Tokyo Sports Puroresu Awards

[4] The awards are voted for by a committee made up of people involved with Japanese professional wrestling, including reporters and photographers.

After the winners are announced in the middle of December, an award ceremony is held in Tokyo in January.

[6] In landslide cases, the winner can be determined in a single round of voting,[7] however, if no wrestler gets enough votes, the award can be left blank and not given out that year.

[9] The awards have been described as "legit to a degree", but also to spread them among different major promotions.

A special award, this award is typically given to Japanese champions in United World Wrestling World Wrestling Championships, or in the Olympic Games.

Antonio Inoki is a record six-time winner of the category
Genichiro Tenryu is a nine-time winner of the category
Tatsumi Fujinami is a four-time winner of the category
Riki Choshu is a record four-time winner of the category
Yuji Nagata is a two-time winner of the category
Sometimes this award is given to teams larger than two wrestlers. Four members of the Voodoo Murders won it in 2006.
Saki Akai was the first female wrestler to win this category in 2014
Io Shirai is a record three-time winner of the category, having additionally won all awards consecutively
The Great Sasuke and his Michinoku Pro Wrestling promotion won the category in 1993
Mitsuharu Misawa was awarded the category following his death in 2009
Kaori Icho is a record eleven-time winner of the category
Hulk Hogan is a one-time winner of the category
The Destroyer is a one-time winner of the category
Animal Hamaguchi won the category for his training in 1997