Slammy Award

Slammy Award
Slammy Award
	Slammy Awards logo
Country	United States
Presented by	WWE; Academy of Wrestling Arts and Sciences (kayfabe)
First awarded	March 1, 1986

The Slammy Awards, also known as the Slammys, is a concept used by WWE, where awards, similar to the Academy and Grammy Awards, are given to professional wrestlers and other individuals within WWE, such as commentators and managers.^[2] Introduced in 1986, there have been 13 editions of the concept. The awards are a mixture of "serious" and "tongue-in-cheek".^[3] Winners of the award receive a statuette that depicts one wrestler holding another over his head.^[1]

The awards were discontinued after 2015. The same year, the NXT brand debuted its own exclusive awards, the NXT Year-End Awards (also rewarding the NXT UK brand since 2019), with wrestlers from Raw and SmackDown being instead rewarded by the WWE Year-End Award in 2018 and 2019.^[4]^[5]

In 2020, it was announced that WWE would be reviving the Slammy Awards for their Raw and SmackDown brands, with the winners announced live on the WWE Network.^[6] The ceremony aired on December 23, 2020.

Shawn Michaels and The Undertaker hold the record for the most Slammy Awards won by a WWE superstar at fifteen each.

^ ^a ^b Graser, Marc (December 7, 2008). "WWE brings back Slammys". Variety. Retrieved December 8, 2008.
^ "What's A Slammy?". WWE. Retrieved February 22, 2008.
^ Cite error: The named reference 2015 WON was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ James, Justin (January 13, 2016). "1/13 WWE NXT – Women's #1 contender Battle Royal, NXT Title drama, more". Pro Wrestling Torch. TDH Communications Inc. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
^ Mazique, Brian (December 31, 2019). "WWE Releases Its 2018 Year-End Awards; Here's What It Got Wrong". Forbes. Retrieved December 23, 2018.
^ "Who will take home trophies at the 2020 SLAMMY Awards: The Best of Raw and SmackDown?". WWE. Retrieved 2020-12-08.

[variety-1] Graser, Marc (December 7, 2008). "WWE brings back Slammys". Variety. Retrieved December 8, 2008.

[Slammy1-2] "What's A Slammy?". WWE. Retrieved February 22, 2008.

[2015_WON-3] Cite error: The named reference 2015 WON was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[2015_PWTorch-4] James, Justin (January 13, 2016). "1/13 WWE NXT – Women's #1 contender Battle Royal, NXT Title drama, more". Pro Wrestling Torch. TDH Communications Inc. Retrieved April 26, 2018.

[Forbes2018Awards-5] Mazique, Brian (December 31, 2019). "WWE Releases Its 2018 Year-End Awards; Here's What It Got Wrong". Forbes. Retrieved December 23, 2018.

[6] "Who will take home trophies at the 2020 SLAMMY Awards: The Best of Raw and SmackDown?". WWE. Retrieved 2020-12-08.

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