Pyle of List

Where would our heroes like Hulk Hogan and Bret Hart be if it weren’t for their dastardly counterparts. Everyone loves the good guy, with his title belt and the muscles that lower your self-esteem. But what about the little guy? Yeah, that little guy that’s sneaking up behind them with a handful of powder to throw in their eyes. Well, we here at Pyle of List are tired of the villain not getting the spotlight, so we have compiled and rated what we believe to be the sneakiest wrestlers every to grace the squared circle. Enjoy! (Note: all wrestlers rated on a sneakiness scale of 1-4 Hamburglers)

Ric Flair - You don’t get called “The Dirtiest Player In The Game” for being a boyscout. Ric rode thumbs to the eyes and hands full of tights to 16 World Championships in his illustrious career. Never one to sneak alone, he often employed some of the nastiest managers, from Harley Race to Woman to AA himself; Arn Anderson.
Favorite Sneaky Move: backwards kick to the groin.

Eddie Guerrero - Guerrero was a favorite of wrestling purists because of the work ethic he employed in the ring. But what led him to stardom was his willingness to “Lie, cheat, and steal” his way to the top. Eddie once sold me some real estate in Florida and let’s just say that it wasn’t exactly legit.
Favorite Sneaky Move: Hit opponent with foreign object, then put it in their hands, then lay down as if unconscious.

Doink the Clown - What’s creepier than a clown, you ask? A sneaky-ass clown that makes his living beating the crap out of other guys in costumes. While Doink wasn’t the most successful wrestler of all time, he was a master of sneak. He revitalized the “switcheroo” technique not seen since the early days of wrestling and relied heavily on shenanigans for any modicum of success he achieved. Add a dwarf sidekick named Dink that did his bidding and you have some world-class shifty-ness.
Favorite Sneaky Move: Pulling a switcheroo with an identically outfitted clown hidden under the ring… giving impressionable kids nightmares for years.

“Macho Man” Randy Savage - Macho built his successful, title-winning career almost entirely on deceit. He used a ring bell to crush the larnyx of perennial nice-guy Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat in their feud over the Intercontinental Title. He rode Hulk Hogan’s thunderous chairshot to the back of “The Million Dollar Man” to his first World Title. But his most infamous sneak attack came at the expense of the Hulkster after he inadvertently injured Miss Elizabeth and left Savage to fend for himself. Savage viciously attacked Hogan in the dressing room while Elizabeth was receiving medical attention screaming “you have jealous eyes, Hulk Hogan!” Certainly a banner moment for sneak attacks.
Favorite Sneaky Move: Pulling a foreign object from the front of his tights while the ref’s not looking and hitting his opponent, which may have incapacitated them from smell alone.

Rowdy Roddy Piper
The entire McMahon Family

Cowboy Bob Orton - Orton wore a cast on his arm for the better part of two years. That cast won him many a match in that span, more matches than Cowboy Bob’s actual ability probably could have. It takes a real sleeze ball to lie about an injury just get an edge on the competition.
Favorite Sneaky Move: Cast to the head

Jake The Snake Roberts - Never play poker with a guy named after a state, and never tango with a guy nicknamed “The Snake”. Unless it’s Jake Plummer, then you’re okay. Everyone was scared of the python ‘Damion’ that Jake carried with him to every match, and even when Earthquake sat on it (more on Earthquake to come) Jake just said ‘eff it’ and got himself a bigger snake.
Favorite Sneaky Move: Wait for opponent to walk back through curtain after match with chair (remember when he was going to clean Elizabeth’s clock with this move, but then the Undertaker was standing behind him and stopped him, thus marking ‘Taker’s face turn? I know I do!)

The Repo Man - This is one of the worst gimmicks in the history of wrestling, salvaged only by the fact that it gave way to some legitimate underhandedness. He basically acted just like a repo man and repossessed stuff from any wrestler that was late on payments. Nothing innovative, just effective.
Favorite Sneaky Move: Even walking to the ring, was sneaky for the Repo Man.

Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase - He paid Andre the Giant to give him the World Title. When that didn’t work, he hired Andre to help him cheat his way to the title. When that backfired and he was out-cheated by the Macho Man, he gave up and created his own title belt, infintely more awesome than the real title since it was adorned with jeweled dollar signs. Plus, he had a slave servant named Virgil, which has to count for something since I’m pretty sure he paid him under the table.
Favorite Sneaky Move: Whether it was Virgil or another bad guy he hired, Dibiase preferred the all-encompassing “outside interference”.

Triple H/HHH/Hunter Hearst Helmsley
Mr. Perfect
Double J Jeff Jarrett

Earthquake - Earthquake was sneaky from the start. For those of you that don’t remember to his debut, let me remind you: Dino Bravo challenged The Ultimate Warrior to a push-up contest. Then Bravo brought Earthquake (who is a great big fat person) out of the crowd to sit on his back while he did push-ups. THEN when Warrior tried to do them, Earthquake jumped up and came crashing down on his back, then did it a few more times. Talk about dastardly!
Favorite Sneaky Move: Sitting on people while they weren’t looking

Papa Shango/The Undertaker - Both of these guys make the list for two evil deeds that haunted me as a child (hilariously, both were done to the Ultimate Warrior. Probably because he was an idiot): Papa Shango put a curse on Warrior’s stomach that made him violently vomit all over the backstage area, while ‘Taker just skipped the theatrics and locked UI in an “air tight” casket.
Favorite Sneaky Moves: See above

The Honky Tonk Man - This video sums it up. Plus, his manager is Jimmy Hart.
Favorite Sneaky Move: Smashing opponents over the head with his guitar.

Ravishing Rick Rude
Shawn Michaels
Brian Pillman
Razor Ramon/Scott Hall

Lex Luger - The guy had a freakin’ steel plate in his arm. Cmon! Also, remember when he was teaming with Sting in WCW and everytime Sting was looking Luger acted all nice, but when he wasn’t around Luger was an asshole? Also, Luger snuck into the wrestling business in the first place. Initially, he was apart of Vince McMahon’s WBF (World Bodybuilding Federation) and then parlayed his physique into a wrestling career in which he never even bothered to attempt to be a good worker. Oh, and it was at Luger’s house that Miss Elizabeth OD’d on pills (watch his “reaction” to a wrestler mentioning this here).
Favorite Sneaky Move: Steel plated forearm off the ropes

The Genius
The Killer Bees
William Regal
Rick The Model Martel