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Wrestling Thread's Best of 2014 Awards: Day 3

A special thank you to papercut for coming up with our
A special thank you to papercut for coming up with our "Brass Ring" trophies.

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.

Recap of Day One

Recap of Day Two

Promotion of the Year - NXT

The idea of NXT is to be a developmental promotion to get their wrestlers ready for the main roster in the WWE. Over the past year, it's quite clear that there are probably seven or eight talents that are definitely ready for the next step, the only problem is that nobody writing for the WWE seems to know what they're doing anymore and the people that are responsible for NXT are knocking it out of the park. They've got some of the best wrestlers in the world in the main event picture, they have the best women's division in the world, and they are blessed with a very good crowd of fans every week.

One of the best reasons to have the WWE Network is to be able to watch NXT and their PPV's.

Runners-Up: NJPW, PWG, ROH, Chikara

Best Wrestling Game of 2014 - The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

I vanished.

— ec3 (@EthanCarterTNA) August 12, 2014

Runners-Up: WWE Supercard, Crazy Taxi ft. Hulk Hogan, WWE 2k15, Gang Beasts

Best Feud - Daniel Bryan vs. The Authority

Feuds like Bryan vs. The Authority are so great because after watching the hero having to go through so much hell for nine months, he finally wins the big one.

Daniel Bryan was not scheduled to be in the main event in WrestleMania 30. It all started when he wasn't even in the Royal Rumble which caused the crowd to turn on the winner, Batista. CM Punk deciding to quit also left Triple H without an opponent for Wrestlemania. So due to those things happening along with the audience at every live WWE show giving them shit for not getting what they want, we got to have Triple H vs. Daniel Bryan along with Daniel Bryan being shifted into the main event of Wrestlemania match with Randy Orton and Batista. That night people was able to have the exact conclusion that they all wanted by having Daniel Bryan win the main event.

Runners-Up: Sami Zayn vs. Adrian Neville, The Shield vs. The Wyatt Family, Kazuchika Okada vs. AJ Styles, Dean Ambrose vs. Seth Rollins

Worst Match of the Year - Cameron vs. Naomi

Either Cameron has been in pro wrestling for three years and still doesn't understand basic rules or she is secretly the second coming of Andy Kaufman. There's definitely been worse matches in the Diva's division over the years, but I don't think I've ever in my life somebody go for a pin with their opponent laying on their stomach before.

The rest of this match is awful. There are about four or five spots where Cameron looks like she legitimately hurts Naomi, including one place where she sends Naomi face first into the ropes. If you watch the match back again, you see that Naomi was trying to go for the finish of the match but then Cameron cuts her off and then sets up a dropkick (where Cameron lands on Naomi after the dropkick) and then they repeat the set up for the finish of the match again. I'm counting down the days until we just decide to ditch all of the WWE Divas and go to the women in NXT (along with the people putting the matches together in NXT).

Runners-Up: The Gracie Brothers vs. Nakamura & Sakuraba, Naomi/Summer Rae/Layla vs. Rosa Mendes/Cameron/Eva Marie, Bully Ray vs. Bobby Roode, Big Show vs. Eric Rowan

Come back tomorrow for the conclusion of our awards!

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