10 WWE Wrestlers With Highest Total Win Percentage
Looking at the lights the least...
Then in a prominent position backstage in WWE, Brian 'Road Dogg' James p*ssed an awful lot of people off when he suggested that wins and losses didn't matter in an ill-advised Twitter back-and-forth with some angrier members of the fanbase.
It was rather daft to lean on such a stance in any environment, not least when volunteering to play customer complaints account for a company that has shown remarkable aptitude for letting its audience down. It got lost (perhaps rightfully so) in the discourse, but he was trying and failing to suggest that the anger was misplaced and rooted in the failure to see the bigger picture. He would think that though - that was the industry he came up in.
Several of the names on this list are from an era foreign to anything from the last decade. In one case, so bygone that the dayglo era of Hulkamania post-dates it by around 20 years. Wins and losses have (or had) to be everything or they were absolutely nothing. The contemporary beneficiaries of a decent record survive exponentially better in the shark-infested modern day WWE waters. As did this rather surprising bunch...
(These figures are taken from the exceptional ProfightDB database, based on those with a minimum of 25 matches wrestled for the company)
10. Argentina Apollo - 81.57%
Your writer can't pretend to have seen much more of Argentina Apollo than the above video and select other moments for the purpose of researching this very article...and the work doesn't really come with a good faith recommendation for fans that only discovered professional wrestling in and around the 1980s boom or beyond.
All that said, his winning record working for Vince McMahon Snr is somewhat impressive, if upheld by the mere 38 matches he worked for the company during the 1960s.
What makes Apollo's record all the more fascinating is in how many years he stretched it out. His occasional working relationship with the World Wide Wrestling Federation began with a 1961 series that saw him team with the likes of Antonino Rocca and Bruno Sammartino before wrestling a selection of singles matches over six years.
As if to illustrate his box office appeal if not any kind lionised status in the modern era, Apollo wrapped his run with the company with a win over Bull Ramos on a sold out Madison Square Garden show in August 1968.