During the most recent episode of the podcast, I was joined by Ryan Boman of the Gorilla Position where we hand out our mid-year awards for 2019 featuring wrestlers from WWE, NXT, NJPW, Impact and AEW.

Read our choices below:

Male Wrestler of the Year

My Pick: Will Ospreay (3 - 5-star matches in 2019 so far)

NJPW Best Of The Super Juniors XXV Day 15 Will Ospreay vs Shingo Takagi
NJPW Dominion 6.9 Will Ospreay vs Dragon Lee
NJPW Best Of The Super Juniors XXVI - Day 8 Will Ospreay vs Bandid

My Runner Up: Daniel Bryan (WWE World Champion, Tag-Team Champion)

Ryan’s Pick: Seth Rollins (WWE Universal Champion)

Ryan’s Runner Up: Will Ospreay

Female Wrestler of the Year

My pick: Tessa Blanchard

Left her mark all over the world and even competing against male competitors and defeating them.

My Runner Up: Becky Lynch (Won both championships at Wrestlemania)

Ryan’s pick: Tessa Blanchard

Ryan’s Runner Up: Becky Lynch

Feud of the Year

My Pick: Daniel Bryan vs. Kofi Kingston

My Runner Up: Kota Ibushi vs Tetsuya Naito

Ryan’s Pick: AEW vs WWE

Ryan’s Runner Up: Seth Rollins vs Brock Lesnar

Match of the Year

My Pick: Johnny Gargano vs Adam Cole 2 Out Of 3 Falls (NXT TakeOver: New York)

My Runner Up: Will Ospreay vs Dragon Lee and Cody vs Dustin Double or Nothing (Tie)

Ryan’s Pick: Cody vs Dustin at Double or Nothing

Ryan’s Runner Up: Johnny Gargano vs Adam Cole 2 Out Of 3 Falls (NXT TakeOver: New York)

Tag-Team of the Year

My Pick: The Lucha Bros (Defeated LAX to win the Impact World Tag-Team Championship and also recaptured their AAA World-Tag Titles several weeks ago)

My Runner Up: Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa) defeated Evil and Sanada back in February to capture the IWGP Tag-Team Championships (5-time champs!)

Ryan’s Pick: LAX (Defeated the Lucha Bros to capture Impact World Tag-Team Championship in a Full Metal Mayhem match)

Ryan’s Runner Up: The Lucha Bros

Best on Interviews

My Pick: MJF

My Runner Up: Daniel Bryan

Ryan’s Pick: Paul Heyman

Ryan’s Runner Up: MJF

Breakout Star of the Year

My Pick: MJF

My Runner Up: Hangman Page

Ryan’s Pick: MJF

Ryan’s Runner Up: Did not choose

Event of the Year

My Pick: NXT TakeOver: New York

My Runner Up: NXT TakeOver: 25

Ryan’s Pick: AEW Double or Nothing