10 Best Storytellers In Wrestling Right Now

10. Jon Moxley

Jon Moxley constructed the best finishing sequence of 2019 in his very first match outside of WWE.

After a blistering, violent match with Juice Robinson, in which he relished biting his opponent's forehead - and the creative freedom it tasted of - Moxley hit the Dirty Deeds. It failed to put him away. He roared back sucessfully with his new, elevated Death Rider. This electric near-fall doubled as a means of putting over his opponent and himself as a more formidable and sadistic evolution. Moxley stormed to a 5-0 lead in his G1 Climax block, and his blinding performance level earned the push. His intricate takedown of Shingo Takagi wasn't too dissimilar to a Bret Hart match perfect in its logic, where his refusal to explode in the face of Tetsuya Naito's aloof posturing depicted Moxley as an expert pre-match strategist.

In AEW, Moxley arrested the Dean Ambrose joke narrative entirely by getting himself over as a true hard bastard. Against Kenny Omega, whom he framed in canon as the impetus behind that G1 run in an inspired touch, he used the most deranged of tools to win a divisive, unforgettable match in which the weapons doubled as symbols of his characteristics. He crawled through broken glass to put over his relentless drive to be taken seriously. "Napalm death," indeed.

Against Darby Allin, Moxley stood still and shrugged off his daredevil opponent's top rope dive. He had reached the height of his powers, weeks away from topping the rankings, and there was no moving him.