The hundred highest All-Time scores in the documented corpus.
Six measured components, one weighted blend, applied to every wrestler the corpus documents. This is what the model says when nothing is filtered and nothing is excused.
Start with the objection, because it is the right one. Ninety-three of these hundred wrestlers had their best single year after 2000. Hulk Hogan is not on the list. Neither is Bruno Sammartino, Andre the Giant, Antonio Inoki, Mitsuharu Misawa, Kenta Kobashi, Jushin Thunder Liger or Lou Thesz. If that reads as a broken model, the reason is worth having before the ranking is: this is a list of the hundred best-documented great careers, and in professional wrestling those are not the same thing as the hundred greatest.
The corpus records 1,686 matches from the whole of the 1960s and 141,927 from the 2010s. Star ratings, which drive the largest single component at 30% of the score, exist for 4.7% of matches and none at all before 1982. House-show records are complete for the WWE family and mostly absent for everyone else. A model reading that archive will find more measurable value in a 2014 WWE mid-carder than in a 1965 world champion, and it will be right about the archive and wrong about wrestling.
So this is what the model says with nothing filtered and nothing excused, and it is followed by Decade by Decade, which is the honest era comparison. Read them together. The interesting thing is not that the two disagree, it is exactly where they disagree, and what that tells you about which parts of wrestling history got written down.
Six components, and the weakest of them is Dominance at 99.7. There is no soft edge here to argue with. Career K-WAR of 184.9 is the largest figure in the corpus, 24 of his 27 documented seasons rate elite, and he holds the outright top rank in both Quality and Big match, the two components that carry 45% of the score between them. The corpus also splits his 1,700 matches roughly in half, 693 in WWE against 566 in TNA, with 77 more in New Japan and 75 in Ring of Honor. The score is built on all of them rather than on one employer.
The one number that dips is wins above expectation, where he sits #314 against #1 overall, a gap of 313 places and the largest in his profile. That is less a flaw than a description of the position he usually occupied: the model rarely had him as the underdog, so beating the field earned him little surprise credit. What the record does hold is range. A 5.0-star triple-threat with Christopher Daniels and Samoa Joe at Unbreakable in 2005, then a 5.0-star loss to Cody Rhodes at Backlash France in 2024, nineteen years apart and both sitting at the ceiling of the scale.
Four outright firsts: Dominance, Network, Titles, and a championship value of 316.0 that no other career in the corpus approaches. A 76.3% win rate across 1,554 matches, 1186-308-59, and 288 of his 295 title-match wins put a top-decile belt at stake. On every measure of what a promotion put behind someone, the model has him at the head of the list. The 2011-2015 window is the best five-year stretch anyone records, worth 54.5 and ranked #1, and it accounts for 34.7% of everything positive on his ledger.
Quality is where it flattens out. His component score of 99.5 still ranks #17, but the underlying quality-added figure is #109 among the qualified, more than a hundred places below his overall rank and by some distance the largest gap he has. The other thing the decade table says out loud is that this is a finished career being measured: 65.4 in the 2000s and 78.9 in the 2010s, then 1.9 across 45 documented matches in the 2020s, which ranks #450 for the decade. Almost the entire score was earned in two decades of a three-decade span.
A 49.1% win rate, 877-849-60, and third overall. That combination is the whole entry. The model is not counting wins, it is counting who they came against and what the card said was at stake, and by those measures he ranks #2 in Big match, #2 in Titles and #5 in Network with a championship value of 224.5. Against John Cena the record shows 145 matches and an 8-135 record at a mean opponent rating of 2472, the strongest sustained opposition of anyone in the top five, and against Roman Reigns another 100 matches at 20-78.
His oddest figure is a the big-match reading of -0.331, which places him #2,287 while the Big match component itself reads 99.8. The component rewards appearing in matches the card treated as important; the raw expectation figure says he lost most of them, which those two head-to-head records already tell you. The career shape is unusual for this list as well. His strongest year is 2023, not 2015, worth 12.6 spread across 99 matches and ranked #3 in the corpus, and the 2020s have given him 59.1 against 75.8 for the whole of the 2010s.
2024 is the best single season the model has ever scored: 13.0 K-WAR over 95 documented matches, rank #1 of every person-year in the corpus. It sits inside a 2022-2026 prime worth 53.9 that ranks #2, and that prime is 40.3% of everything positive on his ledger, the most concentrated career in the top five. He is also the top-ranked wrestler of the 2020s outright at 67.4, ahead of everyone above him on this list, having managed only 13.7 and a rank of #107 across the whole of the 2000s.
Quality is the drag, #140 on quality-added against #4 overall. The wins are enormous and the star ratings behind them are merely good. Taking both world titles from Roman Reigns at WrestleMania XL scored the maximum importance the model assigns, and so did the 5.0-star street fight that took the Undisputed title from John Cena at SummerSlam 2025. One line in the evidence is worth reading twice: against WALTER the corpus holds 23 matches at 22-1, at a mean opponent rating of 2251, which is the most lopsided run against strong opposition on the board.
Quality 99.8, second in the corpus, on a quality-added figure of 1.058 that ranks #10, and #6 in wins above expectation on 27.569. Those two together describe a career the model reads as consistently better than its circumstances, which is a different shape from the four names above him, all of whom are carried further by Dominance or Titles. His 1,602 matches run 973-573-56, a 60.7% win rate, and 17 of his 24 documented seasons rate elite.
Titles are what hold the number down. A championship value of 143.4 ranks #24, nineteen places below his overall rank and well under half of Cena's 316.0. The evidence carries both ends of the career: taking the WWE Championship from John Cena at SummerSlam 2013 with Triple H as referee, worth the highest expectation credit of his life at +0.92, and a 6.5-star loss to Will Ospreay at Dynasty in 2024, the highest star rating attached to anyone in the top five. The span runs 2000-2025 and the model scores it across ROH, PWG, NOAH, New Japan, WWE and AEW.
Longevity 100.0, the only outright first in this component anywhere on the board, on a raw figure of 25.000. The corpus documents him in 33 of 35 span years from 1992 to 2026, across four decades, and his career K-WAR of 173.2 is second only to A.J. Styles. He is the rare entry here whose Career rank is better than his overall rank rather than worse, by four places. The decade table shows why nothing is concentrated: 22.1 in the 1990s, 65.9 in the 2000s, 56.6 in the 2010s, 28.6 so far in the 2020s, with a best five-year window worth only 23.2% of everything positive he has done.
The cost of that shape is expectation. Wins above expectation ranks #567 and big-match WAE is -11.110, which places him #3,913 of the qualified, the worst figure of anyone in the top ten. Spread across three and a half decades he was usually favoured and often lost the matches the card built around. The evidence still holds the peaks: taking the WCW World Heavyweight Title from The Rock at Vengeance in 2001, and a 5.0-star loss to Kenny Omega at WrestleKingdom 12 sixteen years later, in a promotion he had not worked when the earlier match happened.
A 69.0% win rate over 1,172 matches, 809-329-34, and the model reads it as genuine rather than protected: Dominance ranks #5, network prestige #3 at 1.316, with wins above expectation #17, which is a far better expectation figure than anyone immediately around him manages. Only 17 documented years, the shortest span in the top ten, and the 2014-2018 window accounts for 41.9% of everything positive on his ledger. That is the most concentrated prime on this page, and it comes in at #4 overall in the corpus at 50.9.
Two lines of evidence do most of the work. Beating Brock Lesnar for the Universal Championship at SummerSlam in 2018 scored +0.92 in expectation at maximum importance, the single most valuable win the model records for him. Against Bray Wyatt the corpus logs 137 matches, 122-10, which is the largest documented head-to-head advantage among the top ten. His most recent maximum-importance win is a 5.0-star title change against CM Punk at WrestleMania 42 in 2026, so the record is still moving.
The best wrestler of the 2000s by this model, outright: 90.6 K-WAR inside the decade, #1 of everyone eligible, over 753 documented matches. Quality ranks #7 on a quality-added figure of 0.983 that ranks #15, and all 105 of his title-match wins carried a top-decile belt, which is the only clean sweep of that kind in the top ten. His best single year, 2001, is worth 12.3 and ranks #5 in the corpus.
Then the expectation numbers, which are startling for someone this high. Wins above expectation is -3.830, ranking #3,697 of the qualified pool, and big-match WAE is -8.167 at #3,871. Both sit thousands of places below his overall rank. The model had him favoured almost everywhere and the results did not cooperate: 8-33 against The Undertaker across 46 matches, 14-26 against Steve Austin across another 46, and 14-36 against The Rock. He beat Cena for the WWE Championship at Unforgiven in 2005 and took the world title from The Rock at No Mercy in 2000, but the ledger of expected wins is where this career is held back.
Network 99.9, first in the corpus, on a prestige figure of 1.561 that ranks #2 and a schedule strength that ranks #3. Nobody documented has been placed against strong opposition more consistently. His career K-WAR of 154.2 ranks #4, five places better than his overall rank, and the model scores 17 of his 27 seasons elite with another eight good, which is the flattest and longest ledger in the top ten after Jericho.
Quality is the counterweight, and it is a heavy one. Quality-added of 0.526 ranks #192, one hundred and eighty-three places below his overall rank and the largest single gap in the top ten. He is placed in the biggest matches available and the star ratings that come back are ordinary. The head-to-head record explains part of it: 119 matches against John Cena at a mean opponent rating of 2352.7, and a 34-82 record in them. His best-value win is the TLC match that took the world title from Cena in 2013, worth +0.89 in expectation at 2.1 importance.
Titles is the one component where he outranks his own overall position, at #3 and championship value of 253.0, built from 254 title-match victories, with 224 of them rated top-decile. Everything else sits slightly below: Quality #100 on quality-added, wins above expectation #299. This is a career the model rates on what he was booked to hold rather than on how the matches graded, and the decade table tracks a genuine second act. The 2000s are worth -9.4 spread across 48 matches, ranked #880 of the decade. The 2010s are worth 64.0 and the 2020s 59.4, ranked #4 for the decade so far.
The recent evidence is almost entirely AEW. Taking the Continental Championship from Kazuchika Okada at Worlds End in 2025, the AEW World Championship from Daniel Bryan at WrestleDream in 2024 alongside a 5.5-star loss of that title to Adam Page at All In: Texas in 2025, which is the highest-rated match in his file. Against Seth Rollins the record shows 139 matches and an 81-53 record, the most-documented rivalry on this page.
Thirty-four documented years and a match in every one of them, 1993 to 2026, which is why Longevity reads 100.0 at #2 with career K-WAR of 171.7 ranks #3, eight places better than his overall position. The model also likes the work itself: Quality #8 off a quality-added reading of 0.950, wins above expectation #20, and a 64.2% win rate over 1,467 matches. His best five-year window is worth only 22.7% of the positive total, the flattest distribution in the top fifteen. This is a score assembled slowly rather than banked in a run.
Titles are the drag, #38 off a championship value of 118.9, and Big match #35 is the lowest component in his file. The best-rated evidence comes from before WWE ever booked him: a 5.0-star two-out-of-three-falls win over Juventud Guerrera for ECW in 1996, plus a 4.75-star mask-versus-title match with Eddie Guerrero at Halloween Havoc in 1997 that the model scores as one of the largest quality lifts in the corpus at +2.43. His single most valuable win is later and stranger, beating Kurt Angle and Randy Orton in a triple-threat for the World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania 22.
