Man, how can I forget those days. I begged my parents for a subscription to WWF magazine because I mis-heard "pay per view" as "paper view". Oh how sad that was.
I would force my little sister to watch all the Summer Slams and Wrestlemania with me, then afterwards I would practice wrestling moves on her.
Brutus the Barber Beefcake used to live in our neighborhood, and we would dare each other to "ding-dong-ditch" his house. Too bad he never answered the door, but that may have been a good thing b/c all of us kids probably would have been dissapointed since we probably expected him to be wearing wrestling tights and boots around the house.
Some other wrestlers I can remember:
Mr. Fuji
Rick Martel
The Animal
Big John Stud
KoKo B. Ware
Taz
Tugboat
Tito Santana
Junkyard Dog
Ricky the Dragon Steamboat
Demolition (Tag team)
Ravishing Rick Rude
Rowdy Rowdy Piper
I remember him,the audience used to yell out and call him fatboy and he would tell the ref that he weighed less than he appeared to weigh.Is that picture autographed?
I wish it was, it's just a prize from a carnival game at an early 80's Oregon State Fair. I think I probably spent $.75 and popped 3 balloons to get it
id say without a question stone cold steve austin. wwf was on the brink of losing to the wcw and stone cold by himself saved that company. i remember stone cold giving a interview to some sort i cant remember but stating the austin 316 era was meant to be heel but everyone loved it so much he was face and sold more merchandise and had higher tv ratings then any wrestling star in history including the might hulkster. my second runner up is the rock. nowdays i tune in once in awile and i think john cena cant wrestle for crap but his attitude and mic skills put him on top right now and thats the bottom line cause stone cold said so.