Bandido Accepts His Fightful Award For Men’s In-Ring Wrestler Of The Year: “What An Honor”
Bandido has won the 2025 Fightful Award for Men’s In-Ring Wrestler of the Year.
“Thank you to Fightful. What an honor. Thank you very much. This is only the beginning,” said Bandido, accepting the award for the first time. Will Ospreay won the award last year.
He had standout matches against Konosuke Takeshita, Hechicero, Mascara Dorada, Mistico, Kazuchika Okada, and more. Bandido became ROH World Champion, in addition to AEW World Tag Team Champion during an incredible 2025 that saw him return from an injury that sidelined him for a year and a half. Bandido didn’t even have his first match of the year until February 2025.
Bandido had standout matches across Ring of Honor, All Elite Wrestling, CMLL and the independent circuit during his
In addition, Bandido also won tag team of the year alongside Brodido partner, Brody King.
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You can see Bandido’s acceptance speech below.
