10 Crazy Wrestling Scandals You've Never Heard Of
6. The Hardbody Harrison Nine Count Federal Indictment
Only old, super-hardcore fans of WCW will be familiar with the work of Hardbody Harrison (Hardbody Harris).
Trained by the Power Plant - which effectively guaranteed failure more often than not - he was only considered TV-ready by those unqualified to make the assessment. As an ex-platoon and motor sergeant, he was tough enough to withstand the pain of his training, which emphasised extreme fitness over technique to an extent that literally sickened most aspiring wrestlers on the first day - but even an organisation like WCW was wise enough to limit him to just 34 matches between 1996 and 1999.
Incredible physique, goofy, overly animated selling, Harrison, as recounted on Talk Is Jericho recently, was a "character". Hotheaded, he had aspirations of playing a rival for Sting named 'Stang', but never made it beyond getting destroyed and flailing about in prelim matches.
After tumbling into obscurity, he was indicted in October 2005 for false imprisonment and trafficking women for commercial sex acts and, in November 2007, was found guilty on charges related to imprisoning eight woman as slaves for his own sexual gratification. He represented himself, contending that the women that lived with him were undergoing wrestling training. This was found not to be the case; he raped them, pimped them out, and kept them under his debt for a failure, punished by fines, to complete mandatory "chores".
He remains imprisoned himself after being locked up on a life sentence in 2008.