Nominee Facts!!

----BLS lead the pack with 6 overall nominations!! Derrick King is second with 5 nominations. Dustin Starr and Stan Lee both were right behind him with 4 nominations.

----Derrick King, Dustin Starr and Bill Rush are the only nominees that could win three years in a row.

----All three candidates for “Tag Team of the Year” are new to the awards. Last year’s nominees “The Posse” [winner], “Too Kool 2” and “Asylum” all dropped out of contention. TK2 received zero nominations and they were listed as #1 in Top 10 tag teams last year.

----Two year running “Promotion of the Year” did not receive a nomination this year. This group also won two years in row – “Booker of the Year”, but is not nominated this year.

----DK is nominated in 50% of the Match of the Year candidates.

----Austin Lane is nominated in Wrestler and MVP. He also played an important role in the ASWF promotion and booking.

----Lane is 2006 MVP winner and Lee is 2007 MVP Winner – they battle it out this year with Greg Anthony.

----Flash Flanagan, who was nominated for three awards last year and ranked #2 wrestler in the area for two years in a row, was not nominated this year.

----TIWF grabbed nominations in Promotion, Manager, Booker, Tag Team and Horizon [Willcott worked there first].

----TLCW scored 2 out of 3 of the Arena Match of the Year nominations.

----Rashard Devon was 2006 Manager of the Year and Jimmy Blaylock was 2007 winner. They battled it out this year with Ravishing Randy. This is Rashard and Jimmy’s third year in the row to be nominated. They battled Anita Paige in 2006.

----Dustin Starr gets his third nomination for his web site. Starr also got his first nomination for “Columnist”. Starr is 2 time winner of “Horizon” award and is nominated again this year.

---Brian Thompson gets his second nomination with “Announcer”. Thompson lost by 2% of the vote to Michael Ward last year. Thompson also gets his first ever nomination in the “Columnist” category.

----“The Big Cheese” Sal Corrente gets his second nomination with “Columnist”. He place third last year behind Gene Jackson and Trent Van Drisse.

----Trent Van Drisse’s site Mid-Southern Message Board gets their third nomination for “Site”.

----Greg Anthony receives his second nomination for "Booker".