Was it a great year for women’s wrestling? Gerweck.net has been doing their annual polls and in those polls we see numerous Divas & Knockouts are being featured. The first Surprise came when Shimmer was nominated for Promotion of the year. WWE lead the way, followed by TNA, UFC & ROH. Shimmer got 1% of the votes but when reviewing the results all the other promotions had either 1 or 0% of the votes. But when looking at the actual numbers, WWE, TNA, UFC & ROH had such a huge lead it was hard for the other promotions to get high scores. But what was noticeable, when the scores where checked last, SHIMMER was in 5th place. Beating out AAA, NWA promotions and other bigger promotions. Making SHIMMER the 5th best Promotion of 2008.
Also DVD of the year, TNA: Knocked Out, was also an option for voting. There were some tough choices, like The Eddie Guererro DVD (Which won with 22% of the votes), The Triple H”King Of Kings” DVD, The Hardy Boyz DVD, Ric Flair Collection and some other big DVD’s released this year. TNA: Knocked Out managed to get 4% of all the votes. Also this DVD got more votes then the “Kurt Angle: Champion” DVD and the “THE Best Of TNA 2007” DVD. TNA: Knocked Out was voted TNA’s second best DVD of 2008, right behind the praised “Global Impact” DVD.
Currently Taylor Wilde is in second Place for “Rookie Of The Year” 2008, right behind Evan Bourne (who has 63% of all the votes). You can still vote for Taylor. Taylor (with 12% of the total votes) is currently ahead of Vladimir Kozlov, Ricky Ortiz, Jack Swagger, Frank Trigg, Scotty Goldman & DJ Gabriel.
Also the poll for “Tag Team Of 2008” was just added and to everyone’s Surprise “The Beautiful People” are currently tied in 2nd place alongside Ted Dibiase Jr. & Cody Rhodes with 12%. The Miz & John Morrison are currently holding the top spot with 38%. The Beautiful People are currently ahead of great tag teams like: The Colons, LAX, Beer Money Inc, Team 3D & the Briscoes. Keep The Beautiful People amongst the top tag teams and vote.
Also a “Female Wrestler Of The Year” poll is also there with Sara Del Rey (27%), Beth Phoenix (24%), Mickie James (12%) & Awesome Kong (11%) leading the way. Other names you can vote for are: Taylor Wilde, ODB, Gail Kim, Natalya, Ms. CHiff, Michelle McCool & Kelly Kelly.
Surprisingly despite not having too much high quality matches in 2008, women’s wrestling has really grown. Either it was the success of the TNA Knockouts, or the growth of SHIMMER, either way Women’s wrestling is starting to grow again and just by viewing some of these results it shows.
Continue to support the SHIMMER Athletes, the TNA Knockouts & the WWE Divas by Voting. The power for change, is now in your hands.
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