10 Wrestlers Who Will Change The Business Over The Next 10 Years

10. Ben Carter

Ben Carter is a special professional wrestler. A prodigy.

The latest of the United Kingdom's aerial revolutionaries, Carter has the potential to better the incredible evolution mapped by PAC and Will Ospreay. Those two men are phenomenal. They fuse a level of preternatural ability with refined craft; PAC in particular is exceptional at adding almost imperceptible nuance to his work to get it over as a real, fatiguing battle. But pro wrestling constantly evolves.

What is next-level now can often feel of its time, viewed years and years later. Even the best of the WCW cruiserweight division, as an example, feels loose now by modern standards. Some of the best matches in that canon were plagued by botches. The execution did not always meet the futuristic genius of the ambition.

Jim Ross re-lit the most tedious form of pro wrestling discourse late last year when he had a controversial and not totally unmerited moan about the stand-still-and-wait-to-catch spot. This sometimes, but not always, breaks the spell of immersion to justify a pop.

Carter, already, grasps how to maintain the magic. He jitters with indecision when faced with the nanosecond between the launch and the impact, putting over the idea that he's either stricken by panic, or scrambling for a last-ditch counter. He sells the move before he takes it. He doesn't stand there, gormless, telegraphing it.

Carter is going to set the standard one day by using the space between moves to put the moves over irrespective of how convoluted they are.