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It's that time of year again when things get spooky and wrestling gets... boring (sorry Hell in a Cell). That's why on today's episode, Adam will be taking a look back at the top 10 scariest wrestlers of all time.
00:00 Introduction
01:07 #10
02:14 #9
02:56 #8
03:49 #7
04:57 #6
06:13 #5
07:22 #4
08:22 #3
09:27 #2
10:29 #1
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00:00 Introduction
01:07 #10
02:14 #9
02:56 #8
03:49 #7
04:57 #6
06:13 #5
07:22 #4
08:22 #3
09:27 #2
10:29 #1
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00:00 Happy Halloween everyone!
00:04 It's the most wonderful time of the fear.
00:07 Hope the spooky scary skeletons treat you nice this season and you finally get to egg
00:11 the house of that crusty old Dean.
00:13 Halloween isn't normally the best time to be a wrestling fan because normally that means
00:17 Hell in a Cell and in the last 5 years Hell in a Cell matches have been normally bad.
00:22 However with Hell in a Cell already out of the way this year, WWE decided to schedule
00:26 their second most horrific pay per view type, a Saudi Arabia show.
00:30 Boooo.
00:31 Boo.
00:32 Don't worry I'm not going to spend another list pissing all over WWE's disgustingly
00:35 gold plated chips we did that last week.
00:37 Check it out if you feel like feeling sad for a little bit.
00:39 This week we're celebrating something a bit more positive.
00:42 A bit.
00:43 We're looking at the wrestlers who are best at striking fear into the hearts of the audience
00:47 but like in a fun way.
00:50 Mostly in a fun way.
00:51 I'm Adam Hailing from PartsFarKnown and these are our 10 scariest wrestlers of all
00:55 time.
00:56 And you know what will keep you safe from the Halloween spooky-doos this season?
01:02 If you like and subscribe.
01:04 Cause if you don't, they'll f*cking get you.
01:06 10.
01:07 The Undertaker Oh I can hear you now rushing to your keyboards,
01:10 a sad inevitability of feigned outrage.
01:13 Surely as the most famous horror themed gimmick of all time, surely The Undertaker has to
01:17 be number one.
01:18 Well he isn't and don't call me surely.
01:20 Because I'll say it slowly enough for everyone to understand.
01:23 The Undertaker is not now and never has been scary.
01:26 He wasn't scary as a dead cowboy like he was in a Deadwood branded pantomime.
01:30 He wasn't scary as a biker, unless you think weird tough guy beat poetry about being the
01:34 crazy brave and also burying Kurt Angle is scary.
01:37 And he wasn't scary in his final incarnation of the dead man, no matter how many rocking
01:40 chairs he set fire to with lightning.
01:42 He is a legendary spookum's gimmick so yes it would be heresy to leave him off the list.
01:47 But here is a rundown of non-scary things Undertaker has done.
01:50 That Netflix movie which is nowhere near as good as we were hoping for.
01:53 Making Josh Matthews talk like him with possession.
01:56 Taking Teddy Long on a shisha joyride.
01:58 That weird laugh he had with Brock Lesnar.
02:01 Killing his friend with cement.
02:02 I guess the closest that prop tragedy ever came to IRL shivers was Ministry of Darkness
02:07 taker but that's mostly because he once tried to marry Stephanie McMahon.
02:11 Which is a terrifying prospect.
02:13 Number 9.
02:14 The Boogie Man.
02:15 I mean right.
02:16 Look scary feels like a strong word for a man who looks like if Flavor Flav died before
02:20 by drowning in ketchup.
02:21 He looks more like a stripper that's taken his gimmick too far than a demon.
02:25 But you can't really deny that the boogie man was, at the very least, unnerving.
02:28 Like you're really uncomfortable when he's around.
02:30 But that's mostly down to the ick factor of the image of him with a mouth full of bloody
02:34 real life worms.
02:35 Yes that sets my oh no senses tingling.
02:38 Hearing his entrance music filled me with dread as a younger fan so I guess that's
02:42 something in the neighbourhood of fear.
02:44 Although it's probably the part of the neighbourhood that would smell really bad and have to be
02:47 situated at least 15 blocks away from a school.
02:49 Maybe he counts more as scary because if you don't act afraid of him Jim Cornette
02:53 will find you and slap the shit out of you.
02:55 It all adds up.
02:56 Number 8.
02:57 Abaddon.
02:58 Just really distressing to look at.
03:00 Wrestling history is full of people who wouldn't otherwise seem that scary but have managed
03:04 to create an intimidating look out of face paint.
03:06 Sting is a big silly grandpa but the face paint makes him spooky.
03:09 Luna Vachon, those cracks and veins she used to paint on her face made her seem genuinely
03:13 unhinged.
03:14 Ditto Bull Nakano.
03:15 Rosemary has worked wonders with the paint.
03:17 Demon Finn Balor creates something cool apart from that one time at Halloween lest we forget
03:21 when he morphed into Demon Finn Pumpkin Spice Edition.
