10 Wrestlers Who Could Be The Next Big Thing In WWE

6. Roderick Strong

A fifteen-year veteran of the squared circle at only thirty-one years old, Chris €˜Roderick Strong€™ Lindsey has been a lynchpin of the Ring Of Honor roster for a dozen years now, as well as a feature of indie wrestling across the length and breadth of the world. There€™s good reason for that: pound for pound, Strong is one of the best all-round wrestlers in the business. Working for ROH for so long, his character and mic skills aren€™t the finest: but he plays a douchebag heel like he was born into the role. It€™s his in-ring abilties that should see him courted by the big boys at the WWE though€ slick and graceful in everything he does, Roderick Strong simply excels in the ring. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZW5E_rhCKc He€™s actually already been on WWE programming: in early 2005 he appeared under his usual name on Smackdown as a participant in Kurt Angle€™s €˜invitational€™ storyline in a classic squash of a hometown boy. Strong is young enough to have another decade of almost peerless work in him before even considering taking a back seat, and experienced enough to be an extraordinarily valuable member of the WWE roster. He€™s also the kind of talent that could get over simply through the sheer quality of his work, as Chris Benoit did before him, and his repertoire of backbreakers make a fine contrast to WWE€™s over-reliance on variations on the common suplex.