Punk rock and pro wrestling are two bastard disciplines that intersect at multiple points on the cultural ladder. On a small time, indie level, the only people wholl probably understand the kind of lives that touring bands lead are professional wrestlers, and vice versa: both are engaged in physically demanding pursuits, covering vast amounts of ground, for tiny financial compensation. In both cases, its not something you do, its something you are, a vocation rather than a job. More than that though, punk culture in 2015 is often an inspirational thing, an aspirational thing, with a deep-seated ethos of positivity and self-discipline. For every kid wasted at the front of the show, there are five who spent all the money they had in the world on the door charge and buying a t-shirt and a Coke or two to support the bands and the venue. The subculture has a long history of incredibly supportive do-it-yourself creativity, circumventing the established routes to the top, which tend to be rigorously controlled by the establishment. Broadly speaking, various punk rock ideologies exist. Theres the common culture, the music and the fashion: often experimental, often cheerfully aggressive, with tattoos, hairstyles, piercings and clothing that form an alternative uniform of sorts. Theres the DIY work ethic, espousing the self-starter mindset and PMA (positive mental attitude) as defining characteristics. Theres the straight edge subculture, who claim a defiant discipline that entirely avoids alcohol, drugs, tobacco and unhealthy sexual activity. Theres the attitude: individualistic, anti-authority, contrary and stubborn. Theres the political activism that often goes along with that, anti-corporate, usually progressive and left-leaning. Its not just a recent thing, either. Sid Vicious took his name from the Sex Pistols' bassist. The Honky Tonk Man used to be the Punk Rocker, complete with green spiked hair. Husker Du frontman Bob Mould is a huge wrestling fan who used to write for a wrestling/punk rock fanzine called Hardcore Wrestling in the mid-eighties, and wrote for WCW back in 1999. Incredibly Strange Wrestling was a nineties Bay Area promotion involving live music, professional wrestling and, for a while, the talents of one Jello Biafra, erstwhile frontman of the original hardcore legends Dead Kennedys. The crossover has always been there: in part too, because both cultures attract the misfits in society. Given that, this is my handpicked list of the most punk rock people in wrestling.