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1996 inductee Abdullah the Butcher
 
1996 inductee El Canek
 
1996 inductee Jim Cornette
 
1996 inductee Ted DiBiase
 
1996 inductee Ric Flair
 
1996 inductee Terry Funk
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1996 inductee Georg Hackenschmidt
 
1996 inductee Bret Hart
 
1996 inductee Hulk Hogan
 
1996 inductee Jerry Lawler
 
1996 inductee Mil Máscaras
 
1996 inductee Vincent K. McMahon
 
1996 inductee Mitsuharu Misawa
 
1996 inductee Roddy Piper
 
1996 inductee Harley Race
 
1996 inducee Big Van Vader
 
1997 inductee William Muldoon
 
1999 inductee Jim Ross
 
2000 inductee Steve Austin
 
2000 inductee Mick Foley
 
2002 inductee Jack Curley
 
2003 inductee Chris Benoit
 
2003 inductee Shawn Michaels
 
2004 inductee Kurt Angle
 
2004 inductee Bob Backlund
 
2004 inductee The Undertaker
 
2005 inductee Triple H
 
2006 inductee Eddie Guerrero
 
2007 inductee The Rock
# Year Ring name
(Birth name) 		Inducted for Notes
1 1996 Abdullah the Butcher
(Larry Shreve)[1] 		Wrestling Won the WWC Universal Heavyweight Championship (3 times), NWA United National Championship (1 time), and PWF World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[1]
2 1996 Perro Aguayo
(Pedro Aguayo Damián)[2] 		Wrestling Won the Mexican National Heavyweight Championship (1 time), Mexican National Middleweight Championship (1 time), and Mexican National Tag Team Championship (2 times)[3][4][5]
3 1996 André the Giant
(André Roussimoff)[6] 		Wrestling Won the WWF Championship (1 time) and WWF Tag Team Championship (1 time)[7]
4 1996 Bert Assirati Wrestling Won the British Heavyweight Championship (1 time) and European Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[8]
5 1996 Shohei Baba Wrestling Won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (3 times) and PWF World Heavyweight Championship (4 times); founded All Japan Pro Wrestling[9]
6 1996 Jim Barnett Promoting Founded Australia's World Championship Wrestling; owned Georgia Championship Wrestling[10][11]
7 1996 Red Berry
Ralph Berry[12] 		Wrestling Won the NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship (9 times) and NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship (2 times)[12][13]
8 1996 The Destroyer
Dick Beyer[14] 		Wrestling Won the WWA World Heavyweight Championship (3 times) and AWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[14][15]
9 1996 Freddie Blassie Wrestling and Managing Won the NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship (14 times) and NAWA/WWA World Heavyweight Championship (4 times); worked as manager after retiring as a competitor[16]
10 1996 Blue Demon
Alexander Muñoz Moreno[17] 		Wrestling Won the Mexican National Welterweight Championship (3 times) and appeared in several luchador films[18][19][20]
11 1996 Nick Bockwinkel Wrestling Won the AWA World Heavyweight Championship (6 times), AWA World Tag Team Championship (3 times), and NWA World Tag Team Championship (2 times)[21]
12 1996 Paul Boesch Commentating and Promoting Promoted the Houston, Texas territory of National Wrestling Alliance[22]
13 1996 Bobo Brazil
Houston Harris[23] 		Wrestling Won the Detroit version of NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (9 times) and Mid-Atlantic version (1 time)[24][25]
14 1996 Jack Brisco
(Fred Joe Brisco)[26] 		Wrestling Won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (2 times), NWA World Tag Team Championship (3 times), and NWA National Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[27][28]
15 1996 Bruiser Brody
(Frank Goodish)[29] 		Wrestling Won the WCWA World Heavyweight Championship (3 times), and PWF World Tag Team Championship (1 time)[30]
16 1996 Mildred Burke
Mildred Bliss[31] 		Women's wrestling and Promoting Won the NWA World Women's Championship (1 time) and WWWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time); founded World Women's Wrestling Association.[31]
17 1996 El Canek Wrestling Won the UWA World Heavyweight Championship multiple times[32]
18 1996 Negro Casas
José Casas Ruiz[33] 		Wrestling
19 1996 Riki Chōshū
Mitsuo Yoshida[34] 		Wrestling Won the PWF World Heavyweight Championship (1 time), IWGP Heavyweight Championship (3 times), and IWGP Tag Team Championship (3 times)[34][35]
