My NXT Year End Award Picks

So it’s the beginning of the year and that means it’s time to look at some End of the Year Awards. WWE has its own version and since we live in a random and chaotic universe, we don’t have the Slammys anymore. What we do have are the NXT Year End Awards and WWE has their own version of nominees. The nominees are rather lengthy but I’ll take a look at them and see how ridiculous they might be.

Female Competitor Of The Year

Nikki Cross
Shayna Baszler
Kairi Sane
Ember Moon
Bianca Belair

Well they’re starting with an interesting one. As is going to be the case with a lot of these awards, I’m going to go with the person who had the most success. That eliminates Cross and Belair, who didn’t win any titles throughout the year and didn’t make a huge impact in the ring. Moon was Women’s Champion to start the year and was on the main roster before the middle of April.

That leaves you with Sane and Baszler and this might as well be a coin flip. I’m going to go with Baszler though, as I love her character work and can see her doing big things for a long time to come. Sane was awesome too and found her footing, but I think Baszler was just that much better. It’s a case where I’m not going to argue with a pick for Sane though, as they were both that good.

Male Competitor Of The Year

Tommaso Ciampa
Johnny Gargano
Ricochet
Aleister Black
Velveteen Dream
Andrade Cien Almas
Adam Cole
Pete Dunne

…..I’m going to need coffee. Egads this is already a tough one and we’re only on the second award. I’ll eliminate Dunne for the simple fact that he doesn’t wrestle full time. What he does is great, but he doesn’t do enough of it. Dream is out as well as while an incredible performer, he has a bad record in the bigger matches. Almas had a heck of a first quarter of the year, but it’s just a quarter and that’s not enough. If I have to eliminate someone else from here it would be Cole, just because everyone else is that much better.

That leaves you with Ricochet, Black, Ciampa and Gargano and…..egads I have no idea. I think I’ll go with Gargano, who had the in-ring work and the character work to put him ahead of everyone else. Ciampa was a better heel than Gargano was either a face or a heel but Gargano was significantly better in the ring. Ricochet has every bit of star power you could ask for and Black showed range that I never would have bet on from him, but this year goes to Gargano for the overall package.

Overall Competitor Of The Year

Nikki Cross
Shayna Baszler
Kairi Sane
Ember Moon
Bianca Belair
Tommaso Ciampa
Johnny Gargano
Ricochet
Aleister Black
Velveteen Dream
Andrade Cien Almas
Adam Cole
Pete Dunne

So this is a mixture of the men and the woman and it’s still Gargano. I’m not sure why we still have the other nominees when this should just be the male winner vs. the female winner.

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