10 Terrifying Wrestling Curses That Will Chill Your Blood

10. Don't Drive Anywhere In Canada

That's basically it: if you are a wrestler working Canada, try not to drive to get to the next town because, it would seem, the very physical property of asphalt there is cursed.

It's not merely asphalt that the aspiring Canadian wrestler must contend with; on what is known as the Canadian Death Tour, several wrestlers, who treat it as a badge of honour, have driven over frozen lakes into tiny, almost inhospitable towns that might not even draw a tiny crowd barely accustomed to wrestling; many such communities shut down entirely in the frequent event of a death by suicide resulting from the sheer isolation. Edge, Christian, Chris Jericho and Kenny Omega have all traversed the ice. Rhino, fearing death when a van collapsed into the water, attempted to make land by foot.

You may not expect this from the most famous Canadian territory of yore, since the denizens of the country are likely to say "sorry aboot that" if they themselves get rudely barged into, but travelling the Stampede loop came with it the risk of painful humiliation even by the standards of the wrestling "rib". It was not uncommon for the worst offenders of a brutally sadistic locker room regime to spike a rookie with laxatives before super-glueing their ar*e cheeks shut or sh*tting on their toothbrush.

In altogether more serious business, in 1988, Adrian Adonis perished in Newfoundland when the driver of his vehicle, William Arko, was blinded by the low sun and swerved to avoid a moose, causing the van to careen into a creek.

He died on July 4, which, if such a thing actually exists, is a cursed day for the professional wrestler...