20 1996 Jim Cornette Promoting and managing Founded Smoky Mountain Wrestling and managed wrestlers in National Wrestling Alliance, World Championship Wrestling, and the World Wrestling Federation[36][37]
21 1996 The Crusher
Reginald Lisowski[38] 		Wrestling Won the AWA World Heavyweight Championship (3 times), AWA World Tag Team Championship (9 times), and WWA World Tag Team Championship (6 times)[39][40]
22 1996 Ted DiBiase Wrestling and Managing Won the NWA/Mid-South North American Heavyweight Championship (5 times), PWF World Tag Team Championship (1 time), and NWA National Heavyweight Championship (2 times); managed the Million Dollar Corporation and New World Order stables[41][42]
23 1996 Dick the Bruiser
(William Richard Afflis)[43] 		Wrestling and Promoting Won the AWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time) and AWA World Tag Team Championship (5 times); owned and promoted the World Wrestling Association in Indianapolis, Indiana[44][45]
24 1996 Alfonso Dantés
Jose Luis Amezcua Diaz[46] 		Wrestling Won the NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship (5 times), Mexican National Heavyweight Championship (2 times), and Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship (3 times)[46][47]
25 1996 The Dusek Family
The Hason Family[48] 		Wrestling and Promoting Emil and Ernie Dusek won the NWA World Tag Team Championship (Central States version) (3 times) and NWA World Tag Team Championship (San Francisco version) (1 times); Joe Dusek promoted wrestling events in Omaha, Nebraska[48]
26 1996 Dynamite Kid
Tom Billington[49] 		Wrestling Won the AJPW All Asia Tag Team Championship (1 time), Stampede North American Heavyweight Championship (1 time), and WWF Tag Team Championship (1 time)[49][50]
27 1996 The Fabulous Kangaroos Wrestling
28 1996 Jackie Fargo
Henry Faggart[51] 		Wrestling
29 1996 Ric Flair
(Richard Morgan Fliehr)[52] 		Wrestling Won the WWF Championship (2 times), NWA World Heavyweight Championship (8 times), and WCW World Heavyweight Championship (6 times)[53]
30 1996 Tatsumi Fujinami Wrestling Won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship (6 times), NWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time), and WWF Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[28][54][55]
31 1996 Dory Funk Wrestling and Promoting Won the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time) and NWA North American Heavyweight Championship multiple times; promoted for the National Wrestling Alliance[56][57]
32 1996 Dory Funk Jr. Wrestling Won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time), NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship (2 times), and NWA Florida Heavyweight Championship (3 times)[57][58]
33 1996 Terry Funk Wrestling Won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time), ECW Championship (2 times), and WWF Tag Team Championship (1 time)[59][60][61]
34 1996 Verne Gagne Wrestling and Promoting Founded the American Wrestling Associationl; won the AWA World Heavyweight Championship (10 times)[62]
35 1996 Cavernario Galindo
Rodolfo Galindo Ramírez[63] 		Wrestling Won the Mexican Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time); appeared in several luchador films[63][64]
36 1996 Ed Don George Wrestling Won the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship (2 times) and Boston's AWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[65]
37 1996 Gorgeous George
George Raymond Wagner[66] 		Wrestling Won the NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship (1 time), NWA Southeastern Heavyweight Championship (1 time), and Boston's AWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[66]
38 1996 Frank Gotch Wrestling Won the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship (1 time) and American Heavyweight Championship (3 times)[67]
39 1996 Karl Gotch
Karl Istaz[68] 		Wrestling Won the IWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time), WWWF World Tag Team Championship (1 time), and Ohio's AWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[68]
40 1996 Billy Graham
Wayne Coleman[69] 		Wrestling Won the WWWF World Heavyweight Championship (1 time) and NWA World Tag Team Championship (2 times)[70][71]
41 1996 Eddie Graham
Edward Gossett[72] 		Wrestling and Promoting Won the NWA World Tag Team Championship (7 times) and NWA United States Tag Team Championship (4 times); owned Championship Wrestling from Florida and served as president of National Wrestling Alliance[72]
