December 2020

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Hotseat
Unconventional, unflappable, and undefeated. The three words are an apt depiction of Jon Moxley, who’s deftly risen to the top of the sport over the last year. And, in his 14th appearance on this list, the “Death Rider” rides to the top of the PWI “5
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Pwi 500: Alphabetical Listing
439 Absolute Andy 453 Joey Ace 208 ACH 173 Trish Adora 196 Aero Star 238 Fabian Aichner 478 Saki Akai 248 Akam 440 Jun Akiyama 463 Marcus Al-Ani 15 Nick Aldis 195 Josh Alexander 285 Cedric Alexander 251 Mustafa Ali 55 Darby Allin 143 Mr. Anderson 204
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Al Castle's Take
A PANDEMIC THAT that shut down wrestling companies around the globe for more than a third of the evaluation period. A national reckoning on institutional racism that spurred us to more closely look at the names (and skin tones) of the wrestlers on ou
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The 30th Annual Pwi 500
WHEN LAST YEAR’S “500” dropped, All Elite Wrestling was still in its infancy. Though the company’s first two official events—Double or Nothing and Fyter Fest—both took place within our previous evaluation period, AEW was a month away from the premier
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Harry Burkett's Take
BACK IN JUNE, I attended my first PWI “500” meeting in several years. I usually have strong feelings about the top three, but quite frankly, whether we rank Dominik Dijakovic or Luchasaurus at 104 doesn’t really matter to me. Even this year, with Stu
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Righteous Reg's Take
LAST YEAR, AFTER the PWI “500” dropped, I created my own list of the world’s best wrestlers, called the Black Wrecellence 250. Having researched the representation in 2019’s “500,” I found it to be pretty lackluster: Only six percent of the wrestlers
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Drawing Blood
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The Way It Was
IT’S BECOME A common refrain. Ask any wrestler who broke into the game within the past 20 years, and, more often than not, they will tell you that the competitor who most influenced them and inspired them to step into the ring is Shawn Michaels. That
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FROM the DESK OF…
IT’S MY FIRST PWI “500” issue at the Editor’s desk, compiled in a year that is utterly without precedent. Our annual list, like the world at large, looks a lot different in 2020. Social conditions impacted wrestling in completely unexpected ways, and
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Kevin McElvaney ART DIRECTOR Laura Brubaker PRODUCTION MANAGER Bethany Lawler SENIOR WRITERS Harry Burkett Al Castle CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Mike Bessler Brady Hicks Louie Dee Brian Solomon Jason McVeigh Ashley Morris Jake Joyce CONTRIBU
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Ringside
THE COVID-19 CRISIS has effectively stalled the world economy and industry in 2020, prompting an unexpected pause in most of our lives and some important discussions in our culture … and professional wrestling. Pro wrestling somehow emerged largely u

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