10 active wrestlers with the best win-loss ratio at WrestleMania

For every wrestler in the WWE, the dream is to compete at WrestleMania due to the history the pay-per-view represents, the longevity it has had, and the iconic moments it has delivered. Over the last decade, the WWE have managed to successfully sell tickets to over 70,000 fans every time for their flagship pay-per-view. This year looks to be no different as they will be returning to the MetLife Stadium six years after they last hosted WrestleMania there.

Due to what WrestleMania represents, the WWE do try to accommodate as many wrestlers somewhere on the card as possible. This is why in the past five years, there has been an ‘Andre the Giant Battle Royal’, where countless superstars compete to walk away as the winner.

However, due to WrestleMania usually having a stacked roster competing on the night, very few walk away with glory or have their WrestleMania moment. Upon inspection at the current roster, a big portion of the active wrestlers that have competed at multiple WrestleMania events usually have lost more than won, and in some cases, there are some active wrestlers in the WWE that have never won at WrestleMania.

For all of those wrestlers that have been on the losing side more often than the winning side, it goes without saying that there naturally needs to be a winner on the other end. But from the ever-growing roster, there are only a small handful of wrestlers that simply seem to find a way more often than not to win at The Show of Shows time and time again.

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#10 Dean Ambrose 3-2 (60%)

Dean Ambrose is the only wrestler in the seventeen years who has successfully defended the Intercontinental Championship

Whilst it is hard to dispute that Dean Ambrose has been somewhat overshadowed by his fellow Shield members in the last twelve months, the start of their careers on the main roster was in stark contrast. Ambrose was the first out of the brotherhood who won a Championship, the first one to capture both the Intercontinental and United States Championship, and the first one to become a Triple Crown Champion.

It is also worth adding his WrestleMania appearances to his impressive resume as well. One of his key victories was at WrestleMania 33 when he managed to fend off Baron Corbin to keep the Intercontinental Championship around his waist. The reason why this was such a key victory is due to the fact that this is the only time in the last seventeen years where the Intercontinental Championship has been successfully defended at The Show of Shows.

Even though he has no scheduled match for WrestleMania at the moment, if the reports are true that he’ll be leaving in April, then another win at The Show of Shows will be a great way to cap off his time at the WWE.

#9 Shane McMahon 3-2 (60%)

Shane McMahon and Daniel Bryan celebrate their win at WrestleMania 34.

Although Shane McMahon splits his time between running the weekly shows and competing on it, he has actually competed at five separate WrestleMania matches. His first WrestleMania match happened twenty years ago when he successfully fought off X-Pac at WrestleMania XV for the now-defunct European Championship. Two years later, he scored a second victory by beating his father with his first attempt at the now infamous finisher, the Coast-to-Coast.

Shane’s next appearance at WrestleMania would be fifteen years later at WrestleMania 32, which was largely due to him legitimately leaving WWE for most of this time. Ring rust seemed evident as he lost his next two WrestleMania matches to The Undertaker and AJ Styles respectively, before forming a tag-team with Daniel Bryan, who recently came out of retirement, to defeat the team of Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn.

After he recently betrayed his tag-team partner, The Miz after they failed to reclaim the SmackDown Tag Team Championships at Fastlane, The Miz will want to seek revenge at WrestleMania. However, if you take into account McMahon’s power in the company, and the ability to recruit people to help him win as he did at WrestleMania XV, it may be no surprise if Shane extends his winning record at WrestleMania.

#8 Brock Lesnar – 5-3 (62.5%)

The conqueror of The Streak has an impressive win-loss record of his own accord.

Considering that Brock Lesnar delivered the most shocking moment in WrestleMania history when he became the first wrestler to end The Undertaker’s historical streak that spanned over two decades, it should be expected he also has a good record at WrestleMania.

Starting at WrestleMania XIX, Lesnar scored his first victory and second WWE Championship at the expense of then-Champion Kurt Angle. However, he left a year later after losing in a far from memorable match against Goldberg at WrestleMania XX.

After successfully pursuing a career in UFC, where he went on to become the UFC Champion, Lesnar would return to the WWE eight years later before wrestling at WrestleMania 29, where he fell short against Triple H. This also happens to be the last WrestleMania Lesnar has actually been pinned as he won all his matches at WrestleMania XXX, 32, 33 and 34 against Undertaker, Dean Ambrose, Goldberg and Roman Reigns respectively.