42 1996 René Guajardo Wrestling Competed in the middleweight division in Mexico[73][74]
43 1996 Gory Guerrero
Salvador Guerrero Quesada[75] 		Wrestling Won the NWA World Welterweight Championship (1 time), NWA World Middleweight Championship (1 time), and Mexican National Middleweight Championship (1 time)[75]
44 1996 Georg Hackenschmidt Wrestling Won the European Greco-Roman Heavyweight Championship (1 time) and World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship (1 time)[76]
45 1996 Stan Hansen
John Stanley Hansen[77] 		Wrestling Won the AJPW Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship (4 times) and AWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[77][78]
46 1996 Bret Hart Wrestling Won the WWF Championship (5 times), WWF Tag Team Championship (2 times), and WCW World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)[79][80][81]
47 1996 Stu Hart Wrestling, Promoting, and Training Owned and promoted Stampede Wrestling; trained many well-known wrestlers[82]
48 1996 Bobby Heenan
Raymond Louis Heenan[83] 		Managing and Commentating Managed wrestlers in the American Wrestling Association, Georgia Championship Wrestling, and the World Wrestling Federation; provided color commentary for the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling[83]
49 1996 Danny Hodge Wrestling Won the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship (7 times)[84]
50 1996 Hulk Hogan
Terrence Gene Bollea[85] 		Wrestling Won the WWF/WWE Championship (6 times) and WCW World Heavyweight Championship (6 times)[79][81]
51 1996 Antonio Inoki Wrestling and Promoting Won the AJPW All Asia Tag Team Championship (3 times), NWA International Tag Team Championship (4 times), and IWGP Heavyweight Championship (1 time); founded New Japan Pro Wrestling[86]
52 1996 Rayo de Jalisco, Sr.
Maximino Linares Moreno[87] 		Wrestling Won the Mexican National Tag Team Championship (2 times) and appeared in luchador films[88][89][90]
53 1996 Tom Jenkins Wrestling Won the American Heavyweight Championship (3 times)[91]
54 1996 Don Leo Jonathan
Don Heaton[92] 		Wrestling Won the NWA Canadian Tag Team Championship (15 times) and Omaha's World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)[92]
55 1996 Gene Kiniski Wrestling Won the AWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time), NWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time), and WWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[93]
56 1996 Fred Kohler
Fred Koch[94] 		Promoting Promoted wrestling events in Chicago, Illinois and helped popularize tag team wrestling in the United States[95]
57 1996 Killer Kowalski
Edward Walter Spulnik[96] 		Wrestling and Training Won the IWA World Heavyweight Championship (6 times) and WWWF World Tag Team Championship (1 time); trained many well-known wrestlers[97]
58 1996 Ernie Ladd Wrestling Won the Mid-South North American Heavyweight Championship (4 times), WWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time), and NWF Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[98]
59 1996 Dick Lane Commentating Performed commentary for wrestling shows in Southern California[99]
60 1996 Jerry Lawler Wrestling and Promoting Won the AWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time), USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship (27 times), and Memphis Wrestling Southern Heavyweight Championship (40 times)[100]
61 1996 Jim Londos
Chris Theophelos[101] 		Wrestling Won the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship (1 time) and NWA/NBA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[101]
62 1996 Salvador Lutteroth
Salvador Lutteroth Gonzalez[102] 		Promoting Founded Empresa Mexicana de la Lucha Libre[103]
63 1996 Akira Maeda Wrestling and Promoting Competed in Europe and Japan; founded Fighting Network RINGS and an incarnation of Universal Wrestling Federation[104][105][106]
64 1996 Devil Masami
Masami Yoshida[107] 		Women's wrestling Competed in Canada's Stampede Wrestling as well as Japan; trained several well-known wrestlers[108][109]
65 1996 Mil Máscaras
Aaron Rodríguez 		Wrestling Won the WWA/NWA Americas Heavyweight Championship (4 times), Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship (2 times), and Georgia's IWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[110]
