The best technical wrestler in WWE history

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During this time there are no many wrestlers WWE Last year, the era was when engineers could hold candles. But that’s because the wrestling industry has moved far from its roots, both amateur and former professional wrestling models. The root of the two men telling stories through the battle of Kayfabe is that they are trying to win through wrestling.

That’s a bit disappointing as the best mat technicians are responsible for some of the most memorable matches of all time. The best technical wrestlers have always been able to blend the best aspects of sports entertainment storytelling with old-fashioned mattress rings.

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Natalia

Natalia may be the greatest female technical wrestler WWE has ever seen


WWE tenure

WWE Winning Record

Notable WWE Results

year

Since 2007

692-888

  • WWE SmackDown Women’s Championship

  • WWE Divas Championship

  • WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion

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Natalia’s WWE career has a unique place in history due to its longevity, and it is well documented that women’s wrestling can span a time when it was an afterthought to this day, when the department was in the spotlight. One point not fully emphasized is that the Queen of Hearts has acquired her place on the roster thanks to her pure technical skills.

Natalia comes from the last generation of wrestlers who have the rightful claim to appear in the Heart Dungeon. She has successfully advanced that tradition as a technologically savvy performer who can hold for hold with anyone, highlighted by the family’s professional application of the Sharpshooter finisher.

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Gunther

Gunther’s championship governance is defined by his technical skill.


Gunther Wrestlemania 39

WWE tenure

WWE Winning Record

Notable WWE Results

year

It existed since 2019

211-91

  • World Heavyweight Champion

  • InterContinental Champion

  • NXT UK Champion

  • King of the Rings (2024)

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Yes, Gunther’s chops thrust into the minds of his enemies. However, the key foundations of his long championship governance in WWE have come back to his technical skills significantly. Big Man, who has been billed as General Ring, has his submissions at his disposal. More importantly, his attacks flow with a sense of realism and smoothness that most wrestlers can compare to.

Everything Gunther does in the ring takes on a sense of realism. Certainly, while he highlights his attacks with modern insertions like Powerbomb, his nasty inflections against Boston Crab and other wrestling classics emphasize that he is an old-fashioned engineer of the mind.

18

Ricky Steamboat

The dragon was a technical great, especially in the babyface.


Ricky Steamboat vs Ric Flair (WCW Chi-Town Rumble 1989)

WWE tenure

WWE Winning Record

Notable WWE Results

year

1985-1988 1991 2005-2014

434-96

  • InterContinental Champion

  • WWE Hall of Fame (2009)

72

When assessing wrestlers based solely on ring work, when narrowing down to pure babyface, Ricky Steamboats should be evaluated among the best people who have stepped into the WWE ring. He often used high-flying manipulation for his most famous attacks, but he was rarely smooth on the mat, including what might have been the biggest arm drug in professional wrestling history.

Certainly, the skeptical steamboat technical prowess doesn’t have to look farther than his all-time classic with Randy Savage at WrestleMania 3. The encounter involved some intense brawls, which are two men countering for the counter, reverse the pinned posture that rendered so many dramas, with the aim of many performers following multiple outcomes.

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Ted Dibiase

Million Dollarman is a solid in-ring technician

WWE tenure

WWE Winning Record

Notable WWE Results

year

  • 1979

  • 1987-1993

  • 1994-1996

  • 2004-2008

  • Since 2009

560-585

  • Million Dollar Champion (x2)

  • WWE North American World Heavyweight Champion (X1)

  • WWE 24/7 Champion (x1)

  • WWE World Tag Team Champion (X3)

  • King of the Ring (1988)

  • WWE Hall of Fame (2010)

70

“The Million Dollar Man” Ted Dibiase is one of the biggest heels in WWE history and will not win the WWE Championship. Divia Se had a chance to win the WWE Championship, but he was unable to beat “Macho Man” Randy Savage and Hulk Hogan, among others due to the title. Nevertheless, Dibiase was one of the best heels of the 80s, and had a solid run in WWE and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2010.

Dibiase had an old-fashioned technical wrestling style, and he wore out the enemies with submission holds. The million-dollar dream was his finisher, and Diviaze was not afraid to use his fist to get a body in his match. Diviath doesn’t trust his in-ring skills as he remembers more for his gimmicks and laughter.

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Shawn Michaels

Heartbreak Kids are one of the greatest greatest men ever


Shawn Michaels WWE Champion WrestleMania 12 Screenshot Crop

WWE tenure

WWE Winning Record

Notable WWE Results

year

  • 1987

  • 1988-1998

  • Since 2002

1251-486

  • WWE Champion (X3)

  • World Heavyweight Champion (x1)

  • WWE InterContinental Champion (X3)

  • WWE European Champion (x1)

  • World Tag Team Champion (x5)

  • WWE Tag Team Champion (x1)

  • Royal Rumble (1995, 1996)

  • WWE Hall of Fame (2011, 2019)

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Shawn Michaels is undoubtedly one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. Michaels’ skills in the ring are unbeatable and he is featured in the infamous legendary ring match. Heartbreak Kid was WWE’s four-time world champion and showed him a brawl as he brawled with people like Diesel and humanity in the 1996 WWE Championship match.

