Wrestlers with Highest PWI Monthly Cumulative Ranking Scores for Category: International

rank	born	gimmick	total PWI ranking score	notes
1		Mitsuharu Misawa	143	deceased
2		Toshiaki Kawada	103
3		Stan Hansen	77
4		Keiji Mutoh	75
5		Shinya Hashimoto	66	deceased
6		Steve Williams	60	deceased
7		Vader	54	deceased
8		Antonio Inoki	51	deceased
9		Sabu	51
10		Koji Kanemoto	47
11		Perro Aguayo	46	deceased
12		Nobuhiko Takada	45
13		Kenta Kobashi	34
14		Rey Mysterio	31
15		Hiroshi Hase	27
16		Gary Albright	20	deceased
17		Konnan	20
18		Chris Benoit	18	deceased
19		Nicho El Millonario	12
20		Luc Poirier	6
21		Del Wilkes	4	deceased

A: For a lengthy period, PWI printed a "Cumulative Ratings" section, showing total scores over their previous 10 issues. 1st place in a category scored 10 points, 2nd place scored 9 points, 3rd place scored 8 points... and so on down to 1 point for 10th place. When this was published in PWI, the results for the Top 10 and Tag Team categories were used. The pages here on IWD allow users to show such ratings for any or all categories. They can also be filtered to show cumulative ratings for just one particular year.

NB: Some PWI categories list wrestlers in the "Champion" position (e.g.: WWE Raw & Smackdown, TNA, ECW, etc.) This position scores 11 points in IWD's cumulative rankings, with the number 1 contender continuing to score 10 points.