I think you misinterpret my intent. Rock IS black but for the most part he does not self-identify as such. So for some people he counts and some he doesn’t. Technically Yokozuna was a Samoan champ but he didn’t identify as such in the ring, so do you mark him as Samoan or Japanese. You either slightreal life or do…

Titus a top guy? With what skills?

I’m going to oversimplify the answer to your question because I asked myself the same questions you’ve posed while I was writing.

Agree on this writers issue. Unfortunately, I think they’ve set up Jason Jordan for failure with his story line. He’s getting no crowd reaction already, which is worse than getting a bad reaction.

Alexander is a top pick,though I feel a lots of his matches that I saw were overshadowed by the drama of his Noam Dad fued. For clarity, I didn’t include anyone from NXT, only the main roster. My list also wasn’t intended to be exhaustive. I just wanted to offer a selection. It just really all depends on where certain…

For what it’s worth I only included main roster superstars because they are the only ones eligible to centend for the Universal/WWE Champion titles which is the premise toward the start of the piece.

Excellent article. I go back to the days of Ernie Ladd, Bobo Brazil and Junkyard Dog who, for the most part, played it straight (OK, JYD did occasionally crouch like a dog and bark but... you know). But there were occasionally those “from the deepest, darkest parts of Africa” wrestlers that made kid me cringe a bit. I…