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

Super fly Jimmy snuka, bushwackers.

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*

Scotty too hotty and grandmaster sexy.

Also loved bradshaw in his APA days

And mick foley in his cactus jack guise

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.

Undertaker and Stone Cold

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.

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!

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.

The legand that was Gilberg.

KungPao wrote: »

Perry Saturn for me, lol.

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

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

The greatest.