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  1. Bobby Barrows

    WS Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame Discussion Thread

    Btw, since we're talking about old wrestling history, there's one man I think we all oughta respect and vote into the Hall of Fame for his legitimate athletics and fortitude. This man never sold for anyone and only lost two matches out of 300+, and one of them was only because that dastardly...
  2. Bobby Barrows

    WS Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame Discussion Thread

    Surprisingly, Crowbar Press has it available. https://www.crowbarpress.com/cbp-books/34-fg.html
  3. Bobby Barrows

    WS Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame Discussion Thread

    It is a book yeah, but I'm sure someone has turned it into an audiobook at some point.
  4. Bobby Barrows

    WS Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame Discussion Thread

    I think the best early wrestling documentary is actually "Fall Guys" by Marcus Griffin. It goes into heavy detail on the workings of wrestling from the 1930s and 40s. He got a lot of his information from Jack Pfefer, the man who exposed wrestling as a work to the New York grand jury in the mid-30s.
  5. Bobby Barrows

    WS Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame Discussion Thread

    Well if we're going OGs, we gotta have Toots Mondt and Strangler Lewis in there too. Without them we don't have modern pro wrestling.
  6. Bobby Barrows

    WS Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame Discussion Thread

    I am once again gonna campaign for Antonio Inoko and Giant Baba, the godfathers of modern Puro.
  7. Bobby Barrows

    WS Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame Discussion Thread

    Rikidozan should probably go in earlier but alas there's like zero footage of it. While we're at it, Lou Thesz and Verne Gagne should also have some consideration for being the most popular and best wrestlers from the 50s and 60s.
  8. Bobby Barrows

    WS Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame Discussion Thread

    Inoki, Baba, El Santo, and Dusty Rhodes for me
  9. Bobby Barrows

    WS Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame Discussion Thread

    Dusty Rhodes Andre the Giant Antonio Inoki Giant Baba Rikidozan Buddy Rogers Gorgeous George Tiger Mask (Satoru Sayama) Lou Thesz Because I'm an asshole and like to be a historian. Lots of these guys are important to the business in some fashion but doubtful they'll ever get in.
  10. Bobby Barrows

    WS Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame Discussion Thread

    I'm going to push hard for Antonio Inoki and Bruno Sammartino this year.
  11. Bobby Barrows

    WS Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame Discussion Thread

    What about guys like Ed Lewis, George Hackenschmidt, Edouard Carpentier?
  12. Bobby Barrows

    WS Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame Discussion Thread

    She was absolutely instrumental in the success of that territory before Jerry split it off from Nick Gulas in the 70's
  13. Bobby Barrows

    WS Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame Discussion Thread

    Well like I said, Sputnik forced desegregation in the South and one time was arrested for eating at a Colored Only diner in Memphis at a time where that was incredibly taboo. Christine Jarrett ran the Memphis territory, brought in guys like Lawler, Cornette, etc. into the business, and was...
  14. Bobby Barrows

    WS Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame Discussion Thread

    Everybody. :cudi
  15. Bobby Barrows

    WS Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame Discussion Thread

    People who know their wrestling history and the part he played in the desegregation of the South.
  16. Bobby Barrows

    WS Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame Discussion Thread

    I personally don't think it devalues their induction at all when considering there's more wrestlers from before we were born that were popular than there are now. Off the top of my head, while the obvious ones would go in the first few years, we'd eventually get into the nitty gritty of some...
  17. Bobby Barrows

    WS Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame Discussion Thread

    It's not like it matters when they got in anyways. :draper2
  18. Bobby Barrows

    WS Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame Discussion Thread

    In the 90's, not really, unless you say like a few like the New Age Outlaws, Harlem Heat, and Owen & Bulldog. Also Pat & Stevens were from the 70's.
  19. Bobby Barrows

    WS Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame Discussion Thread

    Or it might be a fact they were better teams than the Dudleys. Don't tell me the Dudleys were better than the fucking Hart Foundation.
  20. Bobby Barrows

    WS Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame Discussion Thread

    I'd put several teams over the Dudleys. Midnight Express, Rock & Roll, The Brainbusters, Hart Foundation, Road Warriors, Demolition, Pat Patterson & Ray Stevens. :draper2
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