She tore open her knee, no longer able to walk. She tied a bandage around her leg, pulled herself back into the ring, and attempted to continue the match. At the beginning of the match, Stan Hansen swung his cowbell around before the match started and bashed Vader in the face by accident, breaking his nose.
This resulted in an extremely stiff match between the two. The superheavyweight showed his true toughness by pushing the eye back into the socket and continuing the match. Harley Race might be the toughest man ever to put on wrestling trunks. On Christmas night in , Race and his wife Vivian were driving to visit his parents when their car collided with a tractor-trailer along the highway. His wife died instantly and doctors said Race would never wrestle again.
The accident shattered one of his forearms and damaged his right leg so badly that doctors contemplated amputation. Harley Race showed his true strength, determination, and overall toughness by making his triumphant return to the ring two years later. On a side note: Harley Race also overcame polio as a child.
He beat Royler Gracie by technical submission when he broke his arm with a Kimura Lock, the first time a Gracie has lost in decades. He then faced Renzo Gracie, breaking his arm before they even hit the mat. Most fans consider Kurt Angle as one of the greatest wrestlers of all time.
While living in Liverpool in his early 20s, Wade Barrett became a bare-knuckle boxing champion, fighting in various locations throughout Europe. He competed in a match dubbed by the bare-knuckle underworld as The Battle of Buda , in which he defeated a reputable opponent for a big cash prize. Afterward, while walking through an alleyway in search of a taxi, someone stabbed Barrett with an eight-inch blade , attempting to steal the money.
He refused to elaborate on the incident for legal reasons, but the assailant incurred serious injuries, and Barrett escaped with the cash despite significant blood loss, proving his toughness. Perry Saturn is one of the most underrated professional wrestlers in the history of wrestling.
In , still wrestling after being released from WWE, Saturn showed true toughness and heroism outside of the ring. While driving his girlfriend to work, He saw two guys attacking a woman.
During the struggle, they shot Saturn twice. However, his in-ring work does the talking given the welts and bruises that his opponents leave with. The hard-hitting British style of wrestling has gained momentum over the past few years, with fans enjoying the in-ring mechanics of it. Given that, Burch's stiff style has continued to gain a following. Since falling into obscurity following his surprise World Championship win in , Mahal has only one thing left to his name - the laundry list of wrestlers who have complained about his stiff style.
Since gaining crazy amounts of muscle, the dangerous shots and kicks have increased. Following a stiff elbow to the side of Finn Balor during a match on RAW that knocked him out cold, more are realizing how dangerous his in-ring style is. This bro knows how to hit for real! Given that prior to entering NXT in , Riddle only had three years of professional wrestling training under his belt, most of his experience comes from the world of mixed martial arts.
With a 13 match MMA career without a single pulled punch, it is safe to say that Matt Riddle's strikes in the ring are very snug compared to more experienced workers. With a moniker like the Samoan Submission Machine , Samoa Joe has made a reputation over his long career with being a hard-hitting wrestler. Older - and some very acclaimed - wrestling matches against CM Punk, Daniel Bryan and KENTA had some incredibly hard-hitting strikes, but even his more recent matches have seen some bruised opponents.
Just ask Ricochet from his match at Stomping Grounds how hard Joe hits. The Boss didn't earn her moniker by being a soft hitter in the ring. She can hit with the best of them, and is not afraid to leave a mark on her opponents. She even knows how to get wild with steel chairs , as evidenced by just how hard she hit Becky Lynch on the back of the head. Becky promised her a "receipt" for that hard shot, but considering how touch Banks is, she would welcome the fight.
Share Share Tweet Email. Finally, Benoit could, on rare occasions, show off some pure power, as seen with his incredibly painful "Wild Bomb finisher. Before that, Benoit was one of the few men in wrestling that earned respect pretty much exclusively from his hard work and drive to succeed.
In a time when many of their top guys were jumping ship, Bradshaw stayed loyal to WWE, and was rewarded handsomely years later with the longest-ever run as WWE Champion when the belt was SmackDown -exclusive. He hit his opponents as hard as possible on virtually every occasion, whether they wanted him to work stiff or not.
On other occasions he did so because someone ticked him off. Those two wrestlers were sent packing shortly after this match ended. He was instrumental in the gradual shift towards a more high-flying-oriented style, and his legendary match with the original Tiger Mask was the first-ever "Five-Star match.
The Dynamite Kid was notoriously stiff and difficult to work with. Many former colleagues of his noted just how hard he hit them, and sometimes he stiffed them without explanation. His strikes were often executed as stiffly as possible, which led to him having many enemies and few friends, especially in WWE, where the softer working style was what people needed more often than the unrelenting stiffness often associated with Japanese wrestling.
Lesnar became something of a stiff monster after his MMA run, where hitting as hard as possible is expected of everyone. Lesnar managed to negotiate a contract that gave him far more freedom in his actions, which is why he can get away with so much more. Only Lesnar can give John Cena a bloody lip and get away with it. Alas, his career so far has been characterized by devastating injuries and difficulty connecting with the audience.
He slapped people as hard as possible all the time. He kicked people in the legs and torso without mercy. It was so easy for his opponents to hate him that many people believed he had legitimate heat with his fellow wrestlers. Hideo Itami is a shadow of this former self, and one hopes that he can get his career back on the right track. He was an exceptionally-skilled wrestler who could literally do anything and everything in the ring. From impressive chain wrestling to stiff Japanese strikes to impressive aerials, Misawa holds the current record for most matches rated 5-Stars by the Wrestling Observer.
As with any top Japanese wrestler, Misawa combined his wrestling style with martial arts and legit strikes. Many of his maneuvers targeted the upper neck and shoulders, from his "Tiger Suplex" and various versions of the "Tiger Driver" to his patented "Emerald Flowsion modified Powerslam. Needless to say, you had to be tougher than normal, even by wrestling standards, if you wanted to survive a match against Misawa.
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