10 Best Wrestlers Of 2019
1. Will Ospreay
Throughout the G1 Climax, Will Ospreay threw a more disgusting shotgun blast of a chop than even WALTER has ever delivered.
He very nearly rivalled Zack Sabre, Jr. on the mat. He used a real-life stinger to cast a spell of suspended disbelief in a classic match with Kota Ibushi, and that wasn't even his finest performance in the tournament: that was his near-perfect showdown with Kazuchika Okada.
It wasn't even his finest tournament: he won the Best of the Super Juniors with a career and near-industry best performance opposite Shingo Takagi in which he fought as powerfully as he wrestled, laying to rest a criticism that feels outrageously dumb now. An otherworldly athlete, Ospreay in collaboration with New Japan's production department conveyed that with a magnificent trick, in which the camera would hover over his opponent's awed face following an impossible flex of agility. He stole the mist from BUSHI's mouth in a great moment more recently, one that put over an ability to master the space between moves as much as his supernatural ability to execute physically impossible moves in themselves.
The next decade is his, let alone year, provided he heeds the influence of latter-day influence Hiroshi Tanahashi.