2014 Pro-Wrestling Awards da Tokyo Sports entregues

Puroresu Spirit escreveu:Tokyo Sports released their “2014 Pro-Wrestling Awards”, they are as follows…

This years committee consisted of 21 different people from Tokyo Sports, Daily Sports, Tokyo Sports, Nikkan Sports, Nikkan Sports, Sankei Sports, the Editor-in-chief from Weekly Pro-Wrestling, others from different forms of media.

2014 MVP (Most Valuable Player)
Hiroshi Tanahashi (NJPW)
~ Reigning IWGP Heavyweight Champion.
[Voting results: Tanahashi: 18; then Nakamura, Okada, and Katsuyori Shibata all tied one another at 1 vote each.]

Annual Best Bout Award (Best Bout)
Kazuchika Okada vs. Shinsuke Nakamura (NJPW, G1 CLIMAX, 8/10 @ Seibu Dome)
[Also in the running: Ishii vs. Ibushi (NJPW) 5/25; Sugiura vs. Sekimoto, (NOAH) 11/8; Okada vs. Ibushi (NJPW) 3/6; Mutoh vs. Kono (W-1) 11/1; Tanahashi vs. Styles (NJPW) 10/13; Styles vs. Suzuki (NJPW) 8/1]

Best Tag Team Award
"Dangan Yankees" Takashi Sugiura (NOAH) & Masato Tanaka (ZERO1)
~ Reigning GHC Tag & NWA Intercontinental Tag Champions.
[Also in the running: Yuko Miyamoto & Isami Kodaka (BJW), T-Hawk & Eita (DG), Jun Akiyama & Takao Omori (AJPW), Hirooki Goto & Katsuyori Shibata (NJPW)]

Distinguished Service Award
Tomohiro Ishii (NJPW/RikiPro)
~ Reigning NEVER Openweight Champion
[Voting results: Ishii = 8, Marufuji = 8, Nakamura = 3, Sekimoto = 1, Ibushi = 1 … 2nd round: Ishii = 11 votes and Maru = 10 votes]

Fighting Spirit Award
Atsushi Onita (Jado-gun)
~ celebrating 40 years of continued active competition.
[Voting results: Onita = 15 votes, Sekimoto = 5 votes, Yuko Miyamoto = 1 vote]

Technical Award
BxB Hulk (Dragon Gate)
~ reigning Open The Dream Gate Champion.
[Voting results: (2nd round) BxB = 15 votes and AJ Styles = 6 votes]

Rookie of the Year Award
Saki Akai (Oscar Promotion)
[Also nominated: LEONA (11/19/13), Jiro “Ikemen” Kuroshio (12/20/11), Big R Shimizu (5/25/13), and El Desperado (1/5/14)]

Joshi Wrestler Award
No selection this year
[Voting results: Io Shirai = 6 votes, Syuri = 3 votes, but 12 votes were blank.]

Lifetime Achievement Award
Akira Taue (Retired 12/7/2013) - celebrated 25+ years in the ring.
and
Kensuke Sasaki (Retired 2/11/2014) - celebrated 28 years in the ring.