#3 Brian Adams
Given a practically impossible task when he first rose to fame in the WWE, Brian Adams was added to the tag team Demolition under the ring name Crush. An act that millions of wrestling fans already loved without him, many viewers saw his addition as an intrusion. Eventually able to overcome a bad first impression, Crush feuded with Randy Savage as a solo star and was one of the early members of the Nation of Domination.
Opting to jump to the WCW at the height of the Monday Night Wars, Adams went by his birth name while there and joined one of the most important factions of all-time, the nWo. Then he became the Kiss Demon before forming the dominating tag team KroniK with Bryan Clark.
Signed by the WWE one last time but gone before long, Adams left the limelight for the most part in 2001 and met his untimely demise in 2007. Found unconscious in his bed, Adams had ingested a normal level of several medications which combined fatally impeded his respiratory system.