10 best retired wrestlers you have never heard of

#4 Toshiaki Kawada

It wasn’t a good idea to mess with this man

Toshiaki Kawada was the most dangerous striker of all time. A master of King’s Road wrestling, Kawada knew how to hit hard and how to take a vicious beating.

If you were to watch any of his matches from his glory years in the 1990s, two feelings would come up almost instantly. The first would be awe of his wrestling ability and the sheer quality of his matches. The second would be pity for his opponents for having to deal with such brutal offence.

In a time when wrestling was becoming increasingly phoney in the United States, Kawada was one of the biggest forces in making it look as realistic and as true to its sporting routes as possible, while still maintaining the need for drama and ring psychology.

Kawada will go down in history as one of the best wrestlers to never set foot in WWE, as well as one of the best wrestlers ever…period.