Superstar Billy Graham ...Heel Hulk Hogan 20+ yrs before

[CavaliersFTW]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2GecB4Lwe4k/UPt8j3sM0UI/AAAAAAAABM8/I_Wn7CQQ_HU/s1600/superstar2.png

http://youtu.be/XRO3q0WB6pU?t=51s

http://youtu.be/Ko2-DqAiFWY?t=22s

http://youtu.be/tsHHmscmdIE?t=41s

:eek: this guy exudes charisma. Look at his ring mannerisms and physique back in the 1970's. Thoroughly entertaining gimmick. Had no idea that guy even existed. Looks like Rick Flair and Hulk Hogan studied and rode THIS guys wrestling creativity, doesn't it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ioqx1PqT2vM

[L.Kizzle]

BG was a pimp.

[KevinNYC]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2GecB4Lwe4k/UPt8j3sM0UI/AAAAAAAABM8/I_Wn7CQQ_HU/s1600/superstar2.png

http://youtu.be/XRO3q0WB6pU?t=51s

http://youtu.be/Ko2-DqAiFWY?t=22s

http://youtu.be/tsHHmscmdIE?t=41s

:eek: this guy exudes charisma. Look at his ring mannerisms and physique back in the 1970's. Thoroughly entertaining gimmick. Had no idea that guy even existed. Looks like Rick Flair and Hulk Hogan studied and rode THIS guys wrestling creativity, doesn't it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ioqx1PqT2vM

How old are you? For a guy who worships the past, I'm surprised by this. However, wrestling was more regional back then and if you weren't in the Northeast, you probably didn't hear of this guys.

I believe Hulk Hogan has mentioned that he studied Bill Graham. Jesse Ventura has admitted many times, he basically took all of Graham's act.

[CavaliersFTW]

How old are you? For a guy who worships the past, I'm surprised by this. However, wrestling was more regional back then and if you weren't in the Northeast, you probably didn't hear of this guys.

I believe Hulk Hogan has mentioned that he studied Bill Graham. Jesse Ventura has admitted many times, he basically took all of Graham's act.
I'm 27, what does "worship the past" even mean? I enjoy learning about history, without it there is no context for the present. Basketball is one of the subjects I actively study history on, wrestling not so much as I'm not that big a wrestling fan so Billy Graham is new to me

[andremiller07]

He looks a bit like Bad Ass Billy Gun as well

[MP.Trey]

The Wilt Chamberlain of pro wrestling.

[Kblaze8855]

Flair didnt steal his style. flair came in a few months after he did a thousand miles away. Flair came in trying to copy Dusty Rhodes. He asked Dusty if he could call himself "Rambling Ricky rhodes" and Dusty told him to go be the first Ric Flair not the next dusty.

Hogan however....superstar is the reason he got into wrestling. He mentioned it in his HOF speech.

[JohnnySic]

Superstar was before his time. The first pro wrestler with that juicehead look, the crazy outfits, the personality. So many guys have knocked him off its rediculous.

[HomieWeMajor]

OP how do you feel about the inflated heights and weights in the WWE ?

[KevinNYC]

I'm 27, what does "worship the past" even mean?

Well you have a Nate Thurmond avatar, how did you first hear of him? I watched basketball through the 80's as a kid and the first time I heard his name mentioned was when they picked the NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team

[Tarik One]

OP how do you feel about the inflated heights and weights in the WWE ?
Some of those weights were ridiculous. Andre the Giant was listed at 500+lbs i believe.

[L.Kizzle]

Superstar was before his time. The first pro wrestler with that juicehead look, the crazy outfits, the personality. So many guys have knocked him off its rediculous.
Gorgeous George was the first back in the 1950s.