10 Wrestlers Who Risked Absolutely Everything
8. P.J Hawx
Doing exactly what it set out to do, P.J Hawx dive from the second floor of a shopping mall into the ring below went viral beyond the wrestling bubble when it occurred back in February 2020.
It's almost impossible to stop watching it on a loop (perhaps explaining why it was shared so far and wide and managed to capture the attention of news media rather than just the wrestling one), but the breakout moment was tempered by timing. Just one month after he flew through the recirculated air, the whole world was shut down thanks to the global pandemic.
Hawx - like many independent wrestlers, was as good as frozen out of wrestling for the rest of the year, rendering it impossible to build on an insanely scary (but ultimately successful) moment. By the time he returned in 2021, the buzz from the scene had all but vanished, leaving his crazy risk there to be monetised more by canny YouTube uploaders than the man himself.