10 Wrestlers Who Were Way Ahead Of Their Time

7. Bad News Brown

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Bad News Brown confused me somewhat as a child. He wasn't a goodie or a baddie, he existed somewhere in the middle of the two. Bad News wasn't aligned with anyone other than himself and his sewer rats, and for my generation he was the first tweener we ever came across.

Often considered the prototype for Stone Cold Steve Austin, Bad News was a non-nonsense bad chap who wore black tights and lived by the motto of D.T.A, don't trust anybody. Two straight years in a row he abandoned his Survivor Series teams, walking out on his partners at the slightest suspicion of betrayal.

Bad News was also the first to physically terrorise the company authority figure, famously roughing up Jack Tunney on an episode of the Brother Love Show. This was truly shocking at the time, and whilst little came of it in 1990 the rebel and the authority story would help make WWE the number one company in wrestling and put WCW out of business a decade later.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.