Michaels has great agility and he doesn’t avoid making high-flying moves. Michaels is a good grappler and he has some submissions in his repertoire.

15

Rick Flare

Nature Boy is a 16-time world champion


ric-flair-as-wcw-world-heavyight-champion-cropped

WWE tenure

WWE Winning Record

Notable WWE Results

year

  • 1991-1993

  • 2001-2009

  • 2012-2021

286-404

  • WWE Champion (x2)

  • WWE InterContinental Champion (X1)

  • World Tag Team Champion (X3)

  • Royal Rumble (1992)

  • WWE Hall of Fame (2008, 2012)

75

Ric Flair is a professional business legend and he has a memorable catalog of wrestling matches. Nature Boy is a 16-time world champion and he has worked on many wrestling promotions and is trapped in the best of the business.

Two-time WWE Hall of Fame Figure 4 Leglock was his key submission finisher with whom he won multiple world championships. Flair is the dirty player in the game, his match against Randy Savage in the WWE Championship and his retirement match against Shawn Michaels WrestleMania 24 It was part of the biggest fight of his iconic career.

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Randy Savage

The macho guy is an incredible grappler and high flyer


Randy Savage Hulk Hogan

WWE tenure

WWE Winning Record

Notable WWE Results

The age of death

844-503

  • WWE Champion (x2)

  • WWE InterContinental Champion (X1)

  • King of the Rings (1987)

  • WWE Hall of Fame (2015)

58

Without a doubt, “Macho Man” Randy Savage is one of the best wrestlers ever. CM Punk and Bailey are fans of Savage and emulated his work. Savage is known for being an incredible high flyer with his trademark elbow falling off the top rope as a finisher.

Savage was more than his ability to hold himself in the ring. He was a great grappler and he carried the ultimate warrior within them. WrestleMania 7 encounter. Savage looks good, and the former WWE Champion defeated Ted Diviaze and Rick Flair for both reigning of the WWE Championship at WrestleMania.

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Chris Jericho

Jericho reinvented his character several times


Chris Jericho WWE Intercontinental Champion RAW October 27, 2003

WWE tenure

WWE Winning Record

Notable WWE Results

year

  • 1999-2005

  • 2007-2010

  • 2012-2018

799-837

  • WWE Champion (x1)

  • World Heavyweight Champion (X3)

  • WCW Champion (x2)

  • WWE InterContinental Champion (x9)

  • WWE US Champion (x2)

  • WWE European Champion (x1)

  • WWE Hardcore Champion (X1)

  • WWE Tag Team Champion (x2)

  • World Tag Team Champion (x5)

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Chris Jericho is an intelligent ring competitor, and Y2J has always been technically healthy in a square circle. Jericho moved from WCW to WWE in August 1999, and Jericho quickly settled in WWE. Jericho was a record nine-time InterContinental champion, and in 2001 he became the first ever incontroversial WWE champion in history when he defeated Rock and Steve Austin back to back in 2001.

Jericho can wrestling and learn some invaluable knowledge while he was under the Stath Heart’s Learning Tree in the dungeon. Jericho is a submission specialist with Jericho and Lion Tamar’s trademark walls.

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Eddie Guerrero

The Latin Heat won the WWE Championship in 2004


Eddie Guerrero Ray Mysterio

WWE tenure

WWE Winning Record

Notable WWE Results

The age of death

351-300

  • WWE Champion (x1)

  • WWE InterContinental Champion (X2)

  • WWE US Champion (X1)

  • WWE European Champion (x2)

  • WWE Tag Team Champion (X4)

  • WWE Hall of Fame (2006)

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Eddie Guerrero’s untimely death in 2005 sent shockwaves around the world, and emotion was flooded with Eddie’s colleagues, family, friends and fans heard the news. Guerrero’s short WWE career lasted only five years, but he left a memorable catalog of matches.

Guerrero’s technique in the ring was fascinating to see. Eddie was a member of the legendary Guerrero family, and at his Arsenal he had some high flight moves and submissions. Guerrero mixes it with the best and winning the WWE Championship in 2004 was a highlight of his career.

11

Chad Gable

Gable proved he is a solid in-ring performer


Chad Gable Royal Rumble 2025 Crop

WWE tenure

WWE Winning Record

Notable results

year

409-469

  • WWE RAW Tag Team Champion (X2)

  • WWE Smackdown Tag Team Champion (X1)

  • NXT Tag Team Champion (x1)

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Of all of the WWE roster today, no skilled ring technicians other than Alpha Academy Master-Chad Gable. First alongside American Alpha Jason Jordan, Otis is the Alpha Academy for the past year or so, and in between, a short g or two, and Gable wears a solid ring technical Marvel every night.

Like his former companion Olympian Kurt Angle, Gable also “masters” the goofy parts of sports entertainment, summarizing the more serious aspects of in-ring action. Gable is an American leader created with the Creed Brothers and Ivy Nile, and as his stable. There is no margin of error in Gable, which expects integrity. He is not afraid to slap his stable into shape.

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