PWI 500: This Year's Top 10 Wrestlers Revealed

7. Dean Ambrose

AJ Styles WWE Champion
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Dean Ambrose was WWE Champion when this year's PWI 500 window opened, having won the belt at Money In The Bank 2016, and lost it to AJ Styles at Backlash in September. He never regained the gold, but he did hand John Cena his first clean televised loss in over seven years a few weeks later, and became Intercontinental Champion in January, holding it for 152 days.

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