10 Wrestlers Scarier Than The Fiend
3. Leatherface
Shlock is exponentially less effective than simply being as hard as f*ck and relishing it, but Leatherface did shlock brilliantly because there was little else to his act than theatre - and so he perfected the art of getting over before he even had to do anything.
Scrutinised closely, his look was almost comically bad. He was cosplaying as the horror movie villain, and it sure as sh*t looked like it, but the magic, the smoke and mirrors, is that nobody in those buildings got too close a look, and that is because Leatherface - Corporal Kirchner in the '80s WWF - brandished a chainsaw to ringside.
He revved it up and swung it around so loosely that it as if it could fly out of his hands and into the terrified faces of the spectators. He ran rampant up the bleachers, sending those fans scurrying, and they pretty much had to get the f*ck out his away to avoid being sliced in half from a**hole to scalp.
There's a sense of playing along in pro wrestling, and bar the odd, very scary riot, there always was, romantic recollections be damned - but those crowds weren't playing a part to get themselves over.