66 1996 Dump Matsumoto
Kaoru Matsumoto[111] 		Women's wrestling Competed in All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation; held several tag team titles with Bull Nakano[111][112]
67 1996 Earl McCready Wrestling Won the NWA British Empire Heavyweight Championship (2 times)[113]
68 1996 Leroy McGuirk Wrestling and Promoting Won the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time) and World Light Heavyweight Championship (2 times); promoted shows for National Wrestling Alliance in Oklahoma[114][115][116]
69 1996 Vincent J. McMahon Promoting Founded the World Wide Wrestling Federation[117]
70 1996 Vincent K. McMahon Promoting Owned and provided commentary for the World Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Entertainment; won the WWE Championship (1 time) and ECW Championship (1 time)[79][118][119]
71 1996 Danny McShain Wrestling Won the World Light Heavyweight Championship (11 times) and NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship (9 times)[13][120]
72 1996 Ray Mendoza
Jose Diaz[121] 		Wrestling Won the NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship (6 times) and UWA World Light Heavyweight Championship (4 times)[121]
73 1996 Mitsuharu Misawa Wrestling Won the AJPW Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship (5 times); founded Pro Wrestling NOAH[122][123]
74 1996 Joe "Toots" Mondt Promoting Founded the World Wide Wrestling Federation[124]
75 1996 Sam Muchnick Promoting Founded the National Wrestling Alliance and served as its president from 1950 to 1960 and from 1963 to 1975; owned and promoted the St. Louis Wrestling Club[125][126]
76 1996 Bronko Nagurski
Bronislau Nagurski[127] 		Wrestling Won the NWA/NBA World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)[127]
77 1996 Pat O'Connor Wrestling Won the AWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time) and NWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[128]
78 1996 Kintaro Oki Wrestling Won the JWA/AJPW All Asia Heavyweight Championship (4 times) and NWA International Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[129]
79 1996 Atsushi Onita Wrestling and Promoting Competed in Japan and founded Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling[130]
80 1996 Pat Patterson
Pierre Clermont[71] 		Wrestling Won the NWA World Tag Team Championship (San Francisco version) (11 times), AWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time), and WWF Intercontinental Championship (1 time)[71]
81 1996 Antonio Peña
Antonio Peña Herrada[129] 		Promoting Founded Asistencia Asesoría y Administración[129]
82 1996 John Pesek Wrestling Won the NWA/NBA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[131]
83 1996 Roddy Piper
Roderick Toombs[132] 		Wrestling Won the NWA/WCW United States Championship (3 times) and WWF Intercontinental Championship (1 time)[132]
84 1996 Harley Race Wrestling Won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (8 times); founded World League Wrestling[133]
85 1996 Dusty Rhodes
Virgil Runnels Jr.[134] 		Wrestling Won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (3 times) and NWA Florida Heavyweight Championship (10 times)[135]
86 1996 Rikidōzan
Kim Sin-Nak[136] 		Wrestling Won the NWA International Heavyweight Championship (1 time), NWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time), and JWA All Asia Tag Team Championship (4 times)[136]
87 1996 Road Warriors (Hawk and Animal)
Michael Hegstrand and Joseph Laurinaitis[137] 		Wrestling Won the AWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time), NWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time), and WWF Tag Team Championship (2 times)[80][137]
88 1996 Yvon Robert Wrestling Won the NWA/NBA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time) and Boston's AWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[138]
89 1996 Billy Robinson Wrestling Won the PWF World Heavyweight Championship (1 time), AWA World Tag Team Championship (2 times), and AWA British Empire Heavyweight Championship multiple times[1][139][140]
90 1996 Antonino Rocca
Antonino Biasetton[141] 		Wrestling Won the NWA North American Tag Team Championship (1 time) and WWWF International Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[142]
91 1996 Buddy Rogers
