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

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Chris Toplack

Chris leads Education and Training at SkyHive by Cornerstone and founded The Signature Spot. With over a decade of experience in SaaS and media, he combines program management with expertise as a voice-over artist to design high-impact training programs and engaging content.

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