10 of the Most Shocking Crimes Committed by Professional Wrestlers

1. 2003 was not a good year for Lex Luger. He was arrested for domestic abuse on his then girlfriend and wrestling celebrity Miss Elizabeth. Two days later he was arrested for driving under the influence. A month later, Luger was arrested while investigating the drug overdose deathof Miss Elizabeth.

  

2. Matt Morgan pulled alongside a women who cut him off on the road and stated that she better be glad he wasn't a police officer.After copying his license plate, women reported him as impersonating an officer.

   

3.Glenn Gilberti, better known as Disco Inferno, was arrested in 2007 in a gambling sting in Roswell, GA.

    The poker game run was taking place in a basement house at the time.

 

4.Billy Joe Travis Billy Joe Travis was arrested on air during a match for not paying his child support. Billy hadn't been paying his child support to his ex-wife for some time.At the time, however, he was working with the USWA in Memphis, When the police arrived to take him into custody at the same time, Jerry "The King" Lawler, who was in charge at the time, deciding to 

 use the footage for his program.

  

5.William Regal When he was working in WCW , William Regal was arrested on a plane for becoming so extremely drunk that he began urinating on a flight attendant. 

6.Ric Flair The one and only "Nature Boy" had arrest warrants issued for Flair after a road rage incident took place in Charlotte, NC.Flair allegedly got out of his car, grabbed a motorist by the neck, and completely kicked the door off the motorist's sport utility vehicle 

7.Johnny Grunge Johnny Grunge was one half of "The Public Enemy", an oddly popular tag team in WCW and ECW.He was arrested in 1996 for getting drunk and stealing one of the 
 WCW production vans

  

8.Vader was arrested in Kuwait while on a morning show. He was told to throw a fit and grab the interviewer when asked if wrestling was fake.Apparently the interviewer was not in on the plan and he was charged $164 for the incident.

9.The Big Show was who working in WCW as "the Giant" at the time was arrested and detained for allegedly exposing himself to a hotel employee in Memphis, Tennessee.He was later released due to lack of evidence.

 

 

 

10.New Jack The insanely dangerous New Jack was arrested for stabbing his opponent with a knife during a match when the man broke "kayfabe" and started working too rough.   New Jack isn't prone to controversial real life attacks on other wrestlers.