The Honor Roll: ROH’s 50 Greatest Wrestlers Ever – Part 4 (25-1)

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.

Criteria for the Top 50

There were no set criteria for the balloting or nominations. There were no minimum match requirements or time served in the promotion. Voters used their own criteria to weigh the merits of each performer. 166 different wrestlers and 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 the top 25, we’ll also include the number of top 10 and top 5 votes each wrestler received.

For Part 4 of our reveal, we finish off the project with the top 25. Find more from The Honor Roll project: Part 3 (50-26)Part 2 (100-51)Part 1 (166-101), Top Ten Non-Wrestlers.

25 Eddie Edwards
Total points: 2688
Number of ballots: 103
Top 10 votes: 1
Top 5 votes: 0
High vote: 9
24 Kyle O’Reilly
Total points: 2734
Number of ballots: 102
Top 10 votes: 2
Top 5 votes: 1
High vote: 5
23 Takeshi Morishima
Total points: 2868
Number of ballots: 98
Top 10 votes: 11
Top 5 votes: 3
High vote: 4
22 Jimmy Jacobs
Total points: 2905
Number of ballots: 108
Top 10 votes: 10
Top 5 votes: 4
High vote: 3
21 Adam Cole
Total points: 2962
Number of ballots: 100
Top 10 votes: 19
Top 5 votes: 4
High vote: 3
20 Davey Richards
Total points: 3075
Number of ballots: 98
Top 10 votes: 17
Top 5 votes: 1
High vote: 4
19 Tyler Black
Total points: 3152
Number of ballots: 104
Top 10 votes: 10
Top 5 votes: 0
High vote: 6
18 KENTA
Total points: 3187
Number of ballots: 97
Top 10 votes: 18
Top 5 votes: 4
High vote: 2
17 Claudio Castagnoli
Total points: 3293
Number of ballots: 107
Top 10 votes: 9
Top 5 votes: 2
High vote: 2
16 Chris Hero
Total points: 3405
Number of ballots: 108
Top 10 votes: 10
Top 5 votes: 4
High vote: 1 (1 1st place vote)
15 Jay Lethal
Total points: 3498
Number of ballots: 105
Top 10 votes: 24
Top 5 votes: 11
High vote: 1 (2 1st place votes)
14 Mark Briscoe
Total points: 3537
Number of ballots: 106
Top 10 votes: 23
Top 5 votes: 3
High vote: 2
13 Homicide
Total points: 4025
Number of ballots: 108
Top 10 votes: 41
Top 5 votes: 15
High vote: 2
12 AJ Styles
Total points: 4110
Number of ballots: 108
Top 10 votes: 34
Top 5 votes: 12
High vote: 2
11 Low Ki
Total points: 4117
Number of ballots: 106
Top 10 votes: 48
Top 5 votes: 16
High vote: 1 (1 1st place vote)

Onto the top ten!