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Tokyo Sports Awards 2023

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voting breakdown as explained by commentator Kagehiro Osano:

Overall/Male MVP vote
>Naito with 11 votes (WINNER)
>Hiromu with 6 votes
>SANADA with 2 votes
>Kenoh with 0 votes
Reasons for Naito's win - Beat KONGO at WK together with LIJ by pinning Kenoh, was Mutoh's opponent for his last match and won the G1. 4th win for Naito in this category, tying him up with fellow NJPW wrestlers Kazuchika Okada and Hiroshi Tanahashi (since 2011 that NJPW has the MVP award)

Best match
>Nakamura/Muta (JAN1, NOAH The New Year 2023, Nippon Budokan) with 13 votes (WINNER)
>Omega/Ospreay (JAN4, Wrestle Kingdom 16, Tokyo Dome) with 2 votes
>Hiromu/Fujita Jr. Hayato (OCT15, Michinoku Pro 30th Anniversary Part 2, Yahaba Townsmen Gymnasium) with 2 votes
>Miyahara/Nakajima (JUL15, NOAH One Night Dream, Korakuen Hall) with 1 vote
>Naito/Okada (AUG13, G1 Climax 33 Finals, Ryogoku Kokugikan) with 1 vote
>Marufuji/Ospreay (SEP17, NOAH Naomichi Marufuji's Debut 25th Anniversary Show) with 1 vote
Reason for Nakmura/Muta's win - Overwhelming majority for a match that captivated everyone and a match that was seemingly impossible to be achieved given that Nakamura is contracted to the WWE but, given that ABEMA broadcasts WWE programming in Japan, you can comprehend it now in hindsight

Best tag team
>Bishamon (Hirooki Goto/Yoshi-Hashi) with 7 votes (WINNER)
>Saito Brothers (Jun/Rei) also with 7 votes
>House of Torture (as an overall unit) got 2 votes
>Team 200kg (Chihiro Hashimoto/Yuu) with 1 vote
>Suwama and Hideki Suzuki with 1 vote
>Astronauts (Takuya Nomura/Fuminori Abe) with 0 votes
*On the runoff, Bishamon got 10 votes and the Saito Brothers 9
Reason for Bishamon's win - Won the World Tag League for a third time (in a row no less), putting their names in NJPW history and proved that NJPW isn't lame at the tag team level