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**Men’s MVP:**
1.Kazuchika Okada (NJPW) – 4343 votes
2.Keiji Mutoh (NOAH) – 1242 votes
3.Will Ospreay (NJPW) – 741 votes
4.Kaito Kiyomiya (NOAH) – 624 votes
5.Kento Miyahara (AJPW) – 550 votes
6.Tetsuya Naito (NJPW) – 544 votes
7.El Desperado (NJPW) – 409 votes
8.Satoshi Kojima (NJPW/NOAH) – 245 votes
9.Yuki Yoshioka (Dragon Gate) – 213 votes
10.Kenoh (NOAH) – 174 votes
**Best Match:**
1.Kazuchika Okada vs Will Ospreay (NJPW G1 Climax 32 Finals, 8/18 Nippon Budokan) – 2014 votes
2.El Desperado vs Jun Kasai (JTO TAKATaichiDespeMania, 9/12 Yoyogi National Gymnasium) – 1928 votes
3.Hiroshi Tanahashi vs KENTA (NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 16 Night 2, 1/5 Tokyo Dome) – 901 votes
4.Tam Nakano vs Natsupoi (Stardom Fight In The Top, 6/26 Nagoya Congress Center Event Hall) – 860 votes
5.Kaito Kiyomiya vs Keiji Mutoh (NOAH Destination 2022, 7/16 Nippon Budokan) – 743 votes
6.Giulia vs Suzu Suzuki (Stardom 5STAR Grand Prix 2022, 10/1 Musashino Forest Sports Plaza) – 602 votes
7.Will Ospreay vs Tetsuya Naito (NJPW Battle Autumn 2022, 11/5 EDION Arena Osaka) – 355 votes
8.Kazuchika Okada vs Shingo Takagi (NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 16 Night 1, 1/4 Tokyo Dome) – 288 votes
9.Tetsuya Naito & Shingo Takagi & SANADA & Hiromu Takahashi & BUSHI vs Kenoh & Katsuhiko Nakajima & Manabu Soya & Tadasuke & Aleja (NJPW/NOAH Wrestle Kingdom 16 Night 3, 1/8 Yokohama Arena) – 252 votes
10.KAIRI vs Mayu Iwatani (NJPW/Stardom Historic X-over, 11/20 Ariake Arena) – 221 votes
**Women’s MVP:**
1.Syuri (Stardom) – 2383 votes
2.Saya Kamitani (Stardom) – 1471 votes
3.Starlight Kid (Stardom) – 1309 votes
4.Giulia (Stardom) – 1242 votes
5.Tam Nakano (Stardom) – 991 votes
6.KAIRI (Stardom/Freelance) – 644 votes
7.Suzu Suzuki (Prominence) – 534 votes
8.Unagi Sayaka (Stardom) – 533 votes
9.Saori Anou (Freelance) – 522 votes
10.Saki Kashima (Stardom) – 487 votes
**Best Unit:**
1.Cosmic Angels (Stardom) – 2351 votes
2.United Empire (NJPW) – 2164 votes
3.Oedo-tai (Stardom) – 1492 votes
4.Los Ingobernables de Japon (NJPW) – 1042 votes
5.KONGOH (NOAH) – 699 votes
6.Bullet Club (NJPW) – 683 votes
7.Prominence 565 votes
8.Suzuki-gun (NJPW) – 550 votes
9.House of Torture (NJPW) – 383 votes
10.Queen’s Quest (Stardom) – 362 votes
**Best Foreigner:**
1.Will Ospreay (NJPW) – 3753 votes
2.Zack Saber Jr. (NJPW) – 1654 votes
3.Jay White (NJPW) – 1621 votes
4.Ninja Mack (NOAH) – 1062 votes
5.JONAH (NJPW/Current WWE) – 714 votes
6.Drew Parker (Freelance) – 682 votes
7.Alex Zane (NJPW/Freelance) – 665 votes
8.Tama Tonga (NJPW) – 622 votes
9.Chris Brookes (DDT) – 523 votes
10.Thekla (Stardom) – 472 votes
**Best Rookie:**
1.Miyu “Kevin” Amasaki (Stardom) – 3781 votes
2.Fuwa-chan (Stardom) – 2233 votes
3.Yuma Anzai (AJPW) – 1532 votes
4.Mochizuki Jr. (DRAGONGATE) – 1334 votes
5.Nanase (SECRET BASE) – 922 votes
6.Takeshi Masada (DDT) – 615 votes
7.Juria Nagano (TJPW) – 593 votes
8.Oskar Leube (NJPW) – 532 votes
9.Taishi Ozawa (NOAH) – 176 votes
10.Astroman (ZERO1) – 140 votes
Stardom dominated the women’s list
Cosmic Angles getting love. Despy getting love. I’m pretty happy with all the results.
