12 Wrestlers With Terrible Backstories

9. Hornswoggle

We were unfortunately introduced to Hornswoggle by watching him climb out from under the ring and interfering in Fit Finlay’s matches. He was short, he was goofy and he was treated as a real life leprechaun.

We had no other ideas on who this mysterious person was, and we didn’t want to know either. We just wanted him to go away. However, what we did eventually learn about Hornswoggle only made our lives worse off for it.

His father was Finaly, but it took awhile to learn that fact. For a time we believed he was the offspring of Vince McMahon. The little we did know was that he was unable to talk. He could only grunt and seemed to have some form of severe brain damage. Finlay was a lousy father, as he didn’t seem to mind his kid hanging around incredibly close to hand-to-hand combat on a weekly basis.

Somehow Horny, despite not being able to form sentences, found his way from one arena to the next all across the globe week after week. Eventually, he seemed to be cured of all his issues when Santa Claus gave him the ability to speak. Yeah, in that case, Santa was kind of an a**hole.