The Wrestling Thread: WWE WrestleMania 31 [NSFW]

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Silvervision has a biggest sales ever tab on there site, a lot of the new blu-rays can be had for £9.99, CM Punk, NWO Revolution, Clash of the Champions. Some decent bargains to be had.

Dig Dug wrote:So TNA won best television show and worst promotion in the Wrestling observer awards, the majority wrestling fans are strawberry floating dumb by the looks of it.

EDIT: here are all of them:
Class A awards.
Lou Thesz/Ric Flair Award (Wrestler of the Year): Hiroshi Tanahashi (New Japan Pro Wrestling)
MMA Most Valuable Fighter: Anderson Silva (Ultimate Fighting Championship)
Most Outstanding Wrestler: Hiroshi Tanahashi (New Japan Pro Wrestling)
Best Box Office Draw: The Rock (World Wrestling Entertainment)
Feud of the Year: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kazuchika Okada (New Japan Pro Wrestling)
Tag Team of the Year: Bad Influence (Christopher Daniels and Kazarian) (Total Nonstop Action Wrestling)
Most Improved: Kazuchika Okada (New Japan Pro Wrestling)
Best on Interviews: CM Punk (World Wrestling Entertainment)
Most Charismatic: The Rock (World Wrestling Entertainment)
Best Technical Wrestler: Daniel Bryan (World Wrestling Entertainment)
Bruiser Brody Memorial Award (Best Brawler): Kevin Steen (Ring of Honor, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla)
Best Flying Wrestler: Kota Ibushi (Dramatic Dream Team)
Most Overrated: Ryback (World Wrestling Entertainment)
Most Underrated: Tyson kidd (World Wrestling Entertainment)
Promotion of the Year: New japan Pro Wrestling
Best Weekly Television Show: TNA Impact Wrestling
Most Outstanding Fighter: Anderson Silva (Ultimate Fighting Championship)
Match of the Year: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Minoru Suzuki (New Japan Pro Wrestling, King of Pro Wrestling Tokyo, Japan October 8)
Fight of the Year: Jung Chan-Sung vs. Dustin Poirier (Ultimate Fighting Championship, Fairfax, Virginia May 15)
Rookie of the Year: Dinastía (Asistencia Asesoría y Administración)
Best Non-Wrestler: Paul Heyman (World Wrestling Entertainment)
Best Television Announcer: Jim Ross (World Wrestling Entertainment)
Worst Television Announcer: Michael Cole (World Wrestling Entertainment)
Best Major Show: King of Pro Wrestling (New Japan Pro Wrestling)

Class B Awards:
Worst Major Wrestling Show: No Surrender (Total Nonstop Action Wrestling)
Best Wrestling Maneuver: Kazuchika Okada ,Rainmaker (Wrist lock into a Short-arm Lariat) (New Japan Pro Wrestling)
Most Disgusting Promotional Tactic: WWE broadcasting a dead Jerry Lawler being revived after a heart attack, and then having CM Punk and Paul Heyman mock the heart attack in front of Lawler (World Wrestling Entertainment) (WWE have won this award 11 out of 13 times this decade)
Worst Television Show: World Wrestling Entertainment Monday Night RAW
Worst Worked Match of the Year: John Cena vs. John Laurinaitis (World Wrestling Entertainment) (Over the Limit Raleigh, North Carolina May 20)
Worst Feud of the Year: John Cena vs. Kane (World Wrestling Entertainment)
Worst Promotion of the Year: Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
Best Booker: Jado and Gedo (New Japan Pro Wrestling)
Promoter of the Year: Dana White (Ultimate Fighting Championship) (He's won this 8 years in a row)
Best Gimmick: Joseph Park Esq. (Total Nonstop Action Wrestling) (Lawyer brother of Abyss)
Worst Gimmick: Aces & Eights (Total Nonstop Action Wrestling) (Invading biker gang)
Best Pro Wrestling Book: Shooters: The Toughest Men in Professional Wrestling (Jonathan Snowden)
Best Pro Wrestling DVD: CM Punk: Best in the World (World Wrestling Entertainment)

You can tell which of these were voted for and which of these were chosen by Wrestling Observer.