Edit: forgot a word
Ninja Mack getting that high in the best foreigner category is pretty cool.
The biggest surprise of all is that United Empire beat LIJ for most popular faction in NJPW.
This is a poll for Japanese fans, right? This is a shocking result for me.
As a new-ish fan I see that I still have a toooon of things I still have to watch to keep up.
I find it interesting that UE scored so high, yet only one of them got in Best Foreigner (but then again if it was one vote per person they would obviously choose Ospreay)
**Favorite Wrestler:**
Hiroshi Tanahashi (NJPW) – 1653 votes
Tetsuya Naito (NJPW) – 1421 votes
Kazuchika Okada (NJPW) – 1104 votes
Tam Nakano (Stardom) – 890 votes
Starlight Kid (Stardom) – 763 votes
El Desperado (NJPW) – 742 votes
Unagi Sayaka (Stardom) – 692 votes
Mina Shirakawa (Stardom) – 689 votes
Keiji Mutoh (NOAH) – 685 votes
Giulia (Stardom) – 522 votes
Natsupoi (Stardom) – 515 votes
Saya Kamitani (Stardom) – 503 votes
Mayu Iwatani (Stardom) – 493 votes
Nanase (SECRET BASE) – 474 votes
Saori Anou (Freelance) – 413 votes
Jun Kasai (FREEDOMS) – 390 votes
Yuki Arai (TJPW) – 363 votes
Utami Hayashishita (Stardom) – 360 votes
Hiromu Takahashi (NJPW) – 356 votes
Jay White (NJPW) – 354 votes
Kento Miyahara (AJPW) – 346 votes
Minoru Suzuki (Freelance) – 292 votes
Syuri (Stardom) – 291 votes
Himeka (Stardom) – 289 votes
Shingo Takagi (NJPW) – 277 votes
KENTA (NJPW/Freelance) – 267 votes
Will Ospreay (NJPW) – 252 votes
AZM (Stardom) – 248 votes
Maika (Stardom) – 243 votes
Kenoh (NOAH) – 235 votes
Suzu Suzuki (Prominence) – 231 votes
KAIRI (Stardom/Free) – 230 votes
Toru Yano (NJPW) – 221 votes
Kaito Kiyomiya (NOAH) – 219 votes
Waka Tsukiyama (Stardom) – 200 votes
SANADA (NJPW) – 192 votes
Taichi (NJPW) – 184 votes
Satoshi Kojima (NJPW) – 176 votes
Tomohiro Ishii (NJPW) – 170 votes
Shinsuke Nakamura (WWE) – 159 votes
Momo Watanabe (Stardom) – 151 votes
Saki Kashima (Stardom) – 148 votes
Hazuki (Stardom) – 136 votes
Great Muta (NOAH) – 135 votes
Koguma (Stardom) – 132 votes
Miyu Amasaki (Stardom) – 131 votes
DOUKI (NJPW) – 127 votes
Mizuki (TJPW) – 126 votes
Masashi Takeda (Freelance) – 124 votes
Kota Ibushi (NJPW) – 122 votes