Good grief, I just saw Haystacks Calhoun made the list. For pete's sake (who's pete anyway?) the guy was a 600+ lbs tub o' goo. I remember reading once about him facing an 800 lbs wrestler. I'd be scared if I was the referee in that match.
When the guy made his 1 week or so brief return to the WWF to psych Hulk Hogan out, I wanted to beat him over the head with the mic. He wouldn't shut up... just kept babbling non-sensically... even the audience started booing.
No kidding, but Calhoun (like Andre) was a special attraction that made the old-time promoters a ton of money.
Remember the "Warrior Signal"?! "Same Warrior time, same Warrior channel!" They actually said this crap! Even that wasn't as bad as Renegade, the Warrior clone WCW hired after they couldn't sign the real deal. Same entrance, paint, look, same everything as the Ultimate Warrior, only it was a different guy. Hogan hyped his appearance as "The ULTIMATE surprise," ripping people off for watching this wannabe scrub. The fans **** on it, naturally, and the guy who played Renegade ended up becoming so depressed that he actually killed himself! Stay away from the Ultimate Warrior at all times. "Destrucity" may ensue.
Ok, but are the 50 annoying or not? Lots of interesitng info on them here : http://www.amiannoying.com/(pcunayqlpuqidr45n3bv3fja)/collection.aspx?collection=2285
The Fabulous Moolah?? I know that she is a legend but I would have not included her or Wendi Richter (who in the world is that?) on this list.
Most glaring omission: Goldberg The man is a wrestling phenomenon. He is having a lot more impact than many of those old timers. I know he got most of his fame in WCW, but the Rock vs. Goldberg at Backlash was one of the biggest matches of all time, right up there with Hogan vs. Andre.
I haven't watched wrestling in 3 or 4 years but i've got a question. Why hasn't "Sting" made the jump to the WWF. I've seen commericals for T&A wrestling with him in it. He was one of the biggest WCW wrestlers back in the 90's, probably would have been on the list had he crossed over to the WWF.
I thought I heard or read somewhere that Sting is been having drug problems, but I could be completely off-base with that.
I'm not sure, but last month he was in some T&A wrestling event. You might be talking about Lex Luger http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/lexlugermug1.html
Like I said on the first page, there are bunch of others that were left off because they had their primes in other Federations. If it was Top 50 Wrestlers period, regardless of what promotion they were in, then here are a few that should be on there: Sting, no question Lex Lugar, was great in both WWF and WCW Justin Credible and Lance Storm, was awesome in ECW Terry Funk, legend like Mick Foley Dudley Family, greatest family gimmick ever again I left a bunch out, but check out Obsessed with Wrestling Lots of info on wrestlers.
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Actually, Sting is a born-again Christian who doesn't wrestle much anymore because of a few reasons. For one, he's basically sick and tired of the wrestling industry's shadiness on the whole. He'd also rather spend time with his family than go on the road year-round. He's not a young man anymore, and he's already accomplished what he wanted to do in wrestling. He isn't too interested in working for WWE because of the not-so-wholesome aspects, but he's overlooked those in the past. Basically, the guy doesn't have any passion left for the business and would rather move on. Definitely not a drug thing, though, although that's always a good guess when it comes to wrestlers. Sting made millions during his heyday and doesn't really need to ever work again. He has done a bit of work with NWA:TNA, a startup promotion run by Jeff and Jerry Jarret who run weekly $10 PPVs and are trying to get a foothold against the WWE. Maybe Sting did it for fun, maybe he wanted to buy a new boat, who knows. But don't look for him to return full-time ever again, he's at least semi-retired. Sting wouldn't be eligible for this list, of course, because he never worked for WWF. Lex Luger, on the other hand, was given a huge push basically as the next Hulk Hogan, but Lex didn't have Hogan's charisma and the fans were sick of that act anyway. He ended up screwing Vince McMahon pretty good by simply letting his contract run out without bringing it up and then appearing on the first live edition of WCW Monday Nitro while he appeared the very same night on a taped RAW program in WWF. He had jumped and it was a huge surprise. That was the first shot fired in the "Monday Night Wars" that took both promotions to their zeniths. So, it's rather understandable that Luger has been virtually written out of WWF history, and he'd have a tough case against most of these legitimate legends, anyway.
