10 Wrestlers Who Were Recklessly Dangerous

10. The Ultimate Warrior

WWE's problematic 2017 'Unleash Your Warrior' campaign was derided for its hypocrisy in the face of some questionable personality traits of the deceased party in question. Warrior's iconography being posthumously used to aid cancer victims in the literal fight of their lives was rightfully pulled apart by those that remembered his caustic attitude towards Bobby Heenan during his own battle with the disease. Or, for that matter, his caustic attitude towards anything that didn't jive with his "destrucity".

One of those things, by most accounts, was his respect for professional wrestling. Warrior got in by getting big, and got big by getting huge. His neon artificiality captivated millions, but his ascent came at the expense of his need to respect his craft. Jobbers were left in broken heaps after television squashes, whilst Andre the Giant, Heenan himself and countless others paid the penalty for his in-and-out-of-character recklessness.

'The Brain's WrestleMania V press slam bump is perhaps Warrior's worst offence. Raising Bobby above his head as he ordinarily did men twice his size, Heenan barely went up before crashing six foot down hard onto his arm, shoulder and already-dodgy neck. Andre was once able to curb Warrior's unnecessary roughness with a single fist to the face, but Heenan was sadly no Giant.