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PWI 500 2015 - wrestler of the year is....

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#1 ·
:rollins





Gotta say it's been a huge year for him so i'm ok with that
 
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I can't seem to understand why there is so much hate for Rollins apart from people forgetting about kayfabe lol

Rollins has had several match of the year candidates, chief among them:

Rollins v Lesnar v Cena
Rollins v Ambrose TLC
Rollins v Neville 1 and 2 on Raw
Rollins v Cena Summerslam

That's 5 matches in the first 9 months of the this year alone, with 2 big PPVs still to go. Not to mention his matches on Raw are few of the highlights on a mediocre to bad show.

Rollins in mic work also continues to improve, he gets the fans to hate him and looks like he is having fun doing so.

Not to mention immense kayfabe achievements: cashing in at Mania, heavyweight champ for some 6 months, countless successful defences including victories over Cena and Ambrose and the first ever HW/US champ in history.

Rollins is the most successful new star since the rise of Bryan some 3-4 years ago.
 
#26 ·
Congrats to Rollins. I am not 100% sure, but I believe this is ranked by kayfabe accomplishments, and if it is, then Rollins sure deserved the win here. (Y)

I can't seem to understand why there is so much hate for Rollins apart from people forgetting about kayfabe lol

Rollins has had several match of the year candidates, chief among them:

Rollins v Lesnar v Cena
Rollins v Ambrose TLC
Rollins v Neville 1 and 2 on Raw
Rollins v Cena Summerslam
I really have nothing against Rollins, and I think he is very good, but I think all of those matches are really overrated except for the ladder match vs. Ambrose. That is the only great Rollins match since he turned heel IMO. Has improved a lot on the mic, but I really find many of his matches to be really overhyped. :shrug
 
#19 ·
Top 25;

1 Seth Rollins

2 John Cena

3 A.J. Styles

4 Roman Reigns

5 Shinsuke Namakura

6 Randy Orton

7 Jay Briscoe

8 Alexander Rusev

9 Alberto El Patrón

10 Kevin Owens

11 Hiroshi Tanahashi

12 Dolph Ziggler

13 Dean Ambrose

14 Daniel Bryan

15 Adrian Neville

16 Prince Puma (Ricochet)

17 Jay Lethal

18 Bobby Lashley

19 Minoru Suzuki

20 King Barrett

21 Bray Wyatt

22 Bobby Roode

23 Sami Zayn

24 Luke Harper

25 Kurt Angle



I'm surprised by a few of these, honestly lol wtf is the criteria
 
#126 ·
The Future, Seth Rollins coming into 1 number out of 500 this year was great to read. Seth Rollins has been killing it in his pay per view matches this year. Improved as well. Rollins has been nothing but fire since the moment he won the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. Despite his booking, he still managed to make the best of it and become number 1 in the year 2015. Congratulations, you deserve it. :Cocky
 
#73 · (Edited)
:lmao I know, it's like people don't realize PWI is just an Apter mag. Bill Apter used to have a bunch of magazines he'd put out every single month, filled with pictures he took, and containing interviews he just made up in his head. Literally. Every wrestler who has ever spoken about it says they don't know anyone who was actually interviewed for the magazine, Apter made stuff up that helped sell tickets so the wrestlers didn't mind, and Apter got to make his money too. Those magazines contained next no actual facts, it was all 100% kayfabe and they were created just for kids and for older marks too dense to realize wresrling is a work. They would contain articles with titles like "Ric Flair vows to eliminate Dusty Rhodes from wrestling for good!" And contain entirely fictitious quotes, attributed to Flair and Rhodes when in reality it was just Bill sitting alone on his type writer making shit up.

However, it's 2015 not 1979. PWI ranking something is even less legitimate than Meltzer or Keller ranking something, because at least Meltzer and Keller don't insult the audiences intelligence and they take match quality, character work, promos, overall impact on the industry, etc into account instead of just kayfabe accomplishments like an Apter mag.

Essentially, if you are putting any stock into who PWI rates as the wresrler of the year, then you are using the same logic as the people who say Cena is the best wrestler ever because when he retires he will have the most title reigns.

So please, people, stop acting like this means anything. It doesn't. AJ Styles was not the best wrestler in 2010, Cena sure as hell wasn't in 2012, Orton sure as fuck wasn't in 2008, and while Punk was def. wrestler of the year in 2011 and Bryan in 2013, even a broken watch is right twice a day .

For the record, I think AJ prob deserves it for this year. He's been absolutely killing it. Cesaro and Owens deserve strong consideration as well.
 
#20 · (Edited)
Not taking anything away from Rollins especially since he's been ME consistently & is a dual-champ etc but I'd love to know how Rusev fared?

Edit - List just posted - 8th is a good startoff for Rusev,
 
#38 · (Edited)
Even if it's a kayfabe list, and doesn't include "part-timers", it's incredibly stupid to not have Brock Lesnar on there. Really degrades the entire list. Especially when Chris Jericho somehow makes it.


I agree with Seth Rollins being #1 . He's had an awesome year and half. What I most admire is that the guy has been working so many dates, taking no time off; but the real amazing thing about him is that he never half-asses anything. All his matches, all his promos, all his segments, he's giving it everything he's got. You don't get much of that nowadays. I don't always agree with his booking and character direction decisions, but he makes the most of it. His performance at Summerslam... wow.


Just a stand-out performer, and a stand-out year. Truly deserves it.
 
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