Big match #7 and big-match WAE #9 at 23.666, which is the shape of a career that kept winning the matches the card built around. Titles ranks #9, three places above his overall position and the only component that does. Against that, Quality sits #75 on quality-added and the coverage note is worth reading: documented in 21 of 27 span years, 77.8%, the thinnest coverage of anyone in the top fifteen. There are years the corpus simply does not have.
The decade table is unusually even, 42.9 then 37.1 then 39.6, with the 2020s already close to the 2000s across a quarter of the matches. Two pieces of evidence bracket it. The 5.0-star win over John Cena at Money in the Bank in 2011, at the maximum importance the model assigns, and taking the World Heavyweight Championship from WALTER at SummerSlam in 2025 at +0.71 expectation. In between, an 1-25 record against The Undertaker across 26 matches, which is the least rewarding rivalry in this assignment.
The most concentrated career in the top fifteen: the 2022-2026 window is worth 53.5% of everything positive on his ledger, sits #3 across the corpus at 52.8, and his best single year, 2024, ranks #4. The 2000s gave him -0.4 spread across 56 matches. The 2020s have given him 60.2 and a #3 rank for the decade. Career K-WAR of 97.4 ranks only #29, sixteen adrift of the overall rank, because there is not much career outside the run.
Titles is where he matches his overall standing exactly, #13 and championship value of 173.8 out in 205 title-match wins. The best-rated work is mostly British and mostly NXT: a 5.25-star win over Tyler Bate at TakeOver: Cardiff in 2019 and a 5.25-star loss of the NXT UK title to Ilja Dragunov in 2021. The head-to-head that shapes his expectation figures is Cody Rhodes, 23 matches at a mean opponent rating of 2437.9 and a 1-22 record, though he did take the Undisputed WWE Championship off him on Smackdown in 2026.
A 50.3% win rate, 507-426-73, and the second-best wrestler of the 2000s by this model at 76.7 inside the decade. Both things are true and the second is what carries the entry. Longevity #14, Network #13, and 104 title-match wins of which all 104 carried a top-decile belt, with nothing on the ledger below that tier. Career K-WAR of 116.9 ranks #17 across a span the corpus documents in 27 of 28 years, and the model scores 15 of those seasons elite against only three merely good, which is a narrow and top-heavy ledger.
Wins above expectation is -1.591, which ranks #3,207 and sits 3,190 places below the overall placing, the widest gap in the top fifteen. The model expected him to win a great deal more than he did. The quality evidence is the strongest part of the file: a 4.75-star Three Stages of Hell against Steve Austin at No Way Out in 2001 that lifted quality by 2.48, and a 4.75-star Hell in a Cell loss to The Undertaker at WrestleMania XXVIII worth a lift of 2.62, the largest single figure of that kind here. The 2010s are worth 15.7 over 63 matches and the 2020s hold exactly one.
Two components rank eight places above his overall position, Dominance at #7 and Titles at #7, the latter with championship value at 211.9 built off 226 title-match wins and 214 carrying top-decile belts. Big match is #8 and big-match WAE #20. By every measure of being trusted with the important match, the model has him inside the top ten of the qualified pool. The volume behind it is real too: 1,595 documented matches at a 56.1% win rate, 895-655-45, with the 2011-2015 window worth 45.4 and 41.7% of everything positive he has done.
Wins above expectation is the outlier, 2.280 at #1,350, which is 1,337 under the overall figure. He was favoured and the results were close to even. The two title changes that anchor his file both came against expectation anyway: taking the WWE Championship from John Cena in a tables match at TLC in 2009 at +0.91, and taking the world title from Roman Reigns at Survivor Series in 2015 at +0.90 and maximum importance. His best-rated matches are both losses to WALTER, a 5.0-star Intercontinental title match at Clash at the Castle in 2022 and another at WrestleMania 39.
The top-ranked wrestler of the 1980s by this model at 56.3, and second in the 1990s at 66.0, which is the only career on this page to place that highly in two separate decades. Quality ranks #6 with a quality-added score of 0.943, Titles #8, while career K-WAR of 135.4 ranks #8, eight places better than his overall standing. The span the corpus documents runs to five decades, though only 41 of those 51 years carry matches at 80.4% coverage, and 22.7% of what it does hold is rated.
Wins above expectation is 0.504, ranked #2,149 and more than two thousand places below his overall position, which is the largest gap in this assignment. Across 931 documented matches the record is 462-403-66, essentially even. The evidence is where this file earns its rank: a 6.0-star loss to Ricky Steamboat for the NWA World Heavyweight Title in Landover in March 1989, a 5.0-star title change against Steamboat at WrestleWar two months later, and a 4.25-star steel cage retirement match against Hulk Hogan at Halloween Havoc in 1994 that the model scores as a quality lift of 2.75. Against Hogan the corpus logs 69 matches, 16-48.
Titles #9 and Longevity #6, both well above his #17 overall, on a ledger the corpus documents in all 27 of its span years. Career K-WAR of 130.0 ranks #11, six places better than the overall figure, and the decade split is almost perfectly level: 53.6 in the 2000s and 56.3 in the 2010s, across 475 and 623 matches. He is one of the few careers here the model does not read as having a single peak, with a best five-year window worth 30.8% of the total.
Quality is what caps it, #188 on quality-added against #17 overall, a gap of 171 places. The 5.0-star win over CM Punk for the ROH World Heavyweight Title in 2004 and the 5.0-star triple-threat loss to A.J. Styles at Unbreakable in 2005 are the two highest-rated matches in his file, and both are twenty years old. The most recent maximum-importance win is newer than most on this page: taking the AEW World Championship from Adam Page in a steel cage at Full Gear in 2025.
Network #11 and a career K-WAR of 120.0 that ranks #13, five clear of the overall placing, built mostly inside one decade. The 2000s are worth 72.2 spread across 667 matches and rank #4; the 1990s, 2010s and 2020s together add less than half that. All 113 title-match wins were for top-decile belts. The coverage line matters here: documented in 22 of 30 span years, 73.3%, so there are seasons the corpus does not hold at all.
The two most valuable wins in the file are both against John Cena and both title changes at maximum importance, the cash-in at New Year's Revolution in 2006 and a Last Man Standing match at Backlash in 2009. The quality evidence is spread wider than the decade table suggests: a 4.75-star TLC tag match at WrestleMania X-Seven in 2001, a 4.5-star Hell in a Cell loss to The Undertaker at SummerSlam in 2008 alongside a 5.0-star tag title change at AEW's Double or Nothing in 2026, twenty-five years after the first of them.
Big match #9 on a career that is 626-623-28, a 49.0% win rate, and the tension between those two numbers is the entry. The model has him in the important matches consistently and the results come back even. Ten elite seasons and ten good ones is the flattest such split in the top twenty, and a career K-WAR of 111.6 ranks #21, one place off his overall rank, which is the closest alignment on this page.
The expectation figures pull the other way: wins above expectation #628 and the big-match reading of -1.406 at #2,919. What the evidence holds instead is a run of wins the model did not see coming, three of them against Roman Reigns, including the Universal Championship match at Roadblock in December 2016 at +0.90. Against Sami Zayn the record shows 142 matches for a 71-68 return, the most evenly documented rivalry anywhere inside the top twenty, and their 5.0-star match at Elimination Chamber in 2025 is his highest-rated.
A 47.3% win rate, 619-658-31, which is the only losing record in the top twenty, and Big match still ranks #10 with Network at #9. The model rates being placed in consequential matches, and it separates that cleanly from winning them. The career is heavily back-loaded: 8.2 in the 2000s, 34.9 in the 2010s, then 58.7 in the 2020s at #6 for the decade, with the 2020-2024 window worth 44.8% of everything positive on the ledger.
Titles is the weak component at #60 on a championship value of 90.9, the lowest in this assignment, and only 63 of 104 title-match wins had a top-decile belt on the line. His single most valuable win is the WWE Championship taken from Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 36 in 2020, at +0.85 expectation and maximum importance. The best-rated matches are both losses, a 5.0-star triple-threat with WALTER at WrestleMania 39 and a 5.0-star Hell in a Cell against CM Punk at Bad Blood in 2024 that lifted quality by 2.38.
All 153 of his title-match wins had a top-decile belt on the line, which is what carries Titles to #13 against a #21 overall placing, and Longevity #10 across a span the corpus runs from 1997 to 2026 in four decades. The record underneath is 560-565-35, a 48.3% win rate, and career K-WAR of 115.2 ranks #18. The 2000s do most of the work at 68.2 and a #5 rank for the decade, with 715 of his 1,161 documented matches falling inside them.
Wins above expectation is -4.586 at #3,755, which is 3,734 places below his overall rank and the widest such gap on this page. The model had him favoured far more often than the results supported. Two title changes anchor the file at opposite ends of the career: taking the World Heavyweight Championship from Randy Orton at Money in the Bank in 2011, and taking the AEW TNT Championship from Edge at Worlds End in 2023. His two highest-rated matches are both AEW tags, a 5.0-star six-man at Full Gear in 2021 and a 5.0-star street fight at Double or Nothing in 2026.
Quality-added of 1.356 is the highest figure in the corpus, rank #1 outright, and Quality as a component ranks #4, twenty-one clear of the overall placing. Dominance is #6 on a 68.6% win rate, 528-194-47 across only 770 documented matches, which is the smallest match count in the top twenty-five by a wide margin. The model reads him as the most reliable single improver of a match it has, and then declines to put him higher because there is not very much of it.
Titles is the reason, at #73 off a championship value of 80.565, fifty-one places below the overall placing. Coverage is thin too: documented in 24 of 34 span years, 70.6%. The quality evidence is extraordinary even so, three of the largest lifts anywhere in the corpus. A 4.5-star no-holds-barred title match with Kevin Nash at In Your House 7 in 1996 lifted quality by 3.34, the Hell in a Cell against The Undertaker at Badd Blood in 1997 by 3.17, and the 5.0-star ladder match with Scott Hall at WrestleMania X by 3.00.
Career K-WAR of 120.3 ranks #12, eleven places above his overall position, on a ledger with twelve elite seasons and twelve good ones, which is the most evenly balanced split in the top twenty-five. Longevity #9, Dominance #20, Titles #16, and 33 documented years with a match in every one of them from 1994 to 2026. The 2000s and 2010s are worth 53.1 and 52.5 respectively, an almost identical two decades either side of a promotion change.
Quality is the one that drags, #160 on quality-added against #23 overall. The best-rated matches in his file are all tag matches he lost, the 4.75-star TLC at WrestleMania X-Seven in 2001 and the four-way TLC on Smackdown a month later. What the model rewards instead is what he was booked to win: taking the WWE Championship from Edge and Triple H in a triple-threat at Armageddon in 2008, and the TNA World Heavyweight Title from Austin Aries at Bound for Glory in 2012, both at maximum importance.
