PWI: Match of the year: WTF?

[JoshWoodrumGreaterThanHBK]

So i just bought my year end, "Year in Review" PWI magazine. I usually agree with all their awards, and i did this year.... except for one...

The match of the year was: Shawn Michaels VS Vince McMahon!!!!

What the f***? Kurt Angle VS Undertaker was the best match of the past 5 years and it gets beat by that peice of crap?

I know the fans vote, and this shows the stupidity of the fans.... Hell on that same Mania card, you had Edge VS Foley (which finished in 4th place) Trish vs Mickie, Cena VS HHH


Yet McMahon/HBK wins?

Fans are stupid.....

[Hiroshi Hase]

Yeah, that was a pretty shitty match, and even if I'm not a big fan of Foley/Edge, that was a billion times better than the garbage HBK/Vince put out.

[KingPopper]

HBK pretty much stole the show, having 3 great mania matches since his return in 02.

19 - vs. Jericho
20 - vs. Benoit and Triple H
21 - vs. Angle.

Then we got to last year, the match was lame, but I hardly remember anything about besides the ladder spot. Hell even McMahon's match agaist Hogan at 19 was better then that. The whole HBK vs. McMahon/DX vs. McMahons fued, was one of worst parts of 06. HBK is my favorite wrestler, but I'm glad the McMahon fued is over, I'm glad DX is over. It was great to see the old HBK back last monday night.

by the way what was the whole list of matches of the year?

[JoshWoodrumGreaterThanHBK]

In PWI they list the winner and 2nd, 3rd and 4th place...

It went like this...

Winner HBK/McMahon

2nd Place: Taker/Angle

3rd Place: Joe/Angle One

4th Place: Foley/Edge



No explain to me how in the f*** HBK/McMahon beats out any of those?

[JoshWoodrumGreaterThanHBK]

Hell might as well list all the awards:

Wrestler of the Year: Cena

Most hated: Edge

Most popular: Joe

Rookie: Boogeyman

Most inspirational: Matt Cappotelli

Feud: Edge/Cena

Woman: Trish

Most Improved: Lashley

See... eveyone of those I agree with except the waxing MOTY!

[darthpipes]

Who won tag team of the year? I'm sure they didn't give it to the obvious choice LAX.

PWI's Match of the Year has always been a joke. They usually go with the most important match of the year as opposed to the best. Although I don't know how HBK/McMahon was the most important match of the year. Horrible choice.

TNA never does well in their fake awards section.

[algertman]

3rd Place: Joe/Angle One

The hell?.....Second match was better

[JoshWoodrumGreaterThanHBK]

Actually Tag Team of the year was: Styles and Daniaels.

Comeback of the year was: Sting

["IcePic" Rick Cobos]

PWI has absolutely no bearing of legitimacy in my eyes. I could care less what that magazine and its readers think.

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joshwoodrum said:

Rookie: Boogeyman

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[KingPopper]

algertman said:

3rd Place: Joe/Angle One

The hell?.....Second match was better

PWI prints their magazine months in advance, so it was probably press time by the time Angle/Joe 2 took place.

[JoshWoodrumGreaterThanHBK]

According to them the cut off date is December 1st

[eDemento2099]

darthpipes said:

PWI's Match of the Year has always been a joke.

PWI (as a whole) has always been a joke. That rag adheres to some dogma that obliges them to throw Wrestler of the Year awards to whomever Vince McMahon pushes as WWE's top star, regardless of how deserving that wrestler is of such a push.

If Vince McMahon put the world title on Linda McMahon and pushed her as that federation's top star, PWI would rate her wrestler of the year (in spite of the actual wrestling that guys like AJ Styles and Samoa Joe are doing in other federations).

Back when Stone Cold was crippled and could do nothing but punch and kick his way through matches, PWI gave him a wrestler of the year award, overshadowing the excellence of matches that guys like DDP, Bret Hart, Benoit, and Jericho were putting on at the time. PWI is hardly objective; it sucks!

Does PWI even acknowedge CZW talent like The Messiah, Nate Webb, and JC Bailey?

[thwak is T.hawk]

evildead2099 said:

Does PWI even acknowedge CZW talent like The Messiah, Nate Webb, and JC Bailey?

actually the top 500 each year usually has guys like that on there, hell they even had chikara wrestlers in the top 500 this year if I recall.

[JoshWoodrumGreaterThanHBK]

Actually the PWI year end awards are voted by the fans!

[KyleR007]

thwak said:

evildead2099 said:

Does PWI even acknowedge CZW talent like The Messiah, Nate Webb, and JC Bailey?

actually the top 500 each year usually has guys like that on there, hell they even had chikara wrestlers in the top 500 this year if I recall.

Does anyone acknowledge CZW wrestlers as talented.

[Shake A Leg]

WHAT THE f***?! ANGLE VS. UNDERTAKER WAS SO TRULY THE MATCH OF THE YEAR NOT ONLY FOR WWE, BUT IN WRESTLING OVERALL! MICHAELS VS. McMAHON WAS AL LEAST AN OKAY MATCH BUT WHAT THE f***?!

[darthpipes]

Give you a hint how bad their Match of the Year system is...they actually voted the Hogan/Andre rematch in 1988 as Match of the Year.

Hart and Michaels never won Wrestler of the Year either in that rag. And the fans don't vote, the magazine just makes up the totals.

[Big DSR Energy]

I still don't see what was so great about Angle/Taker.


But I will agree that it was a better match than Shawn Michaels vs. The Spirit Squad Vince McMahon.

[The Line]

the 500 will always add indy/puro guys, just because WWE and TNA don't employ 500 guys.