WWE Breaks 23-Year Award Losing Streak

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2023 was quite the year for WWE with multiple records broken and it’s getting better thanks to the Wrestling Observer Awards.

WWE was on a roll throughout 2023, with a plethora of record-breaking shows and the formation of TKO, but it’s been a while since they’ve been the recipient of a Wrestling Observer Newsletter ‘Promotion of the Year’.

In the new issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, it was revealed that WWE is the ‘Promotion of the Year’, an accolade it was last awarded in 2000.

Not only did WWE received ‘Promotion of the Year’, but ‘Booker of the Year’ went to Paul Levesque (Triple H) while ‘Promoter of the Year’ went to Nick Khan.

Tony Khan was second place for both these awards, having been ‘Booker of the Year’ for the past three years and ‘Promoter of the Year’ for the past four.

WWE had been ‘Promotion of the Year’ in 1999 and 2000, with Pride Fighting Championship taking the award for 2001, 2002 and 2003.

2004 would see Pro Wrestling NOAH scoop the title and hold it for 2005 losing to Ultimate Fighting Championships in 2006.

UFC would claim the title every year until 2011 when New Japan Pro Wrestling would hold it every year until 2019.

2020 would see All Elite Wrestling take ‘Promoter of the Year’, holding on to it for 2021 and 2022.

Eric Bischoff has previously been critical of Tony Khan being chosen as Booker of the Year by the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

At the suggestion of Shawn Michaels being a ‘booker of the year’ after Title Tuesday Dynamite and WWE NXT went head-to-head in October 2023, Tony Khan expressed his own opinion of the rightful winner.

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