Righteous Reg Black Wrestlers 250 List

Righteous Reg, a rapper and Youtube host has released his top 250 Black Wrestlers list for 2019. Here is the list along with his editorial on how the list came together. You can follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/RighteousReg

In August 2019 the annual PWI500(Pro Wrestling Illustrated) dropped and as always it set the world of Pro Wrestling on fire. The #1 pic this year was Seth Rollins. The internet was obviously goin wild because many thought that Seth Rollins wasn’t the right choice for #1 and I felt the same as I felt the #4 pick Kofi Kingston should have been the #1 pick with the story that he told and more specifically #KofiMania.

By August 2019 I was in the midst of building this platform Black Wrecellence (which started as a podcast but blossomed into a movement)which is a platform to showcase Black Pro Wrestling, talking about all these past, present, and future. Building up and letting people know about all the great wrestlers I come across on the internet, most specifically Twitter. As the PWI drops I’m getting a lot of tweets talking about Representation on the list. My platform pitches Representation for Black pro wrestlers around the world as there is obviously not enough out there. In seeing all the tweets about the list I wanted to conduct my own study on the list and how many Black wrestlers make up the list. I purchased the PWI through their mobile app and started tallying up all the wrestlers. In conclusion I came up with about 30-40 wrestlers OUT OF 500!! Around SIX percent representation in this “prestigious” list. That struck a nerve with me and many of my followers online. I presented the data in a tweet and many of my followers were obviously upset. Through that i stumbled upon a solution, I’ll create my own list!

Starting out I was just gonna have the list be 100 of the best Black pro wrestlers in the world but upon review and some conversations with people close to me we figured the best route would actually be 250 which is half of the PWI500. At first I was taken aback as to if I could even find 250 Black wrestlers out there. I scoured the Internet and social media connecting different dots of wrestlers and companies I was already familiar with and quickly found out that there are even more wrestlers than I even imagined. Before I knew it I had 250 Women and Men from all over the world to comprise the list. The completion of the list actually only took 24 hours as my obsession with Pro Wrestling already had me constantly researching the best of the best so finding the rest of the list was actually easier than expected. Now there are numbers and it actually did start out as a ranking but eventually just ended up being a big list of great wrestlers no ranking. It’s a list about discovery not who is the best because to me they are all the best.

With that came the BW250. I released the list a mere few days after the PWI500 and to tell the truth it blew up way bigger than I expected. I was getting positive and negative feedback from wrestlers, companies, personalities and fans alike. Regardless of everything the most important factor to creating the list was shining a light of so many great Black pro wrestlers that are out in the world on the constant grind. I hope the list is used as discovery for wrestling fans around the world. Representation matters for so many reasons and this shows that we do have the Black talents out there, there are Men and Women who could lead any wrestling company into the future in an new and exciting way.

For the wrestlers who didn’t make it, it all came down to visibility. Most of the list are wrestlers who I have came across in the last year, if you didn’t make the list I probably just didn’t see you, you’ll be there next time. Finding the wrestlers for this list showed me that the list can be even bigger this year. It actually might be possible to create my own 500 in the future, I’m just happy to help.

