Jim Cornette on The 2020 Wrestling Observer Newsletter Awards 

Idk Booker T has been Booker of the Year to me for like 25+ years running.

HBK, The Undertaker, Bret Hart and The Rock never won the wrestler of the year, but a bunch of Japanese wrestlers neither I or 95% of the people who've ever watched wrestling have even heard of won a decade's worth, says it all.

feud of the year Jim cornette vs AEW

Can Jim cornette create his own news letter with corny awards at the end of the year for people to vote on?

That Young Bucks Book winning over the Andre Book is the single greatest insult to wrestling ever.

Walter vs Dragunov was only 5th best match, Being The Elite was 3rd best weelky show, Orange Cassidy was 2nd most charismatic, Excalibur best television announcer ... this is nuts

Go Shiozaki, a man who carried Pro Wrestling NOAH on his back, leading it to be the most successful quality wise and business wise it’s been since Misawa died and Kobashi retired, doesn’t even win Japanese MVP. Naito is great, obviously, but Shiozaki more than deserved this award. Disgraceful

Should’ve just called the awards the AEW awards

I know Dave Meltzer is pro AEW, but Jesus Christ.

The 1990s' Wrestler of the Year was never once awarded to Shawn Michaels or Bret Hart. Madness

Can't believe Shawn Michaels never won wrestler of the year. Dave's always been a joke.

They gave The Young Bucks the Best Book award, even though there were books about Andre The Giant and Ken Shamrock that were way better. Tells you all you need to know about the WOR awards.

The Slammy’s have more prestige than these awards.

How is anyone but Roman Reigns wrestler of the year? The Observer marks treat him like crap and he's absolute money.

It's official people... The Observer means nothing to the business

Liked this upload before the ads finished playing, before it even started. Knew I wouldn't be disappointed

"2003 Kenta Kobashi, 2004 Kenta Kobashi, 2005...Kenta Kobashi" was funny to me

The Observer was the underground smart mark version of Pro Wrestling Illustrated in the 80's and 90's. It was like Alternative music until it went mainstream and now it is following fads pretending to be alternative.

The cult of Meltzer has ruined wrestling.

"You fooled them all didn't you Dave...” (Dave staring at photo of Kenny Olivier) “But not me" -Jim Cornette paraphrasing Dr. Sam Loomis from the TV Cut of Halloween.

Worst gimmick of the year (2020): The Fiend Best gimmick of the year (2019): The Fiend Ok

Meltzer is on AEW's payroll. Change my Mind.

Well Tony's money to Dave was not wasted. He won an award!

Dave Meltzer’s obsession with Japanese wrestling is almost plain nauseating if not extremely ANNOYING.

Having Matt Hardy appear on Dynamite to swear he didn't have a concussion and put over how AEW handled it is a promotional tactic. AEW "politicizing" COVID by calling WWE a sloppy shop while they themselves had their own cases that they kept to themselves - promotional tactic. With the various things Chris Jericho was involved with this year and the flexibility of the definition of the category - Chris Jericho's been involved in some disgusting promotional tactics.

Corny’s been a lifesaver for me during this pandemic

Meltzer is the absolute worst

Tony Khan winning the Booker of the Year is like Michael Scott winning the Dundie Award for the Best Boss.

So, The Rock doesn't get any awards in 1999 and 2000. Wow, what a shame.

Kingston vs Moxley for feud of the year over Orton Vs McIntyre? Orton Vs Edge? Reigns Vs Uso? Reigns Vs Owens?

Best Box Office Draw; khabib IS behind the Bucks. Thats a Joke.

Brian: "Manami Toyota....." Jim: "Oh Good Lord."

I'm pissed off by the fact that The Bucks won the best book and not Tim Hornbaker for Master of the Ring, Buddy Rogers book

ROH deserves more credit, the pure division is amazing

I once heard Excalibur call Matt Sydal "Anthony Sydal" while fast forwarding through dark

Legit only like 1,200 people voted this year

How did Roman Reigns not win any award?. His heel run is currently the best thing in wrestling.

How about the continual milking of Brodie Lee's death for most disgusting promotional tactic?