His only other blemish came at WrestleMania 31, where Rollins cashed in his contract and pinned Reigns. Lesnar will be looking to seek revenge on Rollins and extend his winning record at WrestleMania 35.

#7 Daniel Bryan – 5-2-1 (62.5%)

Daniel Bryan celebrating the biggest night of his wrestling career at WrestleMania XXX.

Daniel Bryan’s career at the WWE started off far from fruitful, where he was one of eight rookies competing in the first season of NXT, but was the only one who hadn’t scored a single victory on the show, and amassed a total of ten consecutive losses.

Several years ago, his history at WrestleMania was also looking to go the same way. At WrestleMania 27, he failed to win two more matches, the first being the United States Championship ending in a no contest and the second being the battle royal just moments later. The following year, it only got worse, as he lost the World Heavyweight Championship to Sheamus in less than thirty seconds.

However, WrestleMania 28 proved to be his last loss at WrestleMania, as he has had a string of victories since then including two at WrestleMania XXX, where he also won the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. He also won the Intercontinental Championship at WrestleMania 31.

With the newly designed WWE Championship firmly around Bryan’s waist, it’s a guarantee that Bryan will be competing at this year's WrestleMania, but with Kofi Kingston, Mustafa Ali and Kevin Owens all potentially vying for his Championship, he’ll have to be prepared for anyone and everyone in order to protect his Championship and his WrestleMania record.

#6 Charlotte Flair 2-1 (66%)

Charlotte Flair wins the new Raw Women's Championship at WrestleMania 32.

Once dubbed the Queen of pay-per-views due to having sixteen successive pay-per-view victories in singles competition, Charlotte Flair is the only woman wrestling in the WWE at the moment that has wrestled at several WrestleMania pay-per-views and been on the winning side of it.

At WrestleMania 32, she made her wrestling debut at the pay-per-view when her Divas Championship would be retired and the winner would be named as the WWE Women’s Champion. Her opponents, Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks, tried to prise the title away from Charlotte, but with ‘the dirtiest player in the game’ Ric Flair preventing Banks from getting back in the ring, Charlotte was able to get a victory over Lynch.

WrestleMania 33 didn’t pan out too well for Flair as she was the final person to be eliminated in the fatal four way elimination match for the same Championship she first won a year earlier. However, Flair managed to pull off one of the biggest shocks of the night and arguably in WrestleMania history, when she beat Asuka, who held the longest undefeated streak in WWE history at 914 days.

Flair is likely to be stealing headlines again at this years’ WrestleMania, competing against Ronda Rousey and Becky Lynch for what looks set to be the first ever women's’ main event at WrestleMania. She will no doubt be doing everything she can to have her hand raised and extend her winning record at WrestleMania.

#5 AJ Styles 2-1 (66%)

AJ Styles latest result at WrestleMania was successfully retaining the WWE Championship.

AJ Styles caused one of the biggest shocks in Royal Rumble history when he entered the match back in 2016 and faced off against Roman Reigns. His arrival has been nothing short of phenomenal, as he has captured the United States Championship and the WWE Championship on two separate occasions. His second reign as WWE Champion is the joint eighth longest reign in the Championships’ history.

However, AJ’s career in the WWE has been far from perfect – for example, his first WrestleMania match didn’t go according to plan as he lost against Chris Jericho. Despite this, his last two WrestleMania appearances have put him in the winning column, with victories over Shane McMahon and Shinsuke Nakamura at WrestleMania 33 and 34 respectively.

With his match against Randy Orton confirmed for WrestleMania 35, Styles will be looking to pin The Viper and extend his winning record.

#4 Roman Reigns 4-2 (66%)

The Big Dog has a good record at WrestleMania.

When Roman Reigns announced back in October last year that he had to relinquish the Universal Championship as he was battling leukemia, it posed a very scary reality as to whether Reigns will ever wrestle again or even get better. Fast forward four months later and Reigns has confirmed he’s in remission and at Fastlane last week, he has proved he hasn’t missed a step when he pinned Baron Corbin for the victory.

