12 Newcastle Players That Should Have Been WWE Wrestlers

4. Billy Whitehurst

Former Magpie and Evening Chronicle columnist Joe Allon described his former teammate "as hard as goats€™ knees,€ which tells you everything you need to know. Quite simply the hardest man ever to play for Newcastle United. Whitehurst was a bricklayer before making his professional debut for Hull five years before his move to St James€™ park in 1985 where he became somewhat of a cult figure on the terraces. The likes of Neil 'Razor' Ruddock and Vinne Jones have gone on the record saying that the former United striker was the hardest man they came up against during their respective careers. But Billy's actions on the pitch aren't the reasons he could easily make the transition into the ring. He was rumoured to have taken part in a number of bare-knuckle boxing fights with local gypsies to add a few extra pounds to his pay packet every month. This would see him easily slip into the boots of WWE's longest serving Englishman and former bare-knuckle boxing champion Bad News Barrett.