Japan Indie Awards


The Japan Indie Awards were Japanese professional wrestling, or puroresu, awards that were handed out annually between 2007 and 2023 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, the Japan Indie Awards focused on the independent circuit and the smaller promotions.
The awards were voted by fans who could vote online on the Samurai TV website. The winners were announced before the start of the New Year's Pro-Wrestling event in Korakuen Hall.

Annual awards

MVP Award

YearWinnerPromotion
2007Kota IbushiDDT Pro-Wrestling
2008The Great SasukeMichinoku Pro Wrestling
2009Kota IbushiDDT Pro-Wrestling
2010Daisuke SekimotoBig Japan Pro Wrestling
2011Munenori SawaBattlarts
2012Abdullah KobayashiBig Japan Pro Wrestling
2013Isami KodakaUnion Pro Wrestling
2014HarashimaDDT Pro-Wrestling
2015Yuji OkabayashiBig Japan Pro Wrestling
2016Shuji IshikawaFreelance
2017Hideki SuzukiFreelance
2018Masashi TakedaFreelance
2019Isami KodakaPro-Wrestling Basara
2020Minoru FujitaFreelance
2021Konosuke TakeshitaDDT Pro-Wrestling
2022Kazusada HiguchiDDT Pro-Wrestling
2023Kazuki HirataDDT Pro-Wrestling
YearWinnerPromotion
2007Takashi Sasaki vs. Yuko Miyamoto Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2008Kota Ibushi vs. Kenny Omega DDT Pro-Wrestling
2009Ryuji Ito vs. Jun Kasai Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2010Daisuke Sekimoto vs. Masa Takanashi DDT Pro-Wrestling
2011Dick Togo vs. Kota Ibushi DDT Pro-Wrestling
2012Kota Ibushi vs. Kenny Omega DDT Pro-Wrestling
2013Shuji Ishikawa vs. Isami Kodaka Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2014Kota Ibushi and Kenny Omega vs. Tetsuya Endo and Konosuke Takeshita DDT Pro-Wrestling
2015Daisuke Sekimoto vs. Yuji Okabayashi Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2016Ryuji Ito vs. Kankuro Hoshino Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2017Masashi Takeda vs. Masaya Takahashi Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2018Masashi Takeda vs. Isami Kodaka Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2019Daisuke Sekimoto vs. Michael Elgin Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2020Tetsuya Endo vs. Daisuke Sasaki DDT Pro-Wrestling
2021Takuya Nomura vs. Daisuke Sekimoto Big Japan Pro Wrestling
2022Musashi vs. Fujita "Jr." Hayato Michinoku Pro Wrestling
2023Fujita "Jr." Hayato vs. Hiromu Takahashi Michinoku Pro Wrestling
YearWinner
2007New Men's Club
2008The Brahman Brothers
2009The Brahman Brothers
2010Oga Gundan
2011The Brahman Brothers
2012The Brahman Brothers
2013Yankee Nichōkenjū
2014
2015#OhkaEmpire
2016Damnation
2017Damnation
2018
2019
2020Astronauts
2021Pheromones
2022Pheromones
2023Astronauts
YearWinnerPromotion
2008Masashi Takeda
2009Masashi Takeda
2010Tsuyoshi KikuchiFreelance
2011Mio ShiraiFreelance
2012Takumi TsukamotoBig Japan Pro Wrestling
2013Masaya TakahashiWrestling New Classic
2014Takayuki UekiBig Japan Pro Wrestling
2015Kazusada HiguchiDDT New Attitude
2016Takuya NomuraBig Japan Pro Wrestling
2017
2018
2019Keigo NakamuraDDT Pro-Wrestling
2020Rina YamashitaFreelance
2021Drew ParkerBig Japan Pro Wrestling
2022Daiju WakamatsuActive Advance Pro Wrestling
2023Munetatsu NakamuraGanbare☆Pro-Wrestling

Nonsequential awards