Quality-added of 1.325 comes in at #2 overall in the corpus, behind only Shawn Michaels, and Quality as a component ranks #5, twenty-two up on the overall figure. Wins above expectation is #23, one place better than his overall rank, which is the only positive delta of that kind on this page. The 2000s are worth 72.2 and rank #3 for the decade; the 1990s another 48.9 from 701 matches, so the score is split almost evenly across two eras and two continents. Career K-WAR of 119.6 ranks #14, ten places above overall, from 1,301 documented matches at 59.1%.
Titles is the counterweight at #72 with championship value at 80.8, forty-eight places below overall, off 81 title-match wins. The evidence runs across three countries: a 5.0-star win over The Great Sasuke in the 1994 Super J Cup for New Japan, a 4.75-star match with Jushin Thunder Liger in the 1992 G1 Climax, a falls-count-anywhere match with Kevin Sullivan at the 1996 Great American Bash that lifted quality by 2.85, and the WrestleMania XX triple-threat that took the World Heavyweight Championship from Shawn Michaels and Triple H. Against Liger the corpus logs 94 matches.
2,060 documented matches, the largest count anywhere in the top twenty-five, and a record of 1018-1006-34 that is almost exactly even at 49.4%. Career rank and overall rank are both #25, the only exact alignment on this page. Titles ranks #19 and Big match #17, both above his overall standing, out of 225 title-match wins with 173 of them with top-decile belts at stake. Longevity is #16 across 27 documented years, and the model scores twelve of those seasons elite with another eight good.
Quality-added is #170 and Dominance #105, each more than eighty places below overall, which is the profile of someone the model sees everywhere and rates as merely good in the ring. The decade table shows a career that took a long time to register: 3.0 across 479 matches in the 2000s, ranked #226 for the decade, then 61.1 in the 2010s and 41.0 in the 2020s. His two highest-rated matches are both multi-man and both 5.0-star, the Anarchy in the Arena at Double or Nothing in 2023 and a six-man title match at New Japan's Dominion the following week.
A 45.4% win rate, 838-977-29 across 1,846 documented matches, and Titles still ranks #12, fourteen past the overall placing, and championship value of 177.7 off 172 title-match victories, with 166 rated top-decile. That combination is the entry. Losing more than he won did not stop the model recording him inside its top twelve for championships, because what it counts is the belt on the line rather than the result, and the 2010s alone are worth 71.0 across 1,294 matches.
Quality-added is #206 and big-match WAE is -5.242 at #3,719, both a long way below his overall rank. The 2010s carry 71.0 of the total across 1,294 matches; the 2000s gave him 1.8 across 261. Two wins hold the file up, the Money in the Bank cash-in on John Cena at TLC in 2012 at +0.96 expectation, and taking the World Heavyweight Championship from Alberto Del Rio on Raw the following April. Against Cena over the whole span the record shows 75 matches for a 4-68 return.
1,903 documented matches at 56.7%, most of them in Japan, and a career K-WAR of 105.2 ranks #24, three places above his overall standing. Against Hiroshi Tanahashi the record shows 291 matches for a 125-162 return, and against Togi Makabe another 266 at 134-128. Those are the two largest documented head-to-heads anywhere inside the top thirty, and neither would exist in a corpus that only counted WWE. Longevity ranks #19 across 25 documented years, with eleven elite seasons and nine good ones.
Big-match WAE of -16.404 ranks #3,951, close to the bottom of the qualified pool and the weakest such figure in this assignment. Titles is #56 and championship value of 97.1, though 82 of the 83 title-match wins came against top-decile belts. The best-rated evidence is all New Japan: a 5.0-star IWGP Intercontinental match with Kota Ibushi at Wrestle Kingdom 9 in 2015 alongside a 5.0-star G1 Climax final lost to Tanahashi that August. Against Cody Rhodes the record is 0-28 spread across 28 matches.
Wins above expectation ranks #58 against a #28 overall placing, on a 61.5% win rate and only 10 draws in 1,466 matches. The decade table is the sharpest break in this assignment: -9.2 over 311 matches in the 2000s, ranked #862 for the decade, then 60.5 in the 2010s and 41.3 in the 2020s. Career K-WAR of 92.6 ranks #34, six places below overall, because the first third of the span is a net negative.
Quality-added is #154 and Dominance #46, both below his overall rank, and only 98 of 145 title-match victories put a top-decile belt at stake. The evidence splits neatly between two careers: a 4.5-star IWGP Junior Heavyweight triple-threat at Wrestle Kingdom 7 in 2013 and 115 documented matches against Gedo on one side, an NXT Championship taken from Kevin Owens at Beast in the East in 2015 and a 4.5-star I Quit match with Edge at Extreme Rules in 2022 on the other.
The 2020s are worth more to him than the 2010s, 47.0 against 44.5, and rank #12 for the decade against #34. His best five-year window is 2022-2026 and his single best season is 2024, which makes this one of the few careers in the top thirty still pointing upward at the edge of the corpus. Titles ranks #24 and Big match #26, both above his #29 overall, with wins above expectation is #64 on 16.151. Career K-WAR of 96.5 ranks #31 across 23 documented years.
Dominance is the drag at #132 on a 47.1% win rate, 648-704-23, and only 70 from 117 title-match victories put a top-decile belt at stake. His most valuable win is also his most recent, taking the Undisputed WWE Championship from Cody Rhodes and WALTER in a triple-threat at Night of Champions in 2026 at +0.92 and maximum importance. Against Kevin Owens the corpus logs 142 matches, 68-71, and their 5.0-star match at Elimination Chamber in 2025 is among the highest-rated in either file.
Wins above expectation of 29.915 comes in at #3 overall in the corpus, twenty-seven clear of the overall placing and the only strongly positive delta on this page. The model consistently did not expect him to win and he did, 828-551-15 for a 59.4% rate. Twelve elite seasons against three merely good is the most top-heavy split in this assignment, and big-match value of 10.656 ranks #121 while Quality sits #107 on quality-added. Career K-WAR of 93.6 ranks #32 across 21 documented years.
Everything that counts status runs the other way. Dominance ranks #255, two hundred and twenty-five places below overall, Titles #65, and only 51 of the 113 title-match wins were for top-decile belts. The decade table has the same late shape as several careers here: 0.7 from 132 matches in the 2000s, then 49.2 and 43.6. The evidence starts on the American independents, beating Chuck Taylor at CZW's Best of the Best in 2007 and for the CHIKARA Young Lions Cup that October, and reaches an Intercontinental title win over WALTER on a 2023 house show.
The top-ranked wrestler of the 1990s by this model at 83.6, and it is very nearly the whole file: the 1991-1995 window takes 54.9% of all the positive seasons and sits #6 across the corpus at 49.6. Quality ranks #5 from a quality-added number of 1.136, twenty-six up on the overall figure, and Dominance #8 on a 69.0% record, 487-179-40. All 124 title-match wins had a top-decile belt on the line.
Career K-WAR of 74.2 ranks only #49, eighteen places below overall, because there are only 706 documented matches and the decades either side of the peak contribute almost nothing. Network is the weak component at #92. The quality evidence is unusually strong for someone this far down the list: a 5.0-star steel cage match with Owen Hart at SummerSlam in 1994, the 5.0-star submission match with Steve Austin at WrestleMania 13, and a Royal Rumble 1995 loss to Kevin Nash that the model scores as a quality lift of 3.15.
Twelve elite seasons and no merely good ones, a split that separates him from everyone around him on this board. Quality ranks #3 off a quality-added reading of 1.206, twenty-nine up on the overall figure, and the 2020s are worth 63.5 at #2 for the decade against 29.1 for the whole of the 2010s. Only 15 documented years and 890 matches, a small body of work for this position, while wins above expectation still ranks #60 on 16.542.
Titles is what holds it, #137 off a championship value of 52.1, and only 22 of his 70 title-match victories had a top-decile belt on the line. What the file holds instead is the highest-rated match in the corpus outside of one: a 6.5-star win over Daniel Bryan at AEW's Dynasty in 2024 that lifted quality by 2.63. Around it sit a 6.25-star title change lost to Kenny Omega at Wrestle Kingdom 17, a 6.0-star loss to Tetsuya Naito in the 2023 G1 Climax, and a 6.0-star win over Omega at Forbidden Door that took the IWGP United States Championship.
A 46.7% win rate, 804-902-14, while Wins above expectation reads -16.055 that ranks #3,964, which is 3,928 short of the overall figure and the largest gap of that kind in the top thirty-five. Quality is the reason he is here at all, #10 as a component and #37 on quality-added, with fourteen elite seasons against a single good one. The 2000s are worth -14.8 over 216 matches, ranked #1,205 for the decade.
His file carries the highest-rated match in the corpus, the 7.0-star two-out-of-three-falls IWGP Heavyweight title change lost to Kenny Omega at Dominion in June 2018, worth a quality lift of 3.00. The 6.25-star match against Omega a year earlier and a 6.0-star win over Hiroshi Tanahashi at Wrestle Kingdom 20 in 2026 sit beside it. Against Tetsuya Naito the corpus holds 301 matches at 97-201, the largest single head-to-head anywhere on this board.
580 documented matches, the smallest count in the top thirty-five, and the 1998-2002 window carries 53.4% of everything positive on the ledger. Dominance ranks #11, twenty-three better than the overall rank, and all 94 of his title-match wins put a top-decile belt at stake. The 1990s are worth 50.7 at #5 for the decade; the 2000s add 23.3 across 175 matches and then the record effectively stops. Quality ranks #36 on quality-added and Big match #63, with nine elite seasons and two good ones.
Career K-WAR of 74.4 ranks #48, fourteen places below overall, and wins above expectation is #449. The most valuable win in the file is the WWF World Heavyweight Title taken from The Rock at WrestleMania X-Seven in 2001, at maximum importance. The quality evidence is mostly losses: a 5.0-star submission match with Bret Hart at WrestleMania 13, a Three Stages of Hell against Triple H at No Way Out in 2001, and a Caribbean Strap match with Savio Vega in 1996 that the model scores as a lift of 3.13. Against The Undertaker the corpus records 65 matches at 39-23.
The highest-placed woman on this board, at #36, and the shape of the file is a single run: the 2021-2025 window carries 51.4% of everything positive on the ledger, and the 2020s are worth 46.9 at #14 for the decade against 26.0 for the whole of the 2010s. Titles ranks #19, seventeen places above her overall standing, on 109 title-match wins with 78 of them involving a top-decile belt. Career K-WAR of 71.9 ranks #54 because there are only 761 documented matches behind it, the second-smallest count in the top forty.
Dominance is the drag at #159 on a 61.6% record, 469-271-21, and Network sits #81. The most valuable win in the file is the WrestleMania 35 triple-threat that took both women's championships from Charlotte Flair and Ronda Rousey. The quality evidence runs alongside it: a 4.75-star last woman standing match with Charlotte Flair at Evolution in 2018, a steel cage match with Trish Stratus at Payback in 2023 that lifted quality by 2.15, and a title change lost to Asuka in a TLC three-way. Against Bianca BelAir the corpus records 75 matches at 35-35.
A championship value of 297.100 sits #2 across the corpus, behind John Cena alone, and Titles as a component ranks #2 against a #35 overall placing, a gap of thirty-three places in his favour. Dominance is #8 on a 65.0% record across 1,282 matches, and the span runs 35 documented years from 1992 to 2026 in four decades. Almost everything about how he was booked reads as top-ten, including a the big-match reading of 12.475 at #75 and the wins-above-expectation figure at #48.