03:25 But by far and away the queen of wrestling makeup is Abaddon cause Jesus Christ.
03:29 You are what you eat.
03:30 And she's just walked down to the ring immediately after eating the girl from the ring but without
03:34 even wiping the blood off her.
03:36 Genuinely it's better monster design than in half of modern horror cinema.
03:40 She looks like what WWE think Lilly looks like and if you woke up to find Abaddon standing
03:45 at the foot of your bed you would scream your brain out through your eyes.
03:48 7.
03:49 Jake Roberts Silence is scarier than noises.
03:52 A dagger is scarier than a firework.
03:54 And you know what's 100 times scarier than a crazy tall roided up meathead screaming
03:58 into the void about how he's going to pummel you?
04:00 A man calmly looking into your eyes and describing in flat, unemotional terms about how he's
04:07 going to ruin your life.
04:10 Intention is everything with our number 7 Jake Snake Roberts who inspired fear in his
04:14 fellow man in two ways.
04:15 First of all carrying a huge f***ing python to the ring which he'd occasionally attach
04:19 to your mouth first and yes fair enough that'll do it.
04:21 That's enough for Andre the Giant to nope right out of the industry all together.
04:24 But the other is his style of promos and honestly they're the kind of gothic poetry that Bray
04:29 Wyatt could only dream of.
04:31 Articulate, calculating and possessed with a truly unnerving stillness.
04:36 That kind that freezes you in place, unable to look away like a deer held in the headlights
04:41 of an oncoming car which is before you even take into account his theme music which is
04:45 the best soundtrack an 80s slasher movie never had.
04:48 Why don't you come and see how the devil's work is done.
04:51 Jake the Snake was one of the scariest men walking in his day.
04:55 Trust me.
04:56 Number 6 Kevin Sullivan Now listen, I'm not talking about the dungeon
05:00 of doom.
05:01 I'm not talking about this.
05:02 Or this.
05:03 And I'm definitely not talking about any of this.
05:06 Those things are all very silly and come off like if Scooby Doo had its budget slash so
05:10 Hanna Barbera had to start making it in their garage.
05:13 I'm talking about his time in the territories, namely championship wrestling from Florida
05:16 and his Prince of Darkness gimmick.
05:19 See in the 80s, satanic panic was at its peak.
05:21 Terrified parents were lashing out in all directions at anything that seemed like a
05:25 corrupting influence over their baffling teenage kids, including dungeons and dragons.
05:30 Matt Mercer eats babies and that's a confirmable fact.
05:33 Evil rock bands and of course cults.
05:35 Cults everywhere.
05:36 In response, Kevin Sullivan decided to scoop up all the heat in the world by starting a
05:40 sex cult faction, the Army of Darkness, years before Evil Dead 3 came out.
05:45 He painted his face, savaged people with his gang of degenerates.
05:48 The whole thing was designed specifically to tap into the new American horror for terrifying
05:53 cults, something that had been around for a decade in the wake of the Manson family
05:58 murders.
05:59 Sullivan kidnapped and brainwashed multiple women.
06:01 He essentially created the insane character of Luna Vachon.
06:04 He brought snakes to the ring, daubed themselves in occult symbols and it bloody worked, making
06:09 him a top heel in multiple promotions.
06:12 5.
06:13 Ox Baker
06:14 Good villains are built around myth.
06:15 It's hard for misinformation to spread in the internet age, except what the f*** am
06:19 I talking about of course it isn't, but it probably would be harder for a wrestler
06:22 to inspire terror in quite the same way managed by Ox Baker.
06:26 See Baker had a simple but terrifying reputation that his finishing move killed people.
06:31 Wrestling was easier in certain ways back then.
06:33 Baker, who wrestled from 1964 to, checks notes, 2014, he retired at 80 years old?
06:40 Bloody hell.
06:41 His finisher was the heart punch, which is when he punches you in the chest.
06:45 In some ways, wrestling was easier back then.
06:47 It sounds tame, but the move became infamous when it was connected to two deaths in the
06:52 70s.
06:53 In 1971, Alberto Torres died from a ruptured appendix following a match featuring Baker.
06:57 And the following year, another wrestler called Ray Gunkel died of a heart attack in the locker
07:01 room following a match with, that's right, Ox Baker.
07:04 Neither deaths were in real life caused by the heart punch, but they were both worked
07:08 into Baker's gimmick, giving him and his finisher a fearsome myth surrounding him.
07:14 So much so that Baker once started a full blown riot by heart punching one of his opponents
07:18 over and over.
07:20 That is terror.
07:22 4.
07:23 New Jack
07:24 Ox Baker capitalized on real life deadly injuries to generate fear in the wrestling business.
07:28 New Jack decided to just cut out the middle man, repeatedly cut many middle men.
07:32 Instability is scary.
07:34 Never quite being sure when someone is about to snap and make it their God's given mission
07:38 to put you through a wall.
