2011 Wrestling Observer Award Winners Announced

[Burke]

LOU THESZ/RIC FLAIR AWARD (WRESTLER OF THE YEAR)
1. HIROSHI TANAHASHI
2. C.M. Punk
3. John Cena

MOST OUTSTANDING WRESTLER
1. DAVEY RICHARDS
2. Hiroshi Tanahashi
3. Daniel Bryan

BEST BOX OFFICE DRAW
1. THE ROCK
2. Georges St. Pierre
3. John Cena

FEUD OF THE YEAR
1. JOHN CENA VS. C.M. PUNK
2. Randy Orton vs. Christian
3. Davey Richards vs. Eddie Edwards

WORST FEUD OF THE YEAR
1. HHH VS. KEVIN NASH
2. Michael Cole vs. Jerry Lawler
3. Michael Cole vs. Jim Ross

TAG TEAM OF THE YEAR
1. GIANT BERNARD & KARL ANDERSON
2. Mark & Jay Briscoe
3. Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi

MOST IMPROVED
1. DOLPH ZIGGLER
2. Mark Henry
3. Ricochet

BEST ON INTERVIEWS
1. C.M. PUNK
2. The Rock
3. Chael Sonnen

MOST CHARISMATIC
1. THE ROCK
2. John Cena
3. C.M. Punk

BEST TECHNICAL WRESTLER
1. DANIEL BRYAN
2. Davey Richards
3. Prince Devitt

BRUISER BRODY MEMORIAL AWARD (BEST BRAWLER)
1. KEVIN STEEN
2. Togi Makabe
3. Mark & Jay Briscoe

BEST FLYING WRESTLER
1. RICOCHET
2. Kota Ibushi
3. Pac

MOST OVERRATED
1. CRIMSON
2. Mason Ryan
3. Kevin Nash

MOST UNDERRATED
1. DOLPH ZIGGLER
2. Daniel Bryan
3. Alex Shelley

PROMOTION OF THE YEAR
1. ULTIMATE FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIP
2. New Japan Pro Wrestling
3. Dragon Gate

WORST PROMOTION OF THE YEAR
1. TNA
2. WWE
3. AWE

BEST WEEKLY TV SHOW
1. WWE SMACKDOWN
2. Ring of Honor
3. Dragon Gate Infinity

WORST TELEVISION SHOW
1. TNA IMPACT
2. WWE Raw
3. WWE NXT

MATCH OF THE YEAR
1. JOHN CENA VS. C.M. PUNK 7/17 CHICAGO
2. Eddie Edwards vs. Davey Richards 6/26 New York
3. HHH vs. Undertaker 4/3 Atlanta

WORST MATCH OF THE YEAR
1. STING VS. JEFF HARDY 3/13 ORLANDO
2. Jerry Lawler vs. Michael Cole 4/3 Atlanta
3. Kevin Nash vs. Ricky Morton 10/15 Fisherville, VA

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
1. DAICHI HASHIMOTO
2. Uhaa Nation
3. Takumi "Sho" Soya

BEST NON-WRESTLER
1. RICARDO RODRIGUEZ
2. Vickie Guerrero
3. Jim Cornette

BEST TELEVISION ANNOUNCER
1. JOE ROGAN
2. Kevin Kelly
3. Michael Schiavello

WORST TELEVISION ANNOUNCER
1. MICHAEL COLE
2. Booker T
3. Jerry Lawler

BEST MAJOR WRESTLING SHOW
1. WWE MONEY IN THE BANK 7/17 CHICAGO (Punk vs Cena)
2. UFC 139 11/19 San Jose (Rua vs Henderson)
3. ROH Best in the World 6/26 New York (Edwards vs Richards)

WORST MAJOR WRESTLING SHOW
1. TNA VICTORY ROAD 3/13 (Sting vs Jeff Hardy vs Drugs)
2. TNA Turning Point 11/13 Orlando (Bobby Roode vs AJ Styles)
3. WWE Capitol Punishment 6/19 Washington, DC (John Cena vs. R-Truth)

