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

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Yes, we know it's fake predetermined but nobody can deny that wrestling was huge in the 80's with the likes of Hulk Hogan and The Ultimate Warrior and then again in the late 90's with Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock. I often hear older people talking about Giant Haystacks and Big Daddy from the UK scene too but they weren't really on my radar. So who did you love when you watched it, if you watched it? Who did you hate and why?

Also, one more question, if you don't know anything about wrestling now, do you know any of them in it currently or could you name some? Be interested to know that!

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1800_Ladladlad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHD1FoOgdSA

Hilly Bill

Super fly Jimmy snuka, bushwackers.

castletownman

Attitude Era for me, with Stone Cold, The Rock and Y2J my all-time favourites.

Behold perhaps the greatest moment in history of humankind

Actually come to think of it, JR was as much an iconic commentator growing up as the likes of Martin Tyler, Michael O'Muircheartaigh et al. Legend.

Certainly don't make it like they used to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V-rCP-UeeY

valoren

brilou23 wrote: »

Razor Ramon

Handing over his bling to the ringside schnook...

"Something happens to this chico.....something happens to you!"

*flicks toothpick into assistants face*

davidglanza

Hulk Hogan and undertaker.

Gorgeousgeorge

Scotty too hotty and grandmaster sexy.

Also loved bradshaw in his APA days

And mick foley in his cactus jack guise

rossie1977

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Goldberg and Paul Wight.

Used to watch WCW around 20 years ago when they were signed up with them, Goldberg had some serious strength and Wight was literally a giant of a man.

Met Paul Wight a couple of times in person, huge individual both in height and overall mass. His hands are like frying pans.

He was huge as a kid, easy enough to pick him out even on his college basketball team #52

Sgt Hartman

Mr Perfect, Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase and Ravishing Rick Rude were 3 of the greatest heels of the 80's. I also loved big Andre The Giant although he was in awful physical condition by the mid 80's. His opponents made him look like a killer. Macho Man Randy Savage was one of the best ever, I loved his insane interviews.

My favourite faces were Hulk Hogan, The Ultimate Warrior and the incomparable Jake Roberts. I've never known a wrestler who had such an impact on the mic as Jake The Snake, the guy could just get inside your head with his words. I bawled my eyes out when Earthquake "squashed" his snake Damien. In an interview years later Earthquake said that Jake's snake bag actually contained women's tights stuffed with hamburger meat during that angle.

Kyle More

Sad news about 'Mean' Gene Okerlund.

PTH2009

Undertaker and Stone Cold

Hoboo

Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Jake the Snake Roberts and the undertaker for entertainment.

Ultimate Warrior to make me wet my pants, the guy was like a real life he-man (when you're 8)

oneilla

Gyalist wrote: »

Victor Jovica. He was a huge star in Trinidad when I lived there back in the late 70s to early 80s. He was the first wrestler I ever saw on TV so he became my favourite. Once, a group of us risked expulsion from school by sneaking out of the dormitory one night to go to a wrestling show in Port of Spain which was about 30 miles away. The headline fight that night was Victor Jovica vs Abdullah the Butcher ("The Madman from The Sudan"). The atmosphere at the fight was unbelievable, with over 25,000 packed into the stadium and the fight itself was very bloody. I even saw a young Ric Flair wrestle in Trinidad.
I did see some of the British wrestlers on TV in the 80s after I'd moved to London for university and it was so tame in comparison to my first experience that I quickly lost all interest. Wouldn't know a single thing about current wrestling.

Now this is one of the most interesting and unique posts I've seen about wrestling anywhere online in years.

KungPao

Perry Saturn for me, lol.

BorkLaser93

Toss up between Funaki and Spike Dudley

Insect Overlord

BorkLaser93 wrote: »

Toss up between Funaki and Spike Dudley

Indeeeeeed!

razorblunt

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

Mr Perfect, Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase and Ravishing Rick Rude were 3 of the greatest heels of the 80's. I also loved big Andre The Giant although he was in awful physical condition by the mid 80's. His opponents made him look like a killer. Macho Man Randy Savage was one of the best ever, I loved his insane interviews.

