TNA End of the Year Awards!

The year has come to a close with some great moments and bad within the world of TNA/iMPACT Wrestling. I’m going to break down the best and worst of the categories that I have chosen. The categories include “Best Pay-Per-View”, “Best Moment of the Year”, “Worst Moment of the Year”, among many awards.

TNA Knockout of the Year: While many say that the Knockouts Division isn’t the same division that it had been in the past, TNA has kept a very solid division throughout the year. The division really picked up toward the end of the year with the return of Gail Kim, but despite what Kim brought to the table these final few months… she isn’t the Knockout of the Year. The award will have to go to Mickie James who carried the division as the top babyface throughout the majority of the year, really dominating the championship picture.

Tag Team of the Year: The one division that has slipped through the cracks of TNA Wrestling has been the tag team division. From injuries, releases, and break-ups.. the division has dwindled down to few tag teams that anyone can get behind. The award has to really go to Beer Money Inc due to their dominating of the other tag teams that stepped in their path including The Motorcity Machine Gun and Ink Inc. Also, the fact that the two went from the top tag team to the two heel and babyface within a matter of 12 months… phenomenal.

X-Division Star of the Year: This is a no-brainer for me: Austin Aries. Despite not making his return to TNA Wrestling until mid-year, Austin Aries has already won the X-Division Championship and put on outstanding matches. He is the cornerstone of the X-Division and has brought the division back from the dead. He’s also the greatest man that ever lived. How can you argue with that?

Feud of the Year: The year has brought some of the best feuds in recent memory from TNA Wrestling. Fortune would show their muscle as a faction with their feud with Immortal, before AJ Styles would go on to produce a great feud with Bully Ray. These two feuds wouldn’t come close to the great feud that was Kurt Angle vs. Jeff Jarrett (with Karen Jarrett). From the personal promo work by two of the best microphone workers in the business, to phenomenal matches… Angle and Jarrett stole the year.

Best Moment of the Year: The year has had some “feel good moments”, but the one that tops it as the best moment of the year has to be watching “Cowboy” James Storm become the TNA World Heavyweight Champion. James Storm has proven over the almost ten year tenure of TNA Wrestling that he is one of the best tag team workers in the wrestling business, but he proved in 2011 that he can be on of the best main eventers in TNA Wrestling.

Worst Moment of the Year: Jeff Hardy shows up in no-shape to wrestle; TNA puts him in the ring. Hardy should have never shown up like that, TNA never should have put in him the ring. Case closed.

Pay-Per-View of the Year: This was really a toss-up between “Lockdown” and “Bound for Glory” as both were great pay-per-views that featured both great matches and told great stories. With that said, I’m going to have go to with “Lockdown” as the best pay-per-view of the year. From top to the bottom, it was a great show of wrestling matches that told the stories that I paid my money to see.

TNA M.V.P of the Year: While there are many wrestlers that could be the M.V.P for TNA Wrestling, I’m going to have to go with Robert Roode. Roode was able to put on some great matches and cut some great promos throughout the entire year, but more noticeable.. he was able to transform to one of the most cheered guys in the company alongside “The Cowboy” James Storm, to the biggest heel in the company within a tweleve month period. That is off the chain.

(All awards are based on my opinion)