These awards show why wrestling is dying. This is ridiculous and mind blowing.

How prestigious can these awards be if none of them have 1,200 people voting for the winner?

Here’s a disgusting promotional tactic that was missed: AEW using a dead wrestler’s 8 year old son on tv the week he died and has continued to use him still. That’s more disgusting to me than some bad acting by Seth Rollins and Rey Mysterio.

Only like 1000 people vote lol. You can get a larger, more diverse sample from fucking twitter polls.

Lol according to Dave Meltzer the Young Bucks, Omega, Moxley and Cody Rhodes are more popular and bigger draws than Randy Orton, Edge, Miz, Drew Mcintyre, Kofi Kingston, Seth Rollins lol. I gotta get whatever crack he's on

Whoever is booking Walter in NXT UK should have won Booker of the year.

Oh schnapps it’s here! Get your popcorns everyone!

IMAGINE thinking Orange Cassidy is a better gimmick than The Fiend. HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

SmackDown and MLW are my two favorite wrestling programs right now.

Bliss vs Orton is more of a feud than Mox & Eddie.

Dave Meltzer publishes his opinion as fact.

Watching this in 2024 is insane 😂

These awards winners just show how far pro wrestling has fallen. It's dead and buried.

young bucks book - how do guys who've never done anything have a whole book to write about?

Tony Khan as booker of the year, 😪😪 the "forbidden door" i need another sport to watch now,😪 this is sad. The only 2 major sports entertainment companies have flipping midgets and kidnappings every week.

Roman v Jey was a decent candidate for feud of the year. Ther ratings on SD were nearly Ruthless Aggression high for a bit during the height of that angle.

In one night Conor McGregor got 100 million and Jon Moxley got a bottle of Jack Daniel's and a hot dog. HAHAHAHA.

I kept bursting out laughing when Brian was counting down the winners of the wrestler of the year awards. In the words of Big Kevin Nash: "Abu Zago vs Napo Zango in the Korakuen Hall"

WWE don’t even acknowledge these awards but aew will

51 minutes! Oh boy, better go make some popcorn.

Is Darby Allin the "I like turtles" all grown up? The kid was from Oregon I believe and Darby is from the Pacific northwest

This list of so called award winners is beyond atrocious.

That was the big complaint from any WWE fan. He hates WWE even when it’s good. The quality of match from 01-07 was very good with the right competitors and he wouldn’t give them their time of day because it wasn’t Japan.

Either Dave is on the payroll or he’s lost his damn mind.

The cheeseburger analogy is spot on.

Just in case there was any doubt 2020 was the worst year in history of wrestling. A man who can't time his commercial breaks right on pre-taped shows just won booker of the year. Hope Jim resigns his nominations.

The Young Bucks were entertaining...10 years ago. But their act has not evolved one bit since their time in PWG. They are not TV wrestlers. They look like crap. Bayley and Sasha were a better tag team in 2020 than the Bucks were.

Goddamn. Roman Reigns vs Jey Uso should've won Feud of the Year. There was actual character development.

No Bret Hart, no HBK, no Rock, as wrestler of year or outstanding wrestler?

Are they making money if they are clearly spending more than what is coming in?

I officially apologize for my generation of wrestling fans, I at one point couldn't tell wrestling from reality and there are many who still suffer.

Walter vs Ilja Dragonuv & Finn Balor vs Kyle Oriley were the 2 best matches this year in my opinion.

10 minutes in: AEW winners 15 minutes in: AEW winners 20 minutes in: AEW winners 25 minutes in: AEW winners 30 minutes in: AEW winners I mean...was AEW the only organization in operation in 2020? What the fuck?

Les Thatcher who does his own podcast on Dave's/Bryan's Wrestling Observer site mentioned he agrees with 99% of the things Jim Cornette says but he himself would word it more differently than Jim

Jon Moxley got a bottle of jack daniels and a hot dog 🌭 LMAO 😂

I didn't know Ring of Honor was still around

I've got TWO WORDS for Uncle Dave... "CORRUPT AWARD !!!" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The last award discussed is just embarrassing.

