10 Most Powerful Wrestlers In WWE Today

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

By Michael Hamflett /

Professional wrestling isn't real.

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Not headline news, but important to remember when considering what makes a 'powerful' wrestler in the modern age.

Lots of recent talk about WWE having the 'strongest ever roster' comes as much from the (often misplaced) perception that a card full of competent wrestlers will forge the best overall product. The industry - particularly Vince McMahon's polished image of it - will always be more about presentation than proficiency. Power, either legitimate or manufactured - particularly Vince McMahon's polished image of it - will always rise to the top.

It's why Titus O'Neil can't buy a win on Monday Nights despite shifting 545lbs for 'fun'. Long before Kevin Nash lampooned wrestler gym culture with his "Whaddya bench Lex, whaddya bench?!" takedown in 1996, weightlifting gains and goals were as much to pop the boys as the audience. O'Neil's only as powerful as WWE allow him to be, and when the poor f*cker's Greatest Royal Rumble stumble is almost definitely the first clip filed for his next TitanTron video, he might as well have arms like Alice Cooper's at WrestleMania III, the good they'll do him.

Power's not just in the body, it's in the mind. Or in one extremely obvious case, both...

10. Triple H

Pro wrestling still isn't real, but if anybody blurs the lines between what they can still do in the ring and their influence outside of it, it's Triple H.

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'The Game' might still be guilty of the type of gym posing his elders were guilty of thanks to a deep affection for bodybuilding, but the power that underpins his persona is as much borne out of his tenure with the organisation as anything he can realistically get away with doing in his bi-annual matches.

He's a best and worst-of-times performer, too. His ego spiralled out of control in November 2017 with a Survivor Series power-grab at the expense of almost everybody else in the contest, but the effort he made to establish Ronda Rousey at WrestleMania 34 was the vintage ring generalship he was briefly capable of during his 2000 pomp. It mirrors his laboured efforts to both bury and boost Roman Reigns during problematic performances at the 2016 Royal Rumble and WrestleMania 32 respectively.

If he could make his mind up about exactly what service he provides to the main roster these days, he'd potentially be a little higher in this list. Or not in it at all, which is probably exactly why he still likes to keep his putting-over powder dry.

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