Well...I've done a Top 20 of my favourite wrestlers of 2024...only fair that we explore the other side of the coin now, hey? And I can already feel like some people aren't going to be happy with some of my choices...the first entry on the list especially, following this...

But yeah, honestly was honestly a lot more difficult to do compared to my favourites (and that was no cakewalk itself, truth be told), but and I think some are on here because I just didn't connect with them...Some though I just didn't like, or they got on my nerves/got on my nerves more as time went on, and some I've just never been a fan of in general. So...let's rip off the bandage and get on with it, shall we....? 

Also, please put your least favourites, but do please be respectfully of mine and everyone else's answers, that's all I ask.

#9: MJF/Maxwell Jacob Friedman - AEW:

Yes, yes, I know! I know this is going to annoy people, especially his fans, and I know that he's one of the pillars of AEW and one of AEW's bigger successes in the company.....but I've never been a fan of MJF's honestly. No, don't look at me that way.....

I've never been a fan of his, and I just...never have been able to connect with him as a character or performer, and he's one of those wrestlers I don't particularly enjoy watching, regardless if he's a face or a heel. Whenever I do see one of his segments or matches, it's usually only because it involves a wrestler I do like, otherwise he does nothing for me.

I'm sorry if that upsets and annoys any of you, and I promise I have tried many times to give him a chance, especially this year during his feud with Will Ospreay...but, yeah, I just can't/could never get on board with him.

I'm really not looking forward to what gets said about this one....

#9: Mercedes Mone - AEW and New Japan Pro-Wrestling:

Okay, so let me start by saying in regards to Mercedes, I don't actually hate her or anything. To be honest, the only reason she's on the list is her booking as double champion more than anything, and her promos are a mixed bag at best, so she's by no means in my "worst" category. Hell, I did like Mercedes back in 2023 for the most part when she was going after and holding the IWGP Women's World Championship, and - for the most part anyway - I respected and liked her in WWE. 

However I think it's safe to say that her time in AEW hasn't been the greatest of times in terms of fan enjoyment, myself included, even though I'm more of a casual fan. Personally, I didn't have much of a problem with Mercedes winning the TBS Championship, but I did think she had won the NJPW Strong Openweight Women's Championship a bit far too soon, and her promos aren't exactly...great...to put it nicely...though I do admit that might be a bit subjective. They aren't bad, they just don't make Mercedes feel like the star she carries herself as, which is a shame.

Plus, if I had to nit-pick a little, I don't really like her theme song either. I think it's rather s*** to be honest. Though I think Mercedes having former NWA Women's World Champion Kamille as her bodyguard/her heavy (whatever you want to call her now previous role) was a smart choice to be fair for the brief time it lasted.

Hopefully things work out better for Mercedes's run.

#8: EC3 - NWA:

Now this isn't his fault that he's on the list, and EC3 does fall into my least favourite category part purely because of the promotion he mostly wrestled for in 2024: The NWA. It's safe to say that the NWA is a massive cell of its former self, especially when compared to it's 2018 to 2019 NWA Power peak of the modern era, or even its peaks in the 70's and 80's, and yet somehow things just kept getting worse and worse for the NWA throughout 2024, and - to me at least - ECW ended up suffering somewhat as the top champion of the promotion simply by association.

Granted, his matches shown on the NWA YouTube page haven't been stellar - especially the match in which he lost the belt to Thom Latimer. It was an otherwise sound, functional match...but honestly a little dull and lifeless that kept repeating themes in it to diminishing returns.

I hate writing about EC3 in this list, because I absolutely see his talent, and I have done since his TNA days...and yet the NWA's decline really feels like it's dragging its talent down with it, and it's just sad to see.

#7: David Finlay - New Japan Pro-Wrestling:

Again, similarly to EC3, I don't actually hate David Finlay, he's more in my "least favourite" category than my "worst" category, it's more how he's been presented and it not translating simply because Finlay seemingly lacked something, or was perhaps not at the level he's meant to be at the level he's being pushed, if that makes any sense.

Now granted, that's been a problem New Japan seems to have had with Finlay and other members of "Bullet Club" and/or its "House of Torture" related stable, and admittedly Finlay has been getting better slowly over the last while...but yeah, I think he's still got a long way to go as leader of "Bullet Club", and maybe having him hold the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship might not be doing him and the belt any favours? What do you think?

Yeah, I'm just not sure how to describe this one...

#6: Sho - New Japan Pro-Wrestling:

Now this one I can somewhat describe better than Finlay.

I will admit, before Sho backstabbed Yoh and joined the "House of Torture", I actually really enjoyed watching his matches, especially against Shingo Takagi. However since betraying Yoh back in 2021, Sho has really become someone I've really soured on as a wrestler and a character, to the point that I think him joining "House of Torture" actively damaged him, despite New Japan's attempts at still pushing him.

