A WRESTLING star has ripped a tree out of the ground and used it as a battering-ram to save his mother from a burning house.

Celebrity and entertainment news website TMZ reports that former WWE star Chris Masters rushed to his mother's Los Angeles home after being warned a neighbour had 'gone crazy' and locked himself inside her house.

The man set the house alight shortly after the former wrestler had attempted to coax him outside.

Masters broke open the window and pulled his mother out of the inferno as police arrived.

The man is in custody.