10 WWE Legends You Won't Believe Are STILL Wrestling

4. Hakushi

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Hakushi is held in something close to reverence by WWE fans of a certain age.

Bret Hart in 1995 was working Glenn Jacobs on pay-per-view before he was given a halfway decent gimmick. Glenn Jacobs without the star aura, Jesus wept. It's a wonder the WWF didn't go down the garbage chute right then and there on August 27. Earlier in the year, Hart had already been lumbered with Bob Backlund, who despite working like Masata Yoshino in comparison to Isaac Yankem, DDS was a very boring wrestler on his own terms. Not only that, but Vince McMahon booked a retread of the Hart/Jerry Lawler programme.

Vince screwed the poor guy more in 1995 than he did in 1997!

Mercifully, for long-suffering fans, Hart was programmed with Hakushi in the spring, and Hakushi was awesome: incredible, striking look, intimidating aura, futuristic offence the likes of which your 10 year-old head could not comprehend. He had a botch in him, but so did many of the most exciting wrestlers of the '90s.

As he has done for an inconceivable number of years, Jinsei Shinzaki continues to wrestle predominantly in Michinoku Pro, which he has owned since 2003. He is respectable, too, although he worked the Great Muta in his last notable match, so he might have benefitted from the curve there.

 
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