Every AEW Wrestler Ranked From Worst To Best - After One Year
24. Matt Hardy
As daft as his teleporting debut was, Matt Hardy is yet to put a foot wrong in AEW.
Concerns that his Broken brilliance wouldn't track in this environment have been tempered by Hardy switching back and forth between his different personas. He's a weird, creative dude with lots of big ideas that haven't even been tapped into yet, and while his physical troubles are well-known to anyone who followed his WWE career's latter stages, he can still keep it together between the ropes. Hardy remains a competent enough wrestler to survive in this hyper-athletic environment.
Lord knows what the future holds for Hardy, though consider that we haven't even visited his Compound for a Deletion yet.
23. Britt Baker
Pardon the use of personal tone here, but if you can't at least appreciate what Dr. Britt Baker is doing at the moment, chances are I don't trust you as a human being.
Reborn as a delusional heel, Baker's past few months have been excellent. Her 'Role Model' persona has transformed her into one of the company's most compelling acts and she took it to a new level on the most recent episode of Dynamite, calling conspiracy against the entire AEW women's division and, bizarrely, Aubrey Edwards. There isn't a drop of self-awareness to this character - and that's what makes it great.
Why only 23, then? Because of the rank failure that came before. Baker totally flopped as her division's top babyface, delivering months of lacklustre performances before eventually turning heel. It turns out the switch was all she needed to flourish.
22. Trent
Perennially one of the most underrated wrestlers on the planet, the subtle effort AEW has put into positioning Trent as Best Friends' strongest member shows the faith his employers have in him. He has repaid them with typically consistent tag team performances and banger singles bouts with PAC, Kenny Omega, and Jon Moxley, giving him low-key potential as a breakout star.
Trent's kind-of-a-d*ckhead persona hasn't changed much from his NJPW/indie days, but it doesn't need to. Best Friends are over. The former Beretta is a big part of that, and an eventual singles run isn't out of the question at all.