10 Best Wrestlers Of 2025
3. Will Ospreay
If 2024 was the year Will Ospreay - much to the chagrin of Triple H - committed to the "grind" of North American television wrestling for the very first time, 2025 was the year he mastered it so completely that he made himself completely undeniable as the company's present and future Ace.
Braving a gruelling personal schedule by continuing to live in England while working just about every Wednesday and Saturday, Ospreay's 26 matches were individual advertisements of his in-ring excellence, before he had absolutely no choice but to take time off for surgery, In singles, tags and promo segments alike, he was the top babyface of the entire company and the only wrestler able to pull off the most difficult of challenges Tony Khan continued to set for his roster - fighting for the supposed soul of the brand.
Joining forces with Swerve Strickland to simultaneously help Hangman Page see off The Deathriders and stop The Young Bucks' own reign of (a bit of) terror, Ospreay went yet another year without winning the AEW World Heavyweight Championship despite walking, talking and acting like the man already wearing the crown.
If injury recovery allows, he will surely be the man of the moment when the company returns to Wembley Stadium in the summer of 2026. AEW will look towards the 'Aerial Assassin' to draw the house, and based on prior evidence, he'll be the man for the job.