Top Ten Greatest Pro Wrestlers of All Time

There has never been and never will be anyone like The Undertaker. His legacy spans generations, from Hulkamania to the rise of the WWE Universe. The Undertaker has proven time and time again that no one can truly compare to his accomplishments. He's left no stone unturned and there was nowhere he dared not tread. Unfortunately, his legendary career will likely come to an end at Wrestlemania 32 after what will likely be a decisive victory over John Cena, at least if the rumors are true. Although he'll be gone from the ring, he'll never be gone from our hearts, and he will never Rest In Peace.

The UnderTaker Aka Mark Callaway has been known around the world as a mysterious darkside character for the last 30 years and continues to be a force inside the ring. He is one of the most famous wrestlers of all time and has appeared in TV Shows, Movies and more. He is known as The Legend... The Phenom and the legend keeps growing.

He is been there, with almost every other superstar mentioned. Still he is present and wrestling. Simply the best. Every comes in wrestling, they have their shots, even they become champion and then leave it. But undertaker was there in the wrestling, and is still fighting.

The Undertaker is always going to be my favorite no matter what, the phenom, dead man, last outlaw, he is 19-0 and I hope he gets to get his dream of getting 20-o or 21-0 I'm not sure but anyways The Undertaker is always going to be the best wrestler in the WWE forever! He will live forever!

Known as the man who changed everything in the pro wrestling business and the toughest SOB in the entire world. Some people think the man was even more popular than Hulk Hogan himself. Stone Cold Steve Austin sold the most merchandise of any other pro wrestler in history along with the most tickets and is a 6 time WWE Champion. Although having such a tremendous career, unlike so many wrestlers before him, he retired from the ring at a very young age after making his fortune and rising to the top quickly so that he could live a healthy life and pursue a very successful acting career. Very many people believe that as a wrestler he was the most popular and respected professional wrestler and superstar of all time.

Stone Cold is the greatest of all time. He revolutionised wrestling and saved WWE. He was a great, not the best, before his neck injury. Even after that he put on some great matches. His promos are excellent and famous especially his legendary Austin 3:16 promo at king of the ring 1996. He sold more merchandise than anyone or anything else in pro wrestling. He was the face of the attitude era and every time he entered the arena the crowd went nuts. His pop were the loudest.

Stone Cold Steve Austin is hands down the greatest of all time, whether it is persona, charisma, mic skills, in ring ability or merchandize. The only reason Undertaker and rock are higher than him is because most of the people who loved Stone cold in the attitude era no longer watch WWE and hence won't be answering this poll

1995. The WWF is losing to WCW. Then the curtain call happens. The WWF needs to punish people for having such a Kay fabe breaking moment. Shawn Michaels can’t get punished because he’s the world champion, neither can Scott Hall or Kevin Nash because they’re leaving for WCW. Then you have triple h. He was scheduled to win the next years King Of The Ring. They take away Hunter’s King Of The Ring and give it to stone cold. Stone cold wins and the attitude era gets a huge kick start.

Transformed the business, made wrestling appeal to a wider audience took it to the next level, T.V. appearances, movies, T.V. adverts made wrestling cool to watch along with many superstars from the attitude era. You get a different sort of feeling when the rocks music hits he truly is electrifying, extremely popular as a face and a heel "Hollywood rock" my favourite version of the rock. Recently came back and proved how big he really is highest grossing PPV of all time he's WWE's most valuable superstar and along with Austin the most popular

Dwayne The Rock Johnson was a 3rd generation wrestler who has an extensive career and has recently made the transition to an acting career and has been very successful thus far. He is a star everywhere he goes from football to wrestling to acting and is the most Hollywood known wrestler today. He now prefers only the name Dwayne Johnson and tends to shy away from his time in the wrestling business. He has stated previously that he wants nothing to do with the pro wrestling business anymore.

