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Post by Steveweiser on Dec 11, 2012 8:24:53 GMT -5
MVP: Kazuchika Okada (runners up: Takeshi Morishima and Hiroshi Tanahashi)
Best Tag Team: GET WILD (Takao Omori & Manabu Soya) (runners up: The Jimmys (Jimmy Susumu & Jimmy Kagetora), Laughter7 (Kazushi Sakuraba & Katsuyori Shibata) and the Brahman Brothers (Brahman Shu and Brahman Kei))
Outstanding Performance: Takeshi Morishima (runners up: Masakatsu Funaki, Abdullah Kobayashi, KENTA and Sanshiro Takagi)
Fighting Spirit: Abdullah Kobayashi (runners up: CIMA, Hirooki Goto, Katsuyori Shibata and Atsushi Onita)
Technical: Shinsuke Nakamura (runners up: CIMA, Masakatsu Funaki, Toru Yano and Antonio Honda)
Rookie of the Year: Daichi Hashimoto
Joshi: Yuzuki Aikawa
Lifetime Achievement: Seiji Sakaguchi
Match of the Year...
1: Kazuchika Okada vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi - June 16th
2: Atsushi Onita vs. Akebono - August 26th
3: Kenny Omega vs. Kota Ibushi - August 18th
4: Shinsuke Nakamura/Kazuchika Okada vs. Suwama/Shuji Kondo - July 1st
5: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Minoru Suzuki - October 8th
6: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kazuchika Okada - February 12th
7: Suwama vs. Taiyo Kea - May 7th
8: Jun Akiyama vs. Masakatsu Funaki - August 26th
9: Jun Kasai vs. MASADA - August 27th
10: Masato Tanaka vs. Tomohiro Ishii - November 19th
11: Takashi Sugiura vs. KENTA - November 23rd
12: Kane vs. Daniel Bryan - August 9th
13: Atsushi Sawada & Shinichi Suzukawa vs. Laughter7 - December 31st 2011
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Post by Djm Doesn't Find You Funny on Dec 11, 2012 8:35:35 GMT -5
I'm a little surprised at the Morishima love. Not that he isn't good.
Just what with NOAH being a dead promotion walking and all...
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Post by YiHammer on Dec 11, 2012 9:44:33 GMT -5
Was Onita vs Akebono that good?
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Post by kidkamikaze10 on Dec 11, 2012 11:43:16 GMT -5
I'm about to watch Onita vs Akebono. I really really doubt Tokyo Sports' judgement though.
Oh, and Mai Shiranui winning again.... Ugh.
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Dec 11, 2012 11:47:10 GMT -5
13: Atsushi Sawada & Shinichi Suzukawa vs. Laughter7 - December 31st 2011 That match was horribly dreadful. It has no place being near a "Puro Match of the Year" category. |
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Post by kidkamikaze10 on Dec 11, 2012 11:52:48 GMT -5
13: Atsushi Sawada & Shinichi Suzukawa vs. Laughter7 - December 31st 2011 That match was horribly dreadful. It has no place being near a "Puro Match of the Year" category. LOL true. The same list also has the like five minute title bout squash of Jun Akiyama. EDIT: I'll admit, the match made sense to be really really short, but still, that almost felt like Sheamus/DB |
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Post by ________ has left the building on Dec 12, 2012 6:57:59 GMT -5
Brahman Brothers should had won tag team of the year.
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Post by W?Y on Dec 12, 2012 7:34:58 GMT -5
Kane vs. Daniel Bryan? Huh??
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Post by Steveweiser on Dec 12, 2012 8:06:54 GMT -5
Kane vs. Daniel Bryan? Huh?? Their Sumo Hall match. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2012 8:33:42 GMT -5
Tanahashi/Suzuki should be no.2. Wtf?!
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Post by Steveweiser on Dec 12, 2012 8:39:36 GMT -5
I just don't get why Okada/Naito isn't even on the list. For a while, that was the best match in puro.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2012 8:41:12 GMT -5
I just don't get why Okada/Naito isn't even on the list. For a while, that was the best match in puro. |
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Post by W?Y on Dec 12, 2012 10:39:29 GMT -5
Kane vs. Daniel Bryan? Huh?? Their Sumo Hall match. I must have missed this. Televised or house show? |
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Post by Steveweiser on Dec 12, 2012 11:08:32 GMT -5
House show. These awards are more or less the opinions of the Tokyo Sports writers who go to all the shows.
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Post by kidkamikaze10 on Dec 12, 2012 11:40:12 GMT -5
And apparently, they are really into spectacle matches, seeing how that really crappy Akebono/Onita match is there. (though I did like the fireball spot after the match)
Oh and boobies, because I can name a few people even on STARDOM's roster that are better than Yuzuki Shiranui, never the the joshi's on other rosters and of course the freelancers.
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Post by Steveweiser on Dec 12, 2012 12:05:50 GMT -5
I think it's the total overall package for Joshi, not just in-ring, where many Joshi have Aikawa smoked.
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Post by kidkamikaze10 on Dec 23, 2012 12:38:06 GMT -5
I know pretty much every US fan has talked smack about these awards...
But I have to give these guys props for something.
Tanaka vs Ishii was AWESOME!!!
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Post by Apricots And A Pear Tree on Dec 23, 2012 17:32:48 GMT -5
Now how do they expect to sell any magazines with all these Japanese people on their list?  |
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Dec 24, 2012 1:11:25 GMT -5
Fighting Spirit: Abdullah Kobayashi?
Isn't that the guy in Big Japan who looks like an Abdullah the Butcher 'mini-me'?
The guy who got married and had a deathmatch on the same night?
Is there something that happened to him this year that I hadn't heard about?
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Post by Fundertaker on Dec 24, 2012 6:38:13 GMT -5
The Fighting Spirit award is given to those who show, of course, the most "fighting spirit" in their matches. Quite frankly I'm amazed at how many "mainstream" promotion guys have won it in the last few years, since that's more a indy thing to win, but wtv.
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