Your all time favorite wrestler !

[gettnlarge01]

Road Warriors!! L.O.D

 

[rydog]

Junkyard Dog

 

[bluejay]

Tons of great memories being brought up in this thread!! (I grew up watching 80's WWF obsessively as a kid)

I really cannot pick just one guy! That is totally impossible for me! haha.

I can throw out a bunch of names that left an impression on me and stir up some old memories for you guys!

KING KONG BUNDY: This guy was a very scary villain! They built up that feud with Hogan for Wrestlemania 2 perfectly... Anyone remember when Murraco fought Hogan on Saturday Night's Main Event and Bundy ambushed and hospitalized Hogan at the end of the match?

KAMALA the UGANDAN HEADHUNTER: Another scary guy when he first debuted. His splash off the top rope was considered groundbreaking since he was over 400 pounds... (First 400 pounder I ever saw going off the TOP ROPE! That was something else at the time!!!)

HAKU/King Tonga was badass.....

Very pleased someone mentioned "Canada's greatest Athlete" Iron Mike Sharpe.... He was entertaining as hell!!!! I'll add a few guys just like him to this list as well: TIGER CHUNG LEE, TERRY GIBS, SD JONES (At least SD had an action doll made after him! haha)

The tag teams in the 80s were stacked!!! British Bulldogs, The Dream Team (Valentine & Beefcake), The Hart Foundation, The Sheik & Volkoff, The Killer Bees, The Funk Brothers, Demolition, Strike Force, the list goes on and on!!!!

Let's not forget how many GREAT managers they had too back then!!! Jimmy "Mouth of the South" Hart, Bobby "The Brain" Heenan, Slick, "Luscious" Johnny Valiant, "Classy" Freddy Blassy, and "Captain" Lou Albano.....

Great memories....

 

[ALIN]

For whatever damn reason, just name the best according to you. I'll say Coco Beware (for being a clown basically) and Hulk Hogan (back in the 80's).

the great kabuki

 

[iggy]

gold dust

 

[steelydanman]

big papa pump. ha jk I'd say sting or rey mysterio

 

[sonokrypton]

Chris Benoit and or the hart foundation. Gotta love the guys who knew how to really inflict pain. RIP Chris, Owen.

 

[bigbox]

It seems like the older wrestlers put a lot more on the line than the newer ones do. Mick Foley put everything humanly possible into his work, he's taken an ungodly amount of pain and worked through it all. Terry Funk was good too, as with anyone in hardcore matches back in the day. Wrestlers now don't do near as much as those guys did!!

 

[billfred]

It seems like the older wrestlers put a lot more on the line than the newer ones do. Mick Foley put everything humanly possible into his work, he's taken an ungodly amount of pain and worked through it all. Terry Funk was good too, as with anyone in hardcore matches back in the day. Wrestlers now don't do near as much as those guys did!!

The Funk Brothers were from my home town. Due to that, a lot of the old time wrestlers lived and worked there. Terry Funk Sr and Iron Mike Debiousy were best friends. When Iron Mike died, the Funk's raised Ted D.

Dick Murdock lived there too. Had a restaraunt called Big Dick's Dive. Good times.

 

[bigbox]

The Funk Brothers were from my home town. Due to that, a lot of the old time wrestlers lived and worked there. Terry Funk Sr and Iron Mike Debiousy were best friends. When Iron Mike died, the Funk's raised Ted D.

Dick Murdock lived there too. Had a restaraunt called Big Dick's Dive. Good times.

Damn I never realized the Funks raised the million dollar man!!! Those guys really were hardcore, barbwire matches and all.