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The 2007 PWInsider Year End Polls roll on, and three very close competitions have emerged. MVP and Santino Marella are neck and neck for Character/Gimmick Of The Year, with only a single vote separating them at the time of this posting. The Briscoes have been maintaining a slight lead over Chris Sabin & Alex Shelley in the Tag Team Of The Year poll, while CM Punk's Go To Sleep is threatening Petey Williams' dominance in the Move Of The Year category by staying ahead of the Canadian Destroyer. Voting continues for this month in all 24 categories.
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Here are the current poll results:
CHARACTER/GIMMICK OF THE YEAR (1383 votes)
MVP - 293 votes (21.2%)
Santino Marella - 292 votes (21.1%)
Hornswoggle - 159 votes (11.5%)
Edge - 116 votes (8.4%)
Jay Lethal - 75 votes (5.4%)
TAG TEAM OF THE YEAR (1721 votes)
Jay and Mark Briscoe - 373 votes (21.7%)
Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley) - 368 votes (21.4%)
MVP and Matt Hardy - 236 votes (13.7%)
LAX (Homicide and Hernandez) - 178 votes (10.3%)
Paul London and Brian Kendrick - 119 votes (6.9%)
MOVE OF THE YEAR (1152 votes)
Go To Sleep - CM Punk - 235 votes (20.4%)
Canadian Destroyer - Petey Williams - 222 votes (19.3%)
Split Legged Corkscrew Moonsault - John Morrison - 90 votes (7.8%)
Sweet Chin Music - Shawn Michaels - 73 votes (6.3%)
Swanton Bomb - Jeff Hardy - 65 votes (5.6%)
MATCH OF THE YEAR (770 votes)
April 23rd - John Cena vs. Shawn Michaels - WWE Raw - 178 votes (23.1%)
January 28th - John Cena vs. Umaga - Last Man Standing - WWE Royal Rumble - 105 votes (13.6%)
September 15th - Mark and Jay Briscoe vs. Kevin Steen and El Generico - Ladder War - ROH Man Up - 93 votes (12.1%)
June 23rd - Brian Danielson vs Nigel McGuinness - ROH Driven - 48 votes (6.2%)
April 3rd - Rob Van Dam, Sabu, Sandman and Tommy Dreamer vs. Elijah Burke, Matt Striker, Kevin Thorn and Marcus Cor Von - Extreme Rules - WWE ECW - 40 votes (5.2%)
BRAWLER OF THE YEAR (1426 votes)
Fit Finlay - 302 votes (21.2%)
Umaga - 219 votes (15.4%)
Abyss - 196 votes (13.7%)
Samoa Joe - 196 votes (13.7%)
John Cena - 118 votes (8.3%)
FLYER OF THE YEAR (1323 votes)
Jeff Hardy - 469 votes (35.4%)
AJ Styles - 168 votes (12.7%)
Jack Evans - 134 votes (10.1%)
Jimmy Wang Yang - 87 votes (6.6%)
Kaz - 76 votes (5.7%)
HOTTIE OF THE YEAR (1294 votes)
Maria - 372 votes (28.7%)
Mickie James - 160 votes (12.4%)
Ariel/Shelly Martinez - 97 votes (7.5%)
Torrie Wilson - 82 votes (6.3%)
Karen Angle - 74 votes (5.7%)
PROMOTION/BRAND OF THE YEAR (1264 votes)
Ring Of Honor - 466 votes (36.9%)
Raw - 234 votes (18.5%)
Smackdown - 198 votes (15.7%)
WWE (All brands) - 181 votes (14.3%)
TNA - 165 votes (13.1%)
ECW - 20 votes (1.6%)
STUPIDEST THING IN WRESTLING FOR 2007 (1176 votes)
TNA brings in Pacman Jones and tries to work around the fact he can't wrestle. - 231 votes (19.6%)
TNA Creative - 216 votes (18.4%)
WWE Creative - 148 votes (12.6%)
"Donald Trump vs. Rosie O'Donnell" on Raw - 131 votes (11.1%)
Great Khali becomes World Champion. - 93 votes (7.9%)
TECHNICIAN OF THE YEAR (1223 votes)
Bryan Danielson - 392 votes (32.1%)
CM Punk - 213 votes (17.4%)
Shawn Michaels - 118 votes (9.6%)
Kurt Angle - 88 votes (7.2%)
Samoa Joe - 86 votes (7.0%)
ANGLE/STORYLINE OF THE YEAR (1588 votes)
MVP and Matt Hardy's Tag Team Championship run and competitions. - 756 votes (47.6%)
Save Us 222 - Chris Jericho returns. - 242 votes (15.2%)
Ric Flair loses a match and he's fired. - 123 votes (7.7%)
Project 161 - Age Of The Fall debut. - 119 votes (7.5%)
Edge wins the Money In The Bank briefcase and uses it to win the World Title. - 98 votes (6.2%)
BEST INTERVIEWS OF THE YEAR (1450 votes)
Santino Marella - 299 votes (20.6%)
Edge - 273 votes (18.8%)
Christian Cage - 198 votes (13.7%)
Ric Flair - 155 votes (10.7%)
Larry Sweeney - 77 votes (5.3%)
BOOK OF THE YEAR (1061 votes)
Hitman: My Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling by Bret Hart - 469 votes (44.2%)