07:39 Some wrestlers are scary because of sound effects, smoke, mirrors and by projecting
07:43 maggots on a ring canvas.
07:45 New Jack is scary because he legitimately tried to kill someone during a match.
07:49 In his own words, he tried to kill Vic Grimes by throwing him from a scaffold wrong.
07:53 And it's not even wrestlers who are terrified of New Jack.
07:55 Fans should be too.
07:57 After all, he's demonstrably not a man concerned by collateral damage.
08:01 What if Vic Grimes had landed in the crowd?
08:03 When New Jack went nuts and decided to make an example out of Gypsy Joe, what about all
08:07 the other fans in attendance in danger of being hit by flying objects?
08:11 From this footage, New Jack was throwing chairs around with children less than 20 feet away.
08:16 He's a f*cking terrifying madman and I really must be clear that none of this is praise.
08:21 3.
08:22 The Fiend
08:23 Wyndham Rotunda has had a career of horror highs and horror lows.
08:26 When Bray Wyatt first arrived in WWE, he was a wonderfully eerie creation, drenched in
08:31 southern gothic menace, words of honey, poison and the henchman from Wrong Turn at his beck
08:36 and call.
08:37 That gimmick devolved, somewhat, to the point of haunted tractors, dirty fridges and whatever
08:42 mud-smeared shaky-can tedium the New Day's big vacation at the Firefly compound was supposed
08:47 to be.
08:48 Bad that, Bray Wyatt went away and, like Bruce Wayne, found a costumed alter ego to strike
08:52 fear into the hearts of criminals everywhere.
08:55 The saga of The Fiend was not always good, but bloody hell it was always interesting.
08:58 At some point, legit psychological horror and the kind of slasher invulnerability that
09:03 Jason looks at with pure envy in his side-eye, The Fiend may be gone, but his debut at Summerslam
09:08 will never be forgotten.
09:10 The lantern carved out of the severed head of his past failed gimmick is possibly my
09:16 favourite prop in the history of the business.
09:17 Beats the hell out of an urn.
09:19 Anyway, it might be the best horror monster debut ever.
09:22 Actually wait, it's the second.
09:24 The first has gotta be...
09:26 Number 2.
09:27 Kane.
09:28 Kane was the best.
09:30 OG Kane was the god damn best.
09:33 Every pyro a jump scare.
09:34 My personal favourite mask in all of wrestling.
09:36 The costume that somehow avoided looking like a Power Ranger villain and managed to be both
09:40 imposing and cool.
09:41 His freakish speed for a big guy.
09:44 His insane raw power.
09:45 The fact that for a while he was silent.
09:47 Kane was so physically composed, much like his brother, able to channel stillness into
09:52 something far more deadly than rage.
09:54 With that mask only complimenting that poise to make you doubly unsure of when he was suddenly
09:59 going to feed you your entire soul.
10:01 And of course, that debut may be the best debut ever.
10:04 The thick red light ripping the doors off its hinges.
10:07 WWE's obsessed with making movies, while Kane is the best horror movie they ever made.
10:13 Hands thrown down to make fire appear, which is still cool to this day.
10:17 I wish he hadn't become a big red mayor.
10:19 I wish he hadn't done a lot of things, mostly involving Shane McMahon's poor victimised
10:22 testicles.
10:23 I'll never forget how terrified I was as a kid to see the big red machine.
10:29 And number one, Freddie Blassie.
10:31 That's right, the man that Attitude Era fans will remember as that lovely grandpa in the
10:36 wheelchair they would cart out whenever it was time to give an inspirational speech,
10:39 was a wrestler that once created so much fear and outrage around his terrifying antics that
10:44 he actually caused wrestling fans to die.
10:47 He was legitimately one of the most loathed heels in the history of wrestling.
10:51 He got stabbed by fans, had acid thrown at him, his Cadillac was torched by fans he'd
10:56 driven out of their minds.
10:57 He wrestled throughout the 50s and 60s, but reached the peak of his notoriety in Japan,
11:01 where he would file his teeth down to sharp points and bite his opponents on the forehead,
11:07 causing them to gush blood.
11:08 He was a proper Halloween vampire.
11:10 So the legends go, the sight of seeing this real life Gaijin bloodsucker snacking on the
11:15 head of their beloved hero, Ricky Dozen, caused several Japanese audience members to faint
11:20 with shock.
11:21 Some to have heart attacks, and reportedly one to even pass away.
11:25 It's a slightly different way of garnering heat to say 'insulting Seattle's lack of
11:29 a basketball team', but it's no less effective.
11:32 And that's our list.
11:33 What's your favourite spooky horror themed wrestler?
11:36 Who do you think is the scariest wrestler of all time?
11:38 Let us know in the comments, don't forget to like and share this video around if you
11:41 enjoyed it.
11:42 Happy Halloween everyone.
11:44 Make sure you subscribe to partsfunknown for more silly wrestling content.
11:47 Jam that Jam.
11:49 out.
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