The Top 30 Physiques in Professional Wrestling of All Time

I began watching professional wrestling at the tender age of 4 in the summer of 1989. I caught a glimpse of it while at a neighbor's house one night and instantly fell in love. One of the things that fascinated me most was how big and strong the wrestlers were. How chiseled and defined their muscles were. I developed an interest in bodybuilding and was hoping that with enough hard work I'd one day look like one of the stars I saw on TV.

Unfortunately when I looked into the mirror last to see which superstar I currently resembled, the answer was Mideon aka Phineus I Godwin aka Dennis Knight.


My goal is to miss no lifting sessions, add in cardio, stop cheating on my diet and when I'm at lifting sessions lift till absolute exhaustion. I'm hoping by doing so I can achieve a look similar to a young Arn Anderson.

Who as you can tell looks pretty damn good for an average bloke, but in comparison to many other professional wrestlers, his physique is average.

It should also be noted that this list is a comprehensive list of 30 male wrestlers I feel have the physiques in professional wrestling of all time. Perhaps I'll make a list of female physiques later that impress me, but I can see a lot more arguments developing with people doing that, considering that how I define beauty and what I find stimulating and attractive is much different than what most men (and for that matter women) do.

On my list for example, you wouldn't find any Sables or Stacy Keiblers. I just don't find the bitchy, try and look tough look attractive on a woman. My list would include more the friendly, still hot as Hell, but girl next door look.

For example Molly Holly would top my list at #1 and I'm not sure if she'd even make anyone else's top 5 list. I researched and found four "most attractive women in professional wrestling of all time" list and only one of the four even had Molly on the list. And at that, she was #11 on a top 15.


Even though the following list includes thirty professional wrestlers in random order (I tried to rank them but it was way too difficult) I know I left some off the list that probably deserve to be on it. Keep in mind that I had to stop somewhere. Keep in mind that this is a highly subjective topic. 

I mean I don't see anyone crying about me leaving the late Dusty Rhodes off the list. We can all agree that while he's one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, ole Dusty had the body of a 40 year old couch potato that lived in his mother's basement. Guy could out perform, out talk, and out do 95% of the guys on this list, but we're not analyzing these guys talent and ability. We're strictly looking at their physiques.


A few of the guys who didn't make the list......

Brian Adams, who spent a majority of his professional wrestling career performing as Crush, was one of the strongest men to ever be in professional wrestling. During WWE runs, he had the size and the bulk but he was never really chiseled. It was obvious that he spent a lot of time in the gym pumping iron, but he didn't achieve the more chiseled, defined look until the last year's of his career in WCW. 

Scott Norton is another guy I left off of the list. While Norton had an impressive physique, and this picture is him at his best, for the majority of his career he was built like a big offensive lineman. A power-lifter's body, that was extremely impressive in its own right, but not as impressive as the bodybuilder physiques of others. 

And another wrestler I left off the list was Steve Williams, who I'll say had genetics working against him. He was hairy, and extremely thick. Nevertheless he still looked very good.


And now my top 30......

They called him "The Total Package" for a reason. The former Canadian Football star had a killer physique with no noticeable flaws. 

He'll be the first to admit that he achieved his chiseled physique with the awkward looking biceps through the usage of anabolic steroids, but do keep in mind when he was using them back in the late 1970's and early 1980's they were legal. Steroids didn't become federally demonized and criminalized until 1991. 

Another wrestler who had one of the most impressive physiques. The most notable feature of Atlas' was his back. Traps, deltoids, lats, the guy had one of the most impressive backs of all time. 

It's hard to believe looking at him now, but at one time Tom Billington aka The Dynamite Kid had an impressive physique. 

Paul Orndorff already had an impressive physique when he was playing football at the University of Tampa, a few steroids later, an unbelievable dedication to the gym and his diet, and Orndorff has arguably the best body professional wrestling has ever seen. 

If you look at the British Bulldog when he first started in professional wrestling, it would have been hard to have imagined the tall, lanky, skinny kid one day being one of the most muscular men in professional wrestling. 