Quality is the offset, #263 on quality-added, two hundred and twenty-eight adrift of the overall rank and the widest such gap in this assignment. The model sees a career carrying an enormous amount of gold and rates the matches themselves as ordinary. His best single year, 2001, is worth 11.7 and ranks #8, inside a 1999-2003 window worth 42.1 and 38.6% of the positive ledger. Nine elite seasons and eight good ones is a flat distribution for someone with this much hardware.
Wins above expectation ranks #35, two up on the overall figure, which is the only positive delta in his profile, and Titles ranks #26 on 197 title-match wins. The record is 904-463-12, a 65.6% rate across 1,380 documented matches spread over three decades and at least four promotions. His strongest year is 2017 at 10.1, inside a 2013-2017 window worth 43.5% of the positive ledger, and the 2010s carry 52.5 of the total against 4.6 for the 2000s.
Quality-added is #161 and Dominance #125, both more than eighty adrift of the overall rank, so the model reads him as a consistent winner rather than a match-maker. The single most valuable win in the file is the United States Championship open challenge against John Cena on Raw in May 2015, at +0.97 expectation, the highest figure of that kind on this page. The best-rated evidence is AEW and later: a 5.5-star loss to Will Ospreay at All Out in 2024 and a 5.0-star tag title match against the Young Bucks in 2021.
Titles ranks #15 against a #38 overall placing, twenty-three places in his favour, with championship value at 163.9 from 171 title-match wins and 149 against top-decile belts. That is the entry: an enormous amount of gold across ROH, TNA and the American independents. Career K-WAR of 71.6 ranks only #55, seventeen places below overall, on 944 documented matches, and the 2020s have given him -7.2 from 25 matches, ranked #1,053 for the decade.
Both expectation figures are poor. Wins above expectation is 0.535 at #2,123 and big-match WAE is -13.756 at #3,937, near the bottom of the qualified pool. The evidence is mostly title changes he was favoured to win, the TNA X-Division Title from Brian Kendrick in 2011 and the TNA World Heavyweight Title from Bobby Roode at Destination X in 2012. The best-rated matches are older and both Ring of Honor: a 4.75-star world title loss to Nigel McGuinness at Rising Above in 2007 and an I Quit match with Jimmy Jacobs a year later.
Quality ranks #11 as a component and #46 on quality-added, seven places above the overall rank, and it is doing nearly all the work. Dominance ranks #383, three hundred and forty-four places below overall, which is the widest gap of that kind among the top forty. The record is 875-709-26 across 1,610 documented matches, and only 31 of the 92 title-match wins carried a top-decile belt, which puts Titles at #89.
The career points steadily upward: -5.0 in the 2000s, 32.6 in the 2010s, then 51.4 in the 2020s at #8 for the decade, with the 2022-2026 window worth 46.0% of the positive ledger. His two highest-rated matches are both 5.5-star losses in the same fortnight of 2023, to Daniel Bryan at AEW's WrestleDream and to Will Ospreay for the IWGP United States Championship at Royal Quest III. He also took the RevPro British Heavyweight Title from A.J. Styles in 2016 at +0.74 expectation.
Eight elite seasons and fourteen good ones, which is the most bottom-heavy split among the top forty and exactly what a career K-WAR of 97.0 at rank #30 is built from, ten places above his overall standing. Longevity ranks #21 across 33 documented years from 1994 to 2026 in four decades, with wins above expectation ranks #49. His best five-year window is worth only 29.6% of the positive ledger and ranks #80, so almost none of this is a peak.
Quality-added is #167 and Network #66, both well below overall. The model reads a long, dependable, rarely spectacular record: 1,603 documented matches at 52.5%, 841-715-46. Dominance ranks #37 and Titles #47 with championship value at 102.1. This is the profile of accumulation rather than a run, and it is the reason he outranks several wrestlers on this page whose single best years are far better than his 9.1 in 2008.
A 44.8% win rate, 484-574-21, with The wins-above-expectation reading of -2.766 that ranks #3,539, which is 3,498 beneath the career rank and the widest gap in this assignment. What holds the entry up is Big match at #43 and Titles at #49, on 141 title-match wins and 137 of them on top-decile belts. Career K-WAR of 73.4 ranks #52, and the 2010s carry 59.9 of the total across 746 documented matches against 11.5 for the 2000s and 2.0 for the 2020s.
Quality-added is #166, one hundred and twenty-five places below overall, and six elite seasons against nine merely good ones is a shallow ledger for this position. The evidence is almost entirely TNA and NXT title changes: the NXT Championship taken from Shinsuke Nakamura at TakeOver: San Antonio in 2017 at +0.92 expectation, the TNA World Heavyweight Title from Bobby Lashley in 2014, and a steel cage defence against James Storm at Lockdown in 2012. His best-rated match is the 4.5-star loss of that title to Austin Aries at Destination X.
Titles ranks #11 against a #42 overall placing, thirty-one places in her favour, and championship value of 179.0 built off 182 title-match victories, with 157 against top-decile belts. Big match is #20. By the measures of what she was booked to contest, the model puts her inside its top twenty; by the measures of the wrestling itself it does not. Quality-added ranks #232 and Dominance #227, each around two hundred places below her overall standing.
Only 14 documented years and 895 matches sit behind it, and a career K-WAR of 73.5 ranks #51. Against Sasha Banks the record shows 205 matches at 98-103, the largest women's head-to-head on this board, and against Bayley another 145 at 43-101. Her most valuable win is the Hell in a Cell match that took the Raw Women's Title from Banks in 2016, at maximum importance. Three of her four best-rated matches are losses: to Becky Lynch at Evolution, to Rhea Ripley at WrestleMania 39, and to Ronda Rousey at Survivor Series in 2018.
2,712 documented matches, the largest count in the top fifty, while The wins-above-expectation reading of 26.771 that is #9 corpus-wide, thirty-four clear of the overall placing. Quality ranks #25 on quality-added, eighteen places above. The model reads him as a wrestler who won far more than the odds suggested and improved the matches while doing it, across a career the old snapshot of this corpus did not contain at all: Dragon Gate first, then New Japan.
Titles is the offset, #188 off a championship value of 41.0, with only 17 of 69 title-match victories carrying top-decile belts, and Dominance ranks #467, four hundred and twenty-four places below overall. The best-rated evidence is all New Japan and mostly against the same opponent: a 6.0-star IWGP World Heavyweight match lost to Will Ospreay at Wrestling Dontaku in 2021 and a 5.75-star loss to him in the 2019 Best of the Super Juniors. Against BxB Hulk the corpus holds 311 matches at 165-141.
302 title-match wins, 299 of them on top-decile belts, which puts Titles at #10 and a championship value of 200.0 thirty-four places above the overall rank. Dominance ranks #28, Network #31 and Big match #31, all comfortably inside the top forty. Career K-WAR of 88.5 ranks #36, eight places better than overall, across 1,725 documented matches at 56.7% and 21 years the corpus holds in full, with seven elite seasons and eleven good ones behind it.
Quality is the outlier and it is severe: #430 off a quality-added reading of 0.299, three hundred and eighty-six places below the overall placing, easily the widest such gap on this page. The single most valuable match in the file is the WWE World Championship taken from Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania 35 in 2019. Against Claudio Castagnoli the corpus holds 140 matches at 76-61, and the two highest quality lifts in his file both come from that pairing on Main Event tapings in 2013.
Dominance ranks #9, thirty-six places above the overall rank, on a 61.3% record across only 447 documented matches, which is the smallest body of work in the top fifty. He is third in the 1980s at 35.1 and fourteenth in the 1990s at 36.6, and the 1985-1989 window accounts for 49.6% of everything the ledger counts positive. Career K-WAR of 61.7 ranks #76, thirty-one places below overall, because there is so little of it.
The expectation figures are among the weakest here. Wins above expectation is -4.096 at #3,725 and big-match WAE is -6.887 at #3,823. Quality-added ranks #365 and Titles #124 with championship value at 55.7, so neither the ratings nor the gold support the placing. What does is the win rate against the field he was placed in, and a peak the model scores as elite in six separate seasons across two decades.
Titles ranks #27 against a #46 overall placing on 207 title-match wins, 198 of them rated top-decile, while wins above expectation ranks #40, six places above overall. Career K-WAR of 80.9 ranks #41, also above. The model likes almost everything about how he has been used across 1,393 documented matches at 55.4%, and the 2020s are worth more than the 2010s, 44.4 against 36.5, with the 2022-2026 window carrying 43.3% of the positive ledger.
Quality-added is #178 and Dominance #113, the two places the file gives ground. His most valuable win is the World Heavyweight Championship taken from WALTER at WrestleMania 41 in 2025 at +0.79 expectation, and the Intercontinental Championship taken from Bron Breakker on Raw in 2024 is his highest quality lift at +1.26. The best-rated match in the file is a 5.0-star tag title loss to Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn at WrestleMania 39. Against Kofi Kingston the corpus holds 132 matches at 68-62.
A the big-match reading of 38.819 sits #1 across the corpus outright. When the card said the stakes were highest, no documented career beat expectation by more. That figure, and a Quality component at #15, are what put a 53.0% win rate this high: 2,932 documented matches, 1554-1337-41, which is the largest match count anywhere inside the top fifty. Career K-WAR of 103.2 ranks #26, twenty-one places above the overall rank.
Dominance ranks #574, five hundred and twenty-seven places below overall and the widest gap of that kind on this board, because losing that often is exactly what the component measures. Titles is #69 with only 59 of 96 title-match victories at top-decile belts. The evidence is New Japan from end to end: a 5.75-star IWGP Heavyweight title change against Kenny Omega at WrestleKingdom 13, a 6.0-star loss to Kazuchika Okada at Wrestle Kingdom 20 in 2026, and 291 documented matches against Shinsuke Nakamura at 162-125.
The 2018-2022 window accounts for 59.3% of everything the ledger counts positive, the most concentrated career among the top fifty, across only 12 documented years and 747 matches. A 66.7% win rate, 498-234-15, puts Dominance at #44, and Quality-added ranks #94. Career K-WAR of 63.1 ranks only #73, twenty-five beneath the career rank, because there is very little outside the window. Longevity ranks #87 and Network #53, with seven elite seasons against four good ones.
Titles is the weak point at #160 with championship value at 45.9, with only 32 from 80 title-match victories carrying top-decile belts, and big-match value of -6.880 ranks #3,822. The evidence is mostly independent and NXT: the EVOLVE Title taken from Zack Sabre Jr. in 2018, a 4.75-star loss to the same opponent at PWG a fortnight earlier, a 4.75-star loss to Will Ospreay in Ireland that May, and a 4.5-star match with Roderick Strong at TakeOver XXV. Against WALTER the corpus logs 28 matches at 16-11.
Big-match WAE ranks #41 and Titles #37, both well above his #49 overall, on 114 title-match wins from 725 documented matches, which is a small body of work for this position. The 2010s carry 51.0 of the total across 595 matches; the 2000s gave him -4.2 across 25. Eight elite seasons and seven good ones sit inside an 18-year span the corpus documents from 2008 to 2025, and his best single year, 2019, is worth 9.1 at rank #60.
