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Old 12-20-2016, 05:21 PM   #1
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Wrestler of the Year (IYO)
So 2016 has been a hell of a year in professional wrestling. There's been a lot of wrestlers who have had good years and some who have been amazing in 2016. Who do you think is Wrestler of the Year for 2016? (and we're talking national/ global television star, unfortunately can't choose HABM )



My pick would be "Broken" Matt Hardy. He was always the "Other Hardy Brother" but he has completely reinvented himself and has arguably become a bigger star than Jeff. On top of the "Final Deletions", he has pretty much gotten TNA the most positive main stream attention they've had since they signed Hulk Hogan.



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Old 12-20-2016, 06:02 PM   #2
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AJ Styles hands down.
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Old 12-20-2016, 06:23 PM   #3
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Chris Jericho hands down.
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Old 12-20-2016, 07:00 PM   #5
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Got to go with Broken Matt Hardy. Jericho is a close second though.
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I'd also like to put in my vote for Wrestler of the Year 2017 now.

King Maxel.
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Old 12-20-2016, 09:44 PM   #10
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What about Non-Wrestler of the Year?

It's almost impossible to call between Vanguard 1 and Senor Benjamin.
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Old 12-20-2016, 09:51 PM   #11
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Skarsgard has to be up there to. After all he did save us from Apocalypto.
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Old 12-20-2016, 10:11 PM   #12
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Old 12-20-2016, 10:12 PM   #13
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Old 12-21-2016, 12:32 AM   #14
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Although to be honest..AJ Styles went from wrestling Nakamura in January at WK 10 to James Ellsworth in December..hmm
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Old 12-21-2016, 01:53 AM   #15
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Old 12-21-2016, 01:56 AM   #16
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Good question... Honestly 2016 has been a pretty meh year for pretty much everyone. AJ Styles' year started out great, but it's kinda taken a hit recently.

In terms of career growth I'd argue that Ellsworth has had the best year of all going from a literal nobody to an actually contracted WWE superstar. That shit's impressive regardless of how you feel about the guy.

If we're going by who's entertained me personally the most this year though I'd have to probably say Chris Jericho w/ an honorable mention to Kevin Owens as some of the best stuff has been them working off one another. I mean it's kinda stupid, but I always get a laugh when those two are on screen.
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Old 12-21-2016, 02:05 AM   #17
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The winner is The Phenomenal One AJ Styles. You don't want none. Hardy voters are jokers and tokers.
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Old 12-21-2016, 02:08 AM   #18
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Nobody can seriously say Hardy is wrestler of the year. How many times did he actually wrestle when it wasn't a pre-tape jerkoff sessions for him and his family and friends?
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Who cares? How many times did he make for entertaining television is the only question, and that was a lot. Probably more hours of watchable stuff than all of Raw in 2016.
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Who? Everybody voting AJ Styles.
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I would also like to say Matt Hardy. I'll get to why shortly.

What I can't say is he's my runaway favorite. No discount to AJ, but I would throw Cody (Rhodes) out there before Styles.

AJ was unanimously a spectacular talent, and everyone waited with baited breath to see if WWE would find a way to fuck him up and piss his talents away because he a) made a name for himself outside of their bubble and b) isn't 6'10", 300 lbs of juiced muscle. They instead, in a massive surprise, opted to not make him look like a joke jobber (this whole angle with "The Chinless Wonder" notwithstanding) from jump. It is a shame it took so long to actually *try* to establish some kind of fresher stars worth seeing in WWE instead of unilaterally deciding certain people don't work and shoving others down crowd's throats. It's a fresh surprise, but he basically did nothing but show up and not get covered in shit.

Cody, on the other hand, had to prove he could "make it" WITHOUT WWE, and ended up going EVERYWHERE. He didn't sign with a particular rival promotion... he appeared in ALL OF THEM... BOLA, WCPW, TNA, ROH, and NJPW and possibly other stuff I'm omitting. I'd place him above AJ simply because while AJ just needed that "last piece of the puzzle" for "complete career" acknowledgement, Cody has only had that piece and is filling in the rest of the board with a widespread campaign that I feel is pretty important to how people can find their fortunes without having to completely rely on WWE or any other single promotion. He has become the quintisential "indy" wrestler- he goes wherever he wants for whatever he wants. He is flipping the whole "independent contractor" status on its side. I think this is an important story, but one that has been getting overshadowed by bigger short-term "loud noises" like TNA's litigation or the Goldberg win.

Honorable mention goes to Bobby Roooooooooo.... (de). The guy I once called TNA's HHH now works for the actual HHH and is taking this "Glorious" business to the stratosphere of over-ness. It doesn't hurt that his song is kick-ass, and they didn't decide to change it because he was getting a face reaction to his song (Christian's original "At Last", anyone? Started getting cheers and they changed it up to sound more sinister. Still a cool song, but the original was like an ancestor to being "glorious"). Roode really doesn't belong in NXT, though, and had circumstances been slightly different, he probably would have made the main roster splash Styles made while this entire descriptive rant would have been about how AJ shouldn't be in NXT instead. Roode hasn't exactly been shit on, either, but he also could have been on a larger trajectory.

However, the thing about Matt Hardy is he has garnered interest into wrestling AS A WHOLE on a level not seen since CM Punk's work/shoot on Cena and the company (and subsequent title walkout... and I refuse to call it a pipebomb, because he hadn't said that yet). He's resonated in a way that is similar (though not quite as large in pop culture scale) to "Austin 3:16", and did so from the ashes of what was doomed to be yet another run-of-the-mill tag-team breakup angle, and went on to overshadow quite a bit of goings-on in the wrestling world and dominate quite a bit of conversation.

