10 Best Booked Wrestlers In WWE Today

9. Samoa Joe

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Samoa Joe loses all the time, he'll never be WWE Champion, and may never even be a true main-eventer in this company. That's okay, though: Joe isn't supposed to be any of those things.

The 39-year-old is an upper-midcard heel gatekeeper. He's the kind of guy rising babyfaces are charged with getting past if they want to make it to the upper-echelons: fail, and they'll fall back down, but triumph and the pathway to main event success is suddenly a lot clearer. On top of this, Joe's heat-drawing expertise means he's an ideal candidate to throw into any contender-of-the-month championship feuds. These are his roles: WWE understand this, Joe understands this, and they excel as a result.

Though not the athlete he used to be, Joe is a searing, terrifying microphone worker. Part of why he loses so often is because WWE know he can regain any lost heat within the space of a single promo. Those moments when the writers give him a microphone and tell him to let rip are always among the best thing on any given wrestling show, and the wisest move WWE can make with Joe in 2019 is to let him keep being the awful, brutish bully he excels at playing.

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