The 45th annual Wrestling Observer Awards are in the books and once again we take a look at what are the most prestigious awards that exist in our space. While the Observer Awards don’t give out physical hardware – with the only way you could fill space in a trophy cabinet being maybe framing a printed copy of the write-up of the award you win, (that’s something you can imagine Eddie Gilbert doing back in the day) – looking at the Observer Awards is a very good guide to what

Talk about these thoughts on the VOW Awards and interact with Peter and any of our great contributors at the Pro Wrestling Musings Discord! Read Peter's other articles! So, here we are again. It’s that time of the year when we look back at the previous calendar year —and in this case, the yearly tradition that is the Voices of Wrestling 2024 MOTY poll. For the fourth year, I have had the honour of having a ballot to fill in and again I’ll say the following. It feels weird to

For the last three autumns, I have written about the Wrestling Observer Hall of Fame and the ballot and when the results come out around late November/early December I'll write about them and forensically analyse the percentages for the third year running. It's a role that I've enjoyed. It has gotten me a guest spot on Voices of Wrestling annual ballot look on their Patreon, Dave Meltzer, the founder and proprietor of the Observer and it's Hall of Fame has retweeted my work

AEW are here to stay by Peter Edge "Once you're profitable, the term 'money mark' goes out of the window So, the worst kept secret in wrestling since who the main attraction of the First Dance was has been revealed. Wednesday 2nd October saw Warner Brothers Discovery and AEW reveal that they extended their r

For the second time AEW hit the UK and Wembley Stadium and because I enjoyed myself so much last year I thought “why not go again” and because so many enjoyed my travel log of that weekend, why not do another. Well, I wasn’t planning to do a travel log this year, instead talking about the state of AEW and comparing the company from this year to last because Rev Pro really wasn’t in my plans this time round but FOMO happened but more on that later. If I was to have one regre

It's that time of the year. The time of the year where we dust down our New Japan World subscription, we look at our screens and wonder why the picture quality is worse than the year before. It's that time of the year when we get our abacus’ out because Dave Meltzer’s recaps and standings calculations didn't make sense and when our friends ask us if you want to go for a drink and you have to tell them you're catching up on the G1 Climax which then gets them asking if you're w

As 2023 turned to 2024, the most frequent words spoken by the human race were the usual “New Year, New Me”, “I will stick to my resolution" and “I swear, this the last time I'm out for New Years” but a new phrase entered the lexicon. It was “restore the feeling” After 2023 and the Year of MJFism, talk of AEW losing its identity was mounting. Talk of needing to restore the feeling was escalating. The Continental Classic helped the narrative of feeling being restored. So did th

It's Sunday 27 August, I'm standing in the lower bowl section of Wembley Stadium and I see a wrestling ring in the middle of the pitch where Harry Kane scored that goal vs Germany in Euro 2020, where Arjen Robben won the Champions League with Bayern Munich and where Carl Edwards beat Michael Schumacher in the Race of Champions (seriously, as a NASCAR fan you don't realise what that moment meant to me) and I just burst out with laughter. It was a moment of marking out and just

It's nearly 3am on a Friday Night and I have work the next morning. I have just been speaking to a woman who I met on tinder the previous week on video call for three hours. The previous sentence tells you how well it's going in my love life. This feels great. Without wanting to bore you about my love life, the fact that I've met someone on tinder, been on a date and I'm now having conversations that last longer than a Bryan Danielson ROH match in 2005 is a bigger overachieve

March 11, 2020 is one of those days where you put it on the “where were you” moments column. Where were you when the NBA announced they were shutting down for the foreseeable future? I was asleep. I live in the UK, it was around 3 in the morning, I'm not mad you know. But upon reading the BBC news site on the Thursday morning just as I'm pressing play on Dynamite on Fite/Triller that not only that the positive COVID test from Rudy Gobert had caused the suspension of play in

When AEW put on Double or Nothing this Memorial Day Weekend, it will mean that we will have seen AEW put on shows for 5 years. Had DoN been on Saturday instead of the Sunday it would have been on the exact anniversary of that night in 2019 but we aren't getting Saturday night AEW PPV’s because we can't have nice things anymore. Regardless, the 5 years of AEW has seen many changes socially, in the way we live and many changes in the way we watch television. In those 5 years, t

1- Will Opsreay was the Man of the Year The biggest winner in this years awards was obviously Will Ospreay. His six awards is the most since Kurt Angle in 2002 and now with 18 overall WON Awards in his career, it puts him joint 5th with Kenta Kobashi on the all time list with only Ric Flair (39) Mitsuharu Misawa (20) Steve Austin (20) and Hulk Hogan (19) with a higher tally of Observer Awards In a year where the main champions of the “Big 3” promotions had flawed cases for Fl

It’s that time of year when we look back at the year before and we give out awards honouring the best of the best in our favourite entertainment and sporting passions and while wrestling’s foremost awards, The Wrestling Observer Awards will be dissected by yours truly later in February when the awards come out, another annual tradition came out last week and for the third year, I was invited (eventually finding my email with the ballot) to take part. I’ll be honest, being

January 4th 1999. It was a day that changed everything in the world of wrestling. Well, that's what you've been told. January 4th 1999 was the night RAW put the WWE World Title belt on one of the unlikeliest wrestlers to ever put the World Title on (according to Wrestling With Wregret’s Top 8 Unlikely World Champions video on YouTube) and Eric Bischoff decided to use the fact Mick Foley had actually beat The Rock for the title on the 29th December when the 4/1/99 edition was