Welcome back to Part One of the 411 Wrestling Year-End Awards of 2020! The Year-End Awards have been out for a couple of years but they’re back, and here’s how they work. For the next couple of weeks, we will present our top choices for a particular topic relating to wrestling in 2020. All the writers here on 411 will have the ability to give us their Top 5 on said topic and the end, based on where all of the votes rank on people’s list, we will create an overall Top 5 list. It looks a little like this…
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Kota Ibushi Losing the Briefcase to Jay White – I think this angle would’ve turned out a lot better if they did a bit of briefcase hockey between Jay White and Kota Ibushi. Ideally, I think Wrestle Kingdom 15 is the year that Ibushi finally wins the big one. He’s still getting a title shot, but the way NJPW went about it and got to Ibushi’s title match was really bone-headed and counter-intuitive. Having him lose the briefcase, only to announce him as the Night 1 double-gold opponent was asinine. Ibushi never should’ve lost the briefcase in the first place, or he should’ve won it back for Jay White. Additionally, this makes No. 1 on my list since I generally held NJPW as a product in high regard for the last year. This was a major error on their part.