10 Pro Wrestlers Accused Of Heinous Crimes

8. Hardbody Harrison

"Hardbody" Harrison Norris wasn't particularly notable during his brief mid-90s stint in WCW, but his arrest in 2007 made headlines. Under the guise of operating the Southstar Championship Wrestling Alliance school, Harrison would lure vulnerable young women into lives of sex slavery, physical abuse, and outright horror.

According to the testimony of a woman whom Harrison had named Lexi, she was recruited off the street, drilled in the ring with military-style strictness, then forced to participate in orgies when Harrison and his accomplices felt that the women had grown to trust them.

Lexi and the rest of the victims were kept in stark living quarters, fed bare-bones meals, and often denied access to essentials such as medication. Finally, Lexi managed to escape from a bathroom by cutting a window screen with a razor. She contacted the police and the operation was shut down. In 2008, Hardbody Harrison was sentenced to life in prison.

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Scott Fried is a Slammy Award-winning* writer living and working in New York City. He has been following/writing about professional wrestling for many years and is a graduate of Lance Storm's Storm Wrestling Academy. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/scottfried. *Best Crowd of the Year, 2013