10 Most Explosive Wrestlers Of All Time

9. The Undertaker

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The Undertaker was such a great character wrestler that he didn't have to do much of anything to make an indelible impression on the game; in the early '90s, his chilling, stalking presence got him over years before he revealed himself to mainstream audiences as a super-worker.

With his legacy comes a lesson: amid recent furores of cults, aliens, and killer clowns, one of the most believable wrestlers ever was a zombie mortician. Also, there is a zombie in UFC.

'Taker was one of the most believable to ever do it because the way he propelled himself off the ropes was more terrifying than any time he rolled his eyeballs into the back of his head. He was an expert rope-runner, the best ever; at times, he stretched them back so far that it looked like a 2K glitch, and he used the resulting momentum to unleash a jaw-dropping aerial assault. His diving plancha was outrageous - impossible - pro wrestling theatre so majestic and powerful that you absolutely cannot criticise even Booger Red without staring down pitchforks.

With such explosive ability married to such a hoss of a frame, that legacy also comes with it a level of respect verging on the sacrosanct.

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