Greatest WWE Wrestler (2022) Wrap-Up

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This is 3 years overdue, but I saw it in my drafts and figured I'd finish putting this together. It has been a while since I filled out this ballot, and my thoughts on the results are mostly based on going back and looking at what I tweeted at the time, but I think there are two things that my ballot reflects that the list doesn't. The first is the sort of modern C and D shows like Main Event and 205 Live, which no one else really factored in. The second is pre-Hogan WWF, chiefly including Ernie Ladd, the 3 Wisemen, and Tony Garea. I would love to watch more of that stuff, because I really liked the All-Star Wrestling I watched, and generally feel that era is incredibly underrepresented. 

Wrestlers I was the high voter on:

Mustafa Ali

My Vote: 81

Finished: 249

Buddy Murphy

My Vote: 80

Finished: 245

Ilja Dragunov

My Vote: 79

Finished: 218

Nikki Bella

My Vote: 72

Finished: 170

Lou Albano

My Vote: 64

Finished: 169

John Cena

My Vote: 1

Finished: 4


Wrestlers I was the low voter on:

Noam Dar

My Vote: 100

Finished: 261

Andrade

My Vote: 254

Finished: 94

Drew Gulak

My Vote: 89

Finished: 201

Freddie Blassie

My Vote: 85

Finished: 199

Kyle O'Reilly

My Vote: 84

Finished: 196

Bubba Ray Dudley

My Vote: 98

Finished: 147

John Morrison

My Vote: 96

Finished: 145

Ernie Ladd

My Vote: 93

Finished: 140

Chris Jericho

My Vote: 52

Finished: 15

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