(Herman Rohde)[143] 		Wrestling Won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time) and WWWF World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[28][79]
92 1996 Lance Russell Commentating Performed commentary for wrestling shows in Memphis[144]
93 1996 Bruno Sammartino Wrestling Won the WWWF World Heavyweight Championship (2 times), WWWF United States Tag Team Championship (1 time), and WWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time)[145]
94 1996 El Santo
Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta[89] 		Wrestling Won the Mexican National Welterweight Championship (2 times), Mexican National Middleweight Championship (4 times), and Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time); appeared in several luchador films[4][18][89][146]
95 1996 Jackie Sato
Naoko Sato[147] 		Women's wrestling Won the WWWA World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)[147]
96 1996 Randy Savage
Randy[148] 		Wrestling Won the WWF Championship (2 times), WWE Intercontinental Championship (1 time), and WCW World Heavyweight Championship (4 times)[79][81][149]
97 1996 Billy Sandow Promoting and Managing Managed Ed "Strangler" Lewis and was an influential promoter in the early twentieth century[150]
98 1996 The Sheik
Ed Farhat[151] 		Wrestling and Promoting Won Detroit's NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (12 times) and NWA Americas Heavyweight Championship (2 times); owned and promoted Big Time Wrestling[151][152]
99 1996 Hisashi Shinma Promoting Was active in Japanese professional wrestling and served as president of the World Wrestling Federation[86][153]
100 1996 Dara Singh
Dara Singh Randhawa[154] 		Wrestling Competed in India, England, and Canada; held the Canadian Open Tag Team Championship (1 time)[155][156]
101 1996 Gordon Solie
Francis Jonard Labiak[157] 		Commentating Performed commentary for the National Wrestling Alliance and World Championship Wrestling[158]
102 1996 El Solitario
Roberto González Cruz[159] 		Wrestling Won the NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time) and NWA World Middleweight Championship (1 time)[159][160]
103 1996 Ricky Steamboat[161] Wrestling Won the NWA/WCW United States Championship (4 times), NWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time), and WWF Intercontinental Championship (1 time)[161][162]
104 1996 Joe Stecher Wrestling Won the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship (4 times)[163]
105 1996 Tony Stecher
Anton Charles Stecher[163] 		Wrestling and Promoting Won several regional championships; co-founded the National Wrestling Alliance[163]
106 1996 Ray Steele
Peter Sauer[164] 		Wrestling Won the NWA/NBA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[164]
107 1996 Nobuhiko Takada Wrestling and Promoting Won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship (1 time); founded the Union of Wrestling Forces International[55][165]
108 1996 Genichiro Tenryu
Genichiro Shimada[166] 		Wrestling Won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship (1 time) and AJPW Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship (3 times)[167][168][169]
109 1996 Lou Thesz
(Aloysius Martiz Thesz)[170] 		Wrestling Won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (6 times)[170]
110 1996 Satoru Sayama
Satoru Sayama[171] 		Wrestling Won the WWF Junior Heavyweight Championship (2 times) and NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship (2 times)[171]
111 1996 Jumbo Tsuruta
Tomomi Tsuruta[172] 		Wrestling Won the AJPW Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship (3 times) and AWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[172]
112 1996 Frank Tunney Promoting Promoted wrestling events in Toronto, Ontario and served as president of the National Wrestling Alliance[173]
113 1996 Maurice Vachon Wrestling Won the AWA World Heavyweight Championship (5 times), AWA World Tag Team Championship (2 times), and Central States cersion of the NWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time)[174]
114 1996 Big Van Vader
Leon White[175] 		Wrestling Won the AJPW Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship (2 times) and WCW World Heavyweight Championship (3 times)[81][176]
115 1996 Johnny Valentine
(Jonathan Wisniski)[177] 		Wrestling Won the NWF Heavyweight Championship (2 times) and NWA/WWWF United States Tag Team Championship (4 times)[178]