1 Kofi Kingston

2 Sasha Banks

3 Ricochet

4 Velveteen Dream

5 Jay Lethal

6 Cedric Alexander

7 Jonathan Gresham

8 Keith Lee

9 Isaiah Swerve Scott

10 Rich Swann

11 Willie Mack

12 Big E

13 Jordan Myles

14 Isiah Kassidy

15 Marq Quen

16 Xavier Woods

17 Bobby Lashley

18 Naomi

19 Moose

20 Fred Yehi

21 Scorpio Sky

22 Montez Ford

23 Darius Lockhart

24 Chris Bey

25 Kenny King

26 R Truth

27 Lio Rush

28 Apollo Cruz

29 Ember Moon

30 The O.J.M.O

31 Bianca Belair

32 Dezmond Xavier

33 Sonny Kiss

34 Mia Yim

35 Aj Gray

36 Shane Taylor

37 Shelton Benjamin

38 Kiera Hogan

39 Angelo Dawkins

40 Snoop Strikes/Kotto Brazil

41 Nyla Rose

42 Holidead

43 Suga D

44 PB Smooth

45 Saieve Al Sabah

46 Roy Johnson

47 Myron Reed

48 Big Swole

49 Shaheem Ali

50 Will Hobbs

51 Trever Aeon

52 Aja Perera

53 Human Tornado

54 AC Mack

55 O’Shay Edwards

56 Watts

57 Ken Broadway

58 Warren J

59 Zack Mason

60 Leon Ruff

61 Jason Cade

62 Man Like Dereiss

63 Trey Miguel

64 Trish Adora

65 Smoothe Blackmon

66 Chris Seaton

67 Nicole Savoy

68 Barrington Hughes

69 Troy Hollywood

70 Tasha Steelz

71 Twan Tucker

72 Christian Casanova

73 Darius Carter

74 Faye Jackson

75 Titus O’Neil

76 Jazz

77 Ruckus

78 Evander James

79 Yahya

80 Tootie Lynn

81 Isaiah Frazier

82 Rampage Brown

83 Alicia Fox

84 Cheeseburger

85 AQA

86 Timmy Lou

87 Lee Moriarty

88 MVP

89 Awesome Kong

90 Brandon Watts

91 Jeez

92 Shawn Hoodrich

93 Brandi Rhodes

94 Nate Carter

95 Ashton Smith

96 Willow Nightingale

97 Eli Isom

98 Anthony Bennett

99 Desean Pratt

100 Keita Murray

101 Warren Banks

102 DMC

103 JTG

104 Shad

105 Clutch

106 Sugar Brown

107 Marti Belle

108 Levi Muir

109 Isaiah Wolf

110 Kongo Kong

111 The Boogeyman

112 Calvin Tankman

113 Big T Justice

114 Menace

115 Jon Davis

116 Mysterious Q

117 The Soultaker

118 Renee Michelle

119 D’Lo Brown

120 DeAndre Jackson

121 Famous B

122 Chakara

123 Justin Sane

124 Jonny X

125 Tre’ Lamar

126 Roni Nicole

127 Omari

128 Rodney Mack

129 KL3 The Savage

130 Marcus Lewis

131 Keanu Only

132 Alex Cupid

133 Morgan Black

134 Alexander Roth

135 Double D Rose

136 Cam Carter

136 Daz

137 Billy Dixon

138 Mercedez Blaze

139 Ron Starr

140 Cassidy Kieth

141 Darren Young

142 Vanity

143 Ian Maxwell

144 Leroy Green

145 Anthony Mafia

146 Devon Monroe

147 Hip Hop Harry

148 Ryan Rembrandt

149 NSEREKO

150 Malcolm Phlex

151 Ice Williams

152 Watson

153 Bobby Ballantyne

154 Baron Black

155 Jordan Blade

156 Shogun Jones

157 Zeke Mercer

158 Nikeem Avent

159 Rocketboy Wilson

160 Eel Oneal

161 Terrale Tempo

162 JDX

163 Lou Gotti

164 Nate Collins

165 Reiza Clarke

166 Big B

167 Kenny Steele

168 Justin Taylor

169 D-Rogue

170 Montana Black

171 Reggie Lincoln

172 Marcus Marquee

173 The Beast (WOW)

174 Dk Meadows

175 Abe Jackson

176 Tommy Maddux

177 Cliff Hendrix

178 Alpha Zo

179 D Dre Fresh

180 Ayesha Raymond

181 Livvii Grace

182 Marshe Rockett

183 Mike Delbrey

184 Lucky Ali

185 Dave McCall

186 Tj Boss

187 Bryan Keith

188 Zuka King

189 Ringleader Midas

190 Sahara Seven

191 Lacey Lane

192 Victor Andrews

193 Duke Davis

194 Mike Cobb

195 Kaden Sade

196 Ali Shabazz

197 The Disciplinarian (WOW)

198 Se7en

199 TW3

200 Savanna Evans

201 Isaiah Broner

202 Xavier Daniels

203 Prince Simms

204 David Ali

205 Owen Knight

206 Treehouse Lee

207 Chad Skywalker

208 Rockelle Vaughn

209 Andre Guhn

210 Ike Cross

211 Mj Jenkins

212 Jai Cole

213 Tyler Jones

214 Kristian Robinson

215 Gia Scott

216 Kaun

217 Chase Holliday

218 Moses

219 Haitian Sensation

220 Makita

221 Hyena Hexx

222 Navaeh Chantelle

223 Westley Andrews

224 Cassandra Golden

225 Edward Hawkins

226 Benjamin Banks

227 Dan Deman

228 Bobby Ocean

229 Slick Wagner Brown

230 Sebb Strife

231 Jaiden

232 Denzel Dejournette

233 Damaris Dawkins

234 Mr Grim

235 Dez Monroe

236 Frontman Jah

237 Saint Synclair

238 Brooke Valentine

239 Ashton Starr

240 Dominic Stuckey

241 Jordan Blade

242 Derron The Artistè

243 Ty Ray

244 Ruthless LaLa

245 Michael Hopkins

246 Phillip Arthur Classic

247 Jerome Daniels Griffey

248 KoKo Anderson

249 JJ Blake

250 Dejuan O’Neal