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Re: Who Is On The Mount Rushmore Of Pro Wrestling?
« Reply #45 on: September 22, 2021, 11:43:12 PM »

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Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant, for sure. I'd have to think harder about the other two.

And if anyone hasn't see the HBO documentary on Andre the Giant, you gotta see it. That man was triumphant and tragic.
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Re: Who Is On The Mount Rushmore Of Pro Wrestling?
« Reply #46 on: September 23, 2021, 12:13:54 AM »

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You dumb kids don't know anything about wrestling.

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Bruno Sammartino
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Re: Who Is On The Mount Rushmore Of Pro Wrestling?
« Reply #47 on: September 23, 2021, 01:43:50 AM »

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Shouldn’t Vince McMahon, Jr. be on Mt. Rushmore?
When I was in jr high, young Vince was the “play by play” and interviewer on the weekly wrestling show.  I never watched wrestling after jr high but I’m aware that McMahon took a rather rinky dink operation from his father and turned it into an industry unto itself and a massive phenomenon.  Without him my guess is you would have never even heard of most of the guys you are talking about.

And another honorable mention: The Professor Toru Tanaka.
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Re: Who Is On The Mount Rushmore Of Pro Wrestling?
« Reply #48 on: September 23, 2021, 02:08:17 AM »

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A guy I left out of the others but shouldn't have, Roddy Piper. Maybe the greatest bad guy ever.
Also made excellent appearances on 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia'
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Re: Who Is On The Mount Rushmore Of Pro Wrestling?
« Reply #49 on: September 23, 2021, 02:24:13 AM »

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Hulk Hogan
Steven Austin
John Cena
The Rock

Re: Who Is On The Mount Rushmore Of Pro Wrestling?
« Reply #50 on: September 23, 2021, 05:03:13 AM »

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A guy I left out of the others but shouldn't have, Roddy Piper. Maybe the greatest bad guy ever.
Also made excellent appearances on 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia'
Also the originator of the line "I came to kick ass and chew bubble gum.....and I'm all out of bubble gum."

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« Reply #51 on: September 23, 2021, 11:42:24 AM »

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A guy I left out of the others but shouldn't have, Roddy Piper. Maybe the greatest bad guy ever.
Also made excellent appearances on 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia'

 ;)

1.Andre The Giant
2.Bruno Sammartino
3."Rowdy" Roddy Piper
4. George "The Animal" Steele

Re: Who Is On The Mount Rushmore Of Pro Wrestling?
« Reply #52 on: September 23, 2021, 12:15:50 PM »

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I grew up watching the WWWF on UHF stations like 27, 56, and 38.  My dad and I saw a number of events at the Boston Garden.  I then moved to SW GA and watched GCW, NWA, etc, wrestling in small events spread across GA.  Choosing four is very difficult, do you go by what they meant to the sport, performance based, entertainment quality, I don't know. 

I've read some online articles recently (yes, I still follow the "sport"), and even they're all over the place, many selecting wrestlers from the 90's and later, completely ignoring the earlier years.

If my feet were held to the fire, I would lean with these four:

1:  Bruno Sammartino - Number 1 in my book.  Carried the WWWF for years.
2:  Hulk - Hulamankia brought in a whole new viewing audience.
3:  Nature Boy Ric Flair - No explanation needed!
4:  Stone Cold Steve Austin - When wrestling was changing in the 90's he was the guy![/li][/list]

That's a mighty fine list, but [dang], where's The Rock, Macho man, Shawn Michaels, Andre, Sting and the list goes on.  All could easily be on the Mountain, but I'm sticking with my four!

Here's an interesting ranking.  They have the same four as me, different order though, but they chose to go six in adding The Rock and Cena. 

https://www.midrangevancouver.com/posts/2020/11/12/the-wrestling-pyramid-a-ranking-of-the-greatest-wrestlers-of-all-time

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Re: Who Is On The Mount Rushmore Of Pro Wrestling?
« Reply #53 on: September 23, 2021, 12:44:43 PM »

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Ric Flair
Hulk Hogan
Rock
Stone Cold Steve Austin

That being said Vince MacMahon is the most important person in wrestling all time.

Re: Who Is On The Mount Rushmore Of Pro Wrestling?
« Reply #54 on: September 23, 2021, 03:12:57 PM »

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Ric Flair
Hulk Hogan
Rock
Stone Cold Steve Austin

That being said Vince MacMahon is the most important person in wrestling all time.

Yeah, Vince McMahon is just too unique in his presence, influence and success on pro wrestling to share a mountain with anyone else.

Re: Who Is On The Mount Rushmore Of Pro Wrestling?
« Reply #55 on: September 23, 2021, 03:31:34 PM »

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Ric Flair
Hulk Hogan
Rock
Stone Cold Steve Austin

That being said Vince MacMahon is the most important person in wrestling all time.

Yeah, Vince McMahon is just too unique in his presence, influence and success on pro wrestling to share a mountain with anyone else.

Don't overlook what Jim Crockett Jr did also.
"There's sharks and minnows in this world. If you don't know which you are, you ain't a shark."

Re: Who Is On The Mount Rushmore Of Pro Wrestling?
« Reply #56 on: September 23, 2021, 03:42:45 PM »

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Wrestling if Fake, Just my opinion ha.
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Re: Who Is On The Mount Rushmore Of Pro Wrestling?
« Reply #57 on: September 23, 2021, 03:53:32 PM »

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Wrestling if Fake, Just my opinion ha.

Hey now ….some of us fans got verrrry sensitive feelings ya know  :)

The Nature Boy ……Ric Flair …..

Whooooooooooo



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Re: Who Is On The Mount Rushmore Of Pro Wrestling?
« Reply #58 on: September 23, 2021, 03:57:18 PM »

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I prefer to think of Wrestling as entertainment than fake.   If you know about Kayfabe, you know what I mean

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayfabe

I know there are people who think it is real, more power to them and if it makes them happy it's their life.

Re: Who Is On The Mount Rushmore Of Pro Wrestling?
« Reply #59 on: September 23, 2021, 04:02:38 PM »

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I prefer to think of Wrestling as entertainment than fake.   If you know about Kayfabe, you know what I mean

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayfabe

I know there are people who think it is real, more power to them and if it makes them happy it's their life.

My mother once told me there was no Santa Claus …..

To this day ,  I still believe she lied .