The Japan Indie Awards (Japanese: 日本インディー大賞, Hepburn: Nihon Indī Taishō) are Japanese professional wrestling, or puroresu, awards that have been handed out annually since 2007 by the program Indie no Oshigoto, broadcast on the Fighting TV Samurai TV channel. Unlike the more widely publicized and recognized Tokyo Sports Puroresu Awards that are awarded to all Japanese promotions,[1] the Japan Indie Awards focus on the independent circuit and the smaller promotions.

The awards are voted by fans who can vote online on the Samurai TV website. The winners are announced before the start of the New Year's Pro-Wrestling event in Korakuen Hall.[2][3]

There are currently five active awards given out by Samurai TV.

Active awards

MVP Award

Kota Ibushi and Isami Kodaka are both two-time winners of the category
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 Freelance
2017 Hideki Suzuki
2018 Masashi Takeda
2019 Isami Kodaka Pro-Wrestling Basara
2020 Minoru Fujita Freelance
2021 Konosuke Takeshita DDT Pro-Wrestling
2022 Kazusada Higuchi
2023 Kazuki Hirata

Best Bout Award (ベストバウト, Besuto Bauto)

Kota Ibushi and Daisuke Sekimoto are both four-time winners of the category
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)
2012 Kota Ibushi vs. Kenny Omega (August 18)
2013 Shuji Ishikawa vs. Isami Kodaka (November 4) Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2014 Kota Ibushi and Kenny Omega vs. Tetsuya Endo and Konosuke Takeshita (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)
2017 Masashi Takeda vs. Masaya Takahashi (December 17)
2018 Masashi Takeda vs. Isami Kodaka (June 20)
2019 Daisuke Sekimoto vs. Michael Elgin (August 24)
2020 Tetsuya Endo vs. Daisuke Sasaki (November 3) DDT Pro-Wrestling
2021 Takuya Nomura vs. Daisuke Sekimoto (October 18) Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2022 Musashi vs. Fujita "Jr." Hayato (July 1) Michinoku Pro Wrestling
2023 Fujita "Jr." Hayato vs. Hiromu Takahashi (October 15)

Best Show Award (ベスト興行賞, Besuto Kogyō-shō)

Year Winner Promotion
2007 Muscle House 4 (May 4) Muscle
2008 Campsite Pro-Wrestling (September 7) DDT Pro-Wrestling
2009 Ryōgoku Peter Pan (August 23)
2010 Muscle House 10 (October 6) Muscle
2011 Judgement 2011 (March 27) DDT Pro-Wrestling
2012 Budokan Peter Pan (August 18)
2013 Ryōgoku Peter Pan 2013 (August 18)
2014 Ryōgoku Peter Pan 2014 (August 17)
2015 Ryōgokutan 2015 (July 20) Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2016 Bad Communication 2016 (October 2) Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling
2017 Autumn Ueno Pro-Wrestling Festival (November 17) Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2018 Ryōgokutan 2018 (November 11)
2019 Ultimate Party 2019 (November 3)
Ryōgokutan 2019 (November 4)
DDT Pro-Wrestling
Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2020 Last Buntai at BJW (August 29) Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2021 Hiragana Muscle 5 (September 1) DDT Pro-Wrestling
2022 Big Japan Welcome Back (May 5) Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2023 Ultimate Party 2023 (November 12) DDT Pro-Wrestling

Best Unit Award (ベストユニット賞, Besuto Yunitto-shō)

The Brahman Brothers won the category five times, including once alongside The Great Sasuke
Year Winner
2007 New Men's Club
2008 The Brahman Brothers
(Brahman Shu and Brahman Kei)
2009
2010 Oga Gundan
2011 The Brahman Brothers
(Brahman Shu and Brahman Kei)
2012
2013 Yankee Nichōkenjū
(Yuko Miyamoto and Isami Kodaka)
2014 Mū no Taiyō
(The Great Sasuke, Brahman Shu and Brahman Kei)
2015 #OhkaEmpire
2016 Damnation
2017
2018 #StrongHearts
2019
2020 Astronauts
(Takuya Nomura and Fuminori Abe)
2021 Pheromones
(Danshoku "Dandy" Dino, Yuki "Sexy" Iino and Yumehito "Fantastic" Himanari)
2022 Pheromones
(Danshoku "Dandy" Dino, Yuki "Sexy" Iino, Yumehito "Fantastic" Himanari and Koju "Shining Ball" Takeda)
2023 Astronauts
(Takuya Nomura and Fuminori Abe)

Newcomer Award (ニューカマー賞, Nyūkamā-shō)

Mio Shirai was the first female wrestler to win this category in 2011
Drew Parker was the first non-Japanese to win this category in 2021
Year Winner Promotion
2008 Masashi Takeda Style-E
2009
2010 Tsuyoshi Kikuchi Freelance
2011 Mio Shirai
2012 Takumi Tsukamoto Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2013 Masaya Takahashi Wrestling New Classic
2014 Takayuki Ueki Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2015 Kazusada Higuchi DDT New Attitude
2016 Takuya Nomura Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2017 Andreza Giant Panda New Nemuro Pro Wrestling
2018 Shuuoh Fujiwara Pro-Wrestling Alive & Majors
2019 Keigo Nakamura DDT Pro-Wrestling
2020 Rina Yamashita Freelance
2021 Drew Parker Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2022 Daiju Wakamatsu Active Advance Pro Wrestling
2023 Munetatsu Nakamura Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling

Inactive awards

Mr. Pogo was posthumously awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017

Special Award (特別賞, Tokubetsu-shō)

Year Winner Promotion
2007 Choun Shiryu
2009 Gentaro Pro Wrestling Freedoms
2010 Hikaru Sato Pancrase Mission

Comeback Award (カムバック賞, Kamubakku-shō)

Year Winner Promotion
2007 Mr. Pogo World Wing Spirit Pro-Wrestling

Lifetime Achievement Award (特別功労賞, Tokubetsu Kōrō-shō)

Year Winner Promotion
2017 Mr. Pogo World Wing Spirit Pro-Wrestling

See also

References

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