He already looked like a million bucks when he won a Florida High School State wrestling title in 1971, and he just kept getting more chiseled as time went on. 

They called him The Model, for good reason. The men wished they could look like him and despite doing all he could to tick off everyone in the crowd with his arrogant gimmick, the ladies loved Rick Martel. 

An advocate for the legalization of steroids, The Warlord, admits to heavy steroid usage along with spending hours upon hours in the gym. He's still alive today and doing well, and says it is because the only thing he took with steroids was protein. According to other professional wrestlers, the Warlord would eat steak for breakfast, lunch, dinner and his three or four midday snacks. 

The Ultimate Warrior had damn near everything. He had an impressive chest, shoulders, abs, legs, and some of the most impressive biceps ever known to professional wrestling. Oddly enough the guy had no triceps. When questioned about it in an interview once, he said that he felt that training chest and shoulders put enough strain on the triceps as it was and over-training the triceps might take away from his biceps. He trained triceps later on in life though. 

If I had to pick out the best pectoral muscles/chest of all professional wrestlers, Kerry Von Erich aka The Texas Tornado aka The Modern Day Warrior would be one of them. 

Romeo Paul Roma is perhaps the most underrated superstar on this list. All around chiseled with no noticeable flaws, it's strange how he's not even considered for most list. 

Sid would most certainly give Paul Orndorff a run for his money as the #1 pick. 

I always thought it was strange that Ted Dibiase's manager looked 100 times better than he did. 

Even before he became the genetic freak, Scott Steiner had an extremely impressive body. While his biceps didn't peak the way that the Warrior's did, they were just as big, if not bigger. 

Another wrestler with an all around phenomenal physique, what stood out most on the mighty Hercules were his massive shoulders. 

Who had the better physique? Ron Simmons aka Faarooq? Or his tag team partner Butch Reed? 

And here is Butch Reed. 

The former standout football star for the South Caroline Gamecocks was already a defined piece of granite when he got into professional wrestling. Some steroids for bulk and some cutter, and you have yourself one of the best bodies professional wrestling has ever seen. 

It was heartbreaking for some fans when Ken Shamrock finally tested positive for steroids, as for years he was often labeled by many, "The best non-steroid physique" in pro wrestling. 

What's most impressive about Steve Blackman is that in the late 1980's he was a rookie professional wrestler on his way to stardom.Overseas he got a terrible infection that nearly ended his life and spent the next nearly 10 years recovering. He lost all of his size and strength, and had to start again from scratch to come back in the late 90's as The Lethal Weapon. 

Not many who are as big as Brock Lesnar are as defined as Brock Lesnar. Like Kerry Von Erich, his chest is extremely impressive. Best traps of anyone I've ever seen. 

The three time NAIA wrestling champion for Missouri Valley has a body that would rival anyone's. Another contender for the #1 spot. 

John Cena, another contender for the #1 spot. 

And yet Shelton Benjamin, another contender for the #1 spot. 

If anyone could give Brock Lesnar a run for his money on the most impressive traps, it is Dave Batista. 

I still think Tony Atlas wins "best back" but David Otunga is a close second. 

Marcus Alexander "Buff" Bagwell has said on more than one occasion that he never took steroids. Said he got his billion dollar body from intensive training in the gym, a strict diet and getting plenty of sleep. Either way, he has a look most would die for. 

No one had better abdominal muscles than Rick Rude. No one. 

Ivan Putski proves the importance of diet and cardio while you're lifting weights. The picture on the far right shows what he looked like when he was all about lifting.


So there are the best physiques in professional wrestling of all time in my opinion.  What do you think?

"Ah!!!!! Wa! Wa!"
*Cries like a little baby**
"You left Triple H off the list!!!  Ah!!!!!"


Yep

I also left off Jim Powers and a multitude of other professional wrestlers with outstanding physiques who are more than worthy of being on a "Best Physiques in Professional Wrestling of All Time" list. I got to thirty and decided that I already had way too many, so it was time to stop.