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This list comes from r/squaredcircle. Wrestler of the Year (Lou Thesz/Ric Flair Award): Mistico Most Outstanding Wrestler: Konosuke Takeshita Match of the Year: Kenny Omega vs Gabe Kidd Best Box Office Draw: John Cena Promotion of the Year: CMLL Promoter of the Year: Salvador Lutteroth Best Booker: Tony Khan Tag Team of the Year: Young Bucks Best Weekly TV Show: Dynamite Best on Interviews: Hangman Most Improved: Harley Cameron Most Charismatic: John Cena Japan MVP: Saya Kamitani Mexico MVP: Mistico US/Canada MVP: Mox Europe MVP: Michael Oku Women’s Wrestling MVP: Saya Kamitani Feud of the year: Mox/Hangman Most Underrated: The Beast Mortos Most Overrated: Jey Uso Best Brawler (Bruiser Brody award): Mox Best Technical Wrestler (Bryan Danielson award): ZSJ Best Flying Wrestler: Máscara Dorada Danny Hodge Memorial Award (Non-Heavyweight MVP) : Mistico Best Television Announcer: Bryan Danielson Worst Television Announcer: Booker T Best Major Wrestling Show: AEW All In 2025 Worst Major Wrestling Show: WWE Wrestlepalooza Best Wrestling Maneuver: Hangman's Buckshot Lariat Most Disgusting Promotional Tactic of the Year: WWE bringing back Brock Lesnar Rookie of the Year: Seri Yamaoka Best Non-Wrestler: Don Callis Worst Match of the Year: John Cena vs. Cody Rhodes Worst Feud of the Year: Anthony Bowens vs. Max Caster Worst Promotion of the Year: WWE Best Gimmick: "Timeless" Toni Storm Worst Gimmick: Heel John Cena Worst Television Show: NXT

The Becky Lynch book is currently $1.99 on Kindle. https://www.amazon.com/Becky-Lynch-Your-Average-Girl-ebook/dp/B0C7RNBXXC I finally finished the Gorilla Monsoon book. It's LONG but very in-depth and worth reading. There's no "dirt," so to speak, because Gorilla was pretty squeaky clean. The "worst" thing you can say about him is that he was loyal to the WWE until the end. And why not? He was treated like royalty there and was able to provide a good living for his family, which was his main priority. Meltzer and his brainwashed acolytes are pretty embarrassing in retrospect, "awarding" Gorilla "worst announcer" for years when he was anything but. Did Monsoon ever end up in the meaningless WON HOF? My friend read it and showed me a few transcripts. It looks like tons of fun.

Surprised it took this long for someone to post about the AMC premiere, which I would charitably refer to as a complete fucking disaster and one of the worst shows I've ever seen. It was the first time I've watched TNA in years, and it will probably be the last. Supposedly, Genesis was much better, but who in their right mind would actually pay money to watch that after this show? Certainly not me! Tommy Dreamer and Delirious need to be fired, and Carlos Silva should step down.

Trey has already been released from AEW - apparently at his own request - and is taking a break from wrestling.

I'm going through the Gorilla book right now. Very good so far. The Vince book, Ringmaster by Abraham Josephine Riesman, is currently 99 cents on Kindle. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B3Y7K6D5/

Imagine being what's-her-name - the castoff from NXT - and that other loser right about now. This could have been them.

I don't hate Pac at all. I just - correctly - don't see him as a top guy. He has never has been and never will be. At most, maybe he'll get a token Kazarian-like reign late in his career, and even that feels like a wildly optimistic prediction. Meanwhile, Sting - an actual main eventer, which PAC will never be - spent three years helping to establish Darby Allin as a big deal and future World Champion. Darby shouldn't be losing to PAC, period.

Unless Darby is somehow no longer pegged as a future World Champion and one of the wrestlers considered the future of the company, this made no sense to me, because PAC will never, ever - EEEVVVEERRR! - be that guy. He might not even be the guy behind the guy.

This broken board won't let me edit the OP. Here's an article from Mike Mooneyham for the Post & Courier. https://www.postandcourier.com/sports/wrestling/voice-of-mid-atlantic-wrestling-bob-caudle-dies-at-age-95/article_0aacc6b7-b2b2-4207-8139-38ab97a4ea2b.html

Conspiracy theory: Frankie regained the title only to lose it to AJ Styles. Meanwhile, AJ is saying another TNA match "probably won't happen." Uh huh...

To be fair, when talking about any wrestler, this is graded on a curve, because 99% of them are dumb fucks. Remember, Kane is a super genius because he reads books.

Miranda Alize is apparently a TERF, which is certainly a choice for an LGB (I guess no T for her) woman. She's in a relationship with Nixon, who - to be fair - apparently does not share those views. I wonder if this is a case of Nixon getting bad advice from her dumb-as-bricks nobody of a partner.

Ridge Holland started a GoFundMe after getting released during an injury and then having his contract terminated early because he spoke out. https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-father-of-3-heal-without-losing-everything Top donors: Chelsea Green - $1000 per month Kyle Fletcher, Nick Massie (Young Bucks), and Raj Dhesi (Jinder Mahal) - $1000 each

I'm curious about this, so I hope you can expand on it. As far as I know, Amazing Red was and is a cult favorite at best. I can buy isolated wrestlers aping his style. Beyond that, I don't know. Low Ki has never worked anywhere major (I don't consider the tape trading era of ROH to be major or his failed stint in WWE as Kaval), drawn any money, done anything of any significance (I don't consider collecting random indie titles to be significant), and most importantly, I've never heard of any wrestlers cite him as an influence, nor have I seen any evidence in anyone else's style that he was an influence (at least nothing that couldn't be explained in a million other ways). At best, he was an indie/IWC favorite for a spell who looked cool and did some cool shit, but none of it ever mattered long term because he couldn't get out of his own way. Granted, I bring my own biases to this assessment. I generally don't invest in egomaniacal headcases who never last anywhere. Life is too short to rally behind "here today, gone tomorrow" phantoms with a grossly inflated sense of self-importance. Another reason I could never get into Austin Aries either. These guys want to be Bruiser Brody, metaphorically speaking, without bringing any of the special qualities he had. As boring as WWE is and has been for years, it's a major platform with much wider visibility, so guys who made it there - like Bryan and Punk - are going to have a much larger sphere of influence by default. Ditto for AEW to a degree.