I am a longtime wrestling fan, had ringside seats this past March for the Dallas house show. Grew up going to the Capital Center and been watching for over 40 years and still love it.
How one decides who is the top 10 really comes down to what you value as a fan. Do you value workers like Ricky Steamboat, Randy Savage, Chris Jericho, Chris Benoit, Bret Hart, and Ric Flair for the in ring wrestling ability or do you value mic work and those who can spin a yarn so well how they do in the ring is secondary like Hogan, Rock, Steve Austin, and the like?
That's a personal opinion. Me I tend to gravitate towards the workers rather then the talkers. After watching wrestling for 40 years guys that seem to be on the common most liked list were the talkers and I just can't rank someone like the Rock over someone like Randy Savage in a list like best wrestlers of all time. The Rock was great at speaking. He is top 5 there. His matches were not. He could get people to watch, and he could get ratings but in the end his matches were boring to me.
My own top 10 of all time wrestlers list would be
Randy Savage
Ricky Steamboat
Chris Benoit
Chris Jericho
Bret Hart
Ric Flair
Shawn Michaels
Eddie Guerrero
Curt Henning
Sting
My top 10 of best talkers in the ring would be
Hulk Hogan
Triple H
Steve Austin
The Undertaker
Ric Flair
Randy Savage
The Rock
Mick Foley
Jake Roberts
Jerry Lawler
The guys I put on the talking list are more likely in people's list of all time wrestlers.