20 Absolute Best Wrestlers In The World Right Now

20. AJ Styles

Though AJ Styles deserves great credit for salvaging the WWE Championship's credibility following Jinder Mahal's dismal reign, and his 2018 definitely picked up towards the end, last year wasn't vintage by the man's own high standards.

The 'dream' Shinsuke Nakamura feud didn't meet expectations. Upon concluding it, Styles would drift into a rivalry with Samoa Joe that yielded improved in-ring fortunes, though the storyline's soap opera trappings jumped the shark long before the blow-off match. To contrast, the Bryan programme has been outstanding, and Survivor Series was AJ's best match in a long time, but there just isn't enough evidence to support the argument that Styles is a 'Best in the World' contender in his current form.

Despite all this, Styles isn't a negative performer by any stretch of the imagine (he remains a world-class in-ring talent), and there's nothing to suggest his skills have declined at all. Rather, his slide from 2 to 20 is mostly presentation based. That's not his fault, but we can't make an argument for a guy who spent much of last year farting out three-star specials with Nakamura.

2018 ranking: 2.