8 Most EVIL People In Wrestling History
1. Jimmy Savile
As one of the most influential public figures across the entire second half of the 1900s, Jimmy Savile had both the fame and the power to do what he wanted with his grim life. One such thing was to wrestle (mostly to comic effect) when World Of Sport dominated the UK's discourse, and another was to live as one of the most prolific sex offenders in the country's history.
Following investigations that regrettably only kicked off after his death in 2011, Savile was found to have abused over 450 identified victims between 1955 and 2009, with their ages ranging from 5 and 75, though the vast majority were vulnerable children. The devastating sense of injustice that followed this discovery resulted in the general public wondering aloud how he'd managed to get away with so much. Joint reports by the Metropolitan Police and the NSPCC documented an industrial scale of grooming and abuse, thanks in part to access he to people in vulnerable positions such as hospitals, children's hospices and even BBC premisses. Allegations or even suggestions of any wrongdoing were often ignored or waved away due to Savile's reach with politicians and royalty, as well as his ability to manipulate situations to his favour due to the scale of his celebrity and a history of oft-spoken about charity work.
Both the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and the BBC faced heavy institutional criticism for previously failing to act on allegations during his lifetime, and the only vindication so many survivors have managed to find in later life has been, at long last, gaining the opportunity to speak bravely and publicly about their harrowing experiences.