116 1996 Fritz Von Erich
Jack Adkisson[179] 		Wrestling and Promoting Won the AWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time) and NWA American Heavyweight Championship (13 times); served as president of the National Wrestling Alliance and founded World Class Championship Wrestling[179][180]
117 1996 Whipper Billy Watson
William Potts[181] 		Wrestling Won the NWA/NBA World Heavyweight Championship (2 times) and NWA British Empire Heavyweight Championship (12 times)[181]
118 1996 Bill Watts Wrestling and Promoting Won the AWA United States Heavyweight Championship (1 time) and WWWF United States Tag Team Championship (1 time); founded Universal Wrestling Federation and served as president of World Championship Wrestling[182][183][184]
119 1996 Jaguar Yokota
Rimi Yokota[185] 		Women's wrestling Won UWA World Women's Championship (1 time)[186]
120 1996 Stanislaus Zbyszko Wrestling Won the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship (2 times)[187]
121 1997 Édouard Carpentier
Edouard Wiercowicz[188] 		Wrestling Won the Boston's Atlantic Athletic Commission World Heavyweight Championship (1 time), Omaha's World Heavyweight Championship (1 time), and NAWA/WWA World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)[188]
122 1997 El Hijo del Santo
Jorge Guzmán[189] 		Wrestling Won the AAA World Tag Team Championship (1 time), Mexican National Middleweight Championship (1 time), and Mexican National Welterweight Championship (1 time)[4][18][190]
123 1997 Toshiaki Kawada Wrestling Won the AJPW Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship (5 times)[167]
124 1997 Jimmy Lennon Ring announcing Worked as a ring announcer in Los Angeles[191]
125 1997 William Muldoon Wrestling Won American Greco-Roman Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[192]
126 1997 Chigusa Nagayo Women's wrestling Founded GAEA Japan; won the AAAW Singles Championship (2 times)[193][194]
127 1998 Dos Caras Wrestling Won the Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time) and Mexican National Trios Championship (1 time)[146][195]
128 1999 Lioness Asuka
Tomoko Kitamura 		Women's wrestling Competed in Japan and the United States[196]
129 1999 Jushin Liger
Keichi Yamada 		Wrestling Won the J-Crown (1 time) and WCW Cruiserweight Championship (1 time)[197][198]
130 1999 Keiji Mutoh Wrestling Won the AJPW Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship (3 times) and IWGP Heavyweight Championship (4 times)[105][167][199]
131 1999 Jim Ross Commentating Performed commentary for Universal Wrestling Federation, WCW, and WWF/WWE[200]
132 2000 Steve Austin
Steve Williams[201] 		Wrestling Won the WWF Championship (6 times), WWF Intercontinental Championship (2 times), and WCW United States Championship (2 times)[79][149][162]
133 2000 Mick Foley Wrestling Won the WWF Championship (3 times) and TNA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[79]
134 2000 Shinya Hashimoto Wrestling Won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time), IWGP Heavyweight Championship (3 times), and AJPW Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[167][202][203]
135 2000 Akira Hokuto
Hisako Uno Sasaki 		Women's wrestling Competed in Japan and the United States; won the WCW Women's Championship (1 time)[204]
136 2000 Bill Longson Wrestling Won the National Wrestling Alliance World Heavyweight Championship (3 times) and NWA Central States Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[205]
137 2000 Frank Sexton Wrestling
138 2000 Sandor Szabo Wrestling Won the NWA/NBA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[206]
139 2001 Black Shadow
Alejandro Cruz 		Wrestling Won the Mexican National Tag Team Championship (1 time) and Mexican National Lightweight Championship (1 time)[88][207]
140 2001 Diablo Velasco
Cuahutémoc Velasco 		Training Trained many well-known wrestlers[208][209]
141 2001 Lizmark Professional wrestling Won the Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time), Mexican National Middleweight Championship (2 times), and Mexican National Welterweight Championship (1 time)[4][18][146]
142 2001 Bull Nakano
Keiko Nakano 		Women's wrestling Won the WWWA World Championship (1 time) and WWE Women's Championship (1 time)[111]
