Top 3 WWE all-time stars? I’m not a big fan of Chris Jericho, but there is no doubt that he is one of this generation’s most convincing and contentious characters. A perfect mix of wrestling talent and mic work, Jericho is consistently entertaining. He is credited as being the first Undisputed WWF Champion, having unified the World Championship and the WWF Championship by defeating The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin on the same night in 2001. Surely, he is one of the greatest wrestlers in history.
The Bad Girl Penelope Ford certainly lives up to her name, with her cunning ringside tactics and cocky attitude. Although she mostly appears as Kip Sabien’s manager in AEW, Ford is an experienced tag team wrestler who has won multiple championships on the independent scene. In an interview with Women’s Pro Wrestling Weekly, she said she took inspiration from Japanese fighters when developing her style because she liked their “fire and aggression.”
Sumo, a Japanese belt-wrestling style, was a popular spectator sport under imperial patronage (710–1185). Originally a submission spectacle, sumo became highly ritualized as a toppling match with victory coming also from the forcing of an opponent out of a 12-foot (4-metre) circle. By the 17th century sumo wrestling had became a professional sport in Japan. From the samurai martial art jujitsu, judo, the other prominent Japanese wrestling style, was derived in the 19th century and became an international sport in the second half of the 20th century.
WWE’s TV ratings in the USA has seen a sharp decline in recent times. Ratings for WWE’s weekly shows have consistently gone down over the last two decades. The ratings dip has become more critical with each passing year. Recently, Raw’s ratings plummeted alarmingly as the July 13th episode of Raw averaged 1.561 million viewers. However, there’s another side to this story. While WWE’s TV ratings have gone down, content consumption over other mediums has hit record highs. A report by wwe.com stated: WWE set WrestleMania Week viewership records with more than 967 million video views across the company’s digital and social platforms including WWE Network, WWE.com, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat, an increase of 20 percent year-over-year. Read even more information on Wrestling News.
Exploding onto the scene with Triple H, Ric Flair and Randy Orton, the Animal was built as the muscle of the legendary stable Evolution back in 2003. Batista then broke out on his own with his iconic thumbs down moment to the Game becoming one of WWE’s most memorable moments of the decade The chief highlights from his Hall of Fame career, including his four title reigns and first Royal Rumble win, all came in the 2000s.