My favourite faces were Hulk Hogan, The Ultimate Warrior and the incomparable Jake Roberts. I've never known a wrestler who had such an impact on the mic as Jake The Snake, the guy could just get inside your head with his words. I bawled my eyes out when Earthquake "squashed" his snake Damien. In an interview years later Earthquake said that Jake's snake bag actually contained women's tights stuffed with hamburger meat during that angle.

Yeah, that snake was obviously unharmed but the snake that bit Macho Man in that famous incident, died. Probably from all the Coke flowing through Macho Man's body!

[Deleted User]

RIP Mean Gene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHQ5Z4PKZeY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4ewW7TZOsw

PopePalpatine

I remember having a WWE Top Trumps pack well over a decade ago, and Mean Gene had a card with Hulk Hogan in the pic with him. I genuinely thought Mean Gene was just a Hogan lookalike - the idea that this stocky, balding guy could have the "mean" moniker just flew over my childhood self's head.

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Omackeral wrote: »

Yes, we know it's fake predetermined but nobody can deny that wrestling was huge in the 80's with the likes of Hulk Hogan and The Ultimate Warrior and then again in the late 90's with Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock. I often hear older people talking about Giant Haystacks and Big Daddy from the UK scene too but they weren't really on my radar. So who did you love when you watched it, if you watched it? Who did you hate and why?

Also, one more question, if you don't know anything about wrestling now, do you know any of them in it currently or could you name some? Be interested to know that!

My parents took me to a Giant Haystacks versus Big Daddy match in the Isle of Man when I was about 5. Giant Haystacks was the "baddie" and Big Daddy was the "goodie". I was a Big Daddy fan myself

I looked them up years later and they were just two big fat unathletic men. Very disappointing.

For American wrestlers I was an Ultimate Warrior fan. Ooooooooh Yeeeeeaaaaaa!!

Tuco88

The legand that was Gilberg.

ELM327

Toss up between Hogan, Razor Ramon, Austin, and then after they retired, Triple H and the Undertaker.
And of course the unspeakable undeniable hamstrung brilliance of big daddy cool kevin nash

DEFTLEFTHAND

KungPao wrote: »

Perry Saturn for me, lol.

I always preferred the technical guys too. Saturn in his prime was a tremendous athlete.

[Deleted User]

....... wrote: »

For American wrestlers I was an Ultimate Warrior fan. Ooooooooh Yeeeeeaaaaaa!!

That's Macho Man's catchphrase!

ELM327

Omackeral wrote: »

That's Macho Man's catchphrase!

And that guy in TNA "black machismo" :rolleyes::D

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Omackeral wrote: »

That's Macho Man's catchphrase!

:D:D

I was just checking you were listening

Ultimate Seduction

Couldn't pick one, Stone Cold, Kane, and the new age outlaws.

ELM327

ELM327 wrote: »

Toss up between Hogan, Razor Ramon, Austin, and then after they retired, Triple H and the Undertaker.
And of course the unspeakable undeniable hamstrung brilliance of big daddy cool kevin nash

And how could I forget the Pacster himself XPAC!

eldamo

ELM327 wrote: »

And how could I forget the Pacster himself XPAC!

I accidentally gave x-pac the finger in new york once.

WWF as they were then used to have a themed restaurant in times square in new york.

Myself and 3 friends went to NY in 2001 and this was sadly the main draw, I even said it to the passport control guys, one laughed, the other was deeply unimpressed (purpose of visit meant business or pleasure strictly, not WRASSLIN MERCHANDISE)

well, anyway, the restaurant had a shop on the ground floor and was a restaurant downstairs, they had wrasslin on the tellies and most evenings they had some wrestler walking around to talk to the guests.

our evening it was x-pac, not a huge fan of him myself truth be told, one of my mates was a ridiculous fanatic and pretty much started screaming when he saw him, x-pac gives a hand gesture (i just looked it up, called two sweet, one of his things) from across the room. I misinterpreted and gave him the finger.

He came to every table for a chat that evening except ours.

My fanatical mate was not impressed with me.

On the plus side the 4 of us bought kaientai (taka and funaki) indeed t-shirts and looked like we were in a cult

Muckka

I liked the honky tonk man, it was just his character and comical behaviour.

Relikk

The greatest.