10 Wrestlers Who Were Recklessly Dangerous
1. Ahmed Johnson
Ahmed Johnson was absolutely f*cking brilliant at just about everything he needed to secure iconic status in WWE - he just couldn't stay fit.
One only needs to randomly select literally any of his matches from 1995 through to his mid-1996 kidney injury to understand why Vince McMahon went gooey for the hugely popular star. Built like a tank, Ahmed could fly around with the pace of a man half his size, scream and holler with intensity of a cinematic Hollywood hero and cut completely garbled, unintelligible promos that still concluded with audiences going wild for what little catchphrase they were able to cling on to.
Tiny caveat. He was a threat to himself and everybody around him.
When Ahmed wasn't flattening foes thanks to a complete disrespect for wrestling's uniquely sweet science, he was near-killing himself instead. The aforementioned kidney knock in '96 kicked off a run of injuries that never ended as long as he was employed by WWE. When he wasn't wiping up blood spat out due to his internal injuries with a bandaged hand, he was adding so many elbow and knee pads that his bloated frame resembled a human soft play. If only the landings were as safe.