By Jozef Raczka, Laura Mauro, Steph Franchomme, James Truepenny, John Dinsdale, Humza Hussain, Lee Hazell, Alex Richards, Tom Mimnagh, Tom Beasley, David Bedwell, Danny Cause & Mark Cannon Jr.

The past year has been, to say the least, a strange one. The global pandemic resulted in a situation where if you wanted to watch new wrestling you pretty much had two options. Yet still, we’ve seen how some truly iconoclastic experiments have shone through. As recently as the weekend of 9th October, we saw GCW’s The Collective represent how there are scenes being ignored and massive amounts of untapped talent to be explored.

But these are the wrestlers, we think, deserved your attention in 2020 and we can only begin to imagine, many of whom will be still shaping the scene come 2021.

Editor’s note: We want to say that we do not endorse the actions of every individual on this list but that there are some who many of our writers felt represented a significant contribution to the wrestling landscape of 2020. We apologise to anyone who is offended by their inclusion.

100-41

100. Dustin Rhodes – AEW (2019 – 50) / Mercedez Blaze  – Freelance (A SteelChair Top 100 Debut)

98. Sammy Guevara – AEW (A SteelChair Top 100 Debut)

97. Jeff Cobb – Freelance (2017 – 54, 2019 – 79)

96. Eli Drake – NWA (A SteelChair Top 100 Debut)

95. Drew Gulak – WWE (2018 – 69, 2019 – 64)

94. Charli Evans – Freelance (2018 – 78)

93. Nick Gage – GCW (2019 – 56)

92. Nikki Cross – WWE (2017 – 38, 2018 – 38)

91. Alex Hammerstone – MLW (A SteelChair Top 100 Debut)

90. Jacob Fatu – MLW (A SteelChair Top 100 Debut)

89. YOH – NJPW (A SteelChair Top 100 Debut)

88. SHO – NJPW (A SteelChair Top 100 Debut)

87. Masato Tanaka – ZERO1 (A SteelChair Top 100 Debut)

86. AJ Gray – GCW (A SteelChair Top 100 Debut)

85. Taya Valkyrie – IMPACT (2019-94)

84. Tetsuya Endo – DDT Pro (A SteelChair Top 100 Debut)

83. Arisa Nakajima – SEAdLINNNG (A SteelChair Top 100 Debut)

82. WALTER – WWE (2017 – 72, 2018 – 17, 2019 – 26)

81. PAC – AEW (2015 – 21, 2017 – 19, 2019 – 18)

80. Tegan Nox – WWE (A SteelChair Top 100 Debut)

79. Aja Kong – OZ Academy (A SteelChair Top 100 Debut)

78. Willie Mack – IMPACT (A SteelChair Top 100 Debut)

77. El Desperado – NJPW (A SteelChair Top 100 Debut)

76. Meiko Satomura – Sendai Girls (2018 – 63, 2019 – 25)

75. Ace Austin – IMPACT (A SteelChair Top 100 Debut)

74. Alex Shelley – IMPACT (A SteelChair Top 100 Debut)

73. Taichi – NJPW (A SteelChair Top 100 Debut)

72. Takumi Iroha – Marvelous (A SteelChair Top 100 Debut)

71. Luchasaurus – AEW (A SteelChair Top 100 Debut)

70. Jungle Boy – AEW (2019 – 77)

69. Tomasso Ciampa – WWE (2016 – 34, 2018 – 1, 2019 – 100)

68. Shingo Takagi  – NJPW (2019 – 51)

67. Kagetsu – STARDOM (2019 – 40)

66. ASUKA/VENY – Freelance (A SteelChair Top 100 Debut)

65. Aleister Black – WWE (2016 – 19, 2017 – 26, 2018 – 7, 2019 – 41)

64. Brodie Lee – AEW (A SteelChair Top 100 Debut)

63. Becky Lynch – WWE (2015 – 18, 2016 – 29, 2018 – 73, 2019 – 1)

62. Darby Allin – AEW (2019 – 74)

61. Shotzi Blackheart – WWE (A SteelChair Top 100 Debut)

60. KENTA – NJPW (A SteelChair Top 100 Debut)

59. Jushin ‘Thunder’ Liger – NJPW (A SteelChair Top 100 Debut)

58. Thunder Rosa – NWA (A SteelChair Top 100 Debut)

57. Deonna Purrazzo – IMPACT (A SteelChair Top 100 Debut)

56. Tomohiro Ishii – NJPW (2016 – 48, 2017 – 41, 2018 – 21, 2019 – 9)

55. Tessa Blanchard – Freelance (2018 – 51)

54. Sienna/Allysin Kay – NWA (A SteelChair Top 100 Debut)

53. Pete Dunne – WWE (2016 – 47, 2017 – 3, 2018 – 4, 2019 – 14)

52. Pentagon Jr – AEW (2015 – 30, 2017 – 34, 2018 – 23, 2019 – 46)

51. Nick Aldis – NWA (2019 – 60)

50. Jordynne Grace – IMPACT (2019 – 83)

49. Johnny Gargano – WWE (2016 – 24, 2018 – 5, 2019 – 7)

48. Hiroshi Tanahashi – NJPW (2015 – 29, 2017 – 33, 2018 – 55, 2019 – 37)

47. Hiromu Takahashi – NJPW (2017 – 18, 2018 – 38)

46. Hikaru Shida – AEW (A SteelChair Top 100 Debut)

45. Emi Sakura – Gatoh Move (A SteelChair Top 100 Debut)

44. Chris Dickinson – GCW (A SteelChair Top 100 Debut)

43. Charlotte Flair – WWE (2015 – 12, 2016 – 13, 2017 – 30, 2018 – 27, 2019 – 28)

42. Brock Lesnar – WWE (2015 – 10, 2017 – 44, 2019 – 59)

41. Angel Garza – WWE (A SteelChair Top 100 Debut)

To find out who claims our number one spot, check out part two of our list next week

Images courtesy of WWE, AEW, NJPW1972, Impact & MLW