10 Best Wrestlers Of 2024
6. Gunther
One year on from being high in these lists as Intercontinental Champion, Gunther wraps 2024 as yet another WWE boom success story.
His ascent to the World Championship slot was almost joyously predictable, thanks mostly to his routine brilliance in big matches and a floor higher than most people's ceilings. Not all the Gunther matches are epics, but he has a zero stinker policy, has made magic as a Raw midcard and main event maestro, and cuts logical, real feeling promos like he's been working as a circuit heel for half a decade.
Aside from his weekly responsibilities as Raw's biggest baddest boss fight, he drew choice and evocative matches out of Randy Orton in entirely different settings, and lost his secondary strap in the coolest way possible - by stealing WrestleMania 40 Night One from underneath The Rock.
That last line - like so many others that describe his run with the market leader - still scans as an impossibility through the lens of absolutely anybody tearing up the scene pre-WWE.