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Sorry to disappoint fellas but the greatest was .....
Rowdy Roddy Piper
Plus he had his own show.
Stud tag teams made up of a couple individual rasslers.
Nick Bockwinkle & Ray Stevens
the Brusier & Crusher Lisowski
Handsome Johnny Barend & Magnificent Maurice
Antonio Roccca & Vitorio Apollo
Angelo Poffo & Bronco Lubrich
Blackjack Mulligan & Blackjack Lanza
Mitzu Arwakawa & Kenji Shibuya
Pepper Gomez & Luis Martineze
Skull Murphy & Brute Bernard
Who can give me some others?
Sorry to disappoint fellas but the greatest was .....
Rowdy Roddy Piper
Plus he had his own show.
From just an entertainment aspect I'd have to agree.
But, like Andre the Giant he was more of a novelty, not a face of the franchise type.
Once upon a time...
Northwest rasslin' with Mad Dog Vachon, Dutch Savage, Luther Lindsey
NOCAL...Ray Stevens, Pepper Gomez
SOCAL...Fred Blassie, The Destroyer
Texas..Wild Bull Curry, Gory Guerrero
Midwest... the Brusier, The Sheik
Great Lakes...Verne Gagne, Nick Bockwinkle
South...Jackie Fargo, Jerry "The King" Lawler
East Coast..."Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers, Bruno Sammmartino
Canada...Killer Kowalski, Bulldog Brower
Then here came The Mid South, Georgia, The Mid Atlantic, World Class,
It was great, so many rasslers, so much movement, then here came Vince McMahon he ed it all up.
allright...let's talk wrasslin then...
I was a fan back when it was real. Yep...at the Dallas Sportatorium...Von Erichs vs. Gary Hart's stable. Gotta admit...yeah...I liked the bad guys. Especially the Spoiler. Cat would get up on the ropes and prowl like a giant...well...cat.
Then the conflicted guys who went from good to bad to good to bad. Bruiser Brodi for one. Also remember the hoopla when Hart was going to import a mysterious fighter from the Orient. Was said to blow smoke. Yep...Kabuki.
Didn't like the Von Erichs much other than Kevin and old man Fritznig6er (as Avante calls him). Love the iron claw when it was applied so hard that it drew blood. I remember the Kerri Von Erich dying from yep...eating a tampon would you believe.
Went from there to Mid South Wrestling for a while. My favorite? Thanks for asking...yep...it was the Junkyard Dog. Black dude by the way. Always liked the show outro where they showed slo mo wrasslin clips over We Are the Champions.
The wrestling went to rasslin' way back in the day. You have never seen "real" wrestling. Unless you watch the NCAA/Olympic stuff that is.
Go yourself pervert. We all know that you keep posting in this thread so you can reconcile to yourself why you keep opening it and lingering on the pics in the OP.
Little man, are you telling me you actually thought that World Class stuff was real. hahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dude, are you serious, hahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!
Do I really have to Google.. THE HISTORY OF PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING.. for you?
I bet you went to page 1, post 1 of this thread before you made it down to mine on page 2.
What?
Little man there hasn't been any real pro rasslin' for ages, ok? If they alllowed that the promotions would have to pay state governing bodies like we see with boxing, ok? It's not a sport*** it's just entertainment........................ ok?
*** yes it does take athetic ability so I consider it a sport.
Was WWF never about Entertainment?
I always got such a kick out of the use of "blood" during the matches. It would always cause the fans to go nutty nuts. From the moment the blood appears the crowd noise increases dramatically. Close your eyes some time and test it.
The early times of The Undertaker was impressive. It played on America's fear & fascination with death, morgue activities and the casket. What an incredible invention it was.
The acting of Savage & Elizabeth the most comprehensive and of highest quality. They played it straight down the line, never wavering for a moment during their air time. I can only imagine the practice & rehearsal they must have endured to get that to such a pristine pitch. It was sheer perfection.
The 80's thru the 90's was a majestic time for professional rasslin'...the acts fed upon one another, the energy spreading like wild fire, the conflagration rising as these men were driven, yes by money, but, also by something else. After the score had ended we are right to remember the grand times, but, the carnage, upon gross examination is sobering and leaves us stunned as we bear witness this aftermath of death and incalculable misery.
Hey Avante what were the name of the family that lost like almost all of the sons to drug problems or suicide? There was a special on them a few weeks ago. Sad legacy.
The Von Erichs. They wrestled bare foot.
Savage needed throat lozenges.
But he forbade himself such luxuries.
The human suffering was unimaginable.
I wonder if rasslin was around in the days of the bible if Jesus would bring his cross in the ring and give his opponents the Crucifix Suplex
I was talking about his personality not his place in the grand shceme of things.
Only Kevin rassled bare foot.
Two things ya can't do even in the wack rasslin' biz, one is poke fun at religion or use the crazed Arab **the sponsers simply won't allow that to happen.
** there was a time however when we had a number of crazed Arabs, the best being the original....The Sheik.
Not that that had to do with what you were talking about.
The Sheik was fantastic. He did years twixt Detroit & Cleveland and into Canada with Bobo Brazil. Just a in' war. They'd do the 2 out of 3 falls Championship matches,,,that way the crowd would get the 1 victory every time, but, never the second. The Sheik would always pull the foreign object and Bobo would be rendered helpless. When you're a kid you wanted Bobo to win, but, now as an adult I see the wrong in that.
One time, Sheik got the first pin, and in the "second round" Bobo went after him with a vengeance, grabbed him and Coco butted him, but, instead of letting him drop and pin him, he grabbed him, straightened him, held him and butted him again. It was just in' fantastic.
When Johnny Valentine came to town it was something special. He'd appear in a long robe type covering and with his blonde hair he was really impressive. He and Johnny Powers went at for like 3 years. One night they had to call the Cleveland PD because Valentine beat him so bad. It made the Cleveland Plain Dealer and they did a remote from Johnny's house out in Seven Hills and few days afterward and he was all ed up. I don't know if it was part of the act, but, it was great.
The Sheik an all time great, yep, legend.
He actually ran the Detroit promotion for years, obviously the crazy man thing just a gimmick.
Bobo was the first black rassler to hold a world le.
Johnny Valentine also a legend, a great worker who sold like nobody else. The father of Greg "The Hammer". He was on that plane that crashed with Ric Flair.
And they had to be careful and judicious with the crowd and The Sheik. You could only push it so far before it could become ugly. The screams as the match reached it's zenith a signal to begin the end. He was a polarizing figure upon sight, the pointed shoes a signature of his presence. His matches were sudden, quick and extremely violent.
The real early days.
What has hurts the biz is how much it relies on tv $$$$ today, so because of that certain things can't be done because of those paying the big $$$$$$. Back in the indie days the weekly shows were on local tv, the $$$$ was made at the arenas. Yes the rasslers weren't making anything close to what we see today so that would work.
We can no longer see the badass Russians, the diabolical Asians, the crazed Arabs, the nazi stepping Germans. Too many sensitive pussies out there. So we get a watered down product, more interested in a young audience who will buy action figures, championship belts. etc.
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