The rock is only the single most electrifying man in sports entertainment... He had a prosperous career & ablility to wrestle with anybody who wanna fight with him... If you smell.. La... La... La.. Lao... What the rock is... Cooking.!

I am Brianna Blas, 9 years old, and I have loved The Rock forever. He is my most favorite actor. My dad said that he has trained him when he was in his early ages. I love you Dwayne Johnson

He was he is and he will always be the best pro wrestler to ever step foot in the ring. He was the complete package of almost all aspects of pro wrestling be it technicality, story telling,5 star matches. No doubt in his 26 year career,12 of his matches had won match of the year award. He was involved in the first ever ladder match, hell in the cell match, ellimination chamber match, iron man match. That shows the character of this man and the trust of the company on him. He is the role model of number of superstars and he even topped the wwe top 50 wrestlers list. If you build wrestling from scratch you will get shawn Michaels.

It is safe to utter that HBK Shawn Michaels is the utmost in ring performer of all time. He has established that he ought to have the praises given to him by providing some of the best matches in the history of WWE. He is one of the faces of the WWE that changed the entire industry in a diverse level. He is one of the most decorated WWE Superstars of all time. 4-Time World Champion, 2-Time Royal Rumble winner, he was the first Grand Slam Champion and a lot more. He also has the most number of firsts in the WWE, he was the first WWE superstar to ever win the Royal Rumble as entry #1. He won the first ever Hell in a Cell match defeating The Undertaker. He won the first ever Elimination Chamber and won the World Heavyweight title, he was the revolutionary of the Ladder Match and a lot more. His PPV matches left a marked in the WWE. His match against The Undertaker in WM 25 is the greatest match in the history of wrestling regardless of brand. He deserves his numbers of ...more

Was the absolute best in the business and ever for that matter. Dude could flat out bring it in the ring. His matches with everyone were legendary. From Wrestlemania 19 with Chris Jericho to what is the greatest match of all time at Werstlemania 25 with Undertaker. No one has more classi matches than HBK. When your nickname is Mr. Wrestlemania that says it all.

HBK, The Showstopper, Mr. Wrestlemania... what more can you say about this man, the legend tells itself. Co-Captin of one of the famous stables of all time (D-Generation X) the multi-time WWF/E champ, World Heavyweight Champ, Intercontinental Champ tagteam champ, Royal Rumble winner & all around lover boy/pretty boy is in my opinion the greatest in-ring performer of all time

He can take any kind of knock out's he survived every cage fight he is z beast... The wrestlers fir him so they sabotage in the middle of the ring they go out law... Play cena with the law and you know how dangerous he is! He is a kind of wrestler that makes you see WWE because of hem... In my country Ethiopia people watch WWE because of john cina! And it is true... He have to be on top 3... Leading.!

Not ever should cena be n the top 15 on no list... He's a hulk hogan... Who wants to b like the rock n stonecold... I can't knock him for being the face of wrestling WWE now.. But arguably there so many better performers.. He is a hard worker no doubt... But his matchs and opponents lately hasnt been great.. Enough for us real classic wrestling fans... He's for the kids

Come on man, he has just make the record of 11 times wwe championship, and beat the rock at wrestlemania 28 plus his the man of his own word and break the curse of khali by beating him at the finals and you just put him on number 5? He SHOULD be at number 1 man, not that freeky old underworld guy

He is the most hardworking wrestler the world has ever seen... He can beat any one with his power and never give up attitude... Only way to beat him is cheating and surprising him with interferences

The undertaker is more about the entrance and the size. I think it got a little repetitious so they worked on the streak thing to sell his gimmick. R flair, r piper, h hogan, and macho man had to really work the mic and shoot. Undertaker is in my top 10, but all I will ever remember him for is saying RIP and a tombstone piledriver. Is that even a real piledriver?

Woo! Ric Flair AKA The Nature Boy is another old wrestlers. He started wrestling at 1972 (wow... ) and you could not believed, he stopped using his first finishing move diving knee drop because of aging! That's how old he is!

