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. We started the nomination process back in June, 2016, with discussion carrying through into the open voting period of this past February. We received 111 ballots for the ROH’s 50 Greatest Ever poll, and 42 ballots for the Non-Wrestler poll.
There were no set criteria for the Non-Wrestler balloting; our nomination list included managers, referees, announcers and more, with 37 different non-wrestler performers receiving votes. As part of the polling we asked voters to share when they started following the product. Here are the results for the Non-Wrestler poll:
Early years (2002-2003) – 17
Golden years (2004-2008) – 14
HDNet era (2009-2010) – 6
SBG era (2011-present) – 5
The scoring here was straight forward and the same as the Voices of Wrestling Match of the Year poll, and what Major League Baseball uses for its MVP vote. The only weighted score here was for first place – with 14 points going to each 1st place vote. The rest of the scoring was 9 points for a 2nd place vote, 8 for 3rd place, etc down to 1 point for a 10th place vote. In the results you’ll see the total number of points, plus the number of ballots the performer appeared on.
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.
Here are the results of the ROH’s 10 Greatest Non-Wrestlers poll:
#35 (tie) Gedo, Bob Evans, Paul Turner
Total points: 1
Number of ballots: 1
High vote: 10
#34 J.J. Dillon
Total points: 2
Number of ballots: 1
High vote: 9
#31 (tie) Adam Pearce, CM Punk, Bull James (stiff shot)
Total points: 3
Number of ballots: 1
High vote: 8
#30 Sara Del Rey
Total points: 5
Number of ballots: 1
High vote: 6
#29 Jay Lethal’s Mom
Total points: 6
Number of ballots: 1
High vote: 5
#28 Austin Aries
Total points: 7
Number of ballots 1
High vote: 4
#27 Mike Hogewood
Total points: 7
Number of ballots: 5
High vote: 8
#26 Doug Gentry
Total points: 8
Number of ballots: 1
High vote: 3
#25 Becky Bayless
Total points: 8
Number of ballots: 3
High vote: 6
#24 Mick Foley
Total points: 12
Number of ballots: 3
High vote: 4
#23 Steve Corino
Total points: 13
Number of ballots: 2
High vote: 3
#22 Allison Danger
Total points: 13
Number of ballots: 4
High vote: 6
#21 Shane Hagadorn
Total points: 14
Number of ballots: 5
High vote: 6
#20 Veda Scott
Total points: 15
Number of ballots: 4
High vote: 3
#19 Stokely Hathaway
Total points: 19
Number of ballots: 4
High vote: 4
#18 The Boys
Total points: 22
Number of ballots: 7
High vote: 5
#17 Bobby Dempsey
Total points: 24
Number of ballots: 9
High vote: 5
#16 Ricky Steamboat
Total points: 24
Number of ballots: 7
High vote: 5
#15 Papa Briscoe
Total points: 29
Number of ballots: 9
High vote: 4
#14 Maria Kanellis-Bennett
Total points: 47
Number of ballots: 11
High vote: 4
#13 Kevin Kelly
Total points: 49
Number of ballots: 12
High vote: 3
#12 Cary Silkin
Total points: 96
Number of ballots: 14
High vote: 1 (1 1st place vote)
#11 Jim Cornette
Total points: 104
Number for ballots: 25
High vote: 3
Onto the top ten!
