The rec.sport.pro-wrestling Awards are the oldest public-vote wrestling awards on the internet. Dating back to 1990 (when Curt Hennig won Best Wrestler, Scott Steiner’s Frankensteiner won Best Move, and Hulk Hogan versus Earthquake won Worst Feud), the RSPW Awards now span over two decades and are far and away the most comprehensive wrestling awards in wrestling fandom. They are the oldest awards and the best awards. You can see the results of the 2012 Awards (which also contain the entire history of winners in all categories) for the “best of year” awards here and the “worst of year” awards here.
This is the Call to Nominations for the 2013 RSPW Awards. The Nominations phase is not a strict rule of eventual award nominees – if nobody nominates CM Punk for Best Wrestler, for example (let’s say that an apocalypse happens and we’re all too busy for the next month, because that is the only way that will happen on the internet), come time for voting, people can still vote for CM Punk as Best Wrestler. The Nominations are intended, instead, to present voters with a list of suggested candidates to consider when assigning their votes (as voters will vote for a 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in each category).
Maybe when voting for Best Tag Team, you will forget about how great Christopher Daniels and Kazarian have been this year (or maybe you don’t watch TNA often enough to know). Maybe you weren’t aware of how much fun Wrestling is Fun! is as a promotion (despite it being in their name – maybe you are illiterate or something? If so, how are you reading this?), and seeing them nominated causes you to check them out. That’s the point of the nominations: to expose wrestling fans to the wider wrestling universe. Just like the Awards themselves, when you think about it. You can nominate candidates for awards here.
Nominees are due by December 28, 2012; we will update this post with a list of all current nominations on December 21. Awards voting proper will begin on January 1, 2013. A list of current nominees can be found here.
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I’m not sure if it’s Best Gimmick or Best Angle or Best TV/YouTube Show (even though it’s on Instagram) but I’d like to nominate Chuck Taylor and the Wrestling Is… 24/7 Hardcore Title for anything it’s eligible for.
I’m going to nominate Goldust and Cody Rhodes for best tag team, mostly for Goldust’s surprising agility at the age of over 40, including performing a Yoshi Tonic and a Huricanrana. I’d also like to submit Goldust for whatever Most Improved award there may be.
Adam Cole needs to be on the list for best wrestler and worker. Also, some MOTY candidates missing: Roderick Strong vs. Michael Elgin (2/3 Falls, ROH 11th Anniversary), Jimmy Jacobs/Cliff Compton vs. Jay Lethal/Michael Elign/Kevin Steen (ROH Border Wars), Roderick Strong vs. Taiji Ishimori (ROH TV, taped the night after Border Wars, not sure when it aired), and Adam Cole vs. Jimmy Jacobs (ROH Title, ROH TV, not sure when it was taped but it aired 2 weeks ago).
Hey, guys: I forgot to post the link to the nominations form! Go to town on that, please.
Every good award should go to Goldust.
Every bad award should go to “not-Goldust.”
Thank god there was a comment about the link to the nominations form, I read this page 3 or 4 times before seeing it and was worried about myself.
My apologies if I’m wearing my Stupid Hat and I’m missing the blatantly obvious, but where is the link to vote? Did I miss it? /panics
The link to nominate is in the post. The actual voting form will go up this week. We’ve been delayed a bit.