Taso the Greek’s “Bumpin’ Heads 2008″

Biggest News Event:

Ric Flair Retirement
Chris Jericho return
Kenta Kobashi return
Jeff Hardy suspension

Lou Thesz/Ric Flair Award (Wrestler of the Year)

Shawn Micheals

Most Outstanding Wrestler

Shawn Micheals
Bryan Danielson
Jeff Hardy
Kurt Angle
Ric Flair
Randy Orton
Austin Aries

Best Box Office Draw

John Cena
Ric Flair
Shawn Michaels
HHH
The Undertaker

Feud of the Year

Shawn Micheals vs. Ric Flair

Tag Team of the Year:

Masato Yoshino & Naruki Doi
Shingo Takagi & BxB Hulk
American Dragon & Austin Aries
The Miz & John Morrison
Masato Yoshino & Naruki Doi
Shingo Takagi & BxB Hulk
Chris Hero & Sara Del Rey
Jimmy Wang Yang & Shannon Moore
Jesse & Festus
Team 3D
MCMGs

Most Improved

Maria
Batista
Randy Orton

Best Event:

Royal Rumble 2008
No Way Out 2008
Wrestlemania XXIV
ROH 6Th Anniversary Show

Brawler of the Year

Masato Tanaka
Togi Makabe
Umaga

Best on Interviews:

Ric Flair

Most Charimsatic:

Ric Flair
Edge
Naoya Ogawa
Toshie Uematsu
Santino Marella
MVP
Ric Flair
John Cena
HHH
Shawn Micheals
Santino Marella
Chris Jericho
Larry Sweeney

Best Technical Wrestler:

Bryan Danielson
Ryo Saito
Austin Aries
Go Shiozaki
Kevin Steen

Best Flying Wrestler:

Masaaki Mochizuki
BxB Hulk
Masato Yoshino
Susumu Yokosuko

Most Overated:

The Great Khali
Holly & Rhodes
Dragon Kid
Hornswaggle

Most Underated:

Super Crazy
Val Venis
Jimmy Wang Yang
Finlay
Ricochet
Cody Rhodes

Best Promotion:
So far I have watched a little bit of a lot of different things. Most of it is puro but of course you can throw in the WWE and TNA. So far my top pick for the promotion of 2008:

NOAH
Dragon Gate
WWE
ROH

Worst Promotion:

CZW

Best Weekly Tv Show:

WWE RAW

MOTY contenders:

Kurt Angle (c) vs. Yuji Nagata **** 1/4/08
Kurt Angle vs. Christian Cage ***
Kurt Angle vs. Christian Cage ***3/4 (Against All Odds PPV 2/10/08)
Triple HHH vs. Jeff Hardy *** - Armageddon 12/16/07
Shinsuke Nakamura Vs. Togi Makabe, IWGP #1 Contendership - NJPW 12/9/07 ***3/4
Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama vs. Kenta Kobashi & Yoshihiro Takayama - NOAH 12/2/07 ***
Kota Ibushi (c) vs. KAGETORA (El Dorado***3/4) 12/29/07
Yoshinari Ogawa & Kotaro Suzuki vs. KENTA & Taiji Ishimori ***3/4 - NOAH 1/20/08
ROH World Title: Nigel McGuinnes (c) vs. Go Shiosaki ***3/4 -NOAH 1/20/08
Yoshinari Ogawa & Kotaro Suzuki vs. KENTA & Taiji Ishimori ***3/4 -NOAH 1/6/08
JWP Tag Team Title: Tsubasa Kuragaki & Kayoko Haruyama (c) vs. Nanae Takahashi & Natsuki*Taiyo 12/9/08 ****
JWP Openweight Title: Azumi Hyuga (c) vs. Kaori Yoneyama 12/9/08 ***1/2
The Royal Rumble 1/27/08 ***1/2
IWGP Heavyweight Title:
Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Shinsuke Nakamura *** 1.4.08
Masato Tanaka (c) vs. Daisuke Sekimoto (Z1 World Heavyweight Title)***3/4 — 1/1/08
NWA International Lightweight Tag Team Title: Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin (c) vs. Ikuto Hidaka & Dick Togo ***3/4 — 1/1/08
Ric Flair vs. Shawn Micheals - Wrestlemania XXIV ****1/4
Masato Yoshino & Yasushi Kanda vs. Masaaki Mochizuki & K-Ness vs. Shingo Takagi & BxB Hulk vs. Susumu YokosuKA & pac 1/12/07 ***1/2
Masato Yoshino & Naruki Doi vs. Aoki & Yoshinobu Kanemura ***3/4 -{12/28/07}
Naruki Doi & Masato Yoshino (c) vs. BxB Hulk & Shingo Takagi ***3/4 -{1/15/08}
Kurt Angle vs. Samoa Joe **** TNA Lockdown PPV
Nigel McGuiness vs. Austin Aries ***3/4
Bryan Danielson vs. Tyler Black ****
Austin Aries vs. Go Shiozaki****1/4 ROH 6th Anniversary Show