BEST WRESTLING MANEUVER
1. RICOCHET DOUBLE ROTATION MOONSAULT
2. Daniel Bryan LeBell lock
3. Randy Orton RKO

MOST DISGUSTING PROMOTIONAL TACTIC
1. WWE BULLYING/BE A STAR/JIM ROSS
2. TNA sending Jeff Hardy out when he was loaded on PPV
3. Perro Aguayo Jr. faking cancer

BEST BOOKER
1. GEDO & JADO (New Japan)
2. Joe Silva (UFC)
3. Mike Quackenbush (Chikara)

PROMOTER OF THE YEAR
1. DANA WHITE
2. Mike Quackenbush
3. Vince McMahon

BEST GIMMICK
1. C.M. PUNK
2. Archibald Peck
3. Zack Ryder

WORST GIMMICK
1. MICHAEL COLE
2. Zack Ryder
3. Eric Young

BEST PRO WRESTLING BOOK
1. CHRIS JERICHO "UNDISPUTED"
2. Stan Hansen "Last Outlaw"
3. John McCarthy "Let's Get It On"

BEST PRO WRESTLING DVD
1. BRET HART VS. SHAWN MICHAELS
2. Wrestling Road Diaries
3. Memphis Heat

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Lol @ Zack Ryder being a runner-up for best gimmick and worst gimmick.

And they took the time to create like 400 diffferent awards but don't have a diva/female of the year one? Weird.

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Daniel Bryan is underrated? Since when.

[Current Mr. El]

Mark Henry should have won most improved.

And what is so disgusting about JR's treatment? If he didn't agree with it, they wouldn't have done it. JR probably can veto anything he doesn't want to do. That Jeff Hardy situation was 100x worse.

[Tarry]

This awards are a complete headscratcher.

LOU THESZ/RIC FLAIR AWARD (WRESTLER OF THE YEAR)
1. HIROSHI TANAHASHI

MOST OUTSTANDING WRESTLER
1. DAVEY RICHARDS
2. Hiroshi Tanahashi

... what?

WORST FEUD OF THE YEAR
1. HHH VS. KEVIN NASH
2. Michael Cole vs. Jerry Lawler
3. Michael Cole vs. Jim Ross

... but Triple H & Kevin Nash had a decent match at the end of their feud. Cole vs. King & JR didn't have a single good match during the whole thing.

BEST ON INTERVIEWS
1. C.M. PUNK
2. The Rock

MOST CHARISMATIC
1. THE ROCK
2. John Cena
3. C.M. Punk

... Make up your mind.

MOST OVERRATED
1. CRIMSON
2. Mason Ryan

MOST UNDERRATED
1. DOLPH ZIGGLER
2. Daniel Bryan

... this should probably be the other way around.

PROMOTION OF THE YEAR
1. ULTIMATE FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIP

... but that's not a wrestling promotion.

BEST MAJOR WRESTLING SHOW
1. WWE MONEY IN THE BANK 7/17 CHICAGO (Punk vs Cena)
2. UFC 139 11/19 San Jose (Rua vs Henderson)

... UFC 139 isn't a wrestling show, let alone a major wrestling show.

MOST DISGUSTING PROMOTIONAL TACTIC
1. WWE BULLYING/BE A STAR/JIM ROSS
2. TNA sending Jeff Hardy out when he was loaded on PPV
3. Perro Aguayo Jr. faking cancer

... both 2 and 3 are a lot worse than picking on JR.

BEST GIMMICK
1. C.M. PUNK
2. Archibald Peck
3. Zack Ryder

... Marchie Archie is a lot more entertaining than Punk.

[Burke]

People really do take the JR stuff too far.

He gets paid 6 figures a year to occasionally interview some people for WWE DVD's and show up on RAW a few times a year.

I'd rather he was still announcing too but I'm not about to feel sorry for someone who's making that amount of money and could easily walk away from it all tomorrow if he's got that much of a problem with it.