Pro Wrestling Illustrated’s top 500 best wrestlers in the world have now been revealed.
Since 1991, PWI has been publishing its annual “Top 500 Wrestlers” listing the top male wrestlers in the world. The criteria for said list is noted as including win/loss records, championships won, quality of competition, major feuds, prominence within the wrestler’s promotion(s), and overall wrestling ability.
The 2023 edition of the list has now been revealed, with the current WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins topping the list, followed by his former Shield stablemates Roman Reigns and Jon Moxley at #2 and #3 respectively.
2023’s Top 10 Wrestlers according to the PWI500
— WrestlePurists (@WrestlePurists) September 14, 2023
1 – Seth Rollins
2 – Roman Reigns
3 – Jon Moxley
4 – GUNTHER
5 – Hijo Del Vikingo
6 – MJF
7 – Kazuchika Okada
8 – Orange Cassidy
9 – Josh Alexander
10 – Cody Rhodes
– Pro Wrestling Illustrated pic.twitter.com/VuMWOJmJdh
The digital version of the full list can be found here.
With the PWI Women’s 150 and Tag Team 100 still to come, we’ll make sure to provide any further updates as soon as we have them.
