10 Biggest Punk Rockers In Wrestling

10. Seth Rollins

The former Tyler Black, aka the real life Colby Lopez, began his wrestling career like many other kids in America: in the backyard, performing spots he€™d seen on TV with little or no formal training of any kind. Lopez was a little different, though: at the age of fourteen, he was a wasn€™t just jumping off garage roofs, he was running backyard wrestling shows with his friends every month. By sixteen, he€™d already decided that college was not an option for him: he wanted to be a professional wrestler. In 2006, he attended Wrestlemania XXII at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont and made himself a promise: that it€™d be the last Wrestlemania he attended as a fan. Next time, he€™d be on the card. If you think that€™s ambitious for a kid only a couple of months off twenty, then you don€™t know the man. Upon his pro debut at seventeen years old, Lopez€™ character€™s name was God, and his finish was a 630 splash through a table. That attitude, that self-belief, is fundamental to his success: he would win the Ring Of Honor world championship in early 2010 when only twenty-three years old, and after his first neck surgery. Lopez, like many kids growing up in punk culture these days, is into a variety of bands within the broad genre, from the pop punk of Paramore to the metalcore of Parkway Drive, Hatebreed and Killswitch Engage to the classic, idiosyncratic hardcore of Black Flag: appropriately, he named his WWE persona after Black Flag€™s most famous frontman Henry Rollins, renaissance man and role model, the punk poster boy for disciplined over-achieving.