Dominance ranks #242 and Quality-added #157, each more than a hundred places below overall, on a 53.4% record. The file is anchored by one rivalry and one promotion: a 5.5-star two-out-of-three-falls NXT Championship loss to Johnny Gargano at TakeOver: New York in 2019, then a 5.25-star win over him to take the title back at TakeOver XXV eight weeks later. Around them, the PWG Title taken from Kevin Owens in 2012, the ROH World Heavyweight Title from Jay Lethal in 2016, and the AEW TNT Championship from Daniel Garcia in 2025.
Career K-WAR of 85.1 ranks #38, twelve clear of the overall placing, built the slow way: 1,000 documented matches across 26 years, seven elite seasons and eleven good ones, and a best five-year window worth only 35.0% of the positive ledger and ranked #84. Titles ranks #29 and Longevity #37, the two components carrying the entry, on a championship value of 106.2 and a record of 529-448-23 at 52.9% across three decades.
Wins above expectation is 1.994 at #1,468, which is 1,418 places below overall, and quality-added ranks #258. The model reads a long career of being roughly where the odds put him. Big-match WAE of 9.454 at #163 is the better of his two expectation figures, and his best single year, 2015, is worth only 8.0 and ranks #107, which is the lowest peak of anyone in this assignment. This is accumulation rather than a run, and the ranking is built almost entirely on how much of it there is.
Quality ranks #13 as a component and #12 on quality-added, thirty-nine places above his overall standing, which is the widest positive gap on this page. Career K-WAR of 79.4 ranks #42, nine places above. Against that, Big match ranks #234 and Dominance #169, and there are only 714 documented matches behind the whole thing, a small body of work for this position. Titles ranks #97, with 47 of 82 title-match victories against top-decile belts, and the 2000s are worth -6.5 from 90 matches.
The file holds the other half of the highest-rated match in the corpus: the 7.0-star two-out-of-three-falls win over Kazuchika Okada at Dominion in June 2018 that took the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, scored as a quality lift of 3.12. The 6.25-star loss to Okada a year earlier and a 5.75-star G1 Climax final lost to Tetsuya Naito in 2017 sit beside it. Against Okada the corpus logs 67 matches at 27-39.
Titles ranks #35 and Big match #49, both above her #52 overall, and eight elite seasons against only two merely good ones is the most top-heavy split among the women on this board. The 2020s are worth 39.8 at #26 for the decade against 27.4 across the whole of the 2010s, and her peak single year is 2025, at the far edge of what the corpus documents, worth 9.5 at rank #46. Big-match WAE ranks #96 and wins above expectation #259.
Dominance ranks #118 and career K-WAR of 67.2 ranks #64, twelve places below overall, on 776 documented matches. What the evidence shows is a career the old corpus could not have described: an AEW TBS Championship taken from Willow Nightingale at Double or Nothing in 2024, the IWGP Women's Title from Kairi Sane at Battle in the Valley in 2023, a 4.75-star NJPW STRONG Women's Title win over Hazuki, and a 4.75-star AEW Women's Championship loss to Toni Storm at All In: Texas. Against Charlotte Flair the corpus records 205 matches at 103-98.
The 1998-2002 window holds 79.4% of the positive total, which is by a distance the most concentrated career on this board. Career K-WAR of 51.1 ranks only #106, fifty-three short of the overall figure, because there are 544 documented matches and 14 years with any at all. Dominance ranks #22, thirty-one places above overall, and all 52 title-match wins came against top-decile belts. Quality-added ranks #82 while wins above expectation #251.
Longevity is the component that suffers most at #159, and Titles #130. His best single year, 2001, is worth 10.9 and ranks #20, which is a top-twenty peak attached to a hundred-and-sixth-ranked career total. The most valuable win in the file is the WWF World Heavyweight Title taken from Triple H at Backlash in 2000 at maximum importance. Against Steve Austin the corpus holds 56 matches at 12-39 at a mean opponent rating of 2329.3.
Quality ranks #21 on a quality-added figure of 0.945, thirty-three places above her overall standing and the strongest single number in the file. The 2020s are worth 45.5 at #16 for the decade against 19.5 for the whole of the 2010s, and the 2022-2026 window carries 51.7% of everything positive. Career K-WAR of 58.8 ranks #80, twenty-six places below overall, across 777 documented matches at 56.6%, with six elite seasons and eight good ones.
Network ranks #178 and Dominance #263, and only 27 of her 122 title-match wins carried a top-decile belt, which puts Titles at #100. The two most valuable wins are both title changes at high importance, the WWE Women's Championship taken from Bianca BelAir at SummerSlam in 2023 at +0.92 and the Women's World Title from Rhea Ripley on Raw in 2025. Her best-rated match is the 5.0-star triple-threat with BelAir and Ripley at WrestleMania 41, and the corpus also holds a 4.75-star Marigold match with Utami Hayashishita.
Wins above expectation of 25.272 is #13 corpus-wide, forty-two clear of the overall placing, across 2,177 documented matches at 60.3%, 1312-842-21. That is the entry: a very large record in which he beat the odds far more often than not. Quality ranks #43 and Longevity #37, and the model scores nine of his 21 documented seasons elite with seven more good. Quality-added ranks #164 and his 2016-2020 window holds 40.1% of the positive ledger.
Big match ranks #172 and Titles #153, the two components that hold him at #55 rather than higher, and the peak single year is worth only 7.1 at rank #156, which is the lowest peak in this assignment. Career K-WAR of 71.5 ranks #56, almost exactly in line with overall. This is a career the model reads as broad and consistent rather than spiked, and the volume of New Japan tour dates now in the corpus is why that shape is visible at all.
Titles ranks #205 off a championship value of 37.6, with only 25 from 40 title-match victories against top-decile belts, which is the lowest such figure in the top sixty. What carries the entry instead is spread and persistence: 921 documented matches across CMLL, NXT, WWE and AEW, a Big match component at #66 and a Quality component at #71, and four elite seasons with ten more the model scores as good. The 2020s are worth 37.8 at #34 for the decade against 32.1 for the whole of the 2010s.
Career K-WAR of 70.0 ranks #60, in line with overall, and the peak single year is 2026, the last year the corpus holds. The evidence tracks the move north and back again: a mask-versus-mask loss to Atlantis at CMLL's 82nd Anniversary Show in 2015, the NXT Championship taken from Drew McIntyre at TakeOver: WarGames in 2017 at +0.93, a 5.0-star defence against Johnny Gargano two months later, the United States Championship from Rey Mysterio at Madison Square Garden in 2019, plus a 5.0-star win over Bandido at AEW Revolution in 2026.
Titles ranks #12 against a #57 overall placing, forty-five places in his favour, and championship value of 121.6 out of 138 title-match victories, with 124 against top-decile belts. Career K-WAR of 78.4 ranks #44, thirteen places above. Dominance #49, Network #52 and Big match #48 all sit comfortably inside the top sixty. By the measures of what he was trusted with, this is a considerably higher-ranked career than #57, and Longevity at #51 spans 24 documented years.
Quality is what pulls it back, #285 from a quality-added number of 0.427, two hundred and twenty-eight places below overall, and the wins-above-expectation figure is -2.150 at #3,411. The evidence spans four promotions and twenty years: the ECW World Heavyweight Title taken from CM Punk in 2007, the Impact Wrestling World Title from Austin Aries at Bound for Glory in 2018, a 4.0-star ladder match with Sheamus at TLC in 2010, and a hair-versus-hair loss to Angel de Oro on CMLL's Super Viernes in 2026. Against John Cena the record shows 12 matches and no wins.
The 2021-2025 window holds 66.5% of the positive total, with career K-WAR of 47.9 ranks only #117, fifty-six short of the overall figure. That is the shape of a career the model rates almost entirely on one run: the 2010s are worth 3.3 over 174 matches and rank #335 for the decade, while the 2020s are worth 44.6 and rank #19. Dominance ranks #56 on a 58.2% record across 582 documented matches.
Quality-added ranks #308 and Longevity #123, the two components that keep the total down. Titles is #66 with 79 of 87 title-match victories with top-decile belts at stake. The evidence is concentrated in eighteen months: the World Heavyweight Championship taken from Drew McIntyre at WrestleMania XL in 2024 at +0.78, defences against Jey Uso at Backlash France and McIntyre again at Clash at the Castle, and a 4.5-star street fight lost to Bad Bunny at Backlash in 2023. Against Cody Rhodes the corpus holds 31 matches at 2-29.
Dominance 99.9 at #2 in the corpus, on a 72.1% win rate across 1,189 documented matches, 857-253-77, and Network #8. Career K-WAR of 105.5 ranks #23, thirty-five up on the overall figure, and all 103 title-match wins had a top-decile belt on the line. Longevity is #10 across 33 documented years. On every measure of standing, this is a top-twenty-five career, and eleven elite seasons with thirteen good ones is the broadest ledger in this assignment.
Quality is the single reason he is at #58 and not far higher: #599 from a quality-added number of 0.185, five hundred and forty-one adrift of the overall rank, the largest gap of that kind anywhere on this board. The model watched him win almost everything and rated the matches themselves as ordinary. The exceptions are famous and few: a 5.0-star Hell in a Cell loss to Shawn Michaels at Badd Blood in 1997, their WrestleMania XXV rematch, and the Hell in a Cell with Triple H at WrestleMania XXVIII. Against Kane the record shows 83 matches at 61-13.
Career K-WAR of 75.4 ranks #46, thirteen places above his overall standing, while wins above expectation ranks #85. Longevity is #37 across 25 documented years and 1,368 matches. The ledger is unusually flat even for this part of the list: seven elite seasons and eleven good ones, a best five-year window ranked only #112, and a best single year worth 7.0 at rank #168, which is the lowest peak of anyone in the top sixty.
Dominance ranks #289 and quality-added #310, each about two hundred and fifty places below overall, and only 14 of his 133 title-match victories came against top-decile belts, which puts Titles at #106. The evidence is a tour of the American independents and their successors: a win over Matt Hardy for ROH in 2005 at +0.96, a Fight Without Honor with Erick Stevens in 2008, the NXT North American Championship taken from The Velveteen Dream in 2019, and the AEW International Championship from Orange Cassidy at Revolution in 2024.
Only 396 documented matches and 10 years, which is the smallest body of work anywhere in the top sixty, and the model still places her here on the strength of Big match at #50 and Titles at #59. A 61.6% win rate, 244-143-9, gives Dominance #99. Longevity ranks #142 and Network #100, both a long way below her overall standing, because there simply has not been time for either, and the 2017 start date is the whole explanation.
Quality-added ranks #129, and what the file leans on is a short run of high-importance matches rather than accumulation. The corpus documents her only from 2017, so every figure here is a partial career being measured against wrestlers with three decades on the ledger. That she reaches #60 on this evidence is the finding; the components that would normally carry someone this high, Longevity and Network, are the two she has least of.
