Japan Indie Awards

The ​Japan Indie Awards (日本インディー大賞, Nihon indī-shō)​ are Japanese professional wrestling, or puroresu, awards that have been handed out annually since 2007. Instead of the Tokyo Sports Awards that are awarded to all promotions in Japan, the Japan Indie Awards are exclusive to the independent promotions in Japan including Big Japan Pro Wrestling, DDT Pro Wrestling and Michinoku Pro Wrestling. The awards are usually broadcasted and awarded by Fighting TV Samurai.
The awards are voted for by a committee made up of people involved with Japanese professional wrestling. After the winners are announced in the New Year Shuffle Tag Tournament, an award ceremony is held before the start of the tournament. The awards sections are divided in MVP Award, Best Bout Award, Best Show Award (renamed in 2014 to Best Box Award but returned to Best Show Award the following year), Best Unit Award and Newcomer Award.
Voting takes place in rounds. In landslide cases, the winner can be determined in a single round of voting, however, if no wrestler gets enough votes, the award can be left blank and not given out that year. Most notably, the Special Award of the year was not given out on 2008 and again between 2010 and 2016.
==Active awards==
===MVP Award===
Year	Winner 	Promotion
2007	Kota Ibushi 	DDT Pro Wrestling
2008	The Great Sasuke 	Michinoku Pro Wrestling
2009	Kota Ibushi 	DDT-Pro Wrestling
2010	Daisuke Sekimoto 	Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2011	Munenori Sawa 	Battlarts
2012	Abdullah Kobayashi	Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2013	Isami Kodaka 	Union Pro Wrestling
2014	HARASHIMA 	DDT Pro Wrestling
2015	Yuji Okabayashi 	Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2016	Shuji Ishikawa 	DDT Pro-WrestlingBig Japan Pro Wrestling
2017	Hideki Suzuki 	Pro Wrestling Zero1Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2018	Masashi Takeda 	Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2019	Isami Kodaka 	Pro Wrestling BASARADDT Pro-WrestlingBig Japan Pro Wrestling
===​Best Bout Award (ベストバウト, Besutobauto)​===
Year	Winner 	Promotion
2007	Takashi Sasaki vs. Yuko Miyamoto (March 14) 	Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2008	Kota Ibushi vs. Kenny Omega (August 6) 	DDT Pro Wrestling
2009	Ryuji Ito vs. Jun Kasai (November 20) 	Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2010	Daisuke Sekimoto vs. Masa Takanashi (April 4) 	DDT Pro Wrestling
2011	Dick Togo vs. Kota Ibushi (March 27) 	DDT Pro Wrestling
2012	Kota Ibushi vs. Kenny Omega (August 18) 	DDT Pro Wrestling
2013	Shuji Ishikawa vs. Isami Kodaka (November 4) 	Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2014	Kota Ibushi and Kenny Omega vs. Konosuke Takeshita and Tetsuya Endo (September 28)	DDT Pro Wrestling
2015	Daisuke Sekimoto vs. Yuji Okabayashi (July 20) 	Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2016	Ryuji Ito vs. Kankuro Hoshino (July 24) 	Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2017	Masashi Takeda vs. Masaya Takahashi (December 17) 	Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2018	Masashi Takeda vs. Isami Kodaka (June 20) 	Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2019	Daisuke Sekimoto vs. Michael Elgin (August 24) 	Big Japan Pro Wrestling
===​Best Show Award (ベスト興行賞, Besuto kōgyō-shō)​===
The award was renamed in 2014 to renamed in 2014 to ​Best Box Award (ベストボックス賞, Besuto bokkusu-shō)​, but returned to Best Show Award the following year.
Year	Winner 	Promotion
2007	Muscle May 4 Korakuen Hall Show 	MUSCLE
2008	September 7 Yamanashi Nature Home Land Show	DDT Pro Wrestling
2009	Ryogokou Peter Pan  	DDT Pro Wrestling
2010	Muscle House 10 	DDT Pro Wrestling
2011	Into The Fight 2011 	DDT Pro Wrestling
2012	Nippon Budokan Peter Pan 2012 	DDT Pro Wrestling
2013	Ryogoku Peter Pan 2013 	DDT Pro Wrestling
2014	Ryogoku Peter Pan 2014 	DDT Pro Wrestling
2015	～RYOGOKUTAN～ 2015 	Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2016	Bad Communication 	Ganbare☆Puroresu
2017	Death Vegas 2017 	Big Japan Pro-Wrestling
2018	Ryogokutan 2018 	Big Japan Pro-Wrestling
2019	Ultimate Party 	DDT Pro Wrestling
2019	Ryogokutan 2019 	Big Japan Pro Wrestling
===​Best Unit Award (ベストユニット賞, Besuto yunitto-shō)​===
Year	Winner 	Promotion
2007	New Men's Club 	Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2008	The Brahman Brothers	El Dorado WrestlingMichinoku Pro Wrestling
2009	The Brahman Brothers	El Dorado WrestlingMichinoku Pro Wrestling
2010	Oga Army Corps 	Pro Wrestling Freedoms
2011	The Brahman Brothers	Big Japan Pro WrestlingPro Wrestling FreedomsMichinoku Pro Wrestling
2012	The Brahman Brothers	Big Japan Pro WrestlingPro Wrestling FreedomsMichinoku Pro Wrestling
2013	Yankii Nicho Kenju 	Big Japan Pro WrestlingDDT Pro Wrestling
2014	Mu no Taiyo 	Michinoku Pro Wrestling
2015	#OhkaEmpire 	DDT Pro Wrestling
2016	DAMNATION 	DDT Pro Wrestling
2017	DAMNATION 	DDT Pro Wrestling
2018	Strong Hearts 	DDT Pro-WrestlingWrestle-1
2019	Strong Hearts 	Wrestle-1
===​Newcomer Award (新人賞, Shinjin-shō)​===
Year	Winner 	Promotion
2008	Masashi Takeda 	Style-E
2009	Masashi Takeda 	Style-E
2010	Tsuyoshi Kikuchi 	Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2011	Mio Shirai 	Pro Wrestling WaveOsaka Pro WrestlingSMASH
2012	Takumi Tsukamoto 	Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2013	Masaya Takahashi 	Wrestling New Classic
2014	Takayuki Ueki 	Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2015	Kazusada Higuchi 	DDT Pro Wrestling
2016	Takuya Nomura 	Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2017	Andre The Giant Panda	Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2018	Syuuou Fujiwara 	Pro Wrestling HEAT UP
2019	Keigo Nakamura 	DDT Pro Wrestling
===​Special Award (特別賞, Tokubetsu-shō)​===
Year	Winner 	Promotion
2007	Cho-un Shiryu	DDT Pro Wrestling
2009	Gentaro 	Pro Wrestling Freedoms
2010	Hikaru Sato 	DDT Pro WrestlingPro Wrestling Zero1
2017	Mr. Pogo 	Decease
==Inactive awards==
===​Comeback Award (カムバック賞, Kamubakku-shō)​===
Year	Winner 	Promotion
2007	Mr. Pogo	Freelancer
==External links==
* Samurai TV Official Twitter, Japan Indie Awards 2014 Winners Announcement
* Samurai TV Official Twitter, Japan Indie Awards 2016 Winners Announcement
* Samurai TV Official Twitter, Japan Indie Awards 2019 Winners Announcement
Category:Professional wrestling awards