SPORTS (SR) – If history is written by the winners, WWE Superstars are no exception. While wins and losses are not always a meaningful statistic in pro wrestling, it’s still interesting to look at who has had more victories in the long history of the company. Considering the impressive array of Superstars who have wrestled for WWE over the decades, nobody in the competition has less than one thousand wins and they have a multitude of championships and accolades among them.
The criteria is simple. Counting all wins on weekly television, PLEs and (perhaps most significantly) house shows, these are the superstars with the most amount of wins across their time in WWE. This includes pinfalls, submissions, count-outs, disqualifications, and any other means necessary.
1O. Hulk Hogan 1,015 Wins
Considering most children of the 80s thought it borderline impossible for Hulk Hogan to ever lose a match, his inclusion on this list feels rudimentary. The enormity of the landscape of professional wrestling owes a life-long debt to Hulk Hogan and Hulkamania’s red-and-yellow, “say your prayers and eat your vitamins” motif. Landmark moments of his classic run involve slamming Andre The Giant at WrestleMania 3, WrestleMania 6’s generation-defining Main Event with The Ultimate Warrior and crushing the dreams of every heel worker in the WWE.
9. Tito Santana 1,071 Wins
It is amazing to consider that someone could be on this list without ever winning the WWE’s main heavyweight title, but Tito Santana is that very guy. Remaining a babyface for the entirety of his career, Tito would enjoy his hottest run in the 1980s, becoming a 2-time Intercontinental Champion and winning the 1989 King Of The Ring.
Among the litany of cool things on Santana’s resume, he has a particular love affair with the Intercontinental Championship. He was the champion when Macho Man Randy Savage overthrew him to win his only IC title, he was the first Mexican-American to ever hold the belt AND he was the first man to hold what is commonly regarded as the “classic” Intercontinental Title belt
8. Kofi Kingston 1,307 wins
One of the most well-loved superstars of the 21st Century, Kofi Kingston is a workhorse capable of shining in any situation. Part of one of the greatest factions of all time, The New Day, and with one of the very few genuine WrestleMania moments in the last decade of Vince McMahon’s creative control, who doesn’t have love for Kofi Kington? A Grand Slam champion and, tragically, the only wrestler of black origin on this list.
Kofi Kingston became the first African-born WWE Champion after defeating Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania 35.
7. The Big Show 1,223 Wins
Over a whopping 22 years, Paul ‘The Big Show’ Wight wrote himself into the history books with an incredible 1,228 wins. One of the underrated key acquisitions in WWE winning the Monday Night Wars from their rivals in WCW, The Big Show was always one of the most reliable performers across singles and tag competitions, enjoying numerous title reigns and legendary tag-teams with Kane, The Undertaker, The Miz and Chris Jericho.
Despite his size, The Big Show is only the joint-fifth tallest wrestler to ever compete in WWE.
6. Shawn Michaels 1,250 Wins
The Show Stopper and a genuine icon of WWE. One of the leading WWE superstars who stayed loyal to WWE in the face of WCW contract offers in the mid-90s, Shawn Michaels’ illustrious career is one of romantic redemption. Earning the nickname Mr WrestleMania through his legendary performances at The Show Of Shows, and being pretty much unanimously great across each of his many in-ring eras, Shawn Michaels is one of the most influential superstars to ever do it.
Better still is getting to enjoy his current job, shaping the future of WWE, as the creative mastermind behind the NXT brand.
5. Randy Orton 1,276 Wins
He hears voices in his head, they come to him and he wins the match. The third-generation superstar has wrestling in his blood, and his popularity endures to this day due to his incredible ring-work and continued relevancy. Still providing intrigue within his long-standing rivalries and excitement for future ones with new blood, that isn’t something that’s changing anytime soon.
Incredibly, Randal Keith Orton is still only 44 years old, meaning that there is plenty of gas in the tank and are many more RKOs in opponents futures. The time he has left in his career also means that The Apex Predator is the wrestler likeliest to add the most wins to his total in the coming years.
4. Kane 1,490 wins
Hard to imagine that the man who entered the WWE as sinister dentist Isaac Yankem would be on this list, but that’s what happened when Glenn Jacobs’s Kane was released into the wild. In ownership of one of the greatest debuts in the history of pro wrestling, The Big Red Machine’s storytelling with the likes of X-Pac and John Cena, his comedic work as part of Team Hell No with Daniel Bryan and his career-defining arcs with The Undertaker are the stuff of legend.
3. Bret Hart 1,512 Wins
A man at least in the conversation to be the single most talented in-ring performer ever to lace up a pair of boots, Bret ‘The Hitman’ Hart has a legacy that seems to still be growing by the year. Current superstars like Seth Rollins and CM Punk have raved over his years of elite ring psychology, technical innovation, and unquestionable credibility. Pick any match at random and it’s easy to see why.
He was a Grand Slam champion and a man whose career is so bulletproof that years of semi-slander on his name had no impact whatsoever. He has had matches among the best to ever happen in a WWE ring including making ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin a made man at WrestleMania, and all-time classic SummerSlam matches with his brother Owen, the British Bulldog and The Undertaker. Along with Shawn Michaels, Bret is responsible for changing what is possible for wrestlers of their size and smaller.
2. The Undertaker 1,726 Wins
The man from Death Valley may have amassed over 1,750 victories over the years but the most significant of them are the 25 wins that took place at WrestleMania. The Streak was one of wrestling’s greatest achievements as The Phenom went 21-0 before losing to Brock Lesnar in one of the most infamous moments in wrestling history at WrestleMania 30. Even after The Streak was broken, the man born as Mark Calloway would put on a classic with one of the most unique WrestleMania Main Events ever with AJ Styles.
Even years on from his eventual retirement, the WWE landscape feels a little less magical without the presence of The Undertaker. The Deadman is the best character wrestler in the history of WWE or any other promotion. With wins racked up through his Mortician era, The Lord Of Darkness, Big Evil, The American Bad Ass, The Brothers Of Destruction, The Ministry of Darkness, The Gunslinger and wearing purple gloves, The Undertaker’s legacy as one of the great’s is set in stone.
1. John Cena 1,774 Wins
Could it really be anybody else? The longest run by any superstar at the top of the WWE mountain, and built with a work rate that could flatten a field full of triathlon athletes, John Cena’s decade-plus period of being the face of the company is backed up by the most number of wins in WWE history. Big Match John has spent much of his career being a winning machine, his popularity and likability being matched by his ability to raise the stature of any opponent.
While John Cena has received his fair share of criticism for, among other things, winning way too often, in retrospective the legacy built by this man is undeniable. In 2025, as part of a year-long retirement tour, John Cena will attempt to win the most amount of WWE Heavyweight Championships in history to couple with this incredible milestone. It would take a brave man to bet against him achieving that.
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