PWI 500: This Year's Top 10 Wrestlers Revealed

8. Samoa Joe

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Samoa Joe was one of NXT's most dominant wrestlers in 2016, frequently trading NXT Championship wins with Shinsuke Nakamura throughout the year's closing months, before transitioning to the main roster in January 2017. He has since become a major player on Raw, where he is always booked like a dominant brute, though he has been unsuccessful in his quest to become Universal Champion.

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