Capt. Morgan
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Jake the Snake Roberts, Ultimate Warrior, Brutus the Barber Beefcake and Hacksaw Jim.
Favorite wrestler of all time...
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kireta
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THE FRENCH ANGEL
achaios
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THE FRENCH ANGEL
I had never heard of him before that episode of "Mysteries At The Museum", since he died before I was born. Life gave him lemons, and he made lemonade with the best of them.
-- Tom
Jason-NEK
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I used to love to watch the Rockers. They were my favorite tag team back in the day, however if you want a single wrestler I would have to say Bulldog Bob Brown.
JEEPER55
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I will have to say the Jack Brisco of Florida . or Rick Rude or Rick Stiener or Road warriors or junk yard dog or a 100 more over the years oyea Kevin sullivan or the voneric family.
Roger B
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Andre the Giant!!!
Silverspey
Junior Member
Favorite tag team was The British Bulldogs.
Wrestler would have to be Rowdy Roddy Piper. I miss those days
Wrestler would have to be Rowdy Roddy Piper. I miss those days
DURASPANK
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Remember meeting him as a kid. His hand could have wrapped around my Daddy's hand and mine at the same time. Larger than life! Lol
Wrestling was every Mon night at Greenville Memorial aud. memories
Paul Jones, Wahoo McDaniel others as well.
Do remember on Saturdays after cartoons went off then Mid Atlantic Wrestling came on and mom wouldn't let me watch Shock theater. And chased me out of the house. LoL
The things kids miss nowadays!
Ghill
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Randy Macho Man Savage and the hulk
DIGGER27
In Memory Of
Haystacks Calhoun was also a huge guy...pretty tall and very round.
At 6' 5"/ 601 lbs, it took 5 big, beefy wrestlers to actually pick him up and throw him over the top rope in a free for all match, once.
collector
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Jimmy (superfly) Snooka, that about sums it up LOL!...
SalemScott
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I've never really been big into wrestling but when Stone Cold and The Rock were popular it was hard not to watch. Lots of laughs during that period. A few years ago I was standing in line at the post office in Woburn, Ma. In front of me was an older gentleman. I was looking at him thinking, Wow, this guy must have been a huge guy when he was younger. Once he left it was my turn, I walked up to the clerk and she pointed at the signed picture on the wall and said the guy in front of me was Killer Kowalski. I guess he owned a wrestling gym in the area.
Perquimans
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Bringing this thread back after a 7 year thread hiatus!!! I just watched Stan Hansen body slam Andre the Giant from an old Japan Wrestling Youtube.. Newer members -- whose you're favorite wrestler??
I just watched Stan Hansen body slam Andre the Giant from an old Japan Wrestling Youtube.. Newer members -- whose you're favorite wrestler??
Pumptech
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Bob Backlund, Andre the Giant, Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka,
dirt dick
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Jerry Blackwell, The rooster, and Mr. Cieto were some of my faves. All during the AWA years. Sunday mornings always were the same. Watch AWA then Kung Fu theater
Greg
Yep the old AWA!!
Baron Von Raski, Buck Rock-N-Roll Zoom-off,
Vern and Greg Gagna, Nick Bockwinkle, Bobby "the brain" Heenan
don't forget Jesse The body Ventura
Where did they come up with their names
Mud-puppy
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Flashback! Back in 1968 or 9...I dont know, right around the that time frame, we lived in East Detroit in a mixed race blue collar automotive neighborhood...Tigers won the World Series over the Cards...Schwinn Banana seat Applecrates were in fashion....Riots, Hell Night, Vietnam, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King, spelling bees, paper routes, good Humor Man, all sorts of excitement for a kid to impossibly process or make sense out of....
I was 9 or 10 yrs old...All us kids played and fought together all the time, we actually liked each other and admired an individuals strengths and skills...Blacks, Whites, Jews, Persians all mishmashed into an area and hemmed in by the Detroit River, forcing us to fight or get along....
We all judged each other not by the color of our carapace but the content of our capability...
So one night, for no apparent reason, our Dads loaded us all up and took us to Cobo Hall for to witness a 'Big Time' Wrestling event!....all the block kids, the Nix boys, the Haddads and Saads, the Kutnic kids, the Reynolds, even the Waldman Jewish kids! ......I dont know why the old guys did this?...It was the damndest thing!!
