10 Most Over Wrestlers In The World Right Now
1. CM Punk
CM Punk's Rampage First Dance return drew a staggering number: a monstrous 0.53 in the 18-49 demo.
This rating, generated in a suboptimal time slot on a social night, was consistent with WWE's modern rare RAW triumphs. Prior to the Grand Slam Dynamite and Rampage specials, the First Dance shattered AEW's attendance record by drawing 20,128 fans on the strength of the explicit tease of his appearance. All Out, built largely around his return match versus Darby Allin, boasted the most expensive secondary market price in North American pro wrestling history and drew a company record 205,000 buys. His first t-shirt broke the ProWrestlingTees site, and when it recovered, it registered the highest-ever number for a single design ever.
In arenas, beyond two so-so matches against QT Marshall and Lee Moriarty, Punk is massively over. The First Dance pop was arguably the loudest ever - a bone-chilling atmosphere of roars, tears, and sustained euphoria - and Punk's venomous zingers are so cutting that he elicits reactions of pure, "Oh sh*t!" shock.
The man generates pops for body slams and orchestrated a gladiatorial atmosphere in his incredible war with Eddie Kingston at Full Gear.
Fighting, grappling, verbally incinerating: Punk is so over that he also gets pops by smiling.