Yes he's got a more crazed and, at times, sadistic and insane edge to him, and it's clear New Japan still sees a worth in him - more so than Yoh or other Junior Heavyweights like Master Watu at times - but him wrestling the "House of Torture" style, for lack of better words, that often includes seeing how many times you can get away with cheating in a single match with some added slow spots really has hurt him and his popularity to the point where I'm starting to wonder if there can be a way to salvage Sho if and/or when he either leaves "House of Torture" or gets kicked out of it.

If you think that's mad on my part, then you might find the fact that I never once considered "House of Torture" leader EVIL on this list, because at the very least he was rather entertaining in the first few months of 2024 in the NEVER Openweight title scene, and at least EVIL working the "House of Torture" style somewhat makes more sense with him and probably only him, given how often he bent the rules in Los Ingobernables de Japon.

#5: Matt Riddle - New Japan Pro-Wrestling, MLW, and Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide:

I'll start this entry off by saying from the get-go that I've never really been a fan of Riddle at all, even if I have enjoyed a number of his matches or the tag teams he's been apart of ("RK-Bro" and "The Broserweights", to be clear). Riddle coming across in general as someone who's permanently high, and his constant use of the word "Bro" has always annoyed me to no end, and I know for a fact I'm not the only one who feels and thinks the same way because I have friends and family who feel the same way.

However, I will say that his matches for the NJPW World Television Championship - as brief of a title reign as it ended up being - were at least enjoyable, and him pretty much becoming a ghost between him losing the aforementioned title to Zack Sabre Jr. and Riddle winning AAA's World Cruiserweight title are enough to keep him from being in my top 3 at the very least, but...yeah...

Not much more I can say really, other than he's just never won me over and he just annoys me. Sorry, though, if you are a fan of Riddle, I wouldn't stop you from being a fan of his.

#4 and #3: Austin Theory and Grayson Waller (respectively) - WWE:

I will be open with you here: I have never been able to get on board with the band wagon/fanbase of either Grayson Waller or Austin Theory. In Theory's case, he can sort of be excused a little due to my view on him being somewhat more skewed, because of his poor 2nd US title reign, and - to me at least - a rather unremarkable time in "The Way" in NXT.

Grayson Waller though? I've never understood what he's meant to be beyond "the annoying guy you want to see get his arse kicked", or "a walking stereotype". I've tried to understand why people like him, and I'm just not seeing it. And that's really somewhat skewed how I see "A-Town-Down-Under". A team with moments of occasional hilarity, but otherwise a team that I often forget exist, and sigh in exasperation at whenever I do see, which I feel is completely unaware to the two of them as well. I feel bad that I just don't get them and that's led me to really rather resenting the team, but I just can't help it.

I don't know...maybe they'll eventually win me over, but I'm not too confident about it.

#2: CM Punk - WWE:

And now I can sense a load of CM Punk fans fetching their pitchforks simply by seeing his name on here.....And you know what, if this wasn't a list of wrestlers I didn't like this year, or just an actual ranking of the worst wrestlers of 2024, then fair enough, I wouldn't put Punk on that list either, believe it or not. 

Really, the only reason Punk is on this list at all, and specifically this low, is because I've never been a fan of his, and after everything that happened between 2022 to 2023, I really have built up a bit of resentment and fatigue over Punk as a whole.

Really, the only thing I somewhat felt positive about Punk for was the whole Wrestlemania Money In The Bank cash-in set-up on Night 2 of Wrestlemania 40 this year. 

I appreciate that his feud with Drew McIntyre brought out some great promos and matches, but I'll be frank here, I was always cheering for McIntyre in those scenarios, and I REALLY didn't like how Punk cost McIntyre a chance at regaining the World Heavyweight Championship, and his Money In The Bank Briefcase at Money In The Bank 2024 this year (I hate failed MITB cash-ins).

Again, I don't stop people from liking Punk, it's fine if you do, I just never have been a fan, and I haven't really been won over by him this year. Sorry everyone. :(

#1: Chris Jericho.... - AEW:

......*sighs*.....Right, here we go....

So, Chris Jericho hasn't been the most popular man in professional wrestling or in AEW in the last year+ now, has he. Oh sure, he does still have fans, and if you are still a fan of his, then all power to you honestly. For me though, Jericho's just gotten stale for me personally.

I appreciate that he's trying, and he tried a gimmick change that's - more-or-less - an f you to the haters or those telling him to retire, but it just hasn't clicked with me, and if anything, it's just gotten more annoying as time has gotten on, and not necessarily for the right reasons.

I think it also says a lot about my lack of enjoyment of Jericho in 2024 that it took me weeks to even realise that he'd changed gimmicks again, somewhat, after winning the ROH World title to a "King of New York" gimmick, and just being confused by it.

Also, whoever thought it was a good idea to put the ROH World Championship back on Jericho after 2 years needs to have a word with themself. If it's purely for business means and trying to get ROH a TV deal like the rumours were saying, then there are other ways they could have done that, and not having Jericho on ROH in matches doesn't help matters.

This might all be a bit of an overreaction entry, and I accept that. But it's not like I've not been given a reason to feel that way over the past year with his booking and the overall vibe off of Jericho this year.