5 WWE Superstars who were heroes outside of the ring 

#3. Shawn Daivari

Shawn Daivari's WWE career may have been surrounded by controversy following his alliance with Muhammed Hassan, but the former manager has since been able to prove that he's a man worthy of the title "role model" when he saved countless lives on his way home.

Daivari himself was able to reveal his heroics to TMZ after a video of the incident went viral and made headlines all over the world.

“I was just on the train and I was heading to the airport. I’m from Minneapolis, so I was just visiting family. I got on the train and there was this guy saying racial and anti-Semitic stuff really loud, specifically at a few passengers, and you could tell they were really uncomfortable. One guy had actually pushed the emergency call button on the train. And this guy kept going on and on, and nobody was showing up to help. There was one older guy sitting in a chair and he told the guy, “Hey, sit down, you’re making the train ride really uncomfortable for everybody.”

Daivari is a trained WWE superstar who had worked with The Great Khali throughout his WWE career, so he knew that something had to be done, but without warning, the situation turned dangerous and he was forced to spring into action.

"At that point, the guy just got right in front of the older guy and physically threatened him, even threatened to kill him. That’s when everybody started running for the emergency call buttons. They were all hitting the buttons, and we went another stop after that, which was another two minutes. When the doors opened, nobody got on the train, so we knew there were no cops waiting to get on and help. I didn’t know if this guy had a knife in his pocket or a gun in his backpack, so I just went up to him, turned him around, grabbed him in a rear naked choke/sleeper hold and held until I felt his body go limp. I dropped him, locked on a body scissors and held him down until the next stop, which was about 45 seconds down the road. Then I just grabbed him by the seat of his pants and his collar and I threw him off the train."

Witnesses of the incident reported that Daivari held on to the move so tightly that the suspect wet his pants. Now, that's a hero.