EOTY Awards – Feud/Rivalry of the Year

The common sense answer would be Cena vs. Rock or Punk.  I’ve never been one for common sense though.I’m going with Christian vs. Orton.  They never stopped having good matches and the feud naturally progressed very well.  You would see them building on sequences throughout the series of matches, such as the dive out of the corner by Christian being caught in an RKO.  That turned into a fake in the second match, then Orton faked Christian by waiting with the RKO again.  That’s thinking and calling back to previous matches, which is very rare today.  I loved this feud and the blowoff was great.  Feud of the year to me.

 

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EOTY Awards – Surprise of the Year

More options than I thought here.I’ll take Rock’s return.  The rumor for the guest host was Justin Bieber and then they had the legs get out.  I was skeptical when I saw them because I thought it would still be someone else, but I didn’t predict Rock.  That was awesome and a great thing to see.  And for those of you that still think it, no he didn’t abandon us in the first place.

 

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EOTY Awards – Promo of the Year

Not what you might expect.I’m actually going with Cena’s rap against the Rock.  This did a few things.  First and foremost, it made people laugh.  This was a hilarious promo with great jokes and even some visuals like the pinwheel.  Second, it showed that Cena could indeed hang with Rock on the mic.  He got destroyed in Rock’s promo but then came back and to me, exceeded him.  The most important thing though is that it set the stage for the whole feud.  We have a guy that is loud, making childish jokes and talking in a way he doesn’t look compatable with, and then we have John Cena.  Cena has outclassed Rock the whole time in this and it hasn’t been close, at least not to me.

 

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EOTY Awards – Surprise of the Year

As in something you didn’t see coming.I have to go with Zack Ryder’s rise.  I mean….HE’S ZACK RYDER.  Who would have predicted that he would be US Champion as a huge face at the end of the year?  I’ll go with this as my main argument for him: the end of Survivor Series, as in after the PPV went off the air, saw Rock standing in the middle of the ring in Madison Square Garden.  The fans chanted We Want Ryder.  Let that sink in for awhile.

 

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EOTY Awards – Worst Show of the Year

By that I mean PPV.  There are too many Impacts to name.I’ll go with Victory Road I guess.  The show wasn’t any good before whatever Hardy vs. Sting was and that caps it as well as anything could.  For WWE, I guess I’ll go with Capital Punishment, but I didn’t really think about it all that hard.

 

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EOTY 2011 – Angle of the Year

*Insert eye rolling Kurt joke here.*It’s pretty much a layup, but I’ll go with the Summer of Punk.  This got people paying attention and people were wondering what was real and what wasn’t, which is a very entertaining way to go with an angle.  I loved this and it worked incredibly well.  On top of that the matches were awesome, which is always a bonus.

 

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EOTY Awards – Title Reign Of The Year

Title reigns have been longer lately, so maybe there are better options here.I’m going to take Miz as WWE Champion.  In short, he beat John Cena in the main event of Wrestlemania.

 

That

Does

Not

Happen.

 

Literally, that’s the first time he’s ever lost in the main event of Mania.  He lost in a triple threat at Mania 24 but Miz beat Cena in a one on one match at Mania.  That’s the only time it’s ever happened and it’s hard to top that.  Also, it was the longest reign with that title in like 3 years.  Not bad at all.

 

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EOTY 2011 – Tag Team/Stable of the Year

It’s certainly not Immortal.

Pretty much this goes to Beer Money by default.  They were dominant all year and held the tag titles for like six months.  I don’t count their world title reigns because they weren’t as a team but you get the idea.  Is there anyone else that can compete here?

 

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EOTY Awards – Worst Match of the Year

Criteria here: I’m not including Divas matches, most of the Knockout matches, anything that’s really short (under 3 minutes or so) or whatever Sting and Jeff Hardy did at Victory Road.I’m going to go with Cena vs. Miz in the main event of Wrestlemania.  Not only was the match itself boring, but the ending was atrocious.  I said this in my review and in the Live Discussion of the show: They booked a Dusty Finish in the main event of Wrestlemania.  That isn’t acceptable to me.  This is Wrestlemania, not any other show of the year.  I hold it to a higher standard than a double countout and Rock suddenly having the power to make matches throughout the night.  This didn’t work for me at all and I remember thinking to myself “that’s how they ended it?” after the match and show ended.

 

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End of the Year Awards: Female of the Year

These will get better I promise.  First up: Female of the Year.

 

The only person I can really give this to is Kharma.  She showed up in WWE and flat out took over the division.  She wasn’t around for very long but she made a huge impact to put it mildly.  The whole division was on the verge of being built around her but it had to be stopped due to something outside her control.  I can’t wait for her to come back and crush Kelly so she can sprinkle her on a pizza.

 

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