2006 Wrestling Observer Awards

[Faster Pussycat!]

Thesz/Flair Award (performer of the year)
1 Mistico 220/2,245
2 Edge 134/1,985
3 Tito Ortiz 261/1,620
4 Bryan Danielson 83/947
5 Samoa Joe 60/645
6 Mirko Cro Cop 92/625
7 Matt Hughes 78/516
8 Perro Aguayo, Jr. 26/505
9 John Cena 11/453
10 Chuck Liddell 41/353

OUTSTANDING WRESTLER
1) Bryan Danielson 401/2,646
2) Kenta 98/1,938
3) Samoa Joe 86/1,335
4) Fit Finlay 65/512
5) Edge 20/269

BEST BOX OFFICE DRAW
1) Mistico 377/3,112
2) Tito Ortiz 258/2,902
3) Matt Hughes 53/1,258
4) John Cena 80/1,168

TAG TEAM OF THE YEAR
1) Homicide & Hernandez (LAX) 202/1,794
2) Austin Aries & Roderick Strong 217/1,573

MOST IMPROVED
1) Takeshi Morishima 143/1,464
2) Johnny Nitro 141/1,316

BEST INTERVIEW
1) Mick Foley 159/1,484
2) Edge 127/1,317

MOST CHARISMATIC
1) John Cena 471/2,889
2) Tito Ortiz 111/969

BEST TECHNICAL WRESTLER
1 Bryan Danielson 593/3,266
2 Chris Benoit 38/928
3 Kenta 32/794
4 Nigel McGuiness 19/781
5 Kurt Angle 32/582
6 William Regal 29/580
7 Fit Finlay 34/543
8 Roderick Strong 8/199
9 Naomichi Marufuji 3/134
10 Samoa Joe 2/122

BEST BRAWLER
1) Samoa Joe 242/2,064
2) Fit Finlay 188/1,640

BEST FLYER
1) Mistico 346/2,957
2) A.J. Styles 168/1,513

PROMOTION OF THE YEAR
1) UFC 743/4,164
2) Ring of Honor 124/1,856
3) CMLL 55/1,578
4) NOAH 65/1,468
5) WWE 20/510

SHOOTFIGHTER OF THE YEAR
1) Mirko Cro Cop 411/ 3,039
2) Georges St Pierre 132/1,676
3) Chuck Liddell 157/1,306
4) Matt Hughes 51/898
5) Tito Ortiz 97/795

WORKED MATCH OF THE YEAR
1) Dragon Kid & Ryo Saito & Horiguchi vs Naruki Doi & Cima & Masato Yoshino (March 31, 2006, Ring of Honor, Chicago Ridge, IL) 305/1,994
2) Marufuji vs. Kenta (October 29, 2006) 263/1,968
3) Danielson vs. Kenta (September 16, 2006--NY) 185/1,805
4) Danielson vs. Mc Guiness (August 12, 2006) 51/928

SHOOT FIGHT OF THE YEAR
1) Diego Sanchez vs Karo Parisyan (August 17, 2006) 205/1,677
2) Hughes vs Penn (September 23, 2006) 187/1,492
3) Barnett vs Noguerira September 10, 2006) 119/1,367

TV ANNOUNCER
1) Jim Ross 257/1,998
2) JBL 152/1,580
3) Mauro Ranallo 158/1,347
4) Mike Tenay 133/1,128
5) Joe Rogan 66/776

PROMOTER OF THE YEAR
1) Dana White 834
2) Paco Alonso 77

WORST PROMOTION
1) WWE 244
2) NJW 225
3) TNA 205

[Aladdin]

Marufuji won the freakin' GHC Heavyweight Title. The first junior to ever do that. I would have thought he would be higher on the list than Fit Finlay and Edge for "Outstanding Wrestler".

[Trent Matsunoshin]

LAX is awesome.

And the nod to UFC is well-deserved.

[Mrs Fizz Allmendinger]

What UFC are involved in these wrestling awards. They aren't a wrestling promotion.

[Faster Pussycat!]

Meltzer includes MMA in most of the awards.

[brockandsable]

thefizz said:

What UFC are involved in these wrestling awards. They aren't a wrestling promotion.

UFC is real fighting as opposed to WWE or TNA.

But this list has exposed my limited exposure to wrestling as I don't recognize one third of the names up there. I guess going out, partying and meeting real people is a bad thing for me.