Big-match WAE of 15.015 ranks #45, seventeen better than the overall rank and easily the strongest number in the file. Career K-WAR of 70.8 ranks #57 across 27 documented years and 1,097 matches. Everything else runs the other way: Dominance #310 on a 48.3% record, quality-added #176, and only three elite seasons against eleven the model scores as merely good, which is the shallowest peak in this assignment. His top single year comes to 7.5 at rank #136, and the 2008-2012 window carries 39.0% of the positive ledger.
Titles ranks #87 with 56 of 108 title-match wins rated top-decile. The evidence is a long tour of the American second tier: beating John Cena for the UPW Lightweight Title in 2003 at +0.94, a ladder match with Christian at TNA's Genesis in 2007, a 4.75-star ROH tag title ladder war lost to the Young Bucks in 2016, and the TNA International Championship taken from Steve Cutler at Victory Road in 2025. Against A.J. Styles the corpus records 62 matches at 20-39.
Career K-WAR of 48.4 ranks #114, fifty-one places below his overall standing, because the 2021-2025 window carries 57.0% of everything positive and there is not much either side of it. Titles ranks #54 and Dominance #73 on a 61.6% record, 351-200-19 across 570 documented matches. Network is the weakest component at #153, which is what happens when most of a career is spent outside the promotions the corpus documents most heavily.
Only 19 of 104 title-match wins were for top-decile belts, so the championship value of 60.7 ranks #104. The evidence is Impact and TNA almost throughout: the Impact Wrestling World Title taken from Christian at Bound for Glory in 2021, then from Moose at Rebellion the following April. The two best-rated matches in the file are both against Will Ospreay on Impact tapings, a 5.5-star win in January 2024 that lifted quality by 1.85 and a 4.75-star loss three months earlier.
384 documented matches, the smallest count anywhere in the top seventy, and a 51.3% record, 197-184-3, which puts Dominance at #210. The 2022-2026 window carries 66.7% of everything positive on the ledger and career K-WAR of 49.0 ranks #112, forty-eight places below overall. The 2020s alone are worth 47.1 at #11 for the decade against 1.9 across 262 matches for the whole of the 2010s, which ranked #378. Seven elite seasons and three good ones sit inside 12 documented years.
Quality ranks #76 and wins above expectation #166, the two figures holding the entry up, while Titles sits #177 with 29 of 59 title-match wins rated top-decile. The evidence is unusually good for the match count: a 5.75-star sixty-minute Ironman defence of the AEW World Championship against Daniel Bryan at Revolution in 2023, a 5.75-star International Championship win over Will Ospreay in 2024, a 5.5-star mask-versus-title loss to Mistico at CMLL's 92nd Anniversary Show in 2025, and a 4.25-star win over CM Punk on Dynamite.
395 documented matches and 11 years, and the 2022-2026 window holds 59.1% of the positive total. Career K-WAR of 51.4 ranks #104, thirty-eight short of the overall figure, on the same pattern as several careers around him: the 2010s are worth 6.4 and rank #263 for the decade, the 2020s are worth 44.9 and rank #17. Wins above expectation ranks #140 on a 59.7% record, 236-153-6, and the model scores six of his eleven documented seasons elite with three more good.
Titles is the weakest component at #252, off a championship value of 31.6 from only 33 title-match wins. The evidence is AEW almost throughout: the TNT Championship taken from Cody Rhodes at Full Gear in 2020 and from Samoa Joe on Dynamite in 2023 at +0.87, the AEW World Championship from Maxwell Jacob Friedman in 2026, and two 5.0-star matches, a Continental Classic win over Will Ospreay in 2024 and a ten-man Lights Out steel cage at Forbidden Door in 2025.
Quality ranks #52 against a #65 overall placing and his peak year is 2025, worth 9.8 at rank #35, so the model is still watching this career rise at the edge of the corpus. The 2021-2025 window takes 64.8% of all the positive seasons, and a career K-WAR of 48.0 ranks #116, fifty-one places below overall. There are 506 documented matches behind it, 272-229-5, spread across 16 documented years and two decades.
Titles is the weakest component at #261 and Big match #154, which for someone who has held the AEW World Championship is the shape of a career the corpus has caught early rather than one it has finished measuring. Dominance ranks #123 and Longevity #110 across 16 documented years from 2011. Almost every figure in this file is a partial reading, and the parts that are complete, the quality of the matches and the trajectory of the last five years, are the two the model likes most.
Three elite seasons against twelve merely good ones, and a best single year worth 6.3 at rank #228, which is the lowest peak anywhere inside the top seventy. What the model is measuring here is duration and volume: 943 documented matches across 26 years, Dominance at #63 on a 58.4% record, and Longevity at #87. Career K-WAR of 57.2 ranks #85, seventeen down on the overall placing, and the 2020s have given him -4.8 spread across 64 matches, ranked #834 for the decade.
Both expectation figures are poor, wins above expectation at #3,349 and big-match WAE at #3,642, and quality-added ranks #272. The file is almost entirely TNA: the TNA World Heavyweight Title taken from Kurt Angle on an Impact taping in 2011 at +0.85, a Texas Death match lost to Chris Harris at Sacrifice in 2007 that lifted quality by 2.17, and a six-sides-of-steel tag win in 2004. Against Angle across the whole span the record shows 34 matches for a 25-6 return.
Big-match WAE of 21.358 comes in at #14 overall in the corpus, fifty-three places above her overall standing, and Titles ranks #50 with championship value at 103.3. When the model expected her to lose an important match, she frequently did not. Career K-WAR of 48.8 ranks #113 across 894 documented matches at 60.9%, and the two decades are almost level, 22.7 in the 2010s and 26.1 in the 2020s. Her single best year is 2024, worth 8.9 at rank #67.
Quality-added is the outlier at #421, three hundred and fifty-four places below overall, and Dominance ranks #225. The evidence is a long run of title changes at high importance: the NXT Women's Title taken from Sasha Banks at TakeOver: Brooklyn in 2015, the Smackdown Women's Title from Charlotte Flair in 2019, and the WWE Women's Championship from Io Shirai at WrestleMania XL in 2024 at +0.84. Against Nia Jax the corpus logs 170 matches at 140-30; against Bianca BelAir, 74 at 9-62.
Forty documented years across five decades, 1984 to 2023, and 2,063 matches at 62.7%, 1294-738-31. Longevity ranks #46 and Network #68. This is one of the longest continuous records the corpus holds, and almost none of it existed in the previous snapshot, which stopped at six promotions and had no route into All Japan or New Japan at all. Career K-WAR is not the story here; the span is, across 40 years the corpus documents.
Quality ranks #133 and Big match #160, so the model does not read the matches themselves as exceptional by its own scale, and Titles sits #126. What it does read is scale and persistence across a career that spans from the mid-1980s to the 2020s. Dominance ranks #121 on that 62.7% record. The entry at #70 is built on the sheer quantity of documented work rather than on any single peak within it.
The 2022-2026 window accounts for 77.2% of everything the ledger counts positive, which is the most concentrated career among the top seventy. Quality ranks #47 on quality-added, twenty-two places above the overall rank, with wins above expectation #71. Career K-WAR of 43.1 ranks only #134, sixty-five places below overall, because the 2010s are worth -3.0 from 174 matches and rank #629 for the decade, against 46.1 and a #15 rank for the 2020s. There are 596 documented matches in total.
Titles ranks #235 with 24 of those 44 title-match victories for top-decile belts, and Network #175. The evidence is a career the corpus could only describe once DDT, New Japan and AEW were all in it: the DDT Iron Man Heavy Metal Title in 2018, the AEW International Championship taken from Ricochet and Will Ospreay in a 5.5-star three-way at WrestleDream in 2024, a 5.75-star loss to Ospreay at Revolution that March, a 5.0-star G1 Climax win over El Phantasmo, and the same title taken from Kazuchika Okada in 2026.
Big-match WAE of 14.008 ranks #54, twenty-one up on the overall figure, and Dominance #80 is only five places below it. Career K-WAR of 46.4 ranks #120, forty-five places under overall, because the 2022-2026 window carries 66.5% of everything positive and the 2010s are worth 8.3 across 388 matches. There are 608 documented matches in total, 325-278-5, across 15 years and two decades, with four elite seasons and six the model scores as good.
Titles ranks #192 with only 12 of his 60 title-match wins involving a top-decile belt, and quality-added #172. The evidence is AEW and recent: the AEW World Championship taken from Samoa Joe at Dynasty in 2024 at maximum importance, a defence against Christian at Double or Nothing, a 5.5-star defence against Will Ospreay at Forbidden Door in 2024, and a 5.5-star tag match with the Young Bucks at All In: Texas in 2025. He also beat Austin Aries for the DEFY World Championship in 2018.
Career K-WAR of 70.2 ranks #59, twelve better than the overall rank, and Dominance #53, Network #60 and Big match #62 all sit inside the top seventy. The record is 575-549-10 from 1,135 documented matches spanning 27 years, which the corpus holds without a gap. Five elite seasons and ten good ones make for a flat ledger, and his single best season is worth 6.8 at rank #182, one of the lowest peaks on this page.
Quality-added ranks #495, four hundred and twenty-four places below overall and the widest gap in this assignment. The model watched a long, well-placed career and rated very few of the matches highly. The exceptions are ladder matches and multi-mans: the Money in the Bank at WrestleMania 21, a 4.25-star ECW title ladder match lost to Christian at TLC in 2009, a 4.5-star loss to Shawn Michaels on Raw in 2005, then a 4.75-star Stadium Stampede at AEW's Double or Nothing in 2026. He beat Triple H on Raw in 2004 at +0.91.
The 2021-2025 window takes 85.8% of all the positive seasons, the most concentrated career anywhere on this board. Wins above expectation reads 22.990 ranks #18, fifty-four places above her overall standing, and big-match WAE #34. Career K-WAR of 39.0 ranks only #144, seventy-two places below overall, because the 2010s are worth 0.6 spread across 185 matches and rank #446 for the decade. Her best single year, 2022, is worth 11.1 and ranks #17.
Longevity ranks #206 and Dominance #147, the two components a ten-year record cannot supply. Titles is #63 with 80 of her 98 title-match wins carrying top-decile belts. The evidence is three consecutive WrestleManias: the Smackdown Women's Title taken from Sasha Banks in 2021 at maximum importance, the Raw Women's Title from Becky Lynch in 2022 at +0.80, and a 5.0-star triple-threat loss to Io Shirai in 2025. Against Lynch the record shows 75 matches for a 35-35 return.
Titles ranks #47 against a #73 overall placing, twenty-six places in her favour, on 147 title-match wins, though only 22 of those carried a top-decile belt. Dominance is #67 on a 68.7% record, 448-187-17, which is the highest win rate among the women on this board. The two decades are almost level at 31.1 and 30.2, and a career K-WAR of 48.0 ranks #115, forty-two places below overall. Longevity is #110 across 21 documented years, with six elite seasons and four good ones.
Big-match WAE of -7.438 ranks #3,846 and the wins-above-expectation figure #660, so the model had her favoured in the matches that counted and the results did not follow. Quality-added ranks #209. The evidence is mostly multi-person: a 4.5-star three-way TLC that took the Smackdown Women's Title from Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair in 2018, an Elimination Chamber win in 2023 that lifted quality by 1.74, and the Raw Women's Title taken from Bianca BelAir at Night of Champions in 2023 at +0.86.
