10 Worst WWE Wrestlers Of 2019

Best pro wrestling on the planet. Period.

Lacey Evans
WWE.com

The criteria is important to consider because of course Seth Rollins is a better wrestler than No Way Jose.

No Way Jose functions as a mildly amusing opening house show attraction, or a bag of meat to pummel for heat during his scant appearances on television. His goofy music is engineered for crowd interaction. The buzzed adults do his dance bit half-ironically, the children do it earnestly, and with any luck, together, they gradually become unglued and more receptive to the real business later in the show. He is serviceable enough in his particular role. It isn't his job to, for example, convince spoiled professional wrestling fans that WWE is in fact the "vest pro wrestling on the planet, period" by wrestling the best pro wrestling matches on the planet, period and not doing about nine Curb Stomps in the same f*cking match.

There is a relativity to consider here.

The Colóns haven't featured anywhere near enough to warrant consideration. R-Truth does more roll-ups than a Diva circum 2011, but it's his job to pop the crowd via the broadest, daftest means. Dana Brooke really only gets Batista's blood pumping, but she's a grafter.

Worst = at their given role...

10. Billie Kay

Lacey Evans
WWE

Billie Kay isn't meant to be a world-beater.

Her character is that of a complete chancer who only sniffs success through her symbiotic partnership with Peyton Royce. She is a comedy character, the premise of which is an out-of-her-depth fool who rewards crowds with an intentionally bad performance for catharsis.

The problem is that she's as bad by accident as she is on purpose. There's no sense that she flails around the ring with bad-on-purpose timing to get this character over. She just can't wrestle particularly well, which undermines everything, because as divisive as it is, there's a certain, impressive art to the comedy match. In theory, the amount of time it takes Kay to bump is amusing - the goofball who doesn't even know how to get her ass kicked is absurd enough to work - but this isn't what she's going for. She just takes forever, disengaging the crowd and disrupting the flow of her matches, by bumping like an old tree in short sideshow attractions.

Kay is a far better personality than wrestler. Her irate tantrums are perfect for the meme GIF sphere, and she grafts like mad on the WWE.com Exclusive circuit.

She's just too poor to be poor.

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Michael Sidgwick is an editor, writer and podcaster for WhatCulture Wrestling. With over seven years of experience in wrestling analysis, Michael was published in the influential institution that was Power Slam magazine, and specialises in providing insights into All Elite Wrestling - so much so that he wrote a book about the subject. You can order Becoming All Elite: The Rise Of AEW on Amazon. Possessing a deep knowledge also of WWE, WCW, ECW and New Japan Pro Wrestling, Michael’s work has been publicly praised by former AEW World Champions Kenny Omega and MJF, and surefire Undisputed WWE Universal Champion Cody Rhodes. When he isn’t putting your finger on why things are the way they are in the endlessly fascinating world of professional wrestling, Michael wraps his own around a hand grinder to explore the world of specialty coffee. Follow Michael on X (formerly known as Twitter) @MSidgwick for more!