10 Devastating Injuries That Made Wrestlers WORSE
2. The British Bulldog
The sight of Attitude Era British Bulldog remains a cursed image.
It's difficult to accurately gauge how good he was in the ring before he put the jeans on. The Bulldog was inconsistent. He didn't share the world-class gifts of his in-laws, but when he was in the ring with them, he didn't need to be carried. He worked a match with Owen Hart in 1997 so goddamn great and so gorgeously accomplished that it stood out as a classic on a show so dank that it compelled the WWF to change everything about its TV format. It was the most grim vibe WWE's production crew has ever generated beyond the mid-pandemic Performance Center shows, and Davey Boy worked an enduring classic on it.
One of the best opponents ever, if that makes sense, the Bulldog's in-ring prime was cut short by the grotesque mismanagement of WCW. Nobody smartened him up to the trapdoor from which the Warrior was set to emerge later that night at Halloween Havoc. Bulldog bumped awkwardly on it, was hospitalised following a serious spinal infection, and was released by WCW because professional wrestling is a f*cking awful game.
Mired in painkiller addiction, he resurfaced in the WWF a year later. He was bloated to the point of alarm, and worked a pedestrian nothing style mirroring his, yes, bizarre new look.
A sad attempt to grab the reality-hued zeitgeist, Bulldog just looked mundane.