10 Wrestlers Legitimately More Unhinged Than Dean Ambrose

1. Atsushi Onita

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People may question the absence of New Jack from this list, but from everything I've heard from those in the know, he's a charming gentleman with an undeserved reputation who definitely wouldn't have hunted me down if I'd included him on this list.

Facetiousness aside, Onita certainly deserves a place here. Founder of Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling, ECW's spiritual and more even more violent forefather, Onita (who inexplicably went into politics) first willingly booked himself to appear in the following matches:

No Ropes Exploding Barbed Wire; No Rope Barbed Wire Barricade Mat Electric Land Mine Double Hell Death; Electrified Barbed Wire Dynamite Pool Double Hell Death; No Rope Exploding Barbed Wire Time Bomb Death; Exploding Cage Barbed Wire Death; No Ropes Barbed Wire Everest Current Blast Death; No Ropes Barbed Wire Explosion Double Hell, Exploding Barbed Wire Bat & Exploding Barbed Wire Chair Death; No Ropes Barbed Wire Barricade Mat Double Hell Megaton Explosion Death; No Ropes Barbed Wire Explosive Mine Board Death...

He's wrestled several dozen ultraviolent street fights, too, but that doesn't have the same ring to it. Despite being battered into retirement on several occasions, Onita was for some unfathomable reason so enamoured with the thrill of competing in death matches that he reneged on them each and every time.

Earning the nickname 'Mr. Liar' in the process, Onita is still eating explosions in 2016.

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