2013 Awards: Surprise of the Year
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First up, a note about TNA. This is usually a category where they can pull off some good entries but there’s nothing this year. It’s seemed like you can predict just about everything that happens every time they have a big show. That’s a really bad sign and something they need to work at.
Anyway, on to the nominees. There are twoof these that happened in the span of about five minutes.
First up, Daniel Bryan pinning John Cena clean. The question here wasn’t would Bryan win, but rather how he would do it. People had been expecting to see something like a rollup or a cradle, but to debut a brand new move and cave John Cena’s chest in with a running knee was a big surprise. I had the words “for two” written but had to backspace furiously.
Orton cashes in. Yeah people thought it might happen, but the way they executed it was nearly perfect. That delay before Orton’s music hit was the perfect way to sucker the fans into believing nothing was happening. I snapped up when the music hit, which is the sign of a good surprise.
This brings us to the winner, which ironically is kind of obvious.
Mark Henry fakes retirement. it led to a one off match, it doesn’t hold up incredibly well when you look at the details, but it was AWESOME live. I completely bought that Henry was retiring and that this was the end for him. The speech was great, the reaction was great, and the turn was great. I loved this and it was another example of why Mark Henry is underrated.
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