I watched the Andre the Giant biography on A&E yesterday. As a result, I started to wonder about the other wrestlers that were burned into my brain back in the 80s when I was a young and impressionable kid. Below is what I found over the course of about 1 hour on wikipedia. I was flabbergasted that Jimmy Snuka was still wrestling. He was old (for a wrestler) when I watched him 20 years ago.
Lastly, I have become way too knowledgeable about wrestling lingo (heel? face? kayfabe?). I need to read some Sun Tzu or Lao Tzu and get my brain cells back in balance.
- Andre the Giant – died 1993
- Big John Studd – died 1995 from liver cancer and Hodgkin’s disease
- Bam Bam Bigelow – died 2007 of drug overdose
- Hulk Hogan – alive
- Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka – still alive and wrestling
- Ricky ” The Dragon” Steamboat – still alive
- British Bulldog – died 2002 from heart attack
- Owen Hart – died 1999 during a wrestling stunt (fell 78 feet to ring)
- Bret “the Hitman” Hart – still alive
- Jim “the Anvil” Neidhart – still alive
- Junkyard Dog – died 1998 from car accident
- Ultimate Warrior – still alive
- “Ravishing” Rick Rude – died 1999 from heart failure/ drug overdose
- Randy “Macho Man” Savage – still alive
- Ted “Million Dollar Man” DiBbiase – still alive
- King Kong Bundy – still alive and wrestling
- Hillbilly Jim – still alive
- Razor Ramon – still alive
- Jake “the Snake” Roberts – still alive and wrestling
- Brutus “the Barber” Beefcake – still alive and wrestling
Now on to house chores. I need to fish a HDMI cable through a wall.
