12 Unluckiest WWE Injuries Ever
11. Brutus Beefcake
Ed Leslie often finds himself the butt of jokes amongst wrestling fans, particularly due to his friendship with Hulk Hogan affording him several laughable free rides in the industry, particularly in the mid-to-late-90s.
However, at the very start of the decade, 'The Barber' was hugely over, and primed to deservedly scoop the Intercontinental Title at Summerslam '90 in a follow-up to handing future champion Mr Perfect his first Pay-Per-View defeat four months earlier at WrestleMania 6.
Tragically, before Beefcake could make it to the August supershow, he suffered heinous facial injuries following a parasailing catastrophe that left him with over one hundred metal plates in his skull holding everything together.
Brutus was out of Summerslam, but tentatively returned several months later, first as a mystery babyface attacker with his entire head completely covered (and thus protected from harm), then later strictly as an interviewer on his own talk show segment 'The Barber Shop'.
His eventual in-ring return came long past his sell-by date in 1993, where the injuries were famously revisited to trigger the return of Hulk Hogan to television following Beefcake suffering a vicious beating at the hands of Ted Dibiase and Irwin R Shyster.