Best Of 2020: Wrestler Of The Year

You can’t have a wrestling show without them. It all comes down to this as wrestlers are the thing that makes the shows move forward. Your individual taste in wrestlers may vary again but I’ll be going for a bit of a mix of everything here. Odds are you are going to have a few different options, but there were several good choices to pick from this year. Let’s get to it.

As usual, no order until the ending.

Roman Reigns

I’m not going with him as the best choice as he was only around at such a level for four months. Reigns was incredible while he was around though and that is the kind of performance that deserves some recognition. Odds are he is going to be one of, if not the, best stars of 2021 but the back quarter of his 2020 was some of the best work throughout the year.

Io Shirai

Shirai is someone who is going to fly underneath the radar but she has been NXT Women’s Champion for about seven months and has run through some rather stiff competition during her reign. She keeps getting better and better and still has one of the best moonsaults going. I could go for seeing her holding that title for a long time to come and at the pace she is on, that is exactly what she is going to do.

Randy Orton

I know a lot of people aren’t wild on him and I can understand that, but Orton is still one of the more consistent performers in all of WWE and has been for a very long time now. He had multiple big feuds this year and had at least a few good matches in each of them, which is better than almost anyone else can say. Yes Orton has been around for a long time now and has been on top for a good while, but there is a reason for that: he has earned the spot.

Asuka

She might be the best woman on the main roster (or the best person on any roster) and there is no shock that she was handed the keys after Becky Lynch took time off. Asuka can do it all and has more charisma that she knows what to do with most of the time. She feels like a star and is someone who should be able to be near the top of the women’s division for as long as she wants to be.

Bayley

There is a heck of an argument to have Bayley near or at the top of this list as she was all over the television shows and was awesome throughout. Couple that with an epic title reign and the big fight feel against Sasha Banks and it was really tempting to give this to her. Bayley managing to become one of the best WWE heels going today is impressive as I loved her face run that much, but I wouldn’t have expected this to work nearly so well.

Drew McIntyre

I’ve been a huge McIntyre fan for a very long time now and I was so happy to see him finally win the World Title that he had seemed primed to get for so long. He went on to have a heck of a year and even won the title back. The best thing about McIntyre is that he feels like a World Champion, which is not something that you get to see very often anymore. WWE made a star out of him and that is something they have been needing to do for years now.

This could have gone a lot of ways but the more I think about it, the more this is the best choice.

Jon Moxley

Much like McIntyre, Moxley just feels like a World Champion. You look at him and you feel like he is the biggest star in the company, which is exactly the point in putting the title on him. He has the talking abilities, the look and the brawling to make it work, which is why he held the title as long as he did. This made sense and Moxley is deserving of the top spot, because he was the best of the year.

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