143 2001 El Satanico Wrestling Won the Mexican National Middleweight Championship (3 times) and Mexican National Trios Championship (3 times)[4][195]
144 2002 Martin Burns Wrestling and Training Won the American Heavyweight Championship (1 time); trained many well-known wrestlers[210][211]
145 2002 Jack Curley
Jacques Armand Schuel[212] 		Promoting Promoted wrestling events and helped popularize professional wrestling in the United States[212]
146 2002 Kenta Kobashi Wrestling Won the AJPW Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship (3 times) and GHC Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[167][213]
147 2002 Wahoo McDaniel
Edward McDaniel[214] 		Wrestling Won the NWA United States Championship (5 times), NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship (5 times), and NWA National Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[215]
148 2002 Manami Toyota Women's wrestling Won the AAAW Singles Championship (1 time)[194]
149 2003 Chris Benoit Wrestling Won the WWE World Heavyweight Championship (1 time) and WCW World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[216]
150 2003 Earl Caddock Wrestling Won the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship (1 time)[217]
151 2003 Francisco Flores Promoting Promoted wrestling events in Mexico[218]
152 2003 Shawn Michaels
Michael Hickenbottom 		Wrestling Won the WWF Championship (3 times), WWE World Heavyweight Championship (1 time), and WWF/WWE Tag Team Championship (4 times)[79][80][219]
153 2004 Kurt Angle Wrestling Won the WWF/WWE Championship (4 times) and WWE World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[79][219]
154 2004 Bob Backlund Wrestling Won the WWF Championship (2 times) and WWF Tag Team Championship (1 time)[79][80]
155 2004 Masahiro Chono Wrestling Won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[202]
156 2004 Tarzán Lόpez
Carlos Lόpez Tovar 		Wrestling Won the Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship (3 times), Mexican National Middleweight Championship (1 time), and Mexican National Welterweight Championship (1 time)[4][18][146]
157 2004 Kazushi Sakuraba Wrestling Competed in several professional wrestling organizations as well as mixed martial arts fighting[220]
158 2004 Último Dragón
Yoshihiro Asai 		Wrestling Won the J-Crown (1 time) and WCW Cruiserweight Championship (2 times)[197][198]
159 2004 The Undertaker
Mark Calaway 		Wrestling Won the WWF/WWE Championship (4 times), WWE World Heavyweight Championship (2 times) and WWF/WWE Teag Team Championship (6 times)[79][80][219]
160 2005 The Fabulous Freebirds (Michael Hayes, Terry Gordy, and Buddy Roberts)
Michael Seitz, Terry Gordy, and Dale Hey[221][222] 		Wrestling
161 2005 Paul Heyman Promoting Owned and promoted Extreme Championship Wrestling; managed in American Wrestling Association, National Wrestling Alliance, and World Championship Wrestling[223]
162 2005 Triple H
Paul Michael Levesque 		Wrestling Won the WWF/WWE Championship (8 times) and WWE World Heavyweight Championship (5 times)[79][219]
163 2006 Paul Bowser Promoting Promoted Boston's American Wrestling Association[224]
164 2006 Eddie Guerrero Wrestling Won the WWE Championship (1 time), WWF/WWE Intercontinental Championship (2 times), and WCW/WWE United States Championship (2 times)[225]
165 2006 Hiroshi Hase Wrestling Won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship (2 times) and IWGP Tag Team Championship (4 times)[226][227]
166 2006 Masakatsu Funaki Wrestling and Promoting Competed for New Japan Pro Wrestling and as a mixed martial artist; founded Pancrase Hybrid Wrestling[228][229][230]
167 2006 Aja Kong
Erika Shishido 		Women's wrestling Competed in Japan and the United States; won the AAAW Singles Championship (3 times)[194][231]
168 2007 The Rock
Dwayne Johnson 		Wrestling Won the WWF/WWE Championship (7 times) and WCW Championship (2 times)[79][232]
169 2007 Evan Lewis Wrestling Won the American Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[210]
170 2007 Tom Packs Promoting Promoted wrestling events in St. Louis, Missouri and the Midwestern United States[233]
171 2008 Paco Alonso
Francisco Alonso 		Promoting Promoted the Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre[234]
172 2008 Martín Karadagian Wrestling Competed in Argentina[235]
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