#3 Braun Strowman (+2 Spots)
A few slides ago, I spoke about AJ Styles being the best in-ring performer WWE has right now. However, there isn’t a man that has been booked as well or made more humongous strides than Braun Strowman has in his short WWE career.
Over the past few weeks, “The Monster Among Men” has taken his levels of destruction to new heights, including his all-out attack on Roman Reigns a few weeks ago that saw Strowman flip an ambulance or running a dumpster with Kalisto inside of it off the stage on Raw two weeks ago.
This lead us to Payback, where Strowman and Reigns would finally meet in a one-on-one matchup to attempt to settle their feud. In a match that was the best of the PPV, was even more brutal than their match at Fastlane, and saw both men look great throughout the match, Braun Strowman picked up the biggest win of his short career by defeating Roman Reigns after several Powerslams.
After the match, however, Strowman wasn’t done with his attack. He would attack Reigns with the steel steps from ringside, driving them straight into the mid-section of Reigns, causing internal bleeding and more damage to Roman’s already injured ribs.
Then, Strowman attacked Reigns backstage yet again while he was about to be put into an ambulance. However, Roman avoided the monster and eventually smashed his arm with the door of the ambulance.
That resulted in both men being left off the show the next night on Raw, Roman because of injuries that were complicated at the PPV and Strowman because of a torn rotator cuff from the damage done by the ambulance door. The next step in Strowman’s progression is for “The Monster Among Men” to get his shot at the WWE Universal Title.