Ric Flair is the greatest wrestler/entertainer on the mic & he lead the longest running stable the 4 horsemen which lead to others like NWO,.Flair could wrestle a anybody & make them look good.

Flair beat so many present and future Hall of Famers in his career it's not even funny. In a career that lasted over 35 years, he's second to none.

The Immortal Hulk Hogan who some enjoy to call Hollywood Hulk Hogan because of his very big career in acting and his long list of famous friends all the while remaining a very successful professional wrestler. He has been in dozens of movies, TV shows, talk shows, news reports, reality shows, music albums and has written several books. Hulk is recognized as the wrestler who put professional wrestling on the map and got it noticed by everyone. He is the most world wide known in ring competitor of all time and up until Stone Cold Steve Austin sold the most merchandise in history. Although Stone Cold Steve Austin is retired from the ring and The Hulkster is still selling merchandise and still wrestling to this very day, his career has spanned 35 years and counting. One day Hulk Hogan very well could steal back his record of most merchandise sold. Hogan is the man known for making the slang "brother" popular not only in the getto but all around the world. Hulk Hogan is one of the biggest ...more

The average voter age on this list must be und er21 or didn't start watching wrestling until the Attitude Era. If it wasn't for Gitana its very doubtful anybody would even know who these other guys are. Wrestling would still be territorial. Remember 10 high spots per match doesn't make a quality match. Everyone talks bad about Gitana in ring work but he must have done something right to draw as much money as he did. Stone Cold and The Rock both have extremely limited move sets too but its all about telling a story in the ring not how many acrobatic maneuvers one can pull off. The new generation just doesn't give this man enough respect. They only know NWO and old man Hogan. If you want to see work in the ring just watch W'Mania 5's main event, Hogan v Macho Man.

Wow, for the biggest name in the history of the sport to be this low is absurd. Not to mention the "monolith" of pro wrestling, he ushered in the popularity it has to this day thanks to him. It's about putting butts in seats, not how well you can do a sunset flip. Forget the rumors of how he may have dicked over others. EVERYONE dicked each other over at some point, so this feeling it's vogue to hate Hogan is retarded and it's time people get over old stuff and move on. He's the man and will always be the man.

For those of us alive in the 1980's, there weren't a few top tier guys who swapped the title around. It was essentially Hulk Hogan in his own elite tier, and then there was everyone else. For years. And years. Like, the whole decade. Sure, there were other big names in other promotions, but Hulk Hogan was everywhere. He punched, writhed, and leg-dropped, but his status has never come close to being matched.

Triple H is supposed to be up in the top 5. All the guys the t hate Triple H for his authority rule,are living examples to show that triple h 's magic worked. He is a legend, he made everyone laugh through, great mic skills. He entertained us throughout his career, and now, he is creating new stars through his NXT ( Dean Ambrose, aj styles, Rollins, KO, Sami Zayn etc..)
Even his current rival Roman reigns came up under his own show (NXT)

Changed the business and spearheaded the attitude wave. Now 18 years later he is creating the next generation of stars to carry on the legacy of the WWE. Say what you will about his politicking but the guys a true pro and one of the greatest ring generals of all time.

Triple H AKA The King of Kings is one of the strongest wrestler in the WWE. He is well known as The Game before 2013. His best friend is Shawn Michaels and he is the leader of D-Generation X and Revolution.

Triple H is a part of The Authority now in the WWE wrestling entertainment. I hate him so much. The only thing that he cares about is his group, money, his wife, and more money.

From his RKO to his Spike DDT he is one of the most dangerous WWE wrestlers of all time. If you step into the ring with him, I promise he will give you a free RKO and then easily pin you, yeah that's right.

A real showman, a physical and cerebral specimen

The best wrestler in the whole while world

Randy ortan is a savage.

