WWE Announces Nominees For NXT Year End Awards

The best of the best. What more great things can be said about NXT? It’s become one of the most entertaining and best run wrestling promotions in the world and has been for years now. With NXT serving as the developmental territory for WWE, the future is rather bright for the main roster. However there’s some stuff that is purely NXT and that’s what we’re looking at today.

WWE.com (see link for voting information) has released the nominees for the annual NXT Year End Awards, looking at a variety of categories. The categories range throughout the entire promotion and look at both individual competitors and matches along with larger areas. A large group of the awards and nominees were listed on this week’s NXT. Here are the nominees for each award:

Female Competitor Of The Year

Nikki Cross
Shayna Baszler
Kairi Sane
Ember Moon
Bianca Belair

Male Competitor Of The Year

Tommaso Ciampa
Johnny Gargano
Ricochet
Aleister Black
Velveteen Dream
Andrade Cien Almas
Adam Cole
Pete Dunne

Overall Competitor Of The Year

Nikki Cross
Shayna Baszler
Kairi Sane
Ember Moon
Bianca Belair
Tommaso Ciampa
Johnny Gargano
Ricochet
Aleister Black
Velveteen Dream
Andrade Cien Almas
Adam Cole
Pete Dunne

Tag Team Of The Year

Undisputed Era
War Raiders
Street Profits
Heavy Machinery
Oney Lorcan/Danny Burch
Moustache Mountain

Takeover Of The Year

Philadelphia
New Orleans
Chicago II
Brooklyn IV
WarGames II

Match Of The Year

WarGames Match (TakeOver: WarGames)
Johnny Gargano vs. Andrade “Cien” Almas (NXT Championship Match, TakeOver: Philadelphia)
Moustache Mountain vs. Undisputed ERA (NXT Tag Team Championship Match, NXT TV, July 11, 2018)
Johnny Gargano vs. Tommaso Ciampa (Unsanctioned Match, TakeOver: New Orleans)
NXT North American Championship Ladder Match (TakeOver: New Orleans)
Kairi Sane vs. Shayna Baszler (NXT Women’s Championship Match, TakeOver: Brooklyn IV)
Ricochet vs. Velveteen Dream (TakeOver: Chicago)
Aleister Black vs. Tommaso Ciampa (NXT Championship Match, NXT TV, July 25)
Pete Dunne vs. Zack Gibson (WWE U.K. Championship Match, NXT TV, Aug. 22)
Aleister Black vs. Adam Cole (Extreme Rules Match, TakeOver: Philadelphia)
Pete Dunne vs. Kyle O’Reilly (WWE U.K. Championship Match, NXT TV, June 13)
Danny Burch & Oney Lorcan vs. Undisputed ERA (TakeOver: Chicago)
Nikki Cross vs. Bianca Belair (NXT TV, Sept. 12)
Ricochet vs. Pete Dunne (North American Champion vs. WWE U.K. Champion Match, NXT TV, Sept. 19)
Ricochet vs. Pete Dunne vs. Adam Cole (North American Championship Triple Threat Match, NXT TV, Oct. 10)

Rivalry Of The Year

Johnny Gargano vs. Tommaso Ciampa
Kairi Sane vs. Shayna Baszler
Aleister Black/Johnny Gargano/Tommaso Ciampa/Nikki Crosss
Johnny Gargano vs. Andrade “Cien” Almas
Moustache Mountain vs. Undisputed ERA
Ember Moon vs. Shayna Baszler
Ricochet vs. Velveteen Dream

It’s as big as anything else. Here’s a closer look at one of the more important awards:

NXT Female Competitor of the Year Nominees: WWE NXT, Jan. 2, 2019

Opinion: The more I read back on these things, the more impressed I am with how good the promotion was this year. There was all kinds of awesome stuff up and down the card with new stars being made and established stars getting even bigger than they were before. If it stays this good for another year, we’re in for a treat but if they manages to get better, I don’t know how I can handle it.

Which of these awards is the easiest? Which is the hardest? Let us know in the comments below.

Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen over 50,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since 2009 with over 5,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his Amazon author page with 28 wrestling books. His latest book is the the Complete 1997 Monday Night Raw Reviews.

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