Greatest WWE Wrestlers of All Time

By Editorial Staff in Sports On 6th March 2016
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The Undertaker

Mark William Calaway, better known by his ring name The Undertaker, is an American professional wrestler and actor. He is currently signed to WWE, where he has worked since 1990, making him the company's longest tenured in-ring performer. Calaway began his wrestling career with World Class Championship Wrestling in 1984. After wrestling for World Championship Wrestling as "Mean" Mark Callous from 1989 to 1990, he signed with the World Wrestling Federation in 1990.

Triple H

Paul Michael Levesque, better known by his ring name Triple H, is an American professional wrestler, corporate executive, and actor.

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Steve Austin

Steve Austin, better known by his ring name "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, is an American actor, producer, and retired professional wrestler who is signed to WWE.

Bret Hart

Bret Sergeant Hart is a Canadian writer, actor and retired professional wrestler. A member of the Hart wrestling family and a second-generation wrestler, he has an amateur wrestling background, wrestling at Ernest Manning High School and Mount Royal College. A major international draw within pro wrestling, Hart revolutionized the industry in the early 1990s by bringing high quality, athletic in-ring performance to the fore. He has cultivated a legacy as one of the greatest wrestlers of all time; veteran industry personality Paul Heyman referred to Hart's oeuvre as "a body of work so spectacular that it is beyond comprehension how brilliant a career he enjoyed".

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Hulk Hogan

Terry Gene Bollea, better known by his ring name Hulk Hogan, is an American professional wrestler, actor, television personality, entrepreneur and rock bassist. Bollea enjoyed mainstream popularity in the 1980s and 1990s as the all-American character Hulk Hogan in the World Wrestling Federation, and as "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan, the villainous nWo leader, in World Championship Wrestling. A regular pay-per-view headliner in both organizations, Hogan closed the respective premier annual events of the WWF and WCW, WrestleMania and Starrcade, on multiple occasions. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2005. He was signed with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling from 2009 until 2013, where he was the on-screen General Manager and occasional wrestler. IGN described Hogan as "the most recognized wrestling star worldwide and the most popular wrestler of the '80s".

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John Cena

John Felix Anthony Cena is an American professional wrestler, rapper and actor signed to WWE. Cena is credited by WWE as the public face of that organization, and has served as its franchise player since 2005.

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Randy Orton

Randall Keith "Randy" Orton is an American professional wrestler and actor who is currently signed with WWE since 2001, but is on hiatus due to injury as of February 2016. He is a 12-time world champion, having held the WWE Championship/WWE World Heavyweight Championship eight times and the World Heavyweight Championship four times. He was the final holder of the World Heavyweight Championship.

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Rey Mysterio

Óscar Gutiérrez, better known by the ring name Rey Mysterio, is a Mexican-American professional wrestler who currently works for Lucha Underground. He is perhaps best known for his time in WWE from July 2002 until February 2015. He is also known for his work in Extreme Championship Wrestling and Asistencia Asesoría y Administración and World Championship Wrestling. Gutierrez was trained by his uncle Rey Misterio, Sr., learning the Lucha Libre high flying style that has been his trademark.

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Shawn Michaels

Michael Shawn Hickenbottom, better known by his ring name Shawn Michaels, is an American professional wrestling personality, television presenter and retired professional wrestler. He has been signed to WWE, as an ambassador and occasional non-wrestling performer, since December 2010. Michaels wrestled consistently for WWE, formerly the World Wrestling Federation, from 1988 until his first retirement in 1998. He held non-wrestling roles from 1998 to 2000 and resumed wrestling in 2002 until retiring ceremoniously in 2010.

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Dwayne Johnson

Dwayne Douglas Johnson, also known by his ring name The Rock, is an American and Canadian actor, producer and semi-retired professional wrestler, signed with WWE. Johnson was a college football player for the University of Miami, winning a national championship on the 1991 Miami Hurricanes football team. He later played for the Calgary Stampeders in the Canadian Football League, and was cut two months into the 1995 season. This led him to become a professional wrestler like his grandfather, Peter Maivia, and his father, Rocky Johnson. Through Maivia, he is considered a non-blood relative of the Anoa'i wrestling family.