Kenny Omega was injured for most of the year, then suspended for two months, so this award was fairly easy to figure out. Will Ospreay was the best wrestler of 2022 by a long shot. He wrestled seemingly everywhere, from NJPW to AEW to GCW to RevPro. He kicked off the year in the main event of Wrestle Kingdom's Night 2 against Okada and had a hell of a match. In RevPro he had a super dramatic, super engrossing battle against Michael Oku. In the G1 he had spectacular matches against Shingo, Naito, El Phantasmo, and Okada. In AEW he had a phenomenal match against Orange Cassidy at Forbidden Door, then finally appeared on Dynamite where he teamed with Aussie Open to have excellent matches with Death Triangle and The Elite. In GCW he had a great match against the rising star Nick Wayne. It seemed that Ospreay was wrestling somewhere in the world every weekend, and every Monday his match was always the talk of the wrestling world. Since he's matured, he isn't just a crazy, high flyer. He's figured out what works and what doesn't in a match and has excelled at storytelling as much as every crisp, note-perfect maneuver he delivers. Every time you see a Will Ospreay match you know that you will be entertained and you know that you're in for something special, something rare, something you don't see every day.
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