13 Wrestlers Who Died In The Ring
4. Mitsuharu Misawa
WARNING: The video below shows the immediate aftermath of Misawa’s death in the ring, which some readers may find distressing.
Mitsuharu Misawa was a bona fide legend of Japanese wrestling. It is no exaggeration to say that his death would be the equivalent of Ric Flair or Hulk Hogan passing away inside the ring. A very good amateur wrestler, he turned pro with All Japan Pro Wrestling, the promotion he was a huge fan of as a youngster, in 1981. In 1984, Misawa’s name disappeared from AJPW bills and a new wrestler, Tiger Mask II, was born, with Misawa under the mask. He had huge boots to fill, as the original Tiger Mask, Satoru Sayama, had been he first wrestler to popularise junior heavyweight wrestling in Japan. Under the mask, Misawa feuded with the likes of Dynamite Kid and Chavo Guerrero Sr, and in April 1990, he fought Bret Hart to a 20 minute time limit draw at the WWF/AJPW Summit 1990 show at the Tokyo Dome. Later that year, during a tag match, he dramatically got his partner, Toshiaki Kawada, to rip his mask off and continued wrestling, where he was immediately identified by the commentators as Mitsuharu Misawa.
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