3,111 documented matches, the largest count anywhere in the KWAR 100, across 36 years and four decades. Wins above expectation reads 27.039 is #8 corpus-wide and a big-match figure of 23.984 ranks #8 as well, each sixty-six up on the overall figure, which are the two widest positive gaps on this board. Career K-WAR of 75.3 ranks #47, twenty-seven places above overall, and Longevity #29. Quality ranks #91 and the 2000s alone are worth 40.7 over 1,070 matches.
Dominance ranks #478, four hundred and four places below overall, on a 54.9% record, and five elite seasons against eighteen good ones is the flattest ledger in the top hundred. None of this career was reachable in the previous corpus. The evidence is New Japan and All Japan throughout: the AJPW Triple Crown taken from Toshiaki Kawada in 2005, both that title and the IWGP Heavyweight Championship four days later, a 4.75-star Triple Crown loss to Genichiro Tenryu in 2002, and 264 documented matches against Yuji Nagata at 173-91.
Two expectation figures inside the corpus top ten: Wins above expectation reads 25.618 at #10 and a big-match figure of 25.533 at #6, each sixty-six up on the overall figure. Titles ranks #25, fifty-one places above, off a championship value of 141.0 built out of 210 title-match victories, 204 of them involving a top-decile belt. The record is 627-428-13 over 1,068 documented matches, and the 2010s carry 40.6 of the total across 935 of them.
Quality-added ranks #384, three hundred and eight places below overall, which is what holds the entry at #76. Career K-WAR of 53.7 ranks #91 across only 14 documented years. The evidence favours multi-man matches: a 4.75-star Money in the Bank win in 2021 over a field of seven, a 4.25-star tag title match at TLC in 2015, and the NXT Championship taken from Seth Rollins in a no-disqualification match in 2012. Against John Cena the corpus holds 9 matches at a mean opponent rating of 2532.2, the strongest opposition in this assignment.
A 70.1% win rate, 457-184-10, which is the highest in this assignment, with Wins above expectation reads 18.730 at #41, thirty-seven places above the overall rank. Dominance ranks #51. Career K-WAR of 55.4 ranks #89 from 652 documented matches spanning 22 years, and the model scores three seasons elite with eleven more good, so this is a broad rather than a spiked record. Longevity ranks #97 and Network #67, and the 2010s carry 33.7 from 420 matches.
Titles ranks #259 with championship value at 30.3, with only 21 of 58 title-match wins putting a top-decile belt at stake, and big-match value of -7.482 ranks #3,849. The evidence starts in Germany and ends in WWE: the wXw Lightweight Title won from a five-way in 2006, the wXw Unified World Title in 2013, a 4.75-star win over Johnny Gargano at TakeOver: WarGames in 2018, an AEW World Trios title change in 2023, and three wins over Damian Priest in 2025 and 2026.
A 42.7% win rate, 560-718-35, and Dominance ranks #302 accordingly, two hundred and twenty-two short of the overall figure. Quality is what puts him here at all, #67 as a component across 1,313 documented matches over 29 years in four decades. Network ranks #102 and Big match #99, and Longevity carries the span. This is a career the model rates largely on how the matches graded rather than on how they ended.
The shape is unusual even among the losing records on this board, because there is no compensating peak: the entry rests on volume of well-rated work across three decades rather than on a run. For a wrestler with more documented losses than wins to reach the top eighty, the quality component has to carry most of the weight, and at 30% of the score it is weighted heavily enough to do so.
Career K-WAR of 59.5 ranks #78, one place off his overall standing, which is the closest alignment in this assignment. The ledger is broad and low: three elite seasons against eleven merely good, a best single year worth 7.6 at rank #131, and a best five-year window ranked #101. What accumulates instead is time, 931 documented matches across 26 years and three decades, with the 2020s his strongest at 31.5.
Dominance ranks #253 and Titles #168, with only 14 of 122 title-match wins against top-decile belts. The evidence is Ring of Honor and its successors throughout: a 5.5-star Double Dog Collar tag title change at Final Battle in 2022, the ROH World Heavyweight Title taken from Eddie Kingston at Supercard of Honor in 2024 at maximum importance, a 5.0-star no-disqualification win over Kyle Fletcher for the AEW TNT Championship at Full Gear in 2025, and a Tables n Tacks match with Maxwell Jacob Friedman.
His strongest year is 2026, the last year the corpus documents, worth 10.0 at rank #33, and the 2022-2026 window accounts for 47.9% of everything positive. Career K-WAR of 46.7 ranks #119, forty places below overall, from 752 documented matches spanning 17 years. Wins above expectation ranks #116 and Dominance #202 on a 58.6% record, 441-304-7. Quality-added ranks #141 and Longevity #97, with six elite seasons and five good ones.
Network ranks #212, the weakest component, which follows from a career spent largely in Lucha Underground, AAA and the American independents before WWE. Titles is #112 with 41 of those 84 title-match victories involving a top-decile belt. The evidence includes two of the highest-rated tag matches in the corpus, a 5.75-star steel cage title change against the Young Bucks at All Out in 2021 and a 5.25-star Escalera de la Muerte against the same pair in 2019, plus a mask-versus-mask win over Villano IV at TripleMania XXX.
2,029 documented matches across 27 years, and a career K-WAR of 66.1 ranks #68, fifteen ahead of the overall rank. The ledger is the flattest in this assignment by some way: two elite seasons against eighteen good ones, a best five-year window ranked #222, and a best single year worth 5.4 at rank #354. Longevity ranks #56 and the wins-above-expectation figure #130 on a 55.7% record, 1131-865-32. The 2000s alone hold 954 documented matches, ahead of 638 in the 2010s and 437 in the 2020s.
Quality-added ranks #458 and Dominance #343, each several hundred places below overall, and Titles sits #181 with 24 of those 64 title-match wins rated top-decile. Almost all of the evidence is Pro Wrestling NOAH and New Japan, promotions the previous corpus did not reach: the GHC Junior Heavyweight Title taken from Yoshinobu Kanemaru at Destiny in 2005, a 4.75-star junior tag title match that June, and the NJPW Strong Openweight Title in 2023. Against Kanemaru the record shows 171 matches at 62-106.
Quality ranks #56 on quality-added, twenty-six ahead of the overall rank, and a big-match figure of 16.435 ranks #35, forty-seven places above. Dominance ranks #601, five hundred and nineteen places below, which is the widest negative gap in this assignment. The model reads someone who consistently raised the level of an important match and did not win a proportionate number of them. Career K-WAR of 53.6 ranks #93 across 841 documented matches.
Titles is #182 with only 10 of 93 title-match victories rated top-decile. The evidence is one rivalry above all: a 5.5-star two-out-of-three-falls NXT Championship win over Adam Cole at TakeOver: New York in 2019, then a 5.25-star loss of it back to him at TakeOver XXV. Around those, a 5.0-star unsanctioned match with Tommaso Ciampa at TakeOver: New Orleans in 2018, and the Dragon Gate Open the Freedom Gate Championship taken from YAMATO in 2011.
Quality ranks #13 on a quality-added figure of 0.992, sixty-eight places above his overall standing, and nine of his eleven scored seasons rate elite with only two merely good. That is a very high hit rate for a career of 812 documented matches. Dominance #77 and Titles #77 both sit slightly above overall, and the 2000-2004 window carries 52.0% of everything positive on the ledger at rank #43. Wins above expectation ranks #310 and big-match WAE #57, with 73 of his 75 title-match wins against top-decile belts.
Big match is the weak component at #328 and career K-WAR of 51.4 ranks #103, because the span stops in 2005 and there are only 20 documented years. The quality evidence covers three promotions and two countries: a 5.0-star mask-versus-hair tag at When Worlds Collide in 1994, a 4.75-star ECW Television Title match with Dean Malenko in 1995, and a 4.75-star mask-versus-title loss to Rey Mysterio at Halloween Havoc in 1997 that lifted quality by 2.47. Against Chris Benoit the corpus records 73 matches at 31-40.
Titles ranks #42 against a #84 overall placing, forty-two places in his favour, with championship value at 111.6 out among 190 title-match victories and 181 of them against top-decile belts. Career rank and overall rank are both #84, an exact match. The record is 725-589-25 from 1,339 documented matches spanning 18 years, with the 2010s carrying 38.2 of the total across 970 of them. Five of his seasons rate elite and six more good, with wins above expectation ranks #158.
Quality-added ranks #143 and big-match WAE is -3.388 at #3,520, so the model sees a career defined by what the tag division was booked to hold rather than by the matches themselves. The best-rated evidence is all tag: a 5.0-star unification title change lost to Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn at WrestleMania 39, a 4.5-star six-person tag at WrestleMania Backlash in 2022, then a 4.5-star defence against the Street Profits. Against John Cena the corpus logs 17 matches and no wins.
Quality ranks #75 as a component and #53 from a quality-added number of 0.785, thirty-two better than the overall rank, and the wins-above-expectation figure of 14.047 ranks #106. Dominance ranks #376 on a 59.3% record, 377-248-11, which is two hundred and ninety-one places below overall. The model rates the matches well and the results only moderately, over 636 documented matches in 14 years from 2013, with four elite seasons and six the model scores as good.
Network is the weakest component at #228 and Titles #169 and championship value of 45.6, which follows a career built largely in British wrestling and NXT UK rather than in the promotions the corpus documents most densely. Career K-WAR of 47.5 ranks #118, thirty-three places below overall, because the 2016-2020 window takes 58.1% of everything positive and there is not much either side of it. His best single year, 2017, is worth 8.3 at rank #92.
2,394 documented matches across 24 years, with Wins above expectation reads 18.469 ranks #45, forty-one ahead of the overall rank. Career K-WAR of 68.0 ranks #61, twenty-five places above. Dominance ranks #641, five hundred and fifty-five places below, which is the widest negative gap in this assignment and follows directly from a 54.9% record built over that many matches. Longevity is #37 and Quality #68. Six elite seasons and thirteen good ones make for a very broad, very long ledger.
Titles ranks #184 with 34 of those 51 title-match victories rated top-decile, and his single best season is worth only 5.8 at rank #305. The evidence is New Japan throughout: the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship taken from Zack Sabre Jr. in Osaka in 2025, the Intercontinental Championship from Masato Tanaka in 2012, and the NEVER Openweight Championship from KENTA at Wrestle Kingdom 14. Against Yujiro Takahashi the corpus logs 305 matches at 191-113, and against Shinsuke Nakamura another 251 at 138-113.
The 2022-2026 window holds 88.4% of the positive total, which is the sharpest concentration anywhere in the KWAR 100. Wins above expectation of 17.908 ranks #51, thirty-six better than the overall rank, and Quality #70 is seventeen places above. Career K-WAR of 36.4 ranks only #159, seventy-two places below, because the 2010s are worth 1.1 over 201 matches and rank #420 for the decade. There are 502 documented matches in total, 297-204-1.
Titles ranks #206 and Longevity #206, with only 21 of 71 title-match victories rated top-decile. The evidence is almost all AEW and almost all recent: a 5.25-star win over Will Ospreay at Full Gear in 2024 at +0.80 expectation, a 5.25-star loss to Adam Page for the AEW World Championship at All Out in 2025, plus a 5.0-star street fight that took the TNT Championship from Goldust that July. His top single year is 2025, worth 9.7 at rank #41.