So there we all were, at Cobo Hall.....Bobo Brazil! The Sheik! Pampero Firpo the Wild Man from the Pampas! Some Japanese Kabuki guy blowing blinding dust into his opponents eyes! Some freaky guy had his teeth filed like a Great White Shark and liked to bite his opponents!
It was overwhelming for us young boys! For me anyway! WTH? I was severely traumatized! As whats his name penned..."The roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the crowd'!
Witnessing Grown Men beating the hell out of each other! Basically predicated by Race or Religion? All our Dads cheering and drinking? It was like Damn! Lifechanging experience! ...Confusing? I'm like.. I gotta get a job working automotive assembly and start hating the right people!! I'm sure all us boys felt this..Like what? I'm supposed to hate you!..We are supposed to beat the royal hell out of each other!.
Anyway,...We made it home and Sat Morn showed up... Sir Graves Ghastly's Sat Am Fright program seemed to be like watching Mr. Rogers...So I went outside on the block...looked around, then took a folding chair and knocked Johnny Kutnic off his Applecrate for no reason, except he was a Protestant and his folks had money...Then I curbstomped the Reynolds twins, who were Irish Catholics and certainly deserved it for some reason...
figuring to do a block mop up, I went after the Nix's around lunchtime on account of they were black Baptists, but there was three of them and they put up a hell of a fight...It was a draw, I was exhausted, so Mohammed Saad got off easy along with David Waldman....Which is odd right?.
I shoulda known....Looking back, I might have got a side fight going on with the Waldmans and the Saads while I dealt with the Protestants, Catholics and Blacks?? Thats a no brainer! Ants in a jar! Ya see, this is where Jimmy Hoffa had the understanding!
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..So quick answer, Bobo Brazil!.....
I was 9 or 10 yrs old...All us kids played and fought together all the time, we actually liked each other and admired an individuals strengths and skills...Blacks, Whites, Jews, Persians all mishmashed into an area and hemmed in by the Detroit River, forcing us to fight or get along....
We all judged each other not by the color of our carapace but the content of our capability...
So one night, for no apparent reason, our Dads loaded us all up and took us to Cobo Hall for to witness a 'Big Time' Wrestling event!....all the block kids, the Nix boys, the Haddads and Saads, the Kutnic kids, the Reynolds, even the Waldman Jewish kids! ......I dont know why the old guys did this?...It was the damndest thing!!
So there we all were, at Cobo Hall.....Bobo Brazil! The Sheik! Pampero Firpo the Wild Man from the Pampas! Some Japanese Kabuki guy blowing blinding dust into his opponents eyes! Some freaky guy had his teeth filed like a Great White Shark and liked to bite his opponents!
It was overwhelming for us young boys! For me anyway! WTH? I was severely traumatized! As whats his name penned..."The roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the crowd'!
Witnessing Grown Men beating the hell out of each other! Basically predicated by Race or Religion? All our Dads cheering and drinking? It was like Damn! Lifechanging experience! ...Confusing? I'm like.. I gotta get a job working automotive assembly and start hating the right people!! I'm sure all us boys felt this..Like what? I'm supposed to hate you!..We are supposed to beat the royal hell out of each other!.
Anyway,...We made it home and Sat Morn showed up... Sir Graves Ghastly's Sat Am Fright program seemed to be like watching Mr. Rogers...So I went outside on the block...looked around, then took a folding chair and knocked Johnny Kutnic off his Applecrate for no reason, except he was a Protestant and his folks had money...Then I curbstomped the Reynolds twins, who were Irish Catholics and certainly deserved it for some reason...
figuring to do a block mop up, I went after the Nix's around lunchtime on account of they were black Baptists, but there was three of them and they put up a hell of a fight...It was a draw, I was exhausted, so Mohammed Saad got off easy along with David Waldman....Which is odd right?.
I shoulda known....Looking back, I might have got a side fight going on with the Waldmans and the Saads while I dealt with the Protestants, Catholics and Blacks?? Thats a no brainer! Ants in a jar! Ya see, this is where Jimmy Hoffa had the understanding!
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..So quick answer, Bobo Brazil!....
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HistoryHippy
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My father grew up in Pittsburgh with Bruno Sammartino. They were neighbors. My dad used to tell me stories of when they were kids.
