3) The Rivalry of the Year Award
– Our Winner: Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa
There is no doubt in my mind that Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa deserve this award. I don’t think that anyone even comes close.
The feud between Gargano and Ciampa has been storytelling at its finest. I can’t remember the last time that I was so invested in a feud on WWE programming. This will surely go down as one of the best feuds in NXT history.
All of their matches ended up delivering too. They put on classics at Takeover: New Orleans, Chicago 2, and Brooklyn 4. When is the last feud that you can remember where all the matches ended up being really damn good? I give Ciampa and Gargano a ton of credit and they are very deserving of the rivalry of the year award.
2) Overall Competitor of the Year Award
– Our Winner: Johnny Gargano
I have to go with Johnny Gargano as my overall competitor of the year. As mentioned prior, I don’t think there is anybody on the roster who had as good of a year as him.
All of his TakeOver matches were fantastic. He was involved in the rivalry of the year with Tommaso Ciampa. His character development has been fun to watch as he turned from Universally loved to a trip to the dark side.
Johnny Gargano has arguably had the best year of anyone in NXT history. Gargano’s Takeover match resume from this year is insane and probably won’t be beaten for many years to come.
He is very deserving of the overall competitor of the year award for 2018. He is a no-brainer for me.
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