6. Gino Hernandez
The "Handsome Halfbreed from Highland Park, Texas," Gino Hernandez was a superstar on the rise in World Class Championship Wrestling who at the time of his death in 1986 had barely scratched the surface of his global main event potential. However, when confronted with the facts of his death, it a) showcases a potential flaw in his rise to superstardom, and b) tells a shocking and traumatic tale, too. After having not seen Hernandez for three days, World Class referees David Manning and Rick Hazzard accompanied local Highland Park, Texas law enforcement officers to Hernandez's apartment, finding him dead at the scene. His death was ruled as a result of an overdose of cocaine, some believing that Hernandez was murdered in a drug related incident given that he had three times more than a deadly amount of cocaine in his system, and cocaine was also rumored to be in his stomach, too. Dead at 28, Hernandez's death is a terrible case of a rising legend gone way too soon.