Any wrestling fans out there?

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I love wrestling. I watch WWE. My current favorite wrestler is Dean Ambrose. What about you guys?

I used to watch wrestling in the 70s and 80s.

I remember people like Junkyard Dog, Hulk Hogan, Jake the Snake Roberts, Bruno Sammartino, Andre the Giant, many others.

I haven't watched it in years, though.

My dad loves those guys. My dad got an up close look at Andre the Giant back in the 80s. He went to an event at the Staples Center in LA when he was in the navy. He had a seat by the entrance ramp and Andre walked past my dad. Dad's head was at Andre's waist.

Here a little trivia:

Do you know "The Mouth of the South?" When he was a teenager in 1965, he was a member of a group called the Gentrys, who did the song "Keep on Dancing," which was a massive hit back then.

Jimmy Hart is really cool. I have a CD of some songs he did with Hulk Hogan.

When I was a little kid, I used to hear "Keep on Dancing" on the radio quite a bit.

Hey Kraftie, I know of all those wrestlers.

Is "Tag Team" wrestling still popular? They used to do it quite a bit back in the 1970s.

I'm thinking of other names. There was some guy named the Iron Sheik. And there was this guy named Rowdy Roddy Piper. And Adrian Adonis. And Gorilla Monsoon, who later became an announcer.

It was called the WWF back then. I think Vince McMahon's father was the head of it in those days, then Vince himself.

I love Rowdy Roddy Piper. I remember when it was WWF. The name was changed to WWE in 2000 or 2001. Tag team wrestling is still popular.

Who was your favorite, Spinelli?

I used to like J.Y.D. (Junk Yard Dog).

I used to... but it all became a bit of a drama show for me.

My favorite would have to have been mankind (Foley).



Back in the day I really related to mankind, he was viewed as the weird outcast, but he wouldn't stay down.

Worth the read if you are into wrestling:

I'm a big wrestling fan and have been since I watched English wrestling in the 80s. My favourite active wrestlers at the moment are Cesaro and Kevin Owens.

I'm glad they've made changes to reduce the amount of head injuries and tried to make it safer, as too many wrestlers were and are dying too young.

I am/was a big wrestling fan as well, been kind of struggling to catch Raw much recently but I watch the PPVs. I go thru periods where I stop watching and then come back.

My favorite wrestlers growing up were HBK and Stone Cold, same as my cousin who was the first person to show WWF to me. Later on I really liked Brock Lesnar, Rob Van Dam, Jeff Hardy, Edge, Eddie Guerrero, and Chris Benoit... I stopped watching wrestling for a couple years after all that ugliness, can't imagine I was the only one. Eddie Guerrero's death is probably the saddest I ever was for a celebrity death besides maybe the Crocodile Hunter.

I got back into it and was really into CM Punk and Daniel Bryan, unfortunately they've come and gone but I'll always remember seeing these guys like 10 years before they made it big when when they were still traveling around in minivans to preform in some high school gym. The Shield was great while it lasted, I think Seth Rollins is an incredible talent as is Dean Ambrose. The Wyatt Family is pretty cool, Bray and Harper in particular are great talents. I really like that WWE has been trying to incorporate more of these established independent wrestlers, they may not have the bodies they want but they have the heart and dedication to the craft. Too many guys and gals now to even name, they have finally given their women wrestlers a bit of dignity and respect as athletes and they've shined. As much as I hated HHH as a kid for him burying almost every wrestler I liked, NXT has been a genius idea on his part.

I used to watch it on TV with my cousins growing up in the 1980s. We followed all of the major wrestling federations and some of the smaller ones that we could pick up on satellite. One of my favorite ones was the Texas federation, as that is where Cactus Jack (ie. Mick Foley) got his start before he became a big name. He often got into fights with Eric Embry and Tom Prichard during those days. Barbed wire and weapon matches were common at the time. Back then, the violence was so graphic that many times the matches had to be blurred for TV broadcast due to large bleeding cuts on both participants. That happened almost every week back then.

Most of the wrestlers that I watched as a kid have since died. It is just not the same now.

Kraftie,

I liked JYD, Nicolai Volkov, Iron Sheik and Announcer Mean Gene. I even had wrestling dolls. Watched Tuesday Nite Titans. Went to events in Los Angeles .