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Oh boy. Some fun awards here. I don't know if I'm going to be able to catch all my thoughts in one post so bear with me.

WORST WRESTLER

Steiner kind of hit a lot of the "highs" on this one. To me, the Worst Wrestler has to be someone constantly featured despite being aggressively bad. With the bar for wrestling being higher than it's been in ages, you'd think it would be difficult to get wrestlers as awful as a Virgil or a Kendall Windham on TV anymore. But hey, people found a way.

In WWE, it's difficult to find someone as bad in almost every facet of the game as Dominick Mysterio. Is there anyone out there who believes this guy would even be employed if it weren't for his father? I am a little surprised that Steiner left out Omos but WWE has tried to hide him by pairing him with AJ. He's got size and something of a presence but his stuff from what I've seen looks so awkward that I can't believe he's on television. To round things out with the 'E, I can't really vote for The Fiend since he was around so little this year but I can give a shoutout to his child bride Alexa Bliss. The gimmick was the dirt worst and here's hoping that Alexa's absence is them trying to get everyone to forget it existed.

AEW has also repeatedly booked and featured people this year who have no business in the ring. Matt Hardy is practically immobile and I have no idea why they keep having him wrestle. HFO is something that could disappear tomorrow and I don't think any AEW fan would care. Jade Cargill looks like a million bucks but she can't even be trusted to go longer than a couple of minutes (and sometimes even that's pushing it). I don't quite know where else to put her in this rambling write-up, but all the people who are trying to convince me that Maki Itoh is any kind of good need to get their heads examined. Wrapping up with AEW, I'm giving consideration yet again to Abadon. I know she's been mostly relegated to Dark and good on her for getting into shape, but I've yet to see anything that would justify her still being around and still keep being booked as strong as she is there.

Jordan Oliver is terrible, has been pushed hard everywhere he regularly works, and after seeing some of the young guys coming up out of the Dragon system I'm tired of people hanging on the excuse that he's young and learning. Hell, not even just the Dragon system. Daniel Garcia is about the same age and he's so far above Oliver in terms of ability that it's laughable to compare the two. Steiner hit the nail on the head so perfectly with Keiji Mutoh. His title reign in NOAH made the company a joke, his run damaged Kaito Kiyomiya (the guy many see as the future of the company), and at the end of it he dropped it to the broken husk that is Naomichi Marufuji. His time in NOAH has done nothing but hurt the company, just like he's hurt every other company he's been a part of over the past decade and a half.

Honorable mentions to Tajiri, BxB Hulk, and Edith Surreal. Surreal and Tajiri were garbage in the handful of matches I've seen from them this year and Tajiri seems to be doing everything in his power to get everyone in AJPW to quit, but I didn't see enough of them to care. Hulk was saved by finding whatever he had left in him to get one good match with YAMATO. Hopefully that's the last time he ever has a serious singles match again because, like Matt Hardy, Hulk is so broken down that it's uncomfortable watching him.