10 Best Wrestlers Of 2020

10. Minoru Suzuki

NJPW fell off hard in 2020, with any wrestler close to the main event scene tarnished by their booker's increasingly destructive use of distractions, referee bumps, and other tiresome shenanigans. The EVIL debacle was not self-contained: since Wrestle Kingdom 14, New Japan has been in a mire.

Minoru Suzuki has been largely unaffected by this. Much of this is because he tends to operate outwith the main event's sphere of f*ckery, largely competing amongst fellow NEVER Openweight Championship hopefuls and in other midcard attraction bouts, where his output speaks for itself. A sharp upturn from a middling 2019 that suggested NJPW's murder grandpa was finally on the downswing of his career has made MiSu the surest thing in this grim era of what used to be the world's best booked promotion.

Suzuki's early-year match with Jon Moxley was a unique, thrilling battle between two different kinds of badass, and his fruitful G1 run yielded incandescent rippers with Kota Ibushi and Tomohiro Ishii. NJPW's best 2020 feud came in the form of Suzuki vs. Shingo Takagi too, and none of his cohorts have adapted as well to New Japan's silenced clap crowds. Suzuki's indomitable aura burns as brightly in this environment as any other.