Think about that. He was a sad-sack in a suit that let his wife speak for him. Boring-ass world champion. And then, he 'snaps'. His character went crazy, and over something so inconsequential (getting mad because Jeff "selfishly" injured himself). The character devolving into his meta madness, and Jeff playing straight man until Matt "broke" him too. Then, throw in some of the most awesomely bad production values this side of Darkplace. Garnering massive attention and doing it bigger and better/worse. The camp evolved into its own thing. Copycats tried to crop up in-company (that whole Rosemary/Bram crap) and outside (New Day vs Wyatt Family). He evolved his character. He got his wife, toddler son, father-in-law, his home, his brother's lawn, a drone, and a boat over. He breathed new life into himself and his brother. And most importantly of all, he got people talking. People that love the product. People that hate the product. Pundits, "Smarks" like us, Bloggers, Youtubers, former writers, managers, personalities, wrestlers both current and of yesteryear from all over the world have an opinion about the "Broken Matt" business.

Doesn't really matter "how many times" he has wrestled, STD, personally pre-taped or not... he's the one who has garnered the most sustained attention, interest, and conversation. He did the right thing at the right time and struck gold, knocked it out of the park, and did any other metaphor you can place there.




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AJ is a spectacular talent (I intentionally didn't use the other word), and my personal leaning is toward Cody, but undoubtedly this year belongs to Matt.
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Old 12-21-2016, 05:13 AM   #23
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Great point on Cody. I guess the only thing from a personal point would be that ultimately, as exciting as it is to see Cody doing what he's doing, my interest is in a return to WWE.
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Old 12-21-2016, 08:09 AM   #25
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Old 12-21-2016, 08:10 AM   #26
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Probably AJ Styles, with Kevin Owens or Chris Jericho coming up second.
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Old 12-21-2016, 08:13 AM   #27
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Gotta be AJ or Jericho.

AJ is still in his prime and obviously is a WAY better "worker" than Jericho, but Jericho managed to take his middling wrestling career which he essentially was just doing as a novelty and made himself relevant again, getting the terms "Stupid Idiot" and "...IT" over along with creating a list of Jericho, which is just fucking amazing in an era where it's really hard to get things to stick. I'm sure it'll get played out as all things in wrestling do (see: all things in wrestling) but for now it's a lot of fun.

But I guess you really have to go with AJ because well, he's awesome and managed to break through the WWE wall, and shed himself of the TNA stench which could have ruined his career. He's yet to have a bad match.

My boy CyNick's pick: Roman Reigns because he isn't a good guy, he isn't a bad guy, he is in fact THE GUY.
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Old 12-21-2016, 09:06 AM   #28
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Went with Hardy over Styles because to me Styles character has taken a hit. Yeah he's the WWE World Champion but I have been disappointed in how he portrays himself in WWE. Broken Matt Hardy has just been entertaining, seriously.
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Old 12-21-2016, 09:43 AM   #29
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Matt Hardy might be the only entertainment I've gotten out of wrestling all year. Could care less who had 5 star matches in the midst of boring, paint-by-numbers WWE storyline. Matt wins by a mile. The guy has been producing stuff in TNA in 2016 that will go down in wrestling history. Seems insane.
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Old 12-21-2016, 09:59 AM   #30
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Styles overall because of all the great things he did during the year.

Matt's Broken gimmick was easily the best character of the year though.
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Old 12-21-2016, 10:48 AM   #31
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Lol at people saying Matt Hardy. The answer is AJ Styles. Runner-up is Chris Jericho. No one is even close. I'm sure Kevin Owens is happy with his job and where he is, as is Charlotte and Alexa Bliss, but none of that really moves me. I actually think Randy Orton's SmackDown run might be up there. He seems effortlessly more comfortable than almost anyone else in the company.
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Old 12-21-2016, 01:14 PM   #32
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Matt Hardy - a guy literally working backyard matches as wrestler of the year.

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The correct answer is Roman Reigns or AJ Styles. Honorable mentions to Ambrose, Miz, and Jericho.
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Old 12-21-2016, 01:15 PM   #33
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I'll throw Charlotte in top three.
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I literally just thought of Charlotte too.
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Best year of any woman in the history of the company by a mile.
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Old 12-21-2016, 02:15 PM   #36
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Roman Reigns? The guy who bombed as the anointed top guy, got jobbed out clean, twice, to his former SHIELD buddies, failed a drug test and got suspended, and was dropped into the midcard upon return?

That's your wrestler of the year?
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Old 12-21-2016, 03:24 PM   #37
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Roman Reigns? The guy who bombed as the anointed top guy, got jobbed out clean, twice, to his former SHIELD buddies, failed a drug test and got suspended, and was dropped into the midcard upon return?

That's your wrestler of the year?
His first half of the year was very strong. Headlined the biggest show in WWE history with HHH, and had some entertaining matches. I've liked his stiff with the US title. Admittedly I think AJ had a better year overall. And I could be sold on Charlotte as #1.
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Was this years wrestlemania the biggest in history? I do not remember hearing that.
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From what I've seen this year I would have to go Styles.

As someone who mainly watches NXT due to being on The Network and time constraints I would like to mention Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder who have kept me entertained in every Revival match this year, their in-ring psychology is brilliant.
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His first half of the year was very strong. Headlined the biggest show in WWE history with HHH, and had some entertaining matches. I've liked his stiff with the US title. Admittedly I think AJ had a better year overall. And I could be sold on Charlotte as #1.
It was? The first half where he failed to get over as the top face against the authority figure who 2 years prior was the top heel in the company, only to drop the belt once Rollins returned and then got suspended, bumped down etc etc


His first half was disastrous. They dropped the belt off him immediately after Rollins came back. Before the first half of the year was done.

Not to mention you just said Styles had the better year.
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