I ended up voting for Rocky's return as my mark-out moment, and think it would have been a lock to win if it happened in the past month.

i think i voted this to. i know i didn't vote for punk leaving though.

I just tried to rewatch the HHH and Friends Raw and I couldn't make it pass Vince returning. Everything about it is just as bad on second watch. Though I did lol when HHH said to get a broomstick in the ring and Cena came out.

The Sigh. Really? Really? Award

Great write-up on that award.

+1 perfect choice of pictures.

The Breakout Star of 2011

Feud of the Year

11/15 complete. Will Finish reveal by Smackdown airing

Awesome reveal is awesome.

+inf. you should give yourself an award for these latest write-ups. thanks for putting so much time into this. really enjoying it even if it is mostly a reminder of how awesome we thought a lot of this stuff would be by the beginning of 2012 and how miserable it is in practice. i still blame vince and stephanie and hhh.

This thread needs more heels.


That writeup sucked almost as much as your local sports team's most recent loss.

Great writeup.

Ziggler's a great choice, but I just wish he'd change his finisher. The zig zag's just weak imo.

Christian vs Orton was great, but I just can't get over Christian jumping off the corner into an RKO when it just doesn't make any sense at all. What's he trying to do other than getting caught?

It's not JIm's fault, its the fault of ALL YOU PEOPLE reading this at home.

YOU PEOPLE are the reason these award writeups suck. If it wasn't for YOU PEOPLE this would be the greatest award writeups thread of all time.

Alright, alright, who is gonna be the person riding in on a camel speaking a different language with a turban on drinking a slurpee to kidnap someone?

4:24 in the OTL video shows what he was trying to do

Completely disagree Ziggler is the 2011 breakout star. Sorry but its clearly Cody who last year:

1, started out with the new masked tortured soul gimmick returning after Rey "broke his face".
2, went on to WM to beat Rey in the sleeper hit match of the night with a solidly dominating performance.
3, developed the bag part of the gimmick to get himself over more.
4, developed an entirely new way of delivering promos to fit the gimmick
5, had a great little feud with Orton including having his face almost literally broken with a ring bell to mirror 1 and dropped the masks and the bags
6, debuted the old style IC title and started making it look important as he carried it about with pride despite for some reason rarely being booked to defend it
finally 7, closed 2011 clearly being the next new world champ with a fully matured zero "gimmick" no prop gimmick delivering awesome promos full of confidence, world class ring work including a bunch of really unique signature moves and he oozes attitude and ring presence whilst working the crowd like the second gen star of a significant wrestling family that he is.

What works against Ziggler is that he:

1, relied on Vickie to get most of his heat. Still probably does.
2, he has already had a world heavyweight reign. For like half an hour.

Im a huge fan of Ziggler and saw a lot of potential even from the "introduction" gimmick years ago so i cant hate on it too hard obviously, but i think in terms of progress which i think "breakout star" is the best measure Cody is ahead of Ziggler. It clearly cant be put on the fact Ziggler has this WWE title match at the RR so he is more successful just for the fact that in that case it should surely be the WHC Bryan or the 2 time WWE champ, Royal Rumble winner and Wrestlemania main eventer Alberto Del Rio who is the 2011 breakout star.

It speaks volumes about the Orton/Christian feud that they had no less than SIX high quality matches this year. In today's WWE it's almost unfathomable that they could put two guys together for that long and keep it entertaining without resorting to a 'Christian's balls on a pole' match or some ****.

Im mad at creative for not letting him go over once tho

Summerslam was the PERFECT place to go the "Randy had him beat but tried to hurt him more instead of get the win and Christian capitalized"

But its nitpicking

You're right, I still hate it though

loving the write-ups.

gotta say i couldnt disagree more about the tlc match; in fact i think thats easily the best thing punk has done since turning face, and possibly a top 5 match of the year in entertainment value.


ziggler just might already be in the top 2 sellers of all time (hbk). thats pretty insane given how new he is.

it frustrates me so much that vince is ****ing with his character both with the head shave and now this whole "show off" thing. the rest of the wwe should try to be more like zig, not the other way around. btw im calling this now: dolph ziggler will be the best face the wwe has seen in a long time when he finally turns.

Its quite probable that Ziggler has been making the changes himself or at least he has a strong hand in his character.

Fwiw the Cena match that Punk was compared to is considered on of the best Cena did because it had such a strong story to it. I completely disagree and think it was level 1 bull**** and says more about how bad his other matches are, but i loved the write up like most people and the Punk character change into a weird Cena and HHH mix is a completely accurate description of the events since Summerslam.

Been more busy than I thought I'd be over last few days. I'll finish this up soon. My bad.

Official Wrestlemania Thread Poster of the Year

Booooooooo!