MiLB Fan
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Post by MiLB Fan on Jan 11, 2015 20:39:44 GMT -5
PWI did publish photos of the winners holding a plaque until about the late-90s. I distinctly remember a photo of Hollywood Hogan kissing his award for Most Hated Wrestler of the Year. I always looked forward to PWI's year-end issue, but now it's almost impossible to find. I got a nice little ego boost when the magazine published some "Unofficial Awards" that I sent in. This month's letter from the editor has a note on that, about how PWI and print publishing have fallen on hard times. The magazine's mostly digital now, cutting prices on both formats and announcing they're doing away with the PWI Almanac as of this issue. Just wound up superfluous with information readily available online nowadays. Do you remember what your "Unofficial Officials" were? I'd love to hear them. PWI is getting rid of the Almanac? Well that sucks. I understand why but damn, another wrestling publication bites the dust. I always looked forward to the book's summary of the top ten news stories of the previous year, and it was fun to flip through the results of old PPVs. Even dark matches were included. For the first few years, the book ended with a What's In/What's Out list. I hope PWI can stay in print for at least a few more issues, because I recently emailed the results of a WWE house show I attended to the magazine for possible inclusion in the Arena Reports section. Sure would be nice to see my name in the magazine again. So you wanna hear about the awards I sent in? Okay, but let me preface this by saying that these are from about 13 or so years ago. You'll probably hate them but back then, I thought they were good ideas! Note: I may have had more published but these two are the ones I definitely remember. *I gave the World Wildlife Fund the "Most Hated Group of the Year" award for 2002. At the time, I was somewhat aware of the deal between them and the similarly-named wrestling company, but I didn't know all the details. In my mind there was only one true WWF: the World Wrestling Federation. Besides, PWI always encouraged fans to be outlandish with the awards they sent in, and I thought that one would get some attention! *"It's the End of The World As We Know It" given in memory of WWE's restaurant closing. See, because it was called The World and yes, I was also going for the REM reference. Yeah, they were pretty bad. |
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Post by lildude8218 on Jan 11, 2015 23:34:13 GMT -5
do they still do predictions for the next year?
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Emmet Russell
King Koopa
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Post by Emmet Russell on Jan 12, 2015 1:32:35 GMT -5
What did Harper improve from, he was good in the ring before WWE He was, but they probably gave him this award because he was able to show so much more in 2014 than he did in 2013. Aside from a good match or so with Bryan and Punk, he wasn't given much of a chance. In 2014, he got to have amazing matches with the Shield and the Uso's; and a solid singles push and IC Title reign; I can see why people voted for him: he was showcased more in 2014. I can't see why people voted for Bray and Cena as match of the year, though. The match was really good, and more than made up for the previous months disaster, but in no way, shape, or form did it come close to being the best match in WWE, let alone wrestling, all year. For me, it was Cena vs. Brock at Summerslam; that was a pure spectacle of the greatest kind. There were better "pure" wrestling matches, yes, but no match had me on the edge of my seat and felt like I was seeing history more than that one. WWE was nice enough to undo it all two weeks later and have Cena destroy the Wyatt Family. Very kind of them. |
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Post by Saiyanic Panic on Jan 12, 2015 2:40:55 GMT -5
do they still do predictions for the next year? They don't do those anymore. Sorry. I can't see why people voted for Bray and Cena as match of the year, though. The match was really good, and more than made up for the previous months disaster, but in no way, shape, or form did it come close to being the best match in WWE, let alone wrestling, all year. For me, it was Cena vs. Brock at Summerslam; that was a pure spectacle of the greatest kind. There were better "pure" wrestling matches, yes, but no match had me on the edge of my seat and felt like I was seeing history more than that one. Unfortunately Brock's Summerslam slaughter didn't even make the readers' list of also-rans. Unranked, they were: Daniel Bryan vs. Bray Wyatt - Royal Rumble The Undertaker vs. Brock Lesnar - WMXXX Daniel Bryan vs. Triple H - WMXXX Daniel Bryan vs. Batista vs. Randy Orton - WMXXX Young Bucks vs. Forever Hooligans vs. Time-Splitters - ROH/NJPW Global Wars Adam Cole vs. AJ Styles - ROH All Star Extravaganza VI Ultimo Guerrero vs. Atlantis, Best Two-Out-Of-Three Falls Mask vs. Mask Match - CMLL 81st Anniversary Show Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Katsuyori Shibata - NJPW Destruction In Kobe '14 Team Cena vs. Team Authority - Survivor Series |
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Emmet Russell
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Post by Emmet Russell on Jan 12, 2015 2:51:16 GMT -5
do they still do predictions for the next year? They don't do those anymore. Sorry. I can't see why people voted for Bray and Cena as match of the year, though. The match was really good, and more than made up for the previous months disaster, but in no way, shape, or form did it come close to being the best match in WWE, let alone wrestling, all year. For me, it was Cena vs. Brock at Summerslam; that was a pure spectacle of the greatest kind. There were better "pure" wrestling matches, yes, but no match had me on the edge of my seat and felt like I was seeing history more than that one. Unfortunately Brock's Summerslam slaughter didn't even make the readers' list of also-rans. Unranked, they were: Daniel Bryan vs. Bray Wyatt - Royal Rumble The Undertaker vs. Brock Lesnar - WMXXX Daniel Bryan vs. Triple H - WMXXX Daniel Bryan vs. Batista vs. Randy Orton - WMXXX Young Bucks vs. Forever Hooligans vs. Time-Splitters - ROH/NJPW Global Wars Adam Cole vs. AJ Styles - ROH All Star Extravaganza VI Ultimo Guerrero vs. Atlantis, Best Two-Out-Of-Three Falls Mask vs. Mask Match - CMLL 81st Anniversary Show Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Katsuyori Shibata - NJPW Destruction In Kobe '14 Team Cena vs. Team Authority - Survivor Series Out of all those WWE matches, I would rank Bryan and Bray as the top one, even better than the last man standing match with Cena. That match was such an enjoyable hard-hitting affair and easily the best match of Bray's career, in my opinion. Brock and Undertaker being on the list? I hate to slag on the Undertaker, but he was atrocious in that match and it was the drizzling shits. |
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Post by Saiyanic Panic on Jan 12, 2015 3:10:40 GMT -5
Brock and Undertaker being on the list? I hate to slag on the Undertaker, but he was atrocious in that match and it was the drizzling shits. Spectacle. Sometimes novelty's enough, especially on the big stage. Which makes Cena/Wyatt that much more odd; it was alright but not critically "you gotta see this!" lauded and the match had no long lasting impact/didn't air on a major pay-per-view. I know how these awards generally play out and I can't stress enough how much it weirds me out that THAT match won. And I agree about the Rumble Bray match if we're ranking his singles efforts. |
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Post by r. on Jan 12, 2015 22:27:42 GMT -5
Uso's over reDRagon?
Call me a smark but the uso's are not even on the same planet.
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Post by El Cokehead del Knife Fight on Jan 12, 2015 23:15:15 GMT -5
Aren't these awards like super kayfabed?
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Post by rapidfire187 on Jan 13, 2015 22:46:19 GMT -5
Cena/Wyatt Match of the Year? What?! Other that that they're OK. Yea that one is a real head scratcher. It doesn't even belong in the top five imo. |
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