10 Creepy Wrestling Curses
7. The 4th Of July Curse
July 4th, a day of celebration, developed cursed, ironic energy in the late 1980s.
Adrian Adonis was a flamboyant, prodigious heat-seeker. He made an indelible impression on the WWF's Golden Era with his horribly dated but effectively sleazy act, for which he grew out his belly to make a problematic suggestion that bit more unappealing to the brawny bros of the wrestling audience. He died in a road accident so mysteriously that a mythology has bloomed around it involving the blinding Canadian sun and a stationary moose blocking the road.
Eerily, a year later, another vehicle crammed with professional wrestlers swerved off the road in a non-fatal crash in the same country caused, indirectly, by the same animal. Chris Benoit was mildly injured, but Jason The Terrible and Davey Boy Smith were seriously hurt. The Bulldog required 135 stitches after crashing through the windshield and and flying 25 feet onto concrete pavement.
In 1990, Brutus Beefcake's facial skeleton was crushed in a frightening parasailing accident that removed three years from his in-ring career- aside from a few months in which he played a masked assailant who - Christ almighty - threw headbutts in the direction of various heels.