Multiple LGBTQ pro wrestlers honored in 2025 PWI Tag Team 100
JetSpeed's 'Speedball' Mike Bailey and The Experience's Skye Smitson made it six consecutive years of LGBTQ representation on PWI's annual ranking of the top tag teams. The post Multiple LGBTQ pro wrestlers honored in 2025 PWI Tag Team 100 appeared first on Outsports.
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Pro Wrestling Illustrated’s final list honoring the best in pro wrestling for 2025, the PWI Tag Team 100, was released on Friday, and multiple teams featuring out LGBTQ pro wrestlers were ranked among the best in the world for the sixth consecutive year.
The 2025 list, highlighted by TNA Tag Team champions Matt & Jeff Hardy ranking number one more than 30 years into their career, featured two teams with LGBTQ representation, down from six the previous two years and the all-time high of seven in 2022.
The highest-ranked team with LGBTQ membership was All Elite Wrestling’s JetSpeed (“Speedball” Mike Bailey and Kevin Knight) at number 53.
The most exciting addition to AEW’s tag team division this year, the duo challenged for the AEW World Tag Team titles multiple times and wrestled matches for New Japan Pro Wrestling and prominent Mexican lucha libre promotion CMLL over the course of 2025.
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#andNEW: The latest issue of PWI features our annual #TagTeam100 ranking—led by @MATTHARDYBRAND & @JEFFHARDYBRAND—along with feature stories on The Hardys and @Santana_Proud. Plus: A new wave of women’s tag wrestling, news and event analysis, exclusive photos, and more.
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Joining JetSpeed on the list were out pro wrestler Skye Smitson and LA Taylor, known collectively as The Experience. The standout U.K. twosome ranked number 96, thanks to their simultaneous reigns as women’s tag team champions in England’s TNT Extreme and Spain’s Revolution Championship Wrestling during the majority of PWI’s evaluation period.
Two additional teams with LGBTQ connections made the 2025 edition of the list as well, though the LGBTQ members of their factions were highlighted but not honored officially on the list. Ring of Honor World Six-Man Tag Team champions Shane Taylor Promotions, which includes out pro wrestler Trish Adora, ranked number 51.
Pro Wrestling Australia Tag Team champions North Shore Wrestling, who counts PWA Heavyweight champion Charli Evans among its ranks, earned the number 89 spot.
Bailey, Smitson, Adora and Evans all ranked in the top 50 on the 2025 QWI 200, highlighting the best out queer pro wrestlers of 2025.
Check out the full list of 2025 PWI Tag Team 100 honorees below:
JetSpeed (53)
The Experience (96)
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