While Sam counts down the VP2010s Poll Results where the esteemed readers of Violent People Dot Co chose the objectively correct Best Wrestler of the 2010s, we must move onto new things, new projects, new years. We must focus not on the past, but instead on the… slightly more recent past. The calendar has turned from 2024 to 2025, and it is time for us to appreciate the great workers of the year that was. A new VP100 winner must be named. Or maybe it’s one of these guys again:

2016 (WDKW100): Chris Hero
2017 (WDKW100): AJ Styles
2018 (WDKW100): WALTER
2019 (WDKW100): Shingo Takagi
2010s (VP2010s): ????
2020 (The Chris 100): Go Shiozaki
2021 (The Chris 100): Bryan Danielson
2022 (The Chris 100): Jon Moxley
2023 (VP100): Bryan Danielson

For those not familiar, the VP100 is our annual list counting down the top 100 (and hundreds more honorable mentions) wrestlers of the year. It is formerly known as the WDKW100 and The Chris 100. It has a very storied history. And it’s voted on by viewers like you.

If you’d like to vote in this year’s poll, here are the rules:

1. Vote for your top 50 or 100 wrestlers based purely on their 2024 resumes
2. Any ballot that falls between 50 and 100 (e.g. a 72-name ballot) will be cut off and treated as a 50-name ballot.
3. This poll is for in-ring, bell-to-bell work only. Promo ability, drawing power, etc. should not be considered.
4. Tape date only. Any work taped in 2023 but aired in 2024 should not be considered. Work taped at the end of 2024 that airs in 2025 should be considered for this year’s list, not next year’s.
5. Ballots will be weighted by the method used in the past for the WDKW/The Chris 100
   5a. 50-person ballots: 1st place-75 points, 2nd-65 points, 3rd-60 points, etc.
   5b. 100-person ballots: 1st place-125 points, 2nd-115 points, 3rd-110 points, etc.
6. I reserve the right to toss any ballots that may be jokes/trolling/different ballots sent by one person
7. Ballots will be accepted from January 2 until midnight EST on March 10.

Here are some helpful tips to prevent me hunting you down for clarifications:

• Tag teams take two distinct spots. You cannot vote for them together. I will hassle you if you do this. I’m sorry. You have to choose the better Young Buck.
• Another thing that will prevent pestering is if you give full names of wrestlers. Confusion here tends to happen with Japanese wrestlers with common surnames or luchadores with gimmicks that span generations.
• If you would like a copy of your ballot, you can check a box at the end of the form and it will send you an email. This is more convenient than you DMing me for a copy a month later while I’m at work.
• If you want to know all the wrestlers you got high votes on and you have a very common name, consider adding an initial or distinctive signifier. Last year there were two Andys it was very confusing.

VOTE FOR THE VP100 FOR 2024 HERE