10 Best Wrestlers Under 30 In The World Today

10. HOOK

If it feels premature to list HOOK here, given his relative lack of reps, his more experienced peers could work for another 20 years and never learn what he has.

HOOK has an intangible presence. He is cool, magnetic, enigmatic. The push is a masterstroke, but if you step back and analyse what AEW is doing, it really shouldn't work. It is very ambitious. Tony Khan has essentially written a list of every badass trope in wrestling - fight trunks, licensed music, head drop suplexes, piledriver no-sell, nope spot - and used it to book him.

It shouldn't work. Pulling off one of these tropes is something only a select few wrestlers can do without looking like they're trying much too hard.

HOOK pulls all of them off.

He's a level above most of his peers on a pure athletic level. His body control is incredible; he's able to land square on his feet following a hip toss attempt and drop step behind his opponents before they've even realised that they're no longer in control.

HOOK still needs work - his rope running and selling looks odd at times, but that's likely because he's not playing a traditional pro wrestler on the back foot - but this sort of thing actually can be learned.