Rookie of the Year:

Koffi Kingston

Best Non-Wrestler:

Vickie Geurrero
Larry Sweeney

Best Television Announcer:

Mauro Ranallo
Jim Ross

Worst Television Announcer:

Coach
Don West
Mike Adamle
Tazz
The guys from Heat

Best Major Wrestling Show:

Wrestlemania XXIV

Category “B” Awards

Worst Major Wrestling Show

Worst Event:

Inoki Genome 2
CZW Cage of Death 9
IWA-DS 12/1/2007 Carnage Cup

Best Wrestling Manuever:

Kanada Driving Elbow

Most Disgusting Promotional Tactic:

ROH rape angle

Worst Television Show:

TNA iMpact
WWE Heat

Worst Match of the Year

Bunnymania- Wrestlemania XXIV

Worst Feud of the Year

Booker T vs. Robert Roode
Finlay & Hornswoggle vs. JBL/Vince McMahon
Dylan Summers vs. Danny Havok

Worst promotion of the Year

TNA
CZW

Best Booker

Gabe Sapolsky

Promoter of the Year:

Vince McMahon

Best Gimmick:

Jesse & Festus
Age of the Fall
Dylan Summers (Necro Butcher/CZW)

Worst Gimmick:

Raeesha Saeed
Nicky Benz

Most Embrassing Moment Award:

CZW’s Nicky Benz

Best Pro Wrestling Book:

Best Pro Wrestling DVD:

Austin Aries & Bryan Danielson vs. Erik Stevens & Jay Briscoe

Aries & Dragon have made Rrik Stevens look like a milliom bucks in their FIP title matches. Still, Stevens has some good power moves, so I give him some credit. In the end, he reminds me of a poor man’s Tommy Dreamer. Don’t know why that is… hmmm… But it was a well paced & entertaining match, with some good double team moves and the dream pairing feel of Dragon & Aries was in effect. You cant get better then Dragon & Aries. Also, kept short with little time wasted in between the action.

Shane Hagadorn vs. Pelle Primeau

Chris Hero & Sara Del Rey vs. Alex Payne & Kyle Durden
Chris Hero & Sara Del Rey vs. Daizee Haze & Jigsaw

I really enjoyed both of these matches alot. The Intergender Tag Team Title angle is gold. I’m sorry to note that I believe Sara Del Rey has left Sweet & Sour Inc. at some point recently because otherwise I could watch these two wrestle as a tag team for a good 6 months, and no doubt they are great together.

Claudio Castagnoli vs. El Generico **3/4

A good match but the best match I have seen Generico in was against Masato in Dragon Gate. Castagnoli’s matches… I kinda don’t remember.

Mark Briscoe vs. Joey Matthews **1/2

Decent stuff, lots of stalling in the beginning. There’s no doubt this is a solid match but when it’s ROH, you have to be on top of your game and bring it 100% and have your match mean someting otherwise it just doesn’t come off as a big deal, and this one didn’t. I like Matthews, not a big Briscoes fan, I like the Age of the Fall, so there are some variables in the mix.

Adam Pearce vs. Delirious **1/2

Could have been a better match laid out with more brutality. I don’t think I will ever take the Scrap Daddy very seriously even though he is entertaining as heck, and maybe the same goes for Delirious. Except for a cool tag match with El Generico vs. The Hangmen 3 this year ( if I remember correctly), I don’t have much positive to say about Delirious, now, or ever. I like his schtick and the gimmick and the trademark moves but I don’t see him as this great lightweight he seemed to get praise for not too long ago.

Ultimate Endurance Tag Title Match: Tyler Black & Jimmy Jacobs (c) vs. BJ Whitmer & Brent Albright vs. Bryan Danielson & Austin Aries vs. Rocky Romero & Davey Richards ***1/4

Nigel McGuiness vs. Roderick Strong ***

Shocked at how bored I got with ythis match. I’ll repeat this again, my own opinion, ROH has spoiled me when it comes to match ratings, storylines, feuds, angles, etc., as has Dragon Gate this year. Solid match, no doubt, but it didn’t come off as a “mega-main event super world championship match”. I guess I don’t like Roderick that much, and I dunno who could be put in that position as a possible contender and a guy who COULD win the ROH Title, Roderick isn’t that guy although he is right there as a top guy who could be used for such a match. I like his deal, his backbreakers, but he’s dull. Nigel looks beaten to shit half the time, skinny, face all puffy. It’s the NOAH cursewhen it comes to the world title. There are maybe only 3-4 guys in the promotion you might take seriously as world title contenders.