10 Most Inspirational Rehab Comebacks In Wrestling

9. Sean Waltman

The former 1-2-3 Kid, X-Pac and Syxx is one of wrestling€™s car crash life survivors. For a while, his name was synonymous with hopeless addiction, his once promising wrestling career a footnote to the cautionary tale his life had become. A crystal meth user and an abuser of prescription drugs, Waltman was notorious for his drug problems in WCW, hardly a bastion of the straight edge. After leaving the company and returning to the WWF, Waltman continued where he€™d left off. As far as he was concerned, he€™d been sacked from WCW for political reasons, not because he was a junkie. In TNA in 2002, Waltman would be found injecting meth prior to a match with A.J. Styles, something that worried his old stablemate Triple H over in WWE sufficiently that he reached out to X-Pac and offered to pay for his rehabilitation. It didn€™t take€ in 2008, reports indicated that Waltman had tried to commit suicide, while in 2011 he would finally hand himself over to the authorities for prosecution on possession charges. Waltman has now been clean and sober for a few years, a substantial turnaround considering his life beforehand. Always an underrated wrestler, he signed a Legends contract with WWE in 2013, and this year made an appearance as a part of D-Generation X at WrestleMania 31. Looked damn good doing it, too.