10 Wrestlers Legitimately More Unhinged Than Dean Ambrose
Calling Triple H the 'C' word probably isn't the behaviour of a man firing on all cylinders...
Dean Ambrose doesn't just play a lunatic on WWE television - as he demonstrated throughout his run on the Independent scene, he willingly put his body through excessive punishment. Between that and his self-appointed status as a 'T*tty Master' in PG WWE, the former Jon Moxley probably wouldn't pass muster with Dr. Phil.
But Ambrose, with all due respect, has nothing on some of wrestling's real-life wild men, who put even the hardest-drinking rock stars to shame in the excess stakes. Not content with merely intoxicating themselves into near-oblivion, or tearing their bodies apart with inordinate quantities of barbed wire, some of these fellas can even get a little stabby...
*A quick note before we get started - Chris Benoit won't be included on this list. He wasn't merely unhinged - he was at the point of his death a husk of man gripped by the most unimaginable form of psychological horror. It would be disrespectful to his victims to lump him alongside some of the more colourful characters seen here, none of whom have murdered anybody.
Justifiable homicide and attempted manslaughter, however, might be separate matters entirely...
10. Mick Foley
Softly-spoken Mick is an entirely different kind of crazy to some of the other entries on this list.
While he isn't likely to get arrested any time soon, when you consider the hardcore style he popularised in the mainstream, his status as one of wrestling's wild men is assured - even if he'd prefer to go to Disney World than hoover up vast quantities of cocaine.
The bumps he has taken - all in the name of getting himself over in an era in which muscle definition reigned supreme - are legendary. This is a man who was jumping from the roofs of houses before he'd received any formal wrestling training, after all.
The famous Hell In A Cell spots are understandable, to a degree; professional pride spurred him on, knowing he couldn't without them better Shawn Michaels' all-time great performance in the same match the previous year. But Mick as Cactus Jack was taking sickening and unnecessary bumps well before he made it to the WWF.
In a match against Mil Mascaras at Clash Of The Champions X, he took a bump off the ring apron and landed square on the back of the skull, flying past the protective mats and onto exposed concrete. The audible crack is far more nauseating than the sight of the tooth wedged in his nostril in 1998.