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The first WWWF World Champion was "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers (Herman Rhodes was his real name, Buddy Rogers was an old time actor) who was suppose to have beat Antonio Rocca in a tournament, nope, he was simply given the le.
the Brusier was an x -Green Bay Packer named Affis, the classc heel. He looked like what a cartoon rassler would look like.
While it worked way back when, The Shiek wouldn't work today, he'd get shot. The Sheik would come into the ring with his female valet, if she didn't put his prayer rug down right he'd kick her around....hahaha!!!!! Yep, that wouldn't fly today.
Lou Thesz is still considered "Da Man" he was behind a lot of the classic angles and had a lot of pull in the biz. He was a great performer and played whatever role made the most sense, heel/babyface in whatever region he was in.
Classy Fred Blassie and Ray Stevens ruled SOCAL and NORCAL. With Bakersfield being the cut off point.
The best of the masked men....Mil Mascaras and The Destroyer.
The best tag teams....The Fabulous Kangaroos, Art & Stan Neilson, Dr Jerry & Eddie Graham the first WWWF World Champion tag champs.
Then there was Killer Kowalski, who actually ed up and chopped Yukon Erichs ear off when a knee drop off the turnbuckle went wrong. Yukon would commit suicide years later.
Edouard Carpentier, Antonio Rocca and the great Verne Gagne could hang with anyone today when it comes to actual wrestling. Gagne an NCAA champ while at Minnesota.
The first of the musclemen was Sailor Art Thomas. Yep...black. He came out of the audience in his first gig to toss a rassler around (part of the show).
The cool thing about those days was that we had....
Northwest
Norcal
Socal
Texas
Midwest
Canada
Florida
New York
regions and all the promotors respected each others territory. So we saw far far more guys in the biz because there were far more jobs. Vince McMahon Jr. ed all that up.
