10 Wrestlers Legitimately More Unhinged Than Dean Ambrose
2. The Sandman
Drinking several cans of beer before a match is insane enough. That might actually be debatable - The Sandman was probably onto something by dulling his senses before being battered by an array of dangerous weapons. Then again, this was probably offset by his complete lack of spatial awareness. Smoking, too, couldn't have helped his endurance levels.
But The Sandman didn't stop there; prior to his Stairway To Hell match with Sabu at ECW House Party in 1998, The Sandman purportedly dabbed two tabs of acid. Seeing his opponent morph into something resembling Godzilla, Sandman as Sabu tells it tried to beckon him over with cries of 'Here, lizard lizard lizard'.
The match is ridden with botches, naturally, but that he even made it through at all is an impressive feat - though not quite as impressive as the time he wrestled after clinically dying following a Nubain overdose. His ECW brethren had dropped him off at the hospital as a dead man, and yet he entered the arena ready to go after receiving a shot of adrenaline.
In a slightly more apocryphal story, Sandman, like Flair before him, enjoyed getting his (apparently not inconsiderable) member out for all to see, at one point shouting on a hotel balcony that '2 Cold Scorpio ain't got sh*t on me!'.