To celebrate Ring of Honor’s 15th anniversary, Place to Be Nation and Voices of Wrestling teamed up to present The Honor Roll: ROH’s 50 Greatest Wrestlers Ever and an offshoot poll ROH’s 10 Greatest Non-Wrestlers.
The nomination process back in June 2016, with discussion carrying through into the open voting period of this past February. In full, we received 111 ballots for the ROH’s 50 Greatest Ever poll and 42 ballots for the Non-Wrestler offshoot.
Criteria for the Top 50
There were no set criteria for the Non-Wrestler balloting. Our nomination list included managers, referees, announcers, authority figures and even former owners! In the end, 37 different non-wrestler performers received votes.
As part of the polling we asked voters to share when they started following the product. Here are the results for the Top 50 poll:
- Early years (2002-2003): 42
- Golden years (2004-2008): 45
- HDNet era (2009-2010): 8
- SBG era (2011-present): 16
The scoring here had the top 10 weighted, with the remaining 40 working backwards as such: 50th place = 1 point, 49th place = 2, etc. The top 10 weighting was as follows:
- 1st – 65 points
- 2nd – 60 points
- 3rd – 57 points
- 4th – 54 points
- 5th – 51 points
- 6th – 49 points
- 7th – 47 points
- 8th – 45 points
- 9th – 43 points
- 10th – 41 points
- (11 = 40, etc, etc)
In the results you’ll see the total number of points, the high vote, plus the number of ballots the performer appeared on.
For Part one of our reveal, we’ve cut down our list from 166 to 101. A note to voters: if you’re #50 is missing, it could be a case of using one of your slots for a tag team (Young Bucks for example, although there were other teams that got votes). Those members were broken out next to each other on the ballots. The ties here were wrestlers that had identical ballots.
Tie breakers used were # of ballots, and then if still tied, whomever had the highest vote.
We continue our countdown today with wrestlers 100-51.
100 Caprice Coleman
Total points: 47
Number of ballots: 6
High vote: 32
99 Kazuchika Okada
Total points: 53
Number of ballots: 7
High vote: 39
98 Lance Storm
Total points: 55
Number of ballots: 9
High vote: 39
97 Super Dragon
Total points: 58
Number of ballots: 5
High vote: 27
96 Adam Page
Total points: 60
Number of ballots: 6
High vote: 34
95 Will Ospreay
Total points: 63
Number of ballots: 3
High vote: 21
94 Lio Rush
Total points: 81
Number of ballots: 6
High vote: 25
93 Marty Scurll
Total points: 83
Number of ballots: 6
High vote: 22
92 Silas Young
Total points: 83
Number of ballots: 7
High vote: 27
91 Ricky Reyes
Total points: 86
Number of ballots: 9
High vote: 34
90 Ace Steel
Total points: 87
Number of ballots: 12
High vote: 23
89 Eddie Kingston
Total points: 88
Number of ballots: 8
High vote: 23
88 Shinsuke Nakamura
Total points:93
Number of ballots: 8
High vote: 17
87 Trent Acid
Total points: 96
Number of ballots: 11
High vote: 28
86 Abyss
Total points: 98
Number of ballots: 8
High vote: 23
85 Rhett Titus
Total points: 98
Number of ballots: 15
High vote: 27
84 Tomohiro Ishii
Total points: 104
Number of ballots: 7
High vote: 18
83 Michael Shane
Total points: 110
Number of ballots: 8
High vote: 21
82 Daizee Haze
Total points: 114
Number of ballots: 10
High vote: 24
81 Brent Albright
Total points: 120
Number of ballots: 14
High vote: 31
80 Ray Rowe
Total points: 123
Number of ballots: 13
High vote: 29
79 Dan Maff
Total points: 126
Number of ballots: 13
High vote: 26
78 Dragon Kid
Total points: 136
Number of ballots: 17
High vote: 32
77 KUSHIDA
Total points: 136
Number of ballots: 20
High vote: 33
76 Brodie Lee
Total points: 152
Number of ballots: 10
High vote: 21
75 Masato Yoshino
Total points: 152
Number of ballots: 17
High vote: 31
74 John Walters
Total points: 157
Number of ballots: 23
High vote: 32
73 Hanson
Total points: 161
Number of ballots: 15
High vote: 25
72 Donovan Dijak
Total points: 174
Number of ballots: 13
High vote: 7
71 Matt Hardy
Total points: 182
Number of ballots: 17
High vote: 16
70 Charlie Haas
Total points: 188
Number of ballots: 15
High vote: 25
69 Erick Stevens
Total points: 196
Number of ballots: 21
High vote: 17
68 Matt Taven
Total points: 201
Number of ballots: 19
High vote: 25
67 Naruki Doi
Total points: 203
Number of ballots: 19
High vote: 22
66 Kenny King
Total points: 212
Number of ballots: 22
High vote: 26
65 Shelton Benjamin
Total points: 235
Number of ballots: 17
High vote: 24
64 Mike Bennett
Total points: 238
Number of ballots: 19
High vote: 26
63 Eddie Guerrero
Total points: 257
Number of ballots: 17
High vote: 16
62 Kenny Omega
Total points: 257
Number of ballots: 20
High vote: 19
61 Cedric Alexander
Total points: 259
Number of ballots: 26
High vote: 24
60 Go Shiozaki
Total points: 278
Number of ballots: 29
High vote: 14
59 ACH
Total points: 337
Number of ballots: 38
High vote: 28
58 Xavier
Total points: 338
Number of ballots: 40
High vote: 17
57 Frankie Kazarian
Total points: 362
Number of ballots: 25
High vote: 21
56 Sara Del Rey
Total points: 381
Number of ballots: 30
High vote: 25
55 Jushin “Thunder” Liger
Total points: 383
Number of ballots: 29
High vote: 19
54 Adam Pearce
Total points: 385
Number of ballots: 30
High vote: 8
53 Shingo Takagi
Total points: 402
Number of ballots: 37
High vote: 17
52 CIMA
Total points: 428
Number of ballots: 35
High vote: 20
51 Raven
Total points: 480
Number of ballots: 40
High vote: 14
To talk about the results and the project in general, you can sign-up for the Voices of Wrestling forum here. The Honor Roll sub-forum is located here. Follow us on Twitter at @voiceswrestling and @Place2BeNation.
