The role of a wrestling manager has evolved to the point of being something rarity in the modern wrestling landscape. While companies such as AEW have attempted to use the concept in recent years, this has resisted mixed results. As of WweApart from Paul Heyman, there are simply not many managers concerned.
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The role of a manager in the professional struggle can be vital for the potential success of a wrestler, mainly those who have a little more with promotional capacities. In fact, some managers were among the largest individual talents in the whole company with regard to promotions.
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Paul carrier
Paul was great at the microphone, but was slightly limited due to the specificity of his character
- Paul was originally known as Percival Pringle, or simply Percy Pringle
- He actually worked as a mortician, before playing the character of Paul Bearer
- It is best known for the management of Undertaker, Humanity and Kane
The real William Moody was a fan of struggle who was impatient to get involved in the company. He would first find his place as a manager in the southeast territories, such as Florida, and later in Texas with WCCW. When he came to WWE in 1990, he was twinned with The Undertaker as Paul Bearier, and the results were legendary. Paul was as competent on the microphone as any manager we have ever seen, but his Mortian gadget forced him to join a specific rate and style style. All well considered, Paul more than justifies his place on this list.
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Gary Hart
Gary Hart was more physically imposing than most managers
- Gary Hart began his wrestler career
- He would eventually work as a main book for WCCW
- He is best known for his time with the Great Muta and the Grand Kabuki
Gary Hart’s promotional style was deliberate, cold and threatening. Unlike most managers, Gary would not intervene much in the matches of his wrestler, rather offering a stoic and threatening presence at the edge of the ring. Its promotional style suited its often eclectic and intimidating loads perfectly. Its thick Chicago accent also added another layer to its performance on the microphone. Gary is a manager who deserves to be mentioned in these compilations, and by all accounts, you must be studied by anyone who is involved in the company. He simply had a brilliant spirit for the struggle.
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Donation
Don has been in the business much longer than most
- Don Callis is from Winnipeg, cn
- He began his wrestler career
- He is currently working as a manager in AEW
It is easy to forget how good donation is good in the fight industry. He began his career in 1989 and did just about everything there is in the business. He always shone as a manager, which is his current role in AEW. Some of his best work took place in ECW, where he would represent the character of Cyrus virus, a Kayfabe representative of the TNN network. Donation has an impetuous, glib and somewhat condescending delivery to its promotions, which have always collected it and its charges, the perfect amount of heat.
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Jimmy Hart
Jimmy was a successful musician before getting involved in the fight
- Jimmy made his debut in the territory of Memphis
- He signed with WWE in 1985
- His most notable accusations include the Hart, the Honky Tonk and Hulk Hogan Foundation
One of the most prolific managers in the history of the struggle, the list of wrestlers Jimmy Hart has managed is deep. It was said that if WWE was not sure of a particular talent, They would associate them with Jimmy. As for his promotional style, Jimmy was often noisy and very blurred, using his patented megaphone with a maximum effect. He was not known for his long promotions, but rather short gusts of verbiage that stamped his wrestlers. Jimmy knew that his work was to overcome who he managed, and he did it without fail.
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JJ Dillon
JJ was as vital for the success of the four riders as group wrestlers
- JJ began his career in the struggle as an arbitrator
- His inclusion in the four riders was due to the management of Tully Blanchard at the time of group training
- He would become a figure of authority on the antenna in the WCW, later in his career
If you were an original member of the four riders, you had to be exceptional on the microphone. JJ has more than held on his own of the greatest speakers in the history of the company, always anchoring the group’s objective as a whole.
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Logic, scholar and with a feeling of underlying betrayal, JJ Dillon was more subtle than explosive. He was the perfect manager for the four riders because he had both watched and sounded the room. He had a feeling of convenience about him which allowed his promotions to breathe, winning his place on this list.
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Paul OING
Paul was a powerlifter before embarking on the wrestling sector
- Paul is best known for his time to manage road warriors
- His daughter, Rachael, continued a career as a wrestler and was presented in the Mae Young Classic
- Paul recently managed the authors of bread in WWE, before being released in February 2025
Paul Ellering had all the physical tools to become a successful professional wrestler himself, and he was indeed a before going to a manager. To tell the truth, it would always require a strong physical presence to manage a team like the road warriors, and people forget how much Paul was integrated into their success. Paul’s vocabulary and the threatening promotional style were perfect for the hawk and the animal, and he always ordered the room when he spoke. With his brand newspaper, Paul clearly indicated that he was an analytical man and an intellectual. Its promotional capacities are somewhat underestimated, but it earns more than its place on this list.
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Sensational sherri
Sherri has opened doors so that women become larger stars in the company
- Sherri also started his career as a interpreter in the ring
- She was inducted into the WWE renowned temple in 2006
- Unfortunately, Sherri died in 2007
Like many on this list, Sherri began his career as a wrestler, winning a first version of the WWE Women Championship. However, she would find her true vocation as a wrestling manager, guiding the quarries of Randy Savage, and a young Shawn Michaels, to name only a few. The promotional style of Sherri could go from serious and slightly animated, to an incredibly animated and exaggerated animated. Its interpreter rarely gets the credit it deserves. Sherri’s place on this list is indicative of its originality and the ability to improve the profile of which it managed at the time.
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Bobby Heenan
Bobby is one of the largest versatile talents that the company has ever seen
- Bobby began his wrestling career in 1965
- He was inducted into the WWE renown temple in 2004
- Unfortunately, Bobby died in 2017
Universally considered the biggest control manager of all time, Bobby Heenan could really do everything. His promotional capacities speak for themselves, because he understood the concept of what a wrestling manager is supposed to be. He raised all the wrestlers he has ever managed and was just as responsible for the success of one of the biggest events in the history struggle; Wrestlemania 3, like all the competitors involved. Bobby could be funny, arrogant, loose and everything else. His heritage continues to grow, long after he left us in 2017.
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Jim Cornette
Jim is one of the most frank figures to work in the company
- Jim began his career in the fight as a photographer
- He is best known for his work, managing the Midnight Express
- He hosts / co-host of two of the most successful wrestling podcasts of all time
Jim Cornette’s verbal capacity is something that must be heard to be believed. Its rhythm is practically unreal, and its acute southern sled gives it an inimitable promotional style.
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Jim never fails to make a list that compiles the biggest managers of struggle of all time, and if not for another person, he could very well have dominated this list. Jim’s talents as a promo are unparalleled in most cases, and he maintained the relevance in the industry, thanks to his very successful podcasts. Jim used the controversy and an undeniable passion for the wrestling company to ensure that it would always arouse a public reaction, whether positive or negative.
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Paul Heyman
Paul often said that he was not a manager, but rather a “defender”
- Like Jim Cornette, Paul made his debut in the fight as a photographer
- He owned and exploited the promotion of Renegade, ECW
- Paul was inducted into the WWE renowned temple in 2024
Paul Heyman redefined the role of a 21st century wrestling director. His speaking capacities are so incredible that he could have had an equally successful career as a politician, if he chooses it. Congratulations, talkative and concise, Paul is just as capable of expressing all possible human emotions. His performances have become cinematographic in the field of modern WWE Zeitgeist, and he is as crucial as any wrestler of the current success that society enjoys. Regarding promotional capacities, there could only be the one at the top of this list, and that the ladies and gentlemen, is Paul Heyman.