The Excellence Of Execution. The Best There Is, Best There Was, and the Best There EVER Will Be. Member of both the WWE Hall Of Fame, and the Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall Of Fame and Museum. 5-time WWF Champion, 2-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion. Master of the infamous Sharpshooter submission hold, and arguably the most gifted, and technically sound craftsman the wrestling world has ever seen. Never seriously injured ANYONE during the course of his 24 year, active-ring career. The 2nd wrestler ever to earn WWF's "Triple Crown" by holding the WWF Championship, Tag-Team, and Intercontinental titles. PWI ranked him #1 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the year back to back in the PWI 500 in 1993 and 1994.

Weird, that he's ranked 11th. Here are some factoids to make the case for Bret Hart in the top 3.

He made every one of those guys look great.

Stone Cold said his best match was with Bret at Survivor Series. Bret Hart would work with him to get his timing perfect, which made him go from just OK, to a great and confident wrestler.

Shawn Michaels said the Iron Man match at Wrestlemania with Bret was his best match, while his ladder match with Razor Ramon was a close second.

Curt Hennig mentioned his favorite match was with Bret Hart at SummerSlam, despite him having horrible back pains, Bret took care of him, and never hurt him in the match. Bret was one of the only wrestlers he trusted.

British Bulldog Davey Boy Smith said in an interview that SummerSlam '92 would be his best match, Bret carried him through it as he was winded 5 minutes into the match.

Roddy Piper said Ric Flair and Bret Hart are his favorite wrestlers, he still likes to watch ...more

Really how is bret not top 5 he had all the moves and is twice as good as cena. Cena couldn't lace up Bret's boots. He's the only two time king if the ring winner and the first grand slam champion in WWE history. The only reason he didn't win the title 20 times like cena is because the belt actually meant something back then not like today where the belt changes hands like these guys change their underwear

Anyone who has studied pro wrestling will vote with knowledge rather than voting for their favourite showman! Bret, Curt Henig and Kurt Angle were by far the best wrestlers and were in charge of their matches and always made the opponent come over better in their matches. Honourable mentions to Ted Debiase (snr) Randy Savage & Chris Benoit

Here is your all time all organization champion by far held title for 11 years if that's not the standard for greatest may not have been the tallest or the most skilled but strength and pride and the heart of a CHAMPION certainly over came those minor road blocks if you truly know all wrestling Bruno is the obvious Greatest.

No man has never held the title longer than Bruno. The human wrecking ball from Italy held the title for than 11 years. He was the working horse of the WWE in the 60's and 70's and is regarded as the most popular wrestler of that era.

I don't really see how anybody that knows anything about wrestling would vote anyone but Bruno #1. It just doesn't make sense to me if you are treating the poll seriously.

Hands down, the Greatest professional wrestler of all time! The one and only true living legend of professional wrestling! True Class!

The Rated R Superstar! Twenty-foot superspears! Five second poses!

I respect every wrestler that steps into that ring, but Edge is my inSPEARation.

I feel I must add that I wasn't allowed to watch wrestling in the 2000s (when I was a child), but, dang it, I knew the names Stone Cold, The Rock, and Batista!

Twenty-foot superspears! Five second poses!

I respect every wrestler that steps into that ring, but Edge is my inSPEARation.

I feel I must add that I wasn't allowed to watch wrestling in the 1980s (when I was a child), but, dang it, I knew the names Hogan, Macho Man, and Captain Lou!

Has plenty of stardom and charisma. Shakes the arena on entry,risk taking character, can held the company alone on his shoulders. Deserve it.

The spear is my favourite move and no one does it better than Edge.

He is a one time ROH World Champ, a 2 Time ROH tag team champ, a one time ecw world champ, a 1 time intercontinental champion,1 time world tag team champion with kofi kingston in wwe, a three time world heavyweight champ, a two time money in the bank winner and a two time wwe champion, he's beaten chris jericho john cena, the miz, alberto del rio, jeff hardy, john morrison, edge, dolph ziggler, daniel bryan and more.

