10 Wrestler Deaths WWE Completely No-Sells

1. Ludvig Borga

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Tony "Ludvig Borga" Halme had a relatively short WWE run between 1993 and 1994, but everything pre-monoculture left a deeper footprint and the 'Hellraiser From Helsinki's dalliance with the top of the card was no different.

What did leave some longstanding damage on the world he left in 2010 was his collection of extremely controversial political views. A former Finnish politician, he'd espoused bigoted views as a public figure on several occasions, and shockingly had a Schutzstaffel (SS) tattoo on the back on his calf that Jim Ross reasonably commented should have been an obstacle in hiring him to begin with.

Between that, the brushed-aside nature of the run in the years since and the nature of Halme's passing (he died by suicide at 47, which typically wobbles the most corporate of WWE's executives lest it kickstart conversations they don't want to have), Borga may as well have never even existed. That he was briefly considered as a WrestleMania title challenger is something Vince McMahon himself would no-sell, let alone the company at large.

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