As with every year in wrestling, there have been numerous ups and downs throughout the year. We have decided to come together for the first time ever and selected the highlights and lowlights of 2014. The polls opened a couple of weeks ago and we were met with over 130 total entries, so thank you to everyone who went out of their way and voted. With the WWE and NJPW completely changing their revenue models, pro wrestling has become much more affordable to get into and enjoy, and we hope that those from the outside who don't quite know where to begin would try and take the plunge with this list that will be shown in the next few days. Thank you for taking the time to read these and please feel free to discuss in The Wrestling Thread.

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Best Female Wrestler of the Year - Charlotte

You've got big shoes to fill if you happen to be a descendant of Ric Flair, and it's looking like Charlotte might be up to the task. In the few matches that she was in before 2014 began, you could definitely tell that she was athletic and had some sort of potential if she had a few more years of experience under her belt.

Then she had a match against veteran Natalya during NXT Takeover that might be one of the best women's matches WWE has held in years. Charlotte has been able to have consistently great matches throughout the year since then on NXT PPVs. She has exceeded everyone's expectations very quickly, which has me very excited about her future in pro wrestling.

Runners-Up: Candice Lerae, Bayley, Sasha Banks, Paige

Best Male Wrestler of the Year - Sami Zayn

The best thing you can say about a wrestler is that you can pair him up with absolutely anybody and you will still get at least a good match. Zayn has done exactly that with everyone at NXT and has proven that he will steal the show no matter where he is placed on the card. He also possesses that rare quality of just being a naturally likable person and has grown tremendously in his ability to cut a promo over the last two years. With the way that 2014 ended, it's looking like Sami Zayn will have another great year in 2015 when he starts his feud against Kevin Owens(once again).

Runner-Ups: Kazuchika Okada, Ricochet, Seth Rollins, Dean Ambrose

Best Non-WWE Match of the Year - Okada vs. Nakamura

First of all, do yourself a favor and if you haven't watched any of NJPW's G1 Tournament from this year, try and fix that. There are dozens of extremely great matches that took place during it. However, the final match was something special. Shinsuke Nakamura and Kazuchika Okada are two of the three biggest stars in NJPW, and they almost have never fought each other before (due to being in the same stable).

The match was a spectacle, managing to fill up a baseball stadium worth of fans who wanted to see the finals. When the match gets into the final stretch, there are a number of brilliant moments that will leave you with your jaw open. One of the best moments of wrestling all year is when Nakamura counters Okada's "Rainmaker". I have probably watched the gif of this counter hundreds of times just to figure out what in the hell even happened, it's something to behold.

If anybody needs any kind of introduction into alternative styles of professional wrestling there is outside of the WWE, this is a pretty great place to start.

Runners-Up: AJ Styles vs. Minoru Suzuki, Kota Ibushi vs. Ricochet, The Throwbacks vs. The Devastation Corporation, The Young Bucks vs. World's Cutest Tag Team

Best WWE Match of the Year - Shield vs. The Wyatt Family

Whenever you have a sold out arena chanting "This is awesome" before the match even begins, you know you've done something right. These two stables that dominated throughout 2013 finally crossed paths in the beginning of 2014. The story was pretty simple: There can only be one dominant group in WWE.

• This was a match where everybody involved looked like a mega star by the end of it.
• Eric Rowan continued to prove a lot of people wrong and could perfectly handle his share of the load
• Luke Harper might be one of the most talented big men of all time
• Bray Wyatt could be a huge deal if he is used right
• Roman Reigns is very exciting to watch and is believable when he's kicking ass
• Seth Rollins isn't going to be left in the dust when The Shield breaks up (something that definitely became true once The Shield did break up)
• Dean Ambrose is a fucking crazy man

This might not be the best technical match of the year, but it's probably one of the best examples of telling a story during a match, and everybody was more respected by the crowd after this match.

Watch Wyatts vs. Shield on WWE Network, it has much less butt rock than the video below.

Runners-Up: Daniel Bryan vs. Triple H, Charlotte vs. Natalya, Sami Zayn vs. Adrian Neville, Adrian Neville vs. Sami Zayn vs. Tyson Kidd vs. Tyler Breeze