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I don't think wrestling would be anywhere near as hig and popular without that Hogan/McMahon combo Vinces work ethic, ego and probably insanity to go where Angels feared to tread business wise and Hogan for looking like a real life comic book hero, who was a media darling and talk you into the seats! It was the perfect storm combo and enabled them to capture the mtv/ppv mainstream market where wrestling was no longer seen as the 'dirty, dark venue, redneck enjoyed freakshow' In a perverse way I liken it to the way darts changed in the 90s. The pdc going the showbiz route whereas bdo still tried to retain its original image. It was a helluva gamble and paid off and sadly (as a darts player who loved the book amateur side of it) the BDO just looked more and more outdated till it died.

I'm not so sure I remember one of the Mags around the time saying he had 'rock' level promo skills Clearly wasn't the case but was decent but the work after the promo was boring as hell!!! I think he did very well with what he had, ala Warrior.

Massive fan of 'model' era Rick Martel. Great body, could talk, pissed charisma and a super worker. In todays era would be a megastar. Powers of pain are another good shout. How they never held the titles are beyond me. These 2 would make even the. Biggest guys today look puny.

I was thinking this, the other day and how the product up till recently felt like it stood still for about 20 years and and yet if you look at that same timescale 1970 wwwf and 1990 wwf are almost like millennia apart. He'll, wwf 1987 and 1992 look a million years apart. In 1993 Bossman looked washed up in jobbing on way out to Bam Bam and he was 29!!! EarthQuake on the way out of wwf in 1993 looked like his run was over and he was....29 Warlords last match for wwf and his run was considered over was 3 weeks into being 30 All look like relics of a bygone era and under 30 Even though we think of feuds and 'runs' lasting longer in 'retro' era wwf, the reality looking back is that alot seemed to change every 3 years. Hell attitude era and hogan 1990 era are only about 7 years apart yet the product is so different!!!

Crikey thought that was Jim Bowen for a minute