Meltzer is not a good wrestling critic. A good historian, sure, but he critiques wrestling like it’s figure skating at the Olympics or something and there’s a LOT more to matches than just the moves - there’s the in-ring psychology, the storytelling, the booking, the selling, etc. He judges it almost exclusively on the technical side of things when he wants to and it’s never clear. A journalist also shouldn’t be so involved in certain organizations because it’s hard to ignore the fact that the WWE never paid him any attention while the other company has wrestlers who name moves after him. If AEW will give us anything, it’s exposing Meltzer for the ridiculous fraud that he’s always been, and also introducing the wrestling world to the tiny group of talented young wrestlers who will be wearing “Property of the WWE PC” within the next 3-5 years because this ALWAYS happens - WCW’s ignored midcard talent come to the WWE after a bunch of legends and older guys went to WCW, TNA’s home grown talent make a name for themselves in TNA and then eventually find themselves in WWE after the old timers and legends started populating TNA. But at least WCW and TNA had ratings at various points whereas AEW’s only two hours of television involving well known wrestling stars and a ton of advertising on the TNT and TBS networks is regularly competitive with the WWE’s sixth and seventh hour of weekly programming with their least popular roster. They’ve successfully used the old ECW “us against the world” cult like marketing to earn themselves a small but strong fan base but I think after a year and a half of false promises and pretty much the same old thing we’ve always seen mixed in with a lack of momentum for a lot of their promising young acts, the bloom is off the rose and people are starting to sober up. (But obviously AEW has the better catering.) WWE is the old husband that didn’t pay enough attention to them and they’re using AEW like the younger guy to make the husband jealous to inspire some kind of passion out of him, but the husband knows that they will always keep track of what he’s doing and the younger guy is bullsh*t, so a whole lot of nothing is going to happen and everybody is wasting their f*cking time.

Meltzer looks like Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Ah, the perfect example of a feedback loop - The newsletter leans heavily towards a certain style making fans of other styles walk away, so the user feedback just endorses the WON's point of view, and then that reinforces theirs....

May as well rename it the "AEW Awards." 🙄😏😒

This is supposed to include all promotions in the categories, right?

Is he gasping for air with his tongue always sticking out like Gene Simmons? 😝

Yeah, a lot on the "Most disgusting promotional tactics" award list aren't really promotional tactics and some of them like Backlund as WWF Champion in 82 comes off as just petty.

You could've made Meltzer a gargoyle instead of a chicken in that picture LOL.

Walter vs Ilya getting 5th place for match of the year tells you everything you need to know about the Observer and it’s current readership

Didn’t see that signing coming honestly but hey Shaq vs Paul Wight 😂

Looks like we've reached the Participation trophy Observer Awards. The Young Bucks and Kenny Olivier?? Really?? Dafuq Dave Meltzer?

48:03 the pure disdain in Jim’s voice 😂😂

Best booker should go to ROH's team, what a turnaround. And all without any mainstream publicity from Corny or any of the talking heads. The era of the observer and people thinking it's some all mighty rag is over peeps.

The Disgusting Promotional tactic one features hardly any ‘promotional tactics’

Smackdown made some sense

Pure bonkers booker of the year makes me laugh 😂

Can’t believe a guy who thinks Indy wrestling and gymnastics is better than any Shawn Michaels vs Undetaker or Mankind vs Undertaker hiac is making these “awards” 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️ Meltzer is so biased

I know Jim doesn't like watching Japanese wrestling but damn I wish he'd sit down and watch one show and give his thoughts

40:07 Corny’s reaction to finding out who won announcer of the year 🤣🤣😂

WWE has had some great ppv, especially in a situation the pandemic has put them in, especially with the no crowds. NXT Take overs always been the fan favourites. Re-watch last year mania where only was a dark ring and you hear the performers grunting, moaning and talking to each other. The thunder dome may be a distraction for some, but least it adds some atmosphere.

Wrestling Fans should set up their own awards to really gauge what's going on in wrestling nowadays

Damn you Corny, you bluegrass-masterpiece of unprecedented fuckery, I adore you. 👏

Been looking forward to this!

This years oscars, I mean Dave’s...Jim you kill me, I love this fuckin show it’s great,