2022 ShuPro Awards: MVP – Okada, Joshi – Syuri, Unit – Cosmic Angels, Foreigner – Ospreay, Newcomer – Amasaki, MOTY – G1 Final

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1. **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

2. Stardom dominated the women’s list

3. Cosmic Angles getting love. Despy getting love. I’m pretty happy with all the results.

   Edit: forgot a word

4. Ninja Mack getting that high in the best foreigner category is pretty cool.

5. 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.

6. As a new-ish fan I see that I still have a toooon of things I still have to watch to keep up.

7. 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)

8. **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