20 Best Wrestling Insults Ever

17. 'You're Gonna Wish You Were Back In The Plane'

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Harley Race is widely renowned as one of the toughest men to ever lace up a pair of wrestling boots, and his intensity wouldn't stop when his in-ring days came to an end though, oh lord no.

He would go on to manage Big Van Vader, an equally tough and intense man who would be the big bad of the NWA and WCW for much of the early 90s. Vader would come up against Race's old nemesis Ric Flair on a number of occasions, and the build to one of these bouts brought out Race's ultra serious side.

In order to prepare Flair for what he was up against, Race may have gone a step too far when said 'when my boy's done with you, you're gonna wish you were back in the plane'.

Innocuous enough without knowledge of the backstory, terrifying if you know.

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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.