tenryu show as one if my shows of the year
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NienNunb posted:Lmfao dammit Niel It's true.
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Cesaro not going undefeated or holding every championship or owning the company is a disgusting promotional tactic
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Triple H for Most OverpushedSkunkrocker posted:Somewhere in the desolate wasteland outside of your reality is someone on this very forum who didn't see a Cheeseburger match this year. So now you know what the gently caress is wrong with them. that's something very wrong and should be corrected immediately imo
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BigRed0427 posted:Can you do that for every category? The problem for me this year is there are gaps for me where I stopped watching wrestling and I have trouble remembering what happened this year. If you didn't see something, don't vote for it. I don't want these awards to turn into (more of) an echo chamber where people just go with the popular thing even if they don't know about it. Also,  .
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