9 Wrestlers Who Came Back From The Dead

2. Paul Bearer

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Blimey, this family. Completing the troika of tomb-rising is Paul Bearer himself, who for many years was safe as houses alongside his impervious protector The Undertaker. It's only when he betrayed his esrtwhile guardian angel in favour of Mankind and a much bigger downgrade in the form of The Executioner that Bearer became a marked man.

Though he survived Undertaker's attempt to barbecue him in 1997, the pallid parlour-dweller wasn't so lucky seven years later when his on-again off-again ally turned off again - this time with a cement mixer in tow.

If 'Taker failed to beat both the Dudley Boyz in the main event of Great American Bash 2004, Bearer would be literally petrified beneath a ton of concrete. Thankfully, the shoulders of four actual pallbearers were spared the strain of carting the encased embalmer when The Phenom rode to victory.

Except he pulled the lever anyway.

Despite doing his best impression of a Rodin statue, WWE later announced that Bearer had miraculously recovered from the ordeal. Death isn't the handicap it was in the olden days.

 
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