Best Wrestlers By Birth Year

[Al]

Throughout this project I had an idea in the back of my head of an era adjustment. I don’t think I’ll ever flesh that out but I did make a list of the top fishers by birth year.

 

1894 Jim Londos

1898 Gus Sonnenberg

1915 Les Kellett

1916 Lou Thesz

1918 Freddie Blassie

1919 Al Costello

1920 Mick McManus

1921 Buddy Rogers

1922 Blue Demon (?)

1923

1924 Rikidozan 

1925

1926 Verne Gagne

1927 Tibor Szakacs

1928 Johnny Valentine

1929 Fritz Von Erich

1930 The Destroyer

1931 Don Leo Jonathan

1932 Dominic DeNucci

1933 Gypsy Joe

1934 Nick Bockwinkel

1935 Bruno Sammartino

1936

1937 Stan Stasiak

1938 Giant Baba

1939 Bob Armstrong

1940 Jim Breaks

1941 Abdullah the Butcher

1942 Mil Mascaras

1943 Antonio Inoki

1944 Terry Funk

1945 Dusty Rhodes

1946 Andre the Giant

1947 Jose Gonzalez

1948 Carlos Colon

1949 Ric Flair

1950 Genichiro Tenryu

1951 Jumbo Tsuruta

1952 Randy Savage

1953 Ricky Steamboat

1954 Roddy Piper

1955 Vader

1956 Ricky Morton

1957 Bret Hart

1958 Arn Anderson

1959 Sting

1960 Negro Casas

1961 Akira Taue

1962 Mitsuharu Misawa 

1963 El Hijo del Santo

1964 Steve Austin

1965 Mick Foley

1966 Yoshihiro Takayama

1967 Kenta Kobashi

1968 Bull Nakano

1969 Jun Akiyama

1970 Aja Kong

1971 manami Toyota

1972 The Rock

1973 Necro Butcher

1974 Rey Mysterio Jr.

1975 Tomohiro Ishii

1976 Hiroshi Tanahashi

1977 AJ Styles

1978 CM Punk

1979 Samoa Joe

1980 Shinsuke Nakamura 

1981 Bryan Danielson

1982 Mistico

1983 Kenny Omega 

1984 Sami Zayn

1985 Jon Moxley

1986 PAC

1987 Kazuchika Okada

1988 Rush

1989 Nick Jackson

1990 Iyo Ski

1991 Hangman Adam Page

1992 Mercedes Mone

1993 Will Ospreay

1994 Giulia

1995 Toni Storm

1996 Sareee

1997 Tyler Bate

1998 Utami Hayashishita

1999 Miu Watanabe

2000 Momo Watanabe

2001 Mascara Dorada 2.0

2002 AZM

I don’t have biological details on the French wrestlers in the back of the list so that could be a gap. Anything obvious I missed?