Why is he at #16? He cut arguably the best promos of all time. He was the best of the 2000's on the mic. He held the title for 434 days in an era where they usually hold it for 50 days. He defeated almost everyone in this time span. His matches are classics (2011 MITB vs John Cena, 2013 WRESTLEMANIA vs The Undertaker, 2013 Summerslam vs Brock Lesnar. Lastly it didn't matter if he was a heel or face he was still "the best in the world".

Best in the world. Punk should be at #1 or #2 at the least and only behind AJ Styles. The Rock, Flair, Hogan and Cena should be waay down the list. Instead they're all ranked ahead of Angle? Hulk Hogan is a better wrestler than Kurt Angle? Maybe have a wrestling fan make the list next time

I know CM Punk isn't #1 worthy but he sure deserves to be in the top 10. He is not only amazing in the ring as he is pure gold with a mic.

You could not complete this countdown without, the Olympic American hero, Kurt Angle himself. As soon as he arrived to major wrestling, he ripped threw all the competition, and has the most WWE titles won, in the shortest time. Obviously deserving to be in the top five.

He is probably the greatest icon in the Ruthless Agression era (When The Rock retired after WrestleMania XIX) And after losing his title at XIX He won it back at Vengence 04' Is Angle number 1? It's true

Greatest technical, Powerhouse and Submission Wrestler. Very Flexible with being a heel or a face, unpreditctable.

Kurt is energy fighter, good back style and speed, power, jump.

Sting had the perfect combination of a great gimmick, charisma and wrestling ability. There were a lot of guys with great gimmicks who couldn't wrestle (Ultimate Warrior), guys who could wrestle, but had lame gimmicks, and guys who could wrestle but were lousy on the mic. Sting did it all, and he did it all incredibly well.

A face with white paint and sad eyes and a baseball bat in his hand. He gave wrestling fans a hope when everything seems to go bad. Wish WWE universe could experience the charisma of this man like wcw fans did. He was the biggest superstar in 90's. There will never be another sting. LEGEND

The superstar from WCW, and now TNA. Sting was of course the most feared, and popular in the WCW, and one of thier greatest champions. This is the only man in the countdown, shy of bieng in the WWE. None the less, one of the best of all time.

Sting was the franchis of WCW. Though he did not have a great career in WWE, he would be considered as a legend in wrestling world.

The Devil's Favorite Demon is here; Kane the brother of The Undertaker is one of the highest WWE wrestlers (7 0). He wears a mask and changing it each different era. He is now a part of The Authority and unlikely to wear a mask again.

Much better than when he was a dentist, weird character

Kane is the greatest

Th big Red machine

If not of all time, Styles is at least one of the best wrestlers on the planet today. He's had some highly entertaining programs and constantly put on fantastic matches in TNA, Ring of Honor, NJPW, and now WWE. And, he's held the major championships of all four of those promotions (currently WWE World Champion). He's one of the few that weren't ex-WWE guys that really helped put TNA on the map, and has left a big impression everywhere that he's been since he left. If his future with WWE is as bright as his first year with the company has been, then he's a future Hall of Famer without a doubt.

A.J. was to TNA what Hulk Hogan was to the WWF. He was the poster boy but unlike Hogan, Styles could actually prove that he was as good as he was perceived to be.

In my mind, a young TNA version of Shawn Micheals. He raises the bar to all wrestlers and I can't wait for him to become TNA champ for the fifth time.

Best all round wrestler

Sad to see Eddie go at a young age, his last matches were some of his best, he kept getting stronger, had he lived another 5 years, maybe.

You were the best

Iwas pissed off to see santino, wade barett, ken shamrock, goldberg, John Cena, kelly kelly and so much more overrated superstars above eddie now I will always lie cheat and steal

Eddie should be the first, he's the BEST EVER!

