Seth Rollins Tops This Year’s “PWI 500” List of Top 500 Wrestlers

Pro Wrestling Illustrated magazine released their annual “PWI 500,” where its editors rank the top 500 wrestlers in the world for the past year.

This year’s #1 ranked wrestler is Seth Rollins, who jumped from #5 in last year’s rankings. Last year’s #1, Kenny Omega, dropped to #8 this year.

Rollins was also in the #1 spot in 2015.

No. 1 in the 29th annual @OfficialPWI #PWI500 is WWE Universal champ @WWERollins! Download the issue right now or pre-order the print edition at https://t.co/ylNeV87zar! pic.twitter.com/m238dDD5br

— PWI (@OfficialPWI) August 29, 2019

Rollins’ gave his thoughts to PWI:

“First of all, I need to make sure you guys know what you’re doing here. The Internet is not going to be very happy about this one.”

“As difficult as it can be, this is all I ever wanted — to be in this position, to be having this conversation with you, talking about being the absolute best wrestler on the entire planet. I don’t think there is single part of me that would trade any second of it.”

WWE acknowledged Rollins’ topping the magazine’s list.

2019 Top 10

Here’s the top 10.

1. Seth Rollins
2. Daniel Bryan
3. AJ Styles
4. Kofi Kingston
5. Kazuchika Okada
6. Johnny Gargano
7. Roman Reigns
8. Kenny Omega
9. Hiroshi Tanahashi
10. Will Ospreay

2018 Top 10

Here’s last year’s top 10.

1. Kenny Omega
2. AJ Styles
3. Kazuchika Okada
4. Brock Lesnar
5. Seth Rollins
6. Braun Strowman
7. Roman Reigns
8. Cody
9. Tetsuya Naito
10. The Miz

2017 Top 10

1. Kazuchika Okada
2. AJ Styles
3. Kevin Owens
4. Roman Reigns
5. Kenny Omega
6. Shinsuke Nakamura
7. Samoa Joe
8. Dean Ambrose
9. Bobby Roode
10. The Miz

View more of the PWI 500 on Wikipedia