THE 2024 TUNA MELTZER COMMUNITY AWARDS! (Wrestling Soup 2.14.25)

WRESTLING SOUP

Wrestling Soup Network

Sports, Comedy, Wrestling

4.4 • 738 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2025

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we delve deep into the 2024 Wrestling Observer Newsletter Awards, scrutinizing the selections made by the 'smartest wrestling fans' on the planet. From the Best TV Show to the Worst Feud and beyond, we navigate through the layers of voting, questioning the logic and rationale behind many of these choices. Highlights include discussions on the most overrated and underrated wrestlers, the best and worst gimmicks, and the overarching promotional tactics that left us scratching our heads. Join us for a critical examination of this year's TUNA MELTZER wrestling awards and what they reveal about the fanbase and the industry.
00:00 Introduction and Personal Reflections
29:21 Wrestling Observer Awards Discussion
45:40 Cinnamon Based Tag Team Ideas
46:03 Best Technical Wrestler Debate
48:06 Wrestling Observer Newsletter: Most Improved
57:31 Wrestling Observer Newsletter: Most Overrated
01:03:22 Wrestling Observer Newsletter: Most Underrated
01:11:01 Wrestling Observer Newsletter: Worst TV Announcer
01:18:31 Wrestling Observer Newsletter: Most Disgusting Promotional Tactic
01:32:59 Wrestling Observer Newsletter: Promotion of the Year
01:33:41 Ranking CMLL and AEW
01:34:10 WWE's Promotional Tactics
01:35:15 Best Booker of 2024
01:39:51 Worst Wrestling TV Shows
01:41:55 Best Weekly TV Shows
01:46:42 Major Wrestling Shows of 2024
01:48:10 Worst Gimmicks of 2024
01:53:38 Worst Feuds of the Year
02:01:14 Best Feuds of the Year
02:04:03 Women's Wrestling MVPs
02:09:42 Best Non-Wrestlers
02:11:10 Best on Interviews
02:13:48 Most Outstanding Wrestlers
02:15:10 Wrestler of the Year
02:18:35 Concluding Thoughts

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0:00.0	Wrestling suit for a mature audience.
0:05.0	I'm still doing the boys. $16.
0:30.4	What a sorry sight.
0:33.0	Blind devotion burning never so bright.
0:37.1	Open your eyes, people see the light there's more to life than melt serves in less fun
0:45.3	well you know speaking of delusional we were going to cover some of the youtube comments i know we talked about yesterday and the week before, but we had the shitbox. We're going to have to do an audible Joe because another more severe
0:59.6	level of delusion has landed on our plates, our very, very full bowls. The Wrestling Observer
1:07.4	2024 awards came out.
1:11.3	Yes.
1:12.0	Yes. Oh, yeah.
1:13.6	And Dave and Brian and all the wrestling observer community, the wrestling observer
1:19.1	newsletter community has come forward with their votes for the year of 2024.
1:26.2	Do we want to start at the top or do we want to start at the bottom? Your call.
1:29.1	Let's start at the bottom. All right. Let's go to the bottom. Yeah, back to front. We were talking
1:33.1	about that yesterday. The Chaco Taco Taco of Awards. It certainly is. Is it all people on the
1:39.6	observer board? Is that what it is? I believe that's what it is. Yeah. Okay. You have to pay them to vote.
1:46.0	Gotcha. Oh, and thank you to casuals. Casual sent me the actual PDF of this. This is
1:50.6	fucking amazing. Awesome. Okay. His list is set up a little differently than it is on Wikipedia,
1:55.7	but it's also on Wikipedia, if you want to play along at home. The 2024 Rustling Observer Newsletter
2:03.2	Japanese MVP
2:05.3	the Kichi Yoshizawa Award.
2:09.5	Oh, yes.
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