10 Crazy Wrestling Scandals You've Never Heard Of
9. The Atsushi Onita Threesome
In a less bleak but equally wild story as most of the other entries on this list, FMW founder and top star Atsushi Onita also found himself in a scandal by misappropriating funds.
Onita was one of the coolest professional wrestlers of all time. He pioneered the Exploding Barbed Wire Death match, the most demented, badass spectacle in pro wrestling history. He was practically a cult leader with his awesome ability on the mic; even if you can't understand a single word of Japanese, you would run through a brick wall if he read his bank statement out to you in a raised voice. That's how effective his delivery was. His look should by rights have stumbled into cliché - he smoked and wore a leather jacket - but he simply pulled it off.
There is no cooler a sight in pro wrestling history than Onita walking into the lion's den of the Tokyo Dome, as an "artless" garbage wrestling interloper, and laughing his t*ts off as the New Japan fans pelted him with rubbish.
Onita also entered the political arena with a similarly brash attitude; this is a man who once had a threesome with a pornographic actress and an employee of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation in accommodations provided by the government.
This forced him out of the Diet, but in an indirect way, when the NJPW crowd told him to get f*cked, he did precisely that - on their dime.