Who was your favorite wrestler when you were a kid/teen?

Omackeral wrote: »

Other way around. LOD aka The Road Warriors were around a lot longer before Demolition. And a lot longer after.

Wasnt yer man who went on to be crush, in demolition - and then on to his name

kevin nash

fairly serious career if im right

Kyle More wrote: »

No, Kevin Nash was called 'Diesel' when he was in the WWF in the early/mid 90s. Crush was another wrestler by the name of Brian Adams. Adams died in 2007, but Kevin Nash is still around.

ah i remember diesel - fair play - they were very similar

Al snow
IRS
Gold dust
X pac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVQR9Cs6If8

Speaking of wrestling probably hottest act in WWE right now is Dublin woman Becky Lynch.

She got potatoed by the Rock's 300lb cousin last month which broke her face and gave her concussion but she walked out like a boss

Itssoeasy wrote: »

You can do that with the WWE network. You can watch all of the Raws and smackdowns and ppvs on it.

Looked threw it ages ago just didn't know where to start ha.

Big van vader

Beasty wrote: »

Catweazle, Rollerball Rocco, Brian Glover and Harvey Smith:pac:

Brian Glover blazed the trail for wrestlers to turn actor! The Rock owed him one.



There were probably more before him butnot that I've heard of.

Kyle More wrote: »

In my day, you were either a 'Hulkamaniac' or a 'Warrior'. I was an Ultimate Warrior fan and I used to have daily debates with lads in school (mostly Hulk Hogan fans) about who would win if Hogan ever went up against the Warrior. We'd obviously row in behind our chosen favourite with passionate and articulate arguments about how our wrestler would 'batter' theirs. But at that time it was almost incomprehensible that two faces (good guys) like Hogan and Warrior would ever face each other head to head in the ring. Hogan and Warrior were there to fight the heels (bad guys), not each other. But alas, WrestleMania VI was announced and it threw out the rule book and gave us the match that we had only ever dreamed of: Hulk Hogan Vs Ultimate Warrior, Champion Vs Champion, Title for Title. It was huge. For me, while everyone was talking about Ireland qualifying for the World Cup, all I cared about was Hogan Vs Warrior. In the end, as I'm sure some of you may remember, Ultimate Warrior defeated Hulk Hogan to win the WWF World Championship belt. The question of who was the best was finally put to bed

I am with you on that divide existing. As a Hulkamaniac, I was firmly in the opposite camp. Frankly I hated the Warrior. I just found him weird. I only saw the match on a video after the event because I started watching wrestling properly just after Wrestlemania VI. It was epic though. While your childhood is your childhood I think as adults people need to realise how hated the Warrior was by the other wrestlers. Hogan gets heat but while some of it is deserved, some is motivated by jealousy and you will also always get lots of people speaking up for him. Warrior on the other hand alienated almost every one in the locker room. He was a bodybuilder who realised there was money in wrestling, he had no love of the industry and didn't pay his dues so to speak. One of the unfortunate things bout the WWE's decision to bring him in from the cold (timely as he died a fewdays later) was that it resulted in them burying that documentary- The Self Destruction of The Ultimate Warrior- Which to me was a fairer reflection of how people felt about him. The beauty was that when he was inducted into the Hall of Fame, it gave many a chance to bury the hatchett. One of Ted Dibiase's biggest regrets is that he passed up the chance to talk to Warrior that night, reasoning that the last person Warrior would want to see was him and that he would have other opportunities. As it turned out he did. I really felt for Dibiase telling that story, you could tell how genuine he was about it. A really decent skin.

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Bit of ironic trivia for you (or I guess others as you post on the pro wrestling board so am sure you'd know)

But Vince McMahon tried to get the road warriors (lod) in the mid 80s but couldn't. So he did the next best thing.. Created a tag team like them. Ie demolition :pac:

But a couple of years later demolition were a popular tag team by the time the legion of doom eventually wrestled for wwf and the two teams begin funding with each other.

Yeah I heard that. Loved both teams actually, but preferred Demolition.

YoungRogerian wrote: »

Actually as I look back, I realise I probably preferred the heels to the faces. Loved Honky Tonk, The Million Dollar Man, Sid Justice (apart from his feud with Hogan), Rick Rude, Bobby Heenan, Heel Andre the Giant, The Nasty Boys, Jimmy Hart, Mr Perfect, The Mountie Conversely a lot of the faces I hated . Hated the Warrior, Bret Hart, Dusty Rhodes, Jimmy Snukka (even before I knew he was a dirty murdering bastard), Texas tornado.

It wasn't that I was trying to support the heels and at the time I probably didn't realise I preferred the Heels. Hogan was the constant, always loved Hogan, and a big fan of Jake The Snake and Macho Man as faces but I also loved them as heels. The Heels just tended to be more interesting characters. Tbe best of all though were those who could pull off face and heel perfectly. Jake the Snake and Macho Man were the obvious examples in my day but later on Steve Austin, Shawn Michaels and Hulk Hogan would all be great examples. Although growing up, the thought of Hogan as a heel was unimaginable to me.

The heels tended to be better characters, the 80s ones were brilliant and although technically the wrestling got better it was more entertaining then. Loved honky tonk man, ted dibiase, Greg the hammer and guys like that but I think what really made it was a heel had a manager who cheated like sin.

Always found Hogan too wholesome even as a kid never warmed to him.