10 Scariest Wrestlers Of All Time

3. The Fiend

Windham Rotunda has really had a career of horror highs and horror lows.

When Bray Wyatt first arrived in WWE he was a wonderfully eerie creation, drenched in southern gothic menace, words of honey poison, and the henchmen from Wrong Turn at his beck and call.

That gimmick devolved somewhat to the point of haunted tractors, dirty fridges and whatever mud-smeared shakycam tedium the New Day’s Big Vacation at the Firefly compound was supposed to be. Bad, that.

Bray Wyatt went away and, like Bruce Wayne, found a costumed alter ego to strike fear into the hearts of criminals everywhere.

The Saga of the Fiend was not always good, but bloody hell it was always interesting, at some point legit psychological horror, and the kind of slasher invulnerability that Jason looks at with pure envy in his side-eye.

The Fiend may be gone but his debut at SummerSlam will never be forgotten.

The lantern carved out the severed head of his past failed gimmick, is possibly my favourite prop in the history of the business, beats the hell out of an urn. It might be the best horror monster debut ever?

Actually wait, it’s the second, the first has gotta be…

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2. Kane

Kane was the best. OG Kane was the goddamn best.

Every pyro a jumpscare, my personal favorite mask in all of wrestling, the costume that somehow avoided looking like a power ranger villain and managed to be both imposing and cool, his freakish speed for a big guy, his insane raw power, the fact that for a while he was silent.

Kane was so physically composed, much like his brother, able to channel stillness into something far more deadly than rage, with that mask only complimenting that poise to make you doubly unsure of when he was suddenly going to feed you your entire soul.

And of course, that debut, maybe the best ever, the thick red light, ripping the door of its hinges, WWE’s obsessed with making movies, well Kane is the best horror movie they ever made, hands down, hands thrown down to make f**king fire appear which is still cool to this day.

I wish he hadn’t become a big red mayor, I wish he hadn’t done a lot of things, mostly involving Shane McMahon’s poor victimised testicles, but I will never forget how terrified I was as a kid to see the big red machine.

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1. Freddie Blassie 

That’s right, the man that Attitude Era fans remember as that lovely grandpa in the wheelchair that they would cart out whenever it was time to give an inspirational speech, is a wrestler that once created so much fear and outrage around his terrifying antics that he actually caused wrestling fans to die.

He was legitimately one of the most loathed heels in the history of wrestling, he got stabbed by fans, had acid thrown at him and his Cadillac was even torched by fans he’d driven out of their minds.

He wrestled throughout the 50s and 60s but reached the peak of his notoriety in Japan, where he would file his teeth down to sharp points and bite his opponents on the forehead, causing them to gush blood.

So the legends go, the sight of seeing this real-life gaijin vampire snacking on the head of their beloved hero Rikidozan caused several audience members to faint with shock, some to have a heart attack, and reportedly one to even pass away.

It’s a slightly different way of garnering heat to, say, insulting Seattle’s lack of a basketball team, but it’s no less effective. 

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