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Doctor's Orders: The Top 100 WWE Stars Of The Post-Attitude Era (#81-#90)
By The Doc
Jun 25, 2016 - 2:00:24 PM

About a year ago, a frequent collaborator on “The Doc Says” podcast – David Fenichel - suggested to me a column series that would begin to turn our historical attention toward that which came after the vaunted Attitude Era. With an eye on something fresh, he suggested that we identify the most accomplished wrestlers of the “post-Attitude Era” - from present day back to the night after WrestleMania X-8 as we have defined it. So, welcome to a labor of pro wrestling love roughly one year in the making.

We ranked our top 100 wrestlers based on a point system that involved headlining matches for WrestleMania, Summerslam, Survivor Series, The Royal Rumble, and all other PPVs, combined with a points formula based on titles won and length of reigns. While it was more difficult to ascertain the status of certain members of the WWE – namely tag teams, divas and legends w/ short tenures during this era, we believe that this is as unbiased of a countdown as you are going to find. Chad and I did a tremendous amount of work putting this together for you, so we hope that you enjoy the ride.


90. Victoria
89. Evan Bourne
88. Ezekiel Jackson
87. Chavo Guerrero
86. Goldust
85. Rene Dupree
84. Ted DiBiase Jr.
83. Eugene
82. Billy and Chuck
81. Michelle McCool


90. Victoria



Dave: Like all of the female wrestlers, I struggled to rank Victoria in her proper place on this countdown. There is no doubt that she is an amazing and underrated talent. With that being said, because there is only one Women's title and because the women are generally not put into a high enough profile match to fall under the “headlining” guideline we laid out, there aren’t a ton of statistics for which we can compare the women to their male counterparts. I thought Victoria was unique amongst the Divas in that she could both wrestle and work the mic. I happened to be there live at WrestleMania XX for her match against Molly Holly in a Title v Hair match. This was one of the best matches on the show. I believe that Victoria would enjoy much greater success in today’s environment where the women are revered for their physical prowess.

Doc: Interesting that you should bring up Molly Holly, as she was the only other woman who I considered for inclusion that we did not ul