This man went from NCAA to Football to Pro Wrestling back to Football and finally the UFC where he made an even huger name then he already had as an unstoppable monster who reigned over the UFC for a very long time but if we learn anything from history its that he will reign again because this guy just keeps coming. This man would have never been noticed by anyone if he never stepped foot on a wrestling mat.

He might not be the most technical wrestler but he was unstopabble..
Still there are few wrestlers who would like
To mess with lesner

Reigning Defending Undisputed WWE Wrestler of all time.He deserves number 1 although I do not like his attitude.

I like Brock, but he needs to wrestle more

He thought he will never get a chance to wrestle because he is too small. But he made a giant success in the World Wrestling Entertainment! His famous tag team Team Hell No with Kane is one of the funniest and entertaining tag teams in history.

Yes, yes, yes, yes. There is "no" other word that says it better.

Great Wrestler, very skilled, had a win over Brock

It's a crime that he's not in the top 3

Best Performer In History
Amazing Technical Skils
High Charisma
Good Mic Skills
I Don't care about what he did out of the ring

“I don’t care about what he did out of the ring” He killed his wife and son! You deserve to be beaten raped and killed

I think the ultimate underdog is a great wrestler the kids love him he wins matches against men double his size he is one hall of fame superstar in the making.
Show respect by giving this a thumbs up just like rey showed respect for Eddie Guerrero in the 2006 royal rumble.

The Biggest Little Man - Rey Mysterio is a Mexican-American Wrestler. He retired in 2015 because he feel guilty about the accident murder of the Wrestler Perro Aguayo Jr.

This is the bravest wrestler of all time he takes on people twice his size

Best performance and it doesn't waste your money to watch him
Love 619

One of the most famous wrestling stars of the 80s and early 90s. The Macho Man has world wide recognition and has been a hero for many children growing up. He has made movie appearances along with commercials, and remains a very wealthy and popular man.

Are you kidding me? 39th best. All you guys better think this one over long and hard. In his generation he was #2 in putting wrestling over, right after the Hulkster.

Hold on ryback is ahead of the Macho Man, this is madness

Watching Randy flying off the top rope.

The largest sports entertainer ever known standing at almost 7'5 was taller then the wrestling ring itself. He weighed over 575 pounds at his heaviest even though Hulk Hogan claims he weighed 700 pounds when he slammed him at WrestleMania 3. He was in a wide number of movies, TV shows, talk shows, an events around the world since before he even stepped foot in the ring. Andre The Giant was known as "The 8th Wonder Of The World" Which people would come from all around the world to see. He was also known for never being pinned or submitted his entire career, over 10 years up until he met The Immortal Hulk Hogan at WrestleMania 3. Some people believe to this day the match was controversial and that Andre never lost. Andre died in France at the age of 47 from Gigantism but his name is still very famous!

Andrea the giant and hulk hogan are pretty much evenly match but I believe Andre
Is stronger he's 7 foot 5 inches that's really tall like 2.29 meters. He
Tips the scales at 578 pounds that's 290kg that's as heavy as a black bear
He aid so heavy he was only body slammed once in his career by
Hulk hogan who is 6 foot 4 and 307 pounds. I thing that hogan only beat Andrea
Because he was lucky anyway undertaker beat hulk hogan great Gonzalez beat undertaker and Andrea beat great Gonzales Andrea nearly ever loses
Anyway WWE makes no sense how is the 6 foot 1 John Cena able to beat the massive big show am I the only one to thing that. Ps my dad is 6 foot 7 and that's super tall I'm 5 foot 3 so imagine Andrea. I'm sure some people will agree and disagree any way how the hell is Batista so high on this list same with jeff hardy.

He carried wrestling to a global level...bridged it from the 70's to 80's and put it officially over when Hogan beat him at wm3.

Great Show, made sure the children got all they could dream about.