50 Best Wrestlers Of The 2020s (So Far)

Jon Moxley is All Elite Wrestling.

Across 2024 and 2025, this has been to the detriment of both promoter and performer, but nobody would have been given this much patience from audiences to pay a dour run off right - and no wrestler deserves that time more. 

When the world shut down in March 2020, the newly-crowned champion was there to lead AEW and its fanbase through the darkness into the dawn. There were few (if any) questions raised of his capability then, but any and all of them were answered over a summer of immensely satisfying title defences, storylines and character moments that confirmed him as the sheriff the promotion needed. 

After losing the title, Moxley never faded. He refused to. The Blackpool Combat Club era turned him into something even more dangerous - a stable boss. Countless blood-drenched brawls on television were evidence of a man who was willing to lead from the front and never stop giving back to wrestlers and audiences that were now propping him up in thanks to the way he'd done the same, unsolicited, for a world on its knees. In times of chaos and crisis that followed in the years hence, Moxley was again there to pick up the pieces and charge forward. Whilst this has suited him just fine and potentially poisoned the well in terms of how grateful the average fan in for his power plays, there's simply nobody in the company with his level of consistency between the ropes, in front of a microphone or even at the box office.

There are often better - or less boring - wrestlers stealing focus as the decade moves forward, but few ever again will steal hearts and minds like peak-era Mox did.