10 Most Over Wrestlers In WWE Today
4. AJ Styles
AJ Styles is over because he lives up to his phenomenal billing even when his booking leaves something to be desired.
Picture anybody but him in the pseudo feud he waged with James Ellsworth towards the tail of 2016; fans would have been incensed if WWE installed Ellsworth to amass more than one pinfall victory over, for example, Kevin Owens. Owens is over, but he isn't bulletproof. His partnership with Chris Jericho veered too heavily into broad comedy territory when Ellsworth's bizarre domination of SmackDown was in full effect, and his heat was doused as a result.
Styles emerged from it with his reputation and aura fully intact because he is bulletproof. More so than any performer on the WWE roster, Styles guarantees something truly special more or less every time he steps in the ring. Fans sensed this, and didn't fret about his career prospects. He was going to be fine, and he was. That Ellsworth series was hardly critically acclaimed, but it wasn't the disaster it by rights should have been because Styles was never in danger of devaluing his currency.
He is plainly too good to suffer and is essentially immune from terrible booking. Like Shawn Michaels, to whom he is often compared, Styles sails through the odd clanger of a storyline free of damage. Michaels looked foolish when he cried bankruptcy in his 2009 series with JBL. His fans, though bored rigid, were not concerned. He was never not going to be OK.
Styles, in more ways than one, is his modern equivalent.