Throughout the weekend ahead of our live Great American Bash coverage on Sunday night, we’re posting our half-year awards, looking at the best and the worst of WWE in the first half of 2008.

So far on we’ve posted our awards for the following (click links to view our picks and reasons for them):

- Worst in-ring performer in the WWE
- Least improved wrestler of the year so far
- Worst WWE PPV of the year so far
- Worst announcer in the WWE (aka The Adamle Award)
- Worst feud/storyline in the WWE in 2008 so far
- Worst match in the WWE

Our seventh award is for the Worst on-screen character in the WWE:

Phil Lowe: Mark Henry. I can’t think of any other job in the world where you could do literally nothing for a decade and still be employed. Yes, he now has the ECW title. Big deal. Its a worthless title and we know why he got it. He was never capable of putting on a decent match, he’s never drawn a penny since debuting in the late 1990s, and his character has sucked since day one.

He’s strong, we get it.

His initial contract when Vince first signed him was for huge money, so you could understand why they had to keep him around. But when that deal was over and he agreed a new, much lower deal, you’d think WWE would have told him to improve or be shown the door. Can he wrestle? No. Can he talk? No. Does he have a good look? No. Is he the strongest man in the world? No. I doubt he’s even the strongest man in the company.

Mark Bright: Cryme Tyme. So they’re black guys who rob you, smash up your car and generally act like a one-dimensional racial stereotype. Is it 50 years ago again and nobody told me?

Michael Campbell: John Cena. WWE being WWE, there are a whole bunch of contenders for this crown. Loads of them. But Cena takes the title because he’s one of the top three stars across the entire company, and yet his character is as believable as Lex Luger beating me in a fair fight. He’s popular with the kids for sure, and even the horny moms, but he’s a fraud.

His association with Cryme Tyme? Yep, let’s vandalise some cars, what great wrestling. He relates his dire Poop jokes as if they’re coming out on the end of a particularly unpleasant Vindaloo. He’s just a horrible, horrible character.

Martin Smith: Vickie Guerrero. Whether she is screaming or just being generally annoying, I simply can’t stand the woman. She continues to irritate me and for that, she has to get my vote for this award.

Steve McLaren: Lena Yada. This woman sucks the life out of any backstage interview she does. A totally worthless interviewer who needs to be fired - now.

James Mustoe: Vince McMahon. He had a tired heel character that had been stale for years already at the beginning of the year. It got worse though, with ‘McMahon’s Millions’, or whatever it was called, seemingly turning Vincent into a seemingly senile out of touch old man, a glaringly fake charade of jocularity, who couldn’t even use a dial on a phone. Hopefully he’ll be off TV for a long while now…

RESULTS:

Mark Henry (1)
Cryme Tyme (1)
John Cena (1)
Vickie Guerrero (1)
Lena Yada (1)
Vince McMahon (1)