How Every WWE Superstar Sees Themselves

Mind Games.

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As per usual with these longer lists, it's worth providing some caveats first:

- The titular WWE Superstars in this collection are just that - the wrestlers taken from WWE.com's active roster page that feature on either Raw or SmackDown on a full time basis. NXT was introduced into the conversation during the build to the 2019 Survivor Series but ongoing global health crisis concerns have split the two sides back off of late. NXT UK was already on an island in a literal sense before it was cast even further adrift in 2020. A recent WALTER/Ilja Dragunov match is aiming to reverse the trend, but the echoes of the BT Sports studio unbroken by violent chops are just echoes.

- The 205 Live crew won't feature either. There's a misfit toys vibe about that brand at the best of times, but it's been as difficult and challenging a period for the Cruiserweights as anybody else this year, and with less time than any of the Raw and SmackDown regulars to tell their stories, it felt unfair to shine a spotlight this time around.

- Teams and stables are together wherever possible, because based on the rate they're split up in WWE, the poor souls need each other more than ever.

Now onto the lists, and into the minds of all your favourites during these troubled times...

73. AJ Styles

Sasha Banks
WWE

"I'm on Raw now...but where was I wrestling before?"

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