100 Greatest WWE Wrestlers

I tweeted out my first draft of this list, and I don't have many more thoughts other than what I posted there. So I will link to that thread here instead of writing anything new. Some of the order has changed since the thread, and I swapped out Chyna for D-Von, but none of that seems all that consequential. 

Here's the text version of the list, for no reason other than posterity.  

  1. John Cena

  2. Bruno Sammartino

  3. Steve Austin

  4. Hulk Hogan

  5. Roman Reigns

  6. The Rock

  7. Mr. McMahon

  8. Undertaker

  9. Daniel Bryan

  10. Brock Lesnar

  11. Bret Hart

  12. Randy Savage

  13. Bob Backlund

  14. Andre the Giant

  15. Mick Foley

  16. CM Punk

  17. Shawn Michaels

  18. Randy Orton

  19. Rey Mysterio

  20. Roddy Piper

  21. Buddy Rogers

  22. Triple H

  23. Sheamus

  24. Batista

  25. Eddie Guerrero

  26. Ultimate Warrior

  27. Kurt Angle

  28. Greg Valentine

  29. The Miz

  30. Sasha Banks

  31. Becky Lynch

  32. Seth Rollins

  33. Drew McIntyre

  34. Tito Santana

  35. Edge

  36. AJ Styles

  37. Sgt. Slaughter

  38. Billy Graham

  39. Bobby Heenan

  40. Sami Zayn

  41. Jeff Hardy

  42. Finn Balor

  43. Jey Uso

  44. Johnny Gargano

  45. Christian

  46. Tommaso Ciampa

  47. Pat Patterson

  48. Kevin Owens

  49. Charlotte

  50. Ric Flair

  51. Owen Hart

  52. Chris Jericho

  53. Kofi Kingston

  54. Big E

  55. Rob Van Dam

  56. Dean Ambrose

  57. Bayley

  58. Asuka

  59. Cesaro

  60. Razor Ramon

  61. Adrian Adonis

  62. Matt Hardy

  63. Xavier Woods

  64. Captain Lou Albano

  65. Jimmy Uso

  66. Rick Martel

  67. Ricky Steamboat

  68. Big Show

  69. Mark Henry

  70. Kevin Nash

  71. Trish Stratus

  72. Nikki Bella

  73. Larry Zbyszko

  74. Jake Roberts

  75. Ted DiBiase

  76. Masked Superstar

  77. Davey Boy Smith

  78. Gunther

  79. Ilja Dragunov

  80. Buddy Murphy

  81. Ali

  82. Bob Orton Jr.

  83. Roderick Strong

  84. Kyle O’Reilly

  85. Freddie Blassie

  86. 123 Kid

  87. Dolph Ziggler

  88. Don Muraco

  89. Drew Gulak

  90. Dynamite Kid

  91. Tony Garea

  92. Ronda Rousey

  93. Ernie Ladd

  94. Andrade

  95. Bianca Belair

  96. John Morrison

  97. Pedro Morales

  98. Bubba Ray Dudley

  99. Chyna

  100. Noam Dar

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