Ranking EVERY WWE Superstar's 2020 From Worst To Best
Which WWE wrestlers had a 2020 to remember in a year to forget? And which ones can't wait for 2021?
In last year's edition of this article, there was a little gag about the similarities between 2019 and 2018. It spoke to the overarching sense of insanity that had consumed WWE during the latter half of the latter half of the 2010s.
Record breaking television rights fees combined with the ill-gotten dollars from the Saudi Arabia deal reshaped what we already knew about Vince McMahon's monolithic empire, with the superstars and stories more disposable than ever before as a result. Mad sh*t - proper mad sh*t, Shawn Michaels coming-out-of-retirement, every-match-is-now-2-out-of-3-falls, we're-putting-NXT-on-TV-so-there mad sh*t - seemed to happen every other week.
It was as though only a global crisis of some kind could adjust the company's chaotic course.
So to 2020's roster then, or what remains of it after an infamous April bloodletting that occurred in sync with the company announcing more enormous profits. Credit must go to those wrestlers at the wrong end of this list even if their on-screen year was one to forget. They put a lot on the line just to go to work, and thus deserved much more than the "creative" they were served. Here's to all of them, for better and worse...
(As a frame of reference, this list is made up of those that feature on WWE.com's active roster as either Raw or SmackDown Superstars. Teams/Stables will be together as appropriate. NXT has reversed course away from the main roster, and 205 Live and NXT UK have never felt further away from the company's brightest lights).
80. The Forgotten Sons
A failed act on NXT became a disgraced one on the main roster when Jaxson Ryker's deeply misguided Twitter behaviour resulted in the act being pulled from television right as it appeared a push was on the way. The gag from the black-and-gold brand remains the same - Steve Cutler and Wesley Blake don't deserve it, but they've been forgotten all over again this year.
Will December alliances with King Corbin and Elias respectively turn things around for the trio in 2021?