10 Best Wrestlers Of 2024
The very best WWE and AEW had to offer in 2024
As always - and just to try and offset inevitable rage about anybody that may not have made the final list - there are always qualifiers and caveats when narrowing a list down to 10. Here are the key ones:
- In line with WhatCulture.com's primary coverage, the list is centred around those wrestling for WWE and AEW. Impact Wrestling, ROH, GCW, NJPW, Stardom, TJPW, or anybody promotion or performer outside of the mainstream North American bubble, but please consider these parameters before contacting your local authorities over an omission.
- In 2024, there was yet another glorious surplus of great wrestling in the same way, post-2000, there became a glorious surplus of great prestige television shows. As much as anything the wrestlers have done bell-to-bell, this list features performers that - like all great characters in said shows - grabbed you by the throat and forced you to sit up and actually pay attention to what they were doing. Quality of matches matters, but quality of promos and ability to build said matches factors in. Particularly in a year where WWE's boom as improbably expanded and the 2023 AEW creative decline has largely been arrested. Who are the players claiming responsibility?
- Like many articles on this and every website, it's a subjective selection. If you're the type of person that only wants to agree with what they're reading, navigate away. That said, that might also mean you like exclusively positive content, and there's loads incoming...
10. Toni Storm
Toni Storm broke out beyond the boundaries of mere pro wrestler in 2024, capitalising on the success she'd found with her 'Timeless' persona in late-2023 to become one of AEW's bona fide drawing cards.
The gimmick was an instant hit and a much-needed bit of character development away from The Outcasts, and became the sort of persona that just about everybody else on the roster was able to bounce off of. Programmes against Thunder Rosa, Serena Deeb and Deonna Purrazzo were stronger for Storm just being so committed to the bit, and her longstanding alliance/break-up with Mariah May resulted in one of AEW's best angles of the year and the outright making of the understudy.
Not that the quality of the work suffered for her overblown theatrics. Storm's in-ring remained strong enough to keep her as the ace of the entire division, proven beyond reasonable doubt when she put over May in one of the highlights of a critically acclaimed All In Wembley card.