All of this points towards a positive future for Reigns' career and it seems very likely for him to wrestle again at this years’ WrestleMania. The most recent episode of Raw (11th March) suggests he may be facing Drew McIntyre at WrestleMania after he blindsided him and then went on to destroy fellow Shield member Dean Ambrose that same night.

However, if WrestleMania history is anything to go by, then McIntyre should be wary of Reigns' record at the event. After winning his first two WrestleMania appearances with his brotherhood, The Shield, Reigns has since gone on to main event WrestleMania for four consecutive years, a record he shares with none other than Hulk Hogan (WrestleMania V-VIII), winning two of them, and a total of four out of his six matches.

#3 John Cena – 10-4 (71.4%)

'Big Match John' is in double digits in the winning column at WrestleMania.

Labeled as ‘Big Match John’, it should be no surprise that John Cena has a very good record at WrestleMania. Since his debut when he confronted Kurt Angle with ‘ruthless aggression’, Cena has never looked back, capturing his first singles Championship at WrestleMania XX (his WrestleMania debut) against The Big Show for the United States Championship. He followed this up by winning his first WWE Championship at WrestleMania 21 against John Bradshaw Layfield.

From the fourteen matches John Cena has had at WrestleMania so far, ten of them have involved a Championship title in which he has walked away with the gold on eight of those matches. His WrestleMania record is built on victories over wrestler such as Triple H, Shawn Michaels, Edge and Batista to name a few. The only wrestlers that have managed to score a victory over the leader of Cenation are Randy Orton, The Miz, The Rock and The Undertaker.

Even though Cena has been away from the WWE ring for the past few months, it is highly likely to see Cena wrestling in a match at WrestleMania 35, as he has been in a match fourteen out of the last fifteen WrestleMania pay-per-views, and the one he’s missed (WrestleMania 32), he still made an appearance. There are a number of potential wrestlers he could face but with Kurt Angle announcing on the 11th March episode of Raw that he will be retiring at WrestleMania, it is only fitting if the last opponent he will be facing is the same wrestler who made their wrestling debut against him.

#2 Seth Rollins – 5-1 (83.33%)

Rollins embracing the Intercontinental Championship at WrestleMania 34

Seth Rollins will be heading into WrestleMania 35 for undoubtedly the biggest night of his career, when he faces the beast, Brock Lesnar, for the Universal Championship. However, prior to this monumental face off in three weeks, Rollins has already been building up his reputation at previous WrestleMania events.

His WrestleMania debut came six years ago at WrestleMania 29, when his brotherhood, The Shield, took on three former WWE Champions, Big Show, Randy Orton and Sheamus in a six-man tag team match. The following year, they won another six-man tag team match.

At WrestleMania 31, Rollins lost his first and only match to date at WrestleMania to Randy Orton. However, this proved to be a small loss for The Architect, as he managed to cash in the biggest Money in the Bank contract when he walked away with the WWE Championship that same night.

Since then, he has managed to score a victory over Triple H and win his first Intercontinental Championship at last years’ WrestleMania. He may be known as Monday Night Rollins, but with the exception of one mark, he’s also Sunday Night WrestleMania.

#1 The Undertaker - 23-2 (92.2%)

The Undertaker has won 23 times at WrestleMania - a record that may never get broken.

Unsurprisingly, The Undertaker is head and shoulders over the rest of the active roster. Simply known as The Streak, The Undertaker first appeared at the Show of Shows twenty eight years ago at WrestleMania VII, when he dispatched Jimmy Snuka in a few minutes.

Even though The Streak was first officially noted ten years later by Jim Ross at WrestleMania X-7 combined with Undertaker counting his victims after he beat Triple H, The Streak became a key talking point in subsequent WrestleMania events with questions surrounding if it would ever be broken, and if so, by who?

Over the years, a range of talented wrestlers from Randy Orton to Edge, Shawn Michaels to Triple H have all tried to seek immortality by getting a win over the Deadman, but all have fallen. It took a total of twenty three years and his opponent being a former UFC Champion, Brock Lesnar, to beat The Undertaker (who was also approaching nearly 50) before he suffered his first defeat.

Despite not being seen in a ring since WWE Crown Jewel back in November, The Undertaker is still on WWE’s website as an active superstar. This suggests he still may be wrestling for the WWE but on a much lighter schedule, but even with a potential lighter schedule, it is very likely we will see The Undertaker again at WrestleMania 35.