Wrestlers with Highest PWI Monthly Cumulative Ranking Scores in 1982

rank	born	gimmick	total PWI ranking score	notes
1		Bob Backlund	84
2		Ric Flair	69
3		Jimmy Snuka	68	deceased
4		Tommy Rich	67
5		Dusty Rhodes	60	deceased
6		Hulk Hogan	59	deceased
7		Ken Patera	57
8		Nick Bockwinkel	57	deceased
9		Roddy Piper	57	deceased
10		Sergeant Slaughter	55
11		Greg Valentine	53
12		Andre The Giant	50	deceased
13		Greg Gagne	47
14		Jim Brunzell	47
15		Masa Saito	42	deceased
16		Mr. Fuji	42	deceased
17		Tito Santana	39
18		Don Muraco	33
19		Jerry Blackwell	33	deceased
20		Rick Martel	33
21		Harley Race	31	deceased
22		Pedro Morales	31	deceased
23		Ole Anderson	30	deceased
24		Blackjack Mulligan	28	deceased
25		Mil Mascaras	27
26		Bob Orton Jr.	25
27		Adnan Al-Kaissie	23	deceased
28		Baron Von Raschke	23
29		Ricky Steamboat	22
30		Tony Atlas	22
31		Mr. Wrestling II	21	deceased
32		Terry Gordy	21	deceased
33		Gene Anderson	20	deceased
34		Ivan Koloff	19	deceased
35		Tony Garea	19
36		Killer Khan	18	deceased
37		Adrian Adonis	17	deceased
38		Butch Reed	17	deceased
39		The Crusher	17	deceased
40		Jack Victory	15
41		Afa	14	deceased
42		Sika	14	deceased
43		Wahoo McDaniel	14	deceased
44		Dory Funk, Jr.	13
45		Sweet Brown Sugar	13	deceased
46		Bill Eadie	12
47		Big John Studd	11	deceased
48		Charlie Cook	11
49		David Von Erich	11	deceased
50		The Junkyard Dog	11	deceased
51		Angelo Mosca	10	deceased
52		Boris Zhukov	10
53		Bruiser Brody	10	deceased
54		Chris Markoff	10	deceased
55		Don Kernodle	10	deceased
56		Jack Brisco	10	deceased
57		Jimmy Garvin	10
58		Pat Patterson	10	deceased
59		Paul Orndorff	10	deceased
60		Stan Hansen	10
61		The Masked Assassin	10	deceased
62		Chief Jay Strongbow	9	deceased
63		Ivan Putski	9
64		Bruno Sammartino	8	deceased
65		Buddy Rose	8	deceased
66		Buzz Sawyer	8	deceased
67		Gerald Brisco	8
68		Gino Hernandez	8	deceased
69		Jesse Ventura	8
70		Bobby Duncum	7	deceased
71		Buddy Roberts	7	deceased
72		Butch Miller	7	deceased
73		Luke Williams	7
74		Michael Hayes	7
75		Ray Fernandez	7	deceased
76		George Steele	6	deceased
77		Jules Strongbow	6
78		Mike George	6
79		Terry Funk	6	deceased
80		The Bruiser	6	deceased
81		Nikolai Volkoff	5	deceased
82		Bobby Jaggers	4	deceased
83		Jerry Lawler	4
84		Steve Regal	4	deceased
85		The Great Kabuki	4
86		The Missing Link	4	deceased
87		Tully Blanchard	4
88		Jay Youngblood	3	deceased
89		Ken Lucas	3	deceased
90		Kevin Sullivan	3	deceased
91		Porkchop Cash	3
92		Ricky Morton	3
93		Atsushi Onita	2
94		Barry Windham	2
95		Bob Armstrong	2	deceased
96		Brad Armstrong	2	deceased
97		Masanobu Fuchi	2
98		Peter Maivia	2	deceased
99		Buck Robley	1	deceased
100		David Sammartino	1
101		Dutch Mantel	1
102		Eddy Mansfield	1
103		Ted DiBiase	1
104		Tor Kamata	1	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.