Tokyo Sports has announced their annual Pro Wrestling Award winners for 2025 on social media. Here are the winners:
MVP (top prize): Saya Kamitani, Stardom (First time ever a woman has won)
Match Of The Year: Kaito Kiyomiya vs. OZAWA, Pro Wrestling NOAH, 1/1/2025
Best Tag Team: OSKAR (The Grouch) & Yuto Ice (Ice Baby), New Japan
Special Achievement Award: Konosuke Takeshita, New Japan/DDT/All Elite Wrestling
Fighting Spirit Award: Sareee, Independent/Freelancer
Technique Prize: Hiroshi Tanahashi, New Japan
Women’s Grand Prize: Kamitani
Rookie Of The Year: Kaisei Takechi, DDT
Quick thoughts on the MVP: In my eyes there were only two real right choices-Kamitani and Takeshita. Either was a right choice but they nicely chose to recognize 2025 as the year of our PHENEX QUEEN in Stardom, and she undoubtedly was the top Japanese women’s wrestler in Japan (not counting the obvious ones that are on WWE or AEW full-time), but you can’t overlook everything Takeshita has accomplished between Japan and the US, that said his not being in Japan as much could have shifted the balance towards Kamitani but that Special Achievement for Takeshita is well-deserved. Rookie is a toss-up, Takechi no doubt was the most popular and with the biggest impact on DDT but one can only wonder what could have been had we not lost All-Japan rookie Taishin Nagao.