A Lion's Tale: Around the World in Spandex by Chris Jericho - 319 votes (30.1%)
Hardcore Diaries by Mick Foley - 81 votes (7.6%)
Wrestlecrap Book of Lists - 77 votes (7.3%)
Brody: The Triumph And Tragedy Of Wrestling's Rebel by Larry Matysik and Barbara Goodish - 45 votes (4.2%)
CHANT OF THE YEAR (1422 votes)
"Fire Russo!" - TNA. - 198 votes (13.9%)
"Let's Go Cena/Cena Sucks" dueling chants. - 159 votes (11.2%)
"TNA!" - During the Rosie vs. Donald match on Raw. - 146 votes (10.3%)
"We Want Wrestling" during TNA Final Resolution and several WWE Vince McMahon promos. - 121 votes (8.5%)
"Joe's gonna kill you" - Samoa Joe matches. - 110 votes (7.7%)
COMEBACK OF THE YEAR (1372 votes)
Jeff Hardy - 447 votes (32.6%)
Chris Jericho - 195 votes (14.2%)
Kenta Kobashi - 120 votes (8.7%)
Fit Finlay - 105 votes (7.7%)
Big Daddy V - 100 votes (7.3%)
DVD OF THE YEAR (1109 votes)
WWE: Ric Flair and The Four Horseman - 310 votes (28.0%)
WWE: The Ladder Match - 190 votes (17.1%)
WWE: The Triumph and Tragedy of World Class Championship Wrestling - 125 votes (11.3%)
WWE: Royal Rumble Anthology - 93 votes (8.4%)
WWE: Heartbreak and Triumph: The Shawn Michaels Story - 86 votes (7.8%)
MOST IMPROVED WRESTLER OF THE YEAR (1341 votes)
MVP - 503 votes (37.5%)
The Miz - 125 votes (9.3%)
Candice Michelle - 116 votes (8.7%)
Jeff Hardy - 107 votes (8.0%)
Tomko - 90 votes (6.7%)
NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR (1240 votes)
Santino Marella - 423 votes (34.1%)
Awesome Kong - 264 votes (21.3%)
Takeshi Morishima - 153 votes (12.3%)
Hornswoggle - 98 votes (7.9%)
Beth Phoenix - 96 votes (7.7%)
ANNOUNCER OF THE YEAR (1564 votes)
Jim Ross - 1240 votes (79.3%)
Joey Styles - 127 votes (8.1%)
Dave Prazak - 97 votes (6.2%)
Mike Tenay - 65 votes (4.2%)
Michael Cole - 35 votes (2.2%)
COLOR COMMENTATOR OF THE YEAR (1496 votes)
Tazz - 625 votes (41.8%)
JBL - 509 votes (34.0%)
Jerry Lawler - 248 votes (16.6%)
Lenny Leonard - 58 votes (3.9%)
Don West - 56 votes (3.7%)
FEUD OF THE YEAR (1534 votes)
Matt Hardy vs. MVP - 840 votes (54.8%)
Briscoe Brothers vs. Kevin Steen and El Generico - 156 votes (10.2%)
Batista vs. Undertaker vs. Edge - 120 votes (7.8%)
Kurt Angle vs. Samoa Joe - 110 votes (7.2%)
John Cena vs. Shawn Michaels - 94 votes (6.1%)
SHOW OF THE YEAR (1485 votes)
WWE Wrestlemania 23 - April 1st - 336 votes (22.6%)
ROH Man Up - September 15th - 278 votes (18.7%)
WWE Raw 15th Anniversary - December 10th - 246 votes (16.6%)
WWE Royal Rumble - January 28th - 195 votes (13.1%)
TNA Bound For Glory - October 14th - 189 votes (12.7%)
WRESTLER OF THE YEAR (1903 votes)
John Cena - 375 votes (19.7%)
Jeff Hardy - 216 votes (11.4%)
Edge - 194 votes (10.2%)
Bryan Danielson - 177 votes (9.3%)
CM Punk - 157 votes (8.3%)
Obviously, the biggest news story in wrestling for 2007 was the Benoit Tragedy. However, since PWInsider began doing Year End Polls, we have always made a conscious decision not to include the death of a wrestler in the News Story poll. The reason is twofold. One is out of respect to the family members of the deceased, and the other is simply because we feel it would be in poor taste to put someone's passing in a "competition" with other events that aren't nearly as serious or important. A person's passing should not be trivialized in a competition. Obviously, the Benoit situation is a lot more complex than a single person just passing away, and there is no doubt that it was the News Story of the year for wrestling. However, we have decided to stick our past policy and not include it (or the deaths of others in 2007) as part of the poll.
NEWS STORY OF THE YEAR (831 votes)
Congress investigates steroid use in wrestling. - 205 votes (24.7%)
WWE wrestlers named in Signature Pharmacy case are suspended. - 159 votes (19.1%)
Chris Jericho's return to wrestling - 94 votes (11.3%)
John Cena goes out injured, ending WWE Title reign. - 75 votes (9.0%)
WWE begins to publicly name suspended wresters. - 73 votes (8.8%)
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