Pro Wrestling Mid-Year Awards 2019
During the most recent episode of the podcast, I was joined by Ryan Boman of the Gorilla Position where we hand out our mid-year awards for 2019 featuring wrestlers from WWE, NXT, NJPW, Impact and AEW.
Read our choices below:
Male Wrestler of the Year
My Pick: Will Ospreay (3 - 5-star matches in 2019 so far)
NJPW Best Of The Super Juniors XXV Day 15 Will Ospreay vs Shingo Takagi
NJPW Dominion 6.9 Will Ospreay vs Dragon Lee
NJPW Best Of The Super Juniors XXVI - Day 8 Will Ospreay vs Bandid
My Runner Up: Daniel Bryan (WWE World Champion, Tag-Team Champion)
Ryan’s Pick: Seth Rollins (WWE Universal Champion)
Ryan’s Runner Up: Will Ospreay
Female Wrestler of the Year
My pick: Tessa Blanchard
Left her mark all over the world and even competing against male competitors and defeating them.
My Runner Up: Becky Lynch (Won both championships at Wrestlemania)
Ryan’s pick: Tessa Blanchard
Ryan’s Runner Up: Becky Lynch
Feud of the Year
My Pick: Daniel Bryan vs. Kofi Kingston
My Runner Up: Kota Ibushi vs Tetsuya Naito
Ryan’s Pick: AEW vs WWE
Ryan’s Runner Up: Seth Rollins vs Brock Lesnar
Match of the Year
My Pick: Johnny Gargano vs Adam Cole 2 Out Of 3 Falls (NXT TakeOver: New York)
My Runner Up: Will Ospreay vs Dragon Lee and Cody vs Dustin Double or Nothing (Tie)
Ryan’s Pick: Cody vs Dustin at Double or Nothing
Ryan’s Runner Up: Johnny Gargano vs Adam Cole 2 Out Of 3 Falls (NXT TakeOver: New York)
Tag-Team of the Year
My Pick: The Lucha Bros (Defeated LAX to win the Impact World Tag-Team Championship and also recaptured their AAA World-Tag Titles several weeks ago)
My Runner Up: Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa) defeated Evil and Sanada back in February to capture the IWGP Tag-Team Championships (5-time champs!)
Ryan’s Pick: LAX (Defeated the Lucha Bros to capture Impact World Tag-Team Championship in a Full Metal Mayhem match)
Ryan’s Runner Up: The Lucha Bros
Best on Interviews
My Pick: MJF
My Runner Up: Daniel Bryan
Ryan’s Pick: Paul Heyman
Ryan’s Runner Up: MJF
Breakout Star of the Year
My Pick: MJF
My Runner Up: Hangman Page
Ryan’s Pick: MJF
Ryan’s Runner Up: Did not choose
Event of the Year
My Pick: NXT TakeOver: New York
My Runner Up: NXT TakeOver: 25
Ryan’s Pick: AEW Double or Nothing
Ryan’s Runner Up: Did not choose