Dominance sits #2 across the corpus, eighty-six places above the overall rank, on a 68.5% record across only 311 documented matches, which is the smallest body of work in the KWAR 100. Network ranks #34. Career rank and overall rank are both #88, an exact match. The 2010s are worth 37.4 across just 58 matches, which is the highest return per match anywhere on this board. Five elite seasons and eight good ones sit inside 22 documented years.
Big match ranks #414, the weakest component in his file by a distance, and quality-added #293. The evidence is a short list of very large matches: the Undisputed Title taken from The Rock at SummerSlam in 2002, the Universal Championship from Goldberg at WrestleMania 33, a 4.75-star triple-threat win over John Cena and Seth Rollins at the 2015 Royal Rumble, and a 4.5-star loss to Cody Rhodes at SummerSlam in 2023. Against The Undertaker the record shows 29 matches at 14-14.
Quality ranks #22 from a quality-added number of 0.944, sixty-seven up on the overall figure, and it is doing nearly all the work here. Wins above expectation is -9.598 at #3,946 and big-match WAE -11.063 at #3,912, both near the bottom of the qualified pool, on a 47.1% record, 452-489-19. Career K-WAR of 58.8 ranks #81 over 960 documented matches in 25 years. Five elite seasons and ten good ones.
Dominance ranks #266 and Network #211, and Titles is #156 with 54 of those 110 title-match wins involving a top-decile belt. The evidence is TNA and the tag divisions: the TNA World Heavyweight Title taken from Bubba Ray Dudley at Destination X in 2013, the X-Division Title from Low Ki at Bound for Glory in 2006, a 4.75-star ROH tag title ladder war lost to the Young Bucks in 2016 alongside a 5.0-star triple-threat TLC on Smackdown in 2025.
Big match ranks #89 and Network #90, the two components that carry the entry, against Quality at #191 and Dominance at #183. The record is 506-427-23 across 956 documented matches and 25 years in three decades, at 52.9%. Career K-WAR of 44.3 ranks #130, forty places below his overall standing, and four seasons rate elite against seven the model scores as good. His best five-year window is worth 25.8 and ranks #137, one of the lower peak figures on this board.
The 2021-2025 window carries 50.4% of everything positive on the ledger and his best single year, 2023, is worth 8.3 at rank #93, so half the value sits in the last five documented years of a quarter-century career. Titles ranks #101 and Longevity #123. This is a wrestler the model reads as reliably placed in matches that mattered without the win rate or the star ratings to push the total higher.
2,217 documented matches across 28 years and four decades, with career K-WAR of 67.5 ranks #63, twenty-eight up on the overall figure. Dominance ranks #701, six hundred and ten places below, on a 54.2% record, 1201-967-49. Longevity is #37 and Quality #89. Four elite seasons against seventeen good ones is one of the flattest ledgers on this board, and the best five-year window ranks only #184 at 22.9, carrying 28.6% of the positive ledger.
Titles ranks #201 with 26 of his 51 title-match victories involving a top-decile belt, and the peak single year is worth 5.6 at rank #321. The evidence spans three Japanese promotions and one American one: the AJPW Triple Crown defended against Satoshi Kojima in 2007, a 5.25-star G1 Climax loss to Kota Ibushi in 2020, a 5.0-star IWGP Heavyweight title match with Hiroshi Tanahashi in 2012, and the ROH World Television Title in 2022. Against Toru Yano the corpus holds 189 matches at 81-104.
Quality ranks #29 on a quality-added figure of 0.893, sixty-three past the overall placing, and it is the entire reason for the placing. The 1998-2002 window carries 73.3% of everything positive on the ledger, and career K-WAR of 37.6 ranks only #152 across 635 documented matches and 13 years. Big-match WAE ranks #79 and Titles #105, with 63 of 64 title-match wins rated top-decile. His best single year, 1999, is worth 8.7 at rank #81.
Dominance ranks #257 and Network #206, and the span stops in 2008. The evidence is the WCW cruiserweight division almost in full: a 4.5-star triangle title match with Juventud Guerrera and Rey Mysterio at Starrcade in 1998 that lifted quality by 2.01, a 4.25-star title change lost to Guerrera on Nitro a month earlier, the same title taken from him in September, and the WWF Cruiserweight Title from TAJIRI in 2002. Against TAJIRI the corpus records 48 matches at 14-34.
Titles ranks #81 against a #93 overall placing, twelve places in his favour, on 110 title-match wins and 85 carrying top-decile belts. Career K-WAR of 52.3 ranks #97, close to overall, from 1,071 documented matches spanning 23 years. Dominance ranks #494 on a 49.3% record, 528-515-28, four hundred and one places below. Three elite seasons against thirteen good ones, and the 2010s carry 42.8 of the total across 654 matches.
Quality-added ranks #112 with wins above expectation #825. The evidence runs from Ring of Honor into Impact: a 4.75-star ROH World Heavyweight title change lost to Davey Richards at Best in the World in 2011, a Ringmaster Challenge with Roderick Strong that September, the TNA World Heavyweight Title taken from Bobby Lashley in 2016 at +0.87, and a 4.5-star ROH tag title match against the Young Bucks in 2009. The 2000s are worth -9.5 from 191 matches.
Titles ranks #17 against a #94 overall placing, sixty-one places in his favour, and championship value of 126.6 off 110 title-match victories, with 100 on top-decile belts. Longevity is #31 across 40 documented years and five decades, 1980 to 2026, and Dominance #58. By the two measures of standing and duration, this is a top-thirty career. The 2000s are worth 44.0 and rank #18 for the decade, and the 1990s another 27.8 spread across 425 matches.
Big match ranks #426 and the wins-above-expectation figure is -5.479 at #3,847, both close to the bottom of the qualified pool and the reason the total sits where it does. The 2010s are worth -3.5 and the 2020s -6.9, ranked #665 and #1,033 for their decades. The evidence includes a WCW World Heavyweight Title taken from David Arquette and Diamond Dallas Page in a handicap steel cage in 2000 alongside a 4.5-star Intercontinental title change lost to Shawn Michaels in 1995.
Quality ranks #58 off a quality-added reading of 0.773, thirty-eight clear of the overall placing, and eight of his twelve scored seasons rate elite. Career K-WAR of 52.3 ranks #99, almost exactly in line with overall, across 649 documented matches over 17 years. Dominance ranks #448 on a 59.6% record, 387-258-4, and Titles #202 with only 18 from 73 title-match victories carrying top-decile belts. Longevity is #66 across 17 documented years, and the 2020s are worth 33.9 against 18.4 for the 2010s.
Big match is the weakest component at #300. The evidence runs across three countries and four promotions the previous corpus could not reach: the AAA Fusion Championship won from a four-way in 2013, the Lucha Underground Championship taken from El Mesias in 2015, the AEW International Championship from Dean Ambrose at Grand Slam in 2023, and two of the highest-rated tag matches in the corpus, a 5.75-star steel cage title change against the Young Bucks at All Out in 2021 and a 5.25-star Escalera de la Muerte in 2019.
Big-match WAE of 26.133 ranks #5 in the corpus and Wins above expectation of 22.435 ranks #21, each around ninety places above his overall standing. Those are the two strongest numbers in this assignment. Against them sits a 47.4% record, 352-385-6, which puts Dominance at #319, and a championship value of 29.9 that puts Titles at #262. The model sees someone who beat expectation heavily and lost more matches than he won.
Quality ranks #51 on quality-added, forty-four places above overall, and six of his nine scored seasons rate elite. Career K-WAR of 46.4 ranks #121 across 743 documented matches and 13 years, because the 2022-2026 window carries 60.9% of everything positive and his best single year is 2026, the last the corpus holds. This is a file where every expectation measure is excellent and every accumulation measure is ordinary, with Network at #122 and Longevity at #123.
Zero elite seasons and nineteen good ones. No other career in the KWAR 100 has that split, and it is the whole explanation for the placing: 2,359 documented matches across 27 years, career K-WAR of 66.2 at rank #67, thirty ahead of the overall rank, and a best single year worth 4.6 at rank #467. Quality ranks #57 on quality-added, forty places above, with wins above expectation #94. Longevity ranks #78 and Network #141.
Dominance ranks #458 on a 59.0% record, and Big match #254. The evidence is Pro Wrestling NOAH essentially throughout: a 5.0-star GHC Heavyweight title match lost to Go Shiozaki in 2020, the GHC National Title taken from Kazuyuki Fujita in 2021, junior tag titles won from KENTA and Naomichi Marufuji in 2005, and 255 documented matches against Marufuji at 122-126. Against Vader the corpus logs 22 matches at 2-20. The 2010s are worth 36.4 from 1,008 matches.
2,446 documented matches across 29 years and four decades, while career K-WAR of 63.6 ranks #72, twenty-six up on the overall figure. Three elite seasons against sixteen good ones, and a best single year worth 6.0 at rank #262. Quality ranks #99 on quality-added, one place off overall. Dominance ranks #552, four hundred and fifty-four places below, on a 56.6% record, 1383-1015-46. Network ranks #143 and Big match #249, and the 2010s are worth 31.3 from 1,017 matches.
Titles ranks #175 with only 14 of the 77 title-match wins involving a top-decile belt, and Longevity #56 carries more of the entry than any single achievement. The evidence is NOAH from beginning to end: the GHC Junior Heavyweight Title taken from Tatsuhito Takaiwa in 2001, a 4.75-star GHC Heavyweight defence against KENTA in 2006, and the GHC Heavyweight Title taken from Keiji Muto at CyberFight Festival in 2021 at +0.91. Against Takashi Sugiura the corpus logs 255 matches at 126-122.
Wins above expectation reads 29.877 ranks #4 in the corpus, ninety-five ahead of the overall rank, which is the widest positive gap anywhere in the KWAR 100. Big-match WAE ranks #56. Titles ranks #287, one hundred and eighty-eight places below, on a championship value of 28.0 out of 43 title-match wins. The model reads a career that beat the odds constantly and was almost never given a belt for it. Quality ranks #215 and Longevity #97.
Career K-WAR of 45.9 ranks #123 across 1,966 documented matches at 57.3%, and Dominance #394. The evidence is New Japan and TNA: the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship taken from Kazuchika Okada at Sakura Genesis in 2023 at maximum importance, the TNA X-Division Title from Austin Aries in 2014 at +0.91, and two 5.0-star G1 and New Japan Cup matches with Okada in 2019. Against Okada the corpus records 185 matches and a 136-47 record.
The hundredth entry, and a 50.8% record, 518-484-18, over 1,020 documented matches in 24 years in three decades. Big match ranks #142 and Quality #153, with Dominance at #239 and Network at #158. Nothing in the file stands out sharply in either direction, which is what a career sitting exactly on the boundary of this list looks like by the model's reckoning, and it is a useful place to see how the weighting behaves.
The components are clustered between #142 and #239 rather than spiked, so the total is an accumulation of steady figures rather than the product of one strong measure pulling the rest up. At the hundredth position the difference between inclusion and omission is small, and a file with no component inside the top hundred and none outside the top two hundred and fifty is a fair illustration of where the model draws that line.