Weren't all of them voted for?

Nabbed nWo: The Revolution, Clash of the Champions, and WrestleMania 26 and 27 on Blu Ray.

Mockmaster wrote:4 days until the Rumble and no sweepstake?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Afaik Drumstick was going to give Cora until today before he did it by himself.

Waiting on Cora. He's been busy this week. Don't worry, it'll get done.

More to the point, where's GRAPL?

Cosmo wrote:More to the point, where's GRAPL?

>Rog

He doesn't usually post it till Saturday does he? I thought it was a case of letting people have the chance to watch Smackdown spoiler free.

As of right now, WWE have 4 matches officially announced for the Royal Rumble, so they'll probably add another one, possibly two. Though there have been I think either 2 or 3 years where they only put on a 4 match card.

PsychicSykes wrote:He doesn't usually post it till Saturday does he? I thought it was a case of letting people have the chance to watch Smackdown spoiler free.

It's always Thursdays.

Psykes. :roll:

KKLEIN wrote:As of right now, WWE have 4 matches officially announced for the Royal Rumble, so they'll probably add another one, possibly two. Though there have been I think either 2 or 3 years where they only put on a 4 match card.

Don't forget Zack Ryder will be performing Hoeski

Christmas Jim wrote:
KKLEIN wrote:As of right now, WWE have 4 matches officially announced for the Royal Rumble, so they'll probably add another one, possibly two. Though there have been I think either 2 or 3 years where they only put on a 4 match card.

Don't forget Zack Ryder will be performing Hoeski

What's hoeski? I thought it was just a word?

Dark Ritual wrote:Weren't all of them voted for?

Think the class A awards are chosen by Wrestling Observer and the Class B awards are reader voted.

Return_of_the_STAR wrote:
Christmas Jim wrote:
KKLEIN wrote:As of right now, WWE have 4 matches officially announced for the Royal Rumble, so they'll probably add another one, possibly two. Though there have been I think either 2 or 3 years where they only put on a 4 match card.

Don't forget Zack Ryder will be performing Hoeski

What's hoeski? I thought it was just a word?

Hope the crowd gooseberry fool all over it. And then Goldberg comes out and Spears him into orbit.

Dig Dug wrote:
Dark Ritual wrote:Weren't all of them voted for?

Think the class A awards are chosen by Wrestling Observer and the Class B awards are reader voted.

But throughout the whole newsletter Meltzer was talking about how people had voted and such. Unless he's referring to a panel, similar to how they do the WONHOF.

Bryan winning best technical wrestler 8 years in a row though. :shock:

That's awful. Really awful.

Dark Ritual wrote:
Dig Dug wrote:
Dark Ritual wrote:Weren't all of them voted for?

Think the class A awards are chosen by Wrestling Observer and the Class B awards are reader voted.

But throughout the whole newsletter Meltzer was talking about how people had voted and such. Unless he's referring to a panel, similar to how they do the WONHOF.

Bryan winning best technical wrestler 8 years in a row though.

All I know is, if all the awards were reader voted then CM Punk would have won Wrestler of the year and not Hiroshi Tanahashi.

Dig Dug wrote:
Dark Ritual wrote:
Dig Dug wrote:
Dark Ritual wrote:Weren't all of them voted for?

Think the class A awards are chosen by Wrestling Observer and the Class B awards are reader voted.

But throughout the whole newsletter Meltzer was talking about how people had voted and such. Unless he's referring to a panel, similar to how they do the WONHOF.

Bryan winning best technical wrestler 8 years in a row though.

All I know is, if all the awards were reader voted then CM Punk would have won Wrestler of the year and not Hiroshi Tanahashi.

Fair point. Cena probably wouldn't have been fourth either.

Zack Ryders steroid voice is getting worse and worse. He looks so uncomfortable just speaking :lol:

The Wrestling Thread: WWE WrestleMania 31 [NSFW]

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