Who doesn’t love a good list? And what better way to put together a good list than to get a good sample size? So that’s what I did. Over the past two months, I have polled members of our podcasting community and other wrestling fans for their top 30 wrestlers in the world. I asked for this list to be a non-biased list of the best wrestlers in the world and not their favorite wrestlers. As far as what “best” wrestler means, that is subjective. To me, the best wrestlers can go in the ring, they’re good on the stick, and they are consistently great in their characters. Again, it’s all subjective. Let’s get into the list. I assembled the list by polling 15 total people. Those 15 people ranked their top 30 wrestlers in the world. From there I added up the total points. The lower the score the better.
Thank you to our participants. Please follow/subscribe to their channels. You can find a list of our participants below.
Nick from The Universal Wrestling Podcast, Devin from Clark Street Wrestling, Kyle from The Apron Bump, Jeremy and Justin from The In Time Wrestling Podcast, Dylan from The World Elite Podcast, Matt Ridder from Smackin’ it Raw, Brett from The Brain Buster Boys, Katie from the ShElite Showcase, Dan Bakley from Cage My IQ, Ivan from Circle of Debate, Eli from Minnesota, and FSS contributors Matt Tracht and Justin Patterson.
Top 30 Wrestlers in the World
Seth Rollins – 4 1st place votes
Roman Reigns – 3 1st place votes
Kazuchika Okada – 2 1st place votes
Will Ospreay – 2 1st place votes
Jon Moxley – 1 1st place vote
Kenny Omega – 1 1st place vote
Jay White – 1 1st place vote
Great O’Khan – 1 1st place vote
| # | Wrestler | TK | Nick | Kyle | Eli | Jeremy | Dylan | Ridder | Justin | Devin | Brett | Patterson | Tracht | Katie | Bakley | Ivan | Total Points |
| 1 | Seth Rollins | 3 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 70 |
| 2 | Roman Reigns | 2 | 13 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 100 |
| 3 | Bryan Danielson | 4 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 127 | ||
| 4 | Jon Moxley | 1 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 148 | ||
| 5 | Kenny Omega | 5 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 188 | ||||
| 6 | Kazuchika Okada | 6 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 225 | |||||
| 7 | AJ Styles | 15 | 4 | 18 | 22 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 24 | 30 | 8 | 10 | 19 | 5 | 235 | ||
| 8 | Will Ospreay | 8 | 1 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 242 | ||||||
| 9 | Jay White | 10 | 8 | 15 | 11 | 20 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 1 | 244 | |||||
| 10 | MJF | 14 | 30 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 13 | 3 | 13 | 2 | 13 | 264 | |||||
| 11 | Cody Rhodes | 9 | 15 | 2 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 26 | 3 | 22 | 26 | 277 | |||||
| 12 | Kevin Owens | 7 | 9 | 17 | 21 | 10 | 12 | 19 | 26 | 11 | 21 | 27 | 15 | 288 | |||
| 13 | CM Punk | 16 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 23 | 18 | 290 | ||||||
| 14 | Gunther | 13 | 20 | 8 | 15 | 15 | 22 | 11 | 18 | 30 | 11 | 16 | 303 | ||||
| 15 | Hangman Adam Page | 17 | 9 | 10 | 20 | 8 | 13 | 15 | 19 | 13 | 310 | ||||||
| 16 | Drew McIntyre | 11 | 13 | 17 | 25 | 21 | 28 | 17 | 5 | 7 | 17 | 316 | |||||
| 17 | Randy Orton | 18 | 25 | 13 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 317 | |||||||
| 18 | Josh Alexander | 27 | 24 | 26 | 12 | 19 | 14 | 14 | 21 | 13 | 9 | 18 | 321 | ||||
| 19 | Brock Lesnar | 25 | 30 | 26 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 326 | |||||||
| 20 | Adam Cole | 19 | 16 | 12 | 23 | 18 | 12 | 24 | 10 | 9 | 28 | 326 | |||||
| 21 | Bobby Lashley | 12 | 26 | 15 | 22 | 15 | 11 | 4 | 26 | 11 | 328 | ||||||
| 22 | Riddle | 12 | 5 | 16 | 30 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 17 | 25 | 28 | 347 | |||||
| 23 | Malakai Black | 22 | 17 | 22 | 24 | 11 | 16 | 12 | 12 | 353 | |||||||
| 24 | Zack Sabre Jr. | 14 | 17 | 8 | 20 | 12 | 6 | 356 | |||||||||
| 25 | Edge | 14 | 9 | 6 | 14 | 9 | 362 | ||||||||||
| 26 | Finn Balor | 23 | 18 | 27 | 28 | 13 | 16 | 9 | 14 | 365 | |||||||
| 27 | Shingo Takagi | 24 | 12 | 20 | 18 | 6 | 7 | 366 | |||||||||
| 28 | Claudio Castagnoli | 21 | 22 | 16 | 24 | 21 | 8 | 17 | 377 | ||||||||
| 29 | Tetsuya Naito | 10 | 25 | 19 | 7 | 13 | 384 | ||||||||||
| 30 | Pac | 25 | 16 | 21 | 28 | 28 | 16 | 5 | 387 | ||||||||
| – | Miro | 30 | 19 | 18 | 25 | 16 | 8 | 395 | |||||||||
| – | Carmelo Hayes | 17 | 20 | 24 | 26 | 29 | 15 | 21 | 400 | ||||||||
| – | Kota Ibushi | 11 | 9 | 12 | 404 | ||||||||||||
| – | Dax Harwood | 21 | 4 | 26 | 24 | 19 | 404 | ||||||||||
| – | Chris Jericho | 19 | 15 | 10 | 29 | 22 | 405 | ||||||||||
| – | Bron Breakker | 19 | 22 | 12 | 22 | 20 | 405 | ||||||||||
| – | Jonathan Gresham | 23 | 23 | 24 | 18 | 22 | 23 | 412 | |||||||||
| – | Moose | 13 | 23 | 23 | 15 | 415 | |||||||||||
| – | Rey Fenix | 28 | 7 | 16 | 23 | 415 | |||||||||||
| – | Sheamus | 20 | 27 | 29 | 6 | 423 | |||||||||||
| – | Wardlow | 21 | 23 | 25 | 16 | – | |||||||||||
| – | Ilja Dragunov | 11 | 17 | 27 | 30 | – | |||||||||||
| – | Keith Lee | 29 | 30 | 12 | 29 | 25 | 24 | – | |||||||||
| – | Sami Zayn | 26 | 27 | 22 | 27 | 30 | – | ||||||||||
| Theory | 27 | 29 | 14 | – | |||||||||||||
| – | Jungle Boy | 20 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | Samoa Joe | 5 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | Ciampa | 13 | 17 | – | |||||||||||||
| – | Kyle O’Reilly | – | |||||||||||||||
| – | Sammy Guevara | 21 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | Jey Uso | 20 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | Eddie Kingston | 26 | 4 | 25 | – | ||||||||||||
| – | Cameron Grimes | 18 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | Shinsuke Nakamura | 25 | 27 | – | |||||||||||||
| – | Mustafa Ali | 23 | 24 | – | |||||||||||||
| – | John Cena | – | |||||||||||||||
| – | Ricochet | 27 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | Great O’Khan | 1 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | Chad Gable | 28 | 19 | 26 | – | ||||||||||||
| – | Darby Allin | 8 | 29 | – | |||||||||||||
| – | Jimmy Uso | – | |||||||||||||||
| – | The Miz | 21 | 29 | – | |||||||||||||
| – | Christian | 30 | 10 | – | |||||||||||||
| – | Katsuhiko Nakajima | 8 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | Hiroshi Tanahashi | 25 | 16 | 14 | – | ||||||||||||
| – | Damian Priest | – | |||||||||||||||
| – | Hiromu Takahashi | 11 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | Tomohiro Ishii | 14 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | Johnny Gargano | 14 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | Penta | 15 | 22 | – | |||||||||||||
| – | Kofi Kingston | 17 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | Hammerstone | 16 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | Jacob Fatu | 24 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | Eddie Edwards | 27 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | Sanada | 30 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | R-Truth | – | |||||||||||||||
| – | Bray Wyatt | – | |||||||||||||||
| – | Luchasaurus | 22 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | Scorpio Sky | 21 | 26 | – | |||||||||||||
| – | Sting | 23 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | Minoru Suzuki | 25 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | W.Morrissey | 28 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | Sami Callihan | 29 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | Montez Ford | 25 | 29 | – | |||||||||||||
| – | Wheeler Yuta | 27 | 28 | 30 | 10 | – | |||||||||||
| – | Big E | 28 | 20 | – | |||||||||||||
| – | Solo Sikoa | 27 | 28 | – | |||||||||||||
| – | Danhausen | 29 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | Orange Cassidy | 30 | 23 | 23 | – | ||||||||||||
| – | Happy Corbin | 28 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | Tyler Bate | 19 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | Swerve Strickland | 24 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | Cash Wheeler | 29 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | Konosuke Takeshita | 17 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | Go Shiozaki | 18 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | Speedball Mike Bailey | 29 | 19 | – | |||||||||||||
| – | Hook | 30 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | Buddy Matthews | 19 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | Apollo Crews | 27 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | Kento Miyahara | 21 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | Tom Lawlor | 27 | 28 | 29 | – | ||||||||||||
| – | El Desperado | 29 | 23 | – | |||||||||||||
| – | Daniel Garcia | 7 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | El Phantasmo | 13 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | Brody King | 14 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | Jeff Cobb | 30 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | Karrion Kross | 12 | – | ||||||||||||||
| – | Jonah | 24 | – |
