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Current Top 10 Contenders GWE2026


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Right now gun to my head?

1- Daniel Bryan

2- Terry Funk

3- Ric Flair

4- Stan Hansen 

5- Kenta Kobashi 

6- Tenryu

7- Misawa

8- Kawada

9- Hijo Del Santo

10- Austin

Cena, Rogers, Rey Jr., Eddie, Casas, Akiyama, Okada, Hokuto, Liger, Bret Hart, LA Park, Rose,  Piper, Tamura, Andre, Lawler, etc would all have a shot at the top 10.

 

None of the great workers from the 60s or 70s really did well in 2016 because of a lack of footage. It would be interesting to see what footage from that era pops up online in the next 5 years and how it shapes the outcome in 2026. 

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Steve Austin, Bryan Danielson, Aja Kong, Shinya Hashimoto, Negro Casas, and John Cena are the only ones who feel like strong contenders at the moment. The back half of the top ten is a real fluid thing for me. Mick Foley and Antonio Inoki are probably the most likely picks after that. The more I watch Andre the higher I want to put him, which seems sort of wild.

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My current top 10....

1. Daniel Bryan
2. Kenta Kobashi
3. Stan Hansen
4. Terry Funk
5. El Hijo Del Santo
6. Ric Flair
7. Shinobu Kandori
8. Yoshiaki Fujiwara
9. Bull Nakano
10 Minoru Suzuki

Folks that are outside the working top 10, but in that next big tier of wrestlers and could have a chance (in no particular order)

Kiyoshi Tamura
Eddie Guerrero
Akira Hokuto
Randy Savage
Devil Masami
Volk Han
Jushin Liger
Chingusa Nagayo
El Satanico
Mick Foley
Mitsuharu Misawa
Billy Robinson
Jumbo Tsuruta
Genichiro Tenryu
Jaguar Yokota
Nick  Bockwinkel
Brock Lesnar
Bret Hart
Ricky Steamboat
Aja Kong
Samoa Joe
LA Park
Negro Casas
Meiko Sotomura
Toshiaki Kawada

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In no particular order my Top 8

- Bryan Danielson 

- Bull Nakano

- Stan Hansen

- Terry Funk

-Bret Hart

-Genichiro Tenryu

-Jumbo Tsuruta

- Ric Flair

 

Lawler, Bockwinkel, Chigusa Nagayo, Shinobu Kandori and el Satanico are getting real consideration at the moment, though. 

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7 hours ago, brockobama said:

Steve Austin, Bryan Danielson, Aja Kong, Shinya Hashimoto, Negro Casas, and John Cena are the only ones who feel like strong contenders at the moment. The back half of the top ten is a real fluid thing for me. Mick Foley and Antonio Inoki are probably the most likely picks after that. The more I watch Andre the higher I want to put him, which seems sort of wild.

If you ranked Andre like 3rd overall I'd look at your list and say "they ranked Andre 3rd! That's cool as fuck!" and then I'd be super pumped for the rest of your list :)

You won't regret ranking Andre ridiculously high. The only mistake with Andre is leaving him off. 

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Only my top 4 is a lock (Funk, Hansen, Tamura, Casas).  The following names have all have a shot at my top 10 in no particular order: 

  • Hijo del Santo
  • Satanico
  • Misawa
  • Fujiwara
  • Flair
  • Steamboat
  • Danielson
  • Nagayo
  • Yokota
  • Masami
  • Chicana
  • Kobashi
  • Tenryu
  • Kawada
  • Bockwinkel
  • Ishikawa
  • Rose
  • Liger
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  • 6 months later...

This is my current top 10. I might have Kohsaka pretty high, but looking back on his career recently, he really didn't miss that often. He's sort of like Volk Han in that regard, just a smaller sample size. Might be one of the best pure wrestlers I've ever seen.

1) Bret Hart

2) Volk Han

3) Blue Panther

4) Akira Maeda

5) Mitsuharu Misawa

6) Billy Robinson

7) Kiyoshi Tamura

8) Kenta Kobashi

9) Tsuyoshi Kohsaka

10) Yoshiaki Fujiwara

 

The rest of my top 25 -

11) Tatsumi Fujinami

12) Negro Casas

13) Antonio Inoki

14) Nobuhiko Takada

15) Karl Gotch

16) El Hijo del Santo

17) Jumbo Tsuruta

18) Owen Hart

19) Kazushi Sakuraba

20) Eddie Guerrero

21) Toshiaki Kawada

22) Satoru Sayama

23) Nick Bockwinkel

24) Villano III

25) Minoru Suzuki

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