10 best retired wrestlers you have never heard of

#9 The Destroyer

Move over, Samoa Joe. This is a REAL Destroyer.

The Destroyer might not be a name that’s familiar to many people; after all, he has been retired since 1993. But he certainly deserves recognition for his accomplishments…one of those being that he took part in one of the most watched wrestling matches ever.

The Masked Destroyer was a major wrestling draw everywhere he went, and this was especially true in Japan. The Destroyer once wrestled a match against Shohei ‘Giant’ Baba that was watched by 70 million TV viewers. By comparison, that’s almost double the current population of all of Canada.

The Destroyer was one of the trendsetters and standard-bearers for masked wrestlers. He was an enormous draw and was critical in helping wrestling become a nation-wide hit in Japan, which is where wrestling is today.