9 Wrestlers Who Came Back From The Dead

8. Abdullah The Butcher

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Abdullah the Butcher being fried to death was as logical a conclusion as any to a feud which began with him arriving in a gift wrapped box for Sting, co/ Cactus Jack.

In what is incredibly only the second stupidest cage match in WCW's barmy history, Halloween Havoc '91's 'Chamber of Horrors' pitted a crack team of Sting, The Steiners and, er, El Gigante opposite Abdullah, Jack, Vader and Scott 'Diamond Studd' Hall, with the objective being to put an opponent in an electric chair and then crank the lever. For some reason, it was redundantly specified that there would be "no disqualifications".

The hood came down on the sordid affair when Truth or Consequences' Most Wanted, after stalling around for an absolute age as Abdullah sizable rear was reared into the hot seat, accidentally pulled the switch on his unfortunate partner.

The Canadian cutlery waver might have had 2000 volts sent straight up his jacksie, but it proved a supreme sort of defibrillator and before you knew it he was up and about fighting odd spectral orderlies. As Tony Schiavone eloquently put it, "He must have woke